As discussed back in April, I had created a glut of playlists in early 2024, and a reset was necessary before I could continue. I spent the following five months with two parallel goals: listen to all 230 playlists in my Tidal account, spanning 30+ years of mix-taping to Tidal-ing. The second goal - harvest songs I liked and dump them in a big hopper, to prepare for a fresh restart of my playlist-making. By late August, I'd listened to all 230 playlists, and the hopper had over 600 tracks in it! The hopper consisted of classic rock and pop that I like that never made it onto a playlist before, new music from the last 5 years that I like, and every random song I came across, in, y'know, life. This month I put that playlist on Shuffle and listened. Every time two songs sounded good together, I wrote it down. It felt like learning to walk again!
- Obviously Five Believers, BOB DYLAN
Cover design inspired by Counting Crows
Recovering The Satellites - Hypnotized, THE POINTER SISTERS
- Steppin' To The A.M. 3RD BASS
- ...Ready For It? TAYLOR SWIFT
- Feels So Good, VAN HALEN
- On The Game, THE BLACK KEYS
- Actin' Up, MIRANDA LAMBERT
- I Feel Fine, THE BEATLES
- Woman To Woman, SHIRLEY BROWN
- Girlfriend, PAUL McCARTNEY and WINGS
- If I Had No Loot, TONY! TONI! TONÉ!
- Love In A Vacuum, 'TIL TUESDAY
- Team, LORDE
- Orange Crush, R.E.M. - wow this song has a brittle, late-80s sound!
- The Rose Of England, NICK LOWE and his COWBOY OUTFIT
- Miles JASON ISBELL and the 400 UNIT
- Add It Up, VIOLENT FEMMES
- Cinnamon Girl [slightly alt version], NEIL YOUNG with CRAZY HORSE
- Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
- Soulful Strut, YOUNG HOLT UNLIMITED
