My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

AN HOUR AGO.

Missed the EOY noms thread because I'm a doofus, so here are my Top 50 songs of 2019:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aSKZfPotvtcQPB7cthGbm?si=Z5XR91tmSHuTsjy1xiSZcw

And here is my Top 100 tracks of the 2010s
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0KVncdt2Pzxv6fjl43AnrU?si=FY2BhYB9TaCcOvwlToJ6OQ

nice selection!

excellent

I helped put together a playlist for a work party that celebrates Black History Month:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1VETLZKxcZ78EMgFqtXXsC?si=cdAYBxiXRCO1zTPK4x8RSw

I made a pseudo-pan-African-pop/not-pop playlist for the rolling afro 2020 thread and lots of Afro-adjacent threads, generously defined - of course including the (South African) House of Sun-El and Amapiano threads. It’s already 108 tracks deep, so enjoy!

ILM rolling✳️all-inclusive✳️afro 2020

As a distraction from all this self-isolating I’ve started a mandala-like approach to making playlists. I made “A Playlist for Today” - roughly ten songs which I will delete and replace with roughly ten other songs every couple of days. First one is up and I’ll probably replace it with a new mix tomorrow:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cgWPbrz6uBPlN9g846TZG?si=6UkzMIoRRFKOck3_ZCAsUg

As of today the track list is:

1. Sam Cooke: Lost and Lookin’
2. Colleen: Push the Boat onto the Sand
3. Harry Belafonte: Jamaica Farewell
4. Palace: Gulf Shores
5. Daniel Lanois: Space Love
6. Delmore Brothers: Take Away this Lonesome Day
7. Tony Caro & John: Waltz for a Spaniel
8. Christopher Bissonnette: Color Deceives Continuously
9. Terry Callier: Cotton Eyed Joe
10. Les Paul & Mary Ford: Vaya Con Dios

So, one of my bars called 'Voodoo' has djs and live acts on the weekend, but we also have two revolving Spotify playlists + a huge, local files Itunes playlist. We use them on downtime and on weekdays. We use a 'day playlist' from 2pm - 7pm and a 'night playlist' from 7pm until 2am. I sometimes use theSE on house parties too, as they have a little bit of everything and work well as background music.

Voodoo Día: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/72IhufyFMawe4bClFQCy8F?si=eLi2RZ1jRgelI0_qyAx4Sg

Voodoo Noche: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dAQfoZGFwKQ6j6Npuiu8w?si=EH_xN9SzSni4hruBZ503_Q

I love Callier's "Cotton Eyed Joe" so much.

Called this 'Self Isolating Sounds' but it's mostly just a bunch of lesser heard classics from the 60s and 70s that I really really love

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0XSqYti3E2T4cT9s5ZnOBA?si=6U_520RfQJK5_janw9QdMA

This is a real nice list, having a mellow afternoon listening to it.

Lots of good stuff in that self-isolating playlist.

btw as promised I redid my "today" playlist - whole different batch of songs now.

As a distraction from all this self-isolating I’ve started a mandala-like approach to making playlists. I made “A Playlist for Today” - roughly ten songs which I will delete and replace with roughly ten other songs every couple of days. First one is up and I’ll probably replace it with a new mix tomorrow:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cgWPbrz6uBPlN9g846TZG?si=6UkzMIoRRFKOck3_ZCAsUg

Bumping to thank you for this and encourage others to listen – the latest iteration is a dreamy peach.

Dog latin I'm really enjoying your playlist, those Roches songs are something else

Thank you Alba! They're fun to make. I assume no one but me is listening to them but I enjoy the game of trying to make a succinct mix - and all the more gratifying to know that anyone else is listening and enjoying.

I've found myself replaying old CD-R compilations and adding them to Spotify, for example:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Is4SdGF7WSraCzcvdmJvg

awesome idea

I'm brand-new to spotify but one of the first things I did was to make a playlist featuring a song I remember from every year that I've been alive:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3PHnnD0zvVDNtVMNCVUehh
(See if you can pick out where I went through treatment for addiction!)

Also just as a side note, can I say how profoundly unimpressed I am with Spotify's trash-tier user interface? Is there really no way to reorder or remove songs I've added to my "Now Playing" queue? No way to add an entire album or playlist to the queue? This is incredibly basic functionality that Apple had 15 years ago on a piece of hardware with five buttons, and I can only assume Spotify have deliberately left it out to make their own curated playlists and fake 'radio' service more appealing.

in the desktop app you can drag sounds around the queue and add albums from the three dots button at the top, not playlists though.

sounds? songs.

same in the phone app too.

oh weird, I thought I had installed & was using the desktop app, but I guess there's an actual full-featured version of the app! (the one that installed when I first started using it is pretty clearly just a re-skinned Google Chrome pointing at the Web Player)

Wait - can you move songs around a queue on an Android?

yeah, drag the three lines on the right.

I've been making lots of playlist lately

90s one - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mlUE8D3kn3JYGr0MADDwj?si=22Cgti1cRsu1DMjipBxtiA

Jazz - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Azy2dnS7yKxziGZXrNJ4j?si=z9x7Xci6S9i5PAEYfMOf4A

Country music - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZGYc4pZzw1KL9XICyr0Yj?si=tB_aks9iSn6edmDyxkxTwQ

All sorts (laid back groovy stuff) -https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tBeCEz4sawjFQI8QQVl7v?si=kIwMNSFSR22WFDHcWZS_oQ

Gritty psychedelic stuff - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/571ejORog3nLqrYadDyEKD?si=9844iLfGTxeKbeNjj_KQEA

I haven't been very much active in the playlist making. This is the only new one I've made and the one I'm listening to the most:

Quarantine Summer Mix:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ekk8UJl2YvzAWphF4d0NS?si=onCZ_TrSQpa4Tt17oFNGlw

It's mostly deep house + hip house + downtempo and a dash of what I suppose could be considered indie pop. It's a 'chill' sort of playlist if you will, I guess it's the sort of music that generates me the less anxiety on this quarantine.

