According to Spotify, this is what I listened to mostly in 2018. Seems right, seems odd and at times embarrassing, but on the whole I’m intrigued by my patterns, obsessions, and the tension between my sense of adventure and my sentimental conservatism.

I’m not sure if the 100 are in any order, because I have a hard time imagining that I played “Issues” by Julie Michaels more than anything, but perhaps I didn’t. “Feel Like Going Home”, “The Passenger”, and “Mother of Earth” are convincingly in the top 10.

Issues (Julie Michaels)

Feel Like Going Home (Charlie Rich)

The Passenger (Iggy Pop)

Mother of Earth (The Gun Club)

Somebody to Love (Queen)

Quand on n’a que l’amour (Jacques Brel)

Ave Maria (Charles Gounud, Yo Yo Ma edition)

You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (The Beatles)

Choral “Jesu, meine Freude”
de la Cantate “Herz und Mund Tat und Leben” en sol majeur (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Praying (Keisha)

Daydream Believer (The Monkees)

Build Me Up Buttercup (The Foundations)

Cloud Nine (The Temptations)

Sorrow (David Bowie)

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Roberta Flack)

4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: Impromptu No. 3 in G Flat Major (Franz Schubert)

Zombie (Fela Kuti)

Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (Fats Domino)

Villiers Terrace (Echo & the Bunnymen)

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Marvin Gaye)

English Suite No. 2 in A minor (Johan Sebastian Bach)

If You Don’t Know Me By Now (Harold Melvins & The Blue Notes)

The Load Out/Stay (Jackson Browne)

I’ll Keep it with Mine (Nico)

A Swingin’ Safari (Bert Kaempfert)

Send in the Clowns (any version - Sinatra’s and Judy Collins’s show up highest)

One (Johnny Cash)

Boys Don’t Cry (The Cure)

Be My Baby (The Ronettes)

(What A) Wonderful World (Sam Cooke)

Money (That’s What I Want) (Barrett Strong)

Come On Get Happy (Partridge Family)

Monkey Man (Amy Winehouse)

Chelsea Girls (Nico)

Another Girl Another Planet (The Only Ones)

Together Wherever We Go (Julie Styne/Stephen Sondheim - many versions, Ethel Merman’s being the classic)

Four Jews in a Room Bitching (William Finn - sung by Andrew Rannells, Christrien Borle, Anthony Rosenthal, Brandon Uranowitz, Stephane J. Block)

Coming Back to You (Leonard Cohen)

Get on Top (Tim Buckley)

Chain Gang (Sam Cooke)

Limbo Rock (Chubby Checker)

Needles and Pins (The Searchers)

Lean on Me (Bill Withers)

I Heard it Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)

Temptation (New Order)

Then He Kissed Me (The Crystals)

Montague Terrace (In Blue) - Scott Walker

Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (Michael Nyman)

I Will Always Love You (Whitey Houston)

Don’t Let me Be Misunderstood (The Animals)

Mr. Jones (Counting Crows)

Jackson (Johnny Cash & June Carter)

All the Young Dudes (Mott the Hoople)

Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen)

When I Paint My Masterpiece (The Band’s version)

Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (Billy Bragg & Wilco)

Surfer Girl (The Beach Boys)

Pancho & Lefty (Townes van Zandt version)

Thrasher (Neil Young)

Life During Wartime (Talking Heads)

Madame George (Van Morrison)

Don’t Leave Me This Way (Thelma Houston)

Build Me Up Buttercup (The Foundations)

Daydream Believer (The Monkees)

La boheme (Charles Aznavour)

Girlfriend is Better (The Talking Heads)

She Never Spoke Spanish to Me (Texas Tornados version)

Chan Chan (Buena Vista Social Club)

’39 (Queen)

Hanging Around (The Stranglers)

Because the Night (Patti Smith)

O Superman (Laurie Anderson)

God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)

Play with Fire (The Rolling Stones)

My Favourite Things (John Coltrane version)

Morning Has Broken (Cat Stevens)

She’s Like Heroin to Me (The Gun Club)

Midnight Train to Georgia (Gladys Knight and the Pips)

Mad World (Tears for Fears)

Soldier Boy (The Shirelles)

This Time Tomorrow (The Kinks)

Tocatta and Fugue (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Runaway (Del Shannon)

My Girl (Temptations)

Spellbound (Siouxsie and the Banshees)

Kneeplay No. 5 (Philip Glass)

Opening (Philip Glass)

Rikki Don’t Lose That Number (Steely Dan)

Ode to My Family (The Cranberries)

Chorale Preludes (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Hey Ya (Obadiah Parker version)

When a Man Loves a Woman (Percy Sledge versio )

Kanon und Gigue (Johann Pachelbel)

Wonderwall (Oasis)

Carousel (Jacques Brel/Morton Shuman - Elly Stone vocals)

Ho Hey (The Lumineers)

If I Can’t Have You (Yvonne Elliman)

Sherry - Franke Valli and the Four Seasons

Blue Velvet (Bobby Vinton)

Premiere Gymnopedie (Eric Satie)