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 Post subject: Re: Spotify - Free music streaming thingy
PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 18:18 
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I got a free year of Premium when I upgraded my wife's mobile deal

I really like it, we can choose music on a smartphone and send it to any Amazon Echo in the house as well as my A/V Receiver

Just never use it though, we don't really listen to that much music.


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I did upgrade to Spotify Premium Family, although not without some ballache.

Mrs Hearthly was easy as she had an old Spotify account from years ago, so I just upgraded my account to Premium Family, sent her an invite, she got the email, clicked on the link, signed into her account, boom, job done.

Hearthly Jnr was the fun part as she had no existing account. So I signed her up for a new account, when you go to the Spotify homepage on the web you actually get this:

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This is down to shitty IOM IP ranges (the same issue that gimps the Google Play Store unless you VPN your device), but it did allow me to sign up for a new account for Jnr, but then located her in the US, so when I sent her the family invite it said she was in the wrong country, and then refused to let me change her country to the UK. (There are no options to choose your location when you sign up, it decides where you are. Premium Family states that the accounts are only for people who live at the same address, let alone in the same country.)

Oddly there was the option to change her country to the UK in the dropdown list (only USA and UK were listed) but the account page errored every time I tried to do it. According to the FAQ you should be able to change the country on a free account for up to 14 days, but it didn't work. On a Premium account you can change the country at will, but of course I couldn't get the account up to Premium because it wouldn't let her accept the family invite.....

In the end I couldn't find any way around it, so using one of my other email addresses I VPN-ed my Shield tablet with a UK IP, signed up for another Spotify account which was homed correctly in the UK, sent the Family invite to that, and then logged that account in on Jnr's PC and then she had a Premium Family account too.

It's not quite ideal because her account isn't now using her email address but one of mine, but that's no biggy really.

With that out of the way it does all work splendidly, and we now have three entirely independent Premium accounts for £14.99 per month. I've installed Spotify on every computer in the house so we can have music on wherever we are. I've already started putting together CHOPLEY'S AWESOME PLAYLIST which will have all the best music ever on it.


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 Post subject: Re: Spotify - Free music streaming thingy
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As Spotify no longer offer their 'Unlimited' plan (£4.99 a month for no ads, but no mobile), I hope they don't force me to switch over to Premium at some point. Given that I use Spotify every day, I'd be certain to upgrade, but I don't need the additional features of higher quality or mobile access.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 20:32 
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OK this is sort of getting into some sort of shape now, but were it a piece of software I'd still call it a 0.1 alpha release.

Some basic ordering has been done, and I've got a decent chunk of the artists I want in there (although many are still missing), but it's a looooong way off complete.

The basic rule of CHOPLEY'S AWESOME PLAYLIST is that there can only be one entry from any single artist, so it's like, you really like David Bowie? That's nice, but there can only be one David Bowie track on the list.

(Note that the same person/people can crop up multiple times, so a track from Pulp and a solo artist track from Jarvis Cocker is fine.)

There is also an overarching concept that it's music you'd want on a jukebox in the pub, or when driving in the car, so for example whilst I think 'Disintegration' by The Cure is one of the finest albums ever created, none of the tracks on that album really fit here, so instead it's 'Just Like Heaven' off 'Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me'.

There's also some embryonic 'mood shifting' in place, in that it winds down a bit towards the end, but it's crude and horribly imperfect at the moment.

Also note that music largely finished in the early 2000s for me, but I have been trying to make the list a bit more contemporary.

Anyway, all you have to do is copy and paste this into Spotify's search box.

spotify:user:chopleyturnip:playlist:49AbQSmbnKHjvNwj9dyYF7


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Nice! Will give it a listen the morrow. Looks like there's a lot I like there.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 13:37 
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This continues to evolve, now up to 142 tracks (so 142 unique artists), with a definite 'wind down' zone at the end, the rest of it is still in a state of flux though, and some artist's entries have changed numerous times already.

Anyway, have a scan down the list and see if this is the sort of thing you like, because if it is, you'll probably like this.

