No matter what’s going on in the world, there is always too much great music for just one Favorite Songs Of The Year list. So I make a playlist for every quarter. These are my favorite songs from July, August and September. (4th Quarter List coming soon!)
The playlist of most-played new songs for the 3rd quarter of 2020 seems like a continuation of the 2nd quarter playlist. It’s pretty much how this summer felt: just a continuation of spring with the pandemic dictating most of our lives, protests happening around the world, US elections droning on – and with all that often senses of fatigue, loneliness, anxiety. But it was still summer, which meant more outdoor fun, some travel and reasons to be happier.
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Photo taken in the Chattahoochee National Forest while the campfires were lit up for morning coffee.
List of my favorite songs from the 3rd quarter of 2020:
- Ben Folds – 2020
- Charley Crockett -Welcome to Hard Times
- Jess Cornelius – Banging My Head
- Sorry – Right Round The Clock
- Model Child – Animal Noise
- The Front Bottoms – montgomery forever
- Lo Tom – Start Payin’
- Car Seat Headrest – Can’t Cool Me Down
- Beyoncé – BLACK PARADE
- Anderson .Paak – Lockdown (Remix) [feat. JID, Noname & Jay Rock]
- Mavis Staples – All In It Together
- Asaf Avidan – Lost Horse
- Father John Misty – Trouble
- Thimo Sander – Tagebuch eines traurigen Roboters
- BONZIE – alone
- Arlo Parks – Hurt
- Tricky – Like a Stone [feat. Marta]
- Alison Mosshart – It Ain’t Water
- Soccer Mommy – Drive
- Adrianne Lenker – anything
- Father John Misty – Anthem
- Jaguar Sun – Red
- Fleet Foxes – Sunblind
- Alicia Keys – Underdog
- Taylor Swift – cardigan
- Silversun Pickups – Toy Soldiers
- The Big Moon – Why
- Sylvan Esso – Ferris Wheel
- JARV IS… – House Music All Night Long
- First Aid Kit – On the Road Again
- Neil Young – Lookin’ for a Leadet [2020]
You can listen to the entire 3rd Quarter of 2020 playlist on Spotify…
P.S.: This playlist is extra long not necessarily because there were so many more amazing songs this summer – but more because I’ve been having a harder time than usual to kick songs to the curb and lack the time to keep thinking about it. I suspect the 4th Quarter List will make up for it by being extra short… maybe.