Schmutzie’s August 2025 Playlist

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This playlist is out on 8 platforms:

Apple Music & Spotify & YouTube Music (67/68) & Tidal & Deezer & Amazon Music (63/68) & Last.fm (67/68) & Qobuz (65/68)

44% of the songs are from 2025. The complete original playlist on Apple Music is about 3 hours and 57 minutes long with 68 songs across 8 decades and 16 genres: alternative, folk, metal, hip-hop/rap, singer/songwriter, indie pop, R&B/soul, indie rock, jazz, latin, country, pop, glam rock, punk, classical, and rock. The songs are in reverse order by year and then in alphabetical order by artist within each year.

These monthly playlists are a bit of a music history sampler, so, as usual, enjoy the trip :)

1. Nobody Else — Andy Jenkins (2025)

2. Be Kind — Annahstasia (2025)

3. Wonder — Benét (2025)

4. O Calamity — Divorce (2025)

5. Quiero Bailar Rocanrol — Emi Pop (2025)

6. Honey — Forth Wanderers (2025)

7. Taxes — Geese (2025)

8. Shut Your Mouth (Sometimes) — Girl Group (2025)

9. What the Freaks Say — Gus Baldwin & The Sketch (2025)

10. Horror Clowns Are Dickheads — Half Man Half Biscuit (2025)

11. Right All Wrong — Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward (2025)

12. Enough — Jeff Tweedy (2025)

13. Never Never — Lammping & Bloodshot Bill (2025)

14. kafka-esque novelist franz kafka — Mclusky (2025)

15. Killed By a Loser — Memo PST (2025)

16. Onto Something — Public Figures (2025)

17. hate fuck — quinnie (2025)

18. lose her — ratbag (2025)

19. JOHNNYSCOTT — Rio Romeo (2025)

20. New Threats From the Soul — Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band (2025)

21. I’m In Love — S.G. Goodman (2025)

22. GIMP — Sonic Reducer (2025)

23. JIVE — Sorry (2025)

24. Something to Say — The Thing (2025)

25. Pyramid of Health — Viagra Boys (2025)

26. Playing Classics — Water From Your Eyes (2025)

27. Chick From Nowhere — Wet Kiss (2025)

28. puke — Wet World (2025)

29. Spyhopping — Wombo (2025)

30. Illegal Hit (Edit) — Yttling Jazz, Joshua Idehen & Saturday, Monday (2025)

31. Pursuit — M(h)aol (2024)

32. I Was a DJ In 2015 — Two-Man Giant Squid (2024)

33. HEAD — Jeff Rosenstock (2023)

34. Strong Feelings — Dry Cleaning (2021)

35. Vilo — ataquemos (2020)

36. Lull — Declan Welsh and The Decadent West (2018)

37. Be the Change — The Wild Reeds (2018)

38. The Verge — Bad Moves (2016)

39. Gayane Ballet, Orchestral Suite No. 1: VII. Gayane's Adagio — London Symphony Orchestra & Anatole Fistoulari (2013)

40. Ain’t No Easy Way — Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2005)

41. Plenty Is Never Enough — Tenement Halls (2005)

42. Chains of Love — The Dirtbombs (2001)

43. Punkrocker (feat. Iggy Pop) — Teddybears (2000)

44. It’s Over — The Beta Band (1998)

45. Judy and the Dream of Horses — Belle and Sebastian (1996)

46. Sure Shot — Beastie Boys (1994)

47. Da Mystery of Chessboxin’ — Wu-Tang Clan (1993)

48. Underwhelmed — Sloan (1992)

49. Birdhouse In Your Soul — They Might Be Giants (1990)

50. Crossroads — The Snivelling Shits (1989)

51. Happy Song — The Nips (1981)

52. Army Dreamers — Kate Bush (1980)

53. Where Do the Boys Go? — Men Without Hats (1980)

54. Crazy Train — Ozzy Osbourne (1980)

55. Everything Must Change — Nina Simone (1978)

56. Rubberband Man — The Spinners (1976)

57. Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You — Doris Duke (1975)

58. Tonada Del Cabestrero — Simón Díaz (1974)

59. Cannock Chase — Labi Siffre (1972)

60. Nena — Malo (1972)

61. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) — Marvin Gaye (1971)

62. Total Destruction to Your Mind — Swamp Dogg (1970)

63. I Like Trains (Alternate Take) — Bob Luman (1969)

64. Draft Dodger Rag — Pete Seeger (1966)

65. Nothin' in the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl — The Kinks (1965)

66. Smut — Tom Lehrer (1965)

67. A Summer Song — Chad & Jeremy (1964)

68. My One and Only You — Joe and Jack (1959)