Welcome to the Mixtape Corner

 
 

This is a cozy little section of the site dedicated to playlists.

First off, sorry that these are all Spotify links. While I’m still critical of Spotify and all that the streaming model entails, I am not immune to a good playlist and Spotify makes them easy. I guess when you spend all day listening to music (regardless of platform), your brain just automatically starts to categorize and sequence things in a way that makes sense.

I have around 800 playlists on Spotify and a few hundred on my local music library, and if that sounds like a lot, you’re right! I don’t use them all, but they have each served a different role in my music fandom at one point or another. Some playlists are decade-spanning compendiums of an artist’s work organized chronologically; others are goofy jokes based on some superficial connective tissue. Some of these I listen to every week, others are an attempt to capture a specific time and place in my life. The point is that my sidebar is long and full of playlists, so I created this as a place where I can share some of my favorites and discuss them in short form.

 
 
 

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Mixtape #16 - Single Name
Mixtape #16 - Single Name

There’s something timeless about a song whose title is just someone’s name. Not a full name, just a single name and nothing more. These types of songs can feel so pointed yet widely applicable. People like Alex G and Matthew Sweet seem to have mastered this craft, taking commonplace names and spinning them into masterful webs of melody that forever change how you hear “Evangeline” or “Bobby.” It’s always interesting to see where artists take these pointed tracks, and they almost always catch my eye in a tracklist. I’ve collected nearly 300 here for your listening pleasure.

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