Random Mixola

Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot

Fanfare for the Common Man - Michael Tilson Thomas

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band

Up, Up and Away - Johnny Mathis 

Living a Boy's Adventure Tale - a-ha

Safe - Gabriel-Kane feat Pixie Lott

Loving Loving - Vera Sola

BLUE - Troye Sivan

Where Am I Going? - Barbra Streisand

Les Indes Galantes - Le Concert d'Astrée

Rain On Me - Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande

Locked Out of Heaven - Bruno Mars

The Shady Dame From Seville - Julie Andrews

- late Summer 2021

Fuselage Sorrows

Love Is All I Have - LP

From the Start - Laufey ¹ 

Waste Your Heart - Magnus Ferrell

Let 'Em In - Wings

I Knew It, I Knew You - Taylor Swift 

I Was Made For Lovin' You (orchestral version) - Yungblud

Maybe Not Tonight - Glen Hansard *

Devil Always Made Me Think Twice - Chris Stapleton

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

All I Wanted - Paramore ¹ 

Suffocation - Against Me!

The Wolf Is Getting Married - Sinéad O'Connor

Save Me - Kelly Osbourne

Don't Save Me - HAIM

Spirits in the Material World - The Police

Holding On - The War On Drugs

Tonight Is Forever - Liza Minnelli

Goodbye - Ozzy Osbourne

East Coasting - Charles Mingus

Hanging Out to Dry - Florence Road

Jane! - The Long Faces ¹ 

Hold Tight! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

Working Man - Rush ¹ 

Midnight Rider - The Allman Brothers

Easy - Troye Sivan

Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother ¹ 

The Tear of the Year - Jackie Wilson

Il sole sorge ancora - MOTS

Dear Heart - Thin Lizzy ¹ 

De-Luxe - Lush

Way Down We Go - KALEO

The Payoff - Father John Misty 

Conscious Uncoupling - Pool Kids

Blue Blood - Foals

Dagger Through The Heart - Dolly Parton

Cigarettes in the Theatre - Two Door CInema Club

BDR - Chelsea Peretti w/ Kathleen Hanna, Ad-Rock, & Money Mark 

She Bangs the Drums - The Stone Roses

June - IDLES

Diane - Hüsker Dü

Fighter - Imanbek & LP

A Fragile Thing - The Cure

And I Love Her - Kurt Cobain ¹ 

 - Summer 2026 Playlist

*In mid June I was in a shop in Phoenixville and they had this song playing. I Shazamed it, chatted with the shop-lady about how gorgeous Glen Hansard's voice is and added it to my playlist. A month later he would be gone. 

¹ - These songs were introduced to me through Jackson.

July Ends

Strange - Celeste

Away - Cam Cole

Bulls on Parade - Rage

I Happen to Like New York - Bobby Short

Accidents Will Happen - Elvis Costello

Bloodstream - Tokio Myers

Bring It On Home to Me - Sam Cooke

Half-Breed - Cher

I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding

You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt

I Wanna Be Around - Tony Bennett

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

How About You? - Frank Sinatra

Let Go - Frou Frou

Furnace Room Lullaby - Neko Case

Mockingbirds - Grant Lee Buffalo

What If I Loved You - Joey Gian

Wedding Bell Blues - The Fifth Dimension

Last Night I Had A Dream - Randy Newman

I Know You're Out There Somewhere - Moody Blues

Model House Opening - Troy Herion

I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoe) - Brian Eno

Hello Young Lovers - Mel Tormé 

I Used to Care - Louyah

Dance To This - Troye Sivan feat. Ariana Grande

Rama Bauer - Tony Lagare

- July 2021 Playlist

Gettin' Hot

If You Leave - OMD

The Promise - When In Rome

The World Is New - Save Ferris

Cosmic Girl - Jamiroquai

New Moon on Monday - Duran Duran

Look Me In The Heart - Tina Turner

The Blue Sky - a-ha

A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins

Til I Hear It from You - Gin Blossoms

Ridiculous Thoughts - The Cranberries

Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes

One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx

Nowhere Fast - Fire Inc.

Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders

Sheila Take a Bow - The Smiths

Got to Be Real - Cheryl Lynn

Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye

Any Way You Want It - Journey

The Old Apartment - Barenaked Ladies

This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) - Natalie Cole

You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi

Twist of Fate - Olivia Newton-John

Never - Moving Pictures

Authority Song - John Cougar Mellencamp

Heaven Is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle

This Is Me - Rocket Summer

Can't Stop - Madonna

Tears Are Not Enough - ABC

Never Let Me Down - Depeche Mode

Lover to Fall - Scritti Politti

 - Summer 2021 Playlist

Beneath the Canopy

White, Discussion - Live

See Me Now - Ava Maybee

Love Lines - LP

Rough and Twisted - Rolling Stones

Hold the Line - Toto

Str8 Outta Mumbai - Jai Paul

Holy for Tonight - Ozzy Osbourne

Rock Candy - Montrose

Come Dancing - Jeff Beck

Someday I'll Find You - Bobby Short

undressed - sombr

In Your Room - Depeche Mode

Names and Dates and Times - Ani DiFranco

Fever Dream - Alex Warren

Conceited - Lola Young 

Darling Darling Darling - The Meters

All I See Is You - Nightbirde

Into the Sky - St. Lucia

I Thought About You - Ella Fitzgerald

Moanin' - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Love In Exile - Charlie Puth, Michael McDonald, & Kenny Loggins

Prettier - Grace VanderWaal

Cherish - The Association

- Spring 2026 Playlist

The Obsession Continues

I cannot get LP's version of Halo out of my head. I have seriously had it on repeat for close to two hours while driving. The other day I decided to once again Google and see if they are maybe touring in the States. (Last time I checked they were in Europe/Asia/far away.) Hot dog!! LP is coming to Philly in September! I freaked the fug out and ran, I tell you, ran into the next room to grab my credit card from my Edie Sedgwick wallet. I wanted to get the VIP option to watch LP's soundcheck, but it was over two hundred bucks a ticket. Nope - not in the financial cards for this gal. I decided on two general admission tickies and splurged for a fast pass so as not to wait in line on the big day. Cause if it's one of those hot days that crops up in late September, I do not want to be out of doors if I don't have to be. Total cost was under $150. A steal! An absolute steal. I had to wait until I knew Kayla would be awake before I texted her to see if she wanted to go with. (The utter hell of being a 911 dispatcher in the city of Philadelphia who is on a pager and has to fill in for people calling out "sick". This child has worked so many 18 hour shifts in a row that it defies logic.) Once she was awake, at 10pm, we FaceTimed and she said she'd do her best to request that day off. Fingers crossed!! A few days later one of my Finch challenges was to create a shared playlist. I haven't a clue what the hell that is, so I modified it to create a playlist and share. So I sent Kay my Best of LP playlist.

POST SCRIPT:

Tonight after Jackson's Grunge gig, we went to PA to one of the last remaining Bertucci's where I introduced him to the best Margherita pizza in the continental United States. While gabbing we paused and were equally shocked when we discovered that LP was playing. "And it's Lost on You!" declared Jackson. That's gotta mean something...

