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soupcan Feb 13 2008 07:05 PM

In keeping with the 'albums you really like' thread.... On your iPod and iTunes under playlists is one entitled 'Top 25 Most Played'. Here are my top 10 of those 25. This goes back I would say 2 & 1/2 years. After looking at it I think I'm solidly hetero but could possibly have 'tendencies'. The Snow Patrol prevelence I think casts that slight doubt. (Caveat - My daughter LOVES 'Stacy's Mom' and makes me play it a lot. If not for her it wouldn't be top 10 and The Strokes You Only Live Once would move up.) Song, Band, # of times played Eminence Front, The Who - 37 Chocolate, Snow Patrol - 29 Stacy's Mom, Fountains Of Wayne - 26 How to Be Dead, Snow Patrol - 25 Hard To Explain, The Strokes - 25 Houses Of The Holy, Led Zeppelin - 23 Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now), Cracker - 22 A Girl Like You, Edwyn Collins - 21 Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - 21 I Melt with You, Modern English - 21 So...how about you?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 13 2008 09:26 PM

My top songs are skewed some by the fact I bought an iPod and learned iTunes initially to self-dj my wedding. All of these songs were a part of that, though mostly because I liked them to start with. It Takes Two Marvin Gaye & Kim Wesson 54 plays Pray for Me, The Jayhawks 52 plays Tell Everybody I Know, Keb Mo 46 plays King of Love, Dave Edmunds 44 plays Jumpin' with Symphony Sid, Joe Jackson, 42 plays T.M.D., Marshall Crenshaw, 37 plays Camel Walk, Southern Culture on the Skids, 37 plays New Train, John Prine, 36 plays Real Rock Drive, The Blasters 35 plays Baby Ride Easy, Dave Edmunds, 35 plays ** Rocking up the charts is The Cheese Song by Bubboon, which is Junior Shot's favorite. 29 plays and we've only had it for a short while.

Willets Point Feb 13 2008 09:27 PM

I shuffle a lot and the iPod seems fond of playing songs that I wouldn't necessarily play over and over myself. With that caveat this is a fair sample of my music listening the past three years: "Frontier Psychiatrist" The Avalanches "parlez-vous freezepop" Freezepop "Two of Us" The Beatles "Wind and Rain" Crooked Still "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac" Dizzy Gillespie "Anna (El Negro Zumbon)" Pink Martini "Misery Is The River of the World" Tom Waits "Still, Still, Still" Academy of St. Martin in the Fields "A Night in Tunisia" Ella Fitzgerald "Farewell Nova Scotia" Dan Zanes

Gwreck Feb 13 2008 09:37 PM

My top 10 is deeply skewed by my running playlist: Suicide Blonde - INXS - 57 Rearviewmirror - Pearl Jam - 56 Me in Honey - REM - 45 Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 43 No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen - 41 Dancing in the Street - Martha and the Vandellas - 39 Little Mascara - The Replacements - 38 I Will Follow - U2 - 38 London Calling - The Clash - 37 Come See About Me - The Supremes - 36

AG/DC Feb 13 2008 10:29 PM

"Baby, Ride Easy" is Dave Edmunds with the woefully underrated country-new wave crossover Carlene Carter. I kind of suspect her behind the breakup of Rockpile. My ten also have a lot to do with what I bought first, and then I built on those early purchases slowly. I had a Pet Sounds nut living down stairs. I consider the album great but flawed. You'd think I knifed his mother. So I gave PS a closer listen for a bit. Eh. 1) "Wouldn't It Be Nice? (Stereo Version)" 2:33 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds Rock 30 2) "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)" [Stereo Version] 2:58 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds Rock 28 3) "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (Stereo Version)" 3:21 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds Rock 27 4) "The French Song" 3:37 Joan Jett And The Blackhearts Fetish Rock 27 5) "Dear Prudence (Single Version)" 4:01 Siouxsie and The Banshees Hyaena Rock 27 6) "Boots of Spanish Leather" 4:40 Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' Rock 26 7) "That's Not Me (Stereo Version)" 2:31 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds Rock 25 8) "I'm Waiting for the Day (Stereo Version)" 3:07 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds Rock 25 9) "When Love Breaks Down" 4:07 PreFab Sprout Prefab Sprout: The Collection Rock 25 10) "How Men Are" 3:39 Aztec Camera Just Say Yes... Rock 24

metirish Feb 14 2008 04:44 AM

Going Underground - The Jam Biennvenida A Tijuana - Mano Chao Streams of Whiskey - The Pogues Firefight - Manic Street Preachers Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus Factory Girls - Flogging Molly (feat. Lucinda Williams) Radio Free Europe - REM Mise Eire - Seanchai Society - Eddie Veder Eire Og - Sean South, the Roll of Honor( medley) When Love Beaks Down was in the top twenty for me.

