So many good songs unavailable (or only sporadically available) via streaming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsn...

WOK, Vol. 58: Guess I Should’ve Known (feat: N.W.A., R.E.M., Dizzy Gillespie, Mary Gauthier, Savanna Sgro, Buck Owens, Chetes, Rayna Gellert) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 57: With My Shirt Tucked In (feat: Raymond Scott, Earth, Wind & Fire, Sarah Jarosz, Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers, Shea Diamond, Cake) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

My first experience purchasing Magic: The Gathering cards involved a higher level of identity screening than if I had been asking for a box of the good Sudafed.

On keeping hope right now, from @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on stream with @katmabu.bsky.social.

Such an excellent example of what @hankgreen.bsky.social is so good at: converting his curiosity into learning at scale. (In this case sparked by critical feedback he’d received.) youtu.be/e4dYGdjgsz8?...

WOK, Vol. 56: Set the Past On Fire (feat: James Brown, The Merry Macs, Vistas, Black Crown Stringband, Skeeter Davis, A Tribe Called Quest) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 55: Hard Not to Notice (feat: OutKast, Dinah Washington, Rhiannon Giddens, New Edition, Christopher Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Dionne Warwick) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

This project has been a process over the past six years of thinking “ooh THAT’s such a good song” over and over again instead of just getting the adhd diagnosis

WOK, Vol. 54: Our Fork in the Road (feat: Lizzo, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Meshell Ndegeocello, Louis Jordan, Amythyst Kiah, Ray Charles & Betty Carter, Take 6) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 53: Mask of False Bravado (feat: The Free Design, Wang Chung, Bee Gees, Watchhouse, Carly Ray Jepsen, The Temptations, Fountains of Wayne) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 52: What You’ve Missed (feat: 10 String Symphony, James Brown, America, The Both, Grace Potter, The Carter Family, Crystal Waters) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Whoa, Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote a song for Kermit that didn’t get used in a Muppet movie and it’s kind of great? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGPCxXmnOm4&t=5171s

Daniel Radcliffe Charlie Kringases the shit out of his performance youtu.be/Ams0ROhWX0w?...

WOK, Vol. 51: Since I’ve Been Out (feat: Aretha Franklin, Jerry Douglas, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Digable Planets, Tori Amos, Frank Turner, and a baby seal) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

50 volumes, 1,000 hand-picked songs. (202 volumes to go, to catch up to the present) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

❤️ an artist who requests fewer microphones youtu.be/WgqaxMOKfnI?...

The 🤖 indicates these were all tracks surfaced to me via Spotify’s recommendation algorithm. Charley Crockett is now one of my favorite contemporary artists. It helps that he’s released 10 albums in the past 5 years. (I had missed The Pharcyde in the 90s.)

WOK, Vol. 49: If You’re Still Breathing 🤖 (feat: Charley Crockett, Kay Kyler, Normani, Whitley, Four Mints, Becky Buller, The Pharcyde) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 48: Stop Making Things Up (feat: The Dandy Warhols, Nora Brown, The Fifth Dimension, Spoon, Shoshana Bean, Howard Jones, Willie Nelson) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

The way this Yale “America at 250” lecture series keeps quoting newspapers as sources of contemporaneous insight helps me understand that people two centuries from now will understand absolutely nothing about [gestures at everything]. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

WOK, Vol. 47: My New Exotic Pet (feat: Buck Owens, En Vogue, Danny Elfman, The Meters, Peter Gabriel, The Milk Carton Kids) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 46: These Hidden Innuendos (feat: Kaki King, A. J. Roach, Prince, Billy Bragg, Jellyfish, The Everly Brothers, Cynthia Erivo, Crooked Still) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 45: Waiting Makes Me Antsy (feat: Kelly Clarkson, Sam Cooke, Waxahatchee, Annette Funicello, David Grier, Frente!, Gerry Mulligan, and the Original Broadway Cast of Newsies) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Software is hard and metadata is harder (and Spotify doesn’t even have smart playlist capabilities) but the fact that Apple Music’s “Last Played” can sync across Mac and Apple TV but not iPhone is activating my brain at a volume that should remain reserved for our American political nightmare.

