Dan Snaith from Caribou had a pretty good 2014. He released the critically-acclaimed Our Love, an electronic instrumental album that applied Snaith's meticulous love for mathematical constructs and pattens to music, allowing him to finally make use of that pesky PhD in Mathematics. This year Snaith is scheduled to play a number of festivals across North America with Caribou, allowing him the opportunity to connect with hundreds of thousands of people through music. To thank his fans, Snaith took to YouTube to create a playlist of 1,000 songs. He shared the link to his Facebook page with the following note:"The last few years of my life have been incredible, thanks in large part to all of you - so I've been thinking of how to say thank you.
As you can imagine, music has been a central love of my life since I was a teenager and over the years I've been introduced to a lot that has stayed with me. I've collected the majority of that music here – and I thought sharing it with you seemed like one way I could say thanks.
I'm sure some things are under-represented or over-represented, but roughly speaking this is a musical history of my life. Of course a lot of this music has come to me through my friends - thank you to Koushik, Kieran, Jeremy, Gary, Brandon, Jason, Sam, Ketan, Ryan, Toby and many others…"Using Noisey's in house staff of mathematicians, we just confirmed that it would take just over 50 hours for you to listen to every song on this playlist. That works out to listening to music for almost seven full days, eight hours a day, with an hour for lunch. We'll take our PhD whenever you nerds get to it.
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As you can imagine, music has been a central love of my life since I was a teenager and over the years I've been introduced to a lot that has stayed with me. I've collected the majority of that music here – and I thought sharing it with you seemed like one way I could say thanks.
I'm sure some things are under-represented or over-represented, but roughly speaking this is a musical history of my life. Of course a lot of this music has come to me through my friends - thank you to Koushik, Kieran, Jeremy, Gary, Brandon, Jason, Sam, Ketan, Ryan, Toby and many others…"Using Noisey's in house staff of mathematicians, we just confirmed that it would take just over 50 hours for you to listen to every song on this playlist. That works out to listening to music for almost seven full days, eight hours a day, with an hour for lunch. We'll take our PhD whenever you nerds get to it.