Greg's Annual Mixtape, Jim's Favorite Singles & Obituaries

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Every year, host Greg Kot makes a mixtape of new songs to express his feelings about the past year. Greg shares a selection of that mix and the rest of the show staff look at other top singles of 2023. Plus, the hosts remember a few other musicians we lost in 2023.

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Featured Songs:

Olivia Rodrigo, "Vampire," GUTS, Geffen, 2023

The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967

The Moody Blues, "Go Now!," The Magnificent Moodies, Decca, 1965

The Pogues, "Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)," If I Should Fall from Grace with God, Warner, 1988

The Del-Lords, "Burning In The Flame Of Love," Frontier Days, EMI, 1984

Dwight Twilley Band, "I'm On Fire," Sincerely, Shelter, 1976

Dua Lipa, "Dance The Night," Barbie The Album, Atlantic, Warner Bros., Mattel, 2023

SZA, "Kill Bill (feat. Doja Cat)," Kill Bill (feat. Doja Cat) (Single), Top Dawg, RCA, 2023

XG, "LEFT RIGHT," SHOOTING STAR - Single, XGALX, 2023

PinkPantheress & Ice Spice, "Boy's a liar, Pt. 2," Boy's a liar, Pt. 2 (Single), Warner Music, 2023

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, "White Beretta," Weathervanes, Southeastern, Thirty Tigers, 2023

Shame, "Fingers of Steel," Food for Worms, Dead Oceans, 2023

Miley Cyrus, "Flowers," Endless Summer, Columbia, 2023

Ratboys, "Crossed That Line," The Window, Topshelf, 2023

RVG, "Midnight Sun," Brain Worms, Fire, 2023

The Rain Parade, "Last Rays of a Dying Sun," Last Rays of a Dying Sun, Label 51, 2023

Sara Noelle, "Dry the Rain," Dry the Rain (Single), Sara Noelle, 2023

Ladytron, "City of Angels," Time's Arrow, Cooking Vinyl, 2023

Ric Wilson, Chromeo & A-Trak, "Everyone Moves To LA (feat. Felicia Douglass)," CLUSTERFUNK, Free Disco/Empire, 2023

Butcher Brown, "MOVE (RIDE) (feat. Jay Prince)," Solar Music, Concord, 2023

Avalon Emerson, "Sandrail Silouette," & The Charm, Another Dove/One House, 2023

Bob Dylan, "Tangled Up in Blue," Blood on the Tracks, Columbia, 1975

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0:00.0	Hey there if you're listening to this and you support week we're taking one last look back at
0:25.4	2023. I'm Jim D. Regattis and I'm Greg Cot. I'll share my annual mixtape and
0:30.9	will warn the musicians we lost last year.
0:33.3	Plus, we'll share some of our favorite singles from 2023.
0:37.1	Let's get to it.
0:38.1	Every year we do our best to spotlight the musicians and music industry folks who died that we want to pay tribute to.
0:45.0	However, we never get to everyone.
0:48.0	You know, that's right, Jim.
0:49.0	I mean, first we want to recap who we discussed this year.
0:52.0	It's quite a laundry list I'm telling you.
0:54.0	Yeah. Since we always have people asking why didn't you talk about this person a lot of
0:58.3	times we did but we obviously couldn't get to them all but here's what we did
1:02.4	cover in our regular episodes of people who passed away in
1:06.3	2023. Jeff Beck, David Crosby, Tom Berlin, Shinnade O'Connor, Bert Bachrach, Wayne Shorter, Seymour Stein, Andy Rourke of the Smith's,
1:16.8	Trugoy the Dove of Delisole, Tina Turner, Gordon Lightfoot, Cynthia Vile, Robbie Robertson, and our late colleague Mary Gaffney.
1:26.1	We also have the weekly bonus podcast episodes, Greg, and there we pay tribute to Rudolph
1:31.3	Isley, John Kesti of the Effigies, Steve Harwell of Smash Mouth,
1:37.0	Jimmy Buffett, kind of, Sixto Rodriguez, Jane Birken, Plaki Onassis of A Virge Overkill, Astrid Gilberto, Frank Kozick, the great
1:46.8	Seattle poster artist, Rita Lee of Oz mutantes, Keith Reed of Prokle-Haram,
1:52.4	Glenn Spot Lockett, the famous house producer of SST records,
1:57.0	and Van Connor of the screaming trees.
2:00.0	Now we're going to spend a little bit more time highlighting some people we didn't get a chance to memorialize in 2023.
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