The Verge reports, and I already knew, because, though I am not a "kid," Spotify still wanted me to know where I stood in their system, which is FTVU:
Familiarity and variety... It's not paradoxical once you're familiar with a lot of things, which I, as an old person am. I also wanted to show you this — only because it's odd (and definitely "timeless," if by time, you mean the last century):
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Extrovert/Introvert (right in the middle)
Sensory/Intuitive (right in the middle)
Thinking/Feeling (right in the middle)
Perception/Judging (can you guess?)
hint #1: I'm 100% of one and 0% of the other
hint #2: Do you think I've made any mistakes on this blog?"
What's the newest music you listen to? Anything from This century?"
I just checked mine and have Bowie and Radiohead as the top 2. I’m also a deep diver. (I like to listen to the whole album of the artists).
I didn’t even know about this feature until my son told me about it yesterday.
Pretty cool."
If you are Spotify user, could you share your lists? Your music analysis posts are interesting.
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Freedom from tech micromanagement through induced randomness and noise!
I find new music content on my own by scanning lists of recent album releases and trying things blindly. "
What I also like to do is take an album that has a lot of good songs and a couple of stinkers, like Diamonds and Rust, and making a playlist that just skips the stinkers."
The same is true for Joe Strummer: It's all one song. In Strummer's case, the song is "Mondo Bongo.""
Just looking at the 100 most-played songs list for 2022, there is only one song, I think: "Devil Eyes" by Hippie Sabotage. Just something that got in my head from TikTok.
I also listen to Grizzly Bear — "Sleeping Ute" and the cover of "Deep Blue Sea." I have some Vampire Weekend and Billie Eilish and "Simple Song" by The Shins on a playlist I use sometimes.
But there's a lot more old than new, and I don't like the computerized processing used in recording today. I enjoy finding especially old-timey things.
Anyway, I listened to lots of new music up through the end of the 90s when my sons lived with me. Went to many concerts (as a chaperone) in the 90s. "
There is a whole Rick Beatto video on why Boomers, he are one, don't like modern music, and that is on the top of the list. It's "square" literally, the beats and notes are tied to grid squares in software."
.. I also listen to Grizzly Bear — "Sleeping Ute" and the cover of "Deep Blue Sea." I have some Vampire Weekend and Billie Eilis
Thanx Professor! I appreciate the response!"
The Whiffenpoof Song has a chapter in Bob Dylan's book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song."
"An in-crowd song, a song with a pedigree, a song in the Social Register. Not meant for the middle class to understand—seems to house a deep dark secret. From the tables down at Mory’s to the mysterious Louie and the dear old Temple Bar. Words of wisdom for those in the know. It paraphrases Kipling and lists a couple of songs no one’s ever heard. A lot of bones and skeletons in this song. Even the word Whiffenpoof is a word to dispel spirits, and the melody is ancient—the last gasp, the beginning of the end. This is a song sung by dues-paying members of the inner circle."
Dylan, Bob. The Philosophy of Modern Song (p. 69). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. "
The last couple of years, I did a year-end countdown on Facebook in late December of my favorite new (or new-to-me) music that I had discovered during the year. This year's countdown will include some really great stuff, some from this year, some going much further back, courtesy of the podcast "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs," such as the 1960 song "Hard Times Ahead" by Janis Martin. That song wasn't featured in the podcast, but one of her other songs was and it got me listening to her other music; it may not make the Top 10 but will probably get an honorable mention. I'll probably share my countdown here in the evening open thread once I start doing it."
Probably because I don’t really listen to Spotify that much. If I were describe myself it would likely be Lazy Listener. Just put on same long playlist. If I hear something I like, I add it to the playlist. "
Talk about old-timey!"
I'm a YouTuber, and my mixes include Bob Wills, Jimmie Rodgers, The Mills Bros, The Ink Spots, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Merle Haggard, Leon Redbone, et alia. But I love electronic house music of today, too.
As a long-time music iconoclast, I don't expect anyone to like or approve my choices, so I rarely discuss such things with others. "
Rudy Vallee had a recording of the song, but I'm not seeing him as the lyricist, and I don't thing someone with such a name as Meade Minnigerode should be overlooked.
I'm reading the lyrics and it seems like a drinking song. They're drunk. They like their bars, but they've got to find their way home.
Dylan also says you can make this elitist song your own, and people do: "Gentlemen rankers off on a spree, doomed from here to eternity. This song belongs to everybody, the fraternal order, the political machine, the silent majority, and the wealth of nations. It’s predetermined, ordained, and comes right out of the book of Fate. Terrifying and hopeless. Guaranteed to keep your spirits up. It’s standoffish and inaccessible—a Cabalistic song with a coded message. Sing it and it becomes entirely yours."
Spotify has versions by Louis Armstrong and by The Mills Brothers. I think the best version is by The Whiffenpoofs themselves. Dylan picked the Bing Crosby version.
If you're wondering how close the song is to Rudyard Kipling poem:
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,
To my brethren in their sorrow overseas,
Sings a gentleman of England cleanly bred, machinely crammed,
And a trooper of the Empress, if you please.
Yea, a trooper of the forces who has run his own six horses,
And faith he went the pace and went it blind,
And the world was more than kin while he held the ready tin,
But to-day the Sergeant’s something less than kind.
We’re poor little lambs who’ve lost our way,
Baa! Baa! Baa!
We’re little black sheep who’ve gone astray,
Baa—aa—aa!
Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree
Damned from here to Eternity,
God ha’ mercy on such as we,
Baa! Yah! Bah!
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ballads_and_Barrack-Room_Ballads/Gentlemen-Rankers"
So I'm not sure what is meant by that "Guy H. Scull (Harvard 1898)... Meade Minnigerode (Yale 1910)."
Seems like it began as a rewrite of Kipling."