Add playlist skill and taste profile
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name: playlist
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description: Build vibe playlists for Connor in Shanty, his self-hosted music server on mainframe — draft a track list from his taste profile, get approval, download what's missing, create the playlist over the Shanty API, and record his feedback. Use when he asks for a playlist, a mix, music for an activity or mood, or reports what he skipped.
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---
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# Building playlists in Shanty
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Read `taste.md` in this directory first. It holds what Connor likes, what he
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skips, and the rules he has set. Update it whenever he gives feedback.
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## Workflow
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1. Draft a list. Pick songs on fit alone: Shanty can download anything, so
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don't limit choices to what's already in the library. One genre per
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playlist; offer variants instead of mixing. Use the library to learn his
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taste, not as a constraint. When a brief names references ("Mad Men",
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"Bond"), match their feel; avoid theme songs and other picks that make
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listeners name the reference.
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2. Show the list in order with rough length, and wait for approval. Don't
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add anything to a playlist, or download anything, until he says so.
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3. Apply his edits, download what's missing, then create the playlist.
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4. Ask what he skipped once he's listened. Record skips and keeps in
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`taste.md`, with the date.
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Names are by mood or genre, not activity, unless the playlist is truly for one
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activity (lifting is; a walk home isn't).
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## Shanty API
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Shanty runs in the `connor_shanty_1` container on mainframe and isn't
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published on localhost. Get its address with
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`sudo podman inspect connor_shanty_1 --format '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}'`
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and use `http://<ip>:8085/api`. The container IP can change on recreate.
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Log in with the password from rbw (Connor has to unlock it). Keep the cookie
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jar in the session scratchpad; sessions end when the server restarts.
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```sh
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rbw get shanty-connor | jq -Rn --arg u connor '{username:$u,password:input}' |
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curl -s -c "$JAR" -H 'content-type: application/json' --data @- "$API/auth/login"
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```
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| Call | Use |
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| `GET /search/track?q=&artist=&limit=` | Find recording MBIDs. Results mix live and compilation versions; filter on `album`. |
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| `POST /tracks/watch {artist,title[,mbid]}` | Mark one track wanted. Pass `mbid` when you have the studio recording. |
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| `DELETE /tracks/watch {mbid}` | Unwatch a track. |
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| `POST /downloads/sync` then `POST /downloads/process` | Queue and download wanted tracks. |
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| `GET /playlists`, `GET /playlists/{id}` | List playlists; show one with its tracks. |
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| `POST /playlists {name,description,track_ids}` | Create a playlist. |
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| `PUT /playlists/{id} {name,description}` | Rename. |
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| `POST /playlists/{id}/tracks {track_id}` | Append a track. |
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| `PUT /playlists/{id}/tracks {track_ids}` | Set the full order. |
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| `DELETE /playlists/{id}/tracks/{track_id}` | Remove a track from a playlist. |
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Track IDs for owned songs: read-only query on `/usr/local/shanty/shanty.db`,
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e.g. `sqlite3 -readonly -cmd '.timeout 10000' /usr/local/shanty/shanty.db
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"select id,artist,title,album from tracks where lower(artist)='...' and lower(title) like '...%'"`.
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Downloaded tracks get new rows; their IDs stay the same after Shanty moves
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the files into the library. Watch download progress on `download_queue`
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filtered by `wanted_item_id` (the `id` the watch call returned).
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## Known problems
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- The remote MusicBrainz API sometimes returns 503 on a watch call. Retry.
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- A watch by artist and title can match a live recording Connor already owns
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and report `Owned` without downloading anything. Find the studio MBID with
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search and watch by `mbid`.
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- A watch by name sometimes stores no MBID (seen with System of a Down). The
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download still works, but tagging may be off.
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- The downloader takes the top YouTube Music result for "<artist> <title>",
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and sometimes that is a cover ("In The Style of …", karaoke, instrumental).
