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December 2024 Recap

I am still not sure if I want to continue posting recaps on Spotify, but it is fitting that the month I choose to begin putting the recaps into a blog was when I started to intake downloaded off-Spotify music that had been piling up in my computer.

Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Classic Paradise Mix)

Basement Jaxx - Fly Life

Chase & Status - Baddadan (Extended Mix) feat. Bou, IRAH, Flowdan, Trigga, Takura

Cobra Starship - Good Girls Go Bad (Matt Haick Remix)

Craig David - Fill Me In (Sunship Remix) (2000 Wildstar B Side)

Crydajam - If You Give Me The Love I Want

Dannic - Tombo

David Guetta - Miscommunication

Matt Darey - Too Far

Redlight - Missing feat. ETS

Reno Prjct - System

Shaolin Cowboy - Catch Feels Get High

Sneaker Pimps - Post-Modern Sleaze

Jamie Rhoden - Off The Coast (Acoustic)

This was taken from a split with Brandon Setta. You're A Liar (Jamie) is one my most cherished punk songs, and it was great to finally listen to the whole project this was from.

Helmet - Sinatra (Live)

Howard Shore - Goodbye And End Titles (includes Heart And Soul)

Big's score is on of my favorite scores of all time, and could bring tears to my eyes.

Odetta - Dink's Blues

Henry Mancini - Moon River (Piano And Guitar)

Benny Carter - Buck & The Preacher Theme

Fantastic movie that I highly recommend.

Butter 08 - Butter of 69

This is probably the most exciting band/album I have listened to in the last 6 months.

Aruna Sairam - Kadakadani

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Bunker Hill

Archibald - Early Morning Blues

My favorite Jimi Hendrix song is "Jelly 292", the piano lick from this song is used as the baseline in Jelly, do no know if the songs are connected but my ears shot up immediately.

Sheryl Crow - I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday

Glen Campbell - Bowlegged Polly

This song admittedly is not my favorite, but I wanted some country representation and it was a slow month for country. It does give me the opportunity though to highlight "In The Heat Of The Night", a Sidney Poitier film I recommend.

Buddy Miles - Take It Off Him And Put It On Me (Live)

Buddy Holly - Rock-A-Bye-Rock

Beenie Man - Dung & Boogie

Lil B - I'm God

Stay BASED.

Mercedes Sosa - Siembra

I finally organized my world music into country of origin, and so now I know that Mercedes is from Argentina!


January 2025 Recap

The Burbank Vibe Center - Chill Jam

C+C Music Factory - Shade

Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Ministry of Sound Erens Bootleg Mix)

Picco - Cubano (Vocal Latino Mix)

Saint Etienne - 4.35 in the Morning (Kid Loco Mix)

Eddy Herrera - No Le Cuentes

Selena - Fotos Y Recuerdos

Covering "Back On The Chain Gang"!? Incredible

Glenn Sutton & Lloyd Green - Green Bluegrass

Djimo Kouyate - Dialifoli

Dirty Heads - Spread Too Thin

My white boy reggae Pandora era.

Maria Callas - Adriana Lecouvreur, Act 4: "Poveri Fiori"

Lord Invader - Rum & Coca-Cola

Pinegrove - Old Friends

Was surprised how strongly this song emotionally affected me. As a sad boy I've listened to a lot of sad music, emo punk, and most of the visceral reactions came when I was younger. It caught me off guard to have such an experience at my age now.

Casa De Leones - Yo Se

John Fogerty - Centerfield

Vince Guaraldi - Track Meet

Manu Chao - Clandestino

Clara Nunes - Feitio De Oração

Cliar - Clò Mhic Ille Mhìcheil / Blue Bonnets

Omar LinX - 3 Chapters

It was either between this or "Little Moments" but since that song uses a Mayer sample and I was already putting a Mayer song in the recap, thought I would give the equally good "3 Chapters" it's deserved shine.

John Mayer - Waiting On The World To Change (Verizon Center, Washington, D.C., July 25, 2007)

The bonus disc of "Continuum" has live tracks, this track and a live version of Gravity I highly recommend. He is ripping on "Gravity", but this track won out because the chorus was in my head for the next week.

The Clash - I Fought the Law

Megadeth - Symphony Of Destruction

Ridiculous some of the stuff I deleted out of my library. No clue why I didn't "like" my Megadeth songs anymore, honestly Peace Sells is my real jam, but this also got so much play when I was younger.

