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Where to start with Frank Sinatra
Start with Can't We Be Friends? - Remastered 1998 — In The Wee Small Hours, 1955. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 19 Frank Sinatra tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 19 Frank Sinatra tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 19 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 16 of the 19 tracks come from In The Wee Small Hours alone.
The years need a caveat: 16 of 19 dated tracks land in the 1950s and come from 1 record, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
The mood knob swings 41 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Can't We Be Friends? - Remastered 1998 — In The Wee Small Hours, 1955. Of the 17 Frank Sinatra tracks here that have actually been listened to, this one sits closest to the average of them across the four knobs the room runs on. The other 2 arrived carrying the default for their genre, and averaging a placeholder in would move the centre towards nothing. It is the least surprising thing among the tracks that were read, which is what an entry point should be.
If you want the melancholy end
Send In The Clowns - From ‘A Little Night Music’ — Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, 1973. The lowest mood reading of any Frank Sinatra track in the room (11 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
When Your Lover Has Gone - Remastered 1998 — In The Wee Small Hours, 1955. The highest mood reading here, at 52 out of 100 — a 41-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where Frank Sinatra sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Frank Sinatra's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 50 | 11–52 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 29 | 9–30 | ambient → driving |
| density | 40 | 10–42 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 34 | 20–35 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 | 16 |
| Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back | 1973 | 1 |
| A Man Alone: The Words And Music Of McKuen | 1969 | 1 |
| The World We Knew | 1967 | 1 |
Every Frank Sinatra track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Can't We Be Friends? - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| Dancing On The Ceiling - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| Deep In A Dream - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| Glad To Be Unhappy - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| I Get Along Without You Very Well - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| I See Your Face Before Me - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| I'll Be Around - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| I'll Never Be The Same - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| Ill Wind - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| It Never Entered My Mind - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| Last Night When We Were Young - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| Mood Indigo - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| This Love Of Mine - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| What Is This Thing Called Love - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| When Your Lover Has Gone - Remastered 1998 | In The Wee Small Hours | 1955 |
| This Is My Love | The World We Knew | 1967 |
| Love's Been Good To Me | A Man Alone: The Words And Music Of McKuen | 1969 |
| Send In The Clowns - From ‘A Little Night Music’ | Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back | 1973 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Frank Sinatra's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Brian Eno — ambient, 18 tracks
- Where to start with Keith Jarrett — jazz, 13 tracks
- Where to start with Joni Mitchell — folk, 14 tracks
What the open databases say
This room has no MusicBrainz record for Frank Sinatra, so there are no external facts to report here — only what is in the collection itself.
Questions
How many Frank Sinatra tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 19, across 4 albums. 19 of them carry a date, running from 1955 to 1973. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. 17 of these 19 tracks have been read that way. The other 2 arrived with the default for their genre and nobody has listened to them yet, so they are left out of the centre, the ends and the spread quoted above.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 19 of these 19 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.