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The Verge Playlist: Damn, two years since Daniel

2018-02-25T15:00:02-05:00

As you may have heard, it has been two years since the Snapchat-turned-Twitter video "Damn, Daniel" changed the way we think about viral content, white sneakers, and Weezer.

If you haven't heard, all you need to know is that two years ago, two boys became very famous for a short period of time - a period of time with ups and downs and baffling surprise twists - after one of them filmed the other one wearing a pair of white sneakers. Observing the white sneakers, he shouted, "Damn, Daniel! Back at it again with the white Vans." It was silly, and it was good.

It was the subject of a Rolling Stone feature story in which Daniel's longest respo …

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The Verge Playlist: The only way to get along in love

2018-02-11T10:00:02-05:00

Last year, I asked a friend for some advice. He admitted, first, that he was underqualified to give it. (This is how happy people preface everything.) Then he sent me a lyric from a Los Campesinos! song from 2008, implying that I should go ahead and consider it applicable to my present romantic imbroglio.

It went like this: "I taught myself the only way to vaguely get along in love / is to like the other slightly less than you get in return."

"Hmmm," I told him. "Yeah."

Yeah. "This advice is not only cynical but also titanically stupid, and bad news for the people who love you," I thought, quietly. Though, it would be less than two weeks …

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The Verge Playlist: Super Bowl party

2018-02-02T15:56:33-05:00

Something we don't talk about enough is American football.

Just kidding! Something we don't talk about enough is that period of time between September 2016 and December 2017 when Dutch police were training eagles to hunt drones. They had to stop doing it because the eagles didn't really always feel like hunting drones, and they definitely didn't feel like following orders from cops. It never really seemed like a great idea, and falconer Robert Muster told the NL Times at the outset: "If an eagle can not catch his prey, he may become so frustrated that he picks up something else. Eagle talons are so strong that it can easily pierce a child's …

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The Verge Playlist: New Year’s Eve

2017-12-31T13:00:02-05:00

What's the worst that could happen tonight, the most loaded night of the year? You could have no one to kiss or no one to get drunk with, or worse - you could have both and still not have a good time. It's so much pressure and even the nicest things you can think of will likely involve so much "walking outside" and "being in a crowd" and "money," that it couldn't possibly be worth it. A new year? I've seen 940 of them already. An alternate plan that I believe is very good is to sit at home and watch a warm, non-challenging movie about love and friendship and wearing turtlenecks under blazers. For example: the best New Year's Eve movie of all …

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The Verge Playlist: Day beers into night beers

2015-05-09T19:00:02-04:00

One of the best parts of summer is drinking alcohol outside. It's pretty cool to do anything outside in the summer, but with drinking, you can convince yourself that you're doing something without actually doing anything. This playlist is for when you start your day drinking outside and end your day drinking outside (hopefully with someone else's varsity jacket around your shoulders). It's for those days when you have nothing to do except reapply sunscreen, because SPF is important, no matter how drunk you are.

Don't play this on shuffle, because it's got an order to it. It kicks off with Fetty Wap's garbled love song "Trap Queen," which is …

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The Verge Playlist: Victory for the internet

2015-02-28T19:00:02-05:00

It has been a glorious week for the internet. We were perplexed by the color of a (kind of tacky) dress, we got emotionally invested in a high-speed llama chase, a new season of House of Cards is on Netflix, and, most importantly, the FCC has officially voted in favor of Title II classification for the internet. Let's raise our glasses to Tom Wheeler with this playlist of tracks by supporters of net neutrality and songs that capture the tenacious spirit of the open internet.

If you're in a revolutionary mood, I suggest you start with "Try Out Your Voice" by Big D & the Kids Table. Revel along with Deniece Williams' "Let's Hear It For the Bo …

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The Verge Playlist: It’s Valentine’s Day and you’re going to be alone forever

2015-02-14T19:00:02-05:00

Today is a very special day. Today is a day we celebrate love and hope and love and kissing and sex and hearts and candy and having someone who will care when you die. It's very real, and very serious. Some people don't have that person, and for those people, I've made the only playlist you'll ever need.

There's the pinnacle of loneliness: Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" (based on a true story). There's a desperate torch song: Dusty Springfield's truly pitiful "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me." There's Drake, alone and drunk in a basement: "Marvins Room." There's the Violent Femmes' pleading, self-loathing "Please Do Not Go." A …

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The Verge Playlist: Dungeon Master’s Mixtape

2015-02-07T19:00:02-05:00

Because I am insane, four months ago I decided to start writing my own custom Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition campaign. And starting on Friday, February 13th, my efforts will be tested when I lead two groups of my colleagues from The Verge through a nightmare of half-drunkenly written lore. It's going to be a blast.

.@chillmage just evil laughed so hard his headphones fell off. D&D is gonna be so real.
- Trilldris Elba (@kwameopam) February 6, 2015

But as fun as it is to write thousands of words about fantastical places and people, the sheer scope of the task was daunting. So help came in the form of aural inspiration - just not the kind fro …

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The Verge Playlist: Future Jock Jams

2015-01-31T19:00:02-05:00

At some point on Sunday, if you're watching the Super Bowl, you'll hear a familiar sound. Not the sound of a referee making a bad call, or the sound of an abandoned hot dog falling to the floor, or the sound of half-drunk fans growling at other half-drunk fans. No, I'm talking about the sound of jock jams; the only sound capable of satisfying an entire stadium of aggressively competitive people with a lot of money. There's "Tootsie Roll," "Pump Up The Jam," "It Takes Two." Even if you haven't listened to those songs in years, I bet you can hear them in your head right now if you try.

Inspired by the mid-90s compilation tapes of the same nam …

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The Verge Playlist: Best of Britain

2015-01-17T19:00:02-05:00

In 1922 the British Empire held power over 458 million people, a fifth of the world's population at the time. It was a force to be reckoned with, and in subsequent years British pop and rock would also dominate the world thanks to bands like The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who, The Rolling Stones, and of course, The Spice Girls. These days it's hard to pinpoint modern bands that compete with the likes of the Blur and Oasis rivalry. At least we still have Ed Sheeran to hold on to.

Here's a healthy dollop of Britishness. You won't find any tea, royalty, people driving on the wrong side of the road, or peculiar spellings of colour, but you'll find a …

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