John Hammond - Goin' Down Slow

Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil (Live)

From the Dead Set album, love how they made the song groovy and slow.

Lil Wayne - Burn

Blondie - Once I Had A Love A.K.A. The Disco Song

Dan Hartman - I Can Dream About You

The Flaming Lips - SpongeBob & Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy

Shoutout Mystery Gang & Spongebob night.


February 2025 Recap

A*Teens - Floorfiller

AC Slater - Can U Handle It (feat. Shift K3Y, Kelli-Leigh)

Africanism - Wintersong (feat. Sumo, Karime Kendra)

Air - La femme d'argent

Alesso - Sweet Escape (feat. Sirena)

Alice DeeJay - The Lonely One

Amber Mark - Lose My Cool (Franc Moody Remix)

Aphex Twin - 180Db_ [130]

Automatic - Calling It (Peaking Lights Disco Rerub)

Erykah Badu - Telephone (Louie Vega EOL Mix)

The Guy Who Sings Songs About Cities & Towns - Jackson Is a Good Township in Nj

Why did he have to shoutout the cops in the Jackson song </3.

Audioslave - Revelations

The American Analog Set - We're Computerizing and We Just Don't Need You Anymore

Antony and the Johnsons & ANOHNI - Hope There's Someone

Absolutely incredible and riveting.

Aceyalone -  I Think I Know Too Much

Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign (Live)

Aly & AJ - Collapsed

At The Gates - Nausea

Abe Batshon - Free Palestine (Arsenial Remix)

David Bowie - Growin' Up

Alison Krauss - That Makes One Of Us

Amjad Ali Khan - Raga Mishra Tilak Kamod

Adequate Seven - Protest Beat

Such a unique sound of hardcore and ska, and their messages in the song are so vital and important, especially now.

Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda (feat. Pharoah Sanders)

Amadou et Mariam - Baara

Amos Lee - Night Train

Al Green - It Ain't No Fun to Me

Alabama Shakes - Shoegaze

Atomic Rooster - The Rock

Was pleasantly surprised with this Atomic Rooster album.

Anita Baker - Been So Long


March 2025 Recap

You may have noticed that most of the artists start with "A". That is because I am combining all my musical listening projects into one, so that I can clean up my file folders in one straight shot, and so I could build my favorite songs of all time playlist ("duende"). 

AC Slater - Every Pigeon Is A Dove feat. Murkage Dave (Drinks On Me Remix)

Anti Up - Set Me Free

Audio Bullys - I Won't Let You Down

Avicii - True Believer

Atahualpa Yupanqui - El Pintor

Antonio Carlos Jobim - O Morro Não Tem Vez

Los Jaivas - Sube a Nacer Conmigo Hermano

Amon Düül II - Touchmaphal

Stephen Darlington - Coemantibus Illis (NI 5394) feat. Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford

Aterciopelados - Si No Pudo, Pues No Se Pudo

Afro Cuban All Stars - Alto Songo

Aniceto Molina - Faltan 5 Para Las 12

Aya Nakamura - Doudou

Atmosphere - Wild Wild Horses

Azealia Banks - 1991

More people should be playing this EP at parties.

Acid House Kings - Saturday Train

Arnett Cobb - Party Time

Azucarado - Dame De Eso

Annihilator - Human Insecticide

Agent Orange - No Such Thing

Anderson .Paak - Milk N' Honey

Aretha Franklin - Sweetest Smile and the Funkiest Style (Hey Now Hey The Other Side of the Sky Outtake)

Amparo Ochoa - A Qué Le Tiras Cuando Sueñas Mexicano (feat. Los Folkloristas)

Alex G - Runner

"Duende"

Aimee Mann - Build That Wall

"Duende"

Al Petteway - Funky C, Funky Do (feat. Amy White, Bonnie Rideout, Maggie Sansone & Eric Rigler)

Animal Logic - Another Place

A band with Stewart Copeland and Stanley Clarke...need I say more.

A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song

Do not like "I Ran (So Far Away)" so expected this album to flop, but it did not, and they got way more punk rock than expected on it.

Alaska y Dinarama - Un Hombre De Verdad

Aldemaro Romero - Ansiedad






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