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Want to help compile a playlist with totally random, awesome songs you like?

Asked by bob_ (21939points) August 2nd, 2021

Pop, rock, rap, country, classic, ranchera, oldies or new ones, hit us with the best you’ve got.

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elbanditoroso's avatar

No. I was talking with my daughter about this over the weekend.

A playlist means that you’re confining your listening to some finite number of songs – it may be a big number, but it’s still limited and it is frozen unless I add to it.

One of the great things about various sound services – Sirius-XM, spotify, even plain old FM radio – is that you have acces to the whole world of music, and it is constantly changing. New music arrives and it is played.

Using a playlist takes away serendipity and discovery. It locks you into a frozen set of music.

bob_'s avatar

@elbanditoroso Yeah, well, ok, don’t play with us, then.

janbb's avatar

“Truckin’” and “Sugar Magnolia “ by the Grateful Dead
“”I Could Drink a Case of You” by Joni Mitchell

tinyfaery's avatar

I just made a playlist. My favorites from it are Far From Me by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Youth by Daughter.

raum's avatar

Devil Bunnies – My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

@tinyfaery I love Youth by Daughter.

raum's avatar

Happy Boy – The Beat Farmers

chyna's avatar

Turn the Page -Bob Seger

janbb's avatar

Thunder Road by Springsteen

raum's avatar

It’s Delovely – Mabel Mercer

Zaku's avatar

Bizet
Carmen, Act I, Duo: “Parle-moi de ma mère!”

Wagner
Der Ring Das Niebelungen, Götterdämmerung – Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March

Basil Poledouris, Battle Of The Mounds

Dead Kennedys, California Über Alles, followed by We’ve Got A Bigger Problem Now

Suicidal Tendencies, Institutionalized

David Bowie, Lady Grinning Soul

Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit

Sia, Fire Meet Gasoline

Yelle, Safari Disco Club

Mojo Nixon, Elvis is Everywhere

raum's avatar

@Zaku Dead Kennedys – Too Drunk To Fuck

This is the song that made me realize that people can still hear the music I’m playing in my car, even if I have the windows rolled up. Whoops!

Zaku's avatar

@raum Black Flag – “TV Party”, and “Six Pack”

raum's avatar

@Zaku Agent Orange – Bloodstains

product's avatar

Here are a few songs on one of my Spotify playlists that came up today…

- A Place to Bury Strangers: Everything Always Goes Wrong
– Run the Jewels: Ooh La La
– Japanther: Radical Businessman
– Bachelor: Stay in the Car
– Ty Segal: Finger
– Madvillain: All Caps
– Zeni Gena and Steve Albini: Painwise
– Coup: My Favorite Mutiny

raum's avatar

@product Nice playlist. Only recognized Run The Jewels and Japanther. Really digging A Place to Bury Strangers and The Coup. Thanks for the new music recs.

Wait…I might have heard of Run the Jewels from Fluther. Did you recommend on another question awhile back?

smudges's avatar

@raum This is the song that made me realize that people can still hear the music I’m playing in my car, even if I have the windows rolled up.

When I can hear music through a car’s windows, I’m pretty sure I know what their hearing test will show in their 50’s or 60’s, and why they’re having one. I love loud music, but having moderate hearing loss due to loud machinery I worked with in my 30’s and 40’s has made me dial it down. Hope you have better luck.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Wishing Well
Patches
Mother and Child Reunion

raum's avatar

I have little kids. So the only time I get to blast music is when I’m in the car by myself. :P

I actually have really good hearing. Can hear the radio when the volume is on zero. And the buzz of electricity from appliances and streetlights. Drives me nuts.

Sorry to hear about your moderate hearing loss. :(

product's avatar

@raum: “Did you recommend [RTJ] on another question awhile back?”

Likely. They’re great. Here’s another. Killer Mike also has solo stuff.

Yeah, A Place to Bury Strangers is great. Their Exploding Head album is my favorite. Admittedly, they appeal to me by playing up many familiar things I enjoyed in the 80s, but they put it together quite well.

raum's avatar

@product Yeah, that’s the RTJ song I just added to my playlist. :)

Currently listening to the self-titled album. I like to chronologically go through the artist’s discography when I’m listening to a new (to me) artist. Surprised that they’re pretty new (2007). But they pull it together really well without sounding obviously derivative.