Gadget

Willin' - Linda Ronstadt

Alone - Kristin Chenoweth & Matthew Morrison

Volver - Estrella Morente

Still Can't... - The Cranberries

I Never Loved You Anyway - Johnny Tillotson

Funny Girl - Father John Misty 

Smile - Lily Allen

Second Hand News - Fleetwood Mac

It Will Come Back - Hozier

We Might As Well Be Strangers - Keane

Give It To Me - Timbaland

Shudder Soft - Diasan

Girls & Boys - Blur

Shake the Disease - Depeche Mode

Video Games - Lana Del Rey

24K Magic - Bruno Mars

Drivers License - Olivia Rodrigo

- Spring 2023

Raspberry Smoothie

Closer - Boyce Avenue feat. Sarah Hyland

Suitcase - Teddy Swims 

Troy - Sinéad O'Connor

You're My Soul & Inspiration - The Righteous Brothers

Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus

Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell

She - The Monkees

Happy You're Here - Sycco

Worth It. - Raye

Empire Now - Hozier

Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer

Confía - Gepe & Vicentico

The Taker - Waylon Jennings

Tennessee Whiskey - Austin Giorgio

Solitary Man - Neil Diamond

Nessun Dorma - Jonathan Tetelman

May 2024 Playlist

405

She Wants To Know - Half Moon Run

Meant To Be - City and Colour

Dangerous Hands - Austin Giorgio

Drive It Like You Stole It - Sing Street

Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana

Sweat - RY X

I Cannot Speak - Matt Berry

Thinking of A Place - War On Drugs

Manzanita - The Tony Rice Unit

Until the Real Thing Comes Along - Dean Martin

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - Broken Circle Breakdown

Exit 353 - Damien Jurado

On the Street Where You Live - Mel Tormé 

Red Flag - Vum

Alice - Cocteau Twins 

I Feel For You - Chaka Khan

Blue Café - The Style Council

Screaming - Bronski Beat

Lips Like Sugar - Echo & the Bunnymen

- April 2024 Playlist

Whispered Nights

The Alchemy - Taylor Swift

Venus - Frankie Avalon

Fascination - Nat King Cole

Back to the Old House - The Smiths

Woman - Matt Berry

Alaska - Maggie Rogers

Chattanooga Choo Choo - Andrews Sisters

Ordinary - Alex Warren

Perry Mason - Ozzy Osbourne

Dream a Little Dream of Me - Mamas & the Papas

La Mentira - Luis Miguel

Where the Boys Are - Connie Francis

No Good - Joint Operation

Kiss of Life - Sade

Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller Orchestra

Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues

The Giver - Chappell Roan

The Blob - The Five Blobs

- July 2025 Playlist

Adamantine

Straight to Your Heart - Ashton Irwin

Make It Better - Anderson .Paak

Throwing It All Away - Genesis

One Thing - Lola Young

Change My Mind - The Motels

UMI Says - Mos Def

Opening - Robert Glasper

Prayer - Savages

Dark Chocolate - Anika Nilles

White Blank Page - Mumford & Sons

Rainy Days - Travis James

Many Times - Dijon

Be My Baby - The Ronettes

Willowcrest - Buddy Rich Big Band feat. Neil Peart

Too Good - EJ Jones

Don't Delete the Kisses - Wolf Alice

New Song - Alice Phoebe Lou

Sister Sadie - Buddy Rich

Metal Fatigue - StOrk

I'll Be Seeing You - Billie Holiday

The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.

Wanted Man - Benson Boone

Puke - Ava Maybee

Farewell Reel - Patti Smith

February 2026 Playlist

(Clearly I was still super into drummers when I made this!)

Splintered Woodrot

C'Mon Girl - RHCP*

Blinding Lights - The Weeknd

Fool No. 1 - The Mavericks

Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush

Into Sands - Ley Soul

Lost - Jalen Ngonda

Non Photo-Blue - Pinback

End of Beginning - Djo

Some Day - Jackie Gleason

Working On Myself - Torture & the Desert Spiders

To Cause Your Own Death - Mon Rovîa 

Where Is My Mind - Maxence Cyrin

Since I Left You - The Avalanches

Pneuma - Tool

All I Need - Radiohead

Black Tears - Imelda May

Cry - Johnny Ray

Wake Up - Arcade Fire

Lovely Creature - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Stublin' In - Chris Norman & Suzi Quatro

us. - Gracie Abrams feat. Taylor Swift 

I Believe - Robert Plant

Space Truckin' - Deep Purple

Valerie - Steve Winwood

- December 2025 Playlist

*I would like this band so much more if they had a different lead singer/lyricist. C'mon Girl is one of the few that I can tolerate. The music is phenomenal but Kiedis has a voice that makes me want to wretch. That and he is an admitted sex offender. Gross. 

Charlatan Dancer

Save It For Later - The Beat

Getaway Car - Taylor Swift

A Message to You Rudy - The Specials

The Path of Thorns - Sarah McLachlan

The First Taste - Fiona Apple

Tupelo - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

How Bad Do U Want Me - Lady Gaga

Tenderness - General Public

4 Ever 2 Gether - ABC

I Won't Close My Eyes - UB40

That's All - Nat King Cole

Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac

Man I Need - Olivia Dean

Hit the Ground Running - Jonny Lang

Can You Feel My Heart - Bring Me the Horizon

Your Love Is My Drug - Kesha

Mother - Charlie Puth

Painkiller* - Judas Priest

Je t'aime moi non plus - Jane Birkin

Groove Master - Arrow

- September 2025 Playlist

*Jackson played Painkiller for his September School of Rock concert and KILLED it!!

