Schmutzie's August 2021 Mixtape
August 2021’s mixtape is 3 hours and 50 minutes long and has 62 alternative, pop, rock, metal, folk, country, vocal, dance, traditional folk, punk, indie rock, indie pop, alternative folk, electronic, and Americana songs across 8 decades. 50% of the music is from 2021. This playlist is available on both Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, and Deezer, and, if you scroll to the bottom, you’ll find embedded widgets you can play right here. The songs are in reverse order by year and then alphabetically by artist within each year.
John Vanderslice’s “I Get a Strange Kind of Pleasure From Just Hanging On” has become a bit of an addiction for me:
August 2021’s playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, and Deezer:
1. Old Peel (Alternate Version) — Aldous Harding (2021) 2. Strange to Them — Antonioni (2021) 3. The Ghost of Cincinnati — Big Red Machine (2021) 4. Secret Life (feat. Lana Del Rey) — Bleachers (2021) 5. Lite Werk — Cakes da Killa & Proper Villains (2021) 6. Stop — Cher Strauberry (2021) 7. Blouse — Clairo (2021) 8. Sour — Dafna (2021) 9. No — Grace Victoria (2021) 10. Fabric — Half Waif (2021) 11. Line On the Page — Ida Mae (2021) 12. Kill Me — Indigo De Souza (2021) 13. Existing — Izzy Johnson (2021) 14. Go Slowly — Jodi (2021) 15. I Get a Strange Kind of Pleasure From Just Hanging On — John Vanderslice (2021) 16. A Color of the Sky — Lightning Bug (2021) 17. Animal — LUMP, Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay (2021) 18. Crumb Back — Mega Bog (2021) 19. Rosie — Mia Day (2021) 20. Transmitting Receiving — Modest Mouse (2021) 21. Stay Away Still — My Idea (2021) 22. Carnage — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (2021) 23. Waking Dreams — Nico Hedley (2021) 24. You’re Not Special, Baby — Orla Gartland (2021) 25. Jumprope — Psymon Spine (2021) 26. Human Copy — Red Ribbon (2021) 27. All This Art — Teenage Sequence (2021) 28. Westside Lobby — Tones and I (2021) 29. All My Fish Are Dead — The Vega Bodegas (2021) 30. Chaise Longue — Wet Leg (2021) 31. Be Like Johnny — YEE LOI (2021) 32. Cookie Scene — The Go! Team (2020) 33. Fight Like Ida B & Marsha P — Ric Wilson (2020) 34. Control — Amyl and The Sniffers (2019) 35. Road Trip (feat. Nick Zinner & Meredith Graves) — 180dB (2018) 36. Television — IDLES (2018) 37. Light Goes Out — Ages and Ages (2014) 38. Love Me Like I’m Not Made of Stone — Lykke Li (2014) 39. Work Bitch — Britney Spears (2013) 40. I Need My Girl — The National (2013) 41. Iowa (Acoustic Revisited Version) [feat. Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sean Watkins & Sara Watkins] — Dar Williams (2010) 42. Dance Yrself Clean — LCD Soundsystem (2010) 43. Lets Dance to Joy Division — The Wombats (2007) 44. Hotel Yorba — The White Stripes (2001) 45. Goddess On a Hiway — Mercury Rev (1998) 46. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea — Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) 47. Depressed All the Time — Five Eight (1993) 48. Where Is My Mind? — Pixies (1988) 49. This Is the Sea (2004 Remaster) — The Waterboys (1985) 50. Mind Your Own Business — Delta 5 (1979) 51. Doesn’t Make It Alright — The Specials (1979) 52. Well I Know You’re Lonely Now — Karen Black (between 1971 and 1976) 53. Tin Man — America (1974) 54. Iron Man — Black Sabbath (1970) 55. Julia — The Beatles (1968) 56. Piece of My Heart — Janis Joplin & Big Brother & The Holding Company (1968) 57. (I’m a) Road Runner — Junior Walker & The All Stars (1966) 58. Greenback Dollar — The Kingston Trio (1962) 59. Percolator — The Ventures (1962) 60. If You Love Me (Really Love Me) — Brenda Lee (1961) 61. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) — Tex Williams (1960) 62. So This Is Love — Steve Conway (1950)
