Help me choose some playlist concepts / ideas for the new iPod...

Raining Music
DIY Music
Foreign Language Music

Backwards songs music

Songs you know how to play on guitar ( or piano or whatever)

Songs Nick and Geir actually agree on

Really embarrasingly shit songs that you're not sure why they're even on your iPod

Themed WWF-styled playlists for yourself and everyone in your family.

Playlist for your own funeral/wake (morbid yes, but do you really want them to fuck it up?)

Wire magazine music

As coined by an ex, as in 'all that backwards shite your always listening too'

Incidental Music For As-Yet Unwritten Alessandro Del Piero Biopic

Playlist for your own funeral/wake (morbid yes, but do you really want them to fuck it up?)

ipods of the future may store your legal will and testment to be updated every time you get pissed off!

back to the topic i have songs to sing at the top of your lungs to, songs to dance around in the dark to

i am also obsessed with songs with my name or a particular persons name in

Songs you loved as a young child

Music to play in the background when Old People call round.

Frequently updated box of party tunes, that can be extracted and converted into mix CDs at a moment's notice. (I find this essential.)

Friday evening first-beer-of-the-weekend music.

Rolling UK Top 40.

Smart playlists based on individual year.

4 stars and over smart playlist, for when you need to be surprised by the Good Stuff.

co-sign all of mike's, a couple of which are already on my ipod.

male singers
female singers

all acoustic

by drug of inspiration

musicians who died young

"neglected" smart playlist where 'last played' and 'last skipped' is more than 12 wks ago. (granted if you just got the ipod it'll take awhile before this one is useful).

sleepy-time tunes

Some awesome ideas in here; glad this finally took off while I was in meetings! Keep 'em coming.

One-Hit Wonders - Bands with only one song each in iTunes
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=gatheruptheonehits

I've got playlists for all the single track pop stuff that I download when I don't want the whole album:

2000s Girl Pop (Clarkson, Levign, Leona Lewis, etc.)
Brah Rock (Foo Fighters, 3 Doors Down)

Although I suppose this would do:

Really embarrasingly shit songs that you're not sure why they're even on your iPod

-- Thomas, Friday, August 29, 2008 8:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Opening Salvos (opening tracks on any album you have on iTunes)
Canyon Music (tracks by anyone who has ever lived in either Laurel or Topanga Canyons...pretty extensive list, actually)

I have a playlist that I like a lot which compiles all of my shoegaze and grunge.

These were two genres that don't necessarily go together, but I liked both a lot in middle school. Maybe there are two or more disparate genres you could compile into your own personal playlist.

Although, weren't you the one who came up with the ultra-specific personal genre tags?

In a fit of extreme anality I just made a playlist of all the songs that were ever released as singles. About 1500 out of 10,000. A pretty good way of capturing all the populist and best known stuff, and avoiding a lot of "all that backwards shite" since a lot of the backwards shite artists don't go in for the singles game.

Yeah, genre-based playlists won't really work with me...

I also obsessively tagged everything with year of release, and have smart playlists for all the years and decades.

Yeah I've had some time on my hands...

A playlist that starts with the slowest songs on your pod and ramps up to the fastest and vice versa

^ oh, shit!

Black Metal Time!

Songs > 10 min in length

piano songs. horn songs. strings songs. organ songs. theremin songs.

songs from tropical lands vs songs from temperate-to-frigid lands

songs with "you" in the title

eeyore songs. tigger songs. pooh songs. piglet songs.

If it's come to that, you really need to spend some time with adults. Get a babysitter. Now!

first i need a baby...

naive songs, slut songs, cynic songs, sophisticated centre songs.

I have "Sexy Songs" (for sex background noise!) and "Jazz & Big Band" for cleaning/cooking but nothing gimmicky. I used to burn themed CDs though, like the Beatles one I did where every track had the track number in it (i.e. She was just 17, you know what I mean) which was imaginatively called Beatles Number Mix

Songs that won't piss off your wife/signicant other/mom.

A "brick wall" playlist containing all those vastly overcompressed songs

base your selections on titles of carson mccullers books. The Member of the Wedding, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Clock Without Hands

Songs with melodica!

Songs you forgot you downloaded and can't even identify

Parental Guidance playlist

Songs you skip the most on shuffle

Songs about crows

Songs to listen to with friends