Favorite 10 Songs of 2022 That Did Not Come Out in 2022

In its own way, discovering obscure old music is more rewarding than finding the new stuff.  Whether it be by crate digging at record shops or second hand stores, seeking out your favorite band's influences, or falling down a YouTube rabbit hole, there are endless treasures to be found.  This year, i came across a ton of wonderful old stuff from '80s college rock bands like The Trypes, Ivory Coast crooner Bony Castro, Japanese pop artist Kahimi Karie, and much, much more.  And those didn't even make this list.  What did make the list is bit of music from a motorcycle gang movie, a soulful, funky cover of "Tubular Bells," organ-fueled psych-soul, some Indonesian psych folk, a Wax Trax industrial collaboration i'm amazed i didn't find until this year, an experimental track from a neo-classical composer, pretty psych pop, instrumental French pop, more pretty psych pop, and some modern day throwback hair metal.  Check 'em out below...

1. Paul Wibier - "Satan"

2. Billy Green and The Love Machine - "Tubular Bells"

3. Monk Higgins - "These Days Are Filled With You"

4. Bimbo & Lin - "Borondong Garing"

5. Pailhead - "Don't Stand in Line"

6. Michael Nyman - "M-Work"

7. Twice As Much - "Why Can't They All Go and Leave Me Alone?"

8. Bernard Estardy - "Ala Mia Thra"

9. The Mod 4 - "A Puppet"

10. Wig Wam - "Do You Wanna Taste It"

Here's to finding more cool, old shit in 2023.  Be back tomorrow for some old movies.

20 Favorite Songs of 2021 that Didn't Come Out in 2021

I say this every year, but i discovered so much music this year that may not be new to the masses out there, but was new to me.  Awesome tracks ranging from everything from '60s Japanese pop, jazz-infused soul, library music, and Italo disco to folky soft rock, shoegaze, goth, and Brazilian psych filled my ears this year.  The sounds came from all over the world.  The songs came from every era spanning the last 60 years.  I've assembled my favorite 20 old songs of the year into something resembling a playlist below.  Check them out.

1. Romi Yamada - Tabako no Kemuri

2. Vittorio Paltrinieri - Mist and Smoke

3. Terry Callier - Dancing Girl

4. Brute Force and His Drum - Weird and Wonderful

5. Achab - White Summer Lights

6. Autumn Dust - Spend Another Day

7. Bob Mould - Black Sheets of Rain

I'm actually a little embarrassed it took me this long to check this one out.  I've been familiar with Mould's work in Husker Du and Sugar for a long time, but never really sought out his solo work.  I'm remedying that now.

8. Ozean - Scenic

9. Carola Baer - Nothing Left to Say

10. Lycia - Ionia

11. Falcons - Perdido en el Universo

12. The Electric Connection - Groovy

13. Andromeda - Andromeda

14. Claudio Natili - Il Miele del Diavolo

This one is from Lucio Fulci's film "The Devil's Honey," and is actually a cover of Franck Pourcel's "Morir de Amor," but done in a soft rock/yacht rock vein with plenty of sax...sax that does things in the movie that you may or may not be prepared for.

15. Mouth & MacNeal - Land of Milk and Honey

16. Moon Birds - Baby Moon

17. The Charlottes - Love in the Emptiness

18. Francois Bernheim - Tom

19. Mary Saxton - Is It Better to Live or Die

20. Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges - The entirety of Clube Da Esquina

Cheating here just a little bit as i couldn't force myself to pick just one song off of this 1972 masterpiece.  If this were a new album, it would be my favorite of the year.  Check the whole thing out (all 21 tracks) below.

Be back tomorrow for a whole bunch of movies i saw for the first time that didn't come out this year either.

And now...My Favorite Songs of 2020 That Didn't Come Out in 2020

Every year i inevitably come across a bunch of old songs that are new to me that get just as much listening time as all the new stuff that comes out.  This year was a little different as i didn't get to do much crate digging (which is where i sometimes find pure gold), and had to rely on YouTube excavations, random listens, and one film score from a bonkers '80s movie starring Tawney Kitaen that i'm totally obsessed with now.  Here's 10 songs from the last few decades currently in the regular rotation.

1. Pierre Bachelet - "A Pikao"

2. Mariangela - "Alone with the Day"

3. Diastereomer - "Place"

4. Magnetic System - "Escape"

5. Carol Rich - "Computered Love"

6. Satya Sai Maitreya Kali - "Ice and Snow"

7. Ann Boleyn - "Illya"

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8. Piero Umiliani - "Nostalgia"

9. Rowland S. Howard - "Dead Radio"

10. The Love Children - "Where Is All the Love"

Here's to discovering old sounds.  Be back tomorrow for some cool 2020 album cover art.