Play me. Play this. Or my Spotify playlists compiled...

This year I have mostly been making playlists. Over on the DiS site we've done a weekly Spotifriday playlist. However, these 'ere playlists come in all shapes and sizes, with various themes and wotnot. I thought compiling them in one place might be useful for anyone looking for some musical guidance or simply for anyone wanting to save time making a playlist by slinging on one of mine.

If you haven't yet installed Spotify, it's free (if you don't mind a few ads) and available most places now (Americans I think can pay to use it but I might be wrong?!). 

2009
- My Top 40 Songs of the Year
- My Top 10 Albums of the Year (plus Grizzly Bear which isn't available)
- Drowned in Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2009 (or if that's overwhelming, try the 2 tracks-from-each sampler)
- Drowned in Sound's Albums of 2009 - longlist
- Best compilations of 2009

The Noughties
- My 123 mixtape adventure
- DrownedinSound's 00s - a long list of recommended albums
- DrownedinSound's songs of the Noughties (to be completed for our 10th Anniversary in October 2010)

Misc
- A playlist of some of my favourite songs
- Drowned in Sound Recordings (my label)
- Best of/Introduction to... Elliott Smith
- Best of/Introduction to... Kraftwerk (part of Kraftwerk week)
- Best of Fierce Panda records
- Drowned in... the year 2000
- My 15 favourite albums
- My songs of the 90s
- DrownedinShoegaze (for DiS' special shoegaze week)  
- DrownedinAltCountry (for DiS' special alt country week)
- SeaninSummer
- Drownedin... covers (created from a thread on our boards)
- The Nepture Music Prize (DiS' alternative to the Mercury nominated albums)
- Fear & Birthday (a emo/rock-filled mixtape I made for a friend's birthday)
- Drowned in I Heart Studios (an electronic mixtape I made for a friend's studio)
- Drowned in... Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday
- Reading Festival - Greatest Hits
- Glastonbury 2009 - 4 preview playlists
- This is Thamesbeat Or An Ode to Eel Pie Sunsets
- DiSssmaaasss!! - festive playlist
- DiS' Hallowe'en playlist

And a few playlists I really like created or compiled by friends of mine...
- John Peel's Festive 50s compiled
- Ollie Russian's Britpop Massive
- Emily Haines' mixtape for DiS readers (which ran as part of Metric week)
- Thrash Hits' Sonisphere 2009 slaylist
- Field Day 2009
- P2K: Pitchfork's songs of 00s
- NME's albums of the 00s
- Rough Trade's albums of 2009
- Whiskas (forward russia's) 2009 favourite albums and songs 
- Christian Ward's 50 songs of 00s

If for any reason you need an invite to use Spotify email me sean [atttt] drownedinsound [dottt] com, as I have 22 left. 

So, which of your playlists should I be listening to? Share links below... for more playlists check out Spotifriday every Friday over on DrownedinSound.com.

 

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Muse, Reading & Leeds, Radiohead, Spotify and loads more on DiS at the moment

A quick update from DiS about what's on our site at the moment but firstly, if you haven't already, become a fan of DiS on facebook and follow DiS on Twitter or for a full feed of the site on Twitter click this link

MUSE reveal "floating cube" stage show details http://drwndnsnd.com/~40yso

Ninety songs of The Noughties - DiS Editor's Picks (P2K Alternative) http://drwndnsnd.com/~148kCt + loads more Spotify playlists here

Off to Reading or Leeds Festival this weekend? Find all our preview coverage here

CLUES (featuring members of Arcade Fire and ex-Unicorns guys) get ready to tour, release free and exclusive mp3 http://drwndnsnd.com/~IQrRy

RADIOHEAD - Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief new editions assessed http://drwndnsnd.com/~13AkAn

V Festival In Photos: KATY PERRY & LILY ALLEN also In Photos

IDLEWILD set official release date for Post-Electric Blues, include two bonus tracks http://drwndnsnd.com/~L7e4p


Reviewed:
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Mew - No More Stories...
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
The XX - XX
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away

http://drownedinsound.com

Seanin00s - a Spotify Playlist

So Pitchfork are doing their P2K run-down of the songs of the decade. I've been slowly putting together DiS' coverage in the background. I'm still deliberating on what the acts/songs/bands of the decade are (I wanna do a definitive editorial list, lots of discussion sparking lists and the ultimate reader census, with all sorts of bells and whistles).

