Schmutzie’s December 2025 Playlist

This playlist is out on 8 platforms:

Apple Music & Spotify & Tidal & Qobuz (60/65) & Deezer & Amazon Music (62/65) & YouTube Music & Last.fm (64/65)

I love lists and facts, so:

46% of the songs are from 2025, and the complete original playlist on Apple Music is about 3 hours and 41 minutes long with 65 songs across 9 decades and 20 genres: alternative, adult alternative, blues-rock, country, electronic, folk, hip-hop/rap, indie rock, jazz, old school rap, pop, prog rock/art rock, punk, R&B/soul, rock, rock y alternativo, singer/songwriter, soundtrack, vocal jazz, and worldwide. 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 moving backwards through time. I like to hit shuffle and let the songs fall where they may.

The Playlist

1. Unrest — Annahstasia (2025)

2. 🅴 Fight Naked — B. Dolan (2025)

3. Mr. President — bassvictim (2025)

4. Celebrate Me — Big Bill (2025)

5. Always the Horse, Never the Jockey (feat. IWEWE) — Cleo Reed (2025)

6. Too Easy — Connor Price & Nic D (2025)

7. All My Dreams Are Coming True — Devin Shaffer (2025)

8. That’s My DJ — Esther Rose (2025)

9. City Gone to Seed — Georgia Knight (2025)

10. 🅴 Depression — Gus Baldwin (2025)

11. Buffalo, 1981 — Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover (2025)

12. The Space Between — Hannah Frances & Daniel Rossen (2025)

13. Caught Up In the Past — Jeff Tweedy (2025)

14. Swordfight Outside McDonalds — Jim Bob (2025)

15. Smile — Julianna Riolino (2025)

16. Manifastique — Lézard (2025)

17. Didn’t I — Liam Kazar (2025)

18. I’ve Seen the Willow Trees — Lindsey Troy & Deap Vally (2025)

19. Cool Bottle Water Park — Long Fling (2025)

20. Just Be Simple — MJ Lenderman (2025)

21. Mad Rooter — Party Dozen (2025)

22. Stuck — Pink Footage (2025)

23. The Moon Dreams (feat. Anne Carson) — Rheostatics (2025)

24. 🅴 Berghain — ROSALÍA, Björk & Yves Tumor (2025)

25. Leave the City — Sun June (2025)

26. stop talking to AI talk to God — svn4vr (2025)

27. Walking On My Grave (Kyra vocal) — Thee Headcoatees (2025)

28. Transplant Blues — Tony Molina (2025)

29. Nevermind — Westerman (2025)

30. 🅴 mangetout — Wet Leg (2025)

31. Weirdo — K.Flay (2021)

32. Working On a Song — Todd Snider (2019)

33. Yellow Flicker Beat — Lorde (2014)

34. Wendell Walker — Andy Shauf (2012)

35. Dishes — Jeff Rosenstock (2012)

36. 🅴 King of Fuh (Mono) — Brute Force (2010)

37. Made By Maid — Laura Marling (2010)

38. Rye Whiskey / Time to Switch to Whiskey — Corb Lund (2009)

39. Lacrimosa — Vienna Mozart Orchestra (2004)

40. Piazza, New York Catcher — Belle and Sebastian (2003)

41. Playground Love (feat. Gordon Tracks) — Air (1999)

42. Super Bad — James Chance & the Contortions (1995)

43. Only Shallow — my bloody valentine (1991)

44. View From Here — The Gories (1990)

45. Panic Pure — Vic Chesnutt (1990)

46. River Euphrates (2007 Remaster) — Pixies (1988)

47. Dear God — XTC (1986)

48. Everything Counts — Depeche Mode (1983)

49. Protection — Graham Parker & The Rumour (1979)

50. Thank You — Bonnie Raitt (1971)

51. Changes (1999 Remaster) — David Bowie (1971)

52. Song to the Siren — Tim Buckley (1970)

53. Rain (2022 Remaster) — Hard Meat (1969)

54. The Eagle Laughs At You (Mono Mix) [2010 Remaster] — Jackie Lomax (1969)

55. Cold Turkey — Big Boy Pete (1968)

56. Give Him a Flower — The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1968)

57. Gas Board Under Dog — Skip Bifferty (1968)

58. The Phycle — Yesterday’s Obsession (1968)

59. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright — P.P. Arnold (1967)

60. Cherry, Cherry — Neil Diamond (1966)

61. But Now I Find — The Brogues (1965)

62. I’m Henry the VIII, I Am — Herman’s Hermits (1965)

63. I Never Loved Her — The Starfires (1965)

64. Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend — Marilyn Monroe (1950)

65. La Conga Blicoti (Digital Remaster 2024) — Joséphine Baker (1936)