So... What are we doing for New Years?: 2020 mixes

What a year.

Past mixes: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

I.. basically stopped listening to music at the start of quarantine for a few months, because I was so used to mostly listening on my commute. So this is a bit of an off year and a bit random, but that seems fitting:

[EDIT 12/26: In OF COURSE 2020 news, last night I was like, 'wait. didn't ungodly hour come out this year? Didn't Chromatica?! And yes - it turns out I never finished populating my 2020 folder before starting to make my mixes, so here is the hastily reassembled version. Which, again, seems fitting:]

Disc 1

1. Reasons I Drink - Alanis Morissette. Easily my song of the year. It came out in January; I love it a lot. I was supposed to see her in concert in May. Le sigh.

1b. Used to the Darkness - Des Rocs. Don't know how I had never heard of him before, but yay someone out there is still making rock music.

2. Kids in America - Billie Joe Armstrong. Billie Joe & Green Day started doing covers for lockdown. I really enjoyed them.

3. It Doesn't Matter Why - Silversun Pickups

4. Locomotive - Miranda Lambert. Yes. More of this please.

5. Till There's Nothing Left - Cam. It's just so damn catchy.

6. Tag, You're It - Melanie Martinez. Theoretically a 2021 Outside Lands performer but... can't imagine that's happening. Still - I looked her up this year when they announced the lineup and her whole 'carrying babydoll to its logical conclusion' shtick makes me laugh.

7. Running Up that Hill - Meg Myers

8. Wild Sea - Phildel. New video this year!

9. The Kill - Jessie Ware

9a. Alice - Lady Gaga

9b. Tipsy - Chloe x Halle

10. Lie In It - Boyfriend

11. Cash Shit ft. Da Baby - Megan Thee Stallion. My brain cannot wrap around the fact that I started listening to this in January. I'm convinced it was last year. It just feels like a lifetime ago listening to this on my work commute.

12. Views ft. Rousso, Reo Cragun - Noga Erez

13. Christine - Christine and the Queens. It's funny to me that I was listening to her cover of Rihanna's Kiss it Better in 2018 (speaking of Kate Bush), and never got around to listening to her big breakthrough song. (Yes, her 2020 song, People I've Been Sad, is more appropriate to the year. But this is the one I'm listening to.)

13a. Ungodly Hour - Chloe x Halle

14. So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings - Caroline Polachek. Another potential Outside Lands set and I ended up really loving her album Pang, so I would like to get to see her someday...

15. Born to Run - Jessie Buckley. More from Wild Rose. Love her so much.

15a. Caution - The Killers

16. Recovery - Frank Turner.

17. Dreaming - Green Day.

18. The Kids are Coming - Tones and I. More OL.

19. Mad Hatter - Melanie Martinez

19a. 911 - Lady Gaga. Haha serendipity.

19b. She's a Rainbow - Rolling Stones

20. Shine a Little Light - Black Keys

20a. Give Me the Night - Des Rocs

21. I Think We're Alone Now - Green Day

Disc 2

1. Spem in Alium - The Tallis Scholars. What. I watched a lot of Endeavour this year.

2. The Stag vs. the Hare - Phildel

3. Summer (presto) - Vivaldi. First because Portrait of a Lady on Fire and second because delightful Emma trailer.

4. Flag Song - Brian Stokes Mitchell. Random holiday section interlude! This is a cut song from Assassins, which he did for the Take me to the World Sondheim 90th birthday concert this year.

5. '96 Neve Campbell ft. Cam & China - Clipping

6. Disturbia (1984 synthwave remix) - Rihanna

7. Better Be ft. Flo Milli - Big Freedia

8. Cheer Up, It's Christmas - Kat Robichaud

8a. Enigma - Lady Gaga

9. Spotlight - Jessie Ware

10. Milk and Cookies - Melanie Martinez

10a. Busy Boy - Chloe x Halle

11. Jícama - Angelica Garcia

11a. Get Paid ft. Princess Nokia & Jada Kingdom - Aluna

11b. Sine from Above ft. Elton John - Lady Gaga

11c. YMIR - SINY

11d. Mark Zuckerberg - Nap Eyes. HOW DID I ALMOST FORGET THIS ONE

12. Different Kind of Love - Adia Victoria

12a. Dance Without Me - DRAMA

12b. You Should be Sad - Halsey

13. Tequila Does - Miranda Lambert

14. Mountain Laurel - Shearwater. I heard about this limited Shearwater/Okkervil River release from 2004 and tried to look up the songs and really love this one. I need to go listen to more Shearwater - I just love everything I hear from him/them.

15. Insomnia - Caroline Polachek. Speaking of people who can reach insane pretty high notes:

15. my future - Billie Eilish

16. It's a Fire - Rhiannon Giddens & Amanda Palmer

17. Running with the Wolves - Aurora. So probably the best animated film of the year, Wolfwalkers, uses this as a needle drop in the film and I laughed because it is SO on the nose but then it got stuck in my head.