Spotify Wrapped 2024

Yesterday, the Russia-supported regime in Syria collapsed after well over a decade of civil war that the Western world had almost entirely forgotten about. Russia was unable to continue supplying the regime with weapons because it's getting destroyed by Ukraine. This is Assad day for Putin and a happy day for almost everyone else.

Also, I played with my adorable nieces today and saw the new one for the first time.

Also, Spotify Wrapped is out after two months of useless "When will Spotify Wrapped be out? We don't know" articles.

This year I listened for almost 93 days, two more days than last year. I gotta keep getting those numbers up. Xeen Music and the Beatles were in my top five artists last year as well. To reiterate, Xeen Music publishes the soundtracks of computer games from the 80s and 90s, and the Beatles are an obscure 60s British rock group. David Arkenstone is a prolific New Age composer whom my family often listened to on Sunday mornings and long car trips. Pete Seeger was a prolific communist folk singer who fortunately didn't live to see the rise of fascism in his home country. Steve Horelick is the main credited artist for the songs sung by the jukebox band on the old children's show "Shining Time Station," and he's in my top artists simply because I listened to every one of those songs after I found them, though I was actually looking (without success) for the original version of the show's theme song.

​My top songs:

Skatt Bros - Walk The Night - 12" Version

Popularized by the dancing doll in the horror film "M3GAN." I used the 12" version because for any song worth listening to, longer is better.

Robin Gibb - You Don't Say Us Anymore

This is hands down my favorite song from Robin Gibb's solo career, but it wasn't on Spotify for a while, so when it was, I listened to it several times.

Ryan Paris and George Aaron - Can Delight - Maxi

The original version by My Mine isn't on Spotify, which is a crime against humanity. This version is fine, though.

Charlie - It's Inevitable

With the guitars, the synths, the vocal style, and the iffy messaging around consent, this is the quintessential 80s rock song and deserves to be a lot more popular than it is.

Rabbit - It's Love

This year, I randomly remembered this song from a trailer at the end of the Pokémon VHS tapes my mom threw away, and I nostalgia'd the hell out of it.