My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

DJs or clubs as a focus for spotify playlists are the best

Optimo 250: https://open.spotify.com/user/alex_tea/playlist/1Qrvz1kdf2VJUO0Wjt6ROw

Am I correct that one can make playlists available online in the 'my music' section if it's for iphone/ipad, but for the desktop app you need to make a playlist of the album and then make said playlist available offline? :-/

sorry wrong thread

really the answer is just to listen to new music. sounds cool. new rap especially. its made for it. i forget that sometimes. i don't listen to a ton of new music but listening to a new rap playlist on spotify is totally addictive. plus, now i am a big kodak black fan.

This isn't mine, but dayum it's good: all the originals of songs covered by This Mortal Coil: https://open.spotify.com/user/p.mitchell2/playlist/7rpK9fGA7IhVtxwvZSDJBg

I've spent the last year or so somewhat systematically going through the discographies of loads and loads of bands, including some genres I hadn't previously felt too knowledgable about. Album by album, artist by artist, decade by decade I slowly deleted all filler tracks and/or songs I just didn't like. II created a library of folders and broke them up by decade, genre, and artist. When Spotify allowed you to shuffle folders this made for a bunch of great radio-like playlists. The all-genres decade playlists I thought were especially great because they jumped around so much they felt like the radio but were more interesting than your typical algorithm-generated Pandora station. And, to my ears, the flow was strong because it was just curated enough as to be better than mere discography dumps. No sax solos, no skits, no weird studio outtakes or rando live bonus tracks.

Then Spotify killed the folder functionality which ruined the ease of my system. But lemons, lemonade: I made giant playlists so I could still shuffle, which means they are now shareable. Here are the first three:

1960s
1970s
1980s

These are all massive playlists - 3,000-4,000 songs. And they'll continue to grow. There are probably some glaring omissions in each (either due to my dislike or I just haven't gotten through them yet). But as they are I think they're still a nice "radio" alternative if you're so inclined. I'll share the later decades once I've finished making them.

Looking forward to checking these out.

You can still shuffle folders from the desktop app. I start up my big folder on desktop then switch to phone. A bit of a pain, but works.

Yeah but I only use desktop at work, unfortunately. So that won't work for home/commute.

I made this for summer get togethers. Hit shuffle and have fun for four hours.

A Summer Cook-Out Playlist For Grown-Ass People

count me in

it's a good playlist

I enjoyed that, ty

Thanks y'all

I was gonna make a freaks & geeks playlist but there was already one (many, actually) so this is not mine but all the same very enjoyable
https://open.spotify.com/user/yoongym/playlist/50UHZcO2MbfwBCtDo4iGq9

must be a matter of time before a wealth of great compilations (like those Rhino Power Pop for instance) turn up as playlists

ministry of sound sued spotify over playlists that mimicked their comps and settled out of court.. so unless the label themselves make the playlist i'd expect you won't see them

really? wonder if my playlist would get removed if I did one featuring all the available tracks from the Have a Nice Day 70s compilations...

depends on how many followers it gets i'd imagine :)

Ministry of Sound sued and won? That's ridiculous.

it didn't go to court but presumably spotify paid them something in the settlement

but does that mean you can own the idea of a playlist and its contents? that is kiiiinda weird

I know a lot of work went into constructing compilations, but, well, not anymore! Also I'd imagine labels and artist still get payed if "copycat" playlists are played, but perhaps ministry of sound didn't own the tracks they were distributing outside of that specific compilation context?

This almost goes back to that crazy argument mattresslessness tried to put make, that ILXors have no right to pillage ILX lists for Spotify use.

Are you cool with forks making Spotify playlists out of every rolling thread without permission?

I mean, Capitol doesn't have the Beatles VI on Spotify. Could someone really raise a fuss if I put all those songs together in order so I could hear one of their best American albums?

yes! particularly if you call it "Beatles IV"!

uh i mean VI

But -- I'm not selling or profiting from it? I'm not taking away any profits from it? The songs are all there, just not in that particular order?

I mean, sure I couldn't use the album cover for copyright reasons, but ... really?

