What are some Spotify Playlists made by Mefis?

December 12, 2014 3:27 PM

Over the last year or so, I have absolutely loved every spotify album made by mefis. It is always a high quality compilation.

Most recently I have enjoyed Melancholy 'Mas, and before it was the Mefi Butts Playlist.

It seems like the best playlists aren't ones that people have already found from another source, but are a compilation of comments on a specific thread. Some of the added benefits are themes, or a reason to compile the list.

What Spotify compilation of comments threads have you seen and remembered fondly?

posted by bbqturtle to MetaFilter-Related at 3:27 PM (26 comments total)

I did one of these in 2012 for a thread on The People's Song Book. "These hard-hitting, hard-times songs are participation songs, mass-singing and mass-action songs, unity songs, marching songs, fighting songs. Singing them, each of us feels that he is not alone but that the many are singing and marching and fighting beside him."
posted by showbiz_liz at 3:36 PM on December 12, 2014 [3 favorites]

My wife enjoyed this 1986-1991 R&B Summer Jams list, which came from this thread. Come to think of it, even I, R&B ignoramus that I am, thought it was pretty fun when she played it in the car.
posted by DingoMutt at 4:11 PM on December 12, 2014 [2 favorites]

dst made a Scottish music playlist based on this thread. That playlist is a very nice distillation of the highlights of the thread. I kind of went bananas on Spotify Scottish rock and made a longer list.
posted by banjo_and_the_pork at 6:36 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]

Here's one called "Massive Writing Playlist" which I always liked, even though I'm not a writer... and I'm actually not 100% sure this person is a Mefite. It's good, though. Although I don't have spotify anymore, I'd listen to it if I still could.
posted by mrbigmuscles at 6:40 PM on December 12, 2014

Music to make love to. From this thread.
posted by get off of my cloud at 8:10 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]

I have made playlists of the 3 mix CDs I did for the swaps:
MeFi Mix 2013-2 Radio
MeFi Mix 2013-1 Free Man in Paris
MeFi Mix 2014-1 LA Traffic
posted by amapolaroja at 11:01 PM on December 12, 2014

I've done several these (and will do more; I love making them). They're all listed and linked on my profile page.
posted by iamkimiam at 12:56 AM on December 13, 2014 [3 favorites]

MeFi Summer Jamz 2014 and 2013.
posted by neushoorn at 1:07 AM on December 13, 2014 [1 favorite]

Here are some of mine:
--a moody, folky thing for outdoors at night
--the surprisingly awesome playlist of m,y five year-old kid's favorite songs! (Flaming Lips, Roger Miller, Rufus Thomas, the theme to Spiderman...)
-a playlist of idiosyncratic, sorta retro, but basically new R&B tracks
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:59 AM on December 13, 2014

Ethereal Desert Rock, from this request.
posted by tofu_crouton at 9:15 AM on December 13, 2014 [1 favorite]

I've got a dumping ground of a playlist called Alabamiana that's whole records by artists, bands and groups from my home state. It's got everything from soul to rock to hip-hop, but it's mostly thinking-and-drinking guitar rock a la Drive-By-Truckers. Couple hundred songs. Good to put on shuffle while driving beneath those Southern pines.

Linky
posted by BitterOldPunk at 10:04 AM on December 13, 2014

Ok, over 400 songs because I just added the complete Hank Williams recordings to it
posted by BitterOldPunk at 10:09 AM on December 13, 2014

So Long, Farewell, Goodbye songs from this request.

AskMe's songs for reading (compiled from a couple of AskMes; mostly post-rock and ambient without vocals). Still evolving.

(And I made a YouTube playlist from the 100 famous guitar riffs in one take FPP.)
posted by Lexica at 10:13 AM on December 13, 2014

This is my Best of 2014 playlist.
posted by Lutoslawski at 12:10 PM on December 13, 2014 [1 favorite]

I have several but this one is my fav.

100 Southern Rock Songs
posted by bjgeiger at 7:25 PM on December 13, 2014

My "excellent stuff" playlist. You probably need to be older than dirt to appreciate it!
posted by HuronBob at 9:32 PM on December 13, 2014

my radio show's blog, with links to mixcloud streams and podcasts
posted by philip-random at 1:16 AM on December 14, 2014

Is it possible to get a playlist (in some form) made from Spotify links in metafilter/ask comments, like we do with Amazon, Youtube, and Wiki links? If not, is there a way (or does there exist) a shared Metafilter playlist for continuous hive-mind tapping?
posted by bibliowench at 9:06 AM on December 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

From this question about motorik songs for running, I created this playlist. The playlist has a bunch of other running tracks in it, and is not edited in any way, so the best thing to do is just play it on random.
posted by matildaben at 10:06 AM on December 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

Is it possible to get a playlist (in some form) made from Spotify links in metafilter/ask comments, like we do with Amazon, Youtube, and Wiki links? If not, is there a way (or does there exist) a shared Metafilter playlist for continuous hive-mind tapping?


That would be awesome and in the meantime, I put a couple mixes listed on the mefi wiki (Which i can't access or link to since i'm at work right now..., thanksfilter!)
posted by fizzix at 12:01 PM on December 15, 2014

Some I made:

Cigarettes and Coffee
Some Songs About Some Chick Named Allison (or Alison)
Calvary, from this askme.
Queen vs. Jellyfish because... sometimes I listen to that, okay?
posted by jeffamaphone at 2:29 PM on December 16, 2014

I have a Strange Covers playlist that I feel good about.
posted by demiurge at 6:43 AM on December 18, 2014

Music for Dorks

It's mostly popular music but slightly off the beaten path of radio daze
posted by Doleful Creature at 9:05 AM on December 18, 2014

Ha! I wondered why I was getting Spotify follows. (I made the Butts playlist.)

Here's another one I made from an AskMe thread: You Suck, via AskMe.

And here's the one I'm most proud of: Witchy Ladies of Metal.
posted by fiercecupcake at 2:38 PM on December 19, 2014 [1 favorite]

Inspired by all the great music made by women in the NPR 2014 list, here is my All Chicks All Eras All Genres playlist. From Clara Butt to Sharon van Etten to Jean Grae and then somewhere else.
posted by Sheydem-tants at 6:05 PM on December 19, 2014

I made a spotify list from many of the suggestions in this askme I made in 2011. Songs About Murder.
posted by katyggls at 4:03 PM on December 28, 2014