Ode to Billy Joe
Sinéad O’Connor
The mystery no one solves · 5:02
folk-pop, Bobbie Gentry cover, unease
Spooky
Dusty Springfield
A come-on played as a cold front · 2:45
sixties pop, cool, spooky, Dusty
Wicked Game
Messer Chups
Chris Isaak as wordless Russian surf-noir · 3:50
surf noir, reverb, instrumental, Don’t Say Cheese
Heart Full of Soul
The Yardbirds
A fuzz-box bent into a raga · 2:28
British invasion, Jeff Beck, raga-rock, 1965
The Windmills of Your Mind
David Alexandre Winter
Legrand’s spiral you can’t climb out of · 3:30
French chanson, Legrand, dizzying, 1969
I am the Octopus
The Moss Twins
A trilingual doo-wop riddle — the label’s uncanny · 3:57
doo-wop, riddle, trilingual, the label’s own
Strange Brew
Cream
Disraeli Gears psychedelia, faintly sinister · 2:50
psych-blues, Clapton, 1967, brew
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)
The Electric Prunes
Garage-psych paranoia, 1967 · 2:59
garage rock, reverb, dream, Prunes
You Don’t Own Me
Lesley Gore
The 1963 declaration, the room around it changed · 3:15
girl-group, defiant, remix, Lesley Gore
Wheel in the Sky
Journey
The wheel keeps turning · 4:15
AOR, Journey, rolling, uncertainty