What are the Most Played on your ipod?

Cafe Society
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I present two lists, one of since my computer crashed last year, and one of playlist I’ve been listening to most recently. For a while there, I had my Celtic playlist playing while I slept, which is why they’re all from that genre.

Version 1

  1. Newry Boat-song – Méav (441 times)
  2. Brokenhearted I’ll Wander – Niamh Parsons (432)
  3. Two Sisters Ice – Niamh Parsons (409)
  4. Dulaman – Anuna (408)
  5. The Dark-Haired Girl – Méav (390)
  6. The Wicked Sister – Méav (384)
  7. MacCrimmon’s Lament – Heidi Talbot (372)
  8. The Rising of the Sun – Anuna (368)
  9. Blar Inbhir Lochaidh – Mary Jane Lamond (363)
  10. High Germany – Heidi Talbot (360)

Version 2

  1. Ice Cream – Sarah McLachlan (308)
  2. Fairy Tale – Cloud Cult (293)
  3. Full of Grace – Sarah McLachlan (279)
  4. Car Crash – Cloud Cult (264)
  5. Geography – Heidi Talbot (219)
  6. My Mind is a Box – Pretty Balanced (215)
  7. Human Hands – Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down Quartet (214)
  8. Let’s Just Fall in Love – Marit Bergman (209)
  9. Ophelia – Natalia Merchant (207)
  10. Feelings Show – Colbie Caillat (199)
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I play the Shins quite often to go to sleep. The next tier of most played songs on my computer has quite a few of their songs which are not the slightest bit familiar to me, I don’t think I’ve ever stayed awake through the entire playlist.

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  1. These Old Shoes - performed by Deer Tick, written by Chris Paddock
  2. Ashamed - Deer Tick
  3. Art Is Real (City of Sin) - Deer Tick
  4. Yellowed By the Sun - The Low Anthem
  5. Bless Your Tombstone Heart - The Low Anthem
  6. This God Damned House - The Low Anthem
  7. Queen of the Wires - Aleck K Redfearn and the Eyesores
  8. Myra - Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores
  9. The Perforated Veil - Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores
  10. Cold Little Knife - Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores

All local Providence bands. Mostly indie folk, though AKR and the Eyesores is … hm, gypsy circus music. (Accordion, jaw harp, strings, great harmonies.) Here’s their Myspace pages. I cannot cannot cannot recommend Deer Tick and The Low Anthem enough and if Deer Tick comes through town he’s well worth seeing.

Deer Tick: Deer Tick | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos
Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores: http://www.myspace.com/aleckredfearnandtheeyesores
The Low Anthem: The Low Anthem | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos

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  1. Rock & Roll Band - Boston (49 plays)
    T2. Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams (46)
    T2. Mary Jane’s Last Dance - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (46)
  2. Mr. Jones - Counting Crows (45)
    T5. More Than A Feeling - Boston (43)
    T5. Peace Of Mind - Boston (43)
  3. Wheel In The Sky - Journey (42)
  4. Red Light - Jonny Lang (41)
  5. The End - The Beatles (40)
    10.Won’t Get Fooled Again - The Who (39)
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My list betrays that obsessive Placebo jag I went on a couple of months ago. I have no idea how that Keane song got to number one, honest. (Maybe I had it on repeat while I slept or something.)

  1. Wolf at the Door – Keane
  2. Drag – Placebo
  3. Taste in Men – Placebo
  4. Venus in Furs – Devotchka
  5. Blue Song – Mint Royale
  6. No I in Threesome – Interpol
  7. This Picture – Placebo
  8. Jigsaw Falling into Place – Radiohead
  9. Saint John (live on WXPN) – Cold War Kids
  10. The Bitter End – Placebo
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“A Case of You” - Joni Mitchell
“Hummingbird” - Wilco
“Romeo and Juliet” - Dire Straits
“Piazza New York Catcher” - Belle and Sebastian
“Heavy Metal Drummer” - Wilco
“Jesus Etc” - Wilco
“Hold On, Hold On” - Neko Case
“Seven Years” - Norah Jones
“San Diego Serenade” - Tom Waits
“Wonderwall” - Oasis

The next ten are all Regina Spektor and Wilco.

