Entertainment For Lively Minds
SPOTIFY THE NOUGHTIES continues with the year 2001
Grand historical project continues! We – by which I mean you – are building a Spotify Friday playlist featuring the best tunes from each year of the decade that's about to end. Today it's the year 2001 so click on the link and add your own selections to the wisdom of the WORD Hive Mind. The idea is that by the end of November, we can crunch each of the individual lists into one enormous playlist of the best of the entire decade.
The rules, as seasoned Spotify Friday contributors know, are very simple:
1] Add just one song at a time, not entire albums. We'll only delete them.
2] Please don't add hobby-horse acts or your mate's band. We're after genuine good stuff that everyone can enjoy. We're trusting you on this one.
3] There are no further rules.
Last week's Year 2000 playlist is now closed to further additions, but you can open and play it, and send it to friends.
Unfortunately, our Spotify machine has died of a fatal logic board condition, so we won't be able to play the new list in the office as we usually do. But we will be watching it with great interest, and you can of course play it yourself.
More information on Spotify here. Free Spotify accounts are invite-only at the moment but if you need one, we have a few spare invitations. Mail me and I'll try to sort you out.
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I keep getting
to eager and jumping the interpol gun.... roll on next week
I had trouble remembering what was released that year,
But found this quite a useful memory jogger: Metacritic's collected best album lists of 2001, from Rolling Stone, Village Voice, NME etc.
oh and hopefully this
doesn't show up on everyone's version . But on spotify can you revert to the original order of a play list I click album bar at the top and now they are all in album order I hope this didn't effect everone's version sorry if it did.
No, the way you view the list
only changes for you, not the others.
To revert to the original order, click the tiny blank pale rectangle to the left of 'Track' at the top of the list.
Interesting to note that for all the hype that year about 'nu rock revolution' and such in the NME, there was actually very little energetic indie rock of note beyond the obvious Stripes/Hives/Strokes. Poor old The Vines, eh?
thanks joe
that's like taking of tight pair of shoes.
apologies
I genuinely couldn't decide between 3 tracks. One of which was Elbow's "Powder Blue", but Spotify has failed and doesn't have it. Big shame.
The other two best tracks of 2001 are, to me Roots Manuva's "Dreamy Days" and Starsailor's "Love Is Here". Both exquisite ponderances upon the aural palate.
Being that I genuinely couldn't decide between the two, I added both. Sorry for not sticking to point 1 in the rules.
But point 1 in the rules isn't "one track per person"
Is it? I thought it was more "one track per album".
If not apologies, I've added a handful (from different artists)
mike your right
we just don't want someone to dump an entire lp on there.
Oh that's ok then
I didn't want one of the Word staff to come round and kneecap me...
More Spotify invites
I've got a five or six invites left too, if the well at the Towers runs dry.
No apologies for Snow Patrol's inclusion
'Batten Down The Hatch' is a great track from a time when they were a promising indie band. Give it a go!
shan't they
smell of mobile phone ads :)
I always thought that if Spotify had a smell...
... it would be like the Rough Trade shop in London's east end.
so not the west end shop
ie. farts and the skateboard Axel grease.
I've not been to that one yet.
.
No longer in existance I'm afraid
The shop that is - smell may still be
spotify holes
no bonnie prince billy or jim o'rourke - so that's no tracks from the two best lps of the year...
Roberta??
Are you listening??
Someone showed Roberta
a picture of bonny prince billy and the poor girl had to have a lie down when she came round all she could say was "and I see a darkness"
Sadly no Suicide Machines
superb cover of 'It's the end of the world as we know it'
Elbow
Wanted to put on something from 'Asleep in the Back', but it ain't on Spotify as far as I can see.
I know
lame isn't it?
Plus in response to someone above, Snow Patrol's 2nd album had some outstanding tracks on it. "Batten down the Hatch" is one. But for me, "One Night Is Not Enough" is better. They have yet to better the lyrics and tune of that. "It's not me that you love..." etc.
Thank you