Though the intro to one of their songs is giving me a brain itch. It sounds like an intro to a Bauhaus or Tones on Tail song? But I can’t quite place it.

product's avatar

:) Yeah, there are many elements of Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Jesus and Mary Chain, and even some early Cure and New Order and even some industrial influences in there. I think that intro sound definitely has a Love and Rockets/Joy Division vibe. That whole thing was my thing in the 80s.

product's avatar

EDIT: That intro actually reminds me of Love and Rockets’ Haunted When the Minutes Drag! But that immediate 2 second fade-in reminded a bit of Bauhaus’ She’s in Parties.

raum's avatar

@product Brain itch scratched! Bauhaus – She’s In Parties Edit jinx!

Though Love and Rockets is always great. :)

Dutchess_III's avatar

@raum…can you hear the hum of security cameras when you go in a store?

JLoon's avatar

Yes bob!! And it tells my whole life story… so far :

Tadeschi Trucks Band – You Got The Silver
https://youtu.be/rE6M-b1FPq8

Corinne Bailey Rae – Put Your Records On
https://youtu.be/7gPD7kY1amE

Marvin Gaye – That’s the Way Love Is
https://youtu.be/r9cS_4cbS8Y

Black Crowes – Hotel Illness
https://youtu.be/dUF_Ei-BovQ

Luciano Pavarotti – Nessun Dorma
https://youtu.be/cWc7vYjgnTs

Patsy Cline – Sweet Dreams
https://youtu.be/imafHIq2210

Ariana Grande – Dangerous Woman
https://youtu.be/VVYTzauIb_4

Aaron Copland – Fanfare For the Common Man
https://youtu.be/HKgk6G0lekQ

Ry Cooder – Get Rhythm
https://youtu.be/twFm98q4M3c

filmfann's avatar

Hell by the Squirrel Nut Zippers
Fuck You by Cee Lo Green
Bodhisattva by Steely Dan

flutherother's avatar

Easily, I Forget Alfa Mist and Emmavie
Banish Misfortune A traditional tune
Inca Roads Frank Zappa
Mercury Gustav Holst

Forever_Free's avatar

I have way too many to list. It would blow up my brain to put them down here.
Great post everyone.

Nomore_lockout's avatar

London Homesick Blues Gettin’ by on Gettin’ by Jerry Jeff Walker

Brian1946's avatar

@raum

“It’s Delovely”

It’s DeSoto!

Nomore_lockout's avatar

https://youtu.be/_rE2gS4xXK4 Whatever happened to Randolph Scott? Statler Brothers

janbb's avatar

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay – Otis Reddiing

A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke

Heard it Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye

Brian1946's avatar

@janbb

“A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke”

Do you prefer his version to Otis Redding’s?

Brian1946's avatar

Hallelujah- RockMilady
Military Madness- Graham Nash
Rose of Cimarron- Poco
Rockin’ in the Free World- Neil Young
El Condor Pasa- Simon & Garfunkle
The Good Fight- The guy who used to be in Poco & Sheryl Crow
Stop This Flame- Celeste
When the Stars Go Blue- The Corrs & Bono

raum's avatar

@Brian1946 That commercial is pretty catchy! :P

Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah

Brian1946's avatar

@raum

I guess that’s because it’s basically Cole Porter’s song that they used.

Thanks for the education. Until now, I didn’t know that it was written by him.

Before I clicked on your link and did some research, I actually thought those lyrics were used in the Chevy commercials sung by Dinah Shore.

It’s deflating, it’s de-sturbing, that I forgot DeSoto! ;-p

janbb's avatar

@raum I liked Hallelujah but for me it’s died of overkill.

@Brian1946 I like Sam Cooke’s better; less showy.

“Harvest Moon” by Neil Young has got to be on any playlist!
“Moondance” and “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison
“Dimming of the Day” by Richard Thompson

Dutchess_III's avatar

Come to Poppa by Bob Segar

Come to Momma by….oh wait. There is no such song.

Nomore_lockout's avatar

https://youtu.be/H94iJYeWfH8 On the Border This one always
grabbed me for some reason

Nomore_lockout's avatar

https://youtu.be/ui0EgRsFVN8 Viva Las Vegas / Elvis My parents and their friends used to play this at house parties and dance “the twist” to it. LOL

raum's avatar

@janbb That’s true. It has been overplayed quite a bit. Though still my favorite version of hallelujah!

Harvest Moon has a lot of great covers too. I’m partial to Elliott Smith’s version of that song :)

raum's avatar

Gilbert Bécaud – Nathalie

raum's avatar

Bert Jansch – Angie

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The Veils – Lavinia

raum's avatar

Aminé – Caroline

raum's avatar

Challenge: Mini playlists with a theme. ;)

Mine: Femme Four

raum's avatar

Oop. Just realized I didn’t reply to @Dutchess_III.

Usually the buzzing of fluorescent lights would be too loud. But maybe if they used a different kind of lighting?

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