I'm not sure 'Tame' by The Pixies is the friendliest opener, but fuck it I love that track.

I am completely open to suggestions, and am very much aware there are still LOADS of 'must have' artists still missing. Last time I looked it was being 'followed' by 5 people, so international recognition is imminent I feel.

LIST BELOW (spoilered so it doesn't take up loads of screen real estate).

Playlist link (cope and paste into Spotify's search box) -

spotify:user:chopleyturnip:playlist:49AbQSmbnKHjvNwj9dyYF7

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https://open.spotify.com/user/chopleytu ... vNwj9dyYF7

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1 Tame - Pixies
2 What Do You Want From Me? - Monaco
3 Turn You Inside-Out - Remastered - R.E.M.
4 Automatic Systematic Habit - Garbage
5 Tighten Up - 2013 Remastered Version - Electronic
6 Pablo Picasso - David Bowie
7 Skinny Little Bitch - Hole
8 Buy Nothing Day - The Go! Team
9 Blindness - The Fall
10 You Got The Love - New Voyager Radio Edit - The Source & Candi Staton
11 Bullet In the Head - Rage Against The Machine
12 Two Worlds Collide - 7" Mix Edit - Inspiral Carpets
13 Sabotage - Beastie Boys
14 Charm Assault - Ride
15 Swastika Eyes - Jagz Kooner Mix - Primal Scream
16 I Ran - A Flock Of Seagulls
17 Crystal - New Order
18 Standing In the Way of Control - Gossip
19 Open Up - Remastered - Leftfield
20 Wavy Gravy - Flyying Colours
21 Star Roving - Slowdive
22 Aisha - Death In Vegas
23 Kill Your Television - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
24 Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park
25 Stingin' Belle - Biffy Clyro
26 Rise - Bob Clearmountain Remix - Public Image Ltd.
27 Kingdom of Rust - Doves
28 All You Good Good People - Embrace
29 All the Rage Back Home - Interpol
30 Already Yours - Curve
31 Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
32 Add It Up - Violent Femmes
33 Kiss You Off - Scissor Sisters
34 Animal - Mudmen
35 Lights Out - Royal Blood
36 F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. - Pulp
37 Johnny B. - The Hooters
38 Rape Me - Nirvana
39 Dreams - Beck
40 Love Spreads - The Stone Roses
41 Stand Inside Your Love - The Smashing Pumpkins
42 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - 2011 Remastered Version - The Smiths
43 Trash - Suede
44 You Keep Me Hangin On - Kim Wilde
45 Down With the Sickness - Disturbed
46 Chasing Rainbows - Shed Seven
47 Prophets Of Rage - Prophets Of Rage
48 Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs
49 Dark Therapy - Echobelly
50 Entertain Me - 2012 Remastered Version - Blur
51 Over Rising - The Charlatans
52 Shadowboxer - Fiona Apple
53 Munich - Editors
54 Just Like Heaven - The Cure
55 Seasons (Waiting On You) - Future Islands
56 Amanaemonesia - Chairlift
57 Get Lucky - Daft Punk
58 Headshrinker - Oasis
59 Wires - Athlete
60 Playgirl - Ladytron
61 Extreme Ways - Moby
62 Lock All The Doors - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
63 Illegal Attacks - Ian Brown
64 Electricity - 2003 Digital Remaster - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
65 Judge Fudge - Happy Mondays
66 Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
67 A Question of Time - Depeche Mode
68 Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction
69 Knives - Therapy?
70 Seven Seas - Echo & the Bunnymen
71 Lola - Remastered - The Kinks
72 Laid - James
73 Demon Alcohol - Ozzy Osbourne
74 Twisted - Everyday Hurts - Skunk Anansie
75 Tramazi Parti - Black Grape
76 Jump Around - House Of Pain
77 Planet Earth - 2010 Remastered Version - Duran Duran
78 Vision Thing - Sisters of Mercy
79 Dancing with Tears in My Eyes - Ultravox
80 You Oughta Know - 2015 Remastered - Alanis Morissette
81 The Fallen - Franz Ferdinand
82 Fuel My Fire - The Prodigy
83 Fade To Grey - Visage
84 Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
85 Zombie - The Cranberries
86 Erase / Rewind - The Cardigans
87 Electioneering - Radiohead
88 Talk Talk - 1997 Remastered Version - Talk Talk
89 All The Drugs - Courtney Love
90 Turn - Travis
91 The Promise - 2010 Remastered Version - Arcadia
92 Club Foot - Kasabian
93 Nobody's Diary - 2008 Remaster - Yazoo
94 Don't You Want Me - 2002 - Remaster - The Human League
95 Pretend We're Dead - L7
96 Cross Eyed Mary - Live; 2004 Remastered Version - Jethro Tull
97 Ebeneezer Goode - Beat Edit - The Shamen
98 Bliss - Muse
99 Weapon Of Choice (feat. Bootsy Collins) - Remastered Version - Fatboy Slim
100 Never Understand - The Jesus and Mary Chain
101 Duel - 2008 Remastered Version - Swervedriver
102 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers
103 Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - The Dandy Warhols
104 Dark Necessities - Red Hot Chili Peppers
105 Poison - Alice Cooper
106 Waking Up - Elastica
107 Tourniquet - Evanescence
108 5 Minutes - 1996 Remastered Version - The Stranglers
109 Sweet '69 - Babes In Toyland
110 Epic - Faith No More
111 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
112 Urban Clearway - Saint Etienne
113 Papercut - Linkin Park
114 Whatever Happened To My Rock 'N' Roll (Punk Song) - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
115 Feed The Tree - Belly
116 Feeling A Moment - Feeder
117 Kennedy - The Wedding Present
118 The Bitter End - Placebo
119 Hungry - Kosheen
120 Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me) - 2014 Remaster - Steve Harley
121 Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
122 If I Can't Change Your Mind - Sugar
123 Crockett's Theme - Miami Vice/Soundtrack Version - Jan Hammer
124 November Spawned A Monster - 2010 Remastered Version - Morrissey
125 Last Night - Lush
126 Sadeness - Enigma
127 Altered State - Mike Oldfield
128 Pretty in Pink - The Psychedelic Furs
129 I Wanna Get Lost With You - Stereophonics
130 Love Me Again - John Newman
131 Northern Lad - Tori Amos
132 Sweet Harmony - The Beloved
133 (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Öyster Cult
134 Time And Time Again - Counting Crows
135 The Pills Won’t Help You Now - The Chemical Brothers
136 It's Been Awhile - Staind
137 Wasting My Young Years - London Grammar
138 Day Of The Lords - 2007 Remastered Version - Joy Division
139 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
140 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor
141 The Winner Takes It All - ABBA
142 Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri


