When you’re subscribed to a number of music blogs, as well as coming across cool new indy songs accidentally or buying stuff via iTunes, it can be somewhat daunting to keep up with what you’ve been into lately. Rating songs helps, of course, but I’m usually too buried in code to bother with it. (With Quicksilver, however…)
Pondering this, I created a new playlist in iTunes called Lately Awesome. Choose “Match all”. The rules are:
- Date Added is in the last 2 weeks
- Play Count is greater than 2
Naturally, you’ll want to tailor this to your own needs. Expanding it to 1 month results in sixteen songs for me. YMMV.
Anyhow, Lately Awesome produced three songs:
- “Flathead” by The Fratellis
- “Rockin’ Date” by The Micragirls
- “Start Swimming” by Summer Hymns
Coincidentally, all three songs were added on 1/30, and all are from this year or last, which makes sense.
“Flathead” is the song from the new iPod adverts. They do seem to err on the side of catchy. ;)
“Rockin’ Date” has the female rock vibe of the 5-6-7-8’s, but more raw and distorted. A good combination of elements.
“Start Swimming” I heard of from 3hive (which has become a great source for new music for me), and their description of “textured, mellow pop songs that seem to fit the band’s name” is apt. This would go well on a seasonal playlist you listen to in the depths of winter to thaw your soul a little. Straight-ahead song, no surprises, but good vibes — like America with less of a box-of-wine aura.
