Spotify playlist from music post.

January 18, 2012 12:55 PM

If anyone is interested, I've put together a Spotify playlist with all songs mentioned in this thread.

There are 243 tracks on the playlist so far.

These are the tracks that were mentioned that I can't find on Spotify:

Kinks: Get Back in Line
The Weeknd: High for This
"Shiny Metal Rods" by Aphex Twin
Cowboy Junkies: Lungs
Cowboy Junkies: Me and the Devil Blues
Major Lazer, Pon de Floor
Dilated Peoples & Tash - Soundbombing
Nina Simone performing "Feelings" at the Montreaux Jazz festival
Gotye's "Somebody that I Used To Know."
Apparitions - God Monkey Robot
Jim James + Calexico - goin to Acapulco
Soltero - communist love song
Philip Glass, "Living Waters" from "Anima Mundi"
Betty Hutton, "Igloo"
Pete Townshend, "Let My Love Open the Door"
They Might Be Giants, "Operators Are Standing By"
Joanna Newsom's "Cosmia"
Joanna Newsom "Only Skin"
Rev. Chambers - Me and the Devil
I Can't Help It by The Roots
I Wish (cover) by How To Dress Well
EVERYTHING by the National
Emma Baloka - Let's Love Each Other
Tappa Zukie - Freaks
Blood Sisters - Ring My Bell
Further by DropxLife
Spice by Perfume
Sugarless by Autolux
Billie Jo Spears - Get behind me Satan and Push
Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset by Modest Mouse
Martha & the Muffins - Casualties of Glass
Come One, Come All by Zeph and Azeem
King Hands by King Tuff
The Animals - Smokestack Lightening
Thirsty Merc - Umbrella (Rhianna Cover), Someday Someday or 20 Good Reasons ...
Stellan Wahlstrom Drift Band - So This is What the End Looks Like
Great Big Sea - The Night Patty Murphy Died
edIT - Artsy Remix
Sweatshop Boys - Better Days
Telefonica's "Heartbeatings for those with heartbeats" (bandcamp link)
Attaboy - the first track off the Goat Rodeo album
Leave You Nothing (the Clinical Brothers Remodelling) - Mesh - Leave You Nothing (MCD)
09 - Spectre - - GITS - Megatech Body
Doctor Who - Orbital - The Altogether
Speed Me Towards Death (inst) - Rob Dougan - Furious Angels: Instrumental Versions
Nothing At All (inst) - Rob Dougan - Furious Angels: Instrumental Versions
Still Alive - Portal - The Orange Box
crash mesh collision mix - Mesh - crash single
Evil 9 - All the Cash
M83 - 0078h
Lustmord - Decompression
Where's Me Jumper? - Sultans of Ping FC
My Country Girl - Euros Childs
Citizen Cope "107 degrees"
See Emily Play - Pink Floyd

posted by kdern to MetaFilter-Related at 12:55 PM (52 comments total)

Ooh, fun. "Still Alive" is actually by Jonathan Coulton, and I think it is on Spotify, if you want to add it.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:04 PM on January 18, 2012

That question is definitive chatfilter and should be deleted.

Of course I participated.
posted by Sys Rq at 1:04 PM on January 18, 2012 [4 favorites]

Thanks for putting this together.
posted by michaelh at 1:05 PM on January 18, 2012

Joanna Newsom's "Cosmia"
Joanna Newsom "Only Skin"

Enjoy your twenty minutes of Joanna Newsom, everyone!
posted by griphus at 1:06 PM on January 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

@rocksteady - thanks. Added!
posted by kdern at 1:07 PM on January 18, 2012

This is awesome, thanks kdern!
posted by tumid dahlia at 1:08 PM on January 18, 2012

kdern: "EVERYTHING by the National"

I think he's referring to The National's entire discography, which is a sentiment that I wholeheartedly agree with.
posted by schmod at 1:08 PM on January 18, 2012 [3 favorites]

I was surprised at how much is still not available on Spotify. (Although I have to admit I was not disappointed that Joanna Newsom was missing.)
posted by kdern at 1:11 PM on January 18, 2012

Wait hang on I misread and now have to reformulate my joke:

"Enjoy your twenty minutes of not Joanna Newsom, everyone!"

