My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

Melody Maker Critics' Poll - 1988 Singles.

Only a 50% success rate on this selection, but it captures the essence.

Spotify playlists to replace the mixtape?

The mix-what now?

(All but a few missing tracks of) some dude's double-disc SD mix from You Got De Steely Dan Mixtape

Personal top 40 Pet Shop Boys b-sides and album tracks not really including remixes except where it does

Pitchfork Top 100 2008

ILM Top 100 Tracks of the 70s (includes a few inferior alternative versions of songs inc. 'More More More' because the originals aren't there, and a couple of replacements for songs not on there at all) - and sorry it's ordered topdown

Really good. I've now become a Spotify subscriber - more out of a sense that I support what they're doing and hope they fully succeed, more than finding the adverts irritating.

yeah i'm subscribing too now. gotta support the good service.

having said that it's just stopped scrobbling for some reason...

As I moaned on the other thread: hasn't scrobbled properly for me (or a shitload of other Mac users) for two weeks now; despite a lengthy thread on Get Satisfaction in which a Spotify chap promised us they'd worked out what the problem was, we're still waiting on the upgrade. Given that it was an (unwanted/un-asked-for/forced-upon-us) upgrade that fucked it in the first place, I've kind of gone off it a bit.

Yeh, I know, wau wau wau, whining about a service that gives me free music, etc ... ach, see the other thread for my semi-feeble justification.

New ILM Spring collabo playlist.

Really busy at the mo' but thought I'd throw this out... feel free to add to it any music that 18 month old twins might like.

They usually get played Woody & Leadbelly, trad R&R, doo-wop (especially!), and the boy gets terribly excited jumping up and down to that Come on "Baby, Let's Go Down Town" song on Tonight's the Night!

Toddlermusik-Bend My Children's Minds

Useless thing.. let me try this again:

Toddlermusik-Bend My Children's Minds

New ILM Spring collabo playlist.

woah that Phil Collins track is v Phoenixy - nice

It's a great summer track! There's a good dubby Idjut Boys re-edit of it too.

I'm happy the playlist has taken off.

sorry i just swamped it with new singles released this month, most of which i hadn't yet heard (deleted a couple of the real stinkers already)

The single swamping is useful to me!

Check out the Florence and the Machine version of "You Got the Love" and VV Brown version of "This Charming Man". They are both fucking awful. VV Brown also does a 15 minute reading from Marian Keyes novel "This Charming Man" wtf?

haha weird I saw that yesterday (the VV Brown) completely coincidentally.

I can't get onto the ILM collab list until this evening, but please to be adding "Many-Coloured, Semi-Precious Plastic Easter Eggs" by Peter Sarstedt?

Okay.

(Scrobbling now working on mac for me since yesterday evening)

Properly or just intermittently? I could get it to work occasionally but it'd usually die again halfway through an album.

Today I need to TOIL HARD and NOT LISTEN TO MUSIC, though.

I couldn't find the "A Life Less Lived" Rhino gothic compilation on Spotify so I made one, almost.

Disk 1 - everything except Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
http://open.spotify.com/user/onimo/playlist/1R6GkIKBOho5hYyuJQCpt1
or spotify:user:onimo:playlist:1R6GkIKBOho5hYyuJQCpt1

Disk 2 - no Creatures, Death Cult, Danse Society, Rose of Avalanche, Cranes,
http://open.spotify.com/user/onimo/playlist/5AsKuz3N59DjI5CQKkfEbG
or spotify:user:onimo:playlist:5AsKuz3N59DjI5CQKkfEbG

Disk 3 - no Damned or London After Midnight and I had to use a live version of the AFI track
http://open.spotify.com/user/onimo/playlist/18vMg0o0zIVdvo6M4vLMMd
or spotify:user:onimo:playlist:18vMg0o0zIVdvo6M4vLMMd

All three in one playlist:
http://open.spotify.com/user/onimo/playlist/018YeTv8b3L9pHSAhZls4X
or spotify:user:onimo:playlist:018YeTv8b3L9pHSAhZls4X

We put up some spotify mixes on the Quietus recently including one on the influences on 'Primary Colours' by The Horrors.

