Recently, I have felt a sense of déjà vu from the realization that my secret Spotify songs are someone else’s as well. For the most part, these are semi-obscure tracks that, because I am mildly uncool, I am hearing for the first time - foreign music that sounds western, vault tracks from artists who were little known in their own times, a depressingly large number by singers who died under tragic circumstances. Whenever I hear one I like, I save it to a playlist since I started back in May 2017, I’ve collected more than 370. 1 hit came on the Swiss charts “Good Time,” by Donnie and Joe Emerson, two Washington State teenagers whose 1979 home-recorded album was essentially unheard for decades and, at least twice, “Somebody Made for Me,” by the singer-songwriter Emitt Rhodes, once hailed as the “one-man Beatles.” It was a motley collection of tunes, but I knew them all by heart - because at one point or another Spotify had served them up to me on my “Discover Weekly” playlist, a set of personalized music recommendations updated every Monday. Over the course of the night, the bar played “Khala My Friend,” by the ’70s Zambian rock band Amanaz “Like a Chicken,” by WITCH, a more popular Zambian band from the same era “Red Lady,” a B-side by psychedelic rocker Phil Cordell, whose only No. A few weeks ago, I was at a Brooklyn cocktail bar called the Great Georgiana when I heard something strange.
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