My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

A playlist of guitar soli stuff - featuring the usual suspects (Bishop, Basho, Jack, Peter Walker, Charlie Parr, Fahey) and a few curveballs like Puma, Gabor Szabo and Bola Sete.

https://open.spotify.com/user/thepoacher/playlist/2DzjqjZBdiiAnBLy1sAqJK

Week 10

Put one together for I Wanna Be Sedated, a book on '70s pop Scott Woods and I put out 20+ years ago. It's taken from the 100-song discography at the back of the book. Got everything, with four exceptions: 1) no Neil Young and no Slade, and 2) had to substitute live versions of the Germs' "Forming" and the Avengers' "The Amerikan in Me" (predictably not as good as the originals, but at least they were recorded at the time, not later).

http://play.spotify.com/user/rettenmund/playlist/1Ml54NLXgQPHClvELWeU8p

If you want to splurge, you can buy the book for $0.01 on Amazon.

Thanks! Think I still have my copy of that book.

I got into a mood the other day where I wanted to spend the rest of the day alternating between Pet Shop Boys and Kendrick Lamar so I created a playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/3kLqMZxM1AWKEEK90cNgBa

Also, if anyone is interested in hearing choral pieces I've performed that I've fallen in love with, check here:

https://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/6bWnlWmCk45LxCffWeTSpR

My first, hope I'm posting it right: Originally thought of this as folk-rock & related, and it is, but also starts with "I've Just Seen A Face," ends (so far) with "Rocky Raccoon," in between goes from "Blackbird" to "Blue Jay Way" to---well, you'll see:
spotify:user:philobot:playlist:2tDdze0ZilOW2Mr9zb1fht

All Beatles.

Or is this a better format?
https://open.spotify.com/user/philobot/playlist/2tDdze0ZilOW2Mr9zb1fht

Guess so, since Chrome isn't asking if I want to install the spotify app

Discovered today that Ivy is down and this link is dead: https://support.spotify.com/au/problems/#!/article/Convert-Playlists-to-Spotify

Is there any other way to create a playlist besides dragging-and-dropping each song one at a time or importing from iTunes? I've got a text file just sitting here, looking like a chump.

It's built into the desktop app now (for Windows anyway) - you can import playlists through the File menu.

I recently discovered this site for converting playlists:
http://www.playlist-converter.net/

Though I've been mostly using it to convert Spotify lists to Youtube playlists.

Yeah, on macs at least, you still only have the iTunes option.

http://i.imgur.com/rIIdAi9.png

But holy cats, Marko, that did the trick! I dare say it even did better than Ivy! (67/75)

Yeah I just discovered the site yesterday. I haven't tried all the various options with it. Been mostly using it to convert a bunch of my archived Discover Playlists to YouTube playlists, whittling down those results to just music videos, and then playing the resulting playlists on my TV.

My Week 11-13 playlist is up.

Fresh finds, Week 14

So, now that Spotify allows users to upload their own covers for their playlists I've updated my 52 public playlists with their own artwork Most of these were created by me from 0 and some feature tweaked illustrations/photos I found on pinterest/fffound/buamai which I then modified to create the artwork. There are a couple of lazy ones in there where I just adjusted text and colors because I'm a bit obsessive compulsive and it was making me anxious to have half of my playlists with unique covers and the other half with the usual 4 album display.

http://i.imgur.com/m2ihlD2.png
http://i.imgur.com/eaEfKD9.png
http://i.imgur.com/StqzTo4.png
http://i.imgur.com/zfDRYIv.png

Here's my profile if you're interested in hearing any of them:

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka

Some of them have self-explanatory titles and some of them are kind of cryptic but you may get the idea behind each playlist with a listen. If you want me to explain the mood/sound/concept behind any of them please let me know.

Awesome!

I saw those the other day! Excellent work.

Wow.

yeah those are gorgeous and def make me want to reorganize all my playlists and make nice covers for them if i ever had the time

I'm no Moka, but I've definitely got a new busy chore to do!

http://i.imgur.com/Vfxduo0.png

Oooh. The era of music I find strangely fascinating!

Thank you! There were many hours of procrastination involved Marko haha do not recommend it. Nothing compared to all the hours of procrastination building them though... I seriously need to curate each one of them and purge some songs from each playlist.

