Tag: spotify playlist

200 up

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I added a couple more tracks to my Playlist For A Chilled Braai playlist on Spotify this week, and those tracks upped the number of total tracks on said playlist to 200. Fourteen hours and forty-one minutes of musical accompaniment to your braai, and just the right mix of background and gently upbeat tracks – and just a few old skool memories thrown in – to make your braai’ing experience absolutely perfect.

And no, of course you don’t have to listen to it all at once, but the sheer amount of music on there means that you get to hear something different each time you log in and light up. So hit the save button above, click on shuffle on your device of choice, and have a great evening cooking oor die kole.

You can click through here if you can’t use the graphic above, and you can click through here to see all my other Spotify playlists, should you want to enjoy some different genres and go back in time ever so slightly*.

* Musically, I mean. I haven’t invented a time machine or anything.

That’s not me

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“Suggested for you”, said my Spotify. And then proceeded to come out with a stream of diverse artists such as Britney Spears, Frank Sinatra, The Troggs, Nat King Cole and Fleetwood Mac.

And Selena Gomez.

Oi! Spotify! No!

Have we not been together for a number of years now? What are you thinking? Literally none of those appeal to me in the slightest. Sure, they may each have had a hit (or maybe two) which I have heard in the last few years, but that was it.

In fact, so bizarre was the selection presented, that I’m even wondering if my account has been hacked: maliciously like my bank card or just as some sort of mildly elaborate sick joke. Think about it – it’s the perfect way to get at someone: invading, influencing and ruining their most personal moments by wreaking havoc in their algorithm. And then the soundtrack for their next plane trip or exercise session will be trashed.

The only sad bit is that you’ll never even know if it worked. Unless they write a blog post about it.

Well done, whoever you are (it’s probably my daughter). You got me.

ON THAT NOTE (no pun intended), here’s my 2024 Spotify Playlist. Which contains all the good stuff that isn’t the stuff mentioned above.

Click through, hit random and have fun. I’ll keep adding the good stuff as I hear it.

4 to go for #2024 – advance warning!

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I’m nearly ready to share my Spotify #2024 Playlist.

Yes, I know. Already.

And it’s going to be good!

My playlists for each year (you can find them and more on that link) don’t necessarily reflect or contain content from the year in question. Just tracks that I have heard in that calendar year that I thought:

“Yeah, let’s have a bit more of that.”

There’s no point in sharing a playlist with just 6 tracks on (none of which are current songs), but as soon as I reach double figures, I’ll add it to the list and share it on here.

Meanwhile, here’s a bit of Old Skool live Dire Straits which has somehow made the cut.

Not really my usual thing, but when that riff kicks in at 3:13… well… yeah.
It’s all just fun and games after that.

And sounding remarkably good on my laptop’s B&O speakers.
But probably better in your ears.

Day 639 – Christmas Music

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Happy Christmas to those who celebrate.

Happy Saturday to those who don’t.

Whatever your views on today, I hope you have a lovely time doing whatever you are doing.

And if you are looking to try and find some festive feeling, please enjoy this playlist I discovered via Vox.

It’s got everything. If you can’t find the Christmas track you want on here, it either doesn’t exist, or you simply ran out of time because this thing is OVER SEVEN DAYS LONG!

You can flick it on this morning and still be listening to it NEXT YEAR! Be amongst the first of friends to get into the Christmas spirit for 2022.

Merry Christmas, you trendsetter!

Day 616 – Music news

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Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we? Yes, that question was also music related. (IYKYK)

Lookie here! It are my #SpotifyWrapped2021 selection for the year. I listened to a lot more than this, because I do like my radio, but there was certainly a lot of Spotifying as well. And this is what I listened to:

Look at that mix of contemporary and er… “older” quality artists.

My top 5 songs came from 1985, 2020, 2021*, 2020, and 1981.
Which is all a bit confusing, because if you asked me what the best decade for music is or was, I’d obviously tell you that it was the 1990s.

Spotify put My Favourite 100 Songs Of The Year** into a playlist, which you’ll want to have a listen to:

Argh! The Spotify embed tool keeps giving me someone else's playlist. 
Who the hell are the Stray Kids? Save yourself - don't google them. 
Rather click the link above. Safety first.

I might have lost my sense of taste for a few weeks thanks to that miserable virus, but my musical taste clearly never failed me.

Look at all my Spotify Playlists here



* you’ll find some New Dad there too
** I’m fairly sure that they’ll have done this for other users, as well