My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

Well let's just hope they stay afloat so this isn't all in vain. And that they add more obscuro '80s and '90s stuff to the catalogue or these will remain incomplete:

ILM Rough Guide to the Bo Diddley Beat
ILM Rough Guide to Vocoders etc
ILM Rough Guide to Electro (all 6 tracks)

ILM Rough Guide to Neil Young (missing "This Note's For You

")

Helpful (perhaps obvious) hint: the no. of tracks returned in a search list is limited, you may get more if you click through to the artist. And you can search for/jump to tracks there just by typing the start of the name.

ILM Rough Guide to David Bowie (missing Drowned Girl)

ILM Rough Guide to Orbital (missing You Lot)

Nearly all of the Rough Guide to Early-Mid 60s Nashville.

ILX 2007 Tracks Poll Results

Several tracks missing (Radiohead,Spoon...) and sadly no Ewan Pearson remix of Cortney Tidwell but still gets the bulk of the list.

ILM 2008 Albums Poll Results

To be completed, obv. And I could only find 20 of the 40, and one of them's the wrong version of the album... but still, it's something...

ILX 2007 Tracks Poll Results
Erm, this is 2008...?

Oh crap, ignore me. I've been down the pub.

These are brilliant - keep them coming, and thanks for the work involved so far.

The Face - Best Singles of 1986

OMFG I WAS JUST LISTENING TO THAT PLAYLIST ABOVE AND COMPILING THE ROUGH GUIDE TO SOFT ROCK, AND JUST AS I ADDED VAN HALEN WHY CAN'T THIS BE LOVE, VAN HALEN WHY CAN'T THIS BE LOVE CAME ON

and no i didn't double click or anything, it was definitely playing from the 'the face' playlist.

Anyway, three or four omissions in each of these, but still a decent selection.
ILM Rough Guide to Soft Rock
ILM Rough Guide to R&B, 91-96

Spotify playlists to replace the mixtape?

Melody Maker Critics' Poll - 1988 Singles.

Only a 50% success rate on this selection, but it captures the essence.

Spotify playlists to replace the mixtape?

The mix-what now?

(All but a few missing tracks of) some dude's double-disc SD mix from You Got De Steely Dan Mixtape

Personal top 40 Pet Shop Boys b-sides and album tracks not really including remixes except where it does

Pitchfork Top 100 2008

ILM Top 100 Tracks of the 70s (includes a few inferior alternative versions of songs inc. 'More More More' because the originals aren't there, and a couple of replacements for songs not on there at all) - and sorry it's ordered topdown

Really good. I've now become a Spotify subscriber - more out of a sense that I support what they're doing and hope they fully succeed, more than finding the adverts irritating.

yeah i'm subscribing too now. gotta support the good service.

having said that it's just stopped scrobbling for some reason...

As I moaned on the other thread: hasn't scrobbled properly for me (or a shitload of other Mac users) for two weeks now; despite a lengthy thread on Get Satisfaction in which a Spotify chap promised us they'd worked out what the problem was, we're still waiting on the upgrade. Given that it was an (unwanted/un-asked-for/forced-upon-us) upgrade that fucked it in the first place, I've kind of gone off it a bit.

Yeh, I know, wau wau wau, whining about a service that gives me free music, etc ... ach, see the other thread for my semi-feeble justification.

New ILM Spring collabo playlist.

Really busy at the mo' but thought I'd throw this out... feel free to add to it any music that 18 month old twins might like.

They usually get played Woody & Leadbelly, trad R&R, doo-wop (especially!), and the boy gets terribly excited jumping up and down to that Come on "Baby, Let's Go Down Town" song on Tonight's the Night!

Toddlermusik-Bend My Children's Minds

Useless thing.. let me try this again:

Toddlermusik-Bend My Children's Minds

New ILM Spring collabo playlist.

woah that Phil Collins track is v Phoenixy - nice

It's a great summer track! There's a good dubby Idjut Boys re-edit of it too.

I'm happy the playlist has taken off.

sorry i just swamped it with new singles released this month, most of which i hadn't yet heard (deleted a couple of the real stinkers already)

The single swamping is useful to me!

