I like my I-tunes. Really. Some folks prefer their music served up by Spotify or Pandora. THEIR curated playlist. And that’s nice. Good products. But I like MY music. Nearly 21 gigs spread over 5,500 tunes.

And 100 playlists, designed over the last ten years. Playlists for days of the week and locations and times of the year and “feel” and lyrics. And then re-assembled into my daily playlist. And my late February playlist prompted this item. Y’see I have a commute playlist that does the heavy lifting to an from work and it has a bunch of baseline songs with others “built in” based on time of year. I cap the list build at 1 hour and play random so it provides a nice mix of stuff but if often dominated by the “specialty” music,

September is the satart of football season so THAT music dominates, along with the “Autumn” list. October gets eaten up by Halloween music. November is still heavy into football with a smattering of seasonal-going-home stuff. December is Christmas music, then NYE. January leans into the winter playlist. February brings love songs for the first two weeks and occasionally a day of Mardi Gras and then, almost miraculously, the list returns to norm. All the “regular” stuff I haven’t heard since August of September reappears, as if from hibernation, filling my ears with their rich, creamy goodness. March (Spring) and April (birthday) are diversions but not dominant. May get’s nuttin! June, July bring a LOT of summer stuff but by August they’ve run their course.

So as February turns to March I’ve re-heard most of my comfortable baseline stuff and life returns to normal, but it’s always just a little bit of a kick.

posted this a few years back. Now seems like as good a time as any to post again. What’s in my playlist today:

For several reasons I’ve been listening to a lot of Steely Dan of late. Tight harmonies. Good hooks. Creative instrumentation. But DAMN did those guys write a LOT of drug related lyrics!