DONE AND DONE
posted by griphus at 1:14 PM on January 18, 2012

"Enjoy your twenty minutes of not Joanna Newsom, everyone!"

Now that, I can do!
posted by Sys Rq at 1:15 PM on January 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

That question is definitive chatfilter and should be deleted.

I flagged it and moved on, per the protocol, but the post stayed up and I lost a valuable snark opportunity. The system doesn't work.

I eagerly await my impending trip to the reeducation facility where I will learn how "What songs do you like to listen to over and over again" is different from "What's your favorite song."
posted by Admiral Haddock at 1:17 PM on January 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

Did you remember to put "We Built This City" on there?
posted by Metroid Baby at 1:21 PM on January 18, 2012 [2 favorites]

Admiral - I tried to word the question so that it wasn't chatfilter. I was asking for help finding more music (as the prior post was worded, 2 years ago), not just chatting about everyone's favorite song.

I do realize it's borderline though... perhaps the post survived because 75 people marked it as a favorite?
posted by kdern at 1:26 PM on January 18, 2012

If you posted "What are you eating for lunch today?" you'd get even more favorites and participation than that. Everybody is an expert on what they're having for lunch! And they're all fascinating.
posted by Wolfdog at 1:37 PM on January 18, 2012

perhaps the post survived because 75 people marked it as a favorite?

Whatever the reason, I'm pretty sure that's not it.
posted by Edogy at 1:48 PM on January 18, 2012

For some reason those incredibly open ended song/band/tv show rec askmes drive me crazy. IT'S CHATFILTER! I proclaim, yet nobody in my office listens to me . . .
posted by Think_Long at 1:59 PM on January 18, 2012

. . . and I, of course, always participate. Someone has to get people to watch Terriers god dammit.
posted by Think_Long at 2:00 PM on January 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

I do realize it's borderline though...

Seriously? This is the textiest textbook case of chatfilter that ever texted a book. Flagged.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 2:04 PM on January 18, 2012

I think this is great ++++WOULD LISTEN TO AGAIN!!!!11ONE!.
posted by BrodieShadeTree at 2:06 PM on January 18, 2012

I eagerly await my impending trip to the reeducation facility where I will learn how "What songs do you like to listen to over and over again" is different from "What's your favorite song."

Even worse, it's: What songs do you like to listen to over and over again? Here are some examples!
posted by LionIndex at 2:14 PM on January 18, 2012

I was asking for help finding more music (as the prior post was worded, 2 years ago),

I'm surprised the other thread stayed up, too. There's clearly nothing wrong with asking for new music recommendations, though it seems to veer into chatfilter when the prompt is "Give me recommendations based on your idiosyncratic preferences."

Obviously, the nature of recommendations will always inherently be imbued with the personal tastes of the respondents, even when you ask for something specific. But when you just leave it wide open as "What songs can you listen to repeatedly in any genre whatsoever, this is free form go nuts" that's as chatfiltery as they come.

The Mods work in mysterious ways.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 2:16 PM on January 18, 2012

That question is definitive chatfilter and should be deleted.

Every great once in a while we're horrible softies and let one go. Usually it's something in the vein of a list-making thing where the end result is not just folks having chatted but folks having compiled something collectively. It's not a formal thing, it's not something that we really do on purpose, but one of us ends up not deleting it and so does another and at the end of the day it ends up just not having been deleted.

There's no clearcut defense of it, it's just chatfilter that got a lucky shot at clemency. People seem to like it when that happens, even if other people (or even the same people in some cases) have serious understandable twitches about it still being up and undeleted. I am sympathetic, and twitch myself, but the world is mysterious and it's probably best to let these things just happen now and then.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:26 PM on January 18, 2012 [9 favorites]

Here's to the hope that your gooey, noughatty softiness doesn't mean we get inundated with "...but you let THIS stay up, why did you delete mine?!" metatalk posts.
posted by crunchland at 2:37 PM on January 18, 2012

What are your very favorite deletions - threads you can't stand to read over and over again?
posted by dhartung at 2:39 PM on January 18, 2012 [2 favorites]

There's no clearcut defense of it, it's just chatfilter that got a lucky shot at clemency. People seem to like it when that happens, even if other people (or even the same people in some cases) have serious understandable twitches about it still being up and undeleted. I am sympathetic, and twitch myself, but the world is mysterious and it's probably best to let these things just happen now and then.

