I don't cook so the deal at home is I do the dish-washing etc. We don't have a dishwashing machine so it's a tedious task that I was happy to delegate to my son when he was home from college. Now that he's back at the dorm, it's my responsibility again. I try to make it more tolerable by having something to listen. I am a big fan of podcasts so that was my first choice. However, dishwashing can get noisy and as sharp as my hearing is the clanging sometimes muffle the sounds from the podcast off my iPhone. I would miss the punch line of a joke on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me or Ask Me Another, so that's no fun. Next I tried my music library, but after a while it gets boring, hearing the same old songs day in day out, even though I have a lot of songs randomly played. So I tried apps like iHeartRadio. Strange thing is the app would just stop at some point after playing for like ten minutes. First-world problem!
Now I am happy with YouTube playlists. Not just any list, but 70s and 80s rock music, maybe even 60s and I can even stretch to pop music. Yes, there are advertisements and some even demand you interact with them before the next song plays, so it's not a perfect solution. What I like is now I finally learn the names of some of the tunes I hear regularly. Not that the makers of those playlist always list the song names, but some kind souls usually add the names, in proper order, as a comment. Thank you! Two songs I now know the names for are The Breakup Song by The Greg Kihn Band and Paint It Black by The Rolling Stone.
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