The weekly music thread remains one of my favorite recurrent Hubski activities. But if I'm not careful or else short on time, I find myself guilty of posting without listening. Which seems kind of counterproductive to the thread as an avenue of discovery and discourse. I wonder how many others end up doing the same.

Thought it might be neat to try an exercise where listening to others' submissions isn't just advisable, but central to the movement of the thread. Behold, Hubski playlist.

Here's what I propose: one person posts a song (I'll start). Next person listens to the song all the way through, and then posts a song that he or she thinks relates in some way to the preceding submission. This can mean stylistically, historically, emotionally, compositionally, lyrically, whatever. But you shouldn't just shoehorn in a song that you want to share. The idea is to listen actively and seriously to what came before, even if it otherwise isn't your bag, and then respond to it in a way that demonstrates your consideration of what came before.

Furthermore, in order to strengthen the narrative arc of the playlist, I would encourage each subsequent submitter to listen to the entire preceding playlist before adding to it.

So, ground rules:

1. One submission per user.

2. In order to avoid doubling up on responses to previous songs, potential submitters "call" their spot and then give some time for others to see that the next spot has been taken. So, call it, wait a while (which should give you time to chew on your response anyhow), then submit. Or else would it be easier for the previous submitter to nominate the next one?

3. Put your numerical order before your submission. This ensures that future submitters listen to the playlist in sequence regardless of whether or not shares shift the order that submissions are viewed in. So I'll put "1." before my submission, next user puts "2." etc.

That's it, I guess. You can go with your musical tastes, or else jump out of your depth. Listen carefully, assume that each submission was chosen with care and affection. You can explain your submission or just let the next person guess at the why of it. I'll put my submission in as a comment.