Ryan’s Playlist Picks 🌤 28 June 2017

June 28, 2017 • Read this in about: 2 minutes

A lot of the time I listen to music in my car, I just shuffle my entire library and see what comes up. I like the idea of just having what is essentially a Ryan radio station, made up of just music I’ve added to my library. That said, I’ve always been a bit paranoid about Apple’s shuffle feature. It seems to have a recency bias, and doesn’t ever seem truly random. Stuff that’s getting promoted by iTunes tends to pop up on shuffle more frequently, and I am pretty sure it seems to prefer songs I’ve listened to a lot. I guess that’s better for the listener than something truly completely random–it seems random but is familiar enough that it feels like my phone just gets me.

Anyway, this is a playlist of songs that, with the exception of track 1, came up randomly in this exact order on my phone last night and this morning. I think it’s a pretty wide variety of artists, but it works remarkably well as a single musical object.

  1. Backroads by Tall Tall Trees

  2. Places by Georgie James

  3. Open by Com Truise

  4. Colluding Oligarchs by Shabazz Palaces

  5. Falling by Morella’s Forest

  6. Drifter In the Dark by Ween

  7. Surge by Above & Beyond

  8. Pictures of Matchstick Men (Mono Version) by Status Quo

  9. Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect by The Decemberists

  10. Strength by Fraunhofer Diffraction

  11. Bad Friend by Bon Voyage

  12. Red Hot Drops by Chad VanGaalen

  13. Working for Vacation by Cibo Matto

  14. Zeeman Effect by Melodium

  15. Bulletproof by La Roux

  16. clouds & Rain by Zac Love

I hope you like it! It’s good for driving and doesn’t have any bad words.

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