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I have been making monthly playlists for the past 4 and a half years, I do not skip months. They have been the most consistent tracking of my life over this time. There are a few rules, no full albums can be added and no songs can be repeated from past playlists. They range from 10 to 30 songs. I can tell how I was doing based on the number of songs and how congealed the musical narrative is. At this point they are habit, I make them to listen to during each month but I also make them to look back on. Producing a nostalgia for each month of each year. There are no overarching themes and these playlists decentralize my music taste, the yearly review lacks month to month consistency.
Mar 23, 2024
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ive been making them for almost three years. basically whenever i find i song i rly like i put it in my playlist for that month - the playlist usually ends up abt 2 hours long. i have a rule tho that if a song has gone in one playlist, it cant go in a monthly playlist again. it forces me to consistently find new music and im sure if i didnt have them i would be stuck listening to the same stuff over and over.
Apr 24, 2024
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i’ve been doing this since 2018 and it’s so cool to see my music taste develop and improve since then, documented month by month! i add songs that i’ve been listening to a lot or songs that were recently released, just whatever i’m in the mood for that month! and i can also kind of revisit times in my life by listening to an old month playlist. also, at the end of the year i compile that year’s monthly playlists into a year playlist, and it’s like a longer and more comprehensive wrapped playlist!
Mar 3, 2024
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They're all labeled by month/year. usually music that's new to me, sometimes there's a theme, sometimes I end up not liking the songs at all. but it's always something i can go back to and say 'yes, that was february 2021'. Here's a link to february 2021
Apr 22, 2024
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