Tonight’s playlist will be a long and winding road. I will be featuring one track from each of the artists that I showcased on the website in 2016. Since we highlight both modern and classic artists, a true “best of 2016 list” is a bit of a misnomer. There may be older tracks on the playlist – however they were featured this year. So, this evening, each track is a favorite on Strawberry Tongue. There’s about 175 in total, however, the list below is a non-ordered Top 100 songs for the year. Highly scientific, this list is based on listening times, fan favorites, and unabashedly, the always wild card of Dawn Marie’s personal pets. I have to thank all the bands, fans, and freaks that reached out to me this year and their unwavering support of this crazy little thing called love. Each of them truly brought light for what turned out to be the ultimate dumpster-fire of a year.
Breaking from our usual format, tonight’s playlist begins at 7:00pm EST / 1:00am CET and runs for a whopping 12 hours! It will repeat again both Saturday and Sunday at the same time. Put on your party pants people, it’s gonna be a long night, but worth every bit of your time. So sit back and enjoy the ride. Happy New Year!
BEST OF 2016 (in no particular order)
- 50 Foot Wave – Bath White
- Adryelle – Black Chandelier (Mix)
- Anoraque – Think Don’t Suppose
- Antipole – Deco Blue
- Audiodeluxe – Treasure
- Autolux – Change My Head
- Battery Operated Orchestra (BOO) – Diamond Feelings
- Benji 24 – Sea Glass
- Black Swan Lane – Relax and Breathe
- Book of Giants – Endeavor
- Castlebeat – Downstairs
- Castle Black – Premonition
- Charles De Goal – L’armes a Gauche
- Chelsey and the Noise – Edge of Infinity
- Children of Leir – Shades
- Christine Plays Viola – Poles Apart
- Controlled Collapse – Ruins (Mental)
- Crispy Ambulance – Four Line Whip
- David Bowie – Girl Loves Me
- Dead or Alive – Flowers
- Dearly Bereft – Laura Palmer
- Dear Deer – Statement
- Downhill Willows – Trauma
- Elwell – Closer
- Emilie Zoe – My Shadow on the Wall
- Feeding Fingers – Your Candied Laughter Crawls
- Folk Devils – Beautiful Monsters
- Ghost Noise – Throne of the Third Heaven
- Ghost of Lightning – All Is Fair In Dreams
- Gloss – Rachel
- Goldbarne – The Lure
- Graveyard Club – Nightcrawler
- Guns of the Seneca – Oneironaut
- Hande – Δ
- Hermetrik – No Need For It
- Hologram Teen – Scratches in Series
- Honey Beard – Hummingbirds
- I Tpame I Tvrame – Dizzy
- Idle Vision – Guys and Girls
- Introflirt – Precious Thread
- Ipanema Cosmonauts – Black Helicopters
- Jherek Bischoff – Closer to Closure
- Joao Bispo – Querer-te
- Kaamosmasennus – M.A.P.
- Kleenex/Liliput – Nightoad
- Lake Ruth – Cabin Fever
- L’arbre Bizarre – Opaque Mirror
- Levy – City of Love
- Lilies on Mars – Stealing
- Liyv – Heat
- Magic Mountain – Velvet
- Meheekats – I’m So Lucky
- Map of the Moon – Give You Something
- Maths and the Moon – Futurist
- MnttaB – Un Siege Sur Le Blanc
- Neurotic Wreck – Speak in My Voice
- New Age Healers – Ready Aim Fire
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Girl in Amber
- Nova Et Vetera – Looking for a Sign
- Odonis Odonis – Needs
- Onemanstanding – Soul Sepsis
- Ophiuco – Scrowls of Intentiones
- Paisaje 3 – Fire Bird
- Rakta – A Violencia do Silencio
- Roya – Centrum
- Ryan Evans – Everything was Broken
- Schillaci Death Stare – Hotbox Shed Blues
- Schwarz – Intronaut
- Shadows and Mirrors – In The Dark
- Sjoblom – Oh My Heart
- Sky Between Leaves – Klein Blues
- Soft Ledges – Seven Stories
- Solemn Shapes – Need
- Sorority – Satisfied
- Starfinder – In The Dark
- Surface Hoar – Luminous Beings
- Tapes and Tubes – So Long As I Have You
- The Dearly Bereft – Laura Palmer
- The Doctors – Unterwelt
- The Foreign Resort – Suburban Depression (AO Mix)
- The Intelligence Service – School Me
- The Raudive – Torch Song
- The Suncharms – Spaceship
- The Wolfhounds – Across the River of Death
- Them Are Us Too – Creepy Love
- TheUse – On My Deathbed (Featuring Rachel Mason)
- This Human Condition – Rise (Earth is Full Mix)
- TK Bollinger and That Sinking Feeling – I Hear Monsters Weeping
- Tobacco – Human Om
- Touch – M.O.B.
- Traitrs – Burnt Offerings
- Undertheskin – Wave
- Verena Von Horsen – Sakrament Der Buffelherde
- Verna Hark – Kingdom
- Vissuda – The Day You Were
- Vorderhaus – Black Suspicion
- VvvV – Clean
- We Draw A – Tomorrow
- Winter 1982 – Sometimes
- Year of the Kite – Beauty Gone
That’s it for this week’s special edition of the Friday Night Five. Be sure to tune in to Strawberry Tongue Radio at 19:00 EST / 1:00 CET to hear our “best of” 12-hour playlist. It will also re-air on Saturday and Sunday at the same times. Join us on January 6th for our first new playlist of 2017. As always, be sure to visit the bands websites for more information about their latest work and to purchase their tracks.
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