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 Post subject: Re: Spotify - Free music streaming thingy
PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 13:48 
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Awesome :)
I'll have a listen in the car later.

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Weirdly I like the majority of the bands on Hearthly's playlist, but almost none of the songs by them that are on there

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Cras wrote:
Weirdly I like the majority of the bands on Hearthly's playlist, but almost none of the songs by them that are on there


I have generally made an effort to go for a track that isn't the track that everyone would automatically think of if you gave them the artist's name and screamed in their ear TELL ME A TRACK BY THIS BAND NOW MOTHERFUCKER, but at the same time I've not been deliberately picking tracks that they did in some sort of weird experimental phase whilst living on a canal barge in Utrecht and injecting a kilo of finest heroin every day.

I'm open to and welcome suggestions on both (a) Missing artists and (b) Replacement track options.

(I've shared the playlist with family and friends and they've made some great suggestions in both departments.)

At the end of the day I just want a kick-ass playlist filled to the brim with ace music.


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Cras wrote:
Weirdly I like the majority of the bands on Hearthly's playlist, but almost none of the songs by them that are on there


Any specific examples you'd highlight? I'm curious.


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Weirdly I like the majority of the bands on Hearthly's playlist, but almost none of the songs by them that are on there


Any specific examples you'd highlight? I'm curious.


