Year End Music Club

Are we ready to reminisce about 2015? Want to meet in blustery cold January? Perhaps the 14th or 21st? Have a happy new year everyone!

Spotify Year in Music

Spotify has this pretty dope "year in music" feature. https://yearinmusic.spotify.com/ My results were a bit of a yawn (my most played album was the Hamilton cast recording and my most played artist was Kendrick Lamar) except that I kicked off 2015 with "Still Feeling Blue" by Gram Parsons. I did not realize my January started off so January-ish! Happy Holiday music club!

I'm going to be in the room where it happens

The Results are in! (Version 2)

"High School Reunion (ours, not yours)"

See below.

HAMILTON

Can I sell this concept? A music club devoted to the musical "Hamilton"? Listen to the soundtrack a few times (or on repeat if you are me). You don't have to get back to me right away, just mull it over. Plus Pat, you know a lot about presidents!

Ahem...Jamiroquai hat, BABY!

So.......my recollection is that Greg & J are coming up with the next Music Club theme.  I have not seen any such theme as of yet.

Without a theme to guide me I will tend to wander into the avant garde, and let's face it, nobody wants that.

An Anecdote Illustrating The Spread Of Music Club Throughout The World Or At Least Tacoma

We met up with my folks after work yesterday.

Dad:  Hey, come over to the car, we have something for you.
Me:  OK
Dad:  You are in a music club, right?
Me:  Yeah.
Dad:  We've been listening to this lately and your mom wants you to bring it to your club.
*hands me CD of Bob Dylan Modern Times*
Me:  *does not mention that I have this*  Hey that's cool, thanks!!

I love my folks.

Happy Yacht Rock Day!

WXPN Live Stream

So far, they have played:

Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride - Open
Walter Egan - Magnet And Steel - Not Shy
Jackson Browne - Somebody's Baby - "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" - soundtrack
Ambrosia - Biggest Part of Me - One Eighty
George Benson - Give Me The Night - Give Me The Night
Herb Alpert - Rise - Rise
Kenny Loggins - This Is It - Keep the Fire
Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right - Shine On
Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen - Gaucho
Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That - Private Eyes
Christopher Cross - Sailing - Christopher Cross
The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes - Minute By Minute
Boz Scaggs - Lowdown - Silk Degrees
Toto - Africa - The Essential Toto

Who do you think will win Yacht Rock Day?  Michael McDonald?  Steely Dan?  Christopher Cross? (Spoiler alert: It's ME!  I'm already winning Yacht Rock Day!)

This is fascinating article on Spotify data

I may have played a part in the popularity of "No Diggity" on Spotify since the 90's hip-hop station is my personal favorite.

The 1980s

God I love lists like this.

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9700-the-200-best-songs-of-the-1980s/