The Cover: I enjoy stumbling across alternate photos from iconic album cover designs, and using them in my own cover art; I inlcluded a Dylan song from Bringing It All Back Home on this playlist, so this was a good moment to repurpose this alternate photo from Bob's photo session
- Cocteau Twins "Heaven Or Las Vegas"
- The Beatles "If I Needed Someone" I have been including Beatles songs on playlists since my very first mixtape in this series, number 1 in 1992. Thirty years and 200+ playlists later, I've featured 60 Beatles songs. Since crunching these numbers, I have been on a mission to feature my favorite Beatles songs I had never used on a playlist before. This is my latest example.
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings "Better Things" Sometimes your search results delivers different songs with the same title that are as good as what you were looking for.
- The Kinks "Better Things"
- The B-52's "52 Girls"
- The Decemberists "Burial Ground"
- Indigo Girls "Get Out The Map"
- Fleetwood Mac "I Don't Want To Know" Have I featured this song before? Maybe not?
- Rema feat/Selena Gomez "Calm Down"
- Sarah Jarosz "When The Lights Go Out"
- Aretha Franklin "Baby, I Love You"
- Coldplay "Sky Full Of Stars" I like this song, but it will forever make me think of Taron Edgerton's singing gorilla in Sing 2.
- Taylor Swift "Delicate"
- Bob Dylan "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in 1989 an classmate quoted this song in the text below their senior yearbook photo, and I thought that was the coolest thing anyone had ever done.
- Siousxie & The Banshees "Cities In Dust"
- J Mascis "Can't Believe We're Here" after unfairly dismissing Dinosaur Jr. as "too noisy" for 30 years, I am starting to come around on J. Mascis and his band.
- Slow Pulp "Cramps"
- Rihanna "SOS"
- Peter Gabriel "Live and Let Live" (Bright-Side Mix)
- Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come"
- The Byrds "The Christian Life" from their "country" record Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, I heard this song while shopping at Big Dig Records in Cambridge last month.
- Booker T & The MGs "Boot-Leg"