2019

It was an emotional year.

Aurora - Seed
Big Thief - Not
Emily King - Look at Me Now
Maggie Rogers - Say It
Ben Pratt - Grow As We Go
Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
Vampire Weekend - Hold You Now
The National - Oblivions
Pete Yorn - Caretakers
Hadestown - All I've Ever Known

Songs often on repeat
*Rufus Wainwright - The Sword of Damocles
*Donna Missal - Jupiter
*Radiohead - Exit Music for a Film
*Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness
*Olafur Arnolds - undir

Previous: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010 / 2009 / 2008

2018 Playback

Here are some new songs that I really enjoyed from 2018. This annual routine started ten years ago and it's fun reading my old lists. Musical reflections bring me back to certain people, places, and feelings from the past. I can still repeatedly listen to some songs today, yet there are others that bear too much heaviness. How powerfully evoking!

Cowboy Junkies - All That Reckoning
Nicholas Britell - Agape
Eels - The Deconstruction
Tune-Yards - ABC 123
Mitski - Nobody
Neko Case - Hell On
My Brightest Diamond - It's Me on the Dance Floor
Sylvan Esso - PARAD(w/m)E
The Decemberists 20- Once in My Life
Superorganism - The Prawn Song
David Byrne - Here
Mountain Man - Baby Where You Are
Empress of - When I'm With Him
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow

Previous: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010 / 2009 / 2008

Top of 2017

I am three months late but here I am. 2017 was filled with lots of throwbacks, particularly Death Cab for Cutie and The Decemberists. Here are new faves of last year.



Patrick Grant- Seven Years at Sea
St. Vincent - Los Ageless
Alex Cameron ft Angel Olsen - Stranger's Kiss
Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love
Sufjan Stevens - Tonya Harding (in Eb major)
Dressner, McAlister, Muhly and Stevens - Mercury
Regrettes - Seashore
Portugal the Man - Feel it Still
Dan Auerbach - King of a One Horse Town
Gabriel Kahane - Jason

Previous faves: 2016, 2015, 2014/ 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010 / 2009 / 2008

Celest

Rachael made a constellation playlist. I'm including her notes.

Mike Doughty - Madeline and Nine
"I can name you the constellations."
Bjork - Hunter
For Orion
Tim Buckley - Buzzin' Fly
Cancer constellation, "the beehive cluster" of stars
Nico - I'll Keep it With Mine
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
Pleades because one was married to Sisyphus who pushed the rock up the hill
Electric Guest - Dear to Me
Being under water and having a friend help you put like story of Cygus
Sagittarius - Get the Message
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
Vulpes
George Harrison - I'd Have You Anytime
Apollo
Sunny Levine - Saturn Returns
Mulatu Astatke - Tezeta (Nostalgia)

Rupi Kaur

Belle sent this to me yesterday morning.

Melancholy Haze

My afternoon soundtrack goes something like this:

Agnes Obel - Chord Left
Agnes Obel - September Song
Karen Dalton - Reason to Believe
Aphex Twins - Avril 14th
Sibylle Baier - Forget About
Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Rodrigo Amarante - Irene
Cat Power - I Found a Reason
Devendra Banhart - Rosa
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
Carole King - So Far Away
Todd Rundgren - It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference

Tippity Tops of 2016

Lucius - Something About You
Mitski - Your Best American Girl
Andrew Bird - Left-Handed Kisses ft. Fiona Apple
Margaret Glaspy- Love Like This
Sylvan Esso - Radio
Wye Oak - If You Should See
Pinc Louds - Last Chance at Love
Laura Gibson - Empire Builder
Lucy Dacus - Dream State
Joanna Newsom - Make Hay

Previous faves: 2015, 2014/ 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010 / 2009 / 2008

Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby

Mood, and on repeat. My insides feel like a dreary blur. 

Paul McCartney

His setlist from last night's concert. I am a changed woman now.

1. A Hard Day's Night
2. Save Us
3. Can't Buy Me Love
4. Letting Go
5. Temporary Secretary
6. Let Me Roll It
7. I've Got a Feeling
8. My Valentine
9. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
10. Here, There and Everywhere
11. Maybe I'm Amazed
12. We Can Work It Out
13. In Spite of All the Danger
14. You Won't See Me
15. Love Me Do
16. And I Love Her
17. Blackbird
18. Here Today
19. Queenie Eye
20. New
21. The Fool on the Hill
22. Lady Madonna
23. FourFiveSeconds
24. Eleanor Rigby
25. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
26. Something
27. Obladi Oblada
28. Band on the Run
29. Back in the U.S.S.R.
30. Let It Be
31. Live and Let Die
32. Hey Jude
33. Yesterday
34. Hi, Hi, Hi
35. Birthday
36. Golden Slumbers
37. Carry That Weight
38. The End

Playful Musicals

Just one of those gray days - been listening to cast recordings in its entirety for the past 7 hours straight.

1. The Sound of Music (1965 Soundtrack)
2. She Loves Me (1963 Original)
3. My Fair Lady (1956 Original)
4. The Music Man (1958 Original)
5. On the Town (2015 New)
6. Damn Yankees (1955 Original)
7. Cabaret (1998 New)