Seattle music playlists

For the last three years I've put together playlists of music I feel represents that year. In most cases I learned about the music that year, too. I hope you enjoy!

  • Seattle 2015-2016
    • The Mountain Goats - This Year
    • Grimes - Oblivion
    • Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin
    • Car Seat Headrest - Times To Die
    • Ought - Beautiful Blue Sky
    • The Ghost Ease - XV
    • Robyn Hitchcock - Viva! Sea Tac
    • Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar
    • Harvey Danger - Sometimes You Have to Work On Christmas
    • Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
    • David Bowie – Life On Mars?
    • Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything
    • Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Nobody Dies
  • Seattle 2016-2017
    • TV On The Radio - Trouble
    • A Tribe Called Quest - We The People….
    • Regina Spektor - The Trapper and the Furrier
    • Kyle Craft - Before the Wall
    • X "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts"
    • Radiohead - Burn the Witch
    • tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain
    • Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days
    • Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
    • TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
  • Seattle 2017-2018
    • Parquet Courts - Almost Had To Start A Fight / In And Out Of Patience
    • Superorganism - Reflections On The Screen
    • Snail Mail - "Pristine"
    • Gord Downie – Wolf’s Home
    • Mavis Staples - "Little Bit"
    • Lizzo - Truth Hurts
    • Chastity Belt - "Different Now"
    • Kevin Morby & Waxahatchee - Farewell Transmission

How I pulled the song names

To build the above list of songs, I did a few things:

  1. Copied the video names on the playlist from YouTube
  2. Ran that through this one-liner:
pbpaste | perl -lne 'print if $t; if (/^\d+:/) { $t=1 } else {$t=0}'

This prints the line right after the time, which in my clipboard was the line that had the video name.

  1. Pasted this output into org-mode
  2. Ran string-insert-rectangle to add " - " to the beginning
  3. Published org-mode to Jekyll etc

However, I don't know how to make " - " preformatted in org-mode! :-)

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