Happy Krampusnacht to all who celebrate. Don't forget to leave your shoes out for St. Nicholas to fill with goodies tonight, if you haven't been naughty and carried away by Krampus in his sack!
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| I bought this for my nephews. |
My Top 100 Songs of the Spotify Year*:
1. Hymn to Virgil - Hozier: Not my literary art-rock ass loving a song about Dante's Inferno.
2. Devil In Me - Gin Wigmore: I said in January I was obsessed with this one.
3. Howl - Florence + The Machine
4. Garden of Eden - Lady Gaga
5. Stay - Ghost feat. Patrick Wilson. Back in April I wrote about being obsessed with this cover, at the very end of a long post about Billy Joel.
6. Keep on Rockin' - Shonen Knife. I saw them live in October.
7. Like a Prayer - Dogma: I like the part of this Madonna cover in which the vocalist sings, instead of Madonna's "Heaven help me," "Satan help me."
8. Abracadabra - Lady Gaga: From her Mayhem album again. It was my top album.
9. Killah - Lady Gaga
10. Nina Cried Power - Hozier: It's not the waking, it's the rising.
11. Disease - Lady Gaga: Up from its #50 position last year, when it had barely come out before the Wrapped cutoff date came up.
12. Cold Cold Ground - Tom Waits: In September 2024, Homicide: Life on the Street actors Kyle Secor and Reed Diamond started a podcast. I re-listened to some of the songs that were on the series when it originally aired (although not used in the streaming version on the Peacock network).
13. Spirits - The Devil Makes Three: I learned this song from a playlist on Jessie Lynn McMains's Substack.
14. The Devil's Nine Questions - Carolyn Kendrick: This neo-folk recommendation came from a podcast but I forgot which one.
15. Invictus - DNtoClrWeb: The William Ernest Henley poem.
16. Dance Macabre - Ghost: This is from Prequelle, Ghost's 2018 album with the Black Death theme.
17. Put It In - Storm Large
18. Boy Crazy - Kesha
19. Umbra - Ghost
20. Satanized - Ghost:
Here I am, appearing in the "Satanized" music video through the magic of a little app that was on Ghost's official website.
21. Too Sweet - Hozier
22. We Don't Need Another Hero - Ghost
23. Stay - Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs. These oldies are from Perry's Mix Tape for Truman.
24. Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift: My #4 song last year and probably the Taylor Swift song that brings me the purest joy. But I can only listen to it in the summer. I abandon it when autumn comes. I forgot that I started listened to it because of Good Omens.
I have to admit, the revelation that Neil Gaiman is a garbage heap of a human being really dulled my enthusiasm for Ineffable Spouses. David Tennant and Michael Sheen, it's not your fault.
25. Burn Your Village - Kiki Rockwell
26. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost, Blake X: This poem is really nicely set to a melody. And I can only listen to it in the winter. I'm a mood listener as much as I am a mood reader.
27. Poet - Bastille: My #6 song from last year, I made myself chill out on listening to it quite so much so it wouldn't completely lose its power to affect me.
28. What Would Happen - Meredith Brooks
29. I Drove All Night - Cyndi Lauper
30. Building a Mystery - Sarah McLachlan
31. Red Wine & Wilde - Bastille
32. The Dead Dance - Lady Gaga
33. Fake ID Remix - Riton, Kah-Lo, GEE LEE
34. Joyride - Kesha: Last year's #1 song.
35. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
36. Missilia Amori - Ghost
37. Square Hammer - Ghost
38. Kill of the Night - Gin Wigmore: I know this one from the first season of The Umbrella Academy.
39. Gin House Blues - Nina Simone
40. Ava Adore - The Smashing Pumpkins
41. Aloha Lucifer - Melanie [Safka], Charming Disaster: This is a particularly cute song, in which the singer claims to have ended up at Hell's gate by confusing the mellow "hang loose" hand gesture of Hawaiian culture with the "horned hands" hand gesture of Satanists and heavy metal enthusiasts.
42. Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna
43. Anyone Who Knows What Love Is - Irma Thomas
44. Bring It On Home to Me - Sam Cooke
45. I Feel Drunk All the Time - Rosalie Sorrels
46. Love Is Strong - The Rolling Stones
47. Vampire Bat - Glass Animals
48. What's the Frequency, Kenneth? - R.E.M.
49. How Bad Do U Want Me - Lady Gaga: Mayhem again.
50. Take Me to Church - MILCK
51. Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Sleigh Bells
52. Saints - The Breeders
53. Peacefield - Ghost: This one is about the Russian Revolution, I'm pretty sure.
54. Danger - The Vantages
55. Yes, I'm a Witch - Yoko Ono
56. Lover Please - Melissa Etheridge: Up from its #92 spot on last year's list.
57. True Religion - Shygirl, Club Shy
58. Kiss the Go-goat - Ghost
59. Goddess - PVRIS: Honestly? I can't remember what this song sounds like or what inspired me to listen to it. It's, like, deleted from my memory banks.
60. Building a Mystery - Goodwerks: The Sarah McLachlan song with a male vocalist; it's so Dean Winchester-coded that I put it on the Destiel playlist.
61. Crucified - Ghost
62. What's Up? - 4 Non Blondes
63. Be My Baby - The Ronettes
64. Bones - Imagine Dragons
65. Birthday - Jennifer Lopez
66. I Don't Listen to You - Delilah Bon
67. Creep - Scala & Kolaczny Bros.: I know this cover from the Simpsons episode "The D'oh-cial Network." I know the Radiohead original from being a teenager in the '90s.
68. 1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
69. Down Bad - Taylor Swift: This one is so brilliantly written, with its comparison of a failed love affair to an alien abduction.
70. Super Bon Bon - Soul Coughing: This one was also used on the Homicide: Life on the Street soundtrack in its original run.
71. The Giver - Chappell Roan
72. Black - Pearl Jam
73. Possum Kingdom - Toadies
74. Lachryma -Ghost
75. Not Enough Time - INXS
77. Formation - Beyonce
78. Good Girls - Elle King
79. Run through the Jungle - the Delta Bombers
80. Medicine Woman - Qveen Herby, the artist formerly known as Karmin
81. Rats - Ghost
82. Helter Skelter - The Beatles
83. Paparazzi - Lady Gaga: Because Alexander Skarsgard was in the music video and I remembered that when I watched Skarsgard as a self-aware robot construct on the tv series Murderbot.
Skarsgard Aside: I have to see the above-mentioned Swede in his recent film Pillion. He plays the leader of a biker gang who enters a BDSM relationship with a repressed young man. The young man is played by Harry Melling.
84. Stay ( Faraway, So Close!) - U2
85. Shallow - Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper
86. Black Parade - Beyonce
87. Gimme Shelter - Merry Clayton
88. Love Potion No. 9 - The Clovers
89. So Cruel - U2
90. I Need - Meredith Brooks
91. Wish I Knew You - The Revivalists
92. II Most Wanted - Beyonce, Miley Cyrus
93. Bodies Hit the Floor - Sofi Tukker, Drowning Pool
94. First Time - Ghost Beach
95. Beautiful Things - Benson Boone
96. To Love Somebody - Nina Simone
97. Practical Magic - Norma Night
98. Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover - Sophie B. Hawkins
99. Low - Cracker
100. Venus - Bananarama: Yep, I love my girl groups.
*Fuck ICE. Chinga la migra. Yes, I share a Spotify subscription with my spouse. No, we do not agree with Spotify's decision to accept advertisements from the United States equivalent of the Gestapo.
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