Entertainment For Lively Minds
Most played on the iPod
Posted by Bruised Mike on 18 March 2009 - 6:16am.
With the Randomiser not having appeared recently I was wondering if the Massive would like to check their Play Counter tag on the iPod and discover what their Most Played song is. I guess that this could be warped by not using the Shuffle Songs option but most of my plays come from that source.
To start the ball rolling I am not ashamed to admit that, with 15 plays and just beating out a couple of Warren Zevons and a Rufus Wainwright, Art Garfunkel is at the top of the list with his lovely version of Jimmy Webb's All My Love's Laughter, Chieftains and all.
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Careful Mike
Thought Mr Hepworth was in charge of all Randomiser type stuff!
Technically speaking
this isn't Randomiser type stuff per se, more Counter type stuff though the distinction is a fine one admittedly.
I've Been Everywhere
Hank Snow. 59 plays since I bought it off iTunes some time in September 2006.
Day To Soon
by Sia has 21 plays. Second is Commander Thinks Aloud by The Long Winters with 19.
Not sure how you find out
How many plays from the iPod (as opposed to iTunes, which is at home and I'm at work) but the first 5 in my Most Played playlist are:
"To help unhappy commoners" by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Co (from G&S The Gondoliers - I was learning it for a (failed) audition)
"Mama's got a boyfriend" - Eliza Gilkyson
"Awake, arise good Christians" - Kate Rusby
"To sir with love" - Lulu
"Welcome back" - Eliza Gilkyson
I threw it all away...
...bob dylan.
I had a Nashville Skyline phase a few weeks back...must listen again actually...
Different Light...
...by Steve Winwood from the excellent About Time album. 66 plays apparently - surely it can't be as few as that?
Untited by Burial
with 50 plays. According to Last.fm.
More to do with the fact it's great background music if you're trying to work.
http://www.last.fm/user/thompsph
Untitled
Aren't there several untitled tracks by Burial? I find that Last.fm tends to get confused by that sort of thing.
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
Only 11 plays though - I'm 18 months into an album shuffle of everything I've got. Approx. 2 months to go.
First is
'Shine' by Take That - BUT that's because iPod is synced with iTunes, so they are the same and iTunes is used by all in my house. Next we have a tie for second with 'A Thing Called Love' by Johnny Cash tying with 'Afternoon Delight' by The Starland Vocal Band, both of which I'm happy to claim. But the first one that is exclusively mine is 'Re: Stacks' by Bon Iver (way down in 24th place!).
I have the same issue....
...which is why 'Sunchyme' by Dario G tops my list.
68 (count 'em!) plays, would you believe! Mrs W listens to relatively few songs, but plays them to death.
The first song I can exclusively claim as my own is 'Heart as Big as Liverpool' by the Mighty Wah! - 28, mainly drunken, late-night maudlin, plays.
Top Five most played
1. Ramblin' Man/Lemon Jelly
2. Germ Free Adolescence/X Ray Spex
3. Les Papillons Noirs/Michele Arnaud & Serge Gainsbourg
4. My Baby Cried All Night Long/Lee Hazelwood
5. Rock On/David Essex
'Surfing On A Rocket' by Air
A lovely tune but not one I'd actively choose to play over and over. It's just because I am a slave to random.
Erm..
..theres a pattern emerging on mine.
Top 5 is:
Don't Know What I Was Thinking, Teddy Thompson
Where To Go From Here, Teddy Thompson
In My Arms, Teddy Thompson
The Things I Do, Teddy Thopmpson
Somebody More Like You, Nickel Creek
Country Rock, Pop anyone?
Tied in first place
(according to those good folks at last.fm) are:
Elephant by Damien Rice (news to me, I can barely remember how it goes)
Your Cover's Blown by Belle and Sebastian (a swaggering funk monster of a song, should be the new national anthem)
Your Cover's Blown
One of my favourite B & S songs, more people should hear it.
Wilson, Bach and Beatles
1. Don't Worry Baby - Beach Boys
2. Suite No 2 in B Minor BMV1067: Badinerie (a flute thing)
3. On Our Way Home - Beatles
4. Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
5. I am The Resurrection - Stone Roses
Here's mine
1. Girl in the War - Josh Ritter
2. Barbara Allen - Jim Moray
3. Killing The Blues - Plant & Krauss
4. Italian Dry Ice - Josh Rouse
5. What I Do - Donald Fagen
Most played?
In McDonalds by Burial oddly enough. 59 plays.
Lordy, I didn't think I liked young person's dubstep that much...
To Die A Virgin
by The Divine Comedy.
27 whole plays.
Montana by Venus Hum
According to Last.FM. I think because for a while it was stable morning listening whilst walking from my student flat to university.
I think it was amongst the first songs I purchased from the iTunes Music Store, although I later bought the full album on CD, and I also think I bought it after reading a review of the album an early Word magazine.
Fullness of Wind
Not a medical complaint but rather my favourite ambient track from Brian Eno - from Discreet Music. It gets played when I'm trying to relax, get to sleep, get the baby to sleep, trying to work etc. Number of plays - 144 - it works!
My Top 3
Al Stewart - Time Passages
Felice brothers - Whiskey in my whiskey
Death Cab for Cutie - Cath
All a bit unextraordinary
1. With Every Heartbeat - Robyn
2. Blind - Hercules & Love Affair
3. La Musique - Riot In Belgium
4. Home Perv - Blood Everywhere
5. Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones
Box Full of Letters - Wilco
Box Full of Letters - Wilco
iTunes pain
I had to reload all of my iTunes playlist as my music, on an external hard drive, decided to change the address of the drive number, ergo, all the tracks weren't were iTunes said they were. Arse. So I had to put everything on again.
