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Departments => Music => Topic started by: Mr_Pleasington on June 29, 2005, 01:28:57 AM
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Everyone list what their currently favorite playlist...self-built or otherwise.
Spring loungin' -
Farmhouse - Phish
Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn
Dirty Life and Times - Warren Zevon
New Madrid - Uncle Tupelo
Heartbreakin' Man - My Morning Jacket
The Man Who Sold the World (Live) - Nirvana
The Way That He Sings - My Morning Jacket
Bermuda Highway - My Morning Jacket
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Live) - Nirvana
Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan
Dead Flowers - The Rolling Stones
Wildflowers -Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon & Garfunkel
Lonestar - Norah Jones
Full Moon, Empty Heart - Belly
Golden - My Morning Jacket
When Will They Come - My Morning Jacket
Watching the Wheels - The Samples
You Don't Know How It Feels - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
At Dawn - My Morning Jacket
Don't Know Why - Norah Jones
Moral Kiosk - R.E.M.
Mississippi - Bob Dylan
Screen Door - Uncle Tupelo
Numb as a Statue - Warren Zevon
Spiders (Kidsmoke) - Wilco
Super-Connected - Belly
The Go in the Go-For-It - Grandaddy
Evelyn Is Not Real - My Morning Jacket
Now They'll Sleep - Belly
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The only play lists I have are:
All my J-pop into one (about 15 cds or so)
Gorrillaz (3 cds)
Foo Fighters (all the cds)
ect
I usealy just group by artist, I use to make ones that mixed songs like traditional playlists but I never really enjoyed them as much as pure artist lists.
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I find I don't have the patience for one-group playlists much anymore.
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my actual favorite playlist is to throw all my songs on one list and hit shuffle. It usually takes Winamp a few minutes to compile this. My list here at work is over 1600 songs. The one at home over 3500.
SO I won't post it
however, when I get home I'll post the last three mix CDs I made, which kind of count.
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my zen micro has that as a built in feature (which I'm sure iPods do too), it also has cool buit in playlists like most listen to, least listen to, and album of the day. There as a few others, I think, but have only used those three.
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My Favorite Playlist
Xenogears Broken Mirror OCR Remix (djpretzel)
Xenogears Broken Mirror OCR Remix (Alexander Prievert)
Kiss Me (Sixpence None the Richer)
Lose Your Way (Sophie B. Hawkins)
Feels Like Home (Chantal Kreviazuk)
Life's a Bitch (Shooter)
Ready for a Fall (P. J. Olsson)
Stay You (Wood)
Any Lucky Penny (Nikki Hassman)
Shimmer (Shawn Mullins)
London Rain (Heather Nova)
To Be Loved (Curtis Stigers)
Letting Go (Sozzi)
Cry Ophelia (Adam Cohen)
Did You Ever Love Somebody (Jessica Simpson)
I Don't Want to Wait (Paula Cole)
These songs are all from the Dawson's Creek CD (I believe the first season--there's like a CD for ever season). Never saw the show, but apparently they had really good songs on it. I love this playlist, taken straight from the CD, because it is a good mix of mood and tempo, slow and fast. And they're all awesome songs.
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Yeah, I shuffle my whole collection. It's big enough I'm scared to count it.
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I, too, like to shuffle my own (4000 song) playlist, but I also enjoy the engineered playlist now and again.
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I generally don't shuffle all my songs since I don't like going from Orchestrations (soundtracks and the like) to rock/pop and back again. I like to listen to one style/Genera at a time.
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I agree. Some genres just don't mix. I'll go to the section of my song library that I feel like listening to and listen to the same kind of music.
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I *like* genre jumping. I love that I can listen to a muppets track, then dive into Metallica, come back out to Mark Whitfield, jump through some Pogues, and finally arrive at the Clancy Brother after a brief Jimmy stop.
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Where Is My Mind? 3:53 Surfer Rosa Pixies
Beverly Hills 3:22 Beverly Hills - Single Weezer
Queen Bitch 3:15 The Life Aquatic David Bowie
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf ? 4:49 The Essential Sly & The Family Stone Sly & The Family Stone
One Evening 3:39 One Evening - Single Feist
Slide 4:29 Tide's Arising Mark de Clive-Lowe
Robot Rock 4:47 Human After All Daft Punk
She Moves In Secret Ways 5:58 Cosmic Rosy Spine Kites Polly Paulusma
Beverly Hills 3:22 Beverly Hills - Single Weezer
Dirty Harry 3:50 Dirty Harry - Single Gorillaz
The Desperate Kingdom of Love 2:42 Uh Huh Her PJ Harvey
Young and Insane 2:29 The House of Tomorrow - EP The Magnetic Fields
Feel Good Inc (Single Edit) 3:41 Feel Good Inc - Single Gorillaz
Say It Ain't So 4:18 Weezer Weezer
Starman 4:13 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust ? David Bowie
Ultraviolet (Light My Way) 5:30 Achtung Baby U2
Sascha 3:08 Jimmy Eat World's Playlist Jolie Holland
Susanne (Single Version) 2:47 Weezer Weezer
The Ballad of Paladin 1:50 Stampede! Western Music's Late Go? Johnny Western
Buddy Holly 2:39 Weezer
Island in the Sun 3:20 Weezer
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I usually just mix all of my songs, but my favorite list right now is...
