Playlists are evolving
Apr. 3rd, 2020 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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 
