Any Major Favourites 2022 – Vol. 1
I noticed with some surprise that I’ve been doing these reviews of mixes posted throughout the gone year since 2015. Happily, it seems that people aren’t getting tired of what I’m doing in this little corner of the Internet, so I hope that I’ll be able to offer new Any Major Favourites comps in 2024.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. What we have here is the first of two mixes featuring a song from each mix posted in 2022 (with the exception of the Party Like It’s 1981 set, which ran in December 2021, and the year’s only Christmas album). These songs are among my favourites on each compilation.
In the tracklisting, I give a link to the particular mix these tracks come from, for easy click-through in case you missed it the first time around. I also have these links in a PDF file that is included.
So, which Any Majors have I listened to most? Obviously I don’t keep count — that would be weird — but the one I have loved the most is the Any Major Laurel Canyon mix, which I had put together long before I posted it. Because it is my top mix of the year, it will feature again on Vol. 2.
Not Feeling Guilty Vol. 12 got a lot of play, as did the Songbooks of Carole King (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2) and Elton John (actually, all the Songbooks did), the Any Major Hits from 1972 (Vol. 1 and Vol.2), and Albums of 1972 and 1982.
The Songbooks seems to be a very popular feature, and I have a few more in store for 2023. Poignantly, I compiled this playlist last month, before the death on New Year’s Eve of Anita Pointer. It closes with a song by the Pointer Sisters, from the Carole Bayer Sager Songbook, on which Anita took the lead vocals.
Older Any Major Favourite posts contain links to mixes you might have missed. Many of their links are still live. This post is also included as a PDF, for later reference.
At this point I want to thank the good people who have bought me coffees over the past year, and thereby helped in covering the costs of running this thing. With that, I wish everybody a superb and superbly healthy 2023.
1. Rhinestones – Party Music (1975)
Any Major Party
2. Sad Café – Every Day Hurts (1979)
Not Feeling Guilty Mix Vol. 12
3. Malo – Suavecito (1972)
Any Major Hits from 1972 – Vol. 1
4. The Style Council – Long Hot Summer (1983)
Best of Any Major Summer
5. Soft Cell – Where Did Our Love Go (1981)
Holland-Dozier-Holland Songbook
6. Richie Havens – Band On The Run (1974)
Paul McCartney Songbook Vol. 2
7. Martha Reeves – Dixie Highway (1974)
Any Major Carole King Songbook Vol. 1
8. Claudia Lennear – It Ain’t Easy (1973)
Ziggy Stardust Recovered (1972)
9. The Allman Brothers Band – Blue Sky (1972)
Any Major Albums of the Year: 1972
10. Jimi Hendrix – Angel (1971)
Saved! Vol. 6 – The Angels edition
11. Judee Sill – Crayon Angels (1971)
Any Major Laurel Canyon
12. Dave Alvin – Surfer Girl (2006)
Brian Wilson Songbook
13. Joseph Arthur – Honey And The Moon (2002)
Any Major Sugar
14. Neil Diamond – Rocket Man (1978)
Any Major Elton John & Bernie Taupin Songbook
15. Swing Out Sister – Stoned Soul Picnic (1997)
Any Major Laura Nyro Songbook
16. Candi Staton – Nights On Broadway (1977)
Barry Gibb Songbook Vol. 2
17. Pointer Sisters – The Love Too Good To Last (1980)
Any Major Carole Bayer Sager Songbook
PW = amdwhah
Wow, there have been some compilations I have completely missed, over the past year. Kudos for your labour of love…