DECEMBER 2025 PLAYLIST
Added 2025-12-19 11:18:34 +0000 UTCI listened to Madhuri Vijay's story "Lara's Theme" on The New Yorker podcast and it was a good seed for this playlist. It's about a kid whose father is learning to play "Lara's Theme" from Doctor Zhivago on the saxophone (?) but can never quite get it right. That sort of lilting, blue, ornamental feeling is so winter, as are discordant notes, strange chords and odd pairings. Winter is full of discomfort. Holidays are pure pain. There is always a chill you can't escape, a conversation you can't enter, and yet we must try. We must shoehorn and cajole and coax and soothe because why not? What else are we going to do? Happy Winter.
1. "Lara’s Theme" - Roger Williams
2. "Meme Generator" - Dan Deacon
3. "What About Us?” - Brandy
4. "Will To Believe" - Clarence Clarity
5. "Satan Said Dance" - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
6. "Why Don’t You Love Me? (feat. Tori Amos)" - David Byrne & Fatboy Slim
7. "Why Don’t You Love Me" - Beyoncé
8. "Everybody’s Boppin’” - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
9. "No More Rain (In This Cloud) [Wookie Main Mix]" - Angie Stone
10. "not_me_tho" - Jaboukie
11. "Freaking Out" - Juiceboxxx
12. "Juicebox" - The Strokes
13. "The Wedding” - Marianne Faithfull & Angelo Badalamenti
14. "Call My Name" - Cheryl
15. "Corporation" - Jack White
16. "Losing You" - Solange
17. "It’s Gonna Rain" - Ambitious Lovers
18. "Soul Vibrations" - Dorothy Ashby
19. "Somewhere My Love” - Connie Francis
20. "China In Your Hand" - T’Pau
21. "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)" - Irma Thomas
22. "Tom the Model" - Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
23. "Day Dreaming" - Aretha Franklin
24. "Piano in the Dark" - Brenda Russell
25. "Tin Man" - feeble little horse
26. "The Great American Picnic” - Being Dead
27. "Method Man" - Wu-Tang Clan
28. "Tried and True" - Ween
29. "A Woman a Man Walked By / the Crow Knows Where All the Little Children Go” - PJ Harvey & John Parish
30. "21st Century Schizoid Man (Radio Version)" - King Crimson
31. "Christmas Time" - Christina Aguilera
32. “A Christmas Number One (Alternate Version)” - Siobhan Fahey
33. "River" - Joni Mitchell
34. "My World Is Empty Without You" - Diamanda Galás
35. “No One’s Gonna Love You” - Band of Horses
Comments
this playlist is Decadent.
Beth Jerky
2025-12-25 09:08:47 +0000 UTCjust reading this playlist gave me a bit of a chub. merry christmas to all and to all a good night
Beth Jerky
2025-12-25 08:46:22 +0000 UTCThis is so stinkin good
Eric
2025-12-22 23:44:46 +0000 UTC
