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The Definitive Myspace Throwback Playlist Category: Art
Current mood:
nostalgic
I have a reputation as the ~aux queen~ of my friend group. In the car, at the store I used to work at, even at my own wedding. My playlists are BOMB. I have a witchy vibes playlist that I made for myself on spotify and was surprised to see it get a few followers organically, and that kind of validated my suspision that I'm good at this. With that in mind, I decided to create the definitive spotify playlist of myspace throwbacks!TLDR: CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR SOUL RIPPED OUT YOUR BUTT BY MELODIC NOSTALGIAThis playlist is LITERALLY two days long. I'm sure it will get longer now that I'm posting this and requesting suggestions! There's a lot of genres in there, so I don't really have rules about that. As far as suggestions, let me tell you a little about how I built this playlist as it exists now.
I didn't have much money growing up. My mom allowed me a $10 a month iTunes allowance. I'd spend the entire month watching Fuse TV (whatever that is now, jeeze) and writing down music videos for songs I liked. I'd download whatever I could off of artists' Myspace profiles, and off of Purevolume (come on, PUREVOLUME?!?!?). First of the month, I could buy 10 songs (they were still $0.99 each). It would take me months to complete an album, because I always had other songs I also wanted. Every now and then I'd get to go to Tower Records with my dad and he'd buy me one or two CDs. Christmas was iTunes gift cards on iTunes gift cards on iTunes gift cards. Eventually I figured out LimeWire and destroyed my parents' computer. It would be a few more years before I figured out how to safely torrent and rip from youtube, at which point I became a bit of a music hoarder.
For this reason, I have some songs that I absolutely LOVE from the era of like 2003-2009 where I just...never learned any other songs by those artists. I also compiled friends' profile songs that I liked and have some really random sh*t. I think this playlist really captures the era in a way that will blow you away when you see some of the songs I have on there. Some of them are ones I actually forgot about completely before I opened my ancient iTunes library and scrolled through it song by song for Y'ALL. There's some older songs on there, but ones I remember being quoted in headlines and bullitens all the time that seeped into the culture. There's also some songs from 2012-2013 because I think there was a slow drip of scene into the Tumblr-sphere at that time.
All that being said, I'm sure I'm missing some required songs. I want this to be THE myspace playlist that everyone can favorite and jam to when they're on this site. Please keep in mind that as the playlist queen, I'll have final say. Try to trust me. Drop some artists and song titles in the comments and I'll keep adding songs as you request them! Please PLEASE be specific because if you just name an artist, I might not know what the best songs from them to choose are.
Finally, if you don't have Spotify, IDK WHAT TO TELL UIf you misssed it up top, here's the link again!!
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