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My whole list except for one song is not surprising, as it’s all Scissor Sisters.

But apparently I have a secret shame. Because my number one most listened to isn’t a Scissor Sisters song at all.

It’s frikken’ *Der Kommisar * by After the Fire.

:smack:

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Heh…all of these are on playlists I use a lot, most of them on the playlist I play when I’m writing.

  1. Orbital – Spare Parts Express
  2. Daft Punk – Voyager
  3. Tally Hall – Taken for a Ride
  4. Air – Cherry Blossom Girl
  5. Don Huonot – Suojelusenkeli
  6. Daft Punk – Veridis Quo
  7. Air – Kelly, Watch The Stars!
  8. The Eagles – Journey of the Sorceror
  9. Tally Hall – Good Day
  10. G Tom Mac – Cry Little Sister (Theme from The Lost Boys)
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My iTunes library mysteriously died last summer (all the mp3s were fine, I just had to make a new library), so this is what I’ve listened to most in the past year:

  1. Eisley - “Plenty of Paper” (22 plays)
  2. Tomás Jensen et les Faux-Monnayeurs - “A Luz de Tieta”
  3. The Decemberists - “Summersong”
  4. Eisley - “Marsh King’s Daughter”
  5. Tomás Jensen et les Faux-Monnayeurs - “Un seul à la fois”
  6. Camera Obscura - “If Looks Could Kill”
  7. The Decemberists - “Here I Dreamt I was an Architect”
  8. Imogen Heap - “Hide and Seek”
  9. The Decemberists - “The Crane Wife 3”
  10. Laura Veirs - “Cannon Fodder” (16 plays)

I remember my old library had “Tutelary Genius” by Universal Hall Pass at the top, because Mercury was one of the first albums I got after starting to use iTunes, so I listened to it a lot.

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  1. Makin’ Whoopee - Rikki Lee Jones/Dr. John
  2. Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
  3. Sail Away - Randy Newman
  4. Cello Girl - Caitlyn Cary
  5. Romeo & Juliet - Dire Straits
  6. I Thought You Should Know - Steve Earle
  7. Can’t Stand It - Wilco
  8. The Fat Lady of Limbourg - Shivaree
  9. Rain Street - Pogues
  10. Ventura - Lucinda Williams
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  1. “Dig” – Incubus
  2. “Could I Be Your Girl” – Jann Arden
  3. “It Is Pitch Dark” – MC Frontalot
  4. “Hysteria” – Muse
  5. “You Turn The Screws” – Cake
  6. “Hang Me Up To Dry” – Cold War Kids
  7. “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” – Death Cab For Cutie
  8. “Charmer” – Kings of Leon
  9. “Trouble” – Ray Lamontagne
  10. “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” – The White Stripes
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Read My Mind - The Killers
Before it’s too Late - Goo Goo Dolls (which surprises me. I like the song but didn’t think I listened to it that much, even compared to other Goo Goo Dolls songs.)
Fix You - Coldplay
Over My Head - The Fray
White Shadows - Coldplay
Talk - Coldplay
Beautiful World - Collin Hay (from the Scrubs soundtrack)
When You Were Young - The Killers
Tell Me Baby - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
This River is Wild - The Killers

The Killers also does a cover of Dire Strait’s Romeo and Juliet that just missed the list.

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  1. Jill Sobule - Cinnamon Park
  2. Caprizzio - Demeter’s Daughter
  3. Weird Al - Weasel Stomping Day
  4. Butthole Surfers - Pepper
  5. Jill Sobule - The Jig is Up
  6. The Irish Rovers - The Unicorn
  7. Jill Sobule - Heroes
  8. Jill Sobule - Jetpack
  9. Refreshments - Down Together
  10. Weird Al - White & Nerdy
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Basically, the first ten cuts from Pink Martini’s Hang On Little Tomato.

