Schmutzie's February 2020 Mixtape
February 2020’s mixtape is over 3 hours and 15 minutes long and has 52 pop, alternative, rock, punk, electronic, South American, North African, classical, singer/songwriter, R&B/soul, soul, soundtrack, inspirational, alternative folk, musique francophone, folk-rock, traditional folk, and children’s songs from 7 different decades. It’s best LOUD.
February 2020’s playlist on Spotify and Apple Music:
1. Quando Quando Quando — Engelbert Humperdink (1967) 2. Everyone Looks Like Everyone — The Pack A.D. (2010) 3. Everybody’s Happy Nowadays — Buzzcocks (1979) 4. Ticker — Pist Idiots (2019) 5. Axe On Your Doorstep — The New Values (2012) 6. I Feel It All — Arre! Arre! (2019) 7. Lost In a DreamWorld — ShitKid (2019) 8. Mama! There’s a Spider In My Room — The Black Tones (2019) 9. Angola Rodeo — The Black Lips (2020) 10. All You Really Have to Do — White Denim (2008) 11. I’ll Be Around — The Golden Dawn (1968) 12. Aujourd'hui ma vie c'est d'la marde — Lisa LeBlanc (2012) 13. I Got Up — Linda McCartney (1998) 14. I Touch Myself — Scala & Kolacny Brothers (2003) 15. F**k the Pain Away — Peaches (2000) 16. Wow (feat. Radio Radio) — Boogat (2013) 17. Gasbah Trinsiti — Sofiane Saidi & Mazalda (2018) 18. Yoko Ono — Moby Rich (2018) 19. Anyone Can Play Guitar — Midwife (2020) 20. The Past Is a Grotesque Animal — of Montreal (2007) 21. The Bad Arts — Destroyer (2001) 22. Laughs Last Laughed — The Music Tapes (2020) 23. The Potato Song (Cuz I Want To) — Kesha (2020) 24. I’m Bored — The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (2003) 25. Le carnaval des animaux: NO. 12, Le cygne (Arr. for Theremin & Piano) — Clara Rockmore & Nadia Reisenberg (1987) 26. Thank You for the Offer — Chip Taylor (2020) 27. You and Me — Penny & The Quarters (possibly 1969 or early 1970s) 28. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart — Al Green (1972) 29. O Clever One — Son Little (2020) 30. Pink Moon — Nick Drake (1972) 31. Mystery of Love (from “Call Me By Your Name”) — Sufjan Stevens (2017) 32. Bar No One — Beach Slang (2020) 33. First Thing I Remember — Walter Martin (2020) 34. In Between Days — The Cure (1985) 35. Baby’s a Liar— Beach Skulls (2016) 36. Messes of Men— mewithoutYou (2006) 37. The Presidential Palace of Pornography — David Dondero (2020) 38. Marie tu pleures — Karkwa (2010) 39. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want — The Smiths (1984) 40. Bashed Out — This Is the Kit (2015) 41. A Secret — Frances Quinlan (2020) 42. Every Woman — Vagabon (2019) 43. Ne me quitte pas (Don’t Leave Me) — Orion Sun (2020) 44. Fire — Waxahatchee (2020) 45. Become a Mountain — Dan Deacon (2020) 46. Saturday Morning Cartoons — Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear (2019) 47. Little Summer Fly — Walter Martin (2020) 48. The Brothers Williams Said — The Innocence MIssion (2020) 49. Streetlight Blues — Squirrel Flower (2020) 50. Who Knows — Alice Boman (2020) 51. Kiss — Scout Niblett (2007) 52. Dinosaurs In Love (feat. Tom Rosenthal) — Fenn Rosenthal (2020)
Notes:
I realize that there are some questionable choices on this playlist. I mean, I started it with Engelbert Humperdink, but I am no music snob, and “Quando Quando Quando” makes me shake my ass. I can’t help it. Admit it. You at least jiggled.
And then there’s Linda McCartney’s “I Got Up”. This song is terrible, it’s nearly unforgivable, but it sticks in my head and makes me grin really wide, and I stop being so depressed for a few minutes, which kind of makes me feel manipulated, but frowning out of spite does nothing to worsen my manipulated mood. Fuck you, Linda.
I also ended up with two Walter Martin songs, but, in my defence, I’m finishing this up at 1:30am, and the warm weather brought all my allergies out. I can barely see with these gummy eyes.
Then, I ended it all with a song by a Fenn Rosenthal and her dad about how the dinosaurs loved each other and then were wiped off the face of the earth even so. It devastates me. It’s just so SAD. I had a teacher in grade six who had to leave assembly whenever we sang “Puff the Magic Dragon,” because the loss of innocence in it broke her heart so bad she cried every time she heard it. I saw her do this once, and it was very alarming and very wet. This is my “Puff the Magic Dragon.”
