Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Perry Farrell is unhinged!

[Ello Sailor]

Drugs are a helluva drug.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

He punches like I do.

[Ello Sailor]

But can you trip like he do?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Heck no. The only things I can probably beat him in are footraces and RM'ing.

[epilogue]

Drugs are a helluva drug.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I’m really into the Lo-Fi covers scene lately.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0UXWm ... 8qRqR0SYuI

[Jorge]

For no particular reason I have endeavored to create a playlist where each song is my favorite song from that year, from 1964 to present. One song per year. No repeat artists.

What I thought would be a fun and rewarding exercise (because I love making playlists) has proven itself an extremely annoying ordeal -- every time I think of the perfect song for a year, it turns out it's not from the year I thought. It's from the next year over or the year before, where I have already picked another song with enormous personal significance. Or I think of this great song from an album released in 1974, but before putting it in the 1974 slot I find out it was actually released as a single in late 1973.

There's no stopping me now though. I'm finishing this thing. And I am POSTING it.

Here's the playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5GJCs ... ab73464495

Full list of songs:

Spoiler: show

1964 Beach Boys - "Don't Worry Baby"
1965 Smokey Robinson - "The Tracks of My Tears"
1966 Fred Neil - "The Dolphins"
1967 Love - "Alone Again Or"
1968 Otis Redding - "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"
1969 The Velvet Underground - "Pale Blue Eyes"
1970 George Harrison - "What Is Life"
1971 Joni Mitchell - "A Case of You"
1972 Van Morrison - "Jackie Wilson Said"
1973 The Who - "5:15"
1974 The Rubettes - "Sugar Baby Love"
1975 10cc - "I'm Not in Love"
1976 Stevie Wonder - "Sir Duke"
1977 The Clash - "Complete Control"
1978 Ramones - "She's the One"
1979 Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk"
1980 ABBA - "The Winner Takes It All"
1981 Adolescents - "Kids of the Black Hole"
1982 Elvis Costello - "Man Out of Time"
1983 Prince - "Little Red Corvette"
1984 Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Dazzle"
1985 Kate Bush - "The Morning Fog"
1986 The Smiths - "I Know It's Over"
1987 When in Rome - "The Promise"
1988 Talking Heads - "Nothing But Flowers"
1989 The Blue Nile - "Saturday Night"
1990 Cocteau Twins - "Cherry-coloured Funk"
1991 My Bloody Valentine - "Only Shallow"
1992 The Cure - "A Letter to Elise"
1993 Smashing Pumpkins - "Mayonaise"
1994 Jeff Buckley - "Last Goodbye"
1995 Pulp - "Something Changed"
1996 Red House Painters - "Have You Forgotten" - not on spotify - replaced with "Return of the Mack"
1997 Tanya Donelly - "The Bright Light"
1998 Sparklehorse - "Hundreds of Sparrows"
1999 Fiona Apple - "I Know"
2000 Yo La Tengo - "Last Days of Disco"
2001 Björk - "Aurora"
2002 Tom Waits - "Alice"
2003 Broken Social Scene - "Almost Crimes"
2004 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Breathless"
2005 Sleater-Kinney - "Jumpers"
2006 Sigur Rös - "Glósoli"
2007 Radiohead - "Nude"
2008 Bill Frisell - "Probability Cloud"
2009 Alicia Keys - "Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart"
2010 Janelle Monáe - "Oh, Maker"
2011 Beyonce - "Countdown"
2012 Sky Ferreira - "Everything Is Embarrassing"
2013 Kanye West - "Black Skinhead"
2014 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - "Young Blood"
2015 Snakehips, Tinashe, Chance the Rapper - "All My Friends"
2016 Carly Rae Jepsen - "Cry"
2017 Bent Knee - "Holy Ghost"
2018 Mitski - "Geyser"
2019 Beabadoobee - "Disappear"
2020 María Pien - "Una Película"
2021 Fervors - "Grey Age"
2022 Caroline Polachek - "Sunset"
2023 Baroness - "Last Word"
2024 Jade - "Angel of My Dreams"

A few notes:
- 1964 to 2024 makes 61 tracks, not 60. I am stupid
- As a playlist, this sucks. The flow is completely off, there are a few long stretches of slow songs, no one will enjoy this as a listening experience but me.
- The easiest picks were songs that have personal significance. In some cases I found myself caught between a song that marked a specific moment vs. a song that I listen to more often.
- The specter of impression management crept in a few times. "How does this make me look? Wasn't there a cooler / more interesting song released this year?" I had to stamp it down by reminding myself that no one was gonna look at this anyway.
- No jazz anywhere (save for the Bill Frisell track) nor any Burt Bacharach, but that changes if we stretched the date range back by a few years; "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and maybe "Fables of Faubus" would appear
- I probably will extend the date range back to however far back I can manage, and then keep it as an evolving playlist I add a song to every year. Maybe!

[Buby]

Return of the Mack

[darth_vedder]

For no particular reason I have endeavored to create a playlist where each song is my favorite song from that year, from 1964 to present. One song per year. No repeat artists.

What I thought would be a fun and rewarding exercise (because I love making playlists) has proven itself an extremely annoying ordeal -- every time I think of the perfect song for a year, it turns out it's not from the year I thought. It's from the next year over or the year before, where I have already picked another song with enormous personal significance. Or I think of this great song from an album released in 1974, but before putting it in the 1974 slot I find out it was actually released as a single in late 1973.