Pennyroyal tea, Crystal, Turn You Inside-Out

Not saying they're bad tunes, just wouldn't be my choices. I figured you were avoiding the headline hits, I can see that.

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Crystal is the only good New Order tune, but it is very good. It's like how the Manic Street Preachers seemed to pour every ounce of their talent into Motorcycle Emptiness and had nothing left so just churned out terrible shite.


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Pennyroyal tea, Crystal, Turn You Inside-Out

Not saying they're bad tunes, just wouldn't be my choices. I figured you were avoiding the headline hits, I can see that.


They're all quite tricky artists to pick an individual track from though, I mean, you could go for the three obvious choices, Teen Spirit, Blue Monday (or True Faith) and maybe what, Losing My Religion or Everybody Hurts - but (a) Too obvious and (b) I don't think they're the best of the bands anyway.

In Nirvana's case Nevermind hasn't stood the test of time very well IMO, it's just a bit too over-produced and 'shiny' somehow, even though it's still a great album I don't much enjoy listening to it these days. So there's either Bleach or In Utero (if we're picking from studio albums). Bleach I do still enjoy and there are some definite options on there, but In Utero for me is Nirvana's finest album. I remember buying the CD as soon as it was released and listening to the whole album in my shitty student house with a friend, and commenting afterwards words to the effect of 'Well that was brilliant but they're not going to make another album, because Kurt won't be around for it'.

Picking a track off it is hard though, I was minded to go with Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (I certainly wouldn't have Heart Shaped Box or All Apologies, which were intended as gentle introductions to the 'noise' of the rest of the album) but settled on Pennyroyal Tea because it's a song I used to listen to over and over on my Walkman whilst walking around some of Manchester's less salubrious neighbourhoods (which probably wasn't very smart), I only found out later that it kind of meant what I'd thought it did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennyroyal_Tea

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When I ask Cobain if 'Penny Royal Tea' is about indigestion, he half-laughs. 'Penny royal tea is a herbal abortive,' he says. 'I threw that in because I have so many friends who have tried to use that, and it never worked. The song is about a person who's beyond depressed; they're in their death bed, pretty much.' Cobain's own bout with serious stomach pain was well documented last year. 'Yeah, it did rub off on the song,' he admits. And I couldn't help noticing the 'Canadian' reference to a Leonard Cohen afterworld. 'That was my therapy, when I was depressed and sick. I'd read things like Malloy Dies [sic] by Beckett, or listen to Leonard Cohen, which would actually make it worse,' he laughs.


I'll do Crystal and Turn You Inside Out in separate posts when I get chance.


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Bamba wrote:
Crystal is the only good New Order tune, but it is very good. It's like how the Manic Street Preachers seemed to pour every ounce of their talent into Motorcycle Emptiness and had nothing left so just churned out terrible shite.


I glossed over this last night as I got lost in a reverie thinking about how fucking excellent Motorcycle Emptiness is.

But you what? Wharrabout Bizarre Love Triangle?

Returning to the Manics, Hearthly's inclusion of "If you tolerate this..." appears to be one of his greater crimes.


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I'd have gone for Enjoy the Silence for Depeche Mode.

Great idea though, I'm going to do this in iTunes.

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But you what? Wharrabout Bizarre Love Triangle?


I really hate that sort of 80s synth style that all older New Order tunes use so none of their 'classic' stuff appeals to me in the slightest. Those fucking shitty 'drum' noises; just yuck.


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Not done it justice (at all) yet, but it's all a bit '90s grunge-heavy and gloweringly angry for me, I'd have preferred a rather more eclectic mix for 150-odd choons. Still, some undoubted gems there; Leftfield as awesome as ever; haven't heard one hit wonder Monaco since forever, and Rise remix was borderline amazeballs.

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I'd have gone:

Lithium
Regret
Fall on Me

For the Nirvana - New Order - R.E.M. trifecta, though Turn You Inside Out is a great shout, and the love version from their tour, where he dedicates it to the Exxon corporations and sings it through a megaphone lives long in my memory.