Quarter Past Nine

2080 - Yeasayer

World We Knew - Frank Sinatra

The Second One - Remy Shand

Pedestal - Portishead

Rootless Tree - Damien Rice 

Aperture - Harry Styles

Another - Richard Davis Quartet

I Wish I Knew How To Quit You - sombr

Violet - Keeton Coffman

Stay This Way - The Brand New Heavies

Here, There and Everywhere - The Beatles

Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Rey

Lavender Haze - Taylor Swift

So Easy (To Fall In Love) - Olivia Dean

Wristwatch - MJ Lenderman

One Step Beyond - Madness

Caravan - Duke Ellington

Easy Does It - GoldFord

Chorale - Nicholas Krolak

The Old Law - Father John Misty 

Tones for Joan's Bones - Christian McBride

Knowing - Tessa Violet

Mystical Magical - Benson Boone 

Driven to Tears - The Police 

Spirit Bones - Pioneer

Telephone Line - ELO

Dead Men Don't Rape - Delilah Bon

- January 2026 Playlist

Broken Lavender Sky

Cal Solomon Blues - Dear & The Headlights

Thunderstruck - AC/DC

Six Feet Deep - The Warning

Poison & Wine - The Civil Wars

Everybody Scream - Florence + the Machine

Violet - Hole

Hushabye Mountain - Dick Van Dyke 

Parasite - Ozzy Osbourne

Too Funky - George Michael

In a Sentimental Mood - Duke & Coltrane

Heart of Gold - Johnny Cash

Raunchy Rita - Elvin Jones & Richard Davis

Manic Depression - Hendrix

Rumble - Link Wray

Paradise - Sade

Don't Interrupt the Sorrow - Joni Mitchell

Dear Mike - Wild Colonials

Love The Way You Lie - Eminem

Hands to Heaven - Breathe

Birdland - Buddy Rich

Lovesick Blues - Felicity

Black Tears - Imelda May

Africa - Toto

Breakfast in America - Supertramp

How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths

True Believer - Hayley Williams

El Blues del Esclavo - Mecano

Give Blood - Pete Townshend

Showdown - Thin Lizzy

- November 2025 Playlist

Call Sign

I was so in love with this playlist from October. Still am. It's chock full of songs with fab female voices and a handful of tracks with Chad Smith on drums. I was seriously obsessed with watching YouTube vids of him drumming throughout Autumn of last year. It was a nice diversion from the hellhole shitstorm that is reality.  

Break My Heart - Dua Lipa

Come and Get It - Austin Giorgio

Youngblood - 5 Second of Summer

Bite My Tongue - Cassandra Coleman

Native New Yorker - Odyssey

Evil Shuffle - Ozzy Osbourne

Cry - Benson Boone

She Calls Me Back - Noah Kahan

Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nothing Ta Fuck Wit - Wu-Tang Clan

Baby I'm Yours - Barbara Lewis

I Know There's Something Going On - Frida

Father Figure - Taylor Swift 

Frenzy - Iggy Pop

Zombie - Yungblud

vampire - Olivia Rodrigo

Devil or Angel - The Clovers

Stab My Back - Le Butcherettes

She Dances - Diego Garcia

Run the Bath - Birthday Girl

Arlington Queen - Stellastarr*

Music for Spies - Snõõper

The Melting Moon - VHS or Beta

People Watching - Sam Fender

New Girls - Vum

Pull Me Under - Dream Theater

The Natural - Marnie Stern

The Dark Gift - Meanstreak

The Scratch - 7 Year Bitch

Mystery Title - Robert Plant

Time Bomb - Rancid

How It Ends - DeVotchKa

October 2025 Playlist

(Fave track: Cry by Benson Boone. It would end and I would hit the back button and turn the volume up even higher. Also, special thanks to Bishop for introducing me to Native New Yorker - such a fun tune!!)

