I love getting the Spotify Unwrapped every year where Spotify tell you what special kind of weirdo I am and how many times I have listened to the one song. Spotify are getting better at this over the years and this year they have added your listenership age. Unfortunately and fortunately for me I am age 79 in this regard.
I do like my 60's music I have to say and I would have a Beatles album on on many occasions. Now we had a problem last year when my wifes music started encroaching on my Spotify account. The crooks of the matter was that we have Sonos set up throughout the house and the Sonos was on my account. Alexa works through these so when anyone asked to turn on a song then it was my Spotify account it was extracting from. So last year I could not attribute the Spotify unwrapped to me alone. It was kind of a mix and even my 9 year old who is becoming a K-pop head was starting to get some of her songs into the list. This had to stop so I logged my Spotify out of the accounts and set up a profile for everyone. Now we are all happy with our own accounts with the exception of the 5 year old boy who has a penchant for Queen especially Another one bites the Dust.
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To be honest I quite like that song so I am proud of a Queen song being on the most listened. Now he does also like his dance music and he has a thing for Avicii ( Lord to mercy on him) . I actually watched the Avicii documentary on a streaming site recently and it was excellent so I don't mind the DJ being in my top 5 either. When Avicii launched his album at a Miami Dance festival and he had a load of country singers come out and sing on stage , the crowd thought it was some kind of bad joke and it went down like a lead balloon. But Avicii know what he was doing and his album went number 1 in about 50 countries the week after and Hey Brother was one of his hits. Great storyy. I can see them all in Miami stopping dancing when so lad in a stetson walked out and it always makes me laugh.
But I have to say I was surprised an old rap song made it in but in fairness its probably the best ever rap song so I'm quite OK with that too. Teardrop by the Womacks is a favourite of mine and I have always liked Linda Womack's look. She s probably the coolect looking human on the planet even now. Look at her here.
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The Don't Leave me This Way is an interesting one. Santy got the little one a keyboard for Christmas and we both love the little piano solo in the song so we decided to learn that on the keyboard so I had to play it over and over. Not a bad song though.
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I do listen to many many football podcasts. An embarrassing amount. I find them as a comfort and also I do not mind doing house chores when the headphones are in so I listen to hours and hours of them . In work I put some on if I am doing something regarding maintenance. I just can't get enough of them. My top 5 are below
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This is probably true for the top 3. I put on Fontaine DC for high tempo runs at around 13kmph. @steevc try listening to their first album Dogrel while running to the beat. It's the best running album I know because it's just bangers and drums. I have never put Sam Fender on in my life so I don't know how he slipped in but he's not bad. And Oasis are there because we went to see them in Dublin this year.
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This is correct. I have a thing about Rubber Soul. I love that album and I also love Fleetwood Macs rumours and Coldplays Parachutes on a Sunday morning so they are correct. Kingfishr are an upcoming Irish band who many of us like so yeah its good to see a local Limerick band get into my list and if any of you want some nice Irish music then you can't get much better than this
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So this is it for my Spotify wrapped this year. A strange one but music is subjective. I don't slag you about your shit jazz!
Haha, most of my stuff was actually jazz this year. A lot of Japanese stuff that @dbooster turned me on to. My listening age was 67. I'm glad to see Sam Fender on your list.
@dbooster , @bozz. stop lying to yourselves with anticipating beats and all that (jazz)
:) It's a mood, what can I say.
I've switched to Tidal as they don't fund military and pay the artists more. But not trying to guilt you, just a weeny but jealous I can't okay this game now x
Do Spotify fund military. I thought they were the peaceful Scandanavians. I watched a bio pic about Spotify which is on one of the Streaming sites and it was in their native language. The guy behind it is a very good coder but he needed a pair of jazz hands to sell the website. So Daniel Ecke got a guy called Martin Lorentzon who was a bit of a mad yolk but he was great. But when Spotify exploded and went public Martin was brushed aside because he didn't suit corporate culture. It was an excellent documentary. The bit where he meets Peter Thiel and Thiel took one look at him and diagnosed him with a disability straight away. (Thiel was on the button) He said it was the biggest blow of his life. I always remember that.
Yeah they invested heaps into Helsing, a German military technology company that specialises in developing artificial intelligence systems... Plus how much it pays it's artists compared to Tidal/qbuos. A heap of artists top themselves off the platform and made noise. Couldn't ethically justify it I guess. Plus my dad had already gone to Q so my interest was piqued. I always question my loyalty really ..us it because I'm used to it and it's easy? Or is it worth checking out the competition? Haven't really regretted switching. I mean you can't get everything right... But you can give it a go
Yeah but will somebody think of theplaylists. My precious playlists
You can import them into Tidal ;)
Interestinger and interestinger
I have t seen the doco but gotta love a story like that.
If I had and used Spotify, I wonder how old it'd think I am for my Spotify Unwrapped.
Very Jimi Hendrix that by the way. I liked it. I would give you a handsome 43.
Yeah I had that problem last year with kids songs infecting the playlist but I take that as an opportunity for education.
My youngest recently asked me to sing him a song at bedtime. I said “sure what song?” He said “LSF by Kasabian”. Good lad
I left Spotify earlier this year because I got a better deal on Amazon. I quite like their yearly review which creates a festival for you
Infecting my playlist 🤣 🤣. I was looking at your festival guide and thinking wow next year is gonna be some gig and then I saw The Stones Roses and got sad. It's actually quite a good way of doing it. You and me have similar tastes. You get Kasbian and I get K-pop and Taylor Swift. There is hope for the little man though
Santa doesn’t bring toys to Swifties
Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat was popular on radio stations and TV when I was a kid/teen in the 90s. I rediscovered this nostalgic song in the Internet era on YT. Quite recently I searched for what else this guy sang. And here we are I found this fun "Don't Leave Me This Way" from the remote 80s (love them).
A great band, they are on my radar on YT.
P.S. Queen and the Beatles are amazing, the classics.
Did you know the keyboard player of the Communards is now a vicar in the UK. I know Bronski Beat. An 80s classic 😃
I didn't know. Quite a turn for his career... 😀
Though, it happens:
jaysus 👀
DOn't see anyone being 79 and listen to Dr.Dre
It’s funny that song in particular is around 35 years old 😱😱. We are getting old .
According to Spotify I'm 71 :) I listen to podcasts when I am running, but not on Spotify. When I'm working I listen to a lot of prog rock and jazz, so what may make me seem old. No song had a huge number of plays as I listen to a wide range and I also listen to stuff from my own collection too so Spotify does not see it all. It gets logged on last.fm.
Our musical tastes couldn't be more different! :P
I hear your musical age is 15