2000 or So Things — November 2026: 67 In, 2 Out

You'd think that after putting more than 1,600 songs on a playlist, I might have covered the obvious stuff. Apparently not. Somehow I had room for all those songs but not "Something," "White Room," "Tumbling Dice," or "Peg." Good work, me.

So here we are with the first monthly update to 2000 or So Things: 67 additions, two departures, and a net gain of 65. The new batch runs from the Beatles and the Stones to Prince, 2Pac, and a Snoop Dogg track that lists Tom Petty among the artists. This is why the thing belongs on shuffle.

I'm not going to keep reposting the whole 1,700-plus-song list or retelling how it started. The original post explains the idea. Each month, I'll just show what's come in and what's gone out. Here's November.

Out (2)

• Le temps de l'amour — Françoise Hardy
• Broadway Jungle — Toots & The Maytals

In (67)

No ranking, no running order. These are the 67 additions.

• Stressed Out — twenty one pilots
• Sunny — Bobby Hebb
• Keep Pushin' — REO Speedwagon
• Stealin' — Uriah Heep
• Last Dance With Mary Jane — Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tom Petty, Jelly Roll
• Just In Case — Morgan Wallen
• Forever Young — Alphaville
• Time After Time — Cyndi Lauper
• It's Time — Imagine Dragons
• Warning — Incubus
• Love Hurts — Incubus
• Tumbling Dice — The Rolling Stones
• A Whiter Shade of Pale (2007 Remaster) — Procol Harum
• Dead Flowers (2009 Mix) — The Rolling Stones
• Eminence Front — The Who
• I Can See For Miles (Full Version) — The Who
• Roadhouse Blues — The Doors
• Love Me Two Times — The Doors
• Break on Through (To the Other Side) — The Doors
• Something (Remastered 2009) — The Beatles
• Get Back (Remastered 2009) — The Beatles
• Day Tripper — The Beatles
• Summer in the City — The Lovin' Spoonful
• Sunshine Of Your Love — Cream
• White Room — Cream
• Crossroads (Mono Single Version / Remastered 2026) — Cream
• Voodoo Child (Slight Return) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Fire — The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Dixie Chicken — Little Feat
• No Time — The Guess Who
• American Woman — The Guess Who
• Evil Woman — Electric Light Orchestra
• Telephone Line — Electric Light Orchestra
• Livin' Thing — Electric Light Orchestra
• Hold the Line — Toto
• Lowdown (2023 Remaster) — Boz Scaggs
• Peg — Steely Dan
• Rikki Don't Lose That Number — Steely Dan
• Cold as Ice — Foreigner
• China Grove — The Doobie Brothers
• Life in the Fast Lane — Eagles
• Take It to the Limit — Eagles
• Even The Losers — Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
• Missing You — John Waite
• She's A Beauty (Remastered 1991) — The Tubes
• Love Stinks — The J. Geils Band
• Rio (2009 Remaster) — Duran Duran
• It's My Life (1997 Remaster) — Talk Talk
• The Look Of Love, Pt.1 — ABC
• Things Can Only Get Better — Howard Jones
• Under the Milky Way — The Church
• The One I Love — R.E.M.
• Fall On Me — R.E.M.
• Radio Free Europe — R.E.M.
• Driver 8 — R.E.M.
• Man On The Moon — R.E.M.
• Everyday Is Like Sunday — Morrissey
• Girlfriend in a Coma — The Smiths
• Love and Happiness — Al Green
• Isn't She Lovely — Stevie Wonder
• ABC — Jackson 5
• Raspberry Beret — Prince
• Dear Mama — 2Pac
• The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Remastered 2000) — The Band
• Lyin' Eyes — Eagles
• The Boys Of Summer — Don Henley
• Yer So Bad — Tom Petty

Still growing

The list now stands at 1,726 songs. It'll change again. There's no magic number to hit and no order worth preserving. The whole point is to have a pile of music I still love, waiting to surprise somebody when they hit shuffle.

Which song did I take an embarrassingly long time to remember? Which of the two removals would you argue for? Let me know through the contact page.