EDIT - Also, WTF nothing from The Flaming Lips?

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Yeah, for me:
Lithium
Blue Monday (I know it's an obv)
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I would also go Lithium. I think my head knows that Teen Spirit is a better song, but I've heard it so much that I don't care. R.E.M would either be Man on the Moon or Nightswimming.

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I would also go Lithium. I think my head knows that Teen Spirit is a better song, but I've heard it so much that I don't care. R.E.M would either be Man on the Moon or Nightswimming.


Smells Like Teen Spirit all the way for me, though Lithium is indeed awesome. How anyone can say Nevermind hasn't aged well is utterly beyond me; surely a seminal all-time album that pretty much defined the early to mid 90s.

New Order has to be (the original 12" vinyl) Blue Monday (and The Beach instrumental B-side with its much better song ending/spine tingling crescendo).

REM - fuck knows, not my bag.

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Come as you are
Temptation
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Quite possibly a different set of songs if you asked me another day

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How anyone can say Nevermind hasn't aged well is utterly beyond me

Who in the Blue Hell says that?

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Grim... wrote:
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How anyone can say Nevermind hasn't aged well is utterly beyond me

Who in the Blue Hell says that?


Hearthly I think, the poor misguided soul. :D

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For nirvana I do feel like I've heard lithium and teen spirit too many times now for them to retain much impact. Perhaps:

Territorial Pissings
On a Plain
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
Aneurysm

Like Malc, pick a different one on a different day of the week.


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Curiosity wrote:
R.E.M. trifecta, though Turn You Inside Out is a great shout, and the love version from their tour, where he dedicates it to the Exxon corporations and sings it through a megaphone lives long in my memory.


EDIT - Also, WTF nothing from The Flaming Lips?


Flaming Lips is a gap that needs to be plugged, for shame though I don't really know any of their stuff particularly well, even though Radcliffe and Maconie play them quite a lot on Radio 6 and have had them as guests a couple of times. Suggestions for the Flaming Lips track are welcome.

As for R.E.M. - the track I had on the list until last week for them was the impossibly wonderful live version of Country Feedback with Neil Young's mesmerising performance. But then I was cooking at the weekend and I listened to all of Green whilst I cooked and remembered how awesome it was and with great reluctance replaced Country Feedback with Turn You Inside Out - Stipe does intelligent anger so well.

But yeah, I could pick a different R.E.M. track every day of the week for a month or two, quite easily.

Incidentally, Stipe has consistently said that Country Feedback is his favourite R.E.M. song.



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Flaming lips, the pithily titled:

Talkin' 'bout the smilin' deathporn immortality blues (everybody wants to live forever)

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 15:11 
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The best REM song is probably Let Me In. Monster is such a fucking brilliant album.


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 Post subject: Re: Spotify - Free music streaming thingy
PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 17:24 
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I actually meant In Bloom. Doh!

I could pick about two dozen R.E.M. tracks to fit. For all the stick they got over the years, they have a crazy amount of good songs.

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Maybe I meant In Bloom too. Which one goes "da da da da DAA daa, da da da da DAA daa"?

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On no, In Bloom mocks people who like music without spending time to discover the "deep meaning". Fuck that pretentious shit.

Turns out I meant "Breed".

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Bamba wrote:
Monster is such a fucking brilliant album.

I pretty much just listen to this when I'm in an R.E.M. mood. Or Automatic.

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Grim... wrote:
On no, In Bloom mocks people who like music without spending time to discover the "deep meaning". Fuck that pretentious shit.

Turns out I meant "Breed".


Ooh good one. Epic drum intros for the win.


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 Post subject: Re: Spotify - Free music streaming thingy
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Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Monster is such a fucking brilliant album.

I pretty much just listen to this when I'm in an R.E.M. mood. Or Automatic.


Up was really good as well to be fair. In fact that's the last REM album I really listened to. Just one of those bands that fell by the wayside for me over the years for no reason at all.


