We haven’t done one of these in a while, so let’s find out who is listening to what. Go to your music delivery system of choice and punch up your 10 most often played songs. What are they? (No fair editing - let’s be embarassed together!)
My list, as of today:
Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing - Buffalo Springfield
Through the Fire and Flames - Dragonforce
Nights On Broadway - Bee Gees
Thrown Down - Fleetwood Mac
Midnight Wind - John Stewart
Dance With Me Tonight - The Wonders
Toussaint l’Overture - Santana
Dawn - The Four Seasons
My Back Pages - Bob Dylan & Friends
Pancho and Lefty - Emmylou Harris
Commentary - Number 8 is so high because we saw *Jersey Boys *recently. Number 9 is the performance from Dylan’s 30th Anniversary celebration, with McGuinn, Young, Petty, Clapton, Harrison and the rest rocking out on the full version. Number 7 is proof that God walks among us.
So I thought to myself, “what a great thread idea,” and immediately brought up iTunes to see what my top ten most-played songs were. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that for some reason years of work, all my ratings, play counts and smart playlists were gone!* I’m pretty ticked off.
So from memory (and definitely out of order):
Tear Stained Eye - Son Volt
Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon - Greg Brown
Birches - Bill Morrissey
Copperline - James Taylor
Tom Ames’ Prayer - Steve Earle
I Was In The House When the House Burned Down - Warren Zevon
Don’t Let Us Get Sick - Warren Zevon
Are We All Right - Show Of Hands (live at the Cambridge Folk Festival 2007)
Man of Peace - The Holmes Brothers (from that Dylan tribute album silenus mentioned)
Statesboro Blues - Chris Smither
I’m guessing that it happened at the point where iTunes updated to its new less useful format. Shit. I’ve had this Mac for seven or eight years and it’s a great computer, but I hate Apple more now than I did when I was a dedicated Windows user. I expect that my data is gone forever.
Ha. I guess I listen to the O Brother soundtrack more than I thought. Most of these are on several play lists. Things get a little more diverse in the 11-25 spots.
Tous Les Deaux La Même, BeauSoileil
J’ai Ete Au Zydeco, BeauSoileil
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow, The Soggy Bottom Boys
Down To The River To Pray, Alison Krauss
Angel Band, Stanley Brothers
Ashokan Farewell, The Civil War Soundtrack
Losing My Religion, R.E.M.
California Dreamin’, The Mamas & The Papas
Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel
Bless the Broken Road, Rascal Flatts
Trina Magna, Blues Traveler
Mine is skewed heavily toward Al Green, because my one-year old son loves Al Green. “Tired Of Being Alone” will calm him down instantly, 100% of the time. So, instead of doing most played, I’ll list the next ten that pop up. (I have it set to randomize all songs.) Fair?
Keep Your Head Up - Eagles of Death Metal
Bullhead’s Lament - Baroness
Candy Store Rock - Led Zeppelin
Dance Hall - Modest Mouse
Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
Destination Diamonds - Diamond Nights
Sinister Kid - The Black Keys
Fresh Tendrils - Soundgarden
Ordinary - Face To Face
Normal Like You - Everclear
I dunno if this will help, but if you Google “itunes lost playlists”, you’ll find that you’re not alone. This suggestion helped some people. Do you use Time Capsule or anything else to back up your system? If so, that should also have old playlists info.
Hmmm…this thread may have convinced me of my own egotism. My top 10 (indeed, all of my top 25) are tracks of myself. They are scratch tracks made in my basement with just my guitar and voice. Within the top 25, but not the top 10 are two tracks actually produced in a studio with my friend Scott, who is an incredible musician. Anyway, the top 10 songs are:
Everybody Loves Somebody (yeah, the old Dean Martin song)
Minstrel of the Morning (written by a friend back in the 1970s)
Saunter (co-written by me and a girl back in 1969 or so)
Simple Twist of Fate (Bob Dylan song)
Ode to Passings (by the same friend back in the 70s)
Trails (co-written by me and a friend in the late 70s)
For the Sake of the Song (the Townes Van Zandt song)
Remember Me (When the Candle Lights are Gleaming) (old country song, not sure who wrote it)