Check out the Florence and the Machine version of "You Got the Love" and VV Brown version of "This Charming Man". They are both fucking awful. VV Brown also does a 15 minute reading from Marian Keyes novel "This Charming Man" wtf?

haha weird I saw that yesterday (the VV Brown) completely coincidentally.

I can't get onto the ILM collab list until this evening, but please to be adding "Many-Coloured, Semi-Precious Plastic Easter Eggs" by Peter Sarstedt?

Okay.

(Scrobbling now working on mac for me since yesterday evening)

Properly or just intermittently? I could get it to work occasionally but it'd usually die again halfway through an album.

Today I need to TOIL HARD and NOT LISTEN TO MUSIC, though.

I couldn't find the "A Life Less Lived" Rhino gothic compilation on Spotify so I made one, almost.

Disk 1 - everything except Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
http://open.spotify.com/user/onimo/playlist/1R6GkIKBOho5hYyuJQCpt1
or spotify:user:onimo:playlist:1R6GkIKBOho5hYyuJQCpt1

Disk 2 - no Creatures, Death Cult, Danse Society, Rose of Avalanche, Cranes,
http://open.spotify.com/user/onimo/playlist/5AsKuz3N59DjI5CQKkfEbG
or spotify:user:onimo:playlist:5AsKuz3N59DjI5CQKkfEbG

Disk 3 - no Damned or London After Midnight and I had to use a live version of the AFI track
http://open.spotify.com/user/onimo/playlist/18vMg0o0zIVdvo6M4vLMMd
or spotify:user:onimo:playlist:18vMg0o0zIVdvo6M4vLMMd

All three in one playlist:
http://open.spotify.com/user/onimo/playlist/018YeTv8b3L9pHSAhZls4X
or spotify:user:onimo:playlist:018YeTv8b3L9pHSAhZls4X

We put up some spotify mixes on the Quietus recently including one on the influences on 'Primary Colours' by The Horrors.

18 tracks that have influenced the new Horrors album

(And just the Spotify link: http://open.spotify.com/user/misterluke/playlist/0lGe9G1dQelbAJeiXOZkC6)

And a playlist on snow.

And another one on giving stuff up for Lent.

The Quietus one on acts Kraftwerk influenced is v good too:

http://open.spotify.com/user/misterluke/playlist/0dFqQRXMz98EvVAlDkCxAz

I forgot that one.

Their actual collection of Kraftwerk songs is only fair to middling.

I'm making an 80s hip hop list, any suggestions?

http://open.spotify.com/user/nstewart/playlist/6Pn6wgF6uDFPzsiz4x50x2

80s hip hop is a pretty big list to choose from possibly?

But what about Cash, Money Marvellous 'The Mighty Hard Rocker', Eric B and Rakim 'Juice (Know The Ledge)', BDP 'The Bridge Is Over', Beastie Boys 'Slow and Low', Public Enemy 'You Gonna Get Yours', LL Cool J 'Rock The Bells', KRS One 'My Philosophy'.

Here's a small article and Spotify playlist on Marxist funk versus Thatcherite pop.

lol i want a invite, marlonks at gmail dot com

ages ago I tried compiling a Dance equivalent of this:

Brit Box UK Indie
The Brit Box UK Indie Box Set...

with 4 discs (hiphop+ragga, breakbeat+jungle, techno+trance and house+garage the sections) roughly covering the '88-'98 period

but only half of what i had in mind is on spotify (e.g. no voodoo ray ffs) so have just made up the numbers with stuff i found by some (relatively) big/important names (blame most of any glaring omissions on spotify)

here

Grab-bag catch-all nu-balearic playlist: Meanderthals, Hatchback, Mountain of One, Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve remixes. You know the drill.

spotify:user:smarmy:playlist:4Bayb9wm4Z940gdFoZKeKr

who added the "music for dreams" tracks to the ilx playlist? love that label so much.

