Playlist – March, 2021 Edition

Here’s the latest playlist I’ve assembled of songs I encountered or that sprang to mind or came up in conversation, etc. The key component, again, is the lack of any sort of organizating philosophy (aside from a consistently styled naming structure so that the playlists show up in iTunes/Music in chronological order). I suck at making playlists; these remain effectively random:

Gangnam Style – Psy
Hold On Me – Mayumi Asaka
The Chain (From Gears 5) – Evanescence
Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) [2001 Remaster] – Pet Shop Boys
Mad World – Timmy Trumpet & Gabry Ponte
The Chain – Fleetwood Mac
Up Beat (Married Life) – Kenyi
It's Love – Javi
Royals – Lorde
YSIV – Logic
Kobe (feat. Snoop Dogg & Derrick Milano) – Dame D.O.L.L.A.
Bigger Than Us (feat. Paul Rey) – Dame D.O.L.L.A.
If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out – Cat Stevens
Rayos de Plasma – Carlos Berlanga
Samurai Sword – Chad VanGaalen

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The first song came up in conversation – a local somehow never heard it when it was initially popular. The third, I think, I happened across on the YouTubes. The Evanescence song, as with most people who’ve heard it, I suspect, came from the commercial it was in: evidently it was popular enough to warrant a full recording. It's not bad, but it made me want to hear the original again.

Several of the mid-list songs came from Plug, an app I found via YouTube that aggregates and makes playable music recently talked about on some number music blogs. It's pretty cool and invaluable if, like me, you spend a lot of time in coffee shops trying to do work in spite of the din and/or shit music piped thru the speakers at varying volume levels. And if, also like me, you're no good at discovering new music.

The final one, which I discovered randomly on the Musics, is a god damned delight. The wittiest song I’ve heard in a long while.

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These days, these dumb playlists have just a couple or few songs – at most, probably, around 5 or so. This one happened to be much deeper, which will be good as I begin to cycle in the warming weather.

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