Entertainment For Lively Minds
It's not the records you put on, it's the records you don't take off
Posted by David Hepworth on 8 July 2009 - 8:26am.
The Play Count on my iTunes at home says this is the tune I've played most in the last year. That's not the same as saying it's the one I've chosen to play. I think it means that when it pops up I leave it on. That's a test of a kind, isn't it? I never would have guessed that this would have been top of my chart:
Other uppers, downers and hanging-arounders near the top of my list included "Killing Him" by Amy Lavere, the Blind Boys of Alabama doing "Way Down In The Hole", "That's How I Got To Memphis" by Mount Analog and Mahler's Adagietto.
What are yours? No cheating. Just hit play count and see what it tells you.
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I'm [clearly] not the only one with access to my iTunes
as top of the play count is 'Shine' by Take That.
'You Never Can Tell' by Chuck Berry is next.
This leads to the obvious question -
Where is the Randomizer?
Both of them are perfect...
...in their own way.
Surprising
'Vatican Broadside' by Half Man Half Biscuit (probably because it's 30 seconds long)
'Black Sand' by Jenny Lewis
'Picture Book' by The Kinks (it's my two year old daughter's favourite song)
'The Shock of The Lightning' Oasis (no surprises there)
I see a pattern emerging here...
(1) John Martyn - One Day Without You
(2) John Martyn - Some People Are Crazy
(3) John Martyn - Sweet Little Mystery
(4) John Martyn - Bless The Weather
(5) Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
I never set my iPod to 'random', so these are simply the songs I've played the most.
I think on reflection
you'll feel you've let yourself down with number five. Couldn't you have squeezed in "Certain Surprise"? Otherwise, fine work indeed.
Nah... I love Radiohead.
I'm happy that's there.
Eclectic
I was dancing in a lesbian bar - Jonathan Richman
This piano has been drinking - Tom Waits
Ali Baba - John Holt
Goodnight - Easyworld
I've no idea why these four keep popping up out of about 4000 on my itunes. I thought maybe I'd accidentally 'rated' them but it seems not.
I can't skip through them now, or else I'd deny them their chance to top the chart. But i'm happy to listen to any of them anyway.
From 19/6/09
On iTunes simply highlight all the tracks on your 25 Most Played playlist, right click and select copy. Then paste into a Word document and insert spaces to make it readable.
Title: Magic Running time: 3:27 Artist: Ladyhawke Album: Ladyhawke Genre: Pop Play count: 13 Last played: 18/06/2009 15:19
Followed The Waves 4:49 Auf Der Maur Auf Der Maur Goth 12 19/05/2009 22:32
The Day The World Went Away 4:34 Nine Inch Nails The Fragile - Disc 1 Industrial 11 18/06/2009 15:53
Ænema 6:40 Tool Ænima Progressive Metal 11 18/06/2009 15:59
Fait Accompli 4:13 Curve The Way Of Curve 1990/2004 - Disc 1 Trip Hop 10 03/04/2009 17:50
The Unbearable Lightness of Buildings 5:42 The Long Blondes "Couples" Pop 10 18/06/2009 15:32
Great DJ 3:23 The Ting Tings Singles EP Pop 10 20/03/2009 07:45
Pigs In Zen 4:33 Jane's Addiction Up From The Catacombs Hard Rock 9 03/04/2009 17:15
Heart And Soul 5:50 Joy Division The Best Of Joy Division Rock 9 30/04/2009 08:29
My Delirium 4:16 Ladyhawke Ladyhawke Pop 9 01/06/2009 17:07
Wish You Were Here 4:24 Rasputina The Lost And Found 2nd Edition Goth 9 18/06/2009 15:23
Last Year's Troubles 3:35 Suzanne Vega Songs In Red And Gray Singer-Songwriter 9 18/06/2009 15:43
Fruit Machine 2:25 The Ting Tings Singles EP Pop 9 19/03/2009 18:07
Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann) - Rosetta Stoned 14:58 Tool 10,000 Days Progressive Metal 9 27/05/2009 17:02
It's Alright 3:26 Echo & The Bunnymen More Songs To Learn And Sing Rock 8 18/06/2009 14:51
The Promise 4:07 Girls Aloud Out Of Control Pop 8 03/06/2009 08:17
6ft Down Blues 3:55 Kula Shaker Strangefolk Rock 8 18/06/2009 15:13
Professional Suicide 3:43 Ladyhawke Ladyhawke Pop 8 16/06/2009 00:10
The Future 6:42 Leonard Cohen The Essential Leonard Cohen - Disc 2 Goth 8 02/06/2009 08:44
Dance, Dance, Dance 3:41 Lykke Li Youth Novels Pop 8 15/06/2009 18:27
Time Flies 3:21 Lykke Li Youth Novels Pop 8 19/06/2009 09:25
Any Way That You Want Me (Spiritualized) 6:28 Michael Andrews Me And You And Everyone We Know Instrumental 8 18/06/2009 16:06
Passive 4:10 A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe Heavy Metal 8 18/06/2009 15:40
Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythem of the War Drums 5:36 A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe Heavy Metal 8 18/06/2009 15:09
Hey Pretty (Drive By Remix) 3:46 Poe Haunted Singer-Songwriter 8 18/06/2009 14:55
Or
unreadable
See this is why I don't bother posting much anymore.
