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Nov. 23rd, 2024 01:13 pmChrissie and Ivy from water fitness asked if I could do a special theme day like all Beatles, and I said I'd never devote a whole playlist to one artist because it's not really fair to people who don't like that artist. I recently checked out someone's class and thought, well, I'm glad I like Fleetwood Mac because that's all there is today! They said an all-oldies day would be fun and I said that'd be hard to do because songs from the '50s and '60s are usually too short. But I went ahead and took on the challenge this morning.
Normally I can bang out a playlist pretty quickly but I swear this playlist took over three hours to make. I solved for song length by adding an extra song here and there, which will of course trip me up when it comes time to do the exercises. Thankfully I found a YouTube page of Tabata songs I'd never seen before, and it includes some oldies. That guy programs in a minute of rest at the end of each one so I'll have to skip the end using my phone. Including those songs was the biggest time sink, because the page is huge and mostly modern stuff, and then I kept finding that songs of his I chose weren't available to play on the YouTube Music app. I finally settled on "Purple Haze" as a track even though I wouldn't consider it an oldie. I was just tired of searching by that point.
The original search was hard, too. I found a top 500 oldies list and scanned through it looking for things that were fast enough, but not too fast, and of course most of them clock in at around two minutes. So, by putting a couple together I can almost pretend they're a longer song. I already had next week's playlist so this will all happen the week ending 12/6. Maybe by then I can even figure out some new routines to pop in for the extra songs rather than struggle with the mismatch between the amount of songs and routines.
I don't see myself ever doing this again. Halloween is a fun theme, but oldies? Not so much. And I love oldies.
It's funny that we never came up with an updated name for the genre, especially now that '80s songs we listen to in the '20s are actually older than the oldies we were listening to in the '80s were.
Normally I can bang out a playlist pretty quickly but I swear this playlist took over three hours to make. I solved for song length by adding an extra song here and there, which will of course trip me up when it comes time to do the exercises. Thankfully I found a YouTube page of Tabata songs I'd never seen before, and it includes some oldies. That guy programs in a minute of rest at the end of each one so I'll have to skip the end using my phone. Including those songs was the biggest time sink, because the page is huge and mostly modern stuff, and then I kept finding that songs of his I chose weren't available to play on the YouTube Music app. I finally settled on "Purple Haze" as a track even though I wouldn't consider it an oldie. I was just tired of searching by that point.
The original search was hard, too. I found a top 500 oldies list and scanned through it looking for things that were fast enough, but not too fast, and of course most of them clock in at around two minutes. So, by putting a couple together I can almost pretend they're a longer song. I already had next week's playlist so this will all happen the week ending 12/6. Maybe by then I can even figure out some new routines to pop in for the extra songs rather than struggle with the mismatch between the amount of songs and routines.
I don't see myself ever doing this again. Halloween is a fun theme, but oldies? Not so much. And I love oldies.
It's funny that we never came up with an updated name for the genre, especially now that '80s songs we listen to in the '20s are actually older than the oldies we were listening to in the '80s were.
