I asked Spotify to play me some rock. It’s horrifying how well you know me, I said, but do what you do so well. I may as well make the most of this Faustian bargain.
So Spotify went to work. Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Love and Rockets, Placebo, Eagles of Death Metal, you get it.
Nice work, Spotify. I’m absolutely positive this has no Monkey’s Paw consequences in my future.
Then it gets to Reptillia, by The Strokes, and I realized that the last time I heard this song, I was playing it in Rock Band.
And that just really hit me right in the Old, you know?
I know you’re not going to believe this, but it just started playing 3’s & 7’s. Guess what game I was playing the last time I heard it?
I’m gonna go put my feet up for a minute, while I continue rocking.
Fucking Monkey’s Paw.
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My Monkey’s Paw is that I finally got to see QOTSA again after a long time, on my 30th birthday of all days, and I’ve been wishing to be back at the concert. I haven’t been able to escape them since. Watch a music theory video on Nebula? Enjoy Hanging Tree. Open YouTube? Here’s this funky mockumentary they did with Matt Berry. Read Wil Wheaton’s blog? Monkey’s Paw curls again.
John Juniper???
I recently grabbed Clone Hero, plugged my old Rock Band guitar into my laptop, and all the fun was had again.
Love the still from “The Wall” you used there! Feeling old as well recognizing that immediately.
It’s better than the rest
The old can be a very delicate spot. Hope it didn’t hurt too much.
I’ve noticed this as a Spotify thing – it has observed that there are songs that are commonly played together because they were featured in Rock Band/Guitar Hero/Amplitude/etc. Once I play a few of them, one of my auto-generated playlists will be like “Here’s the rest!”
No one went in and told Spotify “these tracks go together for this reason”, it simply learned from patterns. I think music recommendation algorithms are the one thing I’m happy to have AI/ML for, it’s great for ad-hoc associations.
What no Cake! Are you a wimp or are you Going the Distace?
I feel this to my bones! Every so often I’ll pull out an old alt or new wave favorite for a show and one of the younger players will ask about it, which delights the socks off of me. (I love someone finding a new favorite in my music stash!) Then they comment that they aren’t sure their parents were even born when the song came out. THUD
Just let me say Peter, Paul and Mary and Judy Collins and you can have my walker when I die.
I’m a bit older than you – I can’t work out why Love and Rockets appears as much as Devo, Bowie and Queen …