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There are some real gems on all of their last five albums, but they are quite inconsistent and the weaker tracks on them lurch alarmingly towards being outright 'below average' or even 'poor' at times.

That said, a few years ago I listened to their entire canon back-to-back in the car over the course of a couple of weeks' worth of drives to and from work, and their output overall is astonishingly good.

In fact, that's something I need to do again at some point, listen to every studio album they've ever put out, but this time assemble a 'Best of R.E.M' Spotify playlist, assuming all their albums are actually on Spotify.

One thing I have noticed is that even where an artist is on Spotify and looks to the casual observer to be complete, there can be gaps in the collection. Duran Duran and Chumbawamba spring to mind. (The 'Pop Trash' album by Duran Duran is missing, and both 'Shhh' and 'Anarchy' by Chumbawamba are missing.)


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It's like how the Manic Street Preachers seemed to pour every ounce of their talent into Motorcycle Emptiness and had nothing left so just churned out terrible shite.


A reappraisal has seen the Manics' entry changed to Motorcycle Emptiness, I'd somehow forgotten how good it is.

Now up to 180 tracks, and there's been a bit of a shuffle around at the start.

https://open.spotify.com/user/chopleytu ... vNwj9dyYF7


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Hearthly wrote:
Bamba wrote:
It's like how the Manic Street Preachers seemed to pour every ounce of their talent into Motorcycle Emptiness and had nothing left so just churned out terrible shite.


A reappraisal has seen the Manics' entry changed to Motorcycle Emptiness, I'd somehow forgotten how good it is.

Now up to 180 tracks, and there's been a bit of a shuffle around at the start.

https://open.spotify.com/user/chopleytu ... vNwj9dyYF7


Inspired by Hearthly and to stick one in Bamba's eye about Motorcycle Emptiness being their only decent song, I made a Spotify playlist of Fopproved Manics Songs. No more Kevin Carter! No more Intense Humming of Evil! Just the good stuff*. Best listened to on shuffle.

*It's very light on the last several years' of work, not necessarily because it's bad, but because I kind of stopped listening. It's got a couple from Send Away the Tigers, I think that's as late as the list goes.


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Splendid Mr Fop, once I am jacked into the SPOTIFY BLUETOOTH AUDIO STREAMING MATRIX (Friday onward) I will listen to your playlist in the car.


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Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Monster is such a fucking brilliant album.

I pretty much just listen to this when I'm in an R.E.M. mood. Or Automatic.


Yes, I think Monster got a lukewarm reception as it wasn't Automatic. I look forward tonthoa diacussion with the pair of you tomorrow

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Now up to 200 tracks, the rate of additions has obviously slowed down as every new track has to be a new artist, and replacements for existing tracks are now happening frequently as well.

I shall continue to work on it, currently got it on shuffle play in the car, which is helping to identify weak links for changes.

