Monday, 10 January 2011

Music to Revise By

I've become addicted to making playlists on Spotify. Thing is, I change the kind of music I listen to depending on my mood, which I know a lot of other people do, which is the beauty of music and the beauty of playlists.
So currently I have the following playlists:

  • Mellow - containing much music by Laura Marling, Sigur Ros, Mumford and Sons and songs from the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack as well as loads of lovely one-off songs that calm me down. It's perfect for revising to, because it doesn't make me want to dance around and it gets me nice and focussed without feeling sleepy. YEY! (I know I should be revising right now, but it's fine, this is just a short break, 'kay?)
  • Party Party- You know when you're about to go out but you're SO TIRED and you CAN'T BE BOTHERED? This playlist is a pic N mix of pumpin' beatz, awesome choonz and sick riddims. It's all the songs I'm ashamed to enjoy, but I do, and they wake me up enough to hit the wild wild clubs of Cambridge.
  • Christmas. I like to listen to this playlist at Easter, of course.
  • Smile - these are the songs that can always make me grin or make me EVEN HAPPIER if I'm in a good mood. Includes wonders such as Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison, Mas Que Nada by Sergio Mendes, You've got the Love by Flo + The Machine and Mother, We Just Can't Get Enough by New Radicals.
  • Imaginary Beach Playlist - As previously mentioned, the songs that will be playing during my amazing beach party, that you're all invited to. It's not real yet, which is a minor issue, but one that I'm sure to smooth out when I win the lottery and buy Richard Branson's Island (y'know, the one with the outdoor toilet) from him.
Anyway, you may think it'a not quite an addiction yet, which is probably very true. But I keep adding songs to these playlists and it's only a matter of time until the playlist count grows exponentially.

Anyhoo, I thought I'd share with you a fun game to play on spotify. If you're connected to friends, you can send them songs via Spotify which I think was intended as a way of showing your friends this awesome new song!!!!! you've discovered that you think they'd really like!!!!

Anyway, the game I like to play is called "select a 90s boyband, perhaps boyzone, and bombard a friend with all the songs you can find on spotify by that band, with messages that state how meaningful Baby Can I Hold You is to your friendship." I'm working on the title of the game, but it's pretty self explanatory from there. Enjoy!

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