Playlist 18

[stoutfellow]

I've kind of fallen behind on these. (Yes, I intend to do this for all twenty-six playlists.)

• Where You Lead, Carole King. The fact that this is the theme song for "Gilmore Girls" doesn't hurt, but I liked it even before that.


• Vincent, Don McLean. I feel the need to give McLean a full post sometime.


• Deacon Blues, Steely Dan. "They got a name for the winners in the world / I want a name when I lose / They call Alabama the Crimson Tide / Call me Deacon Blues." Gotta love it.


• Goodbye to Love, the Carpenters. More sniffles for Karen.


• Are You Lonesome Tonight, Elvis. It's the spoken part that really gets me: "If you won't come back to me, then they can ring the curtain down." (For me, this hooks into a powerful passage from The City and the Stars, oddly enough.)


• Right Before Your Eyes, America. This one and the next are more of the soft-and-beautiful work that America does (did?) so well.


• Only In Your Heart, America.


• What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, Jimmy Ruffin. A classic bit of Motown.


• I Take My Chances, Mary Chapin Carpenter.


• Beginnings, Chicago. Bright, joyful, and full of hope.

Comments

[filkferengi]

Verra nize!

If these are your top-10, how many do you have on a typical playlist?

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

About a hundred; the range is from about 85 to about 120.

[filkferengi]

I'm not sure I'd want to work that hard, or have the time to listen to it all, even if I did.

Is one of your playlists "Music to Pet the Pups by"? :)

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I've got the apportionment process automated; it takes five or ten minutes to run through the whole set. Once that's done, getting any one playlist up and running takes maybe another five or ten.

As for the question: heh. No, the apportionment is completely random; the only tweaking I do is to make sure I don't have two copies of the same song on the same list.