By Flatfrog
Dare to take a dose of diagnose song aid? Check out Flatfrog’s 13 tips for creating a great playlist of cyclical tunes with these fiendishly clever and pithy palindromic descriptions ...
A to back to ... A, A-list:
Put canon act up - Don McLean: Waters of Babylon
Redo cover (a bare vocoder) - Steam Powered Giraffe: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Recap spacer - Terry Callier: Dancing Girl
Duo, loud - Simon and Garfunkel: Scarborough Fair / Canticle
Goddess: “I kissed dog” - Aretha Franklin: Chain of Fools
Boss Dad’s sob. Bruce Springsteen: My Hometown
Mega gem - Pink Floyd: Echoes
Avid pop diva - Cher: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
Yo, beg amid a sad image, boy - The Pogues: The Old Main Drag
Evade Dave - Dave Brubeck Quartet: Blue Rondo a la Turk
Raw fog of war - The Levellers: Another man’s cause
Par comedy demo crap - Flanders and Swann: The Gas Man Cometh
Put canon act up - JS Bach: Endlessly Rising Canon
Back to forwards B-list playlist:
The Dave Howard Singers: Yon Yonson
Bert Yansch: January Man
The Searchers: Where have all the Flowers Gone
Rowan and the Tudor Rose: Two
MagiciansJohnny Cash et al: Highwayman
Rush: Natural Science
Genesis: One for the Vine
Garolou: Le Depart Pour Les Etats
Townes Van Zandt: Tecumseh Valley
Paranoid Visions: The Cycle Repeats
Jacques Brel: Madeleine
Flobots: Handlebars
Gothart: Polorum Regina
Guru’s pick:
Steve Reich: Clapping Music
(I can’t believe no one suggested this)
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