Spent the last 12 years working a job where I had to pick music based on a few artists people liked, and can confirm that overall, Spotify is way off. YouTube wormholes are much more effective than Spotify, especially since labels can pay more to have their music pushed to Spotify playlists. A lot of the time you’d be listening to an artist who’s just about to announce a UK tour, or a reissue or whatever. It’s all just part of the promo machine.
I once wrote thousands of very boring words about Spotify’s suggestion algorithms so AMA.
I never bothered with Spotify but I’ve started using it to listen to the Guardian’s Know the score guides to listening to classical music and it’s quite useful for that.
He just gave everyone air, no politics, if he liked anything about it, he’d play it. Can’t not respect that even if some of it was drivel to most folks.
I got into The Fall quite late. I always found getting into them daunting, but oh man it was so worth it when I checked out that Perverted By Language vid. Wings is incredible.