Well, that's good. It's a mysterious universe and these things happen. I'm relieved to know that my chatfilterfilter doesn't need to be recalibrated.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 2:54 PM on January 18, 2012

One day I hope to post the chatfilteriest question in the history of AskMe and have it stand with hundreds of answers and favorites and everything.

I'm thinking "Can you tell me about your cat? I have a cat, and I'm not sure if he's normal. He's black and white and cat-shaped. I really like him because [long list of cute and entertaining things he does] but sometimes he's annoying because of [long list of annoying things he does]. Would I like other cats? Can you describe all the cats you know and post several pictures so I can see what other cats look like?"
posted by Metroid Baby at 3:07 PM on January 18, 2012 [20 favorites]

I bet it'd be fine if you just started it out with "I'm writing a book."
posted by crunchland at 3:09 PM on January 18, 2012 [2 favorites]

I thought Matt had upgraded you all to Heartless Mod 2.0 over the Christmas Break.
posted by arcticseal at 3:11 PM on January 18, 2012

Some of the synaptic grafts have been fraying, so occasional aberrant behavior manifests until he can get a maintenance crew out to reflash our firmware.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:17 PM on January 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

Dogg, you need to defend nothing. The fact that humans manage this place is why it's worth hanging out here.
posted by Doublewhiskeycokenoice at 3:17 PM on January 18, 2012

Dogg, you need to defend nothing. The fact that humans manage this place is why it's worth hanging out here.

Humans manage my office, but it's not worth hanging out here.

Is the difference that he's also a dogg? This is my new mental image of Cortex.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 3:24 PM on January 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

Yeah, chatfilter... I posted a similar askme a while back, it got nuked from space... I can't argue with Cortex's "shit happens" response above, but, I've got to admit that I thought "WTF" when this stayed...

posting here shouldn't be about playing the lottery... just sayin'
posted by HuronBob at 4:23 PM on January 18, 2012

Thanks for creating the playlist, dude! It finally got me to jump on the spotify bandwagon and I like the collective nature of it and the chance to discover something new (though I am definitely having a lot of WTF moments so far...).
posted by purenitrous at 4:38 PM on January 18, 2012

posting here shouldn't be about playing the lottery... just sayin'

Metafilter, like life, is not always predictable.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 4:52 PM on January 18, 2012 [2 favorites]

Thanks for creating the playlist! Just to clarify, but I was the one that said EVERYTHING by The National and that was the fan girl in me that got excited and had to capitalize the word EVERYTHING. But, what I meant by that was put their entire discography on your list of new music to listen to because it's oh so good!
posted by livinglearning at 5:01 PM on January 18, 2012

And you can find the How to Dress Well "I Wish" (R.Kelly cover) here.
posted by livinglearning at 5:05 PM on January 18, 2012

Well, if you can't find "Hands" by King Tuff, use Ruthie Ruthie instead.

Also: total chatfilter, A+ would post again.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 6:19 PM on January 18, 2012

I'm going to make a thread asking people to post their best spotify playlists. Will this be chatfilter? I love playlists.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:56 PM on January 18, 2012

As a Canadian, I disapprove of this and all other Spotify threads.
posted by philip-random at 10:38 PM on January 18, 2012 [2 favorites]

My response to this thread:

Click link
"I wonder what Spotify is?"
Read features.
"It can't be free"
Read pricing structure.
"Wow, this is even BETTER than Pandora, which I haven't been able to use for the past few years since it was closed to everyone outside America."
Read small text at the top.
"Spotify is not available in Australia."
Sigh.
posted by lollusc at 11:44 PM on January 18, 2012 [1 favorite]

Lollusc, the similar Rdio is available in Australia. Never used it myself (as it's not available in the UK), and I don't know how much it costs, but it might be worth a look.
posted by Richard Holden at 1:35 AM on January 19, 2012

