UNCONTROLLABLE URGES: HORNY PUNK 1969-1983

Sweaty, desperate, down bad tracks that need it all through the night, from in and around the punk explosion

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For a while now I’ve been making playlists exploring certain (mostly nocturnal, mostly sexy) vibes. Each one is 23 tracks and each one is straight fire. I’ve been sharing them with my friends and on Bluesky, but it occurred to me I’ve never done so here. Let me rectify that!

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NIGHT YACHT

Yacht rock and yacht rock adjacent music for a moonlit pleasure cruise

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NIGHT YACHT 2

A second soundtrack for romance and glamour at sea after sunset, in the key of yacht rock and its fellow voyagers

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NOW APPROACHING MIDNIGHT: AMERICAN TRIP-HOP

Hazy, smoky, sexy pre-millennium grooves from across hip-hop, r&b, and alternative, all made in the USA

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DOIN’ IT AFTER DARK: DISCO NIGHTS 1972-1981

Select classics from a nocturnal genre, more or less chronologically

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80s SEX BOT POP ROCKS

Mirror-shiny dance/rock/pop with an aggressive strut and a one track mind

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RETURN OF 80s SEX BOT POP ROCKS

More chrome-plated, hot-blooded dance/rock/pop classixxx

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Happy listening! And if you celebrate, Happy Mother’s Day!

Updated and expanded! A 100-song career retrospective, hitting every phase and album (plus select singles and collaborations), some more than others. My pride and joy. Listen on Apple Music!

1. Liza Jane [Davie Jones with the King Bees, single, 1964]
2. You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving [Davy Jones and the Lower Third, single, 1965]
3. I Dig Everything [single, 1966]
4. The London Boys [b-side of “Rubber Band,” 1966]
5. Love You Till Tuesday [David Bowie, 1967]
6. Space Oddity [David Bowie aka Space Oddity, 1969]
7. Memory of a Free Festival
8. The Width of a Circle [The Man Who Sold the World, 1970]
9. The Man Who Sold the World
10. Changes [Hunky Dory, 1971]
11. Oh! You Pretty Things
12. Life on Mars?
13. Queen Bitch
14. Velvet Goldmine [recorded during the Ziggy Stardust sessions, 1971; b-side of UK re-release of “Space Oddity,” 1975]
15. Five Years [The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, 1972]
16. Moonage Daydream
17. Starman
18. Ziggy Stardust
19. Suffragette City
20. Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
21. All the Young Dudes [Mott the Hoople, All the Young Dudes, 1972]
22. Satellite of Love [Lou Reed,Transformer, 1972]
23. John, I’m Only Dancing (Sax Version) [single, 1973]
24. Watch That Man [Aladdin Sane, 1973]
25. Drive-In Saturday
26. Cracked Actor
27. Panic in Detroit
28. Time
29. The Jean Genie
30. Hang on to Yourself [Live July 3, 1973; released on Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture, 1983]
31. Sorrow [Pin Ups, 1973]
32. Diamond Dogs [Diamond Dogs, 1974]
33. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise) [edit, iSelect, 2008]
34. Rebel Rebel
35. 1984
36. Young Americans [Young Americans, 1975]
37. Can You Hear Me?
38. Fame
39. Station to Station [Station to Station, 1976]
40. Golden Years
41. TVC15
42. Stay
43. Breaking Glass [Low, 1977]
44. Sound and Vision
45. Always Crashing in the Same Car
46. Be My Wife
47. A New Career in a New Town
48. Subterraneans
49. Sister Midnight [Iggy Pop, The Idiot, 1977]
50. Nightclubbing
51. Lust for Life [Iggy Pop, Lust for Life, 1977]
52. Some Weird Sin
53. Beauty and the Beast [“Heroes”, 1977]
54. Joe the Lion
55. “Heroes”
56. The Secret Life of Arabia
57. D.J. [Lodger, 1979]
58. Look Back in Anger
59. Boys Keep Swinging
60. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) [Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), 1980]
61. Ashes to Ashes
62. Fashion
63. Under Pressure [Queen & David Bowie, single, 1981]
64. Remembering Marie A. [David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal, 1982]
65. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) [from Cat People: Original Soundtrack, 1982]
66. Modern Love [Let’s Dance, 1983]
67. China Girl
68. Let’s Dance
69. Loving the Alien [Tonight, 1984]
70. Blue Jean
71. Dancing in the Street [David Bowie & Mick Jagger, 1985]
72. Absolute Beginners [from Absolute Beginners: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1986]
73. Magic Dance [from Labyrinth, 1986]
74. Beat of Your Drum [Never Let Me Down, 1987]
75. Tin Machine [Tin Machine, Tin Machine, 1989]
76. You Belong in Rock & Roll [Tin Machine, Tin Machine II, 1991]
77. The Wedding [Black Tie White Noise, 1993]
78. Black Tie White Noise [feat. Al B. Sure!]
79. Buddha of Suburbia [The Buddha of Suburbia, 1993]
80. Strangers When We Meet
81. The Motel [Outside, 1995]
82. The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
83. I’m Deranged
84. Little Wonder [Earthling, 1997]
85. Battle for Britain (The Letter)
86. Dead Man Walking
87. I’m Afraid of Americans (V1) [remixed by Nine Inch Nails, single, 1997]
88. Thursday’s Child [‘hours…’, 1999]
89. The Dreamers
90. Toy (Your Turn to Drive) [Toy, recorded 2000, released 2021]
91. I Would Be Your Slave [Heathen, 2002]
92. 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
93. New Killer Star [Reality, 2003]
94. Never Get Old
95. Province [TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain, 2006]
96. The Next Day [The Next Day, 2013]
97. Dancing out in Space
98. Blackstar [Blackstar, 2016]
99. Lazarus
100. I Can’t Give Everything Away

(art by Brian Cunningham)