Schmutzie’s May 2025 Playlist

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This playlist is out on 8 platforms:

Apple Music &
Spotify &
YouTube &
Tidal &
Deezer (56/57) &
Amazon Music (54/57) &
Last.fm &
Qobuz (53/57)

44% of the songs are from 2025. The complete original playlist on Apple Music is about 3 hours and 12 minutes long with 57 songs across 8 decades and 17 genres: alternative, R&B/soul, folk, pop, indie rock, singer/songwriter, blues, punk, alternative folk, jazz, hip-hop/rap, electronic, rock, indie pop, contemporary folk, alternative rap, and soul. 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. Enjoy!

1. Lost At Last — Adrian Crowley (2025)

2. Happy Birthday — Black Country, New Road (2025)

3. Don’t Wanna Love — The Boojums (2025)

4. You Got Me — Broncho (2025)

5. Talk To You — Daughter of Swords (2025)

6. My Spirit Animal Ate Your Spirit Animal — Dead Pioneers (2025)

7. The Ignoramus of Love — Destroyer (2025)

8. It’s Nice to Think (feat. Sarah Mary Chadwick) — Geoffrey O’Connor (2025)

9. Linoleum — The Golden Dregs (2025)

10. Steady On It — Gus Baldwin & The Sketch (2025)

11. Enough Is Enough — The Hives (2025)

12. Just Fun — Jeffrey Lewis (2025)

13. Stranger — Ken Pomeroy (2025)

14. Fancy Car, Girlfriend and the Big House — LAWN CHAIR (2025)

15. POP GIRL — Lexie Liu (2025)

16. Zarigani — Mei Semones (2025)

17. Orange Wine — Morgan Nagler (2025)

18. Highway Man — The New Eves (2025)

19. Never Enough — No Frills (2025)

20. NYC Town (feat. Leron Thomas) — Pan Amsterdam (2025)

21. Old Grimes — Um Jennifer? (2025)

22. Sweet Things Just for You — Valerie June (2025)

23. The Bog Body — Viagra Boys (2025)

24. Wedding, Funeral — Waitress (2025)

25. catch these fists — Wet Leg (2025)

26. Sadness as a Gift — Adrianne Lenker (2024)

27. The Democrats — Carsie Blanton (2024)

28. Good Guy — Cece Coakley (2024)

29. Cables — MOULD (2024)

30. Central Park West — Peel Dream Magazine (2024)

31. Dig Your Man — Peter McPoland (2024)

32. Love Song from a Dog — Shovels & Rope & Gregory Alan Isakov (2024)

33. Jesus Was a Trans Girl — Kitty Prozac (2022)

34. Born2run — Penelope Scott (2020)

35. Dumb Baby — The Coathangers (2016)

36. pray i die — Lil Peep & Nedarb (2016)

37. Prophets — A.C. Newman (2009)

38. The Love Me or Die — C.W. Stoneking (2008)

39. The Underdog — Spoon (2007)

40. Chariot — Page France (2006)

41. Time to Pretend — MGMT (2005)

42. All the World Is Green — Tom Waits (2002)

43. New Town — Life Without Buildings (2000)

44. Baby Please — Thee Headcoats & Thee Headcoatees (1998)

45. Korea — Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips (1996)

46. Let It All Hang Out — Scrawl (1988)

47. Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Your Grievances — Daniel Johnston (1983)

48. Subvert City — Subhumans (1983)

49. Born In Xixax — Nina Hagen (1982)

50. Cease to Exist — Charles Manson (1970)

51. You Don’t Know What’s Going On — Exuma (1970)

52. Working Class Hero — John Lennon (1970)

53. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever — The Peddlers (1968)

54. Dance to the Music — Sly & The Family Stone (1968)

55. Some Kind of Wonderful — Soul Brothers Six (1967)

56. Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) — Irma Thomas (1966)

57. All That Meat and No Potatoes — Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton (1955)