Schmutzie's 100 Best Songs of 2021: 50 Faster and Harder and 50 Slower and Softer
The 100 Best Songs of 2021’s full playlist is close to 6 hours long and starts with 50 faster and harder songs and ends with 50 slower and softer songs across 19 genres: rock, alternative, electronic, indie pop, punk, funk, R&B/soul, grunge, pop, folk, dance, Americana, indie rock, downtempo, African, folk-rock, country, pop, and hip-hop/rap. This playlist is available on Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal (99 of 100 songs), and Amazon Music (92 of 100 songs), and, if you scroll to the bottom, you’ll find embedded widgets you can play right here. The songs are listed alphabetically by artist.
Of all the songs on the following playlist, Pom Pom Squad’s “Lux” is the one I’ve turned up to 10 and danced to the most. It feels like the right amount of loud about trauma and boundaries, which fits in well with this panopticon or whatever it is we happen to be living through:
The 100 Best Songs of 2021’s playlist on Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, and Amazon Music
FASTER & HARDER:
1. Don’t Fence Me In — Amyl and The Sniffers 2. You Can Get It — Arkells & K.Flay 3. Angst In My Pants — Art d’Ecco 4. Cloud 9 (feat. Tegan and Sara) — Beach Bunny 5. Lite Werk — Cakes da Killa & Proper Villains 6. Ted Talk City — Cheekface 7. Swish and Spit — Cher Strauberry 8. Rómpelo (feat. Lupe Fiasco) — Cimafunk 9. That’s Mr. Bitch to You — Claud & Melanie Faye 10. Shut the Fuck up and Just Die Already — DEAR-GOD 11. Witchoo — Durand Jones & The Indications & Aaron Frazer 12. Molasses (Walk the Walk) — Dylan Cartlidge 13. Murkit Gem (feat. Piya Malik) — El Michels Affair 14. Strut — Elohim & Big Freedia 15. Let It All Go — Francis of Delirium 16. abcdefu — GAYLE 17. Did You Come? — girl in red 18. In the Stone — The Goon Sax 19. Just What You Want (feat. Surfbort) — Grouplove 20. Operation: Pussy Jam (feat. Dr. Pants) [Remix] — Hunter Blake 21. Mmmoooaaaaayaya — illuminati hotties 22. Kill Me — Indigo De Souza 23. Taking Me Back (Gently) — Jack White 24. Presentation (with Nick Hakim) — Juan Wauters & Benamin 25. Dating My Dad (feat. Travis Barker) — K.Flay 26. Disconnexion (English Version) — La Femme 27. Racist, Sexist Boy (Live at the LA Public Library) — The Linda Lindas 28. papercuts — Machine Gun Kelly 29. Bag of Hammers — MAITA 30. Fuck Your Acid Trip — Modest Mouse 31. Stay Away Still — My Idea 32. brutal — Olivia Rodrigo 33. Rain (feat. Rodney Van Mitchell & Amelia Ammons) — Owie Zowie 34. Get It ‘Fore It’s Gone — Pokey LaFarge 35. Lux — Pom Pom Squad 36. Jumprope — Psymon Spine 37. Station Wagon — shame 38. Bootlickers of the Patriarchy — Shilpa Ray 39. Shortcummings — Sleaford Mods 40. Rides Again… — Spodee Boy 41. Narrator — Squid & Martha Skye Murphy 42. Pain Without a Touch — Sweeping Promises 43. All This Art — Teenage Sequence 44. Westside Lobby — Tones and I 45. Masochist Ball — Typhoon 46. All My Fish Are Dead — The Vega Bodegas 47. Ain’t Nice — Viagra Boys 48. Everybody (feat. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien & Mr. Lif) — Wax Tailor 49. All My Favorite Songs — Weezer 50. Dark Days — Yard Act
SLOWER & SOFTER:
51. hurt — Ada Lea 52. Old Peel (Alternate Version) — Aldous Harding 53. Jeremy’s Wedding (Wilds) — Andy Shauf 54. Corncrakes — Anna B Savage 55. All That I Ever Did — Anna Leone 56. Blue Boy — Ari Balouzian 57. Moral of the Story — Ashe 58. Kora (feat. Camille) — Ballaké Sissoko 59. Change — Big Thief 60. Track X — Black Country, New Road 61. Song of Trouble (feat. Sufjan Stevens) — CARM 62. Bloodless — Claire Cronin 63. Blouse — Clairo 64. Come Clean — Clever Girls 65. I Need a Friend — Colin Miller 66. Helena — Damien Jurado 67. The Boarding House — David Keenan 68. Stupid — Deb Never 69. Fabric — ELIO 70. Hard Way — Flock of Dimes 71. No — Grace Victoria 72. Dust — Heartless Bastards 73. I Don’t Like It — Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall 74. Dead and Gone — Jess Locke 75. Friend — Joel Young 76. I Get a Strange Kind of Pleasure From Just Hanging On — John Vanderslice 77. Your Young Voice — Jonny Muir 78. Back to the Water — Julie Doiron 79. Sweet Carolina — Lana Del Rey 80. Going to Hell — Lande Hekt 81. Dyan — Le Ren 82. Stoned At the Nail Salon — Lorde 83. I Lied — Lord Huron & Allison Ponthier 84. Going Going Gone — Lucy Dacus 85. Animal — LUMP, Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay 86. My Body Is My Own — Matt Sweeney & Bonnie “Prince” Billy 87. Chew Quietly/Clean Slate — Megan Nash 88. Rosie — Mia Day 89. Transmitting Receiving — Modest Mouse 90. Youth — Neffy 91. Rainforest — Noname 92. The Astronaut — Ray Goren 93. I’d Rather Be a Ghost — Semler 94. Tristeza — Silvana Estrada 95. The Constable — Sloppy Jane 96. adhd — slowthai 97. Favourite — Sorry 98. Love Me When I Go to Sleep — Steady Holiday 99. Turnaround (Cocaine Song) — Tōth 100. Chaise Longue — Wet Leg
