What’s a “No Play” playlist? It’s when I have a bunch of stuff going on (it’s Valentine’s Day and my brother’s birthday) and so I program another auto-playlist, this time building a smart playlist of every track in my Apple Music Library that has zero plays. Then I hit <SHUFFLE> (hey kids, remember when we used to signify buttons in documents like that?), and let ‘er rip until I get to an hour. That it, that’s the concept. Enough jibber-jabber, let’s see what comes up.
- Blood Vulture – “The Silence of God”
- XTC – “Statue of Liberty”
- Fugazi – “Guilford Fall (demo)”
- David Bowie – “Moonage Daydream (2003 instrumental mix)”
- Paul Cauthen – “Champagne & A Limo”
- Mike Keneally – “You Must Be This Tall”
- The Atlas Moth – “Furious Gold”
- Faith No More – “Chinese Arithmetic”
- David Bowie – “D.J.”
- Die Cheerleader – Saturation
- Parliament – “Gamin’ On You”
- Finnforest – “Mika Yo”
- Joey Valence & Brea – “KILL BILL”
- Can – “One More Night”
A lot of these tracks I know very well, and have played (multiple times) on physical media like the David Bowie and Parliament, as well as the Can and Paul Cauthen. Some of the digital only albums came from recommendations of things I glommed onto from friends (Die Cheerleader); others from family–the very Beastie Boys-inspired track from Joey Valence & Brae came from my son.
No FZ this week, but I think two tracks from Bowie and a track from Mike Keneally, who was Zappa’s “stunt” guitarist following Steve Vai covers most of my usual trappings.
Be safe, be good to each other. See you next week.
Consuming the Tangible 
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