As seems to be tradition, I'll get the ball rollin'.

Here's my Best of 2022 mix which is a bit light on for new artists for me - I haven't had much time for discovery this year, other than the odd perusal of the Albums of 2022 thread (thanks Varis for a couple of gems I may have otherwise missed ). For the non-Aussies, below is some context for the slogan on the front cover and my beloved Cats' Mad Monday AFL Premiership celebrations depicted on the back







Spotify Playlist
FLAC/MP3 download

01 - Spoon - Wild
02 - Mitski - Love Me More
03 - Placebo - Twin Demons
04 - Muse - Won't Stand Down
05 - Jack White - Taking Me Back
06 - Beyonce - Alien Superstar
07 - Sharon Van Etten - Porta
08 - Arcade Fire - The Lightning I & II
09 - The Smile - The Smoke
10 - Taylor Swift - The Great War
11 - King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Iron Lung
12 - PJ Harvey & Tim Phillips - Who by Fire
13 - Father John Misty - Q4
14 - Eddie Vedder - The Dark
15 - Interpol - Something Changed
16 - Jimmy Eat World - Something Loud
17 - The Lazy Eyes - Fuzz Jam
18 - Build To Spill - Gonna Lose
19 - Rid Of Me - PDA

Some good shit on there.

...and Muse

Still a guilty pleasure of mine. This track is probably their best rocker since the Black Holes era

Not a prob with the recommends Riddles, always fun checking out new tuneage.

I look forward to checking the mix, even if I am almost physically repulsed by the artwork.

I'll post my contribution sometime in January I'm guessing

I’m waiting to hear new music released in December!

You can’t release music in December because you neither make our self important best of lists for this year nor will we consider you for next year. I’ll post a list soon

I'm not prepared to put this into a playlist

Lorde - Mata Kohore
Leon Bridges with Khruangbin - Mariella
Bastards of Light - R.H.C.P.
Sad White Reggie - Placebo
Metric - False Dichotomy
Jack White - Into The Twilight
Eddie Vedder - Good and Evil
Rammstein - Angst
Mavis Staples & Levon Helm - This is my Country
The Black Keys- Baby I'm Coming Home
Gorillaz - New Gold

Rammstein have been releasing the same song for ~20 years now. Fair play to them. It's a good song.

They're one of my many guilty pleasures. Actually - no. I don't feel guilty listening to them

1. The Smile – You Will Never Work In Television Again
2. Spoon – The Hardest Cut
3. Kevin Morby – This Is A Photograph
4. Midnight Oil – At The Time Of Writing
5. The Murder Capital – Only Good Things
6. The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field
7. Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever – My Echo
8. Death Cab For Cutie – Here To Forever
9. Silversun Pickups – Alone On A Hill
10. Spacey Jane – Hardlight
11. The Buoys – Red Flags
12. David Nance – When I Saw You Last Night
13. Widowspeak – Everything Is Simple
14. Holy Fawn – Empty Vials
15. Arctic Monkeys – Perfect Sense

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hvrvKdVJdCggCE30HzFnn?si=d10325fff3f64a15

No Gizz or The Lazy Eyes? Say it ain't so!

The Gizz doesn't move the sleepy jizz.

Unreal

so many bangers on that album.

Okay, I’ll try (not in order of preference just trying to have some flow):

1. Sculptures of Anything Goes (Arctic Monkeys)
2. Taking Me Back (Jack White)
3. Anti-glory (Horsegirl)
4. We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings (The Smile)
5. Dead Man’s Dream (Painted Shield)
6. Eddie (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
7. The Dark (Eddie Vedder)
8. The Devil & Mister Jones (Spoon)
9. Spud Infinity (Big Thief)
10. Like Exploding Stones (Kurt Vile)
11. Ghost in the Machine (Dawes)
12. Hungersite (Goose)
13. Pain (Marcus King)
14. Knew the Day Was Comin’ (Ben Harper)
15. Nobody’s Child (Midnight Oil)
16. Imaginary Girl (The Lazy Eyes)
17. The Dripping Tap (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2uy89 ... D42-mSAWRQ

Edit- if Neil was on Spotify, you better bet Chevrolet would be on here.

Here’s a mostly non mainstream hip hop playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4e1LODhMpmKfYtkh7s0pJF?si=e5M6p3EwTcqhMIzjWlxCcQ

I had a really slack year with hip hop so this is exactly what I needed. Thanks m8.

No problem man. Hopefully you like some of it at least.