music friday: what i listened to in 2016

It's late in the game, but I finally had to change things around on Music Friday, because I had a list of 10 songs from that year and I realized I didn't know a single one of them off the top of my head. So I went to Last.fm and had it sort my listening for the year 2016.

One song got played more than any other, so call this Steven's Top Song of 2016. It actually comes from around 1965:

The Fugs, "CIA Man". "Fucking-a man! C-I-A Man!"

These others are chosen from a batch that tied for second in my listening for that year:

Ramones, "Blitzkrieg Bop".

Les McCann, "Burnin' Coal".

Emmylou Harris, "Bluebird Wine".

Tommy James and the Shondells, "Crimson and Clover".

Fela Kuti, "Let's Start".

Fleetwood Mac, "I Don't Want to Know".

The Impressions, "Fool for You".

Joe Strummer, "Get Down Moses".

Aretha Franklin, "The Weight".

Comments

[Tomás]

This is a beautiful list, not just because they're all great songs but also because (with the exception of Tommy James and the Ramones) they all kind of fall into the "deep track" category. The Les McCann song is great.

[Steven Rubio]

I was trying to remember why I had a Fugs thing going in 2016. I checked out Last.fm ... it says I've "scrobbled" (i.e. listened on Spotify) 27 times since 2006, with 8 of them coming in 2016.