The Big Playlist Counter

I have two spotify playlists: one for metal and one for everything that isn't metal. The second one is way longer. It also features more langauges than the metal one, which still has good variety in that department. It used to have a rule of max 2 songs per artist, but I've really forsaken that about halfway through. Eurovision songs are also banned from this playlist, they go in a separate one. Although different songs from artists who have competed at eurovision are allowed (and very much present).

I think for me to enjoy music there needs to be a lot going on in the song. A lot of the music I listen to is very busy, fast or has a lot of distortion. I can highlight metalgaze as a genre which has long sequences that would be very chill and low bpm ifthere wasn't constant double bass in the background to keep my mind from wandering whilst still providing a relaxed feeling. Sometimes I wonder if I have ADHD with how busy the music needs to be for me to not lose focus.

Language provides focus in a different way. I will listen to genres and songs I would never listen to in English if I can focus on the language, how its sound expresses itself in the song. Seeing if I can hear the same word multiple times and figure out what it could mean. It adds a whole new dimension to listening, one which equally occupies my brain as a 230bpm jcore song would. People from different places also tend to make songs with different vibes. For example, I feel like Icelanders have a talent for making songs give a certain warmth, which is much needed on the barren island they call home. Mostly this is just me being a language nerd and I don't get enough people to share this with so here's a cool list of music in languages with some recommendations.

Random Non-Metal

This is a list of all languages in my random non-metal playlist sorted by amount of songs in there. It's currently at 388 songs. Songs in multiple languages will count as the majority language. 50/50 splits between artists singing in different languages are counted as half each.

The list will also feature the occasional artist spotlight for a language, happy listening!

  1. English: 144
  2. Japanese: 117
  3. Dutch: 28.5
  4. German: 9 Spotlight: Kraftklub (indie rock)
  5. French: 8 Spotlight: Stromae (electropop)
  6. Russian: 7
  7. Icelandic: 6.5 Spotlight: Hatari (bdsm techno)
  8. Greenlandic: 6 Spotlight: Nanook (pop rock)
  9. Norwegian: 4 Spotlight: Honningbarna (punk rock)
  10. Portuguese: 4 Spotlight: Marquise (indie rock)
  11. Finnish: 3.5
  12. Estonian: 3 Spotlight: 5MIINUST x Puuluup (folk rap)
  13. Korean: 3
  14. Lithuanian: 3
  15. Ukrainian: 3
  16. Bosnian: 2 Spotlight: Dubioza Kolektiv (ska rock)
  17. Chinese: 2
  18. Hungarian: 2
  19. Polish: 2
  20. Arabic: 1.5
  21. Danish: 1
  22. Indonesian: 1
  23. Italian: 1 Spotlight: Måneskin (alt rock)
  24. Tagalog: 1
  25. Turkish: 1

24 songs are instrumental

Assorted Metal

Fuck it, we're doing the same thing for the metal playlist because I want to give more recommendations. This one has 148 songs.

  1. English: 88.5
  2. Japanese: 24.5 Spotlight: Asunojokei (metalgaze)
  3. Hungarian: 6 Spotlight: AWS (post-hardcore) Örs Egy Csoda
  4. Icelandic: 5 Spotlight: Skálmöld (viking metal)
  5. French: 4
  6. Hindi: 3 Spotlight Bloodywood (nu/folk metal)
  7. Norwegian: 3
  8. German: 2
  9. Swedish: 2 Spotlight: Stoort Neer (Post-Black Metal)
  10. Danish: 1
  11. Maori: 1
  12. Portuguese: 1
  13. Catalan: 0.5
  14. Mongolian: 0.5

4 songs are instrumental.