Compiling this playlist of mostly 60s music has been my life’s work and I fully expect it to change your life.
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We had a playlist like this about 10 years ago based on The Chain - it got a bit silly in the end and fizzled out when I moved to Singapore. I doff my hat to your much more measured approach - it’s a great idea.
Our playlist from all those years ago: caution, contains cheese
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I like to listen electronic music from a deep house radio station in Istanbul called future generation 93.8. If I need a break I start trying small grooves on a novation circuit.
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Thanks for sharing @PaulBinney !! Welcome!
Thx Randy!!!
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What?!?!?!? Feck 2021 with a coconut. Dat Punk? One of my greatest memories is working next to the Great Goose in Suite 2 and absolutely cranking the Alive album and pissing off all of production.
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The day the music died @randy
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My favorite roller skating mix. I still own a pair of quads and in the warmer months can be found at the outdoor rink in Brooklyn.
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Pics or it doesn’t happen!
Scott Walker, Blonde Redhead, Third Eye Foundation, Die Antwoord (Grant Kay is a fan!), Boards of Canada (used to love their stuff), Bonnie Prince Billy, Cinematic Orchestra, Arvo Pärt (better than silence; 'n like having the void stare back), Dead Can Dance (still living back in the day!), Flaming Lips (still living in a bubble!), Mark Stewart (Hypnotized 12 inch +Learning To Cope With Cowardice were never off my turntable), Jacques Brel, Castle If (saw her playing in Toronto the year I went to visit the very hospitable AutodeskFlame team in Montreal and ate Poutine on their recommendation!), Lambchop, Midlake, Susumu Yokota (sadly died too young: listen to Shining Darkness, tis bu-ti-full!) and a work colleague’s band who I’ve done some collaboration with in terms of him doing soundtrack on my stuff, Fila Brazillia.
Cheers
Tony
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Susumu Yokota!
Arvo Part!
I used to love Underworld. Skyscraper I Love You was never out of my CD tray for a while
I like the skate selections!!!
Any playlist with Tom Waits in is good with me.
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I’ve tried sooo much to like Tom Waits. He’s like the Cilantro of music. And for our friends across the pond, Cilantro in America is the leaf…Coriander is the seed.
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Am soz, I have to agree. Not wanting to start as “F/lame*” war but Tom Waits, like Lou Reed and Robert DeNiro seemed to be getting on so well and then went a bit sideways for me. Used to love My Piano’s Been Drinking and Invitation to the Blues, though.
…but it does give me a chance to name drop in that someone I used to work with is the wife of Gavin Bryers who did this pretty cool collaboration with that Tom guy. Did like the archival retracing of the homeless guy:
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Apropos of nothing, I have two Tom Waits stories:
1: I used to work for a film/music festival in Texas and one year Tom Waits gave a performance. Tickets were scarce and there was a lot of demand from the general public to get in. There were all sorts trying to sneak in without a ticket, including a guy pretending to deliver a pizza to the backstage entrance and somebody who brought a ladder and tried to climb up on the roof.
2: When my wife and I were planning our wedding, we met with a company that manages wedding bands to help us pick a band. Problem was we really didn’t know what kind of band we wanted and we just couldn’t think of anything useful when he would ask us what we were interested in. Finally, he asked what music we last listened to together. That was easy because I had just bought the latest Tom Waits album on vinyl and that’s what we had listened to the night before. So, for the next hour, he would evaluate every wedding band he had to show against Tom Waits: “this one doesn’t have that Tom Waits sound you’re looking for” or “this is a good Tom waits type band”, etc.
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You’re right there Tony.
They all sort of turned into impersonators of themselves, like a dog bred to exaggerate the characteristics of their breed until they no longer resemble a real dog.
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