Are We the Waiting by Green Day
Rain by Breaking Benjamin
Scent of Lime by Long Winters
This Bitter Pill by Dashboard Confessional
Mess by Ben Fold's Five
Trouble by Coldplay
Thirty-Three by Smashing Pumpkins
The Ascent of Stan by Ben Fold's Solo
The Battle of Evermoreby Led Zeppelin
All You Can Eat by Ben Fold's Solo
The Ruined Puzzle by Dashboard Confessional
World at Large by Modest Mouse
The Great Beyond by R.E.M.
Say It Ain't So by Weezer
You've Got Her in Your Pocket by The White Stripes
Look What Happened by Less Than Jake
Best Deceptions by Dashboard Confessional
Bankrupt On Selling by Modest Mouse
Change by Blind Melon
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At the moment, I'm listening to my whole library (+/-), which currently claims to be 4182 songs.
I have a few playlists I switch from, but these tend to be massive. The smallest is 25 songs, and the largest is 1106. My sleep playlist alone is 831 songs.
I also have them all loaded on my mp3 player for when I'm not at home.
Yeah, so I'll spare you my playlists. I'd publish one to HTML if someone wanted, though.
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I've been looking to design a sleep playlist, but my library isn't really agreeing.
any suggestions?
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if you're going to design anything, you've got to choose a basis for building it around. By genre, group, theme, or some combination. Then get songs that sound good together.
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I know the basics of playlist building, E.
I just don't know if I have many tracks condusive to sleep and I'd like artist suggestions.
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sorry, missed the adjective.
I'd say that isn't something I can recommend though. I sleep to very different things than others do.
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Well, there's TMBG's Bed, Bed, Bed. You can get the happy go lucky tune or the slow sad sleepy tune. And then there's "Sleepwalkers" and "Sleepybones and Lazyheads." Both TMBG songs. "Idlewild" by TMBG is a very sleepy song to I believe.
Can't think of any others right now.
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I have to have relaxing instrumental music to fall asleep to. One I listened to for a long time was called "Miracles"--I can't remember the artist now, but his first name was Paul and I bought it at an LDS bookstore, so it would probably be listed in religious music. Then again, it was a tribute to the children lost in the Oklahoma City bombing, so maybe not.
I also had an instrumental CD of famous romantic movie songs, like the themes from The Man From Snowy River and Ice Castles and Somewhere in Time, etc. It turned out to be very relaxing.
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Specific Recommendations taken from my own sleep playlist:
Classical (anything you like)
- particularly Gregorian Chanting and the like
Electronic Music:
ATB (especially some of his newer stuff. Really soft Trance)
Chicane - "Salt Water" (it features Enya's sister Maire)
a lot of Moby's stuff
some of Robert Miles (particularly "Children (Dream Version)")
FC Kahuna - "Hayling"
Röyksopp - "Poor Leno"
Daniel Pemberton - "Spanish"
PPK - "Resurection"
Lost Tribe - "Gamemaster"
some of BT's music
Plumb (Plummet?) - "Damaged"
Andy Hunter - "Translucent"
Télépopmusik - "L'Incertitude D'Heisenberg"
Orbital - "Halcyon + On + On"
New Age/World Music:
Axiom of Choice - "Parvaz"
Ceredwen
Georgian Legend (several songs from the soundtrack)
Loituma (much of their stuff, at least)
"Kindle My Heart" (from the A Little Princess soundtrack)
Aeone - "Message in my Heart"
Alasdair Fraser (he has some soft Celtic music)
Altan - "Lass of Glenshee" (!!), as well as several of their other songs
Anúna - "The Flower of Maherally"
several songs from the A Beautiful Mind soundtrack
Braveheart soundtrack (by James Horner)
Cirque du Soleil has some soft and pretty stuff, particularly on the album Nouvelle Expérience
Clannad
David Arkenstone
David Blonski (!!)
Dead Can Dance (much of their music)
Deep Forest (their earlier stuff, mostly)
Delerium (much of their music - I have 2 albums)
E.S. Posthumus - "Nara"
Enigma (!! - particularly music from MCMXC ad)
Enya (!!)
Friedemann - "Sunshower"
Greg Ellis - "Form 3"
Gypsy Soul - "Epona's Wild Daughter" (!!) and "True Love"
John Whelan
some of Jon Schmidt
Keiko Matsui - "Deep Blue"
Kíla - "Sean Deora" (!!)
Sam Cardon's stuff (particularly the album Innovators)
Loreena McKennitt
Mychael & Jeff Danna - "The Child Deirdre"
Northern Lights - "Carolan's Ramble to Cashel"
Orison - "The Butterfly" (!!)