https://open.spotify.com/user/chopleytu ... vNwj9dyYF7

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1 Nothing But A Heartache - The Flirtations
2 Kill Your Television - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
3 She Sells Sanctuary (2009 Re-master) - The Cult
4 Northern Lad - Tori Amos
5 Pablo Picasso - David Bowie
6 Debaser - Pixies
7 When Doves Cry - Prince
8 Lucky Town - Live - Bruce Springsteen
9 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
10 Stop The Rock - Apollo 440
11 Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
12 What Do You Want From Me? - Monaco
13 Urban Clearway - Saint Etienne
14 Tied Up in Nottz - Sleaford Mods
15 Buy Nothing Day - The Go! Team
16 The Rat - The Walkmen
17 Somebody Told Me - The Killers
18 Infinity 2008 - Guru Josh Project
19 Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
20 Headshrinker - Oasis
21 Stayin' Alive - Remastered Version - Bee Gees
22 Tighten Up - 2013 Remastered Version - Electronic
23 Push It - Garbage
24 Turn You Inside-Out - Remastered - R.E.M.
25 Skinny Little Bitch - Hole
26 On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz
27 This Is Love - PJ Harvey
28 Blindness - The Fall
29 You Got The Love - New Voyager Radio Edit - The Source & Candi Staton
30 My Number - Foals
31 Bullet In the Head - Rage Against The Machine
32 Two Worlds Collide - 7" Mix Edit - Inspiral Carpets
33 Sabotage - Beastie Boys
34 Charm Assault - Ride
35 I Ran - A Flock Of Seagulls
36 Crystal - New Order
37 Heavy Cross - Gossip
38 Soft Machine - Les Rythmes Digitales
39 Open Up - Remastered - Leftfield
40 Wavy Gravy - Flyying Colours
41 Aisha - Death In Vegas
42 Midnight City - M83
43 Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park
44 Stingin' Belle - Biffy Clyro
45 Rise - Bob Clearmountain Remix - Public Image Ltd.
46 Kingdom of Rust - Doves
47 All You Good Good People - Embrace
48 Already Yours - Curve
49 All the Rage Back Home - Interpol
50 Dirty Beats - Roni Size Reprazent
51 Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
52 Swastika Eyes - Jagz Kooner Mix - Primal Scream
53 Add It Up - Violent Femmes
54 Kiss You Off - Scissor Sisters
55 Love Spreads - The Stone Roses
56 Animal - Mudmen
57 Lights Out - Royal Blood
58 Star Roving - Slowdive
59 F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. - Pulp
60 Johnny B. - The Hooters
61 Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana
62 Dreams - Beck
63 Stand Inside Your Love - The Smashing Pumpkins
64 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - 2011 Remastered Version - The Smiths
65 Trash - Suede
66 Down With the Sickness - Disturbed
67 Lock All The Doors - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
68 Shadowboxer - Fiona Apple
69 You Keep Me Hangin On - Kim Wilde
70 Just Like Heaven - The Cure
71 Chasing Rainbows - Shed Seven
72 Prophets Of Rage - Prophets Of Rage
73 Luka - Suzanne Vega
74 Everlong - Foo Fighters
75 Everything Now - Arcade Fire
76 Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs
77 Dark Therapy - Echobelly
78 Entertain Me - 2012 Remastered Version - Blur
79 Over Rising - The Charlatans
80 Munich - Editors
81 Seasons (Waiting On You) - Future Islands
82 Amanaemonesia - Chairlift
83 Get Lucky - Daft Punk
84 Wires - Athlete
85 Playgirl - Ladytron
86 Extreme Ways - Moby
87 Illegal Attacks - Ian Brown
88 Electricity - 2003 Digital Remaster - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
89 Judge Fudge - Happy Mondays
90 Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
91 Are 'Friends' Electric? - Tubeway Army
92 A Question of Time - Depeche Mode
93 Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction
94 Knives - Therapy?
95 Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
96 Demon Alcohol - Ozzy Osbourne
97 Seven Seas - Echo & the Bunnymen
98 I Gotta Feeling - The Black Eyed Peas
99 Lola - Remastered - The Kinks
100 Twisted - Everyday Hurts - Skunk Anansie
101 Laid - James
102 Summer Of '69 - Bryan Adams
103 Tramazi Parti - Black Grape
104 Jump Around - House Of Pain
105 Planet Earth - 2010 Remastered Version - Duran Duran
106 Vision Thing - Sisters of Mercy
107 Dancing with Tears in My Eyes - Ultravox
108 Fuel My Fire - The Prodigy
109 Not So Manic Now - Dubstar
110 The Fallen - Franz Ferdinand
111 Fade To Grey - Visage
112 Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
113 Battleflag (feat. Pigeonhed) - Lo Fidelity Allstars
114 Thank U - Alanis Morissette
115 Electioneering - Radiohead
116 Rusty Cage - Soundgarden
117 Zombie - The Cranberries
118 Enter Sandman - Metallica
119 Erase / Rewind - The Cardigans
