Schmutzie’s October 2025 Playlist

This playlist is out on 8 platforms:

Apple Music & Amazon Music (65/68) & Deezer (67/68) & Last.fm (63/68) & Qobuz (61/68) & Spotify (66/68) & Tidal (67/68) & YouTube Music

I love lists and facts, so:

47% of the songs are from 2025, and the complete original playlist is about 4 hours and 7 minutes long on Apple Music with 68 songs across 8 decades and 15 genres: alternative, rock, indie pop, blues, hip-hop/rap, disco, indie rock, pop, singer/songwriter, R&B/soul, punk, adult alternative, folk, country, and soundtrack. 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, so enjoy the trip :)

1. Movie Night — Aesop Rock (2025)

2. Blood — Andrew Bird (2025)

3. Beers with my name on them — Asher White (2025)

4. Fundraiser — bar italia (2025)

5. Wild One — Black Lips (2025)

6. Jesus Freak — Brett Newski & the Bad Inventions (2025)

7. Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)? — Cate Le Bon (2025)

8. Start Shit — Cheap Perfume (2025)

9. Forever War — clipping. (2025)

10. A Door Called No — David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra (2025)

11. Levitate — Florist (2025)

12. Stuck In My Head Again — Fruit Bats (2025)

13. Long Island City Here I Come — Geese (2025)

14. If You Know Me (demo) — Hudson Freeman (2025)

15. Colossal Slay — James the Seventh (2025)

16. Throwaway Lines — Jeff Tweedy (2025)

17. Every Day’s a Discotheque — Jim Bob (2025)

18. Some Bright Morning — Lael Neale (2025)

19. Self-Illuminating Body — Lawrence Matthews (2025)

20. Sad Satellite — Marissa Nadler (2025)

21. E8/N16 — M(h)aol (2025)

22. Gloria: In Excelsis Deo (RCA Demo) — Patti Smith (2025)

23. The Supermarket — Pynch (2025)

24. Vincent's Tale - Prologue - Sunflowers — Ren (2025)

25. With a Girl Like Mine — Sharp Pins (2025)

26. Worldwide — Snõõper (2025)

27. Crowd Caffeine — SOFIA ISELLA (2025)

28. Young Offenders — Spiritual Cramp (2025)

29. Better — SPRINTS (2025)

30. Could Have Been Me — The Struts & Brian May (2025)

31. no future — supermodel* (2025)

32. Bee — UNIVERSITY (2025)

33. You — Anaïs & The Hoops (2024)

34. Serene Demon — Art d’Ecco (2024)

35. Be My Candygram (feat. Bubba Holly) — Charlie McCarron (2024)

36. Kiss City (home demo) — Blondshell (2023)

37. Both Sides of the Moon — Celeste & Gotts Street Park (2019)

38. Don’t Beat the Girl Out of My Boy — Anna Calvi (2018)

39. Twinkle — Jeff Rosenstock (2012)

40. Rill Rill — Sleigh Bells (2010)

41. When We Were Alive — The Thermals (2009)

42. Build You Up — Love Story in Blood Red (2008)

43. One More Song (feat. Daniel Day-Lewis) — B for Bang (2007)

44. Ghosts — Laura Marling (2007)

45. Oxford Comma — Vampire Weekend (2007)

46. Sky Blue Sky — Wilco (2007)

47. Let Me See the Colts — Smog (2005)

48. Sad Pony Guerrilla Girl — Xiu Xiu (2003)

49. I Wish I Was the Moon — Neko Case (2002)

50. Godstar — Psychic TV (1994)

51. Fish and Chips — Denim (1992)

52. Here — Pavement (1992)

53. Bone Machine (2007 Remaster) — Pixies (1988)

54. I Remember California (Remastered 2013) — R.E.M. (1988)

55. Terrified — Kleenex/LiLiPUT (1983)

56. Golden Brown — The Stranglers (1983)

57. Sixty Forty — Nico (1981)

58. That’s Entertainment — The Jam (1980)

59. Something for the Boys — Ethel Merman (1979)

60. Don’t Huzzle for Love — The Apostles (1977)

61. Right Back Where We Started From — Maxine Nightingale (1975)

62. I’ll Be Here In the Morning — Townes Van Zandt (1969)

63. Spooky — Dusty Springfield (1968)

64. Try Me — Esther Phillips (1965)

65. Gloria (Mono Version) — Them (1965)

66. Long Gone Like a Turkey Thru the Corn (Long John) — Lightnin’ Hopkins (1959)

67. True, Fine Mama — Little Richard (1957)

68. Right Now, Right Now — Alan Freed and His Rock ‘N’ Roll Band (1956)