This is the first of what I’m hoping to make a weekly occurrence,
where I post a playlist that I made myself and give tips on how to order and
create your own. I fancy myself somewhat
of an amazing, spectacular, incredible, etc. creator of playlists so I hope my
advice will help you make your own for any occasion. Each week I will include the playlist I’ve
made, the title I’ve chosen, and a Youtube link to the portion of the playlist
that I talk about in my tip. I would just put the whole playlist on Youtube,
but it would be common for me not to find all of them.
Changing Places
The Blueprint (Live) – Arkells*
The Only Place – Best Coast
Out On the Shield – Said the Whale
New Goodbye – Hey Rosetta!
Amaze-Me-Jane – Parlovr
Morning Bird / Water Lines – Attack in Black
Windsor – Michou
Express Yourself – N.W.A.**
O My Heart – Mother Mother
The Maid Needs A Maid – Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Guilty Cubicles – Broken Social Scene
*Works best if you cut the final about 20 seconds
**I used the second version of this that is on the reissue,
but either version works.
Ordering tip #1 – I always start my playlists with either an
upbeat song that’s not very dense texturally, or with a song that eases the
listener into the playlist. What you
choose entirely depends on what kind of playlist you’re going for and what the
next songs are. Here I have the Best
Coast song second and I know that it kind of eases into itself so I wanted
something that set an energetic tone for the playlist. If you were to choose a song such as Hayloft
by Mother Mother to go second you’d need something that built and had very
little dead air at the end of it. Context is everything.
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