I thought this might be interesting?.., open itunes (or whatever you run) - hit top rated and post it.
Mine is as follows (but somewhat warped, due to a recent laptop blowout, hence it’s fairly recent, I’d be interested in what the old laptop would have come up with).
Would this require me to have rated the songs in my iTunes? (I have never rated any of the songs in my iTunes.) Or are you asking for the songs that I have played the most?
If we are going by which have been played the most:
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Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing* - Buffalo Springfield
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Through the Fire and Flames* - Dragonforce
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Dance With Me Tonight* - The Wonders
Nights On Broadway - Bee Gees
All Night Long - Jefferson Starship
I’m On the Road - Partridge Family
Like A Hurricane - Neil Young
Lightning Rose - Jefferson Starship
Hang 'em High - Booker T & the MGs
My Back Pages - 30th Anniversary Bob Dylan Tribute Concert
Don’t judge me!
Okay, took all the five stars and then took a random, 10 song sample:
Hurt - Christina Aguilera
Don’t Play Me - Prince
When You Really Love Someone - Alicia Keys
Solo - Prince
Bring on the Night - The Police
Dance, Dance - Fallout Boy
Anna Stesia - Prince
Kryptonite - Three Doors Down
Worlds Apart - Vince Gill
Chelsea Rodgers - Prince
Huh. Doesn’t seem to be any way around it - I like Prince a lot.
Top rated doesn’t work because there are more than ten 5’s; it just does all the 5’s in alpha by artist. My top ten by play count are all individual tracks that I bought on Itunes and played for some time before starting to rip my CDs:
Under Your Spell/Standing Reprise (from Buffy musical ep)
Mais Que Nada by Brasil '66 & Sergio Mendes
Tom Sawyer by Rush
99 Red Balloons (the Goldfinger version)
Nas Ne Dagoniat (by t.A.T.u.; the original Russian version of Not Gonna Get Us)
Tainted Love by Soft Cell, live version
Standing (Buffy again)
What a Wonderful World
Suite from “Hush” (more Buffy soundtrack)
America, Fuck Yeah from Team America: World Police
Not necessarily my favorite music, just some tracks that caught my ear but that I didn’t think it was worth buying the album for. Also, Itunes doesn’t count a track as played until you hit the end, so songs with long fadeouts will be undercounted because I might skip the end.
Well, no answer to my question above, so I will assume that what is requested is my top ten songs by play count.
Winning a Battle, Losing the War, by Kings of Convenience.
Your Move, by Steve Howe.
I Can’t Let Go, by the Hollies.
Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man), by Styx.
Holiday Road, by Lindsey Buckingham.
Mr. Blue Sky, by Electric Light Orchestra.
Sunday Morning, by Maroon 5.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, by Daft Punk.
Wouldn’t It Be Nice, by the Beach Boys.
The Rainbow Connection, by Willie Nelson.
I love the exquisite acoustical playing in #1 and #2, the vocal power harmonies in #3, the keyboards and upbeat message of #4, the sing-along hook of #5, the Beatlesque complexity of #6, the blue-eyed soul vocals of #7, how #8 is like an ingenious machine, the bouncy yearning of #9, and the simple, lonely optimism of #10.
Sorry, yes I was going by playcount… as this is a better representation of what actually is getting played as opposed to how much you like a track (or ten).
“The Day That Never Comes” by Metallica (Most of the other top ones by play count were also off their new “Death Magnetic” Album, which I played alot after I downloaded. So I’ll skip the other 7 songs off the album that are listed and go to the next ones.)
“Tu Carcel” Los Enanitos Verdes
“Como Yo Nadie Te Ha Amado” by Yuridia
“Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun” by The Beastie Boys
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[li]Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb[/li][li]Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Refugee[/li][li]Toto – Africa[/li][li]Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2[/li][li]Lindsey Buckingham – Trouble[/li][li]Roxy Music – Avalon[/li][li]Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – You Got Lucky[/li][li]Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)[/li][li]The Cars – Just What I Needed[/li][li]Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill[/li][/ol]
Mine is a bit weird, partially because I switched to iTunes from WinAmp relatively recently and partially because I’m more often listening to music on CDs in my car. So it’s skewed towards things I purchased recently and things I happen to be thinking about while I’m sitting at the computer. Even my most-played song on iTunes has only been played 11 times.