Hence... most listened tracks... at 4 plays each
Gemma Hayes - Ae Fond Kiss
The Prodigy - Warriors Dance
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Fail.
No use to you now,
but I'm almost certain you could've just told iTunes to look in a different location for the library. Would have saved time and probably your play counts etc.
Hmm...
'Two Doors Down' by the Mystery Jets.
That's odd. There's plenty of songs that I listen to more than that. Ah well, it'd moderately catchy.
Gamma Ray by the Beck fellow
17 plays. From my favourite album of last year, Modern Guilt.
Richard Thompson
"When The Spell Is Broken" with 26 plays..
Incidentaly, the same song (different version) is third with 19!
My go
Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire
Stars All Seem to Weep - Beth Orton
Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl
Top 5
Let Us Do Something - Joe Higgs
Down By The Train Line - Stranger & Patsy
State Of Independence - Donna Summer
Door Peep - Burning Spear
I'm Just A Prisoner - Candi Staton
Neighbourhood 1 (Tunnels) by
Neighbourhood 1 (Tunnels) by Arcade Fire, with 81 plays.
Followed be Soon be My Bloody Valentine, with a slowly growing 68. Wicked.
Old skool
Call me old fashioned, but the top 7 most played songs on my iTunes are all from the same album. Top of the pops is Lights Out For Darker Skies by British Sea Power. Ignoring same album tracks, next I've got a bit of Elbow (The Fix), Teenage Fanclub's Headstand and Eels' Railroad man.
However, I suspect that had my iTunes not crashed a few times on my old computer, causing iTunes to lose its play count history, BSP's first album would have crowded out the top five - headed up by Carrion and A Wooden Horse.
You've got to love statistics. Anyone know how to graph results from iTunes?
Donovan "Sand And Foam"
Is my most-played song on my Zen.
2nd place: Slow Club "Because We're Dead"
Top Five
I've only just got round to putting my collection onto iTunes, but so far the top five is:
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Turn Into
2. Flight of The Conchords: Inner City Pressure
3. The Beatles: Taxman
4. Bob Dylan: To Ramona
5. The Divine Comedy: Generation Sex.
13 Number 1
By the Vernon Elliott Ensemble, from the Ivor the Engine CD.
This has quite a lot to do with the fact that its the theme tune to my radio show.
Shorter tracks will always win out in a debate like this - because the pod counts a play when you finifh, not when you start.
bizarrely
1 Polythene Pam, Beatles
2 Midnight Bus, Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers
3 Other Side Of The World, K T Tunstall
4 Who's That Up There With Bill Stokes?, Stackridge
5 Say Hello To The Band, Decameron
I certainly don't remember listening to Polythene Pam that often, certainly not in isolation from the rest of Abbey Road, which is nowhere near on the play count. Odd.
And number 1 , forever is...
Rockaway Beach by The Ramones.
I had to zap the iPod a year or so ago so everything started from zero and it still rose to the top again. Pretty definitive methinks, though Junco Partner by James Booker does keep giving it a run.
And I exclude various tracks by Abba, Abdul Gadir Salim and AC/DC, which seems an inept "A" thing, caused by it jangling about in my pocket (ahem) .
Seriously I obsess about my favourite songs
Kathleen Edwards - Copied Keys - 109 plays
Jenny Queen - Porcelain - 87
Roachford - Tomorrow - 73
Fountains of Wayne - Someone to Love - 71
Counting Crows - Mr Jones - 67
Luce - Buy a Dog - 61
Anna Narlick - Breath (2AM)- 59
Kasey Chambers Gone Fishing - 53
Check out Jenny Queens version of Mobeys Porcelain, seriously great version of a normally weird tune.
Oboes etc
Curiously enough, also from Watermark, the title track is #1 on my iPod with about 55 plays. One of those cases where I had to get a CD just to rip as there was something about the texture of this as an LP that I have always loved-though a somewhat dodgy lyric ...
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/artgarfunkel/albums/album/172630/rev...
Out of top 5, 3 of the others are movements of Bach's arrangement of a Marcello Oboe concerto-partly because I bought it as a download after I heard it in second series of Sensitive Skin and just had to track it down-played it to death after finally getting hands on it. Can be heard under this clip from Season 1 though deployed to even greater effect in Season 2.
And the other one is Ennio Morricone's "Gabriel's Oboe" from the Mission.
Personally I find the Top 1, 5, 25 etc more interesting than the Randomiser ...
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to ...
Strangely ...
...I was thinking the other day how similar a track on Peter Gabriel's Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack- 'With this Love'- is to 'Gabriel's Oboe' by Morricone.
Had Google been around then I would have believed Peter had been Googling his name.
(Must get out more)
oooh, interesting
been listening to this song loads over the past week. absolutely beautiful. brings a tear to the eye.
7 plays. nice.
Is she trying to tell me something?
Everything in the top 35 most played on I-tunes is there because of my wife, not me. The top position is "She's leaving home" by the Beatles with 98 plays to date.
My work I-tunes account is mostly on random on not played tracks so the top 5 are all on only 4 plays;
People in Love - Art Brut
Diet - Au Pairs
A minor incident - Badly Drawn Boy
Itchy Glowbo Blow - Cocteau Twins
Nowhere to Run - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas