Thank you, @Mean_Mr.Mustard for all your hard work in running these polls. I’ve always thought that there is just as much good music being made today as there has always been, and it’s interesting to see the consensus on what the new classics are.
Thanks for participating, @Eric_C (and everyone else).
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Just wanted to mention that I am slowly listening my way through the full list and am halfway through the Ks at this point. It’s interesting both to see what’s similar and what’s different about the selections and I’ve picked up a few new faves along the way as well.
So another thanks for doing this, man.
Nice! And you are welcome!
Care to share a few of the new-found favorites?
mmm
Well, I’m not going to list every song I’ve tagged for later repeat listening, but here are a couple I particularly enjoyed:
22 - Lily Allen
3 on E - Wulfpeck
A B - Rachel Flower
Black Tears - Imelda May, Jeff Beck
Bring My Flowers Now - Tanya Tucker
Caught Out In The Rain - Beth Hart
Darling Lorraine - Paul Simon
Donya - Grai
Down Home Girl - Old Crow Medicine Show
Dead Cowboy - Lightning Bolt (I don’t understand why I like this one, but I do. It’s grown on me.)
Eat The Acid - Kesha
Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska - John Prine
Fallin’ - Alicia Keys
Flyswatter - Eels
Get Older - Dan Deacon
Girl Crush - Little Big Town
Good To Be Alive (Hallelujah) - Andy Grammer
The Hanging Tree - Rachel Zegler
Hanuman - Rodrigo y Gabriela
Hash Pipe - Weezer
Heroes - Guy Clark
Hot Wax - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Hunt You Down - Kesha
Houmous - Igorrr
I Know - The Derek Trucks Band
I Need Never Get Old - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Idea/Intent - The Beths
In My Body - Panda Bear, Sonic Boom
jar of hearts - Christina Perri
Jardin d’hiver - Keren Ann
Jailhouse Fire - Laura Veirs
KARATE - Babymetal
Kill This Love - BLACKPINK
Kodiak - For Tracy Hyde
Lots of bluesy stuff, some headbanging material, assorted pop, a bit of jazz, and some genuinely weird shit.
I just grab whatever appeals to me as I hear it.
Nice to see a few of my contributions on your list:
And I am especially fond of:
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Currently listening to The Local Fuzz by The Atomic Bitchwax. Which appears to be 42 minutes long.
It’s nice enough, but I’m getting the impression this is one of those “much better when stoned” songs.
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Hehehe, as it later began to sink in that our benevolent-ish condiment overlord was assembling a Spotify playlist, it also sunk in that other people besides my wife were going to have a moment where they have to decide whether to listen to my preferences in music, or skip that nonsense.
I’d like to acknowledge that my tastes are kind of intense, as in my wife will say she doesn’t have a pick to offer, but will ask for the next record to not be as “intense” as the last two records I had put on. So I’d like to thank everyone that is listening to my picks from these threads.To the folks who have to skip them repeatedly, I don’t necessarily apologize, but hopefully you have more intersection with the tastes of others.
And now I’m going to go mellow out and groove to:
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and (it’s not one of my picks, but I loves it)
What I like is variety. I rarely want to listen to several songs in a row that are similar, let alone by the same artist; I want the frisson of one song being followed by something completely different.
So as long as I like the songs themselves, throwing these sorts of “noisy” songs into the mix is just the ticket.
(BTW - on the classical side, you might enjoy “Nautilus” by Anna Meredith. Starts out sounding like someone orchestrated a car alarm, and then builds in complexity.)
Hehehe, finally took the time to look this up and also watch her tiny desk concert. I’d say it’s like what Holst would have written If someone approached him to write a really good car alarm, and he was around in the 2010s. Lotsa doom in that composition.
And wow, love everything I’ve heard from them so far. Thanks for the heads up!
Just popping in two years later to note that, having listened to the full Spotify playlist intermittently, I have now finished all 141 hours and 37 minutes of music on it (well, sort of - the entry for “Yuve Yuve Yu” is actually a podcast talking about the song, not just the song itself, so I didn’t listen to that).
Can report that, as previously noted, there are lots of excellent songs included that I had never encountered before and a few I have snagged for my own playlist for repeat listening. Some of these, starting at the end of the list and excluding those that I already knew and had on my lists, include:
You - Dodie
YA NO TE EXTRANO - Natti Natasha (because frankly more pop songs should have tuba parts)
You Ruin Me - The Veronicas
You’re Our Relative - Otyken
YA YA - Beyonce
You, Me, Lonely - FIZZ
You’re So Fucking Pretty - The Regrettes
You Won’t Be Mine - Matchbox Twenty
Water Flowing Downward - Andrea von Kampen
World’s Smallest Violin - AJR
War - Idles
Whoopin’ Blues - Irvin Mayfield
Without Me - Eminem
USA I: Is A Monster - Dan Deacon
Unfair Weather Friend - Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard
un x100to - Grupo Frontera
Used To Be Young - Miley Cyrus
Top of the World - Kimbra
Teach You How To Sing The Blues - Motorhead
Take It Like A Woman - Alice Cooper
etc
etc
etc
Anyway - this was a fun exercise and I’m always keen to find new music and bands that may appeal. (But that’s not a request for another poll - god, no. We’re good here.)
And once more: thanks to mmm for hosting.
That is really cool. I was just thinking about those polls the other day.
How many songs on your playlist? Is it shareable?
mmm
Assuming I’ve done this link properly, my main playlist is here:
And it’s currently over 4000 songs. I’m a “hit shuffle and go” kind of guy.
Nice, thank you.
The first song I noticed was Ram Jam’s “Black Betty”. I was randomly singing that just yesterday.
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Heheh, I don’t do Spotify, but I was heartened that “Tank!” by Seatbelts was at the top of the list when I clicked on it.
Doesn’t qualify for 2000s, was released in 1998, but here’s a live version from much later:
