My digital mix tape cd streaming playlist
The first digital playlist started on Amazon Music. My Dad paid for the subscription so Frannie could have Alexa play something when no one else was home. We thought it would be helpful for her but she never used it. She “didn’t want to bother [Alexa]” but I benefitted from the subscription with my Introspective playlist. I eventually added it to Spotify and kept going from there.
These are all from Before, During, and After Frannie. The playlists that really count are Introspective and Some Shit. Those lists helped me figure myself out. The others I’m adding because I can. I’m from mix tape era!
The playlist that flowed with me from the beginning, now on Spotify.
The Spotify version.
Working at Curaleaf (the original Curaleaf in CT) was a huge part of my Frannie life. This was a playlist for cleaning up the root balls after a weed harvest.
This was a playlist that Spotify made and I listened to only this for months, long after Christmas.
All I needed were these few songs.
Start to finish, my 50th year.
One of the mix tapes I made before I moved to Charlotte, NC from CT. Then I came back! Fucking hell.
This was a mix tape from a skater boy I was friends with in 1994. We reconnected in 2017 before I moved in with Frannie so this mix tape resurfaced. It kind of goes with the Before / During years.
There are two artists that define my post-divorce and my before-to-during Frannie. Jenn Wasner of Flock of Dimes and Wye Oak is one of those artists. I finally met her in 2025 and she was human and magical. I appreciate her work more than I can write here.
More Jenn Wasner. If you are coming here as a caregiver please listen to I Hope You Die and Better (for Esther). They are both written truths that I didn’t know I was entering into. When I finally understood her lyrics it all came together. Thank you forever, Jenn.
Brandi Carlile is the other artist, my post-divorce saving grace artist. I would listen to her older albums on repeat. This was before she was as acclaimed as she is now. I put this together like how I listened to her work in 2016.
Originally made in Amazon Music, this is the playlist that held me during Frannie years.
When I was living with Frannie I would talk shit to my brother. He always had a metal song for all of the gallows’ humor. This is the best playlist ever!
When I started running outside, at night, and in winter towards the end of the Frannie experience.
I was peeling walloper in my new (old) house NYE 2024.
This was wayyy before the Frannie years. It’s from one of my actual mix tapes!
Another from before Frannie and from one of my actual mix tapes. My boyfriend at the time said these were not MY greatest hits because I did not make the music.
This was a mix tape that a friend made me after college. She recorded it and snail-mailed it to me! I miss those kinds of days so much.
I went through a block of time during Frannie where I imagined myself as an old-school sailor on a whaling ship. I listened to sea shanties and audiobooks about ships and sailing. Colm has THE BEST versions of sea shanties!
My Sierra Ferrell list with both albums and the alternative versions. I adore her! She’s part of the after Frannie.
I totally love Mitski. This is a short list but still a great list. I went through a time where I had to ban myself from her music. She brought me down a spiral that I had to actively avoid. I can fully be in love with her again.. recovered from that bullshit!