I think Spotify is the only "social" network I ever use tho... no twitter, no instagram, no snapchat and I only use facebook to manage the bars I own.

Pplains that looks interesting! Tell me more of the idea behind that one.

Never was into Interpol... it seemed to me that artists from previous decades did that sort of thing better and always hated how buried his voice was in the mix. Then again I also don't like Joy Division which seems to be the closest reference critics loved to drop on them. It was always "the new Joy Division" "the new Television"

Oops that message was for the 2002 poll one haha.

Not much to it, Moka. Just one day thinking about how "Love Shack" is technically an 80s song, even though it sounds nothing like Duran Duran. Or how there were all these rock bands doing this thing of what 80s people thought 90s people would like before getting blown out of the water by grunge. Songs that don't 100% fit on either side of Dec. 31. Just like how it's always the Reagan-Bush years, never just the Bush years.

I've posted the link in this thread before, about 500 answers ago probably. Miccio's got a good one that could be a cousin to mine.

Been listening to your Caribou one a lot on Fridays.

Ah yes know I understand! It seems like every decade bookends have that no? Like say the 'Post Fordist Pre-Disco Soul'... I specially like how wacky 77-81 and 88-91 were... lots of songs and artists that sound like they would've been influential for the next decade but it seems noone really ever noticed them at the time and we only find them influential when making revisions. Will listen to that one of yours in the weekend. I love those sort of songs that seem to come from another time and place... they seem to age better too.

Can't really take credit for the Caribou one, I'm just a messenger but yes, that playlist is filled with goodies.

now* was writing from mobile and I always forget to doublecheck... stupid corrector.

Here's my top 2016 tunes FWIW https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/49ezfyR62YozfuuAnKBMaX

Moka, I followed a whole bunch of yours. Great work.

Thank uou! Following your 2016 list lots of artists Ive never heard before.

Mine, if anyone cares: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1CyLYKoBxfxINa

followed

I guess I never posted my post-election playlist:

https://play.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/3kVB1Spf8xuXgfHSqcv4vr

this is a really special play list I put together that's very personal. it's 200 songs, placed in roughly chronological order, that have had some major impact on me and my life and the way I perceive music, from the first song I ever remember hearing (O Superman) to the last song that really struck me as special. As such I feel like it's a rough guide to me as a music listener, or a kind of musical DNA code of some sort.
Putting it together took a lot of thought and consideration. I had to think back through my life and really concentrate on who I was and what I was feeling at age 11, 16, 22, 29 etc... I decided to stop at 200 songs because I only wanted the best and was wary of making arbitrary choices. Of course the selection process is filtered through my current worldview, meaning it's not entirely honest. There was probably a load of uncool, embarrassing shit that I really loved back in the day that I'd rather forget about. Still that's the way the cookie crumbles.

was thinking of maybe polling these for fun at some point, or diarising them in a blog. till then, I'll just leave this here

https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/60LpRIq72pGDMmSsapTh9m

*chronological order of when I first heard or got into them, not when they came out

I should try that sometime.

everyone should do it. it's a nice little exercise in reflection. I've always maintained that I'll never need a diary because I can just put on an album and remember exactly where I was when I first heard it.

decided to do a thread / poll about it. unfortunately ILM only lets me poll the first 50 songs Dog Latin's 'Eureka Moments' Playlist

I'm stealig some of those dog latin for my top songs of every decade and not giving you credit.

Seems we actually have lots of songs in common! I have those offline atm and 20% of your playlist is 'green'

steal away! considering we're both followers of EOY I'm not surprised there's some overlap

Been enjoying your 'Beautiful Place' playlist today Moka, nice work!

yeah that one's excellent. there's a particularly nice tune by Kettel on there that's become a personal fave since hearing it the other day.

Leraine! One of my all time fave songs :)

(it's a Secede tune actually, ft. Kettel)

schooled! okay then - it is lovely. if it had come out just a few years earlier it would have been IDM canon.

I made this playlist a while ago consisting of mid-90s Alternative music with a steady groove, often using drum loops and rapping/talk singing, rap rock that's more mellow than aggressive. Bands trying to sound like Beck. It is quite possibly terrible:
The Spirit of 96

Thank you! I think I started that one for a friens who wanted a BoC sound kind of playlist while waiting for the new album. She ended up listening to it more than the actual album when it came out.