Monday 30 August 2010

Playlist fun

As I am someone who often spends time travelling on trains as part of getting to and from work, I spend a lot of my journey time listening to music on my iPod and am always looking for inventive ways of selecting the music that I listen to.

I have found that one of the best ways is to play songs alphabetically from the song index, as it means that you get to listen to quite a diverse range of tracks encompassing different genres and eras in one sitting.

Below is a sample of the recent playlists I have listened to recently in this way. Please note that Playlist #9 was an extended playlist that I listened to while travelling to Manchester over the weekend.

PLAYLIST #1
David Bowie - Absolute Beginners
Dolores O'Riordan - Accept Things
Oasis - Acquiesce
Mumford & Sons - After The Storm
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
Sleeper - Alice In Vain
Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
U2 - All Because Of You
The Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night
Alanis Morissette - All I Really Want

PLAYLIST #2
Puressence - All I Want
The Hours - Ali In The Jungle
Echo & The Bunnymen - All My Colours
Small Faces - All Or Nothing
The Waterboys - All The Things She Gave Me
Simple Minds - All The Things She Said
Sharleen Spiteri - All The Times I Cried
The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
The Farm - All Together Now
Embrace - All You Good Good People
The Beatles - All You Need Is Love

PLAYLIST #3
Prince - Alphabet Street
Jamiroquai - Alright
The Stranglers - Always The Sun
Razorlight - America
RPA & The United Nations Of Sound - America
Simple Minds - The American
Green Day - American Idiot
Lenny Kravitz - American Woman
Talking Heads - And She Was
Garbage - Androgyny
The Killers - Andy, You're A Star
U2 - Angel Of Harlem
Rolling Stones - Angie
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart

PLAYLIST #4
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
Ladyhawke - Another Runaway
Ryan Adams - Answering Bell
Fyfe Dangerfield - Any Direction
Rolling Stones - Anybody Seen My Baby
Sheryl Crow - Anything But Down
The Kinks - Apeman
Corinne Bailey Rae - Are You Here
RPA & The United Nations Of Sound - Are You Ready
Stevie Wonder - As
Embrace - Ashes
Travis - As You Are
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
Muse - Assassin

PLAYLIST #5
Blondie - Atomic
The Noisettes - Atticus
Elbow - An Audience With The Pope
Manic Street Preachers - Australia
The Kinks - Autumn Almanac
Mumford & Sons - Awake My Soul
Fyfe Dangerfield - Awake, Asleep
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Massive Attack - Babel
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee
Them - Baby Please Don't Go
AC/DC - Back In Black
The Beatles - Back In The USSR

PLAYLIST #6
Ladyhawke - Back Of The Van
The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Razorlight - Back To The Start
Michael Jackson - Bad
U2 - Bad
Garbage - Bad Boyfriend
KT Tunstall - Bad Day
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Foo Fighters - Baker Street
Space & Cerys Matthews - The Ballad Of Tom Jones
The Beatles - The Ballad Of John & Yoko
Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes

PLAYLIST #7
Green Day - Basket Case
Fyfe Dangerfield - Barricades
Charlotte Hatherley - Bastardo
Travis - Battleships
Michael Jackson - Beat It
RPA & The United Nations Of Sound - Beatitudes
The Noisettes - Beat of My Heart
U2 - Beautiful Day
Madonna - Beautiful Stranger
Echo & The Bunnymen - Bed Bugs and Ballyhoo
Bon Jovi - Bed Of Roses
Keane - Bedshaped
Razorlight - Before I Fall To Pieces
The Stone Roses - Begging You

PLAYLIST #8
The Coral - Being Somebody Else
Keane - Bend And Break
Bruce Springsteen - Better Days
Ladyhawke - Better Than Sunday
Jack Johnson - Better Together
Then Jerico - Big Area
Natalie Imbruglia - Big Mistake
The Thrills - Big Sur
The Coral - Bill McCai
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Basement Jaxx - Bingo Bango
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
Doves - Birds Flew Backwards
Meredith Brooks - Bitch

PLAYLIST #9
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Doves - Black And White Town
Texas - Black Eyed Boy
KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree
The White Stripes - Black Math
Michael Jackson - Black Or White
The Last Shadow Puppets - Black Plant
Athlete - Black Swan Song
Muse - Blackout
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
The Killers - Bling (Confession of a King)
Razorlight - Blood For Wild Blood
Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
New Order - Blue Monday
Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry
Kings Of Convenience - Boat Behind
The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
The Killers - Bones
RPA & The United Nations Of Sound - Born Again
James - Born Of Frustration
Oasis - Born On A Different Cloud
Kaiser Chiefs - Born To Be A Dancer
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
Oasis - Boy With The Blues
The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket

PLAYLIST #10
Elbow - The Bones Of You
The Doors - Break On Through
Richard Ashcroft - Break The Night With Colour
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Queen - Breakthru
U2 - Breathe
Corinne Bailey Rae - Breathless
Texas - Breathless
Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise
Furniture - Brilliant Mind
Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha
Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses
The Adventures - Broken Land
Paul Weller - Broken Stones
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar