What are 'Your Top Ten Songs'.. as dictated from your computer.

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  1. Eisley - “Plenty of Paper”
  2. Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - “Fareweel Regality”
  3. The Decemberists - “Summersong”
  4. Girlyman - “Young James Dean”
  5. Laura Marling - “Cross Your Fingers”
  6. Bellowhead - “Frog’s Legs & Dragon’s Teeth”
  7. The Decemberists - “Record Year for Rainfall”
  8. The Decemberists - “Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect”
  9. Eisley - “Marsh King’s Daughter”
  10. Tomas Jensen & les Faux-Monnayeurs - “Un seul a la fois”

This is just since June 2007, when iTunes screwed up and I lost all my play counts. I remember the top one before that was “Tutelary Genius” by Universal Hall Pass.

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This would be a lot more meaningful if I could get the figures from my iPod rather than from my computer. Most of these results seem really random; I have no idea where the play counts come from. I don’t even remember this Albion Band track.

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
Whisky Train - Procol Harum
Police on My Back - The Clash
Pretty Words - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Saint Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast - Frank Zappa
Longships - The Stranglers
Sister Disco - The Who
House in the Country - Albion Band
Tear Off Your Own Head (It’s a Doll Revolution) - The Bangles
Misery - The Beatles

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Okay - this is on the desktop computer, in WMP. All songs that are rated 12/12 in my own rating system, breaking ties with the most frequently played, in order:

[ol]
[li]The Power, Amy Grant[/li][li]Baby Girl, Sugarland[/li][li]A Home, The Dixie Chicks[/li][li]My Father’s Eyes, Eric Clapton[/li][li]White Flag, Dido[/li][li]Sarah, Sherrie Austin[/li][li]One, Faith Hill[/li][li]My Happy Ending, Avril Lavigne[/li][li]Wound Up, Leann Rimes[/li][li]See the Sun, Dido[/li][/ol]

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last.fm from the last 7 days.

Galaxie 500 – It’s Getting Late
Reinhard Goebel, Robert Hill – Bach: Violin Sonata #1 In B Minor
Moby – Bring Back My Happiness
Dead Can Dance – Rakim
Humanoid – Stakker Humanoid
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Sidewalking
Ladytron – Cease2xist
György Ligeti – Études pour piano: XI. En suspens
Jaap Ter Linden, Henk Bouman, Musica Antiqua Köln – Sonata BWV 1027
Love – Your Mind And We Belong Together
The Velvet Underground – New Age
The Fall – No Xmas for John Quays
Massive Attack – Group Four (Mad Professor Mix)
Nightmares on Wax – I Am You
The White Stripes – Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Richie Hawtin – Formenverwandler / Friday Night With B. Reynolds/Chemistry / Octagon / A Factory Dub/
Stereolab – Captain Easychord
The Byrds – Mind Gardens
The Cure – The Walk
Force Mass Motion vs. Dylan Rhymes – Hold Back

I really need to get my tags sorted out

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  1. PJ Harvey: You Said Something
  2. Led Zeppelin: Kashmir
  3. Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil
  4. Tegan and Sara: Arrow
  5. Pink Floyd: Us & Them
  6. Eric Clapton: No Alibis
  7. AC/DC: Jailbreak
  8. Mazzy Star: Five String Serenade
  9. Santigold: L.E.S. Artistes
  10. On Fire: Van Halen

This gets me through the morning gym AND work.

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  1. Tom Waits - Alice
  2. Tom Waits - Everything You Can Think
  3. The Shins - Australia
  4. Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren (from The Monkees TV show)
  5. Tim Buckley - Troubadour (live)
  6. Evgeny Kissin - Sonata Op. 27 No. 2: Sonata Op. 27 No. 2/Presto agitato
  7. Evgeny Kissin - Sonata Op. 27 No. 2: Sonata Op. 27 No. 2/Allegretto
  8. Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy
  9. Tom Waits - I’ll Shoot the Moon
  10. REM - (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
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Ten (well, 11) most played:

  1. Fallout Boy “Dance, Dance”
  2. The Underwater “First Shot”
  3. Bombay Bicycle Club “Evening/Morning”
  4. Finger Eleven “Falling On” & “Paralyzer”
  5. Bloc Party “The Prayer”
  6. Your Black Star “The Slient Me”
  7. International Pen Pal “The Hatchet”
  8. Paper Models “Coming Back To Me”
  9. Make Believe “Say What You Mean”
  10. Black Lab “She Loves Me”

However, 1, 4, 5 & 9 are on my favorite workout playlist, so that’s why they’ve been played so often.