Yé-yé et Retro Chic
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7eMG6GtxYxF0XPPmnAahzc?si=HWy3FIYdTZ6lPJHdHemkbw

I've also been listening to this one a lot, mostly in the mornings. It was originally made for a friend back in 2016 who wanted some recommendations on a french yeye + retro chic sort of mood and it was set to private ever since. I guess it needs a bit of polish here and there but it's a fun listen.

Oh, I thought I'd posted this somewhere but perhaps I haven't. This was my attempt at a *now* mix:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/33aFZ6aGAcIdmheZOJ2HhB

Now with a 40-track playlist for each year dating back to 1965, like-sized playlists of charting R&B singles from 1970 through 1999, a changing two-hour playlist of (mostly) current stuff (plus a repository), and other foolywang (all with minimal overlap): https://open.spotify.com/user/avilyn. Tracklists with links: https://www.andykellman.com/

Thought this revival would be related to the recent passing of ILX0r Ρεμπετολογια and his gigantic playlists linked to upthread, such as https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mhT8G19F2INMMVit9jLiF?si=4vbVF6ukSd2bxPe-hBPfXQ

I've spent the last few months making a Best of 2019 playlist. Now finished at 207 tracks:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7hlCt0ivBqIhcgmeBcPGH5?si=PoRyQWYXTA-qtZViM5-xaA

Gratuitous mentions of bayous, deltas, grits, cajun women, etc; telecaster funk, clav country, buttrock soul, variety show rave ups, psychedelic rednecks, etc; has-beens keepin' on, revivalists fakin' it, etc.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4135h0uHLl7WxL6DdUrjJt?si=gCRRo5StRQKyg7ZQ9xg2Sw

I made a couple of playlists of original (or sometimes well-known but not quite earliest) versions of the Banshees' Through The Looking Glass and the Badseeds' Kicking Against The Pricks covers albums

Looking Glass Uncovered

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Q0RWSRmJqSV81cpEFjLlJ?si=WHGQAEvjRTyduSyegfHcwg

Pricks Kicking Back

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JY6PL3pyjxjlFgIfybUn3?si=UQtS3fipSlS-LHrX02RvmQ

Playlist for a book I should have ready in a couple of days on pop music in movies and on TV:

http://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YSyDx0UeswlzpJ6toynJA

These are from an appendix of 108 songs covered in the book--longer pieces at the front, shorter comments at the back. Found all but three or four of them. I'll put a link for the book on whatever thread seems most suitable in a few days.

For a couple of years my friends and I ran a post-disco / new wave alternative night called SCIENCE!, concentrating on music from 1978-1987. For obvious reasons, we can't really operate right now, but this is a definitive playlist of just some of the key tunes we used to play out - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4DXsWEXWDClZphG5dvO2j8?si=8FSUwht3RIKrxSjDOApWRA

andy put together this playlist he simply called "dreamy r+b." it's really long, but it spans from the early 70s to present stuff. no real theme, but the running order seems to go pretty smoothly. we've really been enjoying it all evening: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0LKvxyEogFlkre7hUZMAER?si=ssIqYjedQD6RignN0lHzQw

I just put this together with some of my faves from 2020 so far (plus a few holdovers from last year). It's all pop and R&B... I've probably talked most of them up on here already.

Did we ever do a round of sharing our Discover Weekly playlists? I'm curious to see some of other people

Mine is at:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXcVOWzC0px15m?si=ew7EPJ92TZeYRbjWngwwrw

made a cop-hating playlist a while back and it's not getting any less relevant to my interests anytime soon so

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3j5YowOpG2fXCEUFUjYHaC?si=53aVcSHNSgm5NOyO8yN2jw

Starting a playlist with covers I like. Maybe I'll keep it private until I have at least 50 in there.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Qj3sYxRNmyfoBgDeFtNlq?si=yVQattbgTGu4uzZ0kKkHjA

A Saturday/Sunday drinking compilation. Montgolfier Brothers, Tarwater, Insides, Butterfly Child, Hood. That kind of thing.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XuPn3KgkUxBpDFBDI4K88

Because of widespread things, wasn't able to get my summer solstice psych playlist together until equinox.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/139nwlxZpUsX3BdXo1CuMK?si=ENbkt6enT-iI1C5PRPH7cg

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XSR1hFe8bvSrjlQaG80f3

over six hours of disco with no thought put to how it flows and no specific thematic or musical through-line (other than "disco")

Two quite similar playlists of where my head is at when I want to chill out these days:

WARM NIGHTS - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ODDwMMpnatOm0LrKhJN8M?si=ZuGEyq2WS46qhRcmvL-H7w
(beachy, Balearic, white-collar, tropical vibes)

AUTUMN DRIVES - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0NEcp59HO7Pw5iodc9yPvQ?si=1fmE6kikRo2GsGON8I4AtQ
(more of the same, but for raking through leaves and meditating in the trunk of an old tree)

Oh, Autumn Drives is getting played later.

Great! I'm listening to it now. might make some tweaks but it all flows nicely together for now. I recommend listening to these sans shuffle fwiw

I’m sort of proud of this one, it manages to kinda sustain some kind of consistent smooth disco/AOR feel... inspiration was a tiny dark dive bar with red lighting I used to patronize. Behold.. “Nightmoves”:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MytQjcgYhuKbnJSt4vU9k?si=WB5VwR09Qr2XHMmSBryXkg

Thanks for sharing. WFH today and this has gone down very well this morning

cool, glad you like