Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Yet Another iTunes Meme

I got this one from Keith R.A. DeCandido; as usual, when I'm feeling lazy, I can go over to his LJ and find that he's posted a dozen times -- and at least one of those has something I can steal appropriate for my own purposes.

First Ten Songs playing on iTunes after hitting "shuffle":
  1. "Kronos Unveiled" by Michael Giacchino, from The Incredibles soundtrack
  2. "I Remember California" by R.E.M.
  3. "I'm That!" by The Mendoza Line
  4. "Horn Intro" by Modest Mouse
  5. "All The Love" by Kate Bush
  6. "Badman" by Psychedelic Furs
  7. "Jealous Guy" by Roxy Music
  8. "Mister Pleasant" by The Kinks
  9. "Hey You" by Pink Floyd
  10. "Seal My Fate" by Belly
(If I did it on the playlist I'm actually listening to most of the time now, the songs would be:
  1. "Tourists In Our Hometown" by We Are Soldiers We Have Guns
  2. "Teen Angst (Live)" by Cracker
  3. "Matadora" by Cordero
  4. "It's Hard To Run Uphill On Stilts" by The Deathray Davies
  5. "Totale Paranoia" by Prototypes
  6. "Sun A.M." by Moonbabies
  7. "I Used To Complain Now I Don't" by White Rabbits
  8. "Fly Trapped In a Jar" by Modest Mouse
  9. "Helix Nebula" by Anamaguchi
  10. "Sonic Boom" by Andy Partridge
On my iTunes can be found:
17,694 songs -- 48 days, 5 hours, 33 minutes and 58 seconds of continuous music.

Most represented artist: Elvis Costello, with 747 songs and about 41 hours (plus another 116 songs from seven artists, each "Elvis Costello & {foo}")

Second most represented artist: Tom Waits, with 396 songs -- one day and twelve minutes. (Third is The Kinks, then Bruce Springsteen, Richard Thompson, and They Might Be Giants.)

Top 10 most played songs: (Since my sons have been on a huge Fountains of Wayne kick for about the past two years, all of their play counts are skewed. I'll list the #1 song, and then ignore them -- otherwise, FoW has the top eleven...and 17 out of the top 20...and 24 out of the top 30...and so on.)
  1. "Maureen" by Fountains of Wayne
  2. "To the Dogs Or Whoever" by Josh Ritter
  3. "My Rights Versus Yours" by The New Pornographers
  4. "Wall of Death" by R.E.M.
  5. "Satin In a Coffin" by Modest Mouse
  6. "Easy" by The Arrogants
  7. "Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)" by R.E.M.
  8. "Don't Drop the Baby" by The Judybats
  9. "Nothing Burns Like Bridges" by Penny Century
  10. "Authenticity" by Harvey Danger

2 comments:

Natalie said...

Richard Thompson's "Wall of Death"? I have John Wesley Harding doing that one, and it's quite nice.

Unknown said...

My iPod also probably has more Elvis Costello than anything else. Sometimes on shuffle you get three of them in a row…

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