There's no stopping me now though. I'm finishing this thing. And I am POSTING it.

Here's the playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5GJCs ... ab73464495

Full list of songs:

Spoiler: show

1964 Beach Boys - "Don't Worry Baby"
1965 Smokey Robinson - "The Tracks of My Tears"
1966 Fred Neil - "The Dolphins"
1967 Love - "Alone Again Or"
1968 Otis Redding - "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"
1969 The Velvet Underground - "Pale Blue Eyes"
1970 George Harrison - "What Is Life"
1971 Joni Mitchell - "A Case of You"
1972 Van Morrison - "Jackie Wilson Said"
1973 The Who - "5:15"
1974 The Rubettes - "Sugar Baby Love"
1975 10cc - "I'm Not in Love"
1976 Stevie Wonder - "Sir Duke"
1977 The Clash - "Complete Control"
1978 Ramones - "She's the One"
1979 Fleetwood Mac - "Tusk"
1980 ABBA - "The Winner Takes It All"
1981 Adolescents - "Kids of the Black Hole"
1982 Elvis Costello - "Man Out of Time"
1983 Prince - "Little Red Corvette"
1984 Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Dazzle"
1985 Kate Bush - "The Morning Fog"
1986 The Smiths - "I Know It's Over"
1987 When in Rome - "The Promise"
1988 Talking Heads - "Nothing But Flowers"
1989 The Blue Nile - "Saturday Night"
1990 Cocteau Twins - "Cherry-coloured Funk"
1991 My Bloody Valentine - "Only Shallow"
1992 The Cure - "A Letter to Elise"
1993 Smashing Pumpkins - "Mayonaise"
1994 Jeff Buckley - "Last Goodbye"
1995 Pulp - "Something Changed"
1996 Red House Painters - "Have You Forgotten" - not on spotify - replaced with "Return of the Mack"
1997 Tanya Donelly - "The Bright Light"
1998 Sparklehorse - "Hundreds of Sparrows"
1999 Fiona Apple - "I Know"
2000 Yo La Tengo - "Last Days of Disco"
2001 Björk - "Aurora"
2002 Tom Waits - "Alice"
2003 Broken Social Scene - "Almost Crimes"
2004 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Breathless"
2005 Sleater-Kinney - "Jumpers"
2006 Sigur Rös - "Glósoli"
2007 Radiohead - "Nude"
2008 Bill Frisell - "Probability Cloud"
2009 Alicia Keys - "Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart"
2010 Janelle Monáe - "Oh, Maker"
2011 Beyonce - "Countdown"
2012 Sky Ferreira - "Everything Is Embarrassing"
2013 Kanye West - "Black Skinhead"
2014 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - "Young Blood"
2015 Snakehips, Tinashe, Chance the Rapper - "All My Friends"
2016 Carly Rae Jepsen - "Cry"
2017 Bent Knee - "Holy Ghost"
2018 Mitski - "Geyser"
2019 Beabadoobee - "Disappear"
2020 María Pien - "Una Película"
2021 Fervors - "Grey Age"
2022 Caroline Polachek - "Sunset"
2023 Baroness - "Last Word"
2024 Jade - "Angel of My Dreams"

A few notes:
- 1964 to 2024 makes 61 tracks, not 60. I am stupid
- As a playlist, this sucks. The flow is completely off, there are a few long stretches of slow songs, no one will enjoy this as a listening experience but me.
- The easiest picks were songs that have personal significance. In some cases I found myself caught between a song that marked a specific moment vs. a song that I listen to more often.
- The specter of impression management crept in a few times. "How does this make me look? Wasn't there a cooler / more interesting song released this year?" I had to stamp it down by reminding myself that no one was gonna look at this anyway.
- No jazz anywhere (save for the Bill Frisell track) nor any Burt Bacharach, but that changes if we stretched the date range back by a few years; "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and maybe "Fables of Faubus" would appear
- I probably will extend the date range back to however far back I can manage, and then keep it as an evolving playlist I add a song to every year. Maybe!

Cool idea, thanks for sharing. Outside of The Beach Boys Otis and Clash, I don't think I'd have anything similar on my list. Did you ever consider any PJ? Like something off Vitalogy or No Code for your 94/96 selections? I love your '76 pick, that's a cool song.

[Jorge]

Yes, I came close to picking "Man of the Hour" for 2003 until I remembered You Forgot It in People came out that year

[BurtReynolds]

I like that Siouxsie song.

[Jorge]

Yes, I came close to picking "Man of the Hour" for 2003 until I remembered You Forgot It in People came out that year

Wait, fuck, dammit, YFIIP actually came out in 2002. Time to rearrange*

*This has happened to me at least a dozen times

[Ello Sailor]

Re-Arranged by Limp Bizkit came out in 1999.

You know what to do.

[tragabigzanda]

[Ello Sailor]

Don't be like that. Almost Crimes is correct at least.

[Jorge]

In fact all the tracks are correct except "Almost Crimes" which is in the wrong year

[dimejinky99]

fontaines dc are the biggest load of shite and have directly stolen and ruined entire artists catalogues

[Ello Sailor]

What the hell?

[Ello Sailor]

Back to Jorge's list, I think I would put Reckoner over Nude but by golly it's close.

Also cool to see Baroness on there.