If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On
What We Listened to the Past Year, with Feeling
Our 2025 SBJ Readers’ Playlist in all its glory: Play!
Here are the 53 cuts you said rocked your world and smoothed your brow.
Thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=rbyCwq9pe42H0T7O3x9ghx1t53bdVNy5
Classical Mouthdroppers
Clarice Jenson, cello
Vivaldi by the Irish Baroque Orchestra
Beethoven’s 4th symphony
Holst: The Planets
Rosalía’s Lux
Pop Video Geniis
Olivia Rodrigo
Joan as Police Woman
Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony
Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball
FKA twigs’ Eusexua
Raye’s latest
Classic Rock Saved My Life
Nilsson Schmilsson
The Birds’ Next In Line
Ramones at CBGB’s
Leonard Cohen Live
Frank Zappa’s Baby Snakes
Warren Zevon’s Lawyers, Guns and Money
Spoken Word
Jack Kerouac Blues and Haikus
The Twilight Zone scripts
Celtic Madness
Dropkick Murphys
Joy Crookes’ Poison
The Dreadnoughts’ Polka Pit
CMAT - Euro-Country
Folk Resistance
Evan Greer
Songs of Resistance 1942-2018
Folk Bitch Trio God’s a Different Sword
Aldous Harding
Ben Howard live
Muireanne Bradley’s new EP
Jazz Transport
Billy Harper circa 1975
Emma-Jean Thackray’s Weirdo
Chris Connor’s Lullaby of Birdland
Cassandra Wilson’s Time After Time
Kevin Mahogany’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
Punk, Psychedelic Art Rock, & Noise
Fugazi Red Medicine
Suburban Lawns, Skelephant, Les Lullies
Wet Leg Moisturizer
Otoboke Beaver’s Tiny Desk Concert
Roots Medicine Old / New
Amythyst
Rivers of Babylon
The Homeless Wanderer
“A Bulgarian song when a bride leaves her mother’s house to live with at her mother in law’s…heaps of goat skin bagpipes and searing women’s chorus.”
Putting the Cunt Back in Country
Tyler Childer’s Oneida
Hayes Carll’s We’re Only Human
Caitlin Canty’s Get Up
Soul Singer Songwriters
Teddy Swims’ Lose Control
Mavis Staples’ Sad and Beautiful World
Kiah’s Black Myself
Latin Rock/Jazz/Beyond
Flor de Toloache
Hotel California Havana-Style
A Garota Não Ferry Gold
Rapping Up One Side and Down the Other
Clipse “Let God Sort ‘Em Out”
The Death of Slim Shady
Cool Radio Stations
Your Suggestions Which Are Exclusively on Bandcamp:
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And . . .
For all the music lovers who were temporarily struck dumb by our readers’ survey, one comrade offers this comfort:
“I know I had an OMG music moment, but I can’t remember what it was.
“I hope that I can remember it when the evening’s gummies wear off. It may have been a recording of a neglected piece by a woman composer I’d never heard of.”
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