Anyway, in the meantime, here's my 90-songs-so-far Spotify "mixtape" of my favourite songs of The Noughties (not in any order other than listenable coherence). What have I forgotten and what's on your premature end-of-decade digital mixtape? I might add 10 requests and run this on Friday on DiS as a Spotifriday playlist.

Electrelane – Film Music
Arctic Monkeys – 505
Six by Seven – I.O.U. Love
The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes
The Radio Dept. – 1995
The Stills – Still in Love Song
The Shins – Sleeping Lessons
Friendly Fires – Paris
Blonde Redhead – The Dress
PJ Harvey – A Place Called Home
M83 – Don't Save Us From the Flames
TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
The Cooper Temple Clause – Let's Kill Music
LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away
The Kills – No Wow
Justice – Phantom
Crystal Castles – Vanished
The Knife – Heartbeats
Phoenix – Too Young
Tarwater – Stone
Cut Copy – Out There on the Ice
The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
Hot Hot Heat – Talk to Me, Dance With Me
Les Savy Fav – The Sweat Descends
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y Control
Liars – Mr Your On Fire Mr
Death From Above 1979 – Romantic Rights
These New Puritans – Swords of Truth
No Age – Everybody's Down
Interpol – PDA
Idlewild – Listen to What You've Got
The Walkmen – The Rat
At the Drive-In – One Armed Scissor
Gwen Stefani – What You Waiting For?
OutKast – Hey Ya!
The Streets – Let's Push Thing's Forward
Justin Timberlake – Cry Me a River
The Faint – Paranoiattack
Panic! At the Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies
Paramore – Crushcrushcrush
Destiny's Child – Independent Women, Part 1
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Feist – I Feel It All
Girls Aloud – Je Ne Parle Pas Francais
Youthmovies – The Naughtiest Girl Is a Monitor
Battles – Atlas
Foals – Balloons
Radiohead – Idioteque
Regina Spektor – Us
Kate Nash – Nicest Thing
The Cribs – Be Safe
Bloc Party – The Pioneers
Pretty Girls Make Graves – This Is Our Emergency
Sonic Youth – Incinerate
Midlake – Roscoe
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – We Call Upon the Author
Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
Deftones – Digital Bath
Biffy Clyro – 57
Rival Schools – Used for Glue
Queens Of The Stone Age – Lightning Song
Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart
The Maccabees – No Kind Words - Single Version
Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise!
Björk – It's Not Up to You
The National – Squalor Victoria
Beirut – Postcards From Italy
Andrew Bird – Plasticities
Jeniferever – From Across the Sea
Explosions In The Sky – Magic Hours
Sigur Rós – Starálfur
Four Tet – She Moves She
Panda Bear – Bro's
Bright Eyes – Poison Oak
Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Elbow – Grace Under Pressure
The Veils – The Tide That Left and Never Came Back
Frightened Rabbit – I Feel Better
Modest Mouse – Float On
The Dandy Warhols – Get Off
Franz Ferdinand – Darts of Pleasure
Metric – Monster Hospital
Nine Inch Nails – The Hand That Feeds (DFA mix)
Beck – Lost Cause
Grizzly Bear – On a Neck, On a Spit
Jamie T – If You Got the Money
Cat Power – Free
Les Incompétents – Escapades

Listen to the Seanin00s playlist by clicking here (note: you'll need the Spotify software and it's not yet available in all countries)

Seanin90s - a Spotify nostalgia mixtape

Before DiS embarks on a review of the Noughties, I've been taking my own personal voyage back to the 90s in an attempt to set a watermark for what the 00s need to live upto (especially as I don't want our list of the decade to be some indier than thou misrepresentation , although it will obvs feature Postal Service).

Anyway, if I made you a mixtape in the 90s or you heard me playing records at a club called Verdis in Weymouth (Dorset), you probably would have heard some of these tracks.

