🎵 There was a challenge posed to me today to assemble a playlist of only 20 songs that truly represent my musical point-of-view. This was really difficult, I want to keep adding and taking tracks away, but here’s where I landed. What about you?
@bradbarrish Also, I'm going to steal this. This sounds super hard. I'm also not looking at anyone else's until I do mine ;-)
@bradbarrish This reminds me of the old Tower Record’s desert island playlist. I remember that it was really hard, partly because my favorite songs tend to change depending on the mood I am in.
@jalvani exactly. You CAN NOT look at others before you do yours. Please link me when you do it though.
@RianVDM thanks! Glad you like it. Please do it and post a link. It took me about 2 hours.
@klandwehr yep, exactly! My list wasn't necessarily my favorite songs. They were songs that, when I really thought back, were the ones that had a huge impact on the music I now seek out and listen to. Are you going to participate? It's a cruel, yet fun challenge.
@bradbarrish sounds like Desert Island Disks ... and so for the same reason I find this difficult because I have never been a songs / tracks guy .... always an albums guy ... by the time I had graduated I still had never bought a single ... though my album collection was in the 3 box range.
Example ... how can you choose one track off (say) Dark Side .... you can’t ... none of them make a ‘greatest songs’ list ... but the album sits in my top 10.
On a side - but related note ... I often ask people I meet for the first time and the conversation is flagging to name the three bands and / or albums that define the soundtrack of their life ... you can learn a lot.
@JohnPhilpin YOU might not be able to choose one, but I think I can, at least in the context of this challenge. Let's say DSOTM was the first album I listened to the first time I took LSD (cliche, I know, but stay with me) and it was only when 'Breathe' came on my headphones that I felt like I understood Pink Floyd, even though up to that point Piper... defined the band in my mind. In this hypothetical example, I would choose 'Breathe' to go on my mix. Hopefully that makes sense.
Ok, I'll bite... so what are the three artist or albums that define the soundtrack of your life?
@bradbarrish Yeah I think I am going to. Just created a queue in Google Music and it has forty six songs in it. This may take awhile 😂
@bradbarrish I’m going to do this too. But it’s going to be so damn difficult. Rockit and Range Life would definitely be on mine though :)
@bradbarrish well that started a whole track in my mind and eventually I had to write a post ... in fact a post that introduced a new concept on blottings ... a living post .... read on
@herself clearly you and I are kindred spirits! Those are some good overlaps. Looking forward to listening to yours!
@JohnPhilpin love that you dodged the original assignment, Mr. Album Guy, by posting on your blog 😉
@bradbarrish no dodging - just questioning - thinking - redefining .... I should have been a lawyer!
There was a challenge put out by @bradbarrish to list your twenty songs that represent your musical viewpoints. First to state the obvious this was hard to do. I started to think about my musical journey through my life. Through this thought process this is the playlist I came up with My Favorite Playlist on YouTube. I did link to both Spotify and Youtube, because one of the songs is sung by a folk group from the early 60's called the Womenfolk and they are not on Spotify. Also I realized that although I listen and love classical music and instrumental jazz, I don't know the names of the songs this is something I need to work on.