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.
7. I chose this song for a few reasons. It has a similar atmospheric quality to #6, albeit in a warmer-sense. The Zola Jesus track was very "icy", and this one is more sentimental and foresty. The videos probably contribute 90% to how I feel about them. It has a similar building quality, albeit I think Night Things does it in a more driving manner.
I replied #7 down below, I'm not sure if it will jump up to the top or not? I'm quite new to Hubski!
How high a post is depends on the amount of hubwheels (votes) it gets and how recent the post is. I've voted your song, and now it's at the top! mk, might it be a feature idea that a post can be forced to be sorted newest first? Maybe make it an option when creating a post. I think it could be useful for posts that are about live events or just things that have a strong time component.
5. Baby Dee Safe Inside the Day. Like the previous songs, the crooning is big and dramatic and like veen's song from "Elbow" it is an emotional live performance but perhaps a bit more personal . If you have not heard/heard of Baby Dee before, you're welcome. She's wonderful. A gift that's bigger than the box it came in...
----------------- I call spot number 5. I'll edit this comment later tonight after I have time to listen to this progression. Awesome idea gofuffle. I can't wait to throw on some nice headphones and sink in to some music uninterrupted. kleinbl00 -your suggestion for pre bed music listening has been great but it definitely makes it more difficult to slumber.
Almost any music, with perhaps the exception of this soundscape/pad style, makes me want to create music and therefore my mind starts working on things. This music is more like "white noise" to me than it is music. Not to take anything away from its creation, I'm sure it's not an easy thing to do well. edit: So yeah, I guess I was doing it wrong.
Whaaaaaaaat this is weird I was responding to ghostoffuffle's tag and I was gonna listen to this so I could participate etc and then it turned out to be a song I already had queued up to listen to again because I've been on a Minchin kick lately. So I think I'll jump right to my posting my own song because I've heard this 20 times.
8 for me! Picked Ramona. Also, I made a playlist! Just go here: http://youtubelister.com/ Press the load button, and type in "Hubski Playlist". Voila.
Er, how do I add to it as submissions come in?
Hah, c_hawkthorne suggested I do something like that to fix the playlist problem as well. Glad you had the motivation to clean up my mess! Also, great song.
4. The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver - Elbow It has a similar tempo as the previous, and builds up towards the end. It's also a grand, dramatic song from a great album. The Seldom Seen Kid is in my album-top-10 for a reason, and this song's one of them.
3. Sleep Forever - Portugal. The Man The other two songs were a bit new to me. Sort of operaish, and I don't really listen to any opera. I decided to go with this song because it starts slow and with the singer has a fairly high pitched voice much like fallingleaves' song. Lyrics here.
No, this is perfect. Good transition. Also, there are a lot of tonal similarities between the guitars in the Buckley song and the PtM song. It also opens up the stylistic elements to further development. Also, great song. So far this is playing like Pandora if Pandora worked the way the Pandora guys said it would work.
Off topic-ish, does anyone (kleinbl00 rezzeJ) know what that vocal effect is around the beginning? Makes it sound sort of like the track is circling around; I first heard it (or something similar) on a few of John Bonham's drum tracks (like the hi hats on When the Levee Breaks, I think?) and I've wondered what it is ever since.
Damn, that Portugal song was great, good call c_hawkthorne, it was very Buckley-esque in my opinion but with more orchestration and with an almost Oasis feel melodically. -Thanks for the introduction, when the song finished and ended with full strings/subset of strings I said out loud, "that was awesome."
2. Jeff Buckley - Corpus Christi Carol I think the vocal style is pretty similar and also the fact that it is a historical song, albeit sung by a contemporary musician. Lyrics here
1. Hildegard Von Bingen - Ave Generosa Since I'm first, lobbing an easy one. Relatively protean- adapts well to several different cultural/historical movements, and since it's almost all melody, you can build pretty much anything off of it. Historically, it's far back enough that you can go almost any direction with it. lyrics, if that's what you want to build off of.
How do you get playlists from Youtube? I use sometimes this tool https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/guides/how-to-download-youtube-playlist.htm Maybe there are some better alternatives?
Not sure. Would be happy to if people felt like doing it- guess it would make it more inclusive and give everybody a crack at it. What do you think? I'd be happy to send out the weekly post, but it'd be good if somebody different got first spot every time.
12. Grandparents - Higher Lands. A wonderful, hoppy tune recorded live in PDX. These guys played in my basement once.
#11 VULFPECK featuring Antwaun Stanley. From tongue-in-cheek, carefully written humour-funk to straight up funky jam where the focus is on the music and the lyrics shade away from meaning. And where Jemaine strikes out, Antwaun, I feel, would triumph at this end of this piece. But damn, Antwaun, that voice.
Vulfpeck is sick. Such good musicians. Never heard of Antwaun Stanley, but what a hell of a voice...
So far: 1. Hildegard Von Bingen - Ave Generosa 2. Jeff Buckley - Corpus Christi Carol 3. Portugal. The Man - Sleep Forever 4. Elbow - The Lonliness of a Tower Crane Driver 5. Baby Dee - Safe Inside the Day 6. Zola Jesus - Hikikomori 7. Night Things - Sleeping Beauty 8. Beck - Ramona 9. Tim Michin - Rock N' Roll Nerd 10. Flight of the Conchords - The Most Beautiful Girl In the Room 11. Vulfpeck - 1612 I am really digging this. Great submissions, all. Keep 'em up. flagamuffin you pledged, don't back out.