Monday 29 June 2009

About The List

The List is simply a collaborative playlist inside Spotify where anyone can add any song they like, where no genre is inappopropriate and no song unwanted. We have no requirements, but a few preferences. Don't add more than one song at the time from any artist. This may sound like bullshit considering it by the time I'm writing this already contains at least three songs from Coldplay, three songs from The Killers and three songs from The Doors, but the point of this whole list is variation. Look through it before you add new songs. Music means something to all of us, but don't get stuck with the idea that Hoobastank or Coldplay's three best songs in your opinion deserves to be added consecutively. Hell, it actually looks sloppy too. So yeah, eventually the same artist may be represented more than once, but don't force it. It's not a crime to add the same song twice, since all that happens is that I remove the first entry of it, to sort of bump it - or actually dump it, considering it ends up at the bottom again. It's understandable that the really big artists are overrepresented by a tiny bit, but that's the whole point! Spotify allows you to find new music easily, but it's slow to just sit and search for random words.

You're sitting at a café, and you hear this song. It's great right? You go home, google the lyrics, and woosh, you've discovered a to you new song. If you like it, share it here. I continue to update it whenever I have the time, while waiting for Spotify to improve the moderating settings for collaborative playlists. Put some thought into your sharing, because that's the whole point. To share a thought with another human being, perhaps even the feeling it gives you.


Big Hard Excellent Fish – Imperfect List


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3 comments:

  1. Currently going over the whole list from top to bottom, cleaning out and clearing up a little. Apparently it has become too cluttered.

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  2. how did you maintain that "Learn to listen" under the playlist name?

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  3. It's actually just a bug, unfortunately. It's the previous name of the list that somehow got transformed into a description line when changing names. It seems it's only supposed to be available for commercial playlists ;)

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