Spotify has its give and takes (just ask Neil Young), but no one can really deny its ability to tailor its services to the users. The annual Spotify "Wrapped" Day sees hundreds of thousands of users take to social media to share their year-long listening stats in one of the best marketing moves by a modern day company.
Ritter reviews Botts
Aaron's playlist is one of a man in love with life, with the world. The majority of the songs selected for Aaron are folk-infused stompers, but also move into sweeping ballads that haunt with a reverie for long-lost love, or at times a newfound love. There are uptempo tracks for mid-morning commutes, and songs reserved for stopping off on an unexplored exit into the mountains.
Best listened to in the sun -- I ate lunch outside on a particularly warm day and felt god moving through the vocals of tracks like "The Plural of Moose is Moose" (no, that is not made up) by Happy Belated. There are two songs about Ohio on this playlist, and which, by doing a little digging, I have found seems to be a bit of a niché subgenre of music.
10/10 a playlist made for the daydreamers and hikers alike. A good way to swing you out of a monotonous work week and the humdrum of a Monday. A pick-me-up when a glass of Wild Turkey is nowhere to be found.
Standout tracks: "Virginia in the Rain" by Dave Matthews Band (my favorite off of that album), "Look at Miss Ohio" by Sol Driven Train, "Hey Larocco" by Rayland Baxter.
Botts reviews Slone
It’s safe to say Brandon’s Discover Weekly is effectively cooler than he is. I experienced a swift journey through 50s upbeat tunes and sad cowboy pondering. However, wedged in the middle were songs meant to put you to sleep (in a good way) on a Hawaiian isle and a song that Charlie and Dennis might have come up with if they stuck to their music making duo in It's Always Sunny. Does it sound cool to you yet?
The more opening aspect to the playlist was it unlocked a creative streak in me. It was as if bands were giving me insight into scenes needing to be written, tempos discovered in monologues, and moods felt for an audition.
Brandon and I do have a similar taste of music (based upon this sole playlist), but our musical language harkens back to a language rift experienced long ago. The old saying of, “It’s all Latin,” finally became understood as I bridged the experience into our mutual taste of music. The genres click as I enthusiastically say, “Yes - I like this,” to an ever changing playlist that will inevitably challenge, unlock, and grow my vocabulary for the better.
That being said, here are the three songs I most enjoy:
"Let Her Dance" - The Bobby Fuller Four
"Brazil" - Geoff and Maria Muldaur
"Blue Shadows on the Trail" - Roy Rogers, Sons of the Pioneers
Slone reviews Ritter
Dane’s Discover Weekly plays like one of those low fi hip hop beats playlists on YouTube, but with lyrics. The type of stuff I can just put on, close my eyes, and get lost in my thoughts for a while. That’s the vibe here: chill.
Of particular note (for me specifically) here is SUMMATIME by Scubadiver which, how can I explain this, is a song that sounds the way I felt when I was a freshman in college.
Another piece I’m really digging: 回転•天使 (being the hard-hitting journalist I am, I google translated this and found that it is Japanese for “Rotation • Tenshi”) by betcover!!
The vibe here is exquisite.
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Who had the best playlist? Who had the worst and why was it Dane? Let us know in the comments below!
- channel.WAV staff
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