this is a hellish exercise
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Sumer is A-Cumen In
that three-track continuous mix on Blues for the Red Sun that finishes with Writhe
The Creator Has a Master Plan
Track 1 off Chaos Theory
Boâ - Duvet
the maudlin theme from The Living Daylights
that Nickleback x Mr Happy nonsense
Sean Hughes covering Psycho Killer
Dúlamán (any version)
Frankie Bones - Funky Acid Makossa
not my 10 most favourite songs but 10 very favourites I could think of reasonably swiftly
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I’m trying not to think too hard about it… I’m thinking too hard about it!
Actually, now that I look at it, this playlist reminds me of an idea I’ve been meaning to talk about. I think of some songs as cocoons. I listen to them very purposefully when I need to step away from life for, oh, 10 minutes. I close my eyes and focus intently on them. I do not think of anything else. I feel very refreshed when the song is over. At least half of this playlist is what I consider a cocoon song.
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Not an all time thing but where I’m at lately
All these songs get me v hyped up
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Hhhhhhhhhhhh
Blood Orange - Baby Florence (Figure)
Chief Keef - Spy Kid
James Blake - Love Me In Whatever Way
Lil B - I’m Orange Juice
The Mars Volta - Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt
Naiad - Ugly
Nils Frahm - Sunson
Salyu x Salyu - Kokoro
Yoshihiro Hanno - Flowers of Shanghai Main Theme
Young Thug - Ooou
Gonna stop thinking about this so I don’t make it ten entirely different songs.
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Nina sImone- Sinnerman
Billie Holiday- I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
Thievery Corporation- Heaven’s Gonna Burn Your Eyes
Pavemant- Shady Lane
OutKast- Hey Ya
Days n Daze- Call the Coroner
Jandek- Nancy Sings
Songs Ohia- Riding with the Ghost
Kendrick Lamar- ADHD
the Mountain Goats- Cry For Judas
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Impossible task
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if i think about this AT ALL i will explode so off the top of my head ill do the best i can without making myself explode
snakes say hiss - talk
hossam ramzy - dalloua (the coy spoiled one)
leonard cohen - avalanche
parenthetical girls - the privlege
xiu xiu - suha
larajj - all of a sudden
black eyes - deformative
duran duran - the chauffeur
the pogues - thousands are sailing
yamasuki - yamasuki
the idea of cocoon songs was plunged into my brain and im sure it had some influence so i wanted to say something, not that my list is TAINTED but yes its tainted. and, like im sure is the case for other posters, can change by the minute
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is it just me or is your link broken
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Tried to do like one per genre and/or era kinda sorta roughly?
Bach - St Matthew Passion - Erbarme Dich
Chopin - "Raindrop" Prelude
The Beatles - The Long One
Tower of Power - What Is Hip
Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall In Love
Victor Wooten - Improv / Amazing Grace
Tool - The Grudge
The Bad Plus - Chariots of Fire
Yebba - My Mind
Knower - Overtime (Live Band sesh)
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these always difficult but:
autechre - c7b2 (way too hard to choose 1 track from them tbh, goz quarter also a contender)
https://youtu.be/akAOaCZIREU?si=Ky8f_phBI4evrG55
https://youtu.be/w7CHB6_75e0?si=7vsKay_MswZhi3MF
snd - 6 (again v difficult to pick 1)
rei harakami - wasuremono
ecco2k - calcium
jlin - erotic heat
sophie - hard
miki nakatani - frontier
oli xl - rogue idiot
bladee - decay
david sylvian - a fire in the forest
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This was on my shortlist
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Broad strokes here. Learned that I am no fun at parties.
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Oh classic spotify, actually to be fair broken link is pretty representational of my listening experience on that platform
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im gonna take everyone itt saying THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE to mean thats the point and here’s just the 1st 10 songs i love forever that i could think of
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idk, i didn’t find it too difficult. there are a lot of songs i’ve loved at various points but when something is just unbelievably resonant i usually milk it until i’ve had my fill and then move on, seeking another hit from another source
the ones i posted are just the first ones that came to mind that didn’t make me go “but is it Really the one you want?” i had a radiohead song on there (how to disappear completely) because i have this memory of being 15 or whatever and just. melting into that song, over and over again, with my little cd player and headphones in the backseat of a car. but i also haven’t listened to that song intentionally in probably 10+ years, so, eh. it was a different me!
so my list really just ended up being songs i thought of that i didn’t veto for being no longer relevant to me in the same way. i did swap out 3 or 4 of my first picks as i thought of things i liked better.
i think also like, i’m not really a person who listens to a lot of music. maybe if you listen to music all day everyday you have a lot more tunes you’d put on a list and then it gets hard to choose. despite loving music, i have a very strange relationship with actually listening to it.
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Uh I haven’t logged into my Spotify account in a few years and don’t feel like resetting my password, so here’s a Tidal playlist
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/aa291069-83ac-4948-a7b3-da0a33023563
There are so many songs missing from this list, it’s giving me anxiety. But this is a pretty good my favorites, really.
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