Spotify recently offered each user a chance to peruse through their own individualised Year In Review. The breakdown used information taken from a user’s own Spotify account to see what artists, songs, and genres they listen to the most and even how their listening habits compare during each season.
While we’re certain readers’ years were filled with a raft of different songs, artists, and genres, running the gamut of everything from hardcore punk, to baroque pop, we’re willing to bet that the records listed on The Guardian‘s countdown of the 101 Strangest Records on Spotify probably didn’t make it into your playlists this year.
While you may never have heard of any of the artists featured in the list, such as the band Valentine, who featured actor Sylvestor Stallone’s brother as a member, that’s not terribly surprising. According to Forgotify, 20 percent of all the songs on Spotify have never been played even once.
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To right this terrible wrong, you can of course head on over to Forgotify, which is systematically helping Spotify users discover the some 4 million songs that have been sitting on Spotify without receiving a single play, or you can do what The Guardian‘s Rob Fitzpatrick is doing.
To compile his list of the 101 Strangest Records on Spotify, Rob journeys into the darkest corners of Spotify to unearth some “truly strange sounds”. The countdown kicked off back in 2012 with Talk to Me, Tiger!, an obscure lounge gem by Rita Moss complete with live tiger growls.
Most recently, Rob checked out Welcome to Joyland by Leda, which he described thusly: “When Tangerine Dream’s Peter Baumann decided to make a cash-in disco record, the result was this odd combo of breathy erotica, high camp and sheer awfulness.”