Top Ten
Never in the field of ... etc. have so few songs been listened to so many times. Have apparently listened to Woman in a Bar 154 times over the last three years. That's nearly ten hours worth of just that song. Still not bored with it.
Woman In A Bar Lloyd Cole
I Am Not Willing Lloyd Cole
Lloyd, I`m Ready To Be Heartbroken Camera Obscura
The Young Idealists Lloyd Cole
Let's Get Out of This Country Camera Obscura
NYC Sunshine Lloyd Cole
Impossible Girl Lloyd Cole
What's Wrong With This Picture? Lloyd Cole
See That Girl Kirsty MacColl
Tears For Affairs Camera Obscura
Variety, Spice of Life, etc
1. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Vocal)
2. Mexican Institute of Sound - Alcatel
3. Squeeze - Up The Junction
4. Townes van Zandt - Pancho & Lefty
5. Dirty Diggers - So Grown Up (feat. Nostalgia 77)
Bang up to date as usual
Since 2006:
I've Been Everywhere/Hank Snow (59)
Nine Pound Steel/Joe Simon (56)
Thunder On The Mountain/Bob Dylan (48)
I'm Movin' On/The Box Tops (45)
People Get Ready/The Everly Brothers (42)
Gentle On My Mind/Glen Campbell (42)
I Can't Stop (No, No, No)/Arthur Conley (40)
In My Room/The Beach Boys (40)
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)/Aretha Franklin (38)
Shut Down/The Beach Boys (38)
There is an explanation, I think
This is iTunes, not my iPod.
I think this was strongly influenced by my hours listening to choices for some music at my daughter's wedding! (apart from Nick Lowe, I hope)
Nils Lofgren / Valentine
Turtles / Happy Together
Daniel Wylie / That Was The Day
Amen Corner / (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice
Love Affair / Everlasting Love
Nick Lowe / Hope For Us All
Don't use Itunes
so this is from last FM.
1 Bettye Swann – Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye 32
2 John Cale – All My Friends (John Cale's Version) 30
3 School of Seven Bells – White Elephant Coat 29
3 Air France – June evenings 29
5 Elbow – Running To Stand Still full track 23
6 Groove Armada – Come Back Home 22
7 Delphic – submission 21
8 The Byrds – She Don't Care About Time 18
8 School of Seven Bells – Half Asleep 18
10 The Joy Formidable – Austere free download 17
My phone which some of this scrobble data comes from seems to think the most played track is "Some sentences for the death of Queen Mary II- (1695) the Queens funeral March (procession) by Purcell" (otherwise known as the one of Clockwork orange with the drums).
Top 5
Army Dreamers - Kate Bush
People Ain't No Good - Nick Cave
Sacred Heart - Mark Eitzel
We Will Rock You - Queen (didn't see that coming)
Flight Recorder - De Rosa (nor that)
I recently reset itunes.
Currently in first place with six plays is Richard Youngs' Sonar In My Soul.
Topping my last.fm with 50 listens is I Hear Your Heart Singing by The Gun Club.
Mine
May i start off by saying i like your 10 Lucas.
I make compilations and let them play rather Albums so my selection includes the tracks i use the most in my mixtapes.
Fever- Horace Andy (number 1 by a mile)
Swing Easy- The Soul Vendors
It Can't Be True- Eddie Holman
Love,Love,Love- Webb Pierce
Sad And Beautiful World- Sparklehorse
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby-Little Eva ('er Indoors loves this)
Oh No Not My Baby- Maxine Brown
Droppin' it- The Bizzie Boys (thought this would be number 2)
Walk On By Me - Lula Reed
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction- Mongo Santamaria (Climbing fast)
For those who don't know the Horace Andy Track
Mine
1. Just Because You Can't Be Mine - Bettye Swann
2. Lonesome Road - Rosewood Thieves
3. The Great Escape - Patrick Watson
4. Victor Jara's Hands - Calexico
5. Sympathize - Amos Lee
Good old Bettye Swann...
...is doing well within the Massive ranks.
Top 3
The Funeral - Band of Horses
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
Dream Brother - Jeff Buckley
Played more than 8 times........
