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Music Recap - 2024

Spotify Wrapped

This year I listened to 59,369 mins of music. I don’t use Spotify for audio books or podcasts because that is dumb. I’ve been listening to less music (Spotify is the only app I listen to music on) every year for the past 4 years. A high in 2021 of 117,352 mins, followed by 88,938 and 78,971 mins in 2022 and 2023 respectively. I wanted to download all the data they had on me, but it only went back to mid year (that I could figure out anyway). For once though I thought their top artists and songs made some sense, usually they feel wildly weighted toward the end of the year. Part of the reason my consumption has dropped is that I stopped listening to music while driving for work, instead putting on podcasts as they help keep me awake a bit easier.

Top Artists

  1. Polyphia
  2. AURORA
  3. Sonya Belousova
  4. The Family Crest
  5. Make Them Suffer

Fully agree with this, though Sonya Belousova is there because of the “One Piece” soundtrack and The Family Crest is there because of the “Prelude to War”. Which I guess means I agree with 60% of the list.

10 other artists I would include (in alphabetical order):

  • Berlinist
  • Broken Brass
  • Juniper Vale
  • Lucky Chops
  • Phildel
  • Sammus
  • Sigrid
  • The Longest Johns
  • TheFatRat
  • Tristam

My favorite artists are always ones I can at least put a couple of their albums on, I don’t necessarily love every album they put out (though, some I do love everything). Recent artists I’ve just shuffled their discography (aka mostly listening to Spotify’s “This Is” playlist for them) include TheFatRat, Sigrid, Juniper Vale, AURORA, Polyphia, Make Them Suffer, Approaching Nirvana, and Nightwish. Approaching Nirvana and Nightwish I’ve been listening to for 15ish years at this point and they’ve drifted into being just a low constant hum of music, particularly for when I’m switching between music genre binges. Juniper Vale, Sigrid, and AURORA are similar except I haven’t been listening as long, I think of them as “similar” artists and will usually listen to them together.

Live Shows (aka MagFest)

I don’t get a chance to go to a lot of live concerts. Working with a band I see a lot of live music, just the same group every night. I was able to take a vacation and go to MagFest 2024 early in the year. The weather cooperated and there was bad snow so our gigs for that weekend were postponed which meant I got to stay for the whole con. I was really excited about this because it meant I got to see Sammus live which was very very cool! I stood in the front row for the show and was really glad I got to see her. The last night we also saw The Protomen which was another phenomenal show. I dragged my friends along to both those shows and they were glad I did. While waiting for Sammus, we caught the end of Bit Brigade’s set which was a fun one. We stumbled into Super MadNES at one point while waiting for something else. Even though I slept thru a good chunk of their show (the con is very tiring) that was a fun one to sit and watch. The last day we made it early enough for the Community Orchestra Concert which was super cool! It made me really miss playing music.

Top Songs

  1. My Sails Are Set (from the Netflix Series “One Piece”) - Sonya Belousova, Giona Ostinelli, AURORA
  2. labour - Paris Paloma
  3. I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons
  4. Wolf - First Aid Kit
  5. notre dame - Paris Paloma

I don’t have any notes to add here; those were songs I listened to a lot, “I Will Wait” might be the most shocking one, but otherwise the other 4 ended up frequently in the auto generated playlists I would pick. I think looking at the list below, a couple songs I found later in the year will probably end up sticking around longer than these 5 like “The Northwest Passage” by The Longest Johns and El Pony Pisador or “Blink 182” by Half an Orange. Also the songs by artists I really like will just appear in those artist rotations. For example “Ghost of Me” and “Doomswitch” being in the Make Them Suffer loop or “Some Type Of Skin” in rotation for AURORA.

Songs I Added to my Favorites this year

  1. Castle - The Huntsman: Winter’s War Version - Halsey
  2. Wolf - First Aid Kit
  3. Wildfire (Mielo Remix) - Slow Magic, Mielo
  4. Cast the Bronze - Raynes
  5. Ain’t It Fun - Paramore
  6. Song of the Lonely Mountain - Neil Finn
  7. Baba Yaga - Marcin
  8. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
  9. I Can’t Wait - Droeloe
  10. Carol N°1 - Woodkid
  11. labor - Paris Paloma
  12. Ride of the Valkyries - Brothers of Metal
  13. Last Summer - Tokyo Machine, Weird Genius, Lights
  14. Blink 182 - Half an Orange
  15. notre dame - Paris Paloma
  16. My Sails Are Set (from the Netflix Series “One Piece”) - Sonya Belousova, Giona Ostinelli, AURORA
  17. Peasant’s Throne - Lilith Max
  18. Zoro vs Mihawk - Sonya Belousova, Marcin, Giona Ostinelli
  19. Luminary - Joel Sunny
  20. Ghost of Me - Make Them Suffer
  21. Doomswitch - Make Them Suffer
  22. floating point - The Algorithm
  23. Some Type Of Skin - AURORA
  24. Her Sweet Kiss - Sonya Belousova, Giona Ostinelli, Joey Batey
  25. Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos
  26. The Northwest Passage - The Longest Johns, El Pony Pisador

Top Albums

I wish they’d also include albums in their wrapped too. I will occasionally put on certain albums that I really like, but not that often. I am guilty of using their auto generated playlists like the Artist Radio, the Daily Mixes, and their Artist / Genre Mixes.

Personal Top Albums (Don’t actually know if they are the most listened to)

  1. One Piece (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) - Sonya Belousova, Giona Ostinelli, AURORA
  2. How To Let Go - Sigrid
  3. Brute Force - The Algorithm (floating point)
  4. Happy But Still Sad - Juniper Vale
  5. Remember That You Will Die - Polyphia

I really liked the “Zelda & Jazz II” album by The Deku Trio, GameChops, and Unplugged. I believe it was a Polygon article the put me on to it. I’ve played it a couple times while doing some computer work and it was excellent for that. I also had a friend recommend one of the songs on “8” by Uneven Structure and I ended up finding the whole album enjoyable.

Other albums I continue to just put on at times when I need something and none of the auto playlists are feeling right at the moment

  • The Age of Pleasure - Janelle Monae
  • The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monae
  • Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
  • Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Nightwish
  • Every Valley - Public Service Broadcasting
  • Gris (Original Game Soundtrack) - Berlinist
  • Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens
  • Imaginaerum - Nightwish
  • POWER OF LIFE - BRADIO
  • Prelude to War - The Family Crest
  • The Race for Space - Public Service Broadcasting
  • Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz
  • The War Room - Public Service Broadcasting
  • WLUWD - Tristam