My Alphabet Prime playlist contains 224 (and counting) songs that at one point or
another have been my favorite. Everything that comes up is worth hearing
again. I can press repeat or just let it roll, knowing that I’ll like the next song
just as much, though perhaps in an entirely different way.
I’m going to run the playlist in
my blog, serialized a few songs at a time. If
there’s a story that goes with a song, I’ll tell it.
I originally created the list
working alphabetically by band, but it’s more interesting to move through
alphabetically by song. I'm using links to videos, but in nearly all cases, my affection came from the music.
The Saturday Knights; Mingle
Best to say nothing and let this
song’s lyrics rumble for themselves! They’re a Seattle/Tacoma group and haven’t
released anything recently. The entire Mingle album is great.
Vagabon; Infinite Worlds
So new to me I haven't gotten around to checking out her second album.
Cornershop, Woman's Gotta Have It
The prototype of a song I listen to on endless repeat as I work or do most anything else. In fact I listened
to it, and to its slightly longer variation, 7:20 A.M. Jullander Shere, for months while working
on QA for King of Dragon Pass, and for weeks before that while designing a flawed-but-interesting
Magic: the Gathering miniatures game. That was several
years before getting hired at WotC. My design used the five mana symbols as die
results that gave different commands to units (Red: charge, White: Defend) as
well as activating powers. It was hugely baroque. At the time I didn’t know
that simply baroque was too much. But it was the second game system I’d
designed and the first from scratch, so the song has many powerful associations . . . .
Suzanne Vega; 99.9 F
An older tune, back from the
years just after college, in my case. I got sick the night a friend had a ticket for me to one of her shows and if you're going to carry regrets, let them be about missed concerts.
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