Category: Playlists
Playlists with themes, playlists for #FakeAlbums, playlists that time-travel back to the popular music of a certain year … you’ve arrived at the M8 Playlist hub. Liner notes and bonus video here, with the audio at the M8 Spotify home.
The Reworking Hour: Songs From The Big Chair
I do enjoy rethinking and resequencing tracklists, but I stumbled onto this Tears For Fears topic by accident. Here on the cusp of The Tipping Point, bookmark this as a fresh way to enjoy the 1985 album that put Tears…
1964 / Motown Meets UK Scruff & The Tremolo Umami
Play this on Spotify // M8’s Spotify home // M8 Playlists Headphones revealed the unintended theme of this 1964 playlist: the trans-Atlantic gap in production quality between Motown and the singles from these up-and-coming English groups. As you’ll hear, everyone…
Playlist: Baby, Baby, Baby
This playlist’s Spotify link /// M8’s Spotify home. “Baby Blue” by Badfinger. Even the verse is catchy. And appropriately for this site’s first playlist, a plenty good bridge before the solo. Produced by Todd Rundgren. “My Dixie dear …” “Baby Driver” by…
Springsteen Reimagined: Talk To Me (and ’78 Sessions box)(2010)
This playlist at Spotify /// M8 home at Spotify Let’s start with a quick look at the U.S. Top 10 album that actually* got released in 1978, then move on to its unusual creation story.Bruce SpringsteenTalk To Me (1978) SIDE ONE4:22 …