Snowfall and Cookie Dough

'tis the damn season - Taylor Swift

Cookie Road - The Julie Ruin

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - The Civil Wars

Christmas Starts Tonight - Olly Murs & The Ordinary Boys

The Christmas Song - Carpenters   

Snow - RHCP

Christmas in Herald Square - Tony Bennett

Cold Cold Ground - Tom Waits

Wonderful Christmastime - The Shins

Christmas Is Going To The Dogs - The Eels

Winter Wonderland/Let It Snow - Midler & Mathis

Sleigh Ride - Ella Fitzgerald

Every Christmas Eve/Giving - Johnny Mathis

Winter Weather/Winter Wonderland - Mel Tormé

Frozen Pines - Lord Huron

Winter Light - Linda Ronstadt

Song of Joy - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Dove

Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Ellington & Coltrane - In a Sentimental Mood

Django Reinhardt - Minor Swing

Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father

Stan Getz - Falling in Love

Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus & Lucy

Charlie Parker - The Bird

Coltrane - Acknowledgement 

Chet Baker Quartet - There's a Small Hotel

Dizzy & Getz - It Don't Mean a Thing

Miles Davis - Concierto de Aranjuez, Pt. 2

Ellington - Self Portrait (of the Bean)

Maceo Parker - My Love

Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk

(This disc had no date on it, which always irritates me. I'm thinking it's probably from about 2004ish, when I was really getting in to jazz.)

Wishin' and Hopin'

A tight playlist in preparation for a happy occasion. It can't come soon enough!

Agent Orange - Depeche Mode

Dead Man Walking - David Bowie

Death Comes Calling - Everlast

When That Man Is Dead and Gone - Mildred Bailey *

Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead - from The Wizard of Oz

No One Mourns the Wicked - Broadway Cast of Wicked

I’m So Excited - Le Tigre

It's Such a Good Feeling - Daniel Knox

Happy Days are Here Again - Barbra Streisand

At Last - Etts James

Finally - Florist

Dead and Bloated - Stone Temple Pilots

Dead and Buried - Alien Sex Fiend

Dead and Gone - Ozzy Osbourne

Maggot - Amyl and the Sniffers

No Peace for the Wicked - Rory Gallagher

Feeling Good - Nina Simone

Good Times - Chic

Happy - Johnny Mathis

Celebration - Kool & the Gang

Joy - Sean Hayes

Good Times - Journey

Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin

Happy - George Michael

Freedom - Rage Against the Machine

Joy - George Winston

Gone for Good - The Shins

I Forgot That You Existed - Taylor Swift 

(Lyrically the titles don't fit the theme, but the titles most certainly do, as do the joyous feelings that accompany each song.)

* This song is perfect for the now - life in a world where he is still alive, where I daydream of a day when that man is dead and gone.

The Tall Cypress

Spring - Vivaldi

Come Around and Love Me - Jalen Ngonda

Samba De Uma Nota So - Caterina Valente

On se dit tu? - R. Wan

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - Florence + the Machine

Song for Zula - Phosphorescent

I Feel Good - Pink Sweat$

Uniti per sempre - Myriam Del Mare

It Ain't Over 'til It's Over - Transcenders

Human Right - The Strike

Talk to Me - Nightly

Sem Contenção - Bebel Gilberto

Don't Go to Strangers - Nana Mouskouri

No More Drama - Charlie Puth

BITE - Troye Sivan

52nd Street - Ann Jillian

Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper

Don't Go - Yaz

September - Earth, Wind & Fire

Cups - Jean Simone

I Alone - Live

When It's Over - Sugar Ray

coney island - Taylor Swift

Turn It Up - Michael Davidson

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

Pretrial - Fiona Apple

Candy Says - The Velvet Underground

Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

Never Knew Love Like This Before - Stephanie Mills

No More Tears - Streisand & Donna Summer

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? - The Shirelles

Bus Stop - The Hollies 

Roller Girl - Anna Karina

Gnossiennes: No. 3, Lent - Erik Satie

Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor

Memory - Betty Buckley

Muddy Waters - LP

Et so tu n'existais pas - Joe Dassin

Ochi Chyomye - Moscow Academy of Choral Art

Reading Rainbow Theme Song - Tina Fabrique

Hymne à l'amour - Céline Dion

One More Once - Yaya3

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler

- May 2025 Playlist