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[jay-ell]

So, we have a music thread already, but I've been playing around with setting up playlists for specific things I do. I have an album I listen to for running, of course, but I also like to set up soundtracks that set the mood for other things. For instance, when I was in college I used to listen to vocal jazz while I was getting ready to go out because it made me feel sexy. And, of course, you've got to have a good playlist for a road trip.

I bet you guys have tons of these. Hit me with 'em.

Here's my contribution: I just made a playlist for doing housework. Mainly kitchen cleaning, but also toilet scrubbing, laundry sorting, and vacuuming.

TMBG: Birdhouse in Your Soul
Doobie Bros: Black Water
Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild
Phineas and Ferb: Brand New Reality
Frankie Valli: Can't Take my Eyes Off You
MC Frontalot: Colonel, Panic
Dexy's Midnight Runners: Come On Eileen
Sheryl Crow: Every Day is a Winding Road
Molly Hatchet: Flirtin' with Disaster
Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing
Dire Straits: Heavy Fuel
Al Brown: Here I Am, Baby
Foreigner: Hot Blooded
MC Frontalot: I'll Form the Head
ZZ Top: I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
Jonathan Coulton: Kenesaw Mountain Landis
3 Doors Down: Kryptonite
TMBG: Letterbox
Steppenwolf: Magic Carpet Ride
Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
ZZ Top: My Head's in Mississippi
Phineas and Ferb: Not Knowing Where You're Going
Billy Idol: Rebel Yell
Styx: Renegade
Stealers Wheel: Stuck In the Middle with You
Stevie Ray Vaughn: Texas Flood
Weird Al: White & Nerdy

It would probably have been pretty hilarious to watch me putting away dishes while rocking out to "White and Nerdy" this evening. I am an incredibly huge dork, I dance like Donny Osmond, and I sing along even when I'm wearing headphones. Fortunately no other adults were here to witness it, but I realized how it must have looked when Danger Boy came wandering in, looked at me askance, and then said, "Mama. Do not. Sing or hum."

So! Playlists. What activities do you use them for, and what songs help you set the mood?

[miles]

Every once in a while I'll do this almost obsessively. I even had one for smoking weed with people who have my exact taste in music, in case that situation ever arose. I don't save them for too long so I don't have any readily available. I'll usually make one for every road trip, and invariably this Modest Mouse song makes the list. And it's always going to have some Neil Young, Built to Spill and CCR. ALWAYS.

[wombat]

I am much too lazy to do this. But also I tend to listen to one artist obsessively for days or weeks on end, and then switch to another and do the same. I don't seem to have much of a need to mix it up.

[CortJstr]

Oh god I hate making playlists. I was just discussing this yesterday. In college when I made tapes to listen to while walking to class I'd just take all the mp3s I owned and delete them until I was down to 2 sets of 45 minutes and put them on a tape in alphabetical order. When the iPod came along with its "shuffle the fuck everything" button I thought it was the greatest invention in music history.

[AugustWest]

I make mix CD's for the truck.  It's nice to have a theme.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I don't make a ton of playlists; I generally either listen to a given album straight through, or when I'm on my home computer, put the whole damn collection on shuffle. I do have the year-end mixes which I have posted here frequently.

Recently, in conjunction with my upcoming college reunion, I dug out the tape of my final college radio show, which was basically a "best of" from my college career. I put that out as a Facebook note and accompanying Spotify playlist. That was fun.

[jay-ell]

You guys are no fun. I was hoping somebody had a specific playlist for something really odd, like "Songs to Accompany Aquatic Calisthenics" or something.

[AugustWest]

You guys are no fun. I was hoping somebody had a specific playlist for something really odd, like "Songs to Accompany Aquatic Calisthenics" or something.

Sorry.  Closest I come to something like that is "Songs that are 2:15 or under" or "Songs that do not have the letter 'e' in the title".

[Nabubrush]

How about "30 seconds or less"? It's basically unlistenable, other than the NoFX.

[greenkoolayd]

other than the NoFX.

please, no....

[Nabubrush]

NoFX is what Green Day would be if they had stayed fun and not got all U2 on us. What's not to like?

[theinevitable]

At some point I had tons of these, from my radio days. When I got a new computer I didn't transfer them over. Generally they were around some sort of stylistic/historical theme, though.

[jay-ell]

Today I made some mix CDs to take to work. Well, they are not actually mixes, just straight-up copies of albums. But I need stuff to play that has no lyrics and is not too distracting, yet is pleasant, upbeat, and (preferably) nerdy in some way. Most of our customers are dorks, so I kind of like the idea that when I am playing the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, someone who recognizes it will feel that we are sharing an inside joke.

I have the aforementioned LOTR soundtracks (all 3 films); the London Philharmonic's album of video game covers, the Vitamin String Quartet tributes to REM and Guitar Hero, and (coming soon) the Princess Bride soundtrack. I would like to make a disc of Star Wars themes, but that would have to be heavily edited because the Imperial March is a bit too bombastic (and too easily recognizable) for a retail environment.

Suggestions?

[AugustWest]

Today I made some mix CDs to take to work. Well, they are not actually mixes, just straight-up copies of albums. But I need stuff to play that has no lyrics and is not too distracting, yet is pleasant, upbeat, and (preferably) nerdy in some way. Most of our customers are dorks, so I kind of like the idea that when I am playing the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, someone who recognizes it will feel that we are sharing an inside joke.

I have the aforementioned LOTR soundtracks (all 3 films); the London Philharmonic's album of video game covers, the Vitamin String Quartet tributes to REM and Guitar Hero, and (coming soon) the Princess Bride soundtrack. I would like to make a disc of Star Wars themes, but that would have to be heavily edited because the Imperial March is a bit too bombastic (and too easily recognizable) for a retail environment.

Suggestions?

This album

This could be interesting too.

[CortJstr]

People pretty universally like the Tron: Legacy soundtrack