Playlists are evolving
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dreamsharkReminder: I'm putting together a couple of themed playlists for the current times, would love to exchange with others.
I started with a playlist intended to be calming, sort of negatively inspired by NPR's astonishingly insipid attempt at the same thing. Starting point was a playlist I call "Melody Sublime," which is simply all the songs that cause my heart to melt into a puddle of serenity when they turn up. For me, this is almost entirely about melody and vocal quality, regardless of subject matter. And given my taste for minor keys and simple folk melodies, the majority of them are what a lot of people might call depressing. So I'm sorting through a pile of songs like "The Boxer" and "Fennario" to find the ones that are somewhat uplifting, or at least emotionally neutral.
But I couldn't resist trying to come up with a playlist that actually reflects and processes the experience of the current pandemic. Even with my somewhat morbid taste in music, I don't have a lot of songs literally about pestilence and pandemic, but I don't have to widen the scope too much to get an hour or more of thematically appropriate music. I've started out with "Eve of Destruction," seguing into "St. James Infirmary" and "Death Don't Have No Mercy" before drifting into less literal interpretations of the zeitgeist like the Stealers Wheel one recommended byminnehaha
I started with a playlist intended to be calming, sort of negatively inspired by NPR's astonishingly insipid attempt at the same thing. Starting point was a playlist I call "Melody Sublime," which is simply all the songs that cause my heart to melt into a puddle of serenity when they turn up. For me, this is almost entirely about melody and vocal quality, regardless of subject matter. And given my taste for minor keys and simple folk melodies, the majority of them are what a lot of people might call depressing. So I'm sorting through a pile of songs like "The Boxer" and "Fennario" to find the ones that are somewhat uplifting, or at least emotionally neutral.
But I couldn't resist trying to come up with a playlist that actually reflects and processes the experience of the current pandemic. Even with my somewhat morbid taste in music, I don't have a lot of songs literally about pestilence and pandemic, but I don't have to widen the scope too much to get an hour or more of thematically appropriate music. I've started out with "Eve of Destruction," seguing into "St. James Infirmary" and "Death Don't Have No Mercy" before drifting into less literal interpretations of the zeitgeist like the Stealers Wheel one recommended by
minnehaha 
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Date: 2020-04-04 07:21 pm (UTC)It's available on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/-_c6vW7aT54
Apparently John Denver also covered it, but the original is the version I'm familiar with.
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Date: 2020-04-06 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-07 12:24 am (UTC)The Ash Grove
The Boxer
Fennario
Do You Love An Apple?
Gentle Annie
Jennifer Juniper
Laurie (Strange Things Happen)
Jolene
Johnny Stewart, Drover
Jeannie O' Bethelnie
Ripple
Superman's Song
Take This Longing
You And Me And Rain On The Roof
Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
Lemon Tree
Loch Lomond
Under African Skies
The River is Wide
Isle Au Haut Lullaby
How Can I Keep From Singing?
Hallelujah
A Tender Lie
Glencoe
Hunter's Lullaby
Silkie
Living On The River
Winterlude
Aragon Mill
Mountains O'Mourne
Jennifer Gentle
The Happy Wanderer
Come All Ye Fair & Tender Maidens
Red River Valley
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
The Last Thing on My Mind
Ramblin' Boy
Kingston Market
Epistle To Derroll
The Gypsy Rover
Coulters Candy
Cruel War (Single Version)
Goodnight, Irene
The Old Revolution
The Sound Of Silence
Scarborough Fair/Canticle
Shenandoah
Ebony Eyes
Plaisir d'Amour
Danny Boy (John)
Folsom Prison Blues
Casey Jones Blues
Freight Train
Farewell Angelina
Geordie
Barbara Allen
What Child Is This?
Julian Of Norwich
Easy Now, Easy
Annie's Luck
Too Late, But Not Forgotten
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Roseville Fair
Oregon Hill
Sisters Of Mercy
Ballad of a Runaway Horse
Annie Laurie
Billy Gray
Spanish Is the Lovin' Tongue