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Check the artist on every new track row after a batch. To retry, watch the
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song again credited to a different performer on the recording (Ipanema
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worked as Astrud Gilberto, not Stan Getz). Preview what a query returns with
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`sudo podman exec connor_shanty_1 /opt/venv/bin/python /usr/share/shanty/ytmusic_search.py search "<query>"`.
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- `GET /playlists/{id}` returns `{playlist, tracks}`; the name is under
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`.playlist`. `PUT /playlists/{id}/tracks` replaces the whole tracklist.
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- No YouTube login is configured, so age-restricted videos fail with "Sign in
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to confirm your age". Tell Connor; it needs the login in Shanty's settings.
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- Some library tracks carry compilation tags (artist "Various Artists"), so a
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lookup by artist misses them; the studio Deceptacon is track 13200 under a
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CMJ sampler. Search by title too before downloading a duplicate.
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- Several versions of a song can be in the library (demo, live, remix, "Beach
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Picnic version"). Pick the original unless asked.
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- Deleting tracks or files from the library is irreversible and gets blocked
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by the permission check. Write a script for Connor to run instead.
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- Subsonic clients cache playlists; he may need to refresh to see changes.
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# Connor's music taste
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Connor was 34 in 2026. He doesn't listen to music much, so he can't build
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playlists from memory. He wants two things: playlists that impress other
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people at parties, and playlists for himself where he picks a mood and
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doesn't think about it.
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## General
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- Nostalgia window is roughly 2004–2016 (ages 12–24).
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- One genre per playlist. Italian rap (Fabri Fibra, Ghali, Willie Peyote,
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Dargen D'Amico) is its own genre to him; keep it out of hip-hop lists.
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- Kanye: golden era through Yeezus (2013) only. Nothing after.
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## By genre
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### Ska-punk and punk
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- Likes: Streetlight Manifesto, Catch 22, Operation Ivy, Rancid, Reel Big
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Fish, Goldfinger.
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- Skipped: Less Than Jake – Gainesville Rock City (2026-10-26).
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### Heavy rock
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- Likes Rage Against the Machine; mixes well into ska-punk for lifting.
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- System of a Down: fine, but at most two songs per playlist.
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- Skipped all Deftones (2026-10-26).
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### Riot grrrl, women-fronted indie rock and electroclash
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- One blended vibe to him, not three genres: Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, through
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illuminati hotties, Bully, Indigo De Souza and Speedy Ortiz, to Le Tigre
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("Deceptacon" is the touchstone), Sleigh Bells, CSS, YYY and Metric. He
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listens to it a lot, mostly riding his motorcycle; any time he wants high
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energy.
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- Asked for one playlist, not a punk/electro split (2026-10-26).
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- The playlist is women-fronted by design, so no men's bands, and no songs
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where a man carries much of the vocal (cut The Kills – U.R.A. Fever, a
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trade-off duet, 2026-10-26). He likes PUP;
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it's just outside this playlist's focus.
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- Keep: Mommy Long Legs – Bridezilla.
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- Penelope Scott belongs here for him even though she's bedroom pop more
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than punk; "Lotta True Crime" especially. Added Rät and Feel Better too
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(2026-10-26).
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- Cut: Metric – Help I'm Alive and Japanese Breakfast – Be Sweet
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(2026-10-26). Too polished and melodic next to the rest. For this
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playlist the electronic side means scrappy and punky (Le Tigre, CSS,
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Sleigh Bells), not sleek synth-pop; prefer songs with bite.
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- Also cut: Santigold – L.E.S. Artistes and Gossip – Standing in the Way of
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Control (2026-10-26). Of the songs added from outside his library, the
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dance-floor ones were cut (Metric, Japanese Breakfast, Santigold, Gossip)
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and the guitar-led ones kept (YYY, CSS, Wolf Alice, Charly Bliss). In his
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words it's a "rock out" playlist, not a dance playlist: guitars over dance
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beats when extending it.
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- Removed Charly Bliss – Glitter at his request; no reason given
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(2026-10-27).
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- Replaced his earlier "Angry Girls" and "Dunno" playlists, which he thought
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were decent; track lists are in the 2026-10-26 session scratchpad only.
