To complement my album reviews, I’ve created year-by-year playlists on Spotify and YouTube. The rules for each are slightly different. I’ve limited each Spotify playlist to 100 tracks with one song per artist. No more, no less. In the event a singer releases a solo album the same year as his his/her main band, he/she can have a track from both. For instance, the 1990 playlist includes a Screaming Trees song and a Mark Lanegan song because the two projects were independent from one another. Every playlist starts with the first track of an album and ends with the last track of an album. Incidentally, this is the last track on the day of release. Some albums were subsequently reissued in a different sequencing. Vic Chesnutt’s Little, for example. Live tracks are included with the year of performance. This is why live compilations like Nirvana’s From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah may have entries in multiple years. Finally, towards the end of every playlist is a Christmas song because, duh, Christmas is at the end of the year. (1994 includes two Christmas songs.)
YouTube Playlists
150 videos each year, as close to chronological as possible
Account: Don’t Call It Nothing