Tag: spotify

  • Bonus Tracks: Talking Heads

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    Grabbed from each of the deluxe releases, plus the Once in a Lifetime box, plus the Bonus Outtakes and Rarities release (then pruned for repeats), here’re the collected Talking Heads bonus tracks as available this day in history via Spotify. Outraged that something got missed? Consider using the mantra offered in “Found of Job” (re…

  • Bonus Tracks: John Lennon

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    Here are studio outtakes and home recordings collected on the 11th disc of the John Lennon Signature Box. “Mother” and more. No box necessary.

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Just Kids, by Patti Smith

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    Patti Smith’s Just Kids follows her from miserable teendom to fabulous adulthood where she makes lots of art and poetry and music and befriends all the cool folks from the Chelsea Hotel and elsewhere around NYC at the time. The songs mentioned in the book are just about all here.

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Life, by Keith Richards

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    Things remembered from reading Keith Richards’ Life: He came up with  “Satisfaction” during a dream. He ran some Italian military trucks off the road once. He once believed in purity and soul and stuff when it comes to music and touring; now he likes hanging out with the American Express VIPs backstage at shows. He’s…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Guardian Mini-Collection

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    The Guardian proclaims that these are The Best Mixtapes in Fiction. Maybe–haven’t read all the books (or listened to all the playlists), so hard to know. Below, the playlists without explanations–get those in the article, if you care to. For High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby: For Doctor Sleep, by Stephen King (his Shining sequel, his list): For…

  • Bonus Tracks: Led Zeppelin

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    Shuffle around the Led Zepplin deluxe editions without having to hear those old original versions. Just LZ1 through Physical Graffiti up on Spotify as of this typing. Mostly live stuff, early mixes, mixes minus vox, etc.  Less revelatory than than other deluxe releases. But still.

  • Bonus Tracks: Elvis Costello

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    Like streaming music? Like Elvis Costello? The first two EC records were rereleased in deluxe mode, with demos, outtakes, live performances, and such–recently-ish arrived at Spotify. Here’s a playlist with just the bonus tracks from those two releases. (That’s “My Aim is True” and “This Year’s Model,” if you’re arriving late to the party.) Enjoy…

  • The Best Songs of 2015

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    These are definitively the best songs of 2015. So says… Pitchfork Drowned in Sound Gorilla vs. Bear Bands Under the Radar Congratulations, bands!

  • Weird Science: Echo Nest Labs

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    Used to be that you spun a record and stared at the packaging and had an experience, over and over again. No longer. Over and over isn’t necessary–everyone’s got a near-infinite record collection. Listening and staring are losing their footing as well. Take, for example, this long list of music apps, maps, and other music-related…

  • Serendipity

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    Check out this nifty, dizzying, pointless, pretty Spotify app: Serendipity. Two people hit play on Spotify at the same time and their locations light up on the Serendipity map as a clip of the song plays.  Does that mean if Songblimpers all hit play on a Shaggs song at once it will blow up the…