LAST WORDS - I DIG MUSIC
“TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH [BRANDT], I [DON’T] REMEMBER MOST OF IT.”
Alright, alright, alright — that’s a wrap everyone. I’d call it a smashing success, a most triumphant year of listening to a different record every single day. To be completely honest though, I did miss four days. However, that’s because I was at Punk Rock Bowling in May, and in Tacoma for Hilltops Rats’ most incredible final show ever in September. So did I really “miss” them? Jury’s out.
I’d like to leave you with something classy and inspirational, but that just isn’t my style. So I’ll leave you with this – thank you kindly to everyone that joined me on this journey, we all know it’s been one helluva year. I can only hope that my playlists brought, and continue to bring, you some semblance of sonic serenity during the times to come. And, even more hopefully, that I was a little reminder for you to stop and smell the wax, to just relax every so often and sit and enjoy yourself, with or without music.
Keep a weather eye on the horizon, you never know when my sails are going to show up on your shores. Will it be with a message or with a tune? Who knows.
Hot damn was that one savvy voyage if I do say so myself.
So anyway, here’s December.
“DONE-CEMBER”
DECEMBER 1 - LYNN ANDERSON - THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM, “ROCKING AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE”
DECEMBER 2 - BRIGHT EYES - I’M WIDE AWAKE, IT’S MORNING, “FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE”
DECEMBER 3 - DAN FOGELBERG - NETHER LANDS, “LOVE GONE BY”
DECEMBER 4 - EAGLES - DESPERADO, “OUTLAW MAN”
DECEMBER 5 - LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS - FINAL FLING (ONE LAST TIME (JUST FOR KICKS)), “A BOY NAMED SUE”
DECEMBER 6 - POINTER SISTERS - BREAK OUT, “I’M SO EXCITED”
DECEMBER 7 - LENNY BRUCE - THE BEST OF LENNY BRUCE, “THE WHITE COLLAR DRUNK” [NOT ON SPOTIFY]
DECEMBER 8 - PAT BENATAR - PRECIOUS TIME, “FIRE AND ICE”
DECEMBER 9 - ROD STEWART - A NIGHT ON THE TOWN, “THE BALLTRAP”
DECEMBER 10 - SUPERTRAMP - …FAMOUS FOR LAST WORDS…, “MY KIND OF LADY”
DECEMBER 11 - THE SYLVERS - THE SYLVERS II, “HANDLE IT”
DECEMBER 12 - CHRISTINA AGUILERA, FT. REDMAN - STRIPPED, “DIRRTY”
DECEMBER 13 - OMENBRINGER - THICC DARKNESS, “STIR THE CAULDRON”
DECEMBER 14 - PAPA JOHN CREACH - PAPA JOHN CREACH, ”PLUNK A LITTLE FUNK” [NOT ON SPOTIFY]
DECEMBER 15 - CARLY SIMON - TORCH, “I GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU VERY WELL”
DECEMBER 16 - EDDIE MONEY - EDDIE MONEY, “GAMBLIN MAN”
DECEMBER 17 - ATREYU - SUICIDE NOTES AND BUTTERFLY KISSES, “LIP GLOSS AND BLACK”
DECEMBER 18 - LIMP BIZKIT - SIGNIFICANT OTHER, “NOOKIE”
DECEMBER 19 - LIZA MINNELLI - LIVE AT WINTER GARDEN, “CABARET”
DECEMBER 20 - VARIOUS - THEMES LIKE OLD TIMES - 90 OF THE MOST FAMOUS ORIGINAL RADIO THEMES, ”THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER” [NOT ON SPOTIFY]
DECEMBER 21 - THE LUMINEERS - THE LUMINEERS, “HO HEY”
DECEMBER 22 - HERB ALPERT’S TIJUANA BRASS - VOL. 2, “GREEN LEAVES OF SUMMER”
DECEMBER 23 - FROM FIRST TO LAST - DEAR DIARY, MY TEEN ANGST HAS A BODY COUNT, “KISS ME I’M CONTAGIOUS”
DECEMBER 24 - AUGUST BURNS RED - WINTER WILDERNESS, “HOME ALONE THEME”
DECEMBER 25 - BAD RELIGION - CHRISTMAS SONGS, “GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN”
DECEMBER 26 - DAVID BOWIE - ALADDIN SANE, “THE JEAN GENIE”
DECEMBER 27 - PLAGUE VENDOR - BY NIGHT, “NEW COMEDOWN”
DECEMBER 28 - BRAND NEW - DEJA ENTENDU, “SIC TRANSIT GLORIA… GLORY FADES”
DECEMBER 29 - UNDEROATH - THEY’RE ONLY CHASING SAFETY, “A BOY BRUSHED RED LIVING IN BLACK AND WHITE”
DECEMBER 30 - ATREYU - THE CURSE, “RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED”
DECEMBER 31 - ATMOSPHERE - SO MANY OTHER REALITIES EXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY, “DOTTED LINES”
You know the drill by now. I’ll surface again sometime next month with yet another rambling and playlist. As promised, here’s that playlist of savory savvy selects from this months albums. Enjoy blasphemously.
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Skål, scalawags.
In Hesh we trust,
S. Jones
