So for our final playlist, here’s 25 geniuses, misfits and one offs who first appeared sometime between punk and the dawn of the new Millennium. After all, modern music culture isn’t made up of genres and time periods alone. The only thing missing until now has been a place for those who dared to redraw the boundaries of what was or wasn’t acceptable and swim against the tide. And if we can hum along to them, then so much the better. We feel as though we understand the songs we love in a way that no-one, not even those who created them, will ever appreciate. It can also inspire incredible loyalty (at least it used to) to songs, albums and musicians with whom we’ve forged some kind of connection. It moves us in ways we both can and can’t explain, lifting us up towards the clouds or dragging us down to the depths of despair. Many will have influenced the lives of others because more than any other art form, music arouses extraordinary passions. One way or another, most of the songs here have influenced my life, even those I profess to hate. Nonetheless, most forms of musical life are here chart hits and folk songs, techno tracks and classic riffage, acknowledged favourites and mysterious obscurities. The overwhelming majority of artists are represented by just one song, only the truly important or exceptional by two or three. Throughout 2015, we’ve featured 1,130 songs to date, one playlist a week over the last 51 weeks. On the other hand, miss out the casual reader’s favourite number one, and you run the risk of being ignored for all time.Ī Year In Playlists encompasses seventy years, a bit less than a modern lifetime all squeezed into one.

Include some buried treasure of a B Side or an unreleased track that’s been forgotten by all but the writer and the reader, and you’ve made a friend for life. It’s both the blessing and the curse of sites like this that they’re only considered as good as the songs they feature.

Jump for days by mighty vikings lp