Entertainment For Lively Minds
3 Most popular tunes on your ipod
Posted by clivetemple on 19 December 2010 - 5:12pm.
Just click on the playcount column in itunes...
Mudfootball (Live) - Jack Johnson
Richest Man In Babylon - Thievery Corporation
Paper Planes - MIA
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Skimming past
all my wife's rubbish:
Staple Singers - If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)
Rolling Stones - Let It Loose
Boards Of Canada - Roygbiv
Casa Malo votes as follows
John Coltrane - Say it (Over & Over Again)
Nick Cave - Let It Be
Bill Kirchen - Sleepwalk
These surprised me a little
1st. Low - Just Like Christmas (gets *very* heavy play chez Umpire every festive season)
2nd. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
=3rd. Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill
=3rd. Elbow - One Day Like This
=3rd. New Order - Blue Monday
I Guess I Must Like The Nines
Don't Be A Fool-The Nines
Monotony's Song-The Nines
Virginia-The Nines
This Just In From Last.fm due to scrobbling from spotify
Number 2 is now Lost Without Your Love-Bread
Number 3 is now Final Form-Everything Everything
Fun fun fun
1. We Are The People - Empire Of The Sun
2. Ineffable - Paddy McAloon
3. I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More* - Pet Shop Boys
* Best song title e.v.a.h.
Chez the 009's...
... it's :
K T Tunstall - The Other Side Of The World
ColdPlay - Viva La Vida
Deacon Blue - Your Swaying Arms
The next 20 were all of Trout Mask Replica, XTC and John Grant, honest.
Here Come the Girls.......
1/ Cuckoo by Lissie
2/ The Way I Feel by Mary Chapin Carpenter
3/ My Idea of Heaven by Leigh Nash
Shocking outcome...
1. Different Light - Steve Winwood
2. What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted? - Chris Farlowe
3. Say It To Me Now - Christina Kukulundis
Please Sir, I think my ipod must be broken!
Surprisingly, no Abba (clearly an oversight)
new iPod a few weeks old and haven't loaded a huge amount on yet - but the top three:
1) Like The Ocean, Like The Innocent Parts 1&2 - The Besnard Lakes
2) Next Time Around - Sandy Denny
3) Winds of Change - Jerry Moore
Sex / Sex, drugs and rock and roll / Drugs
1. Delicatessen - Bad Dog
2. Jane's Addiction - Three Days
3. Gas Giants - Too Stoned
Have an up..
for Gas Giant. I've only recently started exploring 'Stoner Rock' but I'm loving it so far. I have this track on the High Volume compilation.
Smile Jamaica
1. Down By The Train Line - Stranger & Patsy
2. Cry Tough - Alton Ellis
3. Let Us Do Something - Joe Higgs
Mine
Based on iTunes count from last March when I got my new 'puter.
1. At The Indie Disco - Divine Comedy
2. Black Winged Bird
3. The Commander Thinks Aloud
Nothing more recent than 1967
1 You Lie So Well - Marie Knight
2 I Can't Help It - Smokey Johnson
3= She Moves Me - Johnny "Guitar" Watson
3= When You're Young And In Love - Ruby & The Romantics
3= Hit, Git And Split - Young Jessie
My pod and itunes are nearly always on shuffle, so I guess this must be fairly representative of my collection. Have to say I really like them all.
I didn't expect that
1. Archangel - Burial
2. Don't Give It Up - Siobhan Donaghy
3. Cosmia - Joanna Newsome
Kudos for no. 2 - great
Kudos for no. 2 - great track & great album.
Thank you
As a matter of fact I pre-ordered it after hearing the title track on a Word Magazine CD. I think I may have acquired the Burial album after an intriguing Word review too.
This.
1) Lake Charles - Lucinda Williams.
2) Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt.
3) Many Rivers To Cross - Jimmy Cliff.
Strangely this is not what I would have predicted.
While I have it open
1. Germ Free Adolescents/X Ray Spex (206 plays!)
2. Scarborough Fair/Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (196)
3. Les Papillons Noir/Michele Arnaud & Serge Gainsbourg (164)
Mines a relatively new laptop so...
Don't Stop - Owen Pallett
Ready to Start - Arcade Fire
Angela Surf City - The Walkmen
Three from me
My iPod is almost exactly one year old.
