the need for variety

Just set up a new playlist of my 26 most-played MP3’s of between 2 and 3 minutes. It’s amazing what that does for the energy level– frequent change, but not too frequent. Feels like listening to a radio station, I guess.

The list is somewhat dominated by Booker T. & The MG’s and the Sgt. Pepper’s album. There are a few techno cuts on there as well. Also one by Hendrix, one Bobby Bland, one Stevie Wonder, one Nancy Sinatra, one Beach Boys, plus 90’s nostalgia with Digable Planets, 80’s nostalgia with “Tainted Love” and the Police, and 70’s nostalgia with the one Partridge Family song. Otherwise, pretty much Booker T. and the Beatles.

I deliberately excluded everything from Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, however. Too incompatible with the others.