Entertainment For Lively Minds
Enough
with the randomizing (sorry, tinkerbell). Every time I try this, I get the band of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders or some god-awful yodelling that I ill-advisedly bought on holiday or the Chris de Burgh song (you know the one) that was track no.16 in an Eighties compilation album. But I can walk away from these things, because actually: wife bought the CD / hardly ever play it / was emotional at the time. This will not do - It's time to show some responsibilty:
Your top five most-played songs.
No place to hide, you played them. Also, I propose that anyone listing 5 different artists is trying to impress us with the breadth of their completely non-obsessional musical interests and is therefore fibbing.
OK, I'll start:
1 Beirut: 'Elephant Gun' (Lon Gisland EP) - best video ever
2 Stars: 'Ageless Beauty'
3 Beirut: 'The Penalty' (The Flying Club Cup)
4 Asobi Seksu: 'Thursday' (Citrus)
5 Boo Hewerdine: 'Patience of Angels' (Harmonograph) - also from a previous Word CD
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Last.FM says...
1. Burial - Archangel
2. Brian Eno - By This River
3. Burial - Ghost Hardware
4. The Accidental - Knock Knock
5. Burial - Etched Headplate
a pretty melancholic set there....
If this isn't treading on anyone's toes, here goes:
1. I've Been Everywhere/Hank Snow. 50 plays and I can still only sing half of the first verse.
2. Thunder On The Mountain/Bob Dylan. When Modern Times came out, I played it more times than was strictly healthy. 44 plays and I'm still not bored of this song.
3. Nine Pound Steel/Joe Simon. I was introduced to this by Dylan's radio show and I just can't get enough of it. The genius of Dan Penn. 42 plays.
4. In My Room/The Beach Boys. 33 plays. Surely, as perfect as songs get.
5. When The Deal Goes Down/Bob Dylan. 30 plays. See 2.
This is a great idea for a thread, by the way.
Filtering out the GLW's stuff...
We Have....
Heart as Big as Liverpool - The Mighty Wah!
Takin' on the World - Amsterdam
Feels Like Growin' Up - Amsterdam
Stuck Between Stations - The Hold Steady
Raid The Palace - Pele
Very Liverpool-centric and confirms my deep love of the Ian Prowse oeuvre.
Amsterdam. Acoustic Tent. Glastonbury. On the Sunday. Be there.
Top Five
1. The Funeral - Band of Horses
2. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
3. Banquet - Bloc Party
4. Lover You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
5. Dream Brother - Jeff Buckley
five most played, five great tracks
1. Long Distance - Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
2. Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
3. Backstreets - Bruce Springsteen
4. Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones
5. Tempted - Squeeze
Well I have a new pc so none have that many plays
1. Late - Ben Folds
2. Wake Up In New York - Craig Armstrong
3. Staralfur - Sigur Ros
4. Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros
5. Haven't We Met Before - Paul Hartnoll
Fiver
Beirut - Nantes
Steve Earle - I thought You Should Know
Robert Petway - Catfish Blues
Rev Gary Davis - I Belong to the Band Hallelujah
Old Crowe Medicine Show - James River Blues
According to last.fm...
...
Midlake - Roscoe
The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene
Talking Heads - The Lady Don't Mind
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - New San Antonio Rose
The Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend.
What a corking selection
'Roscoe' NEVER gets tired.
My iPod's always on Shuffle, so...
...my 5 most played would be just as random as my 5 most recently played. Nice idea, but doesn't mean anything on my iPod.
not at all what I expected
Camera Obscura - I Love My Jean
Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough
Ben Watt - Pop a Cap in Yo Ass
Amerie - One Thing
Annie - Heartbeat
but all crackers right enough
Top Five
1. Tumbling Dice - The Stones
2. Gimme Shelter - The Stones
3. Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
4. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
5. Working Man's Blues - Merle Haggard
According to Last FM
Merle Haggard
Good call. Some of James Burton's greatest playing.
