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What music are you listening to? #66 No need for a title.
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I've been using Spotify's "Liked Songs" feature for a little while now, and recently changed my approach. For a while I was cherry-picking individual songs, and got up to ~700 or so. But I was getting impatient with that, and I was still hearing a lot of the same songs over and over, within the span of a few days or a week. So a week ago, I just started shoveling entire albums onto the list (there's a "like all songs" button with each album) and now it's up to ~2,400 songs. Okay, that's more like it.
But that approach seems to be creating its own problems. Spotify doesn't let you navigate your Liked Songs very easily. For starters, it's just one, loooong list. You can alphabetize it by artist, but you can't skip down to a particular letter. You can't even flip it around and reverse-alphabetize it. So if I want a Velvet Underground song or a Zero 7 song, I have to either scroll down through all ~2,400 songs or just [forget] the list altogether and go to the artist's or album's page. When I'm listening to music, sometimes I say "dealer's choice; hit me" but sometimes I like to put particular songs onto my queue, as a kind of on-the-fly playlist. Scrolling through 2,400 songs for that is a PITA. A while back, they introduced buttons that could sort your Liked Songs by different tags, some by mood ("dark") or by genre ("classic rock") but that feature has never worked properly.
I remember trying Pandora when it launched in '05. It seemed like just the sort of thing I'd been looking for, basically my whole life. I remember thinking it was a cool idea that still needed a lot of work and I'd come back someday. I guess these apps are still works in progress.
Anyway. In the interest of posting some music in the music thread, I'll ask Spotify to play something random from my list and see what it gives us.
"A Heart of Glass (Remastered)" by This Mortal Coil, from Filigree & Shadow (1986). Not one of the TMC songs I would've picked - this wasn't one of the songs I had on the list when I was selecting songs, one by one - but I guess that's part of the point of an app like this, eh?
But that approach seems to be creating its own problems. Spotify doesn't let you navigate your Liked Songs very easily. For starters, it's just one, loooong list. You can alphabetize it by artist, but you can't skip down to a particular letter. You can't even flip it around and reverse-alphabetize it. So if I want a Velvet Underground song or a Zero 7 song, I have to either scroll down through all ~2,400 songs or just [forget] the list altogether and go to the artist's or album's page. When I'm listening to music, sometimes I say "dealer's choice; hit me" but sometimes I like to put particular songs onto my queue, as a kind of on-the-fly playlist. Scrolling through 2,400 songs for that is a PITA. A while back, they introduced buttons that could sort your Liked Songs by different tags, some by mood ("dark") or by genre ("classic rock") but that feature has never worked properly.
I remember trying Pandora when it launched in '05. It seemed like just the sort of thing I'd been looking for, basically my whole life. I remember thinking it was a cool idea that still needed a lot of work and I'd come back someday. I guess these apps are still works in progress.
Anyway. In the interest of posting some music in the music thread, I'll ask Spotify to play something random from my list and see what it gives us.
"A Heart of Glass (Remastered)" by This Mortal Coil, from Filigree & Shadow (1986). Not one of the TMC songs I would've picked - this wasn't one of the songs I had on the list when I was selecting songs, one by one - but I guess that's part of the point of an app like this, eh?
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Grendeldef
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Looking simultaneously as hot & cool as Alissa does must cause some problems with gear. Not my kind music really but who cares.
Anyway, electric guitars the way they are played properly. I could prolly listen to Adamson forever switching the tune once a year.
Big Country - Harvest Home (live)
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Grendeldef
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In respect to Bundesliga day some Eisfabrik remixes - respect the beards.
Sonorus7 - Icendio (Eisfabrik remix)
With limited time one should never go to YT with I wonder if it's here somewhere attitude. Everything is there & too much more. One interesting live performance I came across with while browsing what's happening with few old farts in the EBM/futurepop scene. The recording apparently is far from new, 2013.
NamNamBulu - Memories (live in Honda (2-seater))
VDOC feat. Project Caretaker - Engel (Eisfabrik remix)
Sonorus7 - Icendio (Eisfabrik remix)
Mind Machine - Here And There (Eisfabrik Ext. remix)
With limited time one should never go to YT with I wonder if it's here somewhere attitude. Everything is there & too much more. One interesting live performance I came across with while browsing what's happening with few old farts in the EBM/futurepop scene. The recording apparently is far from new, 2013.
NamNamBulu - Memories (live in Honda (2-seater))
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Chukchi Husky
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Ayreon - Day Eleven: Love
Grendeldef
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Another nostalgy trip. 90s when Eurodance was great and MTV had music.
Garcia - Vamonos
80s from the first record I bought after I got a new vinyl grinder while at high school and rockers complained that this is not music as it was made with machines instead of proper instruments. They didn't much foresee the future.
Shannon - Give Me Tonight
Even older originally but latest fame comes from 80s when Mike Torello was the coolest man on tv.
Del Shannon - Runaway
Let's fill the gap of 70s. Matchbox started a weird boom of (Bristish) rockabilly here in the late 70s which eventually calmed down but the old farts can still sell gigs here. Sadly for example, the Crazy Cavan front man died just before tour here 2020.
Matchbox - Rockabilly Rebel
Garcia - Vamonos
80s from the first record I bought after I got a new vinyl grinder while at high school and rockers complained that this is not music as it was made with machines instead of proper instruments. They didn't much foresee the future.
Shannon - Give Me Tonight
Even older originally but latest fame comes from 80s when Mike Torello was the coolest man on tv.
Del Shannon - Runaway
Let's fill the gap of 70s. Matchbox started a weird boom of (Bristish) rockabilly here in the late 70s which eventually calmed down but the old farts can still sell gigs here. Sadly for example, the Crazy Cavan front man died just before tour here 2020.
Matchbox - Rockabilly Rebel
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Ex Deo - I, Caligvla
Grendeldef
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Still oldies. Sounds similar to numerous other Erickson's OMD remixes and equally possible for McCluskey to make a remix like this.
OMD - Speed of Light (Roger Erickson remix)
Let's put another oldie. She turned 77 in July and song is 36y old - time really does fly and it's prolly been over 30y since I've heard the French version..
Debbie Harry - French Kissin' in the USA (French version)
OMD - Speed of Light (Roger Erickson remix)
Let's put another oldie. She turned 77 in July and song is 36y old - time really does fly and it's prolly been over 30y since I've heard the French version..
Debbie Harry - French Kissin' in the USA (French version)
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