# Your strangest playlists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053 "2012-01-19T19:20:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/1 "2012-01-19T19:20:22Z")
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. What have you got? ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/2 "2012-01-19T20:09:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/3 "2012-01-19T20:38:32Z")
I have a playlist that consists entirely of 12-bar AAB-format blues. And one named by a phrase a friend used, “Songs that teach us to count”. All have a countdown somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/4 "2012-01-19T21:04:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/5 "2012-01-19T21:08:20Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:4, topic:610053”] **jsc1953** , I have one containing only songs with drum solos. So far, it’s a pretty short list. [/QUOTE] Well, once you’ve played In A Gadda Da Vida you’re pretty much done. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/6 "2012-01-19T21:10:49Z")
I’ve got one entitled “Obscure”, which consists of: Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade Sons of the Pioneers – Cool Water Soviet National Anthem Ramayana Monkey Chant ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/7 "2012-01-19T21:42:39Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:4, topic:610053”] I’d like to know what’s on a few of those lists! [/QUOTE] Which ones? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/8 "2012-01-19T22:04:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/9 "2012-01-19T23:53:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/10 "2012-01-20T05:07:47Z")
Wow, **Kestrel**. That’s cool. (And “just a l’il chick”? I see what you did there ;)) ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/11 "2012-01-20T05:11:23Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > 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. I hope you didn’t acquire too many favorite songs through the years… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/12 "2012-01-20T05:16:36Z")
I have a list of songs of people saying they’re not in love with each other, when they obviously are, e.g. _People Will Say We’re in Love._ ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/13 "2012-01-20T05:21:57Z")
I have a “Montage!” playlist that consists mostly of songs used in movie training montages or similar scenes. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/14 "2012-01-20T06:28:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/15 "2012-01-20T23:09:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/16 "2012-01-20T23:32:32Z")
The “All ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ Playlist.” (About four hours of covers.) ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/17 "2012-01-21T16:04:01Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > 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. Did you build that by hand, or did you meta-tag the songs to show what films they’ve appeared in? ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/18 "2012-01-21T18:04:32Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/19 "2012-01-21T19:35:12Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:17, topic:610053”] Did you build that by hand, or did you meta-tag the songs to show what films they’ve appeared in? [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053/20 "2012-01-21T20:21:02Z")
I have playlists for different types of monsters (werewolf songs, vampire ones, zombies, etc). I’ve also managed to accumulate quite a few songs about or referencing math, so I compiled them into a playlist too. Yeah, I am a dorky loser. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-strangest-playlists/610053.md?page=2)