It’s me, hi, I’m the Swiftie it’s me…
Does anyone else care to share their Spotify Wrapped summary for this year? And suggest reasons for the choices?
Mine is a curious hybrid of entirely predictable and ‘why was I playing those’? I think reflecting back, the Bruce and Kylie playlists were in preparation for the E Street Tour and the release of Tension (ha!) respectively, and Joy Division/Bauhaus and Kate provided the soundtracks as I waded through firstly John Robb’s exhaustive The Art Of Darkness history of Goth, and then Tom Doyle’s book on La Bush. It was no surprise at all to discover who was my No.1 artist…but it’s whetted my appetite for that Tay Division collab that nobody knew they wanted. And as a delightful bonus, she filmed a ‘thank you’ message – to me alone, right? – and blew me a kiss. Travis who?
Some mistake Shirley…who the hell are the Clientele? The Wiggles are down to grandkids, honest.
God Save the Clientele is a very good album…. Blimey, it’s 16 years old…
Maybe, but I’ve literally never heard of them.
I’ve heard the Wiggles’ difficult sophomore album was a psych-rock masterpiece.
1. The Beatles
2. Tyler, The Creator
3. Kendrick Lamar
4. Kali Uchis
5. Brent Faiyaz
However a certain 17 yr old in my household has (almost) complete control
Yeah – I mean…. The Beatles!
She learnt something from her dad (and mom)
Apologies. – to clarify, my five are:
1. Taylor Swift
2. Kylie Minogue
3.Joy Division
4. Bruce Springsteen
5. Kate Bush
My five most played songs were four by JD, and Bela Lugosi’s Dead.
Cheerful fellow, eh?
Spotify coal – “You didn’t listen enough to get your own Wrapped this year, but you can find out what everyone else listened to most in this playlist.”
Mine will probably say “Who the **** is this person?”
Not been a Spotify user for about 2 years.
My 5 are
1. Carly Rae Jepsen
2. Half Man Half Biscuit
3. LYR
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5. Frightened Rabbit
Total of 172,273 minutes + 35,144 of podcasts (of which Word In Your Ear was 3rd on the list)
LYR? Did you mean LDR?
I did mean LYR (or Land Yacht Regatta). I have enthused about them here previously & think they are superb. It is Simon Armitages band & their 2023 album is my favourite of the year by some distance. I am not sure I listened to much else in July;
Soz. 😉
haha 🙂
I saw an opportunity to share the work of LYR & I took it! 🙂
Did you mean Lana Del Rey with LDR? Or is this another band I have not heard of?!*
*I got the gig listings through from a venue mailing list & only recognised about 2 bands from all gigs they have booked in. I felt old. This is also how I felt when I saw the most streamed artists in 2023. Other than Taylor Swift I was a very out of the loop
The Light-Dependent Resistors are a hell of a band.
Aye, Lana.
For the second year running the teenagers that share my account deny being responsible for the top song – which is by Italian Eurovision winners from 2021, Manneskin. They are awful.
Second was – quelle surprise – a Depeche Mode song. But it’s not one of the songs I played a lot, so I’m not sure how it got to #2 and none of the others.
Same, 4 of my top 5 were songs that my kids listen to, not me. That said, The Loud House Theme Song is a pop-punk banger.
This was MY top song – Jeremiah by The Joy Hotel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBWglwLq1k
1. Peter Gabriel
2. Leenalchi
3. Richard Thompson
4. Gilberto Gil
5. Fleetwood Mac
Reasons:
1. Peter Gabriel – one of my all time favourites, with a new song dropping every full moon and a tour. Tbh, I don’t love the i/o material as much as a lot of the old stuff, but it’s all relative. This is one of the best new ones:
2. Leenalchi – a fantastic new-ish Korean band mixing the old pansori tradition with funky grooves. I wrote an article about them for Songlines, so they got a lot of Spotify time by way of research. This was my most played track of the year:
3. Richard Thompson – just a perennial favourite
4. Gilberto Gil – an outlier, and I admit that after all that listening I’ve still not particularly got into his music. Having read a fair bit about him and seeing he was advertising his last UK show at the Royal Albert Hall, I thought I should go along. I balked at the ticket prices and wondered about getting on the guestlist. Hence much listening to try to be better prepped if I ended up reviewing it. I didn’t.
5. Fleetwood Mac – another perennial, and still very much grieving Christine McVie.
I’ve barely listened to Spotify this year (4,000 minutes!), which is interesting in itself as it skews the results a bit, but my top artists are:
1 Beatles
2 Alexi Murdoch
3 George Harrison
4 Jon Anderson
5 Earth, Wind and Fire
(A weird and only somewhat sporadically correct approximation of my tastes)
I’ve pretty much switched my streaming to Apple Music this year although hang on to Spotify as it’s best for sharing and discovery. “My” listening is heavily swayed by my wife’s morning routine which is all classical. As a result, my top 5 artists are:
1. Frederic Chopin
2. The Beatles
3. Leo Delibes
4. Vlademir Ashkenazy
5. Berliner Philharmoniker
Same here – I’m the secondary Spotify user in this house:
1. Mozart
2. Debussy
3. Faure
4. Schumann
5. Bach
I very, very rarely use spotify. I assume the first two of these were AW prompted check ’em outs, cos I don’t know who they are. They’re very nice though.
1. Yazan Ibrahim
2. Susanne Sundfør
3. Leon Bridges
4. Son Little
5. Black Pumas
No love for the new “place that listened just like you” feature? (In my case Brighton, which, I’m told, is in the U.K.)
Despite the lion’s share of my listening being stuff that’s come out in the last couple of years, my number 5 artist is The Fall. Well, you can prove anything with statistics..
Mine was Brighton too. Wonder why that is?
You have the same tastes as Dallow, Spicer, Pinkie, Cubitt, loafing oafs in late-night chemists….
….and Caroline Lucas
Mine was Oxford. *Looks down my nose at you all*
1 Van Morrison
2 Courtney Marie Andrews
3 Rory Gallagher
4 Bonnie Raitt
5 Bob Dylan
Three of those are a surprise. I don’t listen to a lot of stuff on Spotify on repeat – more for discovering new stuff, not that you can tell that from this list.
My uwrapped even had a video message from Courtney Marie thnking me for my support. Which was nce of her…
Al Yankovic has shared this touching message.
I had a message (entirely non-sarcastic) from the Wiggles…
1. Bee Gees
2. Bob Dylan
3. Shaun Colvin
4. Fountains of Wayne
5. Van Morrison
A huge splurge of BGs in the summer when recovering from a serious illness: uplifting tunes and those glorious Billy Goat harmonies, although the Bob Stanley biography was disappointingly pedestrian.
Snap
1. Bee Gees
2. Kinks
3. Pulp
4. Madness
5. Pet Shop Boys
My discovery of the Bee Gees 1967-74 albums has clearly come through this year
My song list is bitter sweet as it’s polluted by some bad songs by my late son. I’d do anything for him to carry on filling up my song list
Sorry for your loss, GP.
Thank you Moose
Wilco
Sleaford Mods
Elliott Smith
Tom Waits
PJ Harvey
The top two I’d have guessed but I’ve no idea where the other three came from.
Come to think of it… the most played on Spotify this year, were musicians with 999 streams
EmeeeeeeeeEEEEEEERGENCY!
(beat me to it – was just searching for an appropriate reference point)