Favorite songs best of 2020, playlist, mixtape
This 4th mix tape playlist rounds out my favorite songs of 2020.

While I like all these songs a lot, I hope that in the upcoming months and year there will be less songs that seem to be written out of that sense of anxiety, dread, loneliness, and injustice that was so prevalent in 2020.

Favorite songs best of 2020, playlist, mixtape

Fold-out cassette insert for Favorite Songs of the 4th Quarter of 2020 Mix Tape.
Photo taken on Honeymoon Island shortly before moving from the beach to central St. Petersburg. This photo is also the cover for the 2021 Happier Place wall calendar.

List of my favorite songs of the 4th quarter of 2020:

  1. Fight The Power: Remix 2020 (feat. Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG & Questlove) – Public Enemy
  2. The Truth – I LIKE TRAINS
  3. Song 33 – Noname
  4. Show Them The Way – Stevie Nicks
  5. Easy Chair – David Dondero
  6. The New OK – Drive-By Truckers
  7. GRID (feat. Cypress Hill & George Clinton) – Public Enemy
  8. FRANCHISE (feat. Young Thug & M.I.A.) – Travis Scott
  9. 4 American Dollars – U.S. Girls
  10. Inside – Chris Avantgarde
  11. Gospel For A New Century – Yves Tumor
  12. Tangerine – Steady Holiday
  13. Fetch The Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple
  14. Bad Vacation – Liza Anne
  15. Living Life – Steady Holiday
  16. Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind) – Dolores Diaz & the Standby Club
  17. Invisible String – Taylor Swift
  18. Emerald City – Luluc
  19. Red Western Sky – Muzz
  20. Lilacs – Waxahatchee
  21. Little Bird – Jenny Owen Youngs
  22. Coney Island (feat. The National) – Taylor Swift
  23. Fade Into You – Muzz
  24. Campfire – Kevin Morby
  25. Old Friend (Stay Alive) – Laura Jane Grace
  26. Blackness of the Night (feat. AZITA) – Bill Callahan
  27. If We Make It Through December – Phoebe Bridgers

You can listen to the entire 4th Quarter of 2020 mix on Spotify.

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