1. Tom Waits – House Where Nobody Lives
2. PJ Harvey – C'mon Billy
3. Manic Street Preachers – Faster
4. Ash – Kung Fu
5. NOFX – Monosyllabic Girl
6. Refused – New Noise
7. Blur – Star Shaped
8. Idlewild – A Film for the Future
9. Deftones – Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
10. Nine Inch Nails – We're in This Together
11. The London Community Gospel Choir – I Think I'm in Love
12. At the Drive-In – Napoleon Solo
13. Arab Strap – Cherubs
14. Sigur Rós – Starálfur
15. Björk – Violently Happy
16. Le Tigre – Hot Topic
17. Prince & The New Power Generation (with Eric Leeds on Flute) – Gett Off
18. Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus
19. Daft Punk – Burnin'
20. The Dandy Warhols – Boys Better
21. Primal Scream – Kill All Hippies
22. Pitchshifter – Genius
23. Jurassic 5 – Concrete Schoolyard
24. Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
25. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
26. Marilyn Manson – Rock Is Dead
27. Seafood – Psychic Rainy Nights
28. Weezer – Pink Triangle
29. No Doubt – End It on This
30. blink-182 – Dammit
31. Green Day – Welcome To Paradise
32. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – A Perfect Teenhood
33. Sonic Youth – Drunken Butterfly
34. Rage Against The Machine – Wake Up
35. Muse – Showbiz
36. Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box
37. Cat Power – Metal Heart
38. dEUS – Little Arithmetics
39. Beck – Loser
40. Mansun – Special/Blown It (Delete as Appropriate)
41. UNKLE – Lonely Soul
42. The Magnetic Fields – The Book of Love
43. The Verve – Life's an Ocean
44. Pulp – Sylvia
45. Elliott Smith – Between the Bars
46. Nick Cave & Kylie - Where The Wild Roses Grow
    
47. Sparklehorse – Homecoming Queen
48. The Charlatans – Just Lookin'
49. Longpigs – Lost Myself
50. Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye
51. The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
52. Beck – Nobody's Fault But My Own
53. Incubus – Drive
54. The Roots – You Got Me (feat. Erykah Badu)
55. Belle and Sebastian – She's Losing It
56. Eve 6 – Inside Out
57. Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
58. Sublime – Doin' Time
59. Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.
60. Roots Manuva – Movements
61. Mogwai – Mogwai Fear Satan
62. Limp Bizkit – Faith
63. Slipknot – Wait And Bleed
64. Weird Al Yankovic – Smells Like Nirvana
65. Reef - Replenish

Listen on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/seaninsound/playlist/3usSFJei6loONWzz3ZOHqQ

Add your 90s playlists below. Or Tweet them tagged #spotifriday @drownedinsound

Also play the Nineties vs Noughties Spotify game on the DiS boards here.

My Sunday Times Columns - So far...

Earlier this year I started writing a regular (about every 3 weeks) column for the Sunday Times Culture. I share the My Generation column with the former Deputy Ed of NME who's now based in New York as the music director of Nylon Krissi Murison and Rebecca Nicholson, former Editor of The Lipster (RIP), who now freelancedly writes lolness 'n' greatness all over the place.

A few people (3) have asked for links to my previous columns and as the Times site doesn't seem to file them together anywhere, here are the links for the four I've done so far...

My Generation: Download your favourite bands
Confusingly the title online (which is always different to what was in the paper) says it's about downloading but it was all about cloud-computing services, like Spotify, Last.fm, etc and little how-to guide to help deal with the choice paralysis that hits when you can't think what to listen to... Read it here.

My Generation: No more heroes
A ponder on how creative geniuses have been buried by a beige wave of media-savvy wannabes... Read it here.

My Generation: Waiting for a star
Is our obsession with new music, killing music? Sort of a retort to this year's Camden Crawl and othersuch dredging for gold festivals. Starts by bigging up Steve Lamacq. Ends with love for Idlewild. Read it here.

My Generation: Digitise This...
A bit of an explanation of how and why I've decided to try to be more eco-friendly by going CD-free, and talk of alternative ways to share music like Soundcloud. Read it here.

The next one runs this Sunday (21st June 2009) and is about politics and music, and how the only revolution of the Noughties that has been 'successful' and has a fantastic soundtrack, is the technological one.

You can find all the My Generation columns here.