Highlight Your Playlist of The Week

[BeatleMatt]

I recently made a playlist of songs which are the artists’ first song from their first album. The list is titled Your Big Debut and features almost seventy of my favorite songs which were sort of the introduction to the artist with the first song from their first album. Not necessarily the first songs we heard from the group; some of those were no doubt the singles released from the albums but just a representation of the first track from their debut albums, with some bias of course on who I put on the list.

 

[BeatleMatt]

It a new week so of course I made a new playlist from albums on my iTunes. This one I call Dreams To Remember. Songs that have dream in the title or reference dream. Right away I include, “I’ve Got Dreams To Remember”- Otis Redding, “Dreams”-Van Halen, “In My Dreams”-Dokken, “I Can Dream About You”-Dan Hartman, and others thinking I would have a nice two or three hour playlist. Well as I freed my mind to think more, the list grew to about five hours of music which also included a song from The Dream Academy, Freddie and The Dreamers; even allowing a song from Dreamtime - an album from The Cult.
84 songs. I think I’ll stop at 84 songs from my collection.

 

[That 70s Guy]

Here's a playlist of songs my band plays.

 

[BeatleMatt]

I used Spotify to create a Bob Seger playlist this week. Four hours and four minutes of the songs and music I favor. So many of his songs really shine in a much brighter light when featured on his live albums so there are a few I included multiple times from studio and live recordings.
But even at four hours in length, the playlist is lacking and incomplete due to “Living Inside My Heart” not being available on Spotify. I have this song in my iTunes collection from some source and could recreate the playlist and include the song for my iPhone but sometimes it’s just a different experience using Spotify for playlists, that I seek.

 

[BeatleMatt]

It’s been a summer of greater than normal rainfall amounts here in my area. And in other areas as well.
My wife drives a great distance for work at times so some playlists I create with her in mind. We had heavy rain the night before she would have to make the drive so I created a rain playlist for her to listen to on the drive.

 

[BeatleMatt]

This week’s playlist is titled Count Me In. It mostly features songs in which you can hear someone getting the band ready to start at the same time, though not always at the beginning of the song and not always by using numbers. Great examples include McCartney’s “One, two, three, faah!” from “I Saw Her Standing There”, Waters’ “Eins, zwei, drei, alle!” from “Waiting For The Worms”, and even Springsteen’s lead in during a bridge in “Born To Run”. And other fun count in moments in music like Harry Nilsson setting his tempo or counting in the start of the song with a sort of rhythmic humming in “Coconut” and Colbie Calliat asking someone to count her in “Bubbly”. Some of these are very subtle but they can be heard.
It is my recollection that as a B-side single, Robert Plant’s “Far Post” has Phil Collins with a barely audible count it for the band. This count in has been edited out of most versions of the song available so I hesitate to include it on my list.

 

[BeatleMatt]

Saxophones were once in many rock and roll songs of the 50’s and 60’s; less and less after the 1980’s.
My latest list is dedicated to the saxophone in pop music:

 

[dr wu]

No playlists....just put on what I'm in the mood for at the time.....

 

[BeatleMatt]

My Halloween Mix.
I still have our original vinyl record copy of the Disney Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of The Haunted House from the 60’s so some of that I mix with audio clips from classic horror films and have a slightly different playlist on my iPhone.

 

[BeatleMatt]

An extensive but far from all inclusive list of songs that feature a cowbell. Some are more obvious than others and the list is incomplete of course.