I’ve been making myself a birthday playlist nearly every year since 2002. This week I posted all my birthday playlists on my website! Listen links to Spotify & Tidal. I had fun doing a little analysis too, comparing what years the songs on each playlist were published. 🎧🎶
@tracydurnell love this - what a great idea. How do you pick songs each year? Is it just what you are enjoying around that time?
@humdrum yeah, a blend of what I'm enjoying at the time plus songs that "define the year" -- sometimes I'm torn between making an evergreen playlist I'll like in five years and including songs that I like at the time but suspect won't age well 😂 I try to pay attention to the overall vibe of the playlist, so when I'm on the fence about whether to keep a song or dump it I can think of the big picture too.
@tracydurnell You have great taste in music. (Read: similar tastes to my own) Did you do all this work manually each year?
@gregmoore haha cheers to good music! 🍻 (I had fun checking out your album whale list when you shared it 😄) Yeah, I used to be really into making mix CDs and then playlists, but after college kind of ran out of people who wanted mixes made for them. Now I just make them for myself and my sister. I didn't make her one for her birthday one year and my mom told me she was so disappointed, I had to make her a belated one! 😅
@tracydurnell That’s fun. My sister and I used to make mix CD’s for each other too. We both go onto Spotify at the same time and swore we’d share playlists in the same way but it never worked out the same.
@gregmoore agreed, sharing playlists on spotify just isn't the same.
My dad apparently still has a CD player in his woodworking workshop, and he told me recently he's been listening through a stack of college era mix CDs I made (for myself), and if one sucks he just throws it across the room and puts on the next one 😂
@tracydurnell 😂Haha, oh no! I don’t think I could ever fling something my daughter made across the room. You can encourage him with what I told my parents (and myself, really): long-term studies on aging and the brain have shown that listening to unfamiliar music, even if you don’t like it, improves cognitive ability. Pitchfork article
@gregmoore 😂 love it. I'll take any evidence that supports my urge to always be trying new bands 🤓
My brother in law runs a concert venue that puts on free shows so I think they're picking up some new stuff there.