All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast - Bill Callaham
Crying Lightning - Arctic Monkeys
Starry Eyed - Ellie Goulding
Last 12 months:
Tory Y Moi - Imprint After
Lusine - Push
Autechre - r ess
Top 3
Incarcerated Scarfaces - Raekwon
Rain - The Beatles
VCR - The XX
Ha.
Hardly surprising:
1: Your Little Hoodrat Friend by The Hold Steady
2: Banging Camp by The Hold Steady
3: Yellow Submarine by The Beatles (gets put on in the car a lot!)
Top 3 in the last couple of months
Initial B.B. - Serge Gainsbourg
If the world should end in ice - The Handsome Family
Magic Trick - M.Ward
According to last.fm
Another Sunny Day - Belle & Sebastian
There Is A Light that Never Goes Out - The Divine Comedy
The Old Man's Back Again - Scott Walker
That's a lovely version of
"There is a light...", isn't it? Stand-out track on the album I reckon, he really makes it his own. Although Billy Bragg's sleazy, desperate take on "Never Had No One Ever" gives it a good run for it's money.
Me...
Susan Boyle featuring Venom - In League With Satan
Westlife - The Gates of Delerium
Rolf Harris and Blackout Crew - Two Little Donks
The Gates of Delerium? Is
The Gates of Delerium? Is that 'Part I' or 'Part II (Sodomy)'?
Not sure...
but when they get to the "Soon" bit they're up off those stools like you wouldn't believe.
Westlife. Stools.
There's a gag in that somewhere. If only I could put my finger on it.
putting your finger
on it - or Heaven forfend - in it, is the last thing you'd want I suspect
I think I like Boards Of Canada a lot
1) Kaini Industries - Bibio (cover of the Boards Of Canada tune)
2) Stampede - The Scarlets
3) Seven Forty Seven - Boards Of Canada
All instrumentals as well. There isn't a song with words till track nine which is "Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead by Akron/Family.
My 3
Johnny Was - Bob Marley and the Wailers
No.2 (Romance) from 5 Bagatelles - Gerald Finzi (Northern Sinfonia/Robert Plane)
Canadee-I-O - Nic Jones
From the last year only
as my IPOD wiped off half my library so had to start again:-
Hurt - Alabama 3
Gloria - Them
Chicken Payback - The Bees
Escapism
1. original theme from Robinson Crusoe - Franco London Orchestra
2. Journey - Duncan Browne
3. This Precious Time - Barry McGuire
4. Ticket to Ride - the Beatles
5. I Move Around - Lee Hazlewood
I fell asleep listening to
Richard Hawley's Lady's Bridge.
In first place 'Valentine' with 61 plays
in equal second 'Roll River Roll' and 'Serious' and 'Tonight The Streets Are Ours' with 60 plays each.
You get the picture!
It must have been a weekend and the good old Ipod kept on going until the battery died.
Confession
I actually cheated with my post because the top one was Gorillaz Kids with Guns with 118 plays but that is because 116 of them were when it was left on repeat through the night for some strange reason. I think Valentine on repeat would be a preferred choice.
HJH
1 Getting Better
2 Fixing A Hole
3 She's Leaving Home
My kids love Sgt Pepper, especially Getting Better, which accounts for this list.
More HJH
These are actually mainly due to my GLW
1. She's leaving home (133)
2. Here comes the sun (132)
3. Yes - McAlmont and Butler (124)
Though I have contributed to the playcount, particularly here comes the sun, it is hard to know what it would be for me alone though I suspect top might be A little Deeper by Ms Dynamite (97) and uptown Top ranking (67)
Most popular and yet I haven't played any since mid November...
1. "Ragtime Mice" - Sandra Kerr / John Faulkner (Bagpuss soundtrack)
2. "Vatican Broadside" - Half Man Half Biscuit
3. "I am a missile" - Kingsize Five
Ah
1. HMHB - National Shite Day
2. MJ Hibbett and the Validators - Hey Hey 16k
3. Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday.
Um.
I'm always on shuffle too, so...
1) Song For Bob Dylan - David Bowie
2) Something To Say - Joe Cocker
3) Forever Young - Bob Dylan
4) World Of Swirl - ZZ Top
5) Don't Keep Me Wonderin' [Live] - The Allman Brothers Band
The MGMT track has had a silly number of plays!
