One of the cool things about Spotify, is that with regular listening, it remembers your tastes and builds themed dynamic playlists called "Daily Mixes" around them.
I found it illuminating to look at the general genre of each one, and was curious as to what everyone else got....
Here's mine...
Daily Mix 1: Indie/Britpop (no surprise there)
Daily Mix 2: Music across genres made by attractive women plus some soft rock (nope, not surprised)
Daily Mix 3: Harder alt rock and grunge (Foos, QOTSA,Nirvana)
Daily Mix 4: Soundtracks
Daily Mix 5: Classic Rock (listening to this now trying to promote it so I look cooler...)
Daily Mix 6: Indie rock but a bit weirder (Anna Calvi, Let's Eat Grandma etc.)
Quite an education, a bit like the annual "most listened to" playlists!
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2: Ambient and "modern classical"
3: Post-rock
4: Heavier post-rock, some hardcore, some mathcore
5: Post-metal and ambient black metal
6: Assorted non-dance electronica
This works well, until you start sharing spotify with your partner and she mostly listens to The Greatest Showman soundtrack for pre hospital shift motivation! I do like the occasional new item it throws up though.
Fortunately this hasn't infected the annual "Your top songs of 2017" list...but I suspect it will this year!
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youAs for spotify - I seem to be limited to 4 daily mixes recently.
1 - Classic rock
2 - Metal & hard rock with the odd Police track thrown in
3 - Modern (ish) rock
4 - Rockabilly
5 & 6 used to be blues and jazz - maybe I'm not listening to enough of them to warrant their own playlists at the moment.
#1 - mainly indie or garage bands from the early 00s... No surprise certainly
#2 - seems to be Eagles, The Band, Carole King... Not entirely sure where that comes from
#3 - indie folk I guess it's called, Laura Marling, Noah and the Whale, Johnny Flynn etc. That's fair enough
#4 - Third Man Records artists, which makes sense as I have a playlist called exactly that already.
#5 - seems to be a selection of Greek bazouki music such as that you might hear in Greek restaurants as background music. Not a clue why this one is there?!
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Daily Mix 2:
Fiona Apple, Beck, Nick Drake and more...
Daily Mix 3:
Supertramp, Talking Heads, Donald Fagan and more...
Daily Mix 4:
Faith No More, Rush, Pink Floyd and more...
Daily Mix 5:
Cabaret Voltaire, Thomas Dolby, Scritti Politti and more...
Daily Mix 6:
Neil Cowley Trio, Nels Cline, Charles Lloyd & the Marvels and more...
The actual playlists are a lot more interesting than the three artists quoted, though. Don't really understand the FNM and Rush one, as I think I listened to one song by each over the last couple of months, and one album by Fiona Apple. I actually listen to a lot more low-profile music than the things it lists there. What I usually do is listen to the tracks on the playlist I've never heard of. What I really want is one übermix which combines all six, but that appears to be beyond Spotify's algorithms.
I've got some great stuff from their Release Radar recommendations over the last couple of years, and another good way of finding odd new music is artist radio. Thing is it thinks I want to listen to Dream Baby Dream by Suicide and I really don't, and it won't take no for an answer.