Top 5
Girls Aloud - Call The Shots
Half Man Half Biscuit - Vatican Broadside (probably because it's so short it needs repeated listening)
Lethal Bizzle - Police On My Back
AC/DC - Back in Black (live)
Jenny Lewis - The Big Guns
(mainly) acoustic and maudlin
1. Martyn Joseph - Kindness
2. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Killing The Blues
3. Peter Bruntnell - Ghost In A Spitfire
4. Denison Witmer - Finding Your Feet Again
5. The Waterboys - You In The Sky
Ghost In A Spitfire
Love this song great atmosphere, Joe Brown does a version of Killing The Blues which is at least the equal to the great Plant/Krausse version.
A little bit obscure
Deerhoof - +81 (Friend Opportunity)
Can - Moonshake (Future Days)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Post Office (Wire Tapper CD)
Phillip Bimstein - EatDrinkGambleSex (Wire Tapper CD)
Sticky White Glue: Rectify - Ergo Phizmiz (Wire Tapper CD)
Came about as a result of trying to put together a too-clever-by-half playlist and getting it wrong over and over again...
A Rocking Selection
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
Travelling Riverside Blues - Led Zep
Happy Alone - Kings Of Leon
Sheep - Pink Floyd
Immigrant Song - Led Zep
Can anyone beat this?
I read on a list the other day that a lady had played Steve Forberts "Song For The South" 429 times!!!!
This is according to the stats on her ipod.
I've been listening to music as often as I possibly can for the best part of my 50 years and I can't imagine I've ever heard any song more than 30 or 40 times.
429? Pshaw ...
Have a browse around last.fm. There are plenty of users who have listened to their favourite tracks more than that. A brief scout found me someone whose profile shows nearly 5,000 listens to their favourite track (here). Although it's possible that it's just a player on continuously, and that there isn't a person actually listening to much of it.
But, no I don't understand that many listens either.
I would have contended that anyone with 5 different artists wasn't necessarily making things up, but now I see that I also have a repeated artist so clearly anyone who doesn't is lying.
1. Muse - Map of the Problematique (57 plays)
2. Queens of the Stone Age - In the Fade (50)
3. Goldfrapp - Number 1 (45)
4. Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow (31)
5. Hurricane #1 - Remote Control (29)
(Stats courtesy of last.fm, starting from 16 Jan 2007)
First five
Last Goodbye | Jeff Buckley | Mystery White Boy (Live Japan bonus CD type thing)
What You're Doing | The Beatles | The Beatles for Sale
Ain't too proud to beg | The Rolling Stones | It's Only Rock'n'Roll
The Picture | Loudon Wainwright III | History
Bled | Elliott Smith | XO
...and that as they say, is that.
Just Can´t Get Enough
Arcadian Driftwood - The Band
Deomocracy - Leonard Cohen ( it´s the military drum bit )
Paranoid Android - The Radiodread version , not Thom Yorke
Let Down - Toots Mayall, from the same album, making OK Computer fun to listen to
Draggin´the Line - Tommy James and the Shondells
do i like califone...?
yes, it appears I do rather
Califone - three-legged animals
Luna - 23 minutes in brussels
Kraftwerk - neon lights
Teenage Fanclub - discolite
Califone - when leon spinks moved to town
Disordered list
A per the shuffle on my iPod:
Disorder - Joy Division - Live at Preston 28 Feb 1980
House of Dread - Dreadzone
Smiling Stranger - John Martyn
Electric Guitar - Talking Heads
Sunship Balloons - The Flaming Lips
However, according to my Most Played playlist on iTunes, my taste in music is completely different:
1. Seven Days of Falling - EST (Esbjorn Svensson Trio) (41 plays)
2. Francesca - Roy Harper (34 plays - not even my favourite Harper song!)
3. The Face of Love - EST (again, with 30 plays)
4. Wicked Game - Chris Isaak (29 plays)
5. Coles Corner - Richard Hawley (28 plays)