What would Jon listen to?
Drops a random song from Jon’s real top lists onto the turntable and plays a free 30-second preview. Tap any cover on this page to do the same.
Pick a mood. Drop the needle.
The covers circling the turntable switch to this mood too. Arrow keys flip moods.
The albums he wore out
Top 24 albums, ranked by total hours played across all of Jon’s listening, with at most 2 per artist. Swipe the rows, or tap a cover to freeze them and spin a preview of the song Jon played most from that album.
Twelve years, one river
Hours per genre, every year since 2014. Tap a genre to mute it. Genre tags come from MusicBrainz, Wikidata and Deezer and cover 98% of listening hours. Honest caveat: 16.6% of hours ride on low-confidence Deezer tags.
The heavy rotation
Top 12 artists, ranked by total hours played, 2014–2026.
What your taste says about you
This is a read, not a diagnosis: patterns in the genres, artists and habits below, interpreted the way a friend with your listening history open might.
Retro-future escapist
Gunship, Perturbator, Carpenter Brut and Oscillian are all top-tier, and synthwave is the #1 genre on solid tags (898 h) and on saved songs (412 h). That reads like someone who likes the future as the 80s imagined it: chrome, night highways and a soundtrack to the movie in your head.
Builds over hooks
Toundra, Long Distance Calling and the 7-minute “Epic Build” list suggest a patience for songs that earn their payoff. Post-rock and instrumental music is often what people reach for when they want momentum without lyrics competing for attention.
Heavy, but warm
Melodeath (Amorphis, Eluveitie, In Flames) and gloom (Katatonia) sit next to Puscifer’s dry humor. That mix often belongs to listeners who use heavy music for release and catharsis, not anger.
Loyal core, restless edges
The same dozen artists hold steady while hundreds of new ones arrive every year. One reading: you know what home sounds like, and you still keep the door open.
Desert-road wanderer
The 2023–2026 swing to stoner and desert rock (Slomosa, Nightstalker, King Buffalo) adds fuzz, open space and campfire grit to the mix.
Album, not algorithm
Shuffle is on for only about 12% of plays, and most plays start because the previous track ended. That pattern usually points to someone who respects the record as the artist sequenced it.
The kind of people who tend to share this mix
- Builders and makers who code or design to instrumental, wordless momentum.
- Sci-fi and 80s-cinema fans who came to synthwave through movie and game soundtracks.
- Ex-metalheads with grown-up jobs who never stopped loving the riff.
- Road-trippers and campers for whom desert rock and post-rock are the scenery soundtrack.
A generalization drawn from the genres, not a claim about any specific person.
Five bands I'm shocked you don't play
How these were picked: hand-chosen to sit right inside the map of your top artists and genres (synthwave, stoner/desert, post-rock, industrial, heavy psych), then checked against every artist in your 12-year history: zero plays, zero saves for all five. Art and 30-second previews come from Apple (iTunes). Tap a record to drop the needle.
Year by year
Top 5 songs for each year, 2014–2026, ranked by hours played that year. Slide through the years and tap a song to hear it.