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[li]Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire[/li][li]Mastodon - The Wolf is Loose[/li][li]The Afghan Whigs - Uptown Again[/li][li]Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor[/li][li]The Methadones - Sorry to Keep You Waiting[/li][/ol]
Speeding Motorcycle - Yo La Tengo
Everything Goes to Hell - Tom Waits
Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits
Singapore - Tom Waits
Jockey Full of Bourbon - Tom Waits
I really like Tom Waits.
Okay, I’ll open up my playlists with trepidation, unsure of what it will say, I’ve had this ipod a long time…
- ELO - “Hold on Tight”
- Front 242 - “Together”
- Jimi Hendrix - “Are You Experienced?”
- The Plimsouls - “I Melt With You”
- Blue Oyster Cult - “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
Okay, that wasn’t too embarrassing. All songs I love. Whew.
My #1 artist according to last.fm
Into the Ocean–Blue October
Time Bomb–Rancid
Roll To Me–Del Amitri
Talk of the Town–The Pretenders
Change Your Mind–Sister Hazel
“Dunce” - Voltaire
“Ghost of the Gang” - Indigo Girls
“We Built a Monster” - Thea Gilmore
“The Sheep In The Boots” - The Tossers
“Come On Get Higher” - Matt Nathanson
Lights out: Santogold
Mr. Rock and Roll: Amy Mcdonald
Let my love open the door Sondre Lerche
Breath me Sia
1234: Feist
Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
Henrietta – The Fratellis
1816, the Year Without a Summer – Rasputina
You Dress up for Armageddon – The Hives
The Monitor – Bishop Allen
I really like songs about history! Look at that!
A couple of ties, so extra songs…and extra video goodness where applicable.
Hardly Tell-Tina Schlieske (33)
Keen Impressionable Fool-Drew Pilgram (32)
Look at Miss Ohio-Gillian Welch (30)
The Young Idealists-Lloyd Cole(30)
Sky Full of Clover-Beth Hart(28)
David-Nellie McKay (28)
Dear Chicago-Ryan Adams (28)
Little Greenie-Gary Jules (28)
Isaac Bashevis Singer-The Owls (28)
Your Beauty Must Be Rubbing Off-Hawksley Workman (28)
Since my top 3 currently are videos (the Dr. Horrible Blogs), i’ll give you my top 5 Songs which take up spots 4-8.
- Buddy Holly -Not Fade Away (7)
- Buddy Holly -Oh Boy! (6)
- GZA - Living in the World Today (6)
- Jeff Beck - Stratus (Live) (6)
- Queens of the Stone Age - Go with the Flow (Live) (6)
- The Roots feat. Dice Raw - The Lesson Pt. 3 (6)
A couple of follow up questions -
Those of you who are on perma-shuffle: were you surprised to find out what you’d heard more often than anything else?
Those of you who listen to songs of your own chosing, were you aware that you were listening to these tracks more often?
I also wanted to say, this is an interesting exercise because the play count is a little more honest than ‘What are your favourite tracks…’ - there’s always an undercurrent of ‘Do I want to admit to cool people that I listen to that?’ Of course, some of us may be fudging the play count thing, too - I’m certainly a little embarrassed that it took me so many plays to get “Ventura Highway” down in a week, seeing as there are only four chords in the entire thing. (In my defence, I was playing all the guitar parts live instead of overdubbing.)
I’d love to see iTunes add some more user-enabled modifications to things like shuffle. For instance, I think it’d be really cool to make it less likely to select a track if its play count is high…
For fun, here is my 5 most played if I eliminate the tracks that I am listening to ‘for work’ -
Run the Voodoo Down - Cassandra Wilson (11)
Time After Time - Cassandra Wilson (10)
Echoes of Spain - George Essihos (9)
When the Sun Goes Down - Cassandra Wilson (9)
Someday my Prince Will Come - Cassandra Wilson (9)
(Travelling Miles is a new album to my wife and me…)
One last thing - may I please revivify this thread in about six months just to see what has changed? As always, I’m curious.
My #1 song (“Whisky Train”) is one I love so much that I never got the feeling that it was appearing inordinately often. The #2 and #3 songs (“Sister Disco” and “Joke Shop Man”) did both seem conspicuous–“What, that one again?” I wasn’t aware of having had my #5 (“Pretty Words”) pop up particularly often at all.
Allow me to preface this (without checking yet) by saying that not only do I listen to the music on random mode, but I have a big playlist and I also listen mostly to podcasts, so even though I’m listening to the iPod for maybe 20 hours a week, and though my last iTunes meltdown was about two years ago, I haven’t cracked double digits on any song on the list.
In short, it’s a flat randomisation curve.
With that said, the winners appear to be:
- Richard Cheese - Personal Jesus (note - a week ago, this hadn’t cracked the Top 25)
- Split Enz - History Never Repeats
- Joe Louis Walker - You Need Love
- Hoodoo Gurus - The Generation Gap
- Darren Hanlon - Happiness Is Just a Chemical
Interestingly, it’s pretty much diametrically opposed to the next 5 musically:
- Black Sabbath - War Pigs
- OutKast - Ghettomusick
- Killers by Trade - Werewolves of London
- Stevie Wonder - Superstition
- Shirley Bassey - Get the Party Started
ETA: From time to time I have a look at the top 25 out of curiosity - but often it only needs a couple of plays to shoot something from not on the list to the top five, so I’m not too surprised that a song I’ve heard a couple of times in the last few days is at the top of the list.
- Yes - And You And I
- Deep Forest - Madazulu
- X Japan - I.V.
- Eluveitie - Inis Mona
- Finntroll - En Mäktig Här
I usually shuffle but:
Absolut Unveil - I always start on this one because it’s short and starts with A
Welcome to the Family - Michael Suby (from Kyle XY)
I Want You To Want Me
Underneath Your Clothes - Shakira
En El Sur - Michael Erentxun
Funeral / Rebuilding Serenity - Serenity / David Newman
Inuma Nishif (Montage) - Children of Dune / Brian Tyler
Mad World - Gary Jules
Minstrel Boy - Joe Strummer
No Siento Penas - Juanes
Yay, a fellow Cassandra Wilson fan! Her voice is to die for.
[Dance of Joy!] Absolutely! And the thing I’m jonesing over right now is her incredible sense of arrangement - her covers are completely different from the originals, and yet, heartfelt and sincere. Loving having discovered her.[/Dance of Joy!]
Jai Ho - Rahman, Singh, Shah, et al.
Disney’s Party Express - Tokyo Disneyland Special Event Soundtrack
Midnight Dancer - Arabesque
El Bimbo - Paul Mauriat
Soon jong - Koyote
I heard the Arabesque and Koyote tunes for Karaoke practice. 