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Editors - Munich
Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
Pigeon Detectives - I’m Not Sorry
The Enemy - It’s Not OK
The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Maximo Park - Our Velocity
The Stone Roses - Going Down
Mascagni - Intermezzo
Maximo Park - Karaoke Plays
Oasis - Talk Tonight

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Road to Spencer - Ricky Scaggs
Shady Grove - Ricky Scaggs
Pi - Kate Bush
Sample in a Jar - Phish
Come a Long Way - Michelle Shocked
Turn to Stone - ELO
Rockaria - ELO
The Trouble With Love - Bering Strait
I’m Bored - Iggy Pop
A Common Disaster - Cowby Junkies

kind of surprising, really.

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I don’t have an ipod and I don’t use itunes, but these are my top ten most tracks played according to my last.fm charts.

Social Distortion - Story Of My Life
Social Distortion - Highway 101
The Misfits - Last Caress
Social Distortion - Ball and Chain
The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
Social Distortion - Ring of Fire
Fountains of Wayne - Hey Julie
They Might Be Giants - They’ll Need A Crane

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Same caveat:

1 yifei – Mayonaka no Door
2 savage genius – Inori no uta
3 Ishikawa Chiaki – Utsukushi Kereba Sore de Ii
4 savage genius – Inori no uta (TV Size)
5 Ishikawa Chiaki – Utsukushi Kereba Sore de Ii (TV Size)
6 the brilliant green – Running so high
7 ℃-ute – Ookina Ai de Motenashite
8 the brilliant green – FUNNY GIRLFRIEND!!
9 the brilliant green – Funny Girlfriend
10 the brilliant green – Rock’n Roll (live at Shibuya Club Quattro)

Top 5 are all anime theme songs :o (thus the (TV Size) on 4 and 5 - they’re the short versions actually used on the show). 1 is Power Puff Girls Z first OP (shut. up.) and 2-5 are Simoun OP and ED.

8 and 9…one is a live version, the other studio.

And my chart for this week, just for the heck of it (12 songs…lots of ties)…

1 Arthur Brown – Fire!
2 Kana – Hebi Ichigo
3 Kana – reinbo -ningen shiki-
3 Kana – momo
3 Kana – chimame
6 Kana – kabi
6 Kana – Toraboruta
6 Kana – jueki
6 Kana – Kuuchuu Buranko
6 Kana – mori
6 Kana – mirukii
6 Kana – hone

Arthur Brown sitting up there with all the Kana looks a li’l odd. Heh.

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I just got my music back recently (old --> new computer when old computer = broken) so this list is stupid:

1-10 are all songs from the Beirut album ‘The Flying Club Cup’ because I had the album on repeat for awhile, and all my other listening was done with iTunes shuffling 3540 songs.

Soon In Rainbows from Radiohead will take over - on a Radiohead diet before the concert next week.

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TOP 15 (or, Damn I’m Gay)
The Color Purple (cast recording, THE COLOR PURPLE)
Let it Roll, or The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (George Harrison)
Coalhouse Demands (cast recording, RAGTIME)
Marrakesh Night Market (Loreena McKennitt)
Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist (cast recording, Avenue Q)
Softly and Tenderly (Rebecca Lynn Howard)
Pavana la Cornetta (17th century court processional- don’t ask)
Billie Jean (David Cook)
Children and Art (cast recording, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE)
Star by Star (cast recording, FAIR & TENDER LADIES)
One Night Only (Jennifer Hudson- DREAMGIRLS)
Pavement Cracks (Annie Lennox)
Devil Went Down to Georgia (Charlie Daniels)*
Por Una Cabeza (soundtrack, SCENT OF A WOMAN)
Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles)

*I hated to pay $.99 to that bastard, but damn that’s a good song.