Jumping Fences to Wichita: my 100 favourite songs

“It started with a playlist…I never thought it would come to this…” (with apologies to Hot Chocolate).

Well yes, I went quite a bit further with an early lockdown challenge amongst some friends to each compile a Spotify playlist of our 50 favourite songs (with only one selection by any single artist).  From an initial longlist of 379 such tunes – leading to various accompanying playlists in addition to my standard top 50 – I then started blogging about each choice.  Initially this involved pretty much one post every day throughout April and May for my favourite 50, before broadening this out to cover my top 100 songs and then blogging roughly twice a week from June to November.  And so a project that began near the start of the first lockdown comes to a conclusion towards the end of the second lockdown…

379: The Playlists

Starting with a friends challenge in early April to produce a Spotify playlist of my top 50 songs (with just one track per artist), I initially came up with a longlist of 379 tunes, all of which were then compiled into various Spotify playlists – so this page pulls all these playlists together into one place…

Facebook 10 Film Posters Challenge

I’ve recently been posting up film posters daily on Facebook as part of this challenge:

Choose 10 films which made an impact on me the first time and are still on my watch list even if only now and then…

Therefore, I thought I’d pull all these together here in one place as well…

Day 1: Wake In Fright

B100: Favourite songs 51-100

B100: with apologies to Guided By Voices

Having recently completed the “379 to 50” rundown of my top 50 songs, I’m now going to share my next 50 favourite records that didn’t quite make the cut.  When initially whittling down my longlist of 379 tunes, there were actually just over 100 that I thought would be in the top 50, so these are all still very beloved songs.  I’m not going to be counting down day by day as before but do plan to write blogs about each record every now and then, and will be travelling up this time around from 51 onwards…

379 to 50: The Final Countdown (from numbers 50 to 1)…

I’ve now finished my lockdown inspired favourite 50 songs countdown, which started in early April.  All 50 tracks are listed below, with links to each accompanying blog.  There’s also a Spotify playlist with the songs in ranked order, plus 4 bonus tunes (my numbers 51-54) as my top 50 choices from My Bloody Valentine, Whiteout, Plush and The KLF are not available on Spotify.