Infinite Playlist #14

Gui Boratto, ‘Beautiful Life’

Infinite Playlist #6

‘Heaven & Hell’, The El Michels Affair

Infinite Playlist #5

Terry Callier, ‘Just As Long As We’re In Love’

Infinite Playlist #4

The Zombies, ‘Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914)’

Infinite Playlist #3

‘I want For Nothing’ by Wye Oak, from sophomore album The Knot.

Infinite Playlist #2

‘Rain on the Roof’ by The Lovin’ Spoonful

Infinite Playlist #1

About five years ago, my good friend Richard displayed a flash of brilliance: what if you were in a book club, but instead of reading books, you listened to music, and instead of passively reading books, you actively contribute to the content of the CD-of-the-month.

Each month, a different club member would select a theme, and all the members would then contribute one track that fit the theme for burning onto a CD, which would then be burned and distributed via the mail. It was an inspired thought, but ultimately failed because we were all too lazy to keep up with it, and organizing and wrangling the mp3’s from members proved to be a logistical nightmare.

So I recently hit upon what I hope is a solution—every new music release day (that’s Tuesday, for you noobs), I’ll be emailing a new mp3 to a select group of friends for inclusion on an infinite iTunes playlist. No themes, no rules, just music. Any suggestions submitted will probably make the cut. If someone hates one week’s entry, they just have to wait seven days for the next one.

Entry #1 is ‘Love Athena’ by The Olivia Tremor Control.