Beatles VI
https://open.spotify.com/user/gojiramonk888/playlist/7tMN4K6z4vF0PoGLFUNQvo
https://open.spotify.com/user/mrotch1212/playlist/67s74xUxPLgEoaEhmtUZIq

omg, they're gonna get sued by Michael Jackson.

here's an enjoyable listen
https://open.spotify.com/user/12126891385/playlist/2E8LN1v4QTt0hepoGjr40z

Here's a playlist of music that makes me think of the countryside: https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/0tVX7rtZTnnT2dDucnaYez

my favorites of 2017, 36 out of the 40 records were on Spotify :O

https://open.spotify.com/user/sb0ut0n/playlist/5MkJJjhjUNuXLcXZpegLGW

lots of overlap this year we have similar taste :P

<3 for reals

you gotta hear that Eyvind Kang record!

oh i know it's way on top of my list i just don't know where to find it

Forced Exposure has vinyl I think but if u PM me I can send you my FLAC rip fwiw

Thanks for the list!

I would like a playlist of 70s female singer songwriters that focuses on folkier guitar/piano pop. with like judee sill and sandy denny etc. fo then I would be set.

Still my favourite Xmas playlist, originally compiled by jody beth rosen (can't remember why I had to clone it) and choral all the way: https://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/5BFCmB4m1IqIsEFYn4S1hr

xpost

How about this? Loosely based on the compilation of the same name. https://open.spotify.com/user/seamusr/playlist/2UGKGoveaDiMGrkmXfmZMG

Yes exactly! seems like you can't just Google them! perfect, thanks for the xmas present!

My favourite tracks of 2017: https://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/1LYI9zMam9L776nHZkSour

my party playlist, might come in handy 2nite:
https://open.spotify.com/user/betamaxdk/playlist/6LVMYa1ulHlEpQ8mxf0Yny
(has a few Danish tracks)

hard to describe the theme of this playlist - it's just a lot of great jams, mostly mellow stuff, quite a few tracks I came across on ILM or Discover, generally prioritizing deep cuts over singles:

https://open.spotify.com/user/betamaxdk/playlist/6eEq3MNEVSV8WNAsFaDtxM?si=b10ypyHESwuWkiEDhPTZIg

my brother's bandmate told him he wanted a boogie feel on a song and my brother was unfamilar with the genre so i made him a 4 hour playlist

by no means canonical or exhaustive

BOOGIE BANGERS

wow

The Perfect Beats - New York Electro Hip-Hop + Underground Dance Classics 1980 -
1985 - Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 were a series of comps that came out in 1998 and were hugely important to my musical education. I noticed they weren't on spotify but almost all of the tracks were, so I created a playlist:

The Perfect Beats - New York Electro Hip Hop + Underground Dance Classics / 1980-1985

I nicked the idea, and a few tracks, from Simon H's Downers playlist, and built my own, called Doldrums. Currently 450 tracks of misery and melancholy.

https://open.spotify.com/user/thepoacher/playlist/7AVEQapJJt3xeM95dru26P?si=tp_1pZ2XT9eeAENi9ShMww

I've got a similar list called "frails" where I keep track of the moody, morose and medieval. A lot of obscuro and folky tracks. Main criteria is that it must not rock.

https://open.spotify.com/user/bendybendy/playlist/0lTyO07Zl8C5KJlrG1JnIG?si=Y60_4rfSQX6DGiCBzlcVlA

not mine but v handy https://open.spotify.com/playlist/12Jt5G3hELAh1cEnN8qY7r
ego trip greates rap singles 79-98

I've got a similar list called "frails" where I keep track of the moody, morose and medieval. A lot of obscuro and folky tracks. Main criteria is that it must not rock.

https://open.spotify.com/user/bendybendy/playlist/0lTyO07Zl8C5KJlrG1JnIG?si=Y60_4rfSQX6DGiCBzlcVlA

― saddest kamancheh (bendy)

I like this one at quick glance. You do have many songs that do in fact rock in there.

Yeah there’s more rocking stuff that I recall, and now I’m trying to think about the way my conception of “frail” has changed over the four years of dumping tracks to that list.