18 tracks that have influenced the new Horrors album

(And just the Spotify link: http://open.spotify.com/user/misterluke/playlist/0lGe9G1dQelbAJeiXOZkC6)

And a playlist on snow.

And another one on giving stuff up for Lent.

The Quietus one on acts Kraftwerk influenced is v good too:

http://open.spotify.com/user/misterluke/playlist/0dFqQRXMz98EvVAlDkCxAz

I forgot that one.

Their actual collection of Kraftwerk songs is only fair to middling.

I'm making an 80s hip hop list, any suggestions?

http://open.spotify.com/user/nstewart/playlist/6Pn6wgF6uDFPzsiz4x50x2

80s hip hop is a pretty big list to choose from possibly?

But what about Cash, Money Marvellous 'The Mighty Hard Rocker', Eric B and Rakim 'Juice (Know The Ledge)', BDP 'The Bridge Is Over', Beastie Boys 'Slow and Low', Public Enemy 'You Gonna Get Yours', LL Cool J 'Rock The Bells', KRS One 'My Philosophy'.

Here's a small article and Spotify playlist on Marxist funk versus Thatcherite pop.

lol i want a invite, marlonks at gmail dot com

ages ago I tried compiling a Dance equivalent of this:

Brit Box UK Indie
The Brit Box UK Indie Box Set...

with 4 discs (hiphop+ragga, breakbeat+jungle, techno+trance and house+garage the sections) roughly covering the '88-'98 period

but only half of what i had in mind is on spotify (e.g. no voodoo ray ffs) so have just made up the numbers with stuff i found by some (relatively) big/important names (blame most of any glaring omissions on spotify)

here

Grab-bag catch-all nu-balearic playlist: Meanderthals, Hatchback, Mountain of One, Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve remixes. You know the drill.

spotify:user:smarmy:playlist:4Bayb9wm4Z940gdFoZKeKr

who added the "music for dreams" tracks to the ilx playlist? love that label so much.

ILX Funk playlist. Please feel free to add
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/79tiumovObNXLsJMy6fzJm

UK Top 40 17/10/92 missing only 6 tracks (inc. Bizarre Inc annoyingly)
http://open.spotify.com/user/stevem78/playlist/5LrD1t5BJRwoNICh4wfSqx

who added the "music for dreams" tracks to the ilx playlist? love that label so much.

me btw :)

The UK Top 40 from exactly 25 years ago (w/e June 16 1984), missing only 4 tracks.
(Unfortunately, "Two Tribes" is one of them, and that was at #1.)

http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/3cxNDgBwNLfB2VCqw3DSUr

Aaaargh, who fecking Rick Rolled my entire playlist?!?!

The UK Top 40, week ending 16th June 1979. 31 tracks found.
http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/1PG6MrhTeO6taEA0t5pcmM

My favourite hits of the 2000s, month-by-month. Strictly one track per month, which must have gone Top 10 in the UK.
http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/40TmMug2MnrMaBAAQ1tZ9R

http://open.spotify.com/user/passwordstrength/playlist/4Epvo6hTxIDkO3kOILeQFe

bunch of tracks that have been sampled in rap or r'n'b songs. Yes, I'm bored.

tracklisting:

http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv105/NAPOLEONROFL/tracklist.jpg

lol, use your super eyes to read that.

http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv105/NAPOLEONROFL/tracklist-1.jpg

guys, is there a ILX Summer 2009 list out yet? Please? Somebody?

Playlist for a sticky July evening: http://is.gd/1wdo1

ILM Summer/Autumn 2009

nice, thanks aqua teen cunga force. Fill em up people

I've added the whole section from Larry Heard to Mulatu Astatke, hopefully in a logical/listenable sequence.

Thanks for these above.

Here is a straight down the line, MOR radio tune one with some feel good additions from Nate Dogg and Level 42.

The feature on kicking nihilism into touch with the aid of 'Baker Street'.

And just the Spotify list.

