Last fall, I was staying with my cousin in Toronto when out of nowhere she put on “Khala My Friend.” In September 2018, the streamer introduced me to Art Garfunkel’s cover of “Waters of March” three years later, the Norwegian film The Worst Person in the World used the track over its closing credits. 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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