1. Of Moons Birds & Monsters - MGMT
2. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
3. Check The Meaning - Richard Ashcroft
The MGMT track has had a silly number of plays!
1. Of Moons Birds & Monsters - MGMT
2. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
3. Check The Meaning - Richard Ashcroft
MGMT
That's my favourite MGMT track. Have an up.
ok
with the sun in my eyes-bee gees
ramblin man-hank williams
blackwaterside-anne briggs
In the last 12 months
Hard drive died a year ago, so had to rescue and re-import everything, losing all previous play count info, so results are slightly skewed:
1) From Above - Ben Folds & Nick Hornby
2) Down In The Street Below - The Divine Comedy
3) 15 Step - Radiohead
Like Cadabra
I've had a couple of hard-drive deaths and assorted Windows based shenannigans over the past 3 or 4 years so the totals only cover the past 20 months or so.
1. Wilco (the song) - Wilco (Don't know why, not even my favourite Wilco song!)
2. Stephen - David Ford
3. Spain - Kristin Hersh
Mine are:
"Used" by Truman (great US raaaawk song: try the album 'Payne Avenue': 54
"I Fought The Law" by The Clash: 52
"Portions For Foxes" by Rilo Kiley: 51
4th place is The Smiths with "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" and in 5th is Badfinger with "No Matter What." John Martyn's "Just Now" is 6th.
Blimey -
apart from a lullaby medley thing that was played twice a day for a few months for the pup I've only got nine tracks that have made double figures and they're all from The Hazards of Love by the Decemberists. So it's Wager All, the Queen's Approach and the Rake's Song here.
Wager All...
...is eye-leakingly lovely. We might have had this conversation before. I don't care.
HMHB
Top 3 all by the genius of Half Man Half Biscuit
1.Joy Division Oven Gloves (119 plays)
2.We Built This City On A Trad Arr Tune (104)
3.Bogus Official (102)
Pretty surprised at how popular the Live at NYC CD has been...
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland (Live NYC '99)
The Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
From the last computer change around 18 months ago...
And ignoring Mrs W's fixation with David Guetta and Rhianna:
Cole's Corner - Richard Hawley
Stuck Between Stations - The Hold Steady
The '59 Sound - The Gaslight Anthem
My 3
Yolanda - Bobby Bland
Another Park, Another Sunday - Doobie Brothers
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
I listen to albums
As I usually listen to whole albums so the first 10 songs (about 30 plays each) are all from Don't Hurry For Heaven by Devon Sproule and the next 14 are by God Help The Girl (about 20 plays each). Perhaps I shouldn't be playing this game.
Seems as good a place to start as any
Long time lurker, first time nailing my colours to the mast.
No other half disclaimer, no guilty pleasures, just deleriously noisy car journeys.
Shut up and Drive - Rihanna
Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow
One Day in Your Life - Anastacia
and an honourable mention to Wild Boys lurking at number 4.
welcome to you, ace.
- Wild Boys by Duran Duran or the Richard Thompson b side? (just kidding).
Fullness of Wind
Fullness of Wind - Brian Eno ( Not a medical complaint but rather my favourite ambient number)
1/1 - Brian Eno
Breathless - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
There were lots of other ambient tracks in there too. What can I say? I like to relax.
Two expected, one surprise
1. Sharades - Dumb Head
2. The Pale Fountains - Bicycle Thieves
3. Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
I'm actually not that keen on the third of those...
Joint first: 1. Spirit of
Joint first:
1. Spirit of Radio - Rush
1. Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins
Joint third:
3. Fast Approaching - Gordon Giltrap
3. Rosalie - Thin Lizzy
3. Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy
3. Mercy - The Third Degree
Mind you, I did lose my iTunes library a couple of months ago and all the play counts got reset to zero. It hasn't really settled into a true most popular playlisting yet...
pretty predictable
1. Joanna Newsome - Good Intentions Paving Company
2. Belle and Sebastian - The State That I am In
3. Byrne/Eno - Home
That's odd....
...no Canterbury?
1. Can - Mushroom
2. Procul Harum - Pandora's Box
3. Sparklehorse - Happy Man