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### Fall (dark acoustic storytelling)
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- A period of his life more than a genre. The thread: sin, death and
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drinking over banjo and acoustic guitar. Gothic Americana at one end,
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confessional folk-punk at the other, Hozier and Cohen in the middle.
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- Foundation, four songs each: Hozier, Amigo the Devil, Shakey Graves,
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The Devil Makes Three. He'd forgotten the last two until he saw them in his
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library (2026-10-27).
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- Seeds: Houndmouth (only "Casino (Bad Things)"), Ramshackle Glory "Your
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Heart Is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist", Mother Mother "Hayloft",
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Leonard Cohen (he doesn't know Cohen's songs well; feedback pending).
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- The Front Bottoms don't fit this one (2026-10-27).
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- Mostly songs he already knows; it's a nostalgia playlist. Two new songs
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at most: added Gregory Alan Isakov "Big Black Car" and The Amazing Devil
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"Marbles" (2026-10-27).
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- Asked for The Devil Makes Three "All Hail"; it replaced "Spinning Like a
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Top", the lightest of their four (2026-10-27).
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### Hip-hop
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- Likes: Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Tyler, The Creator, Mac Miller,
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Open Mike Eagle.
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- Doesn't like J. Cole.
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- Likes OutKast, but kept them out of a chill playlist.
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### '60s lounge, crooners and spy jazz
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- Brief for Old People Music: Saturday-morning cleaning, feeling responsible
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and classy. Two parts Mad Men soundtrack, one part music James Bond would
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like. He didn't know the genre going in.
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- Must have: Zou Bisou Bisou (Jessica Paré's Mad Men version).
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- Already liked: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Louis Armstrong.
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- Liked the bossa nova (Getz/Gilberto, Sérgio Mendes, Quincy Jones' Soul
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Bossa Nova) (2026-10-26).
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- Cut RJD2's "A Beautiful Mine" (the Mad Men theme) from the playlist; he
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likes the song and kept it in the library. The problem: it doesn't sound
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like the period, and as the show's theme it's too on the nose. A brief like
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"Mad Men and Bond" describes a feel; listeners shouldn't be able to name the
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inspiration. Modern songs with a period sound are fine (2026-10-26).
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- Same rule applied to the Bond third: swapped five recognizable theme songs
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(Goldfinger, Thunderball, OHMSS, Mission: Impossible, Peter Gunn) for
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period songs with the same feel (Big Spender, The Cat, Watermelon Man,
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The 'In' Crowd, Feeling Good). Kept You Only Live Twice. He agreed with the
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reasoning but didn't know most of the new songs yet (2026-10-26).
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- Then asked for Goldfinger back because he likes the song. A song he
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personally likes outweighs the on-the-nose rule (2026-10-26).
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- Dropped Big Spender: too much like a Broadway number, not smooth enough.
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This playlist wants smooth; avoid showtunes and brassy stage belters
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(2026-10-26).
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- The first version of this playlist mixed in Christmas songs and '70s
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soul/funk (Betty Davis, Al Green, Barry White, Kool & the Gang); he called
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it a poor first attempt and it was replaced.
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## Playlists made
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| Playlist | Shanty id | Made | Notes |
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| Lifting: Ska-Punk & Rage | 22 | 2026-10-26 | Ska-punk with RATM and two SOAD. Started from "This Is America" and Streetlight Manifesto as references. |
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| Chill Hip-Hop | 23 | 2026-10-26 | 2004–2016, head-nodding tempo. Feedback pending. |
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| Angry Girls Go Electric | 24 | 2026-10-26 | 30 songs, riot grrrl to electroclash. His name; he called it cheesy but a start. Feedback pending. |
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| Fall | 25 | 2026-10-27 | 26 songs, about 1h45m. Library-heavy, two new songs. Feedback pending, especially Cohen and the new songs. |
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| Old People Music | 21 | 2026-10-26 | Rebuilt: early-'60s crooners, bossa nova and cool jazz, with Bond themes and spy jazz every third song. Feedback pending. |
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