Making Playlists

Thanks to Spotify, the playlists of well-known people are easy to come by. They tend to be curated to project and amplify their public persona, highlight what's best and shave the edges off what's not. In effect, it is a PR effort rendered musically. I have discovered interesting music this way but one can also find a nice pair of shoes clicking on an online ad. When it comes to music, the joy of finding is greatly diminished when the source is somewhat dubious. This list of favorite albums from 1965 to 2005 feels way more genuine and curated with real love. A lot of this music is familiar and yet plenty is new here for me. 

Reminds of the mix-tapes we made and traded back in the day, cross-pollinating our musical tastes and interests. There was always the cool, eclectic guy or gal who knew of bands and songs the rest of us had not. They would rise the tide of music for all, expand our collective horizons. In my day, some of the older siblings of my friends had their LP collections and on occasion they would allow us to listen. They looked upon the cassette tapes as a lesser thing suitable for unsophisticated kids who were listening to whatever trash was popular and trending.