120 Can't Do - Everything Everything
121 Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
122 Talk Talk - 1997 Remastered Version - Talk Talk
123 All The Drugs - Courtney Love
124 Turn - Travis
125 Saints - The Breeders
126 The Promise - 2010 Remastered Version - Arcadia
127 Club Foot - Kasabian
128 Nobody's Diary - 2008 Remaster - Yazoo
129 Don't You Want Me - 2002 - Remaster - The Human League
130 Pretend We're Dead - L7
131 Cross Eyed Mary - Live; 2004 Remastered Version - Jethro Tull
132 Ebeneezer Goode - Beat Edit - The Shamen
133 Insomnia - Radio Edit - Faithless
134 Bliss - Muse
135 Windowlicker - Aphex Twin
136 Weapon Of Choice (feat. Bootsy Collins) - Remastered Version - Fatboy Slim
137 Teenage Exorcists - Mogwai
138 Never Understand - The Jesus and Mary Chain
139 15 Years - Remastered Version - Levellers
140 Duel - 2008 Remastered Version - Swervedriver
141 Head Like A Hole - Nine Inch Nails
142 Relax - 7" Mix - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
143 Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - The Dandy Warhols
144 Dark Necessities - Red Hot Chili Peppers
145 Poison - Alice Cooper
146 Machine - The Horrors
147 Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
148 Waking Up - Elastica
149 Whatever Happened To My Rock 'N' Roll (Punk Song) - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
150 Tourniquet - Evanescence
151 5 Minutes - 1996 Remastered Version - The Stranglers
152 Sweet '69 - Babes In Toyland
153 Sexy Boy - Air
154 Ti Amo - Phoenix
155 Epic - Faith No More
156 Papercut - Linkin Park
157 You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi
158 Feed The Tree - Belly
159 Feeling A Moment - Feeder
160 Kennedy - The Wedding Present
161 Here Comes The Rain Again - Remastered Version - Eurythmics
162 The Bitter End - Placebo
163 Monster - The Automatic
164 Hungry - Kosheen
165 Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me) - 2014 Remaster - Steve Harley
166 Black - Pearl Jam
167 Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
168 If I Can't Change Your Mind - Sugar
169 Crockett's Theme - Miami Vice/Soundtrack Version - Jan Hammer
170 November Spawned A Monster - 2010 Remastered Version - Morrissey
171 Get Your Hands Off My Woman - The Darkness
172 Last Night - Lush
173 Sadeness - Enigma
174 Altered State - Mike Oldfield
175 Pretty in Pink - The Psychedelic Furs
176 I Wanna Get Lost With You - Stereophonics
177 Love Me Again - John Newman
178 Elephant - Tame Impala
179 Sweet Harmony - The Beloved
180 (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Öyster Cult
181 Time And Time Again - Counting Crows
182 The Pills Won’t Help You Now - The Chemical Brothers
183 Soulution - Utah Saints
184 It's Been Awhile - Staind
185 Get Down Tonight - 2004 Remastered Version - KC & The Sunshine Band
186 The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby
187 Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
188 Day Of The Lords - 2007 Remastered Version - Joy Division
189 Layla - 40th Anniversary Version / 2010 Remastered - Derek & The Dominos
190 Pure Shores - All Saints
191 Lost Property - The Divine Comedy
192 Wasting My Young Years - London Grammar
193 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
194 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor
195 Papua New Guinea - 12" Version - The Future Sound Of London
196 The Winner Takes It All - ABBA
197 Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri
198 School - Supertramp
199 No Pussy Blues - Grinderman
200 Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - The Flaming Lips


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7 When Doves Cry - Prince


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If you ever listen to Heart Radio, you'll hear that song at least 3 times a day.


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DavPaz wrote:
If you ever listen to Heart Radio, you'll hear that song at least 3 times a day.


I never listen to Heart Radio.

The only radio station I listen to is Radio 6 and that's 95% the Radcliffe & Maconie show on catchup over the weekend, they play Prince tracks from time to time and I've heard When Doves Cry on there a handful of times over the years, it's quite good I think.

It was also the 'collect bank' sample that Maygay used on their fruit machines in the early 90s.

Obviously there needs to be a Prince track on there somewhere, I am open to suggestions as to better options :)



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Purple Rain or GTFO

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