There are plenty of music lovers here evidenced by past music/concert threads.
If you’re a Spotify user (if you don’t like Spotify feel free to move on - I know it’s not perfect by any means) have you looked at your “Wrapped” for 2022. It’s an annual tradition for my family to share our stats. I personally really look forward to seeing what I listened to and I also LOVE that it gives me a top 2022 playlist of my songs to download into playlists.
Feel free to post anything interesting about your list - or your “Wrapped” summary photo.
I enjoy seeing the wrapped summary each year. Mine was fairly guessable as far as artists, but sort of random as far as top songs–I tend to make very long playlists and then listen on random, so it’s whatever happened to pop up more than other songs, to some extent. (Top five artists were REM, Taylor Swift, Frank Turner, The Kinks, and Springsteen. Surprised to see Kinks make the list and not U2–that part was a little random, though I love both).
My D, mother of 1 and just turned 4, posted hers: Top five songs: Encanto, Encanto, Encanto, Encanto, Encanto. I forget which order they were in. I did reply that “Surface Pressure” should have been higher.
Lol on my top band (I’m surprised) and their photo. Most of my Spotify listening is while running or mowing the grass. Always pretty upbeat peppy music. Some new, some older.
My D24 makes me a monthly playlist so I can hear what she’s listening to. It has definitely introduced me to some artists I would never have found on my own, and really enjoy.
I’m posting a few screen shots because I find this pretty interesting. Purely unintentional choices, And while I still listen a good bit to things I have always liked I tend to go from one rabbit hole to another. Townes Van Zandt and whatever Spotify put with him was the winner in 2022. 2021 was completely different, and I’m sure 2023 will be too.
I’ve worked from home a lot this year, so frequently have it on in the background. I usually put something soothing on when I go to sleep, but use a sleep timer so it doesn’t go all night. In the morning I frequently just keep playing whatever I had on to relax, although I usually mix it up later.
I tend to listen mostly to “daily mix”, although will fairly often do radio based on a song or artist that catches my fancy. I definitely am a big explorer and drift into different areas. Not much that you hear on the radio, except classic rock.
That’s how I ended up with my 22 list. It started a few years ago listening to a bunch of Dropkick Murphys. That turned into Celtic Punk in general, which let to Celtic Folk, which led to Folk, which led to Country Rock. Which I think is a misleading characterization, generally I think country music sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard. But I like what I like.
Sidenote, Spotify keeps getting me into artists that are new to me but dead. Justin Townes Earle ODed a few months before he hit my radar. Trevor Moore fell off a balcony around the time I started listening to his music. And then guys like Townes Van Zandt have been dead for a while but I just started listening to him in the last year or 2 because Spotify decided it was time I guess.
When we get in the car, generally the consensus is anyone but dad can control the radio.
Although D21 is a bit eclectic like me, albeit a different mix. She was pretty into Dropkick Murphys when she was maybe 16 and they played relatively close to here so I got us tickets. It was all general admission, and I was able to get us in early so we were at the very front.
After the concert, she remarked that she thought there would be more pushing and shoving, both at the front of general admission, and with that crowd in particular. She hadn’t realized that she was on the fence, and I had a firm grip on the fence on either side of her. She was in a little bubble, I did let her know, and also told her for future reference, that was a perfectly safe place for us to watch, if it was just her and one or two of her other 16 year old 110 pound friends, it probably would not be!
I don’t use Spotify too much but overall it’s pretty a pretty good representation I think. I listen to a lot of my favorites straight from my downloads so some of them did not make the list.
On my honeymoon almost 25 years ago we did a two week road trip and had no music. At the Old Faithful gift ship we picked up a Dixie Chicks tape and had to listen to it over and over. I was reminiscing about it a bit ago and got into a kick of re-listening to them so that was funny they made the list!
I’m not a Spotify listener but I love Caamp! I was out of touch with alternative music until my new car had Sirius XM (bought it a few months before Covid). Caamp was one of many sweet surprises when listening to the current alt stations (though I spent a lot of time on the 80s and 90s stations too). We gave that car away so now I’m back on NPR, which means I know a lot more about current events but I’m hopelessly behind again in music (Just heard Run away to Mars for the first time a couple of weeks ago…) but anyways…Caamp! By and by! Just thinking about it makes my day.
I knew a few songs by Caamp from my XM as well. Then I got to see them at Newport Folk Fest a few years ago and they were great. I thought I was going to see them at Red Rocks this year so I started listening more to learn some of the older songs. I didn’t get to go (we bought a new puppy that weekend!) but they did live stream both nights so that was fun to watch.
I love getting new music recommendations!
I am new to Spotify - I have had it for a few years but was too cheap to pay for Premium, and so I rarely had the patience to deal with the ads. This year I flung caution to the winds in September and paid up.
So my stats are humble - and skewed. I found some mindless & mostly lyric-free graphics editing playlists by artists I had never heard of, and play them constantly while WFH. I don’t listen to my faves then because I can’t concentrate on work when music I really love is playing.
So the fact that I’m still in the top 4% of Twenty One Pilots listeners is pretty great, imho.
The recommendations are huge. I’m actually listening to a new band today that was recommended in “your missed hits”. Completely new to me, but pretty good stuff!
Also we have the family plan, which is pretty cheap when I have 6 people listening. A couple don’t listen much, but a few of us use it pretty heavily.
