My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

"I get a kind of shuffle-fatigue from it"

i get ear-fatigue. and sonic claustrophobia. i can only take an hour or two max of spotify. which is also what happened to me with digital radio years ago. but doesn't happen to me with youtube for some reason. maybe the wildly different sound sources of youtube have something to do with that. i have no idea.

karl's story is wild and i like it and taps into something i think about a lot

" maybe the wildly different sound sources of youtube have something to do with that. i have no idea"

I suspect it's something to do with this, plus the use of YouTube is so much more, I don't know, kinetic (by degrees, of course). There's something too seamless about Spotify, something that encourages the kind of claustrophobia you mention.

I like Karl's story, and kind of wish I was there. My more suburban, middle-class version of that is how dinner parties (not as poncey as that sounds, hopefully) and how playlist curation has become something like a parlour game, where the selecting of the song is everything, and where the listening comes a distant second.

how playlist curation has become something like a parlour game, where the selecting of the song is everything, and where the listening comes a distant second.

sadly otm and I'm very much part of this myself, wish I could just let it go like Karl in that story

rather than carefully constructing playlists, I like to take the approach of designing my own personal radio station. I like to have very large playlists filled with a lot of full albums. I'm pretty liberal about throwing stuff that seems interesting onto a playlist, rather than trying to find the perfect song or set of songs. This allows me to throw a playlist on shuffle and be constantly surprised by what comes up. If there are things I notice I'm consistently skipping, I remove them.

i listened to the best Paradise Garage playlist last night. had the best stuff on it. all the garage favorites and lesser-known Levan nuggets. of course after an hour or so i just listened to the first 5 or 10 seconds of about 50 tracks. but even that was fun. freebasing basslines.

I just keep a list of 2194 songs that I like and play it on random all the time.

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gets it

yeah, but you aren't going to have 700 garage-era dance tracks on there. sometimes i'm in the mood. and i only listen while playing R:DM for PS4 anyway.

DJs or clubs as a focus for spotify playlists are the best

Optimo 250: https://open.spotify.com/user/alex_tea/playlist/1Qrvz1kdf2VJUO0Wjt6ROw

Am I correct that one can make playlists available online in the 'my music' section if it's for iphone/ipad, but for the desktop app you need to make a playlist of the album and then make said playlist available offline? :-/

sorry wrong thread

really the answer is just to listen to new music. sounds cool. new rap especially. its made for it. i forget that sometimes. i don't listen to a ton of new music but listening to a new rap playlist on spotify is totally addictive. plus, now i am a big kodak black fan.

This isn't mine, but dayum it's good: all the originals of songs covered by This Mortal Coil: https://open.spotify.com/user/p.mitchell2/playlist/7rpK9fGA7IhVtxwvZSDJBg

I've spent the last year or so somewhat systematically going through the discographies of loads and loads of bands, including some genres I hadn't previously felt too knowledgable about. Album by album, artist by artist, decade by decade I slowly deleted all filler tracks and/or songs I just didn't like. II created a library of folders and broke them up by decade, genre, and artist. When Spotify allowed you to shuffle folders this made for a bunch of great radio-like playlists. The all-genres decade playlists I thought were especially great because they jumped around so much they felt like the radio but were more interesting than your typical algorithm-generated Pandora station. And, to my ears, the flow was strong because it was just curated enough as to be better than mere discography dumps. No sax solos, no skits, no weird studio outtakes or rando live bonus tracks.

Then Spotify killed the folder functionality which ruined the ease of my system. But lemons, lemonade: I made giant playlists so I could still shuffle, which means they are now shareable. Here are the first three:

1960s
1970s
1980s

These are all massive playlists - 3,000-4,000 songs. And they'll continue to grow. There are probably some glaring omissions in each (either due to my dislike or I just haven't gotten through them yet). But as they are I think they're still a nice "radio" alternative if you're so inclined. I'll share the later decades once I've finished making them.

Looking forward to checking these out.

