I’m working on some real stuff to put up here, I promise, but in the meantime I wanted to get something new up, the first post since actually starting this site. I made a quick playlist of 150 songs that I’d consider really great and worth giving a listen. Some you’ve almost definitely heard, some you almost definitely haven’t. It’s a bit of a window into my taste, I guess, although definitely not exhaustive or fully representative. (If you really want, you can see in near-real-time what I’m listening to at my Last.FM page.)
The playlist is kinda in alphabetical order by artist, but not really. I highly recommend throwing it on shuffle while you do something else. This thing spans a ton of different genres and subgenres, and I really do think that if you give it a shot you’ll hear something you like if not love. If you do like something and want some jumping off points, let me know and I can spin up something for you that goes deeper in that direction.
All the YouTube links should be working, at least in America. I’ve included a plaintext list below the link and embed if you’d rather just browse the list or search for the songs in your streaming service of choice. I tried to figure out a decent method of getting the playlist exported to other platforms but it just wasn’t working out quite right. If you’d like to give that a shot for yourself, I think the site Soundiiz would be a good jumping off point.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzNiyo8FG9fiLBmJxzxs7vn5FeEnbP-f1
Afghan Whigs – Arabian Heights
Aimee Mann – Labrador
Albert Hammond, Jr. – Bright Young Thing
Albert Hammond, Jr. – Tea for Two
Albert Hammond, Jr. – Victory at Monterey
Alice in Chains – Drone
Alice in Chains – Would?
Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent
A$AP Rocky – Multiply (ft. Juicy J)
At the Drive-In – One-Armed Scissor
Bad Brains – Attitude
Barenaked Ladies – Jane
Beach Boys – Surfin’ Safari
The Beards – T.S. Eliot
The Beards – 1000 Years
Beastie Boys – Ch-Check It Out
Beastie Boys – Three MCs and one DJ
Billie Eilish – COPYCAT
Billie Eilish – my strange addiction
Black Star – Hater Players
Boston – More Than a Feeling
The Both – Milwaukee
Britney Spears – Toxic
Brody Dalle – Meet the Foetus/Oh the Joy
Cage the Elephant – Black Madonna
Catherine Wheel – The Nude
Chief Keef – Laurel Canyon
Childish Gambino – Redbone
Childish Gambino – II. Zealots of Stockholm (Free Information) (ft. Kilo Kish)
CKY – 96 Quite Bitter Beings
Cloud Nothings – No Future/No Past
Corey Hart – Peruvian Lady
Count Bass D – Carmex
Craig Wedren – Rain Diamonds
Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Belize (ft. DOOM)
Dave Matthews Band – Virginia in the Rain
David Bowie – Lazarus
Death Angel – The Ultra-Violence
Deftones – Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
Deftones – Diamond Eyes
Deftones – Swerve City
De La Soul – Rock Co.Kane Flow (ft. DOOM)
Deltron 3030 – 3030
Depeche Mode – Dream On
Dilated Peoples – Worst Comes to Worst
Dion and the Belmonts – A Funny Feeling
The Distillers – Coral Fang
The Distillers – Dismantle Me
The Distillers – For Tonight You’re Only Here to Know
DJ Shadow – Building Steam with a Grain of Salt
DOOM – Gazzillion Ear
DOOM – Potholderz (ft. Count Bass D)
Dredg – Sang Real
El-P – The Full Retard
Elbow – Any Day Now
Elvis Costello – No Action
Failure – Stuck on You
Fiona Apple – Criminal
Foo Fighters – I Should Have Known
Foo Fighters – Low
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Freddie Gibbs – Deeper
Ghostface Killah – 9 Milli Bros (ft. Wu-Tang Clan)
Ghostface Killah – You Know I’m No Good (Remix ft. Amy Winehouse)
Gojira – The Heaviest Matter of the Universe
Gucci Mane & Chief Keef – Semi on ‘Em
Incubus – Pardon Me
Ini Kamoze – Here Comes the Hotstepper
J Dilla – Don’t Cry
John Frusciante & Josh Klinghoffer – The Afterglow
John Frusciante – Central
John Frusciante – Dark/Light
John Frusciante – The Slaughter
The Judybats – All Day Afternoon
Kajagoogoo – Too Shy
The Killers – Somebody Told Me
Lil Ramsey – Magnolia
Liz Phair – Extraordinary
Macintosh Plus – Lisa Frank 420/Modern Computing
Madvillain – Strange Ways
Maisie Peters – Psycho
Mal Blum – Better Go!
Megadeth – Hangar 18
Metallica – That Was Just Your Life
Metallica – The Thing That Should Not Be
Michael Penn – Room 712, the Apache
Mineral – Take the Picture Now
The Muffs – Clown
The Muffs – My Lucky Day
The Muffs – Won’t Come out to Play
Nas – Full Circle (ft. The Firm)
Neil Finn – Sinner
Nirvana – Lounge Act
Nirvana – Very Ape
Our Lady Peace – Is Anybody Home?
Pallbearer – The Ghost I Used to Be
The Pandoras – Dark November
Pearl Jam – Corduroy
Pete Yorn – Strange Condition
Phoebe Bridgers – Kyoto
Phoenix – Rally
Pluralone – The Report
The Police – Message in a Bottle
PRhyme – Wishin’ II (ft. Black Thought)
Primus – Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
Queens of the Stone Age – I Appear Missing
The Queers – Another Girl
The Queers – Tic Tic Toc
The Queers – Voodoo Doll
The Radio Dept. – Tell
Rage Against the Machine – Bullet in the Head
Ramones – Carbona Not Glue
Ramones – I Just Want to Have Something To Do
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Bella
Red Hot Chili Peppers – She Looks to Me
Red Hot Chili Peppers – White Braids & Pillow Chair
RiFF RAFF & Chief Keef – TiP TOE 3
The Roots – Here I Come
The Roots – What They Do (ft. Raphael Saadiq)
Run the Jewels – Walking in the Snow (ft. Gangsta Boo)
The Sharades – Dumbhead
Shudder to Think – The Man Who Rolls
Sidney Gish – Not But for You, Bunny
Sidney Gish – Vaudeville
The Slickee Boys – Gotta Tell Me Why
Squeeze – Up the Junction
Stevie Wonder – Pastime Paradise
Stevie Wonder – Superstition
Stone Temple Pilots – Between the Lines
The Strokes – Happy Ending
The Strokes – Heart in a Cage
Sunny Day Real Estate – In Circles
Sweeping Promises – Hunger for a Way Out
Tears for Fears – The Tipping Point
Thomas Dolby – Radio Silence
A Tribe Called Quest – We the People….
Vast Aire – Da Supafriendz (ft. DOOM)
Vision of Disorder – Viola
The Voidz – Alien Crime Lord
The Voidz – Human Sadness
Wavves – Animal
Wavves – Demon to Lean On
Wavves – Leave
Weakened Friends – Blue Again
Wu-Tang Clan – Legendary Weapons (ft. AZ & M.O.P.)
Yasiin Gaye/Amerigo Gazaway – Inner City Travellin’ Man
Young Thug – With That (ft. MPA Duke)
The Zeros – Beat Your Heart Out
2Pac – Ambitionz Az a Ridah
100 gecs – mememe