#quarantine playlist

[xx-all-purpose-nerd-xx]

I miss having the time to listen to/create playlists set to a theme while doing nothing else and just absorbing the music and analyzing how it connects to the playlist’s theme.

[kierancaz]

Fairytail songs fit so well with twst to me

[snoopyreadsliterature]

really disappointing.

[impressmyheart]

I just can’t pick out a favorite so here’s two more 🪴

[ntriani]

OQM Playlist: Life during quarantine #29

Nick Triani returns with his Life during quarantine playlist and reflects on his highlights of 2021 so far.

I honestly thought I was done with quarantine playlists. But here I am a year later, positioning tracks in the right order, for a free flowing listening experience and for maximum impact. The vaccine roll-out seems ultra slow as EU bureaucracy creates a sense of unease throughout the union. Right-wing conspiracists take cheap shots.Time stretches inconceivably as the lack of human interaction outside of one’s immediate family and our computer screens remains a fading memory. 

For me culture has kept the fires burning. Some personal highlights from 2021 so far:

-Adam Curtis’ revealing and thought provoking documentary about how we got here, Can’t Get You Out of My Head

-A timely reminder of how things can get out of control with MAUS by Art Spiegelman

-Elvis Costello’s entertaining Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink

-The general art-house pretentiousness of Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Yes, it was a mess and yes it was strangely moving and really essential all at the same time)

-Catching up with my discography gaps of Judy Collins‘ astonishing 1970s back catalog

-Discovering Jorge Ben’s remarkable A Tábua de Esmeralda album

-Litku Klemetti cementing her reputation as the only interesting presence within the Finnish music mainstream in 2021

-Joni Mitchell’s Wild Things Run Fast

Until next time. 

[nullbutler]

I can't explain all of my decisions but

[jaanedil]

Hema Malini in Johny Mera Naam - Costumes by Bhanu Athaiya

[radicchia]

What are your favourite Christmas songs?

[sevenswansmp3]

do yall know about this

[evenina]

I found a site that calculates how “obscure” your music taste is and who your most listened to artists and songs are and

I’ve been listening to TAD for two months now (?), maybe less, and already they’re in my top three artists of all time and they’re completely dominating my current top songs :’)

[farragoesoddments]

We made playlists and filled them with songs that reminded us of each other all those years ago.

Then quarantine kept us apart, and even after it was all over, you let that distance grow.

Am I crazy for adding songs to yours even after all this time though?

[sendmyresignation]

ill literally never forgive any of u for being disappointed when sara taylor was the guest for prison at the shrine show bc first of all its still gay gerard is in a lesbian marriage but also because her gender sexuality ambiguity swag is so hot i love her so much

[devilofthepit]

listening to hesitant alien for the first time in over 5 years for some fucking reason

[dykearthurmorgan]

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[ntriani]

OQM Playlist: Life during quarantine #23 A new Life during quarantine playlist finds Nick Triani writing about the legacy and influence of Jimi Hendrix.A new Life during quarantine playlist finds Nick Triani writing about the legacy and influence of Jimi Hendrix.

Jimi Jimi Random thoughts. On Friday I woke up after dreaming of Jimi Hendrix, specifically a Hendrix movie. I realised I had the same feeling watching John Ridley‘s weak Jimi Henrdix biopic  All Is by My Side as I did watching Oliver Stone‘s ludicrous yet entertaining The Doors movie. Both films managed to miss the essence of what made the two Jims, Hendrix and Morrison, so interesting. What a dream!

Any fascination in watching these movies comes from following the ensuing cinema car-crash unfold. At least Stone was brazenly over the top with obvious fake beards, shamanistic ideology and appropriation, off-kilter period detail and dollops of unnecessary nudity. Ridley’s film is way too dour and without being able to use any of Hendrix’s recorded music, ultimately misses the core of the attraction.

Of course, Hendrix’s standing is very strange in this post-modern era. Yes, it’s acknowledged he was the greatest rock guitarist ever, but much of the druggy, free-love ideology of Hendrix’s time seems woefully out of sync with 2020, therefore diminishing his influence. Allegations of domestic abuse haven’t helped the Hendrix mythology either, yet similar white artists accused of the same or worse seem to be unscathed by such history (Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Lennon etc). Even Hendrix’s Fender Strat guitar tone seems to be out of vogue.

And that’s the thing to remember, outside of Arthur Lee, Hendrix was the sole black rock icon of the 1960’s boom. Stories about his extraordinary large hands, troubled family background, breaking into the London live scene, that onstage showdown with The Who, the hour-long anguish of noise he performed live the night of Martin Luther King‘s murder, being the highest paid live performer of the late 1960s, Hendrix standing as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century,  seem to be an afterthought. Then there’s the records.

‘Driving South,’ a BBC session cut found on this week’s playlist should remind us that the gentle yet troubled soul of Henrdix could diminish the guitar opposition even with an off- the-cuff jam. Further out of  context, Hendrix’s excellence opened up the premise of Black music  to a white rock audience. You could surmise that Hendrix wasn’t the greatest songwriter, but again, that is a slur, there are many examples of great songwriting in his catalog. But his core musicality and main influence were the blues; the riff, the expression and that singular sadness. Hendrix remains the unquestioned and unrivalled king of making noise with an electric guitar, his expression still far ahead of the game.