Talking and Playlists — As yet unsettled

Years ago, I drove a fairly long distance to meet and hang out with my now (soon-to-be-ex-)wife. To make the 90-minute rides there and back again a little more interesting, I started making quick playlists of songs I like or wanted to hear again or hear more of. Nothing overly curated – or at all, really – just songs that came up and stuck with me. Originally, these playlists were burned onto discs, but those disappeared over time, or were discarded after becoming so scratched that they were useless – and anyway, technology advances and everything becomes outmoded.

I still have the playlists in text files on my computer, but many of the song-files disappeared in a bit of data-loss fun. For years, I’ve been putting off rebuilding them in Music. I'm not even sure I can at this point as many of the files were esoteric or likely unique to my iTunes library. I may not be able to hear the full playlists again, but I can make a written listing of them for my own future curiosity – and doing that more than one place seems like a good idea. So I’ll be adding them here.

Starting in November of 2016 and continuing occasionally since then, I’ve used Music/iTunes/whatever to make shorter, even quicker playlists, mostly to listen to between podcasts as I cycle. As CDs have become less common (I haven’t burned one in nearly a decade), making super short playlists isn’t wasteful at all, so my playlists have shrunken to just a few songs. I also listen mainly to podcasts these days. If, like me, you're someone who rarely finds new music, this is a notable improvement in both convenience and frugality – environmentally, too, Shirley.

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I'll start, as I'm not at home to find the tracklisting for disc #1, with the more recent Music playlists. Here’s the first one, 2016, 11:

Perfect Day – Lou Reed
Sandcastles – Beyoncé
Super Bass – Nicki Minaj
Heathens – Twenty-One Pilots
The Auld Triangle – Chris Thile, Chris Eldridge, Marcus Mumford, Justin Timberlake, & Gabe
Witcher (from the Inside Llewyn Davis: OST)
Galway Bay – Clancy Brothers

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