Schmutzie's July 2021 Mixtape
July 2021’s mixtape is 4 hours and 9 minutes long and has 68 folk, country, alternative, rock, indie pop, worldwide, R&B/soul, pop, singer/songwriter, punk, classical, blues, vocal, modern dancehall, electronic, and hip-hop/rap songs across 8 decades (although the Spotify playlist is missing Witch’s “Lazy Bones” because Spotify doesn’t have that particular Witch album). 53% of the music is from 2020 and 2021. This playlist is available on both Spotify and Apple Music, 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.
The last song on this playlist is “She’s So Unusual”, which was sung by Helen Kane, whose voice and looks were likely the inspiration for cartoon character Betty Boop. Here she is in the movie Sweetie in 1929 — she’ll win you over immediately — and then 29 years later on the tv show This Is Your Life with the best facial expressions:
July 2021’s playlist on Spotify and Apple Music:
1. Strange Conversations (Sudan Archives Remix) — Automatic (2021) 2. Sick of Spiraling — Bachelor, Jay Som & Palehound (2021) 3. Swish and Spit — Cher Strauberry (2021) 4. Hopeful — Curtis Harding (2021) 5. Leafy — Dry Cleaning (2021) 6. Witchoo (feat. Aaron Frazer) — Durand Jones & The Indications (2021) 7. Strut — Elohim & Big Freedia (2021) 8. Cheers — Faye Webster (2021) 9. In the Stone — The Goon Sax (2021) 10. Operation: Pussy Jam (feat. Dr. Pants) [Remix] — Hunter Blake (2021) 11. I Don’t Like It — Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall (2021) 12. Visions — José González (2021) 13. State — Laura Stevenson (2021) 14. Racist, Sexist Boy (Live at LA Public Library) — The Linda Lindas (2021) 15. Goodbye — MARINA (2021) 16. All Her Fits — Matthew Dear (2021) 17. Fuck Your Acid Trip — Modest Mouse (2021) 18. Balcony Man — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (2021) 19. Get It ‘Fore It’s Gone — Pokey LaFarge (2021) 20. Souled Out On You — Robert Finley (2021) 21. Bio18 — Rostam (2021) 22. Scratching Static (feat. NNAMDÏ) — Royal Canoe (2021) 23. London Gangs — Sault (2021) 24. Like I Used To — Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen (2021) 25. Holiday — Slow Leaves (2021) 26. Iowa 146 — Squirrel Flower (2021) 27. The Last Man On Earth — Wolf Alice (2021) 28. Hip Hip Hooray — Yellow Pills (2021) 29. Do It — Good Sad Happy Bad (2020) 30. Best So — Joseph Brooks Organ (2020) 31. mighty die young — Joy Oladokun (2020) 32. Out of My Head — Mac DeMarco (2020) 33. Avenue Bliss — Purr (2020) 34. Give Us Justice — Thee Sacred Souls (2020) 35. Kill Courtney — Ting Tang Tina (2020) 36. Never Sleeping Repeating — Tom Broome (2020) 37. Strange — Celeste (2019) 38. Smooth Operator — Pottery (2019) 39. A Pearl — Mitski (2018) 40. Looking Out for You — Joy Again (2015) 41. Control — Majical Cloudz (2015) 42. Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1 — Run the Jewels (2014) 43. Nothin But Time — Cat Power (2012) 44. Tryin’ to Get to Heaven — Lucinda Williams (2012) 45. I Like the Way This Is Going — Eels (2010) 46. Kids — MGMT (2007) 47. Because I Could Not Stop for Death — Susan McKeown (2005) 48. Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine — The White Stripes (2003) 49. Drunk — Silkworm (1996) 50. Middle — Rocket from the Crypt (1995) 51. Butch In the Streets — Tribe 8 (1995) 52. Rebel Girl — Bikini Kill (1993) 53. Fiddler’s Green — The Tragically Hip (1991) 54. Holding Out for a Hero — Bonnie Tyler (1989) 55. 18 Morceaux, Op. 72: No. 2, Berceuse (Arr. for Theremin & Piano) — Clara Rockmore & Nadia Reisenberg (1987) 56. Troy — Sinéad O’Connor (1987) 57. Give It Time — The Woodentops (1986) 58. Close to Me — The Cure (1985) 59. Save It for Later — The English Beat (1982) 60. Bad Reputation — Joan Jett (1980) 61. Lazy Bones — Witch (1975) 62. We the People — The Staple Singers (1972) 63. Carey — Faces (1971) 64. Bedazzled (Alternative Mix) — Peter Cook & Dudley Moore Trio (1968) 65. Heroin (Stereo Version) — The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) 66. You Can’t Sit Down — Booker T. & The M.G.’s (1962) 67. Dark Moon — Bonnie Guitar (1961) 68. He’s So Unusual — Helen Kane (1929)
