Alphabetical music
I have this bad habit of really liking two or three songs at one time, and repeating them too much and basically wearing them out. Last week, I sorted my music alphabetically by song title, and hit "play". It has been a pretty delightful experience!
It doesn't work with exercise, obviously, because my beat-conscious playlists are managed a little differently. But it works wonderfully for the day in general; I hear new stuff and old stuff, in the kind of order I'd never have selected, and it has broken me out of that rut of "Call Me Maybe" followed by "Raise Your Glass" followed by "Blow Me One Last Kiss"... followed by "Call Me Maybe".... I'm hearing songs I'd forgotten I had, and songs I'd forgotten I love.
cross-posted from dreamwidth. http://charlottechill.dreamwidth.org/20422.html#comments
It doesn't work with exercise, obviously, because my beat-conscious playlists are managed a little differently. But it works wonderfully for the day in general; I hear new stuff and old stuff, in the kind of order I'd never have selected, and it has broken me out of that rut of "Call Me Maybe" followed by "Raise Your Glass" followed by "Blow Me One Last Kiss"... followed by "Call Me Maybe".... I'm hearing songs I'd forgotten I had, and songs I'd forgotten I love.
cross-posted from dreamwidth. http://charlottechill.dreamwidth.org/20422.html#comments