The best celebrity Spotify playlists
Thanks to Spotify, sharing a playlist is now so easy even a pop star can do it. A quick glance across the blog'n'Tweetosphere shows that artists from Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood to rising soul star VV Brown are letting us scroll through their inner iPod. Here we present the good, the bad and the completely unlistenable.
Stuart Braithwaite, Mogwai
The Glaswegian post-rocker, who Tweets under the name Plasmatron, raided Spotify's virtual vaults for his classy collection. It features lesser-heard gems including gospel singer Washington Phillips, plinky-plonky ambience from Coil's the Remote Viewer and crackly delta blues from Charley Patton, as well as tracks from Jimi Hendrix, New Order and My Bloody Valentine.
Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead
Greenwood posted this to Radiohead's Dead Air Space blog. He says:
"Tried to do a Spotify arab collection but no Laila Mourad, or Um Kulthum, or much Abdel Halim Hafez on Spotify yet ... so it's bolstered with some random classical stuff but then, it's all orchestras sitting down, right?"
Zarif
The "new Lily Allen" has her predecessor's canny understanding of social media her playlist is collaborative, so fans can add tracks too. The result is patchy. Enjoy Florence and the Machine, the Whitest Boy Alive and Crystal Castles. Fast forward through Moby and Luther Vandross.
Perez Hilton
The playlist of Paris Hilton's nemesis is camper than a half-price sale at Millets. Includes hits from Dolly Parton, Mika and Haddaway.
VV Brown
The emerging Londoner has grabbed the opportunity to show off her wilfully quirky influences, with a playlist that boasts Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, System of a Down, Erykah Badu and Björk.
The Saturdays
You'd imagine this as the tour-bus soundtrack when the Saturdays supported Girls Aloud. It's so gloriously sweet and sugary you're in danger of coming down with aural diabetes.
Magnus Carlson, Weeping Willows
The Swedish singer is a massive Morrissey fan and chose to mark the release of the Mancunian miserablist's single I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris with this playlist. It features Morrissey, Morrissey and then more Morrissey.
Travis McCoy, Gym Class Heroes
The ex-squeeze of girl-kissing Katy Perry has a smooth and sultry playlist that includes John Legend, Etta James, Issac Hayes and Jeff Buckley. McCoy is fronting MTV and Bodyshop's Play Safe Playlists in support of their Yes Yes Yes [to safe sex] campaign, which might explain some of the smoochier numbers here.
Stereophonics
The Welsh rockers also put together a selection for Play Safe Playlists. It too takes the safe sex theme of the campaign a little too much to heart with tracks including Aerosmith's Love In An Elevator, Foreigner's I Wanna Know What Love Is, Stevie Wonder's I Just Called To Say I Love You and Lionel Richie's Three Times a Lady. Stereophonics and sexy. These words do not compute.
Eggsy, Goldie Lookin Chain
Featuring 10cc, Happy Mondays and RJD2, Eggsy's "sexy time" sounds are a little less traditional. That is, they don't make you want to vomit all over your keyboard unlike Stereophonics.
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