You can still shuffle folders from the desktop app. I start up my big folder on desktop then switch to phone. A bit of a pain, but works.

Yeah but I only use desktop at work, unfortunately. So that won't work for home/commute.

I made this for summer get togethers. Hit shuffle and have fun for four hours.

A Summer Cook-Out Playlist For Grown-Ass People

count me in

it's a good playlist

I enjoyed that, ty

Thanks y'all

I was gonna make a freaks & geeks playlist but there was already one (many, actually) so this is not mine but all the same very enjoyable
https://open.spotify.com/user/yoongym/playlist/50UHZcO2MbfwBCtDo4iGq9

must be a matter of time before a wealth of great compilations (like those Rhino Power Pop for instance) turn up as playlists

ministry of sound sued spotify over playlists that mimicked their comps and settled out of court.. so unless the label themselves make the playlist i'd expect you won't see them

really? wonder if my playlist would get removed if I did one featuring all the available tracks from the Have a Nice Day 70s compilations...

depends on how many followers it gets i'd imagine :)

Ministry of Sound sued and won? That's ridiculous.

it didn't go to court but presumably spotify paid them something in the settlement

but does that mean you can own the idea of a playlist and its contents? that is kiiiinda weird

I know a lot of work went into constructing compilations, but, well, not anymore! Also I'd imagine labels and artist still get payed if "copycat" playlists are played, but perhaps ministry of sound didn't own the tracks they were distributing outside of that specific compilation context?

This almost goes back to that crazy argument mattresslessness tried to put make, that ILXors have no right to pillage ILX lists for Spotify use.

Are you cool with forks making Spotify playlists out of every rolling thread without permission?

I mean, Capitol doesn't have the Beatles VI on Spotify. Could someone really raise a fuss if I put all those songs together in order so I could hear one of their best American albums?

yes! particularly if you call it "Beatles IV"!

uh i mean VI

But -- I'm not selling or profiting from it? I'm not taking away any profits from it? The songs are all there, just not in that particular order?

I mean, sure I couldn't use the album cover for copyright reasons, but ... really?

Beatles VI
https://open.spotify.com/user/gojiramonk888/playlist/7tMN4K6z4vF0PoGLFUNQvo
https://open.spotify.com/user/mrotch1212/playlist/67s74xUxPLgEoaEhmtUZIq

omg, they're gonna get sued by Michael Jackson.

here's an enjoyable listen
https://open.spotify.com/user/12126891385/playlist/2E8LN1v4QTt0hepoGjr40z

Here's a playlist of music that makes me think of the countryside: https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/0tVX7rtZTnnT2dDucnaYez

my favorites of 2017, 36 out of the 40 records were on Spotify :O

https://open.spotify.com/user/sb0ut0n/playlist/5MkJJjhjUNuXLcXZpegLGW

lots of overlap this year we have similar taste :P

<3 for reals

you gotta hear that Eyvind Kang record!

oh i know it's way on top of my list i just don't know where to find it

Forced Exposure has vinyl I think but if u PM me I can send you my FLAC rip fwiw

Thanks for the list!

I would like a playlist of 70s female singer songwriters that focuses on folkier guitar/piano pop. with like judee sill and sandy denny etc. fo then I would be set.

Still my favourite Xmas playlist, originally compiled by jody beth rosen (can't remember why I had to clone it) and choral all the way: https://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/5BFCmB4m1IqIsEFYn4S1hr

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How about this? Loosely based on the compilation of the same name. https://open.spotify.com/user/seamusr/playlist/2UGKGoveaDiMGrkmXfmZMG

Yes exactly! seems like you can't just Google them! perfect, thanks for the xmas present!

My favourite tracks of 2017: https://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/1LYI9zMam9L776nHZkSour

my party playlist, might come in handy 2nite:
https://open.spotify.com/user/betamaxdk/playlist/6LVMYa1ulHlEpQ8mxf0Yny
(has a few Danish tracks)