Hallelujah The Hills Hallelujah The Hills 15
Cockle Shell King Creosote 14
Twin Cinema The New Pornographers 13
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) The Proclaimers 12
Nooks King Creosote 11
Daddy's Gone (single version) Glasvegas 10
Back Of My Hand The Jags 10
Surrender Cheap Trick 9
Big Yellow Taxi Joni Mitchell 9
When Doves Cry Prince 9
Let Me In R.E.M. 9
Bright Eyes Art Garfunkel 8
From A Late Night Train The Blue Nile 8
Drunk By Noon The Handsome Family 8
Foundations Kate Nash 8
Island Of Lost Lucy's Keene Brothers (Robert Pollard) 8
There's None Of That King Creosote 8
No Myth Michael Penn 8
Listen To The Band The Monkees 8
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 8
Rock Of Gibraltar Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 8
The Original Heart Robert Pollard 8
Guiding Star Teenage Fanclub 8
I refer the honourable member to my earlier answer
I pretty much only use iTunes as a storage system and so would get same ranking as on the 'Pod itself, and Bach's rewrite of a Marcello oboe concerto would still have a commanding lead:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/most-played-ipod
although Watermark has dropped out as I reloaded it in lossless form, and a bit of Finzi has taken its place.
Glad to hear you like the Mahler Adagietto, I was recently unexpectedly transfixed by last bit of the Song of the Earth while walking along
couldn't switch that off.
My most played
In McDonalds by Burial. It was unexpected, but its been top for ages, possibly because it fits into so many playlists
Bon Foxes
Well, I'm just looking at my player's 'most played' category as I don't have iTunes (I'm a Creative Zen Vision man). And the entire thing was reset early last summer, which may explain the following:
Blindsided - Bon Iver
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Lump Sum - Bon Iver
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
I'll Haunt You - Seth Lakeman
Meadowlarks - Fleet Foxes
What's this? - Teddy Thompson
Ragged Wood - Fleet Foxes
Top 5
Never Be Lonely 3:32 The Feeling
I Want You Now 3:47 The Feeling
Baby I`m-A Want You 2:26 Bread
Lost Without Your Love 2:53 Bread
Missing The War 4:20 Ben Folds Five
I am such a moron
I am such a moron that the top of my 25 Most Played i-tunes list is My Buddy Seat by The Hondells. I suppose I ought to listen to more serious music but I can’t be arsed.
Anyway, My Buddy Seat is my morning kick-starter adrenalin shot.
Weird
Cake - War Pigs
Tunng - Woodcat
Merry Making at My Place - Calvin Harris
Superstar - Jamelia
and, um,
Don't Stop Moving - SClub7. I love it, but I didn't realise I loved it that much.
Top 5 over the last 5 years
Say It (Over & Over Again) - John Coltrane
Let It Be - Nick Cave
Sleepwalk - Bill Kirchen
Mess Around - Ray Charles
A Certain Girl - The Nomads
My Top 10 (since about November last year)
Diana Ross & the Supremes - Love Is Here & Now You're Gone (16)
Kanye West - Love Lockdown (11)
The Fireman - Sing The Changes (9)
Enno Morricone - Cera Una Volta Il West (8)
Go Home Productions - Finally Did You No Wrong (8)
The Mummers - Nightbus (8)
The Specials - Blank Expression (8)
The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron (7)
The Special AKA - Jungle Music (7)
Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked (6)
This is odd....
1. Johnny Cash by Ry Cooder
2. A Worm is at Work by Slapp Happy/Henry Cow
3. Pogles Music 1 retake 3 by Vernon Elliot Ensemble
4. Hot Corner by B-52s
5. No Control by David Bowie
Wot, no VdGG, no Hatfields, what's going on??
oh dear
Tom Waits - Johnsburg, Illinois
Tom Waits - Lullaby
Tom Waits - Anywhere I Lay My Head
Yasushi Yoshida - Permanent Yesterday
David Crowder Band - O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing
not that I'm obsessed or anything
Strangely..
My number one is Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Earl Scruggs.
Number two: Music For A Found Harmonium by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
I'm not entirely sure how. I suspect my son. Mind you, I don't use itunes much now except as a music library for my Sonos system. Which is a great bit of kit and I would encourage others to have a look at it.
Ok. When can we come round?
[snigger]
The 10 most played at mi casa
Isaac Hayes: I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You
The Human Beinz: Nobody But Me (Pilooski remix)
The Beatles: Long, Long, Long
Baby Huey: Hard Times
Pat Metheny: Are You Going With Me?
Stairsteps: Theme Of Angels
The Undisputed Truth: I Saw You When You Met Her
Dusty Springfield: I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore
Patto: The Man
B.G.: Bling Bling