For those of you using computers and mobile devices to store and listen to music, what are some of the most unusual or interesting playlists you’ve built? I’m not talking about the music itself, but the combination.
As an example, I enjoy orchestral rock music, which includes a lot of metal. When I’m in the orchestral rock mood, I generally don’t want to hear death growl (a.k.a. “cookie monster vocals” or CMV), so I’ve tagged all songs in my library that have CMV and built a list that involves everything from Norwegian Death Metal to Electric Light Orchestra to Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
I also have a list that blends rock, blues, jazz, pop, neo-medieval folk, and other genres, but only includes female vocalists.
A third includes only songs whose lyrics tell a story, but spans all genres and styles.
These are the names of my compilation playlists (only the interesting named ones) besides the normal ones like Jazz, Classical, Funk, Latin, Latin Jazz, etc and ones under the artist/band names.
[spoiler] - Fav 1
Fav 2
Fav 3
Karaoke Songs
Sing Alongs
A Acid Yellow Sky 1
A Azure Days 1
A Bitch
a Cinematic
a circus
A Crimson Sky
A Defiant Sunset
A Down
A every junkie’s like setting sun 1
A Flight
a fluid
a folky-poigny
a fork on the road
a frankly
A French Movie songs
A fresh & oblivious
A fuck it all
A Fuck You 2
A Fuckin Bastards 2
A Goin to Rio 2
A Goodie Too Shoes Party
A Guitarheads
A Heavenly Day
A hope is
A Last Day on Earth 1
A life unny 1
A meant 4 u
A Morning bright clear
A Morning frankly
A morning quiet
A on the day of my funeral
A pathetic & depressing
A Pissin in the Rain
a punk anthem london
a punk pop theatric
a quarantined
A Rainy Night House
A Searching for a heart
A Songs of Hope
a sunset
a Today… 1
a Today… 2
A Vicious Day
A Watch Tower
A Women Songs
a Yippy Summer days [/spoiler]
They all have “- A” in the front so they stay up high above other playlists.
I also have about 30+ classical playlists, besides the ones under the individual composer’s names, that are separated with the similar mood tunes.
Many are my work-in-progress playlists as some of them don’t have any music in them yet and/or I haven’t found enough appropriate tunes yet or haven’t got around to sort them out yet to be completed playlists. Many of them only have a few songs as of yet. Whenever I come across certain music that seems to go with the particular name/mood of the playlists, I put those tunes in the proper playlists so I can listen only the music that goes with the particular/peculiar mood at the moment without shattering my mood. I have tons of CDs yet to DL and go through to pick out tunes but I do it as I listen to them. No hurry.
Nice! brittekland, I’d like to know what’s on a few of those lists! I’m working on more mood-based lists, but having a hard time defining the moods properly. jsc1953, I have one containing only songs with drum solos. So far, it’s a pretty short list.
I’ve got one that has 19 different versions of the Duke Ellington song “Caravan.” I started out with about a half dozen that I already owned, then bought a bunch more one evening when I had a $15 gift card to burn. Lots of jazz, obviously, but a wide variety of styles and tempos.
I have a playlist to use when I’m on my deathbed that will go backward in time through all my favorite songs. The last song will be “Downtown” by Petula Clark, a song my dad used to sing back when I was just a l’il chick.
The closest I have to a playlist is ~280 YouTube clips in my Favorites.
Genres include:
Jazz
Latin
Blues
Southern Rock
Funk
Classical
Easy Listening
Country
50’s Hits
Random Rock from other decades
TV Show themes
football clips
movie clips
Now and then I’ll shuffle and turn on autoplay. I’ve tampered with Pandora but prefer YouTube.
I also have an “Electroindustrialhipopacalypse” playlist that mostly consists of hip hop, industrial, nu-metal, and electronica tunes that have appeared on 90s and 00 post appocalyptic cyberpunk films like The Matrix, Underworld, Blade and Resident Evil films. Lots of Rage Against the Machine, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Wu-Tang Clan, Rza, Paul Oakenfold, Daft Punk and so on.
I noticed quite a few NYC songs in my iTunes library and created a playlist…
Easter Parade – Bing Crosby
Take the “A” Train – Duke Ellington
Spanish Harlem – Ben E. King
Autumn in New York – Charlie Parker
New York, New York – Frank Sinatra
Positively Fourth Street – Bob Dylan
Chelsea Morning – Joni Mitchell
I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City – Harry Nilsson
Brooklyn Meditation – Circuit Tree
New York State of Mind – Billy Joel
I and Love and You – The Avett Brothers
Sweeter Than the Rest – Joan Osborne
Roller Coaster Town – Garland Jeffreys
Did you build that by hand, or did you meta-tag the songs to show what films they’ve appeared in?
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I have sort of a complex process for cataloging and organizing and buikding playlists. Its a combination of meta tags, genres, smart playlists hand selected songs and genius automixes.
Its not so much about having come from movies soundtracks as it is creating a similar postapocalyptic musical landscape. The soundtrack albums would be a starting point.
