My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

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.

ha ha you just had be googling for a new Blue Oyster Cult album

Just made a couple favorites playlists (2000-2009, 2010-Present). I have just left things in chronological/preference order, so listening is going to be quite choppy. Not the most intersting way to sort things, but anything else would require more thought than I probably want to devote to Spotify playlists at the moment.)

https://open.spotify.com/user/rudipherousoxide/playlist/495V1wIhSQXGNO5CFSUQpC

https://open.spotify.com/user/rudipherousoxide/playlist/4FWkskSy7FPVLV61nNn6yQ

I'd just like to point that because you can now upload your own playlist cover art, Moka's collected playist page is fucking beautiful.

oh nm, I see this was covered upthread. Still...fucking beautiful!

Thank you! I can probably fill a couple of requests if any of you want me to give it a try.

R u a graphic designer?

I was for a while in a previous encarnation.

Cool. Dig those covers and your poll images.

I started a playlist for the music I plan to listen to inspired by today's inauguration:

https://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/0UzUIhTNXuKCma2qML5R7U

AWESOME

Been working on this for a while: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/0oqcs5fSW5j8clZ6DGy8Ns

Music for late night dreaming in the tropics, featuring Iasos, Kashif, Alice Coltrane, CFCF, bookended by Lonnie Liston Smith...

I have a late night playlist too

https://open.spotify.com/user/shinsuzuki/playlist/4kY95dIcTqFDUY0A2TAMfy

Seandalai, these are the kind of chill vibes I need in my life. Serenity now!!!

Hahaha mine is more cliche and boring... meant for lonely, insomniac nights;

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/3JxQgEsjlvZAUGl1lpzRNF

seandalai this tropical dreaming playlist is really hitting the spot, or rather gently tickling it

this is not my playlist and some ilxors may frown at the acclaimed music concept, but it's a decent mix of classics and forgotten hits and it's almost infinite https://open.spotify.com/user/frazze/playlist/4W6ci4nxq4vxYL9iCCtXFs

wish it included more genres - anyone recommend a similar playlist broader in scope?

this is my 80s cheese playlist, often helps at sleep times

https://play.spotify.com/user/123632103/playlist/7vDD6WtbPNW5SYoOJDtZ8v

sorry, in the preferred format: https://open.spotify.com/user/123632103/playlist/7vDD6WtbPNW5SYoOJDtZ8v

this is my very incoherent Brazilian music playlist. Although kind of shows how diverse BR music can be. and I guess most of them are not the typical 'rough guide' tracks

https://open.spotify.com/user/shinsuzuki/playlist/1KScB7My1yefWMBvRypx7R

My loosely defined 'balaeric' playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/millmeister/playlist/2w659opjEdfQ2EsniyA1xy

xp will check the Brazilian playslist. Looks good!

so when i'm playing my video game on the ps4 i will just pick some random playlist to listen to. i will try to find ones with tons of songs and ones that aren't like 8 tracks from the same album one after the other and i usually always listen to bass/electronic/house/techno/rap because electronic stuff just sounds the best in the canned airless universe that is spotify. perlon and kompakt stuff is tops on there.

anyway, is there a name for the phenomena where long seemingly random playlists of genre stuff all start to sound....not the same...but weirdly okay even if its stuff you wouldn't buy/listen to on your own or even if its stuff you thought you didn't like? maybe that makes no sense. i think i remember this when cable t.v. started adding tons of genre digital radio stations. and maybe it is the effect of compressed digital streaming or something. i was listening to a 700 song rap playlist last night and it all sounded fine whether it was classic stuff or stuff i have liked for years or stuff i'd never heard or stuff i just don't need a lot of. nas and biggie and mobb deep and big noyd and 50 cent and paris and xzibit were playing and it didn't really matter who it was it all blended together and so much of really doesn't blend together in any other setting. it was't wallpaper or muzak...but just there. nothing popped out. even D12 sounded fine next to a tribe called quest and i don't really go out of my way to listen to D12. it all ended up feeling like its on the same level.

i don't know. maybe i'm crazy. or maybe i don't listen to really well-made mixes/playlists. i just get this flattening feeling. i guess its the same as that satellite radio feeling.