WOK, Vol. 44: Self-Conscious and Afraid (feat: Ken Nordine, Feist, Hank Williams, Van Halen, Minnie Riperton, Queen Latifah, Joan as Police Woman, Styx, and a couple of tracks not available on Apple Music) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 43: Should Be Ordering Takeout (feat: Ludwig Göransson, Aimee Mann, Yola, Billy Idol, Sigrid, Death Cab for Cutie, Teena Marie, Larry Sparks) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 42: Cùng Rửa Tay (feat: Joe Jackson, The Strokes, The Wailing Jennies, Clarence Carter, John Prine, Marem Ladson, Min and Erik) (shout out to those who were watching John Oliver in April 2020) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

These playlist titles are lyric snippets and also a reminder of when they were first compiled (at this point, April 2020)

WOK, Vol. 41: Weeks Go So Slow (feat: Barry White, Richard Thompson, A Flock of Seagulls, SZA, Mac Davis, The Vern Williams Band) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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WOK, Vol. 40: My Evenings Here at Home (feat: N.W.A., The Waybacks, Depeche Mode, Cameo, Enoch Light, Faron Young, Etta James, Nirvana) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 39: Too Good at Listening (feat: A Tribe Called Quest, Sons of the Pioneers, RuPaul, Jimmy Martin, David Bowie, Bobby Vee) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Interrupting the migration for a holiday snack. Christmas WOK, Vol. 1: Please to Put a Penny (feat: Duke Ellington, Buck Owens, The Chieftains, Darlene Love, Gustafer Yellowgold, Sufjan Stevens, and the cast of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 38: Been Out Walking (feat: Bill Withers, John Denver, Bix Beiderbecke, Fever High, Foghorn Stringband, Charli XCX) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 37: So I Don’t Have To (feat: Shirley Bassey, Thin Lizzy, Joe Venuti, Chetes, Nogizaka46, Molly Tuttle, Dan Reeder) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 36: Nobody Else to Impress (feat: John Barry, AC/DC, Bishop Briggs, Beyoncé, Crooked Jades, The Monkees, Robert Mitchum) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 35: Unwashed and Broken (feat: Hank Williams, Violent Femmes, Otis Redding, E, Led Zeppelin, The Cranberries) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 34: My Best Friend’s Mansion (feat: Brittany Haas, TLC, Neil Sedaka, The Derailers, Marvin Gaye, Pomplamoose, Joan Jett) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 33: We Were Always Yelling (feat: David Byrne, Floyd Cramer, CHIKA, The Cure, The Buffalo Bills) (plus two songs unavailable in Apple Music’s library, by PC Muñoz and George Jones) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 32: Alive or Maybe Dead (feat: Kansas, Beck, Marty Robbins, Missy Elliott, Ylvis, The Well Pennies, Chico Hamilton) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 31: Without My Mask On (feat: The Housemartins, Bob Dorough, Leon Haywood, Vanessa Carlton, Vistas, and Max Richter) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 30: Stuck in Second Gear (feat: The Free Design, Hall & Oates, Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson, The Davis Sisters, Dean Martin, The Mountain Goats) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 29: Our New Normal (feat: Salt-N-Pepa, The Long Winters, James McMurtry, Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters, The Meters) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 28: Standard-Issue Regrets (Feat: Perez Prado, Thomas Dolby, Jean Wells, The Boswell Sisters, OK Go, Julia Nunes, The Tallest Man on Earth, Jackie Wilson) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 27: Don’t Lean On Me (Feat: Linda Ronstadt, Rachel Bloom, Stevie Wonder, Emily King, Camp Creek Boys, Bettye Swann) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

WOK, Vol. 26: These Worldly Goods (Feat: Herb Alpert, Buddy & Julie Miller, Leroy Anderson, Jill Sobule, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Tank and the Bangas) music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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