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
Bruce Springsteen - I’m On Fire
Simon & Garfunkle - The Sound of Silence*
Beck - Loser
Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire*
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
Tom Cochrane - Life Is a Highway
U2 - Numb
Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
*3 and 5 are surprising to me, as neither song is a favorite of mine and I can’t remember choosing to play them much. I do remember thinking “We Didn’t Start the Fire” seemed to come up a lot in my shuffle, so both may have risen to the Top 10 largely by chance.
So, apparently I really like German hard metal/dance bands and new agey smooth jazzy type stuff. My library actually shows a lot more diversity than that – I’ve got a bit of everything, really – but I guess I do tend to listen to these quite a lot. I’m surprised no other metal bands made the top ten, though – Nightwish, Apocalyptica, Rhapsody, Kamelot, Avantasia, etc. are all there, but a good ways down the list.
Also I suppose it could be skewed quite a bit just by acquisition order – songs that have been in longer have a natural advantage. Maybe I should just reset my playcount statistics and see what works its way to the top then.
Too late! The Bee Gees, Jefferson Starship, Neil Young, and even Dragonforce were all forgivable, but the Partridge Family pushed you over the edge. I have to write you down on The List now. Nothing personal.
Providence - Casshern Original Soundtrack (Youtube clip of the scene where this track can be heard). Something about the violins that sends chills up my spine.
Revival- Casshern Original Soundtrack (Youtube clip from the movie). Those violins again.
Let’s Do It - Cole Porter
Celebrity Skin - Hole
Happy Working Song - Amy Adams
Maggies Farm - David Grisman
The Spirit of Radio - Rush
Revolution - The Beatles
When New York Was Irish - Celtic Thunder
Metal Health - Quiet Riot
Far Cry - Rush
Iko Iko - Dr. John
My friends always make fun of me for listening to such a random selection of music. That is pretty well reflected in my top ten list:
Sia - Breathe Me
The Script - The Man Who Can’t be Moved
Eminem ft. Dr. Dre and 50 Cent - Crack a Bottle
Young Jeezy ft. Kanye West - Put On
Nirvana - Breed
Brad Paisley - I’m Still a Guy
The Eagles - Wasted Time (live)
Jack Ingram - Love You
Brandi Carlile - The Story
Toby Keith - Should’ve Been a Cowboy
So that’s 3 country, 3 pop, 2 rap, 1 grunge, and 1 oldies/classic. Country is definitely overrepresented and oldies/classic underrepresented, but otherwise the list is a pretty good representation of what I listen to.
1) Five Years Time - Noah and the Whale
2) Who Watches the Watchmen - The Prize Fighter Inferno (Claudio Sanchez's side project)
3) Ate Too Much of My Favorite Food - Lunch Money (A kid's alternative band)
4) Metro - Alkaline Trio (Punk cover of Berlin)
5) Valerie Plame - The Decemberists
6) Cottonmouth - Emanuel
7) Catastrophe - Forever the Sickest Kids
8) Jungle Drum - Emiliana Torrini
9) Chemicals - Armor for Sleep
10) The Margretville Dance - The Prize Fighter Inferno
Not as eclectic as many: five of them could be safely called adult oriented alternative, two emo-pop, one emocore, one straight ahead punk, with one kids song thrown in as a joker.
Quite interesting this. Top ten most played songs on my Ipod. Don’t think I could have guessed them.
Millionaire - A.R.Rahman
Elements of life - DJ Tiesto
O’Saya - A.R.Rahman and M.I.A
Snakes uniform - John Carpenter
Into the mystic - Van Morrison
Kids - MGMT
Take the long way home - Faithless
All hell is breaking loose - London Elektricity
Silent Sigh - Badly drawn boy
The cool cool river - Paul Simon
Actually, the fact I use the Ipod at the gym frequently would probably account for so many dance/electro tracks, helps to keep the pace up.
