Posted by bzedan on Dec 28, 2022
[Main image description: A blue Royal Dansk cookie tin, altered so Garfield's face shows where the landscape is on the lid, and in place of "Royal Dansk" it says "December 2022." A red, flared image of the sun from NASA is the background.]
December! Wow, I've been doing these playlists for a year! I will have a post of stats in a bit but here's December - warning there are like three Christmas songs on here but two are Wham! covers (and one of those is instrumental). But mostly it's end-of-year vibes.
I (re?)learned that a fave carol is actually a Ukrainian new year song, "Shchedryk," fortuitous. It's funny how many of my favourite songs are very much "end" songs - Michael Yonker's "I Knew You'd Remember," Akron/Family's "Last Year," even Brenton Wood's "Oogum Boogum Song," which sounds forever to me like a song you hear over movie end credits (Brenton Wood is, by the way, still kicking and performing to delighted crowds).
Speaking of end credits, this playlist has a couple songs from the end credits of the new Willow series - for the first few episodes they used regular fantasy score for the episode then played a song cover over the credits. I'm a big ol' sucker for modern music in fantasy settings. One of the songs is a cover of Donavan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man," done by Sir Jude. It's a great cover but for some reason the version of it on Spotify has just like, twenty seconds of silence at the end? So when you encounter it, pretend like it's when you got a CD that had "secret tracks."
Anyway here's a link to December's playlist on Spotify, with the track list below.
- 'Last Christmas' - Future Islands
- 'Land of 1000 Dances' - Wilson Pickett
- 'L.A. County' - Lyle Lovett
- 'I've No More ... To Give' - Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq
- 'Forever' - Mïrändä
- 'One More Time - 12 Mix' - Daft Punk
- 'Last Year' - Akron/Family
- 'Doin' The Best That I Can - Walter Gibbons 12" mix' - Bettye LaVette
- 'Keep What You Got' - Roy Buchanan
- 'You're Too Late' - Fantasy
- 'Sister Christian' - Night Ranger
- 'Christmas Wrapping (Long version)' - The Waitresses
- 'Time of the Season' - The Zombies
- 'I Knew You'd Remember' - Michael Yonkers
- 'These Bones' - Cicada Omega
- 'Oogum Boogum Song' - Brenton Wood
- 'Wild Siberia' - Otyken
- 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' - Sir Jude
- 'Dos Arbolitos' - Luis Pérez Meza
- '4 All Of Us' - OMC
- 'With Heart the Size of Jupiter' - Bart Graft
- 'The Three Caballeros - Single Version' - Bing Crosby
- 'Legends Never Die - with Shania Twain' - Orville Peck
- 'You're The Best' - Joe "Bean" Esposito
- 'Moving' - Kate Bush
- 'More Of The Same' - Caroline Rose
- 'Never Again - Dave Audé Remix' - Kelly Clarkson
- 'Vengeance' - Blue Öyster Cult
- 'Vitamin C - 2004 Remastered Version' - CAN
- 'Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)' - Ween
- 'Dancing In The Dark' - Hot Chip
- 'Quiero Ser' - Selena y los Dinos
- 'Pepper' - Butthole Surfers
- 'Private Show' - Britney Spears
- 'Mr. Brightside (Hyperpop Version)' - Boy Jr.
- 'GTFO' - Mariah Carey
- 'HUSH' - Ari Abdul
- 'Last Chance - Christmas Mix' - Soft Cell
- 'End - Live in Paris, 1992' - The Cure
- '4 Degrees' - ANOHNI
- 'Black Hole Sun' - Nouela
- 'The Promise Of A New Day' - Paula Abdul
- 'Jargalant Altai' - Batzorig Vaanchig
- 'Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells)' - Eileen
- 'Saruul Tal' - Batzorig Vaanchig
- 'Never the Same' - Supreme Beings of Leisure
- 'In The Air Tonight - 2015 Remastered' - Phil Collins
- 'Cold Blows the Wind' - Ween
- 'Red Water (Christmas Mourning)' - Type O Negative
- 'Last Christmas' - Hildegard von Blingin'
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