Schmutzie’s April 2025 Playlist

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This playlist is out on 8 platforms:

Apple Music & Spotify & YouTube & Tidal & Deezer (67/73) & Amazon Music (67/73) & Last.fm & Qobuz (67/73)

37% of the songs are from 2024 and 2025. The complete original playlist on Apple Music is about 4 hours and 21 minutes long with 73 songs across 8 decades and 18 genres: alternative, rock, dance, pop, punk, folk, classical, jazz, R&B/soul, soundtrack, trad jazz, North African, electronic, hip-hop/rap, indie pop, singer/songwriter, contemporary R&B and blues. The songs are in reverse order by year and then in alphabetical order by artist within each year. As you can see, these monthly playlists are a bit of a music history sampler.

This month’s playlist ended up being longer than I planned, especially since I promised myself that I would reign in the average size of my playlists to only 50 songs, but insomnia has had me listening to music in the wee hours. Great music just kept popping up! It’s not my fault that there is a ton of brilliance out there in the world. And that’s how 50 songs became 73 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1. Cherry Blossom Soft Confetti — Adrian Crowley (2025)

2. Real Good Swimmer — Briston Maroney (2025)

3. Stand Up — Brittany Davis (2025)

4. Sex, Drugs & Existential Dread — Chloe Qisha (2025)

5. Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World — Destroyer (2025)

6. Anxiety — Doechii (2025)

7. Trash Crab — Frog Eyes (2025)

8. Frontrunner — Horsegirl (2025)

9. Nothing Tastes As Good As It Feels — Lambrini Girls (2025)

10. ALIVE AGAIN — Lights (2025)

11. Still Young — Luke Sital-Singh (2025)

12. to be a man — Martin Luke Brown (2025)

13. Snails — MOULD (2025)

14. Shape I’m In — Palmyra (2025)

15. Feet Too Hot (Live version) — PAPA NUI (2025)

16. Man Made of Meat — Viagra Boys (2025)

17. 잘자요 아가씨 (Prod. 과나) — ASMRZ (2024)

18. Real Man — beabadoobee (2024)

19. Hell 99 — Foxing (2024)

20. Brigadeiro (the bing bong song) — gabi belle (2024)

21. Chrome Mess — The Hard Quartet (2024)

22. Bugs — Jesse Welles (2024)

23. Mamma Told Me — Mother Mother (2024)

24. There Was a Room — Sarah Kinsley (2024)

25. Cha Cha — Sophie Hunter (2024)

26. Trust Me, I’m Lying — Waitress (2024)

27. Top Shelf — Warmduscher (2024)

28. Conceited — Lola Young (2023)

29. Worry — Green/Blue (2022)

30. Crop Circles — Odie Leigh (2022)

31. Jubilee Stomp — Tuba Skinny (2022)

32. Bowling Alley Carpet — Gum Disease (2021)

33. Officer, That’s Not Mine! — Sorry Mom (2021)

34. Planet Drool — VIAL (2021)

35. Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune. Andante très expressif — Nikolai Lugansky (2018)

36. Rome Wasn’t Burned In a Day — Chain & The Gang (2017)

37. Haunted — Pinc Louds (2017)

38. Miracles — Johnnie Frierson (2016)

39. What Happens When You Turn the Devil Down — The Mystery Lights (2016)

40. Perpetual Mild Illness — Crooks & Nannies (2015)

41. Today More Than Any Other Day — Ought (2014)

42. El Musgo — Gabriel Bruce (2013)

43. Cigarette Machine — Fred Eaglesmith (2012)

44. 212 (feat. Lazy Jay) — Azealia Banks (2011)

45. You're the Reflection of the Moon On the Water — Grant Hart (2009)

46. Married Life — Michael Giacchino (2009)

47. Sleeping Lessons — The Shins (2007)

48. Hide and Seek — Imogen Heap (2005)

49. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House — LCD Soundsystem (2005)

50. The Power Is On — The Go! Team (2004)

51. Comfort Eagle — CAKE (2001)

52. Highschool Lover — Air (2000)

53. Dress Sexy At My Funeral — Smog (2000)

54. Teenage FBI — Guided By Voices (1999)

55. Four Skinny Indie Kids — Half Man Half Biscuit (1998)

56. The Ballad of Railroad Jerk — Railroad Jerk (1995)

57. Lovesong — The Cure (1989)

58. I've Got Drugs (Out of the Mist) — The Frogs (1989)

59. Don't Cry - It's Only The Rhythm — Grace Jones (1985)

60. Wreckless Crazy — David Johansen (1979)

61. Ecoute moi camarade — Mazouni (1979)

62. Lover’s Dilemma — The Revelons (1978)

63. New Rose — The Damned (1976)

64. If You Want Me to Stay — Sly & The Family Stone (1973)

65. Part of the Union — Strawbs (1973)

66. Look At Your Game, Girl — Charles Manson (1970)

67. I’ll Never Fall In Love Again — Dionne Warwick (1970)

68. Compared to What — Roberta Flack (1969)

69. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher — Jackie Wilson (1967)

70. Incense and Peppermints — Strawberry Alarm Clock (1967)

71. Kiss Me Honey, Honey (2005 Remaster) — Shirley Bassey (1966)

72. Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) [feat. Astrud Gilberto live at Café Au Go Go, 1964] [2025 Remaster] — The New Stan Getz Quartet (1964)

73. Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) — Louis Prima (1950)