Willets Point Feb 14 2008 06:37 AM

I like metirish's iPod.

soupcan Feb 14 2008 07:01 AM

Willets Point wrote: "parlez-vous freezepop" Freezepop I have no idea what this is but I can't wait to get home and download it just because I want to be able say that, yes, I do in fact speak Freezepop. And P.S. irish - I dig that Manic Street Preachers stuff more every time I hear it.

RealityChuck Feb 14 2008 07:08 AM

I do some shuffling, but mostly rotate a lot; it's unusual for me to play an album twice in a month, so my numbers are skewed by the one or two that I did play often. I also listen to albums from start to finish, so the number of most of their songs clump together. "Where Have all the Good Times Gone?" -- The Kinks "La Scala di Seta" -- (Rossini) Montreal Symphony "Guillaume Tell" -- (Rossini) Montreal Symphony "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" -- The Kinks "Stop Your Sobbing" -- The Kinks "Victoria" -- The Kinks "So What" -- Miles Davis "Freddy Freeloader" -- Miles Davis "Flamenco Sketches" -- Miles Davis "Il Barbliglia di Seville" -- (Rossini) Montreal Symphony The odd thing is that I haven't listened to any of these this year. Here's [url=http://www.last.fm/user/realitychuck]a more recent and more detailed analysis.[/url]

metirish Feb 14 2008 07:09 AM

Cheers Willets, soup I have meant to ask you about the Manics , glad you like it, that song I hae above is worth picking up online.......also I love the Israel Kamakawiwo'ole version of those songs...first time I heard it on NPR's "All Things Considered" I spent hours trying to find out who the singer was...

Kong76 Feb 14 2008 07:21 AM

Hellraiser - Ozzy I Don't Want to Change the World - Ozzy I Just Want You - Ozzy Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Believer - Ozzy Diary of a Madman - Ozzy My Jekyll Doesn't Hide - Ozzy Shot in the Dark - Ozzy Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Suicide Solution - Ozzy

AG/DC Feb 14 2008 07:24 AM

No huh-way.

seawolf17 Feb 14 2008 07:27 AM

Weird top ten for me: Hey There Delilah -- Plain White T's (I played this over and over while writing my parody) Afternoon Delight -- Will Ferrell et al (from Anchorman -- love it.) Bones -- The Killers Take Tomorrow (One Day At A Time) -- Butch Walker The Pretender -- Foo Fighters Long Road To Ruin -- Foo Fighters Oklahoma Bound -- Jeff Keith Plus Ones -- Okkervil River Band On The Run -- Foo Fighters Time Won't Let Me Go -- The Bravery There was a period when I had a few of those songs on a playlist that I (apparently) played the hell out of, which really skewed the number. Most times I'm on random shuffle.

metsguyinmichigan Feb 14 2008 08:41 AM

Here's the whole Top 25 Play list. (I actually changed it to !Top 25 Played so it comes up first) One disclaimer: My 15-year-old son works out of the same iTunes, so if he and I both like a song it climbs up the chart fast. Also, he loves the show "Supernatural," which uses a lot of classic rock songs that he then plays over and over, hence the Sabbath, Kansas and Blue Oyster Cult) 1) “Must Have Done Something Right” Relient K (163) 2) “The Shadow Proves the Sunshine” Switchfoot (144) 3) “Dead Man (Carry Me)” Jars of Clay (138) 4) “Hands and Feet” Audio Adrenaline (132) 5) “Light Gives Heat” Jars of Clay (122) 6) “No More, No Less” Mercyme (118) 7) “Church Punks” Audio Adrenaline (115) 8) “Be My Escape” Relient K (113) 9) “Work” Jars of Clay (110) 10) “Soul Meets Body” Death Cab for Cutie (109) 11) “Everything About You” Sanctus Real (107) 12) “Stars” Switchfoot (105) 13) “Thinking it Over” Seven Places (103) 14) “Lifeboat” The Elms (100) 15) “Cornelius” Newsboys (99) 16) “Paranoid” Black Sabbath (96) 17) “Carry On My Wayward Son” Kansas (95) 18) “Come Right Out and Say It” Relient K (93) 19) “The One I’m Waitng For” Relient K (89) 20) “Thrive” Newsboys (87) 21) “High of 75” Relient K (85) 22) “Awakening” Switchfoot (84) 23) “Oh! Gravity!” Switchfoot (82) 24) “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” Blue Oyster Cult (81) 25) “More Than Useless” Relient K (79)

