I love year-end lists, so can you imagine the excitement about a list of year-end lists?
Check this out: http://yearinreview.co/

From there, I found this gem, the Spotify Year in Music:
https://yearinmusic.spotify.com/en-US

If you have a Spotify account, you can have it comb through your stats and give you some recommendations based on that. This past year, I have been listening to much more country music (both good and bad) than I thought. Top artists were Sturgill Simpson, Pistol Annies, and AC-DC.  Here is a playlist of my top tracks.

Then after you are done with that you can some other playlists to put together for events during the year:

• Max Martin is a fantastic writer/producer/etc. Check out all the hits he had a hand in in this playlist.
• Here is a list of wedding classics in honor of the legality of gay marriage.
• With the release of the Amy Winehouse documentary, here is an Amy playlist.

From Neil, Jon Benjamin, voice of Bob’s Burgers and Archer, star of Comedy Central show “Jon Benjamin has a Van”, did an “experimental jazz album” called Well, I Should Have… Learned to Play Piano. It’s experimental and labeled that way because he doesn’t know how to play the piano.  But the rest of the band is accomplished jazz musicians.  NPR’s Robert Siegel really thought it was funny.  Check out the interview here:

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463589100/comedian-jon-benjamins-jazz-album-is-full-of-real-untapped-un-talent

Here is a spotify playlist:

HBO’s recent Bruce documentary was worth a watch, but this looks like it could be better.

They reference this in this above trailer: did anyone know about this possible Star Wars connection to Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough?
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=427

What Bruce doc? Here is a link to that trailer.

I think everyone’s Facebooks have better tributes to David Bowie, so here is something from another singer that just passed, Otis Clay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Clay). My favorite hit:

Thanks, Mike: