unorthodox playlists: sonic solace for troubled times
*FLIGHTS are playlists that juxtapose songs from beyond living memory (up to 100+ years ago) with songs from our own lifetime. They’re attempts to travel beyond the time horizon, and frame our era within its larger context. Welcome aboard. To experience as intended, the captain asks that you refrain from shuffling and allow the songs to play in sequence. Enjoy your flight.
This flight takes you through the higher ranges known as falsetto, with surprisingly little turbulence. You'll be surrounded by peaks from every generation that rose up during the past century. The distance between tracks is an average of 42 yrs, and a median of 36.5 yrs, with the shortest and longest being 22 and 74 yrs, respectively.
Read MoreA playlist from that mythic land where a kid has heroes and can be one, too. Where seeing the error of your ways and turning over a new leaf is a good thing. Where they slap you on the back and welcome you into the fold when you do. The air is cleaner here, the days are longer, and the work just feels like play.
Read Morean upbeat playlist of similar-sounding songs grouped in pairs. The first song in each pair is the older, by an avg of 27 yrs., sort of like the parent to the second. Hearing the family resemblance might be a neat way to practice ‘mindfulness.’ If you pay attn, it’s definitely there, a window into a different way of experiencing the world and your life in it.
Read MoreProcess all that '80s Cold War angst. These are pop songs that hit us under the threat of mutually assured destruction.
Read MoreSongs about sweet, wholesome love starting in the 1980s and traveling back in time, to the 1860s. The flight then returns to our time, all the way to the 2010s, with the same songs in newer renditions. To experience as intended, the captain asks that you refrain from shuffling. Thank you and enjoy your flight.
Read MoreSongs inspired by home and autumn, gathering, good cooking, and being grateful for humble things, from those who saw The Great War (WWI), The Republican Great Depression (what it was called until the '50s), FDR's New Deal, and World War II.
Read MoreNovelty tunes and nonsense lyrics from every decade in the past century. Here we are: humans, being silly 🥸and smitten 😍 sassy 😉sullen 😒stoned 🥴strange 😵💫and 💀 suicidal. The songs span 100+ yrs, proving that, no matter the era, we come up with some pretty weird s💩!
Read MoreSome ‘oldies’ are even older than you thought.
Read MoreA parade of female pop stars, a hundred years long. Travel back in time at a rate of 5 years per song.
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