RealityChuck Feb 14 2008 08:42 AM

You know, I realize I should have just used my last.fm log. That says: 1 Ludwig van Beethoven – Allegro con brio 2 The Beatles – Come Together 3 Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major 4 The Moody Blues – Lovely to See You 4 The Beatles – Something 4 Pink Floyd – Coming Back to Life 7 The Moody Blues – The Dream (Poem) 7 The Moody Blues – Are You Sitting Comfortably f 7 Rick Wakeman – Catherine of Aragon 7 Montreal Symphony - Charles Dutoit – La scala di seta 7 Traffic – Paper Sun 7 The Moody Blues – The Voyage 7 The Moody Blues – In the Beginning 7 The Moody Blues – To Share Our Love full track The Beethoven #1 is not quite correct; I have four different pieces of longer pieces that have that title (Symphonies #3, #5, #7, and the Piano Concerto #1).

Farmer Ted Feb 14 2008 10:38 AM

I would guess a few of you would have fun with this IPod. http://i.a.cnn.net/si/features/2007_swimsuit/images/photos/07_mmiller_27.jpg

metsguyinmichigan Feb 14 2008 11:58 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 14 2008 05:30 PM

My wife heard what we were doing and wanted her 10-most played on here, largely because she didn't want to be "tainted" by my list. 1) "Collide" Howie Day 2) "Same Mistake" James Blunt 3) "Always Be" Jimmy Eat World 4) "Stolen" Dashboard Confessional 5) "Imation of Life" REM 6) "Big Casino" Jimmy Eat World 7) "Save You" Matthew Perryman Jones 8) "1973" James Blunt 9) "Down Boy" Yeah Yeah Yeahs 10) "Don't Wait" Dashboard Confessional

AG/DC Feb 14 2008 12:04 PM

Tell her to register and post her own self.

seawolf17 Feb 14 2008 12:05 PM

metsguyinmichigan wrote: 4) "Stolen" Dashboard Confessional I'm not necessarily a fan, but I love this song. I'm actually surprised it didn't come up in my top 20.

Kong76 Feb 14 2008 02:34 PM

AG: >>>No huh-way<<< Ok, so it's my top ten most played on my Ozzy playlist. Hellraiser is a great ipod song. Zakk rules. Hehheh, he said hell ... hehheh

Mr. Zero Feb 14 2008 02:51 PM

"Living a Lie" The dbs "Walk On" Neil Young "From a Window to a Scream" The dbs "Ask For Jill" The dbs "The Ballad of El Goodo" Big Star "Happenstance" The dbs "Amplifier" The dbs "Introduction" James Brown (Live at the Apollo) ?! "Fool to Cry" Rolling Stones "Back to the Lake" Guided by Voices Weird thing those dbs songs were last played in 2005.

AG/DC Feb 14 2008 03:04 PM

A dbs fanatic! Right here in our very midst! I saw the deebs open for Lou in 1984. I wish I could remember much about them. I think it was about the time they were closest to making it, with a single called "Love Is for Lovers" in modest rotation here and there.

