If you didn’t know, I’m on Spotify. This is my first playlist, because I entered a contest to “Become a Rhino Musicologist“. A lot of my favorite bands are on Rhino like INXS, Depeche Mode and Joy Division, due to anthologies and reissues. My first playlist is rife with my 80’s alternative favorites that I know Richard Blade (former KROQ DJ) or Steve West (current 91X DJ) would be proud of. This won’t be my last playlist, so if you’re on Spotify, please follow me here. Cheers and have a great weekend!
My son Dominic has very eclectic taste in music for a four year-old. His playlist is pictured below, and consists of songs he has either heard and liked from the music my husband and I listen to, from movies or TV shows, and from his cousin, Mei-Lin. Blue and Iron Man are obvious favorites (both from Iron Man movies). He has loved (Keep Feeling) Fascination by The Human League since he was two, and the Royksopp version of Depeche Mode’s Puppets was on repeat during many a car ride, much to my delight!
Deon’s mom was in town last weekend for a conference, and to see Dominic. After a crazy Sunday of fun, we ended up at Bloomingdale’s for some late afternoon shopping. While we were all browsing upstairs, Dominic asked if he could play with my iPhone, which isn’t unusual when he’s bored. After I handed him the phone, I noticed he didn’t play with it right away because he was really grooving to the music piping in through the store speakers. I asked him what he was doing, and he said, “Mama, I really like this song…who is it? Can we download it?” We “Shazamed” the song and discovered it was called Doused by DIIV and added it to his playlist. Later I listened to Doused in its entirety, and I must say, I quite like DIIV (pronounced “dive”). The music is very reminiscent of Joy Division (especially the baseline), and I still can’t believe that it was my son who picked up on this fantastic musical find (yes, he’s too cool). Below is the video for Doused, to take us into the weekend. Cheers and enjoy!