Bah. They may be chatfilter, but for someone like me who was raised by a pair of Top-40 loving parents and lived a Top-40 teenhood and still lives a Top-40 adulthood, threads like that are a gold mine.
posted by ladygypsy at 4:56 AM on January 19, 2012

This is really awesome - thank you so much for putting this together!
posted by ukdanae at 5:36 AM on January 19, 2012

BTW, Spotify "helpfully" uses your network connection and onsite cached music data to stream to other users. Keep an eye on your internet usage.
posted by Aquaman at 7:41 AM on January 19, 2012

I'm still trying to figure out how to scrobble to last.fm...
posted by Karmakaze at 10:14 AM on January 19, 2012

As a Canadian listening to the Spotify playlist right now (and all day yesterday) I can recommend Unblock-us.com - you give them $5/month and they let you use their DNS service that proxies Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, BBC, etc through servers in the appropriate location. It's a Canadian company but I think is designed to work anywhere in the world.
posted by Gortuk at 10:53 AM on January 19, 2012 [1 favorite]

I'm still trying to figure out how to scrobble to last.fm...

I did this awhile ago, and it was more of a pain than it needed to be. You need to have the App Finder in the sidebar, which I think I got by re-downloading (updating, not upgrading) the desktop program. You need the App Finder to get the Last.fm app that lets you scrobble.
posted by EvaDestruction at 11:38 AM on January 19, 2012

>I'm still trying to figure out how to scrobble to last.fm...

>>I did this awhile ago, and it was more of a pain than it needed to be. You need to have the App Finder in the sidebar, which I think I got by re-downloading (updating, not upgrading) the desktop program. You need the App Finder to get the Last.fm app that lets you scrobble.

That's odd, it never used to work that way (you could scrobble for a long time before they introduced the App Finder). Try Edit>Preferences>Scrobble to Last.fm. Works fine for me on my PC (and intermittently and seemingly at random from my phone).

Lollusc: they definitely want to expand, but licensing/dealing with the labels has been tough for them - they took years to get into the US. Hopefully they'll expand to other countries soon.

Oh, and thanks kdern. Up with this sort of thing.
posted by Infinite Jest at 1:41 PM on January 19, 2012

A nice song or two in here from artists I know but songs I didn't - Florence & the Machine (Cosmic Love), the Ellie Goulding remix, 212 by Azealia Banks (I thought I was one of like 5 people who listened to her), and long distance runaround by Yes. Some great new songs I'd never heard - Strange Mercy by St. Vincent & These Moments by Antoine Dufour.

Thank you for the question and the meta and thank you Cortex and company for letting it stand. I'm giving up chocolate this year, so I need the music to help keep me from going slowly insane.

I hadn't planned on it being as fun as it was to look at each piece of artwork the various people and groups chose. It added to the mood. Beatles and dogs and city scenes, portraits or just funky fonts. I heard the instrumentals used for a few hip hop songs (Gangstarr's Beyond Comprehension being one). Also, confession - I listened to Joe Jackson's Steppin Out and grabbed a dress and twirled as I looked longingly at the ceiling. I still have 75 songs left or so.

For the playlist you may want to change the Active Child - Body Heat version - for some reason it's sped up at the beginning. Also, the Fight the Power from P.E. is a live version from Revolverloution, better to go with the one from Fear of a Black Planet.
posted by cashman at 1:52 PM on January 19, 2012

Thanks for all the feedback everyone, positive and negative.

I've updated the spotify playlist again... it's now up to 343 songs.
posted by kdern at 4:55 PM on January 19, 2012 [2 favorites]

That's odd, it never used to work that way

Huh. I poked all around on the menus when I was trying to figure it out and didn't find that. Guess I didn't look as well as I thought I did. That's definitely handier than waiting for or forcing an update!
posted by EvaDestruction at 6:48 AM on January 20, 2012

Oh mai Godddd. This is a feast of marvelousness!!! Thanks kdern for collecting all this amazing music together. You are my new hero. Totally love it. Am discovering SO much here! And now I have a ton of Good Stuff to put in my Spotify folders and play, play, play. Just SO COOL!
posted by nickyskye at 1:49 PM on January 21, 2012