Scartaglen - "Chuagh Me 'Na Rosann"
Secret Garden
Sheila Chandra
Simon Wynberg - "Strathgarry"
The Spirit of Eden - "Legend of Cuan"
much of The Truman Show soundtrack
Celia Briar (The Dark Rose)
David Anthony Clark (!! - Terra Inhabitata)
David Downes (Pavilion - I think the album has a new name now)
Jon Mark (A Celtic Story)
Peter Blake (Private Dawn)
Peter Pritchard
Zamfir
Silk Road Journeys (Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble)
Michael Conn - "Galician Journey"
Nomad - I have 3 songs by them which are excellent
Ian Ritchie - "Mbuti"
Mark Tayler - "Rodeo Costa Rica"
a few songs by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Vas - "Samaya"
Niamh Parson - "Fear of Bhata"
Cherish the Ladies - "A Neansaí Mhíle Grá"
Relativity (particularly "Siún Ní Dhuibhir")
Reeltime - "Síle"
Joaquin Liévano
Bruce Mitchell
Aria - "Secret Tear"
Chorus of Tribes - "Lullaby"
Cusco
a few songs from the album "Pieces of Africa"
Geoffrey Oryema - "Makambo"
Hazma El Din - "Escalay"
Hilary Stagg
Jean Michele Jarre - "Oxygene"
Jeff Johnson - "Jasconius"
"Spanish Guitar Favorites" by John Williams
John Serrie - "Lovers in Motion"
Mark Isham
Mary Jane Lamond - "É Horò"
Michael Nyman - "The Promise"
Mike Oldfield - "Tubular Bells"
Mythos - "June"
some of Old Blind Dogs
Quinn - "The Crown of Life"
much of the Album Music for the Native Americans (Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble)
Sacred Spirits - "Yeha-Noha"
Ronan Hardiman (!!)
Solas - "The Maid on the Shore"
Vanessa Daou - "Near the Black Forest"
Will Millar
Dream Theater - "Wait for Sleep"
More Mainstream/Other Music:
bôa - "Duvet (Acoustic Version)"
Idir - "Pourquoi cette pluie"
some Jean-Jacques Goldman
Lokua Kanza - "Le bonheur"
Leslie - "Le bon choix (Version acoustique)"
Donovan - "Jabberwocky"
some of the music from the Prince of Egypt soundtrack
Acoustic Alchemy
April Meservy - "Decide"
much of the orchestrated Final Fantasy music
some Inside Out songs
Jewel - "Hands"
Mandy Moore - "Only Hope"
Chris Thomas King - "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"
One Handed
some of the City of Angels soundtrack
much of Sarah McLachlan's music
some Peter Gabriel
Some of these I only have one song by (I got them from compilation albums) and that's why only one is listed. For others, the artist may not have soporific music in general, but the song in question is very good in this regard.
Anything with "!!" I think is particularly good, though most of these songs are excellent for me. Some people don't sleep well with Electronic (Trance/Ambient/Triphop) music at all, for example.
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finally remembering to do this: my two most recent CDs
The more upbeat one:
Fountains of Wayne: "Radiation Vibe"
The Pixies: "Here Comes Your Man" (live)
The Lightning Seeds: "Pure"
barenaked Ladies: "Another Postcard"
U2: "Always"
Fastball: "You're An Ocean"
Jimmy Eat World: "the Middle
Too Much Joy: "Pirate"
Great Big Sea: "Here Comes My Baby"
Ookla the Mok: "Super Powers"
Dressy Bessy: "Bubbles"
Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet: "Having an Average Weekend"
Shonen Knife: "Daydream Believer"
Sugarcult: "Stuck in America"
Toad the Wet Sprocket: "Hey Bulldog"
Silverjet: "Kid"
Young Fresh Fellows: "Three Sides to This Story"
Jimmy Eat World: "If You Don't Don't"
Buck O' Nine: "My Town"
U2: "Walk On"
Eels: "Packing Blankets"
The Cure: "Wrong Number"
The Smiths: "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before"
The more mellow one:
Jimmy Eat World: "Hear You Me"
The Sugarcult: "Lost In You:
Toad the Wet Sprocket: "Fly From Heaven
Big Head Todd and the Monsters: "Bittersweet"
Too Much Joy: "gramatan"
Metallica: "Nothing Else Matters"
Placebo: "Black-Eyed"
Staind: "It's Been A While"
Three Doors Down: "Be Like That"
The Black Crowes: "She Talks to Angels"
Our Lady Peace: "Life"
The Sugarcult: "How Does It Feel"
The Refreshments: "Birds Sing"
They Might Be Giants: "Pet Name"
Ookla the Mok: "Home"
Toad the Wet Sprocket: "Hobbit on the Rocks"
Our Lady Peace: "Clumsy"
U2: "Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (acoustic)
yeah, there's a lot of band repetition in those two. Which is really odd for me. Usually it's one mix, one song per band. BUt between the two, there's three Toad, three Jimmy, three sugarcult, and three U2. Most of the other bands have a song on each. Weird. Must have been in the mood for those artists.