50 years in 50 songs
The Devil's Mouth celebrates the last 50 years of music with a unique mix
Here is something (hopefully) fun for your weekend. We haven’t done a mix in a while, so we thought we’d go a little more ambitious on this one, with a big celebration of contemporary music. More specifically, the last 50 years of music. So in this mix, aptly called 50 years / 50 songs, I picked one song per year, from 1974 to 2023. By all means go ahead and argue about everything on it, and I’d love it if you would also do a similar exercise to counter mine, but do bear in mind just a few things:
I don’t claim that each chosen song is the “best” song of that year, whatever the hell that might mean. It’s not supposed to “represent” the year or anything like that. Just chill out;
So each chosen song is just that - a chosen song, a song that I really love from that year. It’s not even “the” favourite, because how on earth would you ever decide on that for a single year, let alone for 50?
There isn’t any kind of effort to make it consistent in terms of genres and types of music. There’s very popular and very underground stuff and everything in between, there’s lots of different genres and moods, there’s wild, crazy stuff and probably really regular stuff too. In the end, it’s all music. I had fun putting it together, and I hope you enjoy at least most of it!
It’s up on Mixcloud as all the episodes of the podcast, so just click here, or in the picture above, and have at it. Let us know what you think in the comments, and have fun!
I know not everyone is into knowing the tracklist of these things, so quickly go away right now if you don’t want to know. If you do, however, here it is:
50 YEARS / 50 SONGS
1974 Hawkwind - The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)
1975 Gwydion Pendderwen - The Lord Of The Dance
1976 June Tabor - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
1977 Barclay James Harvest - Hymn
1978 The Stranglers - Nice 'n Sleazy
1979 This Heat - The Fall Of Saigon
1980 Bauhaus - Double Dare
1981 Einstürzende Neubauten - Tanz Debil
1982 Discharge - The Possibility Of Life's Destruction
1983 Daniel Johnston - Worried Shoes
1984 The Gun Club - Eternally Is Here
1985 Hüsker Dü - Makes No Sense At All
1986 Roky Erickson - I Have Always Been Here Before
1987 Caspar Brötzmann Massaker - Heavens Gate
1988 O.L.D. - Total Hag
1989 Ratos de Porão - Beber Até Morrer
1990 Zeni Geva - Sweetheart
1991 Trenchmouth - The Volcanic Action Of My Soul
1992 Mão Morta - Lisboa (Por Entre As Sombras E O Lixo)
1993 Cop Shoot Cop - Room 429
1994 The God Machine - In Bad Dreams
1995 Ved Buens Ende - You, That May Wither
1996 Nanaco - By The Crack Of Doom
1997 In The Woods… - Weeping Willow
1998 Beyond Dawn - Three Steps For The Chameleon (How To Seduce Modesty)
1999 Babylon Whores - Radio Werewolf
2000 Antony And The Johnsons - Cripple And The Starfish
2001 Khanate - No Joy
2002 Dredg - Same Ol' Road
2003 Paula Frazer - Like A Ghost
2004 Anaal Nathrakh - Do Not Speak
2005 William Elliott Whitmore - Porchlight
2006 Planes Mistaken For Stars - One Fucked Pony
2007 Wax Fang - Wake Up, Sleepyhead!
2008 Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Schwarze Biene (Black Maja)
2009 Defeater - Cowardice
2010 Starkweather - Broken From Inside
2011 Iron & Wine - Walking Far From Home
2012 Matt Elliott - Dust, Flesh And Bones
2013 Altar Of Plagues - God Alone
2014 Tim Barry - Mayfly
2015 Therapy? - Tides
2016 Wovenhand - Golden Blossom
2017 Oxbow - Ecce Homo
2018 Filii Nigrantium Infernalium - Pó
2019 Pinkish Black - Next Solution
2020 Scúru Fitchádu - Un Kuza Runhu
2021 Rudimentary Peni - Path To Glory
2022 Madrugada - You Promised To Wait For Me
2023 夢遊病者 - The Bad Luck That Saved You From Worst Luck