ILX Funk playlist. Please feel free to add
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/79tiumovObNXLsJMy6fzJm

UK Top 40 17/10/92 missing only 6 tracks (inc. Bizarre Inc annoyingly)
http://open.spotify.com/user/stevem78/playlist/5LrD1t5BJRwoNICh4wfSqx

who added the "music for dreams" tracks to the ilx playlist? love that label so much.

me btw :)

yeah, saved this one

love that Tomaga track

My end of year compilation:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7CqBCjtiGUYlUU8cwygz73

okay, i've been sadly deficient in weaning myself off this service. what can i say, i've been outrageously busy and in any case it's my ONLY subscription. so let me hang onto it just a little longer as i show you my follow-up to my 2023 playlist brownies: it's called brownies, vol. 2. more brown, sepia, monochrome covers and moody deep cuts / demos / unreleased tracks from Spirit, Traffic, Dylan, Dino Valente, Stones, and others

Here's a playlist of Dangdut House, Indonesian pop house songs from 1992 to 2012 : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wYNuv7A2XQR7iJqOM217y?si=697871ea615b4f9c">=https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wYNuv7A2XQR7iJqOM217y?si=697871ea615b4f9c

oh nice, thanks for this

I don't know all that much about this kind of stuff, but, along with things like Filipino "Budots", I'm interested in these sorts of localised dance genres. I wonder if there's any value in a thread about it

Yes it'd be great to have a SE Asia thread to track all these genres and subgenres. Funkot is very popular in Indonesia but most of it isn't released officially, you have to go to Telegram channels to get new tracks.

would anyone else be interested in a collaborative ilm spotify playlist? Just whatever tracks people want to add, any genre, old or new, obscure or well known. People could add stuff exquisite corpse style, without checking what the most recently added track on the playlist is, so you would have a semi-random collection of tracks.

Yes! What's the worst that could happen?

I started a playlist anyway, if any ilm posters or lurkers feel like adding something please go ahead. (I think it's set up so anyone can add stuff?)

where is the link to the playlist?

maybe start a new thread?

my first addition will be this track released in 1990 (when I was 20), a dreamy hazy house track by L.U.P.O. titled Hell or Heaven

John Peel played it back in 1990.

I hadn't listened to this in years, until Moxie played it last week on her weekly NTS show.

L.U.P.O. - Hell or Heaven - Extended Mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/23bdxjn3LBWFUNdct3BFqe?si=bkm8OzkJSHOL-tZrWxncZA

sorry, I thought I'd added the link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1fkeVQ5cHR2DDmS4uWZPdG

I like the L.U.P.O. track

the playlist is set to public, however it doesn't seem to be set up as a collaborative playlist.

does this work?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1fkeVQ5cHR2DDmS4uWZPdG?si=cd89837df4c442e2&pt=4fa7e56be72a9481808f1bdc48b5ed70

yes, it's working now, added my first track.

thanks.

Made a playlist of Japanese 90s music: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4FDiPcdZLFqMD24MvRrig6?si=855c898940b24666
And also one of 00s Swedish tracks: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1lb9vkqSiLE79WY2g6x1KM?si=8d81d506602b42f1

Before I leave Spotify, I've decided to start turning some of the rolling mood playlists I've been compiling since the pandemic into extended mixes.

The S.M.O.G. playlist I posted way upthread is the first of them. Think of it as the soundtrack to a smoky lounge bar at 3AM. Surreal dubbed-out noir, equal parts David Lynch and Andrew Weatherall...

https://www.mixcloud.com/charliestoic/smog-smoky-noir-for-your-3am-lynch-brain/

Is there/can we have an Apple Music version of this thread?

That would be great.

Your Apple playlists, show me them

Winter is here. Note the changing weather, celebrate the holidays, fall into a depression, then pull out and cozy up by the fire with my winter mix.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/70wPMc4dGS2udzZAsgB8rw?si=d458f40f775b45e7

th

lol i meant ty

the doobie bounce

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2S9q6LCRoYoUHATT00BxFU?si=KoqXEn8RQvOpOUJJm9fSJQ

Well done! I don't recall Robbie Dupree, but he looks and sounds like the exact median between McDonald and Loggins. Surprised I never noticed the Pointer Sisters and H&O similarities.

it sounds like the Dave Raynor song (and the entire album) was transferred to digital directly from a vinyl record, you can hear the record crackle at the end

missing these, which apparently aren't on spotify

Dick St. Nicklaus - Bye Bye Baby
Joe English - Midnight Angel Choir
Marty Butler - I'll Cry Like a Man in Love

I made a 2025 playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/35dG81vV31Vp1KRxeURRSX?si=ef11445e360d4a91