Nothing surprises me anymore (Eclectic Playlist Series 6.07)

Lost classics of one kind or another, from this or that genre, flecked with the intermittent crowd-pleaser for balance and character: I sometimes consider what I do here an exercise in what might be whimsically considered aural feng shui, where the interaction is between the ears and the music rather than the body and physical space. The goal, however, isn't good luck or good fortune, but a sense of aliveness and potency, of the subtle kind that one song, certainly, can offer, but I think a disparate and well-blended group of songs can deliver with extra power and, I hope, delight. A playlist should delight, shouldn't it? Delight is often fostered by a sense of the unexpected. But how unexpected can music be in the context of a single-genre playlist? You see where I'm going with this. I'll be quiet now and let the music do the rest of the talking.

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