Compiling this Best Of edition of UMC20 was a challenge enough. As usual, we had a strong month of music around here, and choosing 20 songs always seems to be a formidable task.
However, this challenge pales in comparison to the one that awaits this weekend.
Listen to the Best of November
Next Tuesday is the last Tuesday of the month, which means that our Best of November UMC20 playlist will make its way to your ears at that time.
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OK… so, every UMC20 playlist technically comes in 20 different flavors. That’s not the point. The point is that this one feels special.
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OK, so we all know what today is, don’t we? There’s no getting around the elephant in the room?
If you didn’t know, it’s Election Day. If you are able, today’s the day to perform your civic duty, if you haven’t already. Then, no matter what happens from there, please do everything you can to find peace, love, and understanding with your fellow citizens. The country and the world needs that right now.
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It’s the last Tuesday of the month, and you know what that means: lots of tough decisions, as we attempt to narrow a month’s worth of music down to 20 prime cuts.
Hear the Best of October
This week’s edition of UMC20 truly has it all, friends.
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You may not be able to physically taste these 20 flavors, but they sure are spicy.
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Having a month with five Tuesdays simplifies and complicates the UMC20 Best Of selection process, all at once.
It’s simplified, for the fact that we try to pick five songs apiece from each of month’s prior four playlists. It’s complicated when narrowing it down to those five each, however, because there’s so much good stuff to choose from.
Hear the Best of September
Happy fall! Or, happy autumn. Whatever you want to call it, it’s here.
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To give you a little bit of inside baseball, one of the pleasant consequences of curating a weekly playlist is that it gives us 20 automatic slots to feature artists, week in and week out. When your inbox looks like ours does these days — still, and probably forever, catching up from being out of town — that’s nothing short of a blessing to get this music featured.
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