Mr. Zero Feb 14 2008 03:34 PM

During that "Love is For Lovers" period I remember them pulling out a fine version of "Suspicious Minds" for the encore. I probably last saw them in 05. They seem to regroup for a couple shows every year or two, that is, when Peter Holsapple is not busy playing sideman for REM or (yikes!) Hootie and the Blowfish. Need a gift for a new baby? http://www.cafepress.com/thedbsshop.15463851

metsguyinmichigan Feb 14 2008 05:28 PM

Accidental double post...

metirish Mar 05 2008 12:01 PM

Missus bought me the new iPod touch 32GIG for my birthday...it's just an amazing gizmo. From the 'Top 25 Most Played' here is my new Top Ten Aslan - This Is The Pogues - Hells Ditch - great , great song. Erasure - Blue Savannah Tom Waits - Hang Down Your Head Husker Du- Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely An Emotional Fish - Celebrate Flogging Molly - Devil's Dance Floor Dead Kennedy's - Holiday In Cambodia The Smiths - This Charming Man The Highwaymen - The Highwaymen

Number 6 Mar 06 2008 12:51 PM

1. Things Behind the Sun - Nick Drake 2. Double Rocker - Stereolab 3. Comfort Eagle - Cake 4. Hi-Fi - M. Ward 5. No One Will Ever Love You - The Magnetic Fields 6. Doctor Worm - They Might Be Giants 7. Like Dylan in the Movies - Belle & Sebastian 8. Commissioning a Symphony in C - Cake 9. Honey, Can I Count On You - Ian Thomas 10. Rhumba Flamenco - The Chick Corea New Trio 11. How Can I Live Without You - Cracker 12. Fresh Feeling - Eels 13. Lauren's Lullaby - Kyle Corbett 14. Here Comes The Sun Again - M. Ward 15. I Think I Need a New Heart - The Magnetic Fields

Number 6 Mar 06 2008 12:54 PM

metirish wrote: Tom Waits - Hang Down Your Head Just taught myself the guitar part for that 2 nights ago. Great song.

metirish Mar 06 2008 01:01 PM

Oh very cool, really great guitar in that.

AG/DC Mar 06 2008 01:01 PM

Agreed. I just can't get the phlegm part down.

Number 6 Mar 06 2008 01:08 PM

AG/DC wrote: Agreed. I just can't get the phlegm part down. Yeah, that's the problem with learning Tom Waits songs. They're never quite complete without the phlegm.

Triple Dee Apr 26 2008 06:45 AM

I was going to start a new thread asking everybody to post their iTunes Top 25 Most Played Songs, but thought I should check in case my idea wasn't as original as I thought. Well, it wasn't -- here's my list; 1. Estranged (Guns N Roses) 2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pink Floyd) 3. Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty) 4. Dream On (Aerosmith) 5. Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap (AC/DC) 6. Layla (Derek and the Dominos) 7. Hey Hey What Can I Do (Led Zeppelin) 8. Skateaway (Dire Straits) 9. Shoot to Thrill (AC/DC) 10. New York (Eskimo Joe) 11. Rapper’s Delight (Sugarhill Gang) 12. November Rain (Guns N Roses) 13. Mr Brightside (The Killers) 14. Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) 15. Read My Mind (The Killers) 16. Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zeppelin) 17. Fuck Tha Police (NWA/DJ Shadow) 18. Lifetime Piling Up (Talking Heads) 19. Hate This Place (Goo Goo Dolls) 20. Expresso Love (Dire Straits) 21. Shout to the Top (The Style Council) 22. C.R.E.A.M (Wu-Tang Clan) 23. Girlfriend Is Better (Live) (Talking Heads) 24. Digging Your Scene (The Blow Monkeys) 25. Stages (ZZ Top)

TheOldMole Apr 26 2008 05:46 PM

This list is weird even for me. I haven't been using my iPod much lately, so this is from my Ampache music organizer, and I'm not sure what time period it covers. She's Funny That Way - Art Farmer Simple Twist of Fate - Dylan Moanin' - Art Farmer Unchained Melody - Al Hibbler St. Louis Blues - Jimmy Witherspoon and Ben Webster Duncan and Brady - Dave Van Ronk Please Send Me Someone to Love - Percy Mayfield After the Lights Go Down Low - Al Hibbler Round Midnight - Miles Davis

TheOldMole Apr 26 2008 05:55 PM

Favorite artists from the same source 1. [31] - Bob Dylan 2. [19] - Dave Van Ronk 3. [19] - Art Farmer 4. [16] - Sarah Vaughan 5. [14] - Unknown (Orphaned) 6. [14] - Miles Davis 7. [10] - Charlie Parker 8. [09] - Bill Monroe & the Bluegr... 9. [07] - Ry Cooder 10. [07] - Ian & Sylvia