henke on 9/1/2010 at 17:45
Alright, judging from SubEff's "invites" thread and other posts I've been reading lately on TTLG it seems we have quite a few members with Spotify accounts here. And I think this thing deserves it's own thread, which we can come back to later on and give thumbs up/spew bile over fellow TTLGers song-picks. And if someone in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France or Spain doesn't have Spotify yet and wants to join in on the fun send me a PM and I'll send you an invite. (have 4 left)
Presenting...
(
http://open.spotify.com/user/leemajorz/playlist/5mKelapsFKq4u4xempDoIB) The TTLG
Collaborative Spotify Playlist
UPDATE: Due to a rather severe troll-infestation, Collaborative-mode has been disabled on this playlist. It stands now as it was on January 17th, 2010. Frozen in time much like the villains in Superman II when they got caught in that wierd mirror-thing and banished from the planet Krypton.
I've gone ahead and started it off with:
Air - Alpha Beta Gaga (Mark Ronson remix ft. Rhymefest)
The Flaming Lips - Watching The Planets
Röyksopp ft. Karin Dreijer - What else is there?
Enforcing any kind of rules on a list like this will be difficult since it's impossible to tell who adds what. Still, here are a few rules which everyone should observe so we don't turn this thing into shit right away.
Rule 1: Only ONE AND A HALF song per artist may be be added to the list. Solo-releases count as seperate entities than an artists work with bands. And duets or songs featuring more than one artist/band count only as half a song. So you can, for instance, still add a Rhymefest or a Karin Dreijer(Fever Ray, The Knife) song.
This keeps entire albums from being thrown in there and encourages diversity.Rule 2: Don't delete other people's songs.
Rule 3: Don't add more than three songs in a row. If you have more than three songs you wanna share with everyone wait a bit for other users to get their say in between.
Apart from that, it's a free for all. Any genre is fine. So go ahead and download the list and start queuing up the hits! :)
Aerothorn on 9/1/2010 at 18:47
Awesome idea.
Good news: Despite the fact that Spotify is not supposed to work in the USA, it is still running on my laptop because I installed it in London and apparently it still hasn't figured out I'm not there anymore.
Bad news: My laptop isn't my music-playing computer, my desktop is. Sigh.
Namdrol on 9/1/2010 at 18:51
Aerothorn, if you're a non premium user you get a few weeks abroad before it shuts down.
If it's a premium account you can use it as long as you like.
Nice idea btw henke ;)
Aerothorn on 9/1/2010 at 18:53
Ahhh, that's it. Didn't realize premium could use abroad. I would totally do that if I listened to music more than I do.
thefonz on 9/1/2010 at 19:14
Thats me signed up, thanks Henke!
I'll play around with it in a wee while.
SubJeff on 9/1/2010 at 20:18
Nice one henke. I really needed this musak injection as my taste is getting old and stale even to me. :thumb:
Who the hell put this Green Carnation track on? I like it but ye Gads its 60 min long!!! Actually with mood stuff like this I wish people would do like 30 min long tracks.
thefonz on 9/1/2010 at 20:20
Gods, with Last.FM and now Spotify, its time to refresh my music collection. Already "discovered" two new awesome bands thanks to the Last.FM radio system.
FYI - they were Lunatica and Leaves Eyes...
henke on 9/1/2010 at 20:53
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Who the hell put this Green Carnation track on? I like it but ye Gads its 60 min long!!!
I was thinking of making a rule out of not putting really long tracks on there but decided against it because I know a lot of people like longer tracks. I figured we might end up with a few 10 or 15 minute tracks but SIXTY FUCKING MINUTES!? That's like an entire album. I'm not gonna remove it but whoever put it on there should consider maybe switching it out for something else. :erg: Something SHORTER MAYBE!? :sly:
edit: aaaand it HAS been changed I see. For Wildcat by Ratatat no less. Awesome! :D
thefonz on 9/1/2010 at 22:06
Green Carnation are so awesome they have single tracks that are longer than most albums.
Heh.
I'm totally digging the Alpha Beta Gaga track on there - good mix of different styles that make my feet tap.
Just stuck on a bit of Agalloch for your ear-holes and Nightwish to back that up. Most excellent (cue air-guitar).
This playlist is going to be HUGE after about a week you realise....
june gloom on 10/1/2010 at 00:01
Green Carnation's
Light of Day, Day of Darkness is not the longest single-track album in metal. That distinction goes to Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra's
The Key to the Gates of Apocalypses, a completely ridiculous album by Nokturnal Mortum vocalist Knjaz Varggoth, mixing black metal and dark ambient (think Sigur Ros with corpsepaint) that is best summed up in my favourite Amazon review ever:
Quote:
if you are having one of those weeks when simply nothing else will do except single-track concept albums about psychotic ukrainian overlords opening the doorways to apocalypse via astral projection into the fourth dimension, then this has finally arrived to fill that gaping void. if you have ever really really demanded the david tibet vs. mr. bungle cover of pink floyd's animals as recorded and played back on the modified dealership sound system of one thousand discontinued yugos, funded by black market arms deals in backwater stalinist breakaway russian republics, this will come as close to fulfilling your fondest dreams as anything ever will. if you have ever wondered what glenn danzig's black aria would have come out like if he really was from danzig and chased by maddening flocks of plague-ridden wolves in the darkest of really dark forests, dying of thirst and hunger but too scared to drink from the polluted wastes that were rivers once but now well on their way to becoming sentient, serpentine oil slicks that will one day swallow all that remains of civilization, well here you go. seriously.
The best part? It's not that bad, in spite of less-than-stellar production values and typical black metal ridiculousness.
