🎵 Music findings #18
Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #18 of Music findings. Seven off the playlist this week, plus five videos — four long mixes to work to and one more all-time top 100.
🎵 Songs
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KISS — I Was Made For Lovin’ You — Paul Stanley set out to show how easy a disco hit was to write, and ended up with one of the band’s biggest songs:
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Kanye West — Good Morning — the opener of Graduation, floating on a sample of Elton John’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”:
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A$AP Rocky — Sundress — Rocky over a Tame Impala sample, co-produced by Danger Mouse. A standalone 2018 single that never landed on an album:
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Avril Lavigne — Complicated — her 2002 debut single, and still the sound of a whole era of pop-rock.
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Hozier — Movement — a slow gospel-tinged ballad about love as dance. Ballet dancer Sergei Polunin stars in the video.
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BOVSKI, Kwabs — Walk — BOVSKI’s take on the 2014 Kwabs single that went to number one in Germany and made the FIFA 15 soundtrack.
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Central Cee — Mrs — two and a half minutes from 23, the mixtape that debuted at UK number one in 2022.
đź“ş Videos
- Pure Grit Studio — the playlist to actually enter flowstate. — two hours of calm ambient music made for studying or grinding on a project.
- SILEO — low cortisol jazz for overthinkers. — another two hours, slower and quieter, from a channel that treats focus as something the room does for you.
- Doplefy — It’s 2:59 am and you’re betting your soul that you’ll win — half an hour of original orchestral villain music, with track names like “The Last Card” and “The Devil Is Evil”.
- Teal Animatics — Pov: You’re an F1 fan || A playlist. — forty minutes of race-weekend songs from a fan channel.
- KevinGeorge — my top 100 favorite songs — a follow-up to last issue’s countdowns: a hundred songs in sixteen minutes, with the Spotify playlist in the description.
🎧 Play them all — the full playlist, where the next issues pull from too:
🗂️ Catch up on past issues.