Schmutzie’s May 2026 Playlist

This playlist is out on 8 platforms:

Apple Music & Spotify (61/63) & Tidal (62/63) & Qobuz (59/63) & Deezer & Amazon Music (53/63) & YouTube Music & Last.fm

I love lists and facts, so, to continue:

51% of the songs are from 2026, and the complete original playlist on Apple Music is about 3 hours and 28 minutes long with 63 songs across 8 decades and 18 genres: Afrikaans, alternative, alternative folk, alternative rap, contemporary folk, dance, electronic, folk, French pop, hip-hop/rap, indie pop, indie rock, musicals, pop, punk, R&B/soul, rock, and traditional folk. The songs are in reverse order by year and then in alphabetical order by artist within each year.

These monthly playlists are a bit of a music history sampler moving backwards through time if you play the songs in order, but I like to hit shuffle and let them surprise me.

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The video starts at 4:18 when “Storm II” begins, but the whole thing is well worth a watch:

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The Playlist

1. Telephone — Aifric (2026)

2. One Stop — Aldous Harding (2026)

3. Fabienk — Angine de Poitrine (2026)

4. Year of the Dragon — bassvictim & Worldpeace DMT (2026)

5. she’s my love — casual smart (2026)

6. Man’s World — Cat Clyde (2026)

7. 🅴 Nazi Teeth — Dead Pioneers & Cheap Perfume (2026)

8. Bossa Supernova — Fast Money Music (2026)

9. Goodnight Sweetlight — Frances Murray (2026)

10. Something Worth Waiting For— Friko (2026)

11. 🅴 Yonder This Way Comes — Frog (2026)

12. 🅴 STORM II — GENER8ION & Yung Lean (2026)

13. 🅴 The Radiator — Getdown Services (2026)

14. Squish — Gretel (2026)

15. No More Sprechgesang — The Itch (2026)

16. G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs — Jack White (2026)

17. Designer Citizen — Jesca Hoop (2026)

18. Very Unofficial Scotland World Cup Song (bread and circuses) — JJ Bull (2026)

19. Evergreen In Your Mind — Juni Habel (2026)

20. Pedestal — Kiki Cavazos (2026)

21. Cult of Celebrity — Lambrini Girls (2026)

22. Nosedive — Man/Woman/Chainsaw (2026)

23. Candelabra — mary in the junkyard (2026)

24. 🅴 Boots On the Ground — Massive Attack & Tom Waits (2026)

25. My Head Fell Off Last Night — Melanie Baker (2026)

26. Is It Forever — MORI (2026)

27. 🅴 Shy Guy — SKINSHIP (2026)

28. Garbage In the Sand — Soft Palms (2026)

29. Stranger — Souled American (2026)

30. Keep It Cool — Vincent Khouni (2026)

31. Bodega — The Walters (2026)

32. 🅴 Semi-Detached Furnished Home — Wine Lips (2026)

33. TGIF — Disgusting Sisters (2025)

34. 🅴 I Like It Like That — Fcukers (2025)

35. One of the Greats — Florence + the Machine (2025)

36. Wahoo — Gen and the Degenerates (2025)

37. 🅴 TUGGAWAR — Jamaica Moana (2025)

38. Going Away to College — Madi Diaz (2025)

39. 🅴 Coast — Snocaps (2025)

40. Descartes — SPRINTS (2025)

41. 🅴 What You Want — Ren (2022)

42. The Devil In His Youth — Protomartyr (2015)

43. 🅴 Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist — Pat The Bunny (2014)

44. North American Scum — LCD Soundsystem (2007)

45. Clowns, They Freak Me Out — Warning: Danger! (2004)

46. Stand and Deliver — The Now Time Delegation (2001)

47. The Beast In Me — Nick Lowe (1994)

48. How Can I Be Out When I Ain't Been In? (feat. Dale Phillips, Bon Von Wheelie, K.P. Kendall & Kahuna) — Girl Trouble (1993)

49. Safesurfer — Julian Cope (1991)

50. Not Too Soon — Throwing Muses (1991)

51. I’m Amazed (2007 Remaster) — Pixies (1988)

52. Voices Carry — ‘Til Tuesday (1985)

53. 🅴 Fucked Up Baby — D.O.A. (1981)

54. Defiance — The Rats (1980)

55. Acid Test — La Peste (1979)

56. If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out — Cat Stevens (1971)

57. Stoned In the Bathroom — Chubby Checker (recorded: 1971, released: 2015)

58. Say You Don’t Mind — Colin Blunstone (1971)

59. Express Yourself — Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band (1970)

60. Rhythm of Life — Sammy Davis, Jr. (1969)

61. Can’t Seem to Make You Mine — The Seeds (1966)

62. Bleecker Street — Simon & Garfunkel (1964)

63. Dynamite — Cliff Richard & The Shadows (1959)