If you received a mixtape/playlist from someone, do you hop it contains a)music they enjoy and wanted to share or b) music they specifically chose because they thought you would enjoy it
Much more along the lines of (b) as I appreciate the need to share but I know most people don’t share my interests and I probably wouldn’t like theirs so I’d prefer something specifically aimed at my interests, which are known
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/music
But which I haven’t heard yet.
It’s always hard to buy gifts of any kind, as they have to be (i) something the person likes, but (ii) something they haven’t discovered yet, so it’s a battlefield.
If it was someone I know, it would have to be in reference to songs that remind us of specific things that we’ve done together, so it doesn’t necessarily have to be something I’d normally be interested in.
The last time I actually got a mixtape (it was a cd) was in 2006 when a friend who listens almost exclusively to ska & reggae made me a cd, it wasn’t bad but I only listen to The Slackers out of those songs today.
I have often considered making my girlfriend a playlist and I admit it would be more (a) as she almost always listens to jazz, which isn’t bad but which I wouldn’t choose to play in my own time.
The most meaningful would be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoDamvrfUbQ
I remember one time in 2013 we were going through a bad patch and we were sitting in a bookshop and someone went past and his phone rang and this was his ringtone. Somehow, and this is the magic of Bowie, the mere listening to a few bars of this cause a (mostly) metalhead and a jazz buff to get back together and forgive each other whatever we’d done (or mistakenly) thought we had. Then we went back to her flat and listened to sound and vision and made up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmFFTkjs-O0
Fairly obviously about how we live apart, I’m visiting her at the weekend but in general it’s hard to live in different cities as we do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SD6qQWxMrM
And this is the jazz in case she hates everything else!
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/music
But which I haven’t heard yet.
It’s always hard to buy gifts of any kind, as they have to be (i) something the person likes, but (ii) something they haven’t discovered yet, so it’s a battlefield.
If it was someone I know, it would have to be in reference to songs that remind us of specific things that we’ve done together, so it doesn’t necessarily have to be something I’d normally be interested in.
The last time I actually got a mixtape (it was a cd) was in 2006 when a friend who listens almost exclusively to ska & reggae made me a cd, it wasn’t bad but I only listen to The Slackers out of those songs today.
I have often considered making my girlfriend a playlist and I admit it would be more (a) as she almost always listens to jazz, which isn’t bad but which I wouldn’t choose to play in my own time.
The most meaningful would be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoDamvrfUbQ
I remember one time in 2013 we were going through a bad patch and we were sitting in a bookshop and someone went past and his phone rang and this was his ringtone. Somehow, and this is the magic of Bowie, the mere listening to a few bars of this cause a (mostly) metalhead and a jazz buff to get back together and forgive each other whatever we’d done (or mistakenly) thought we had. Then we went back to her flat and listened to sound and vision and made up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmFFTkjs-O0
Fairly obviously about how we live apart, I’m visiting her at the weekend but in general it’s hard to live in different cities as we do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SD6qQWxMrM
And this is the jazz in case she hates everything else!