A poncily titled 80s nostalgia playlist. Suggestions welcome.

http://open.spotify.com/user/ledge/playlist/5bGrh0kNX9P6F9BgOW2agY

Some recent Quietus playlists:

A Ze Records Sampler

A Molecular Photography Themed List Of Tunes

Some stand out tunes by Green Man bands

I love this playlist - eclectic as hell, but ably sequenced and gem-revealing - from the bloke who blogs as Yer Mam:

http://open.spotify.com/user/yer_mam/playlist/4GaS3IyqPpLCN6OuDIBRlx

Saint Etienne's summer playlists:

Bob: http://open.spotify.com/user/bobshukman/playlist/1k8JVw9W5cnqcGx0wMoJv8
Pete: http://open.spotify.com/user/petewiggs/playlist/2lKMbfKaabLp0MyyTiWMil
Sarah: http://open.spotify.com/user/sarahetienne/playlist/7n7ddCPtS1ZrdoyFx9hGQF

this is the year i gave up and became a spotify user. part of me doesn't feel good about it. the other part is elated to be able to make playlists like this one, which recreates the radio station my high school besties and i used to listen to. to me it evokes a time of waiting for a song i liked to come on so i could tape it, of sitting in my room for hours on end and calling in to win free tapes and CDs as much as humanly possible.

we all participated in making it and frankly it's one of the highlights of my truly abysmal year. a micro-highlight was one day when i remembered the lyric "I'll cross that bridge when I get to it" and googled until i found out what the song was, after 30+ years. i truly dislike many of these songs but it effectively recreates the experience of listening to the station and that brings me joy.
https://bit.ly/3NDv1IK

the station was operated by the local public school district but behaved more like a college station and drew from those charts. our playlist represents the time we listened to it, roughly 88-93. back in the last century lol.

i love this post -- can't wait to listen

Loving La Lechera's list. Pure nostalgia

Glad you’re enjoying! It’s so evocative for me that I choose when to listen to it strategically. I love that I have the same zing feeling when a song i like comes on.

They used to have “mini concerts” aka blocks of songs by one artist and I lived for the day they did the Replacements one. When I hear Sixteen Blue in this context, alongside a random assortment of songs I heard contemporaneously, I can hear it through the ears of young me again. It’s a delight!

Can't really follow that, but here's as far as I got with playlists on Spotify, which I've long neglected in favor of Bandcamp and free version of YouTube Music: Beatles songs about Relationships and other relationships, though don't remember why "Blackbird" is in here--guess it's another milestone moment, like "Blue Jay Way." (Does NOT Incl. "The Long and Winding Road")
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2tDdze0ZilOW2Mr9zb1fht

I’ve been doing a dive into old country lately, so I whipped up this playlist of my favorite songs turning 75 in 2024.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4i4ie6qNnwU8j4U3Ir0sgG?si=YbNh197WTxubNhQooonHYA&pi=u-VvXljh_CReC0

some brasil tunes I like a lot
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1WFfO5nty18uTotnOR5TWl?si=ceda1e8fc84245c9

oh thanks! loads I haven't heard on there so if it's alright, I'm going to steal em and add them to my own Brazil playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/78UU2EHqZA6rAbqR7XYxyK?si=95c11bad89544f9d

rock on!

I'll check out your picks too B-)

I'm not sure how to describe the vibe of this playlist, but it is a vibe. I guess slightly quirky 90s alt-pop that doesn't really fit into a neat category? Any further suggestions welcome

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hBidqirYYlWzLx0FhoNil?si=df24f2b6a6614630

not mine but this a.s.o. playlist is extremely on brand, if you're into their 90s vibe (triphoppy drums, William Orbit space) you might find some tunes here

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0IQt4CZQx9TtmgevFU3rBK

Buncha pop sounds from the turn of the 80s that may not have seemed similar at the time, but suddenly felt very similar to me this weekend. Commonalties? Crisp production, bass forward for the time, coked up tempos?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6zrO912FhbLtNwNvRbBjIH?si=876e19d0d35042e1