Randomiser, Shmandomiser…..what we really want to know is what everybody plays the most! So go to your chosen music generating engine – DONT HIT THAT RANDOM PLAY BUTTON – but filter by number of plays. I know we’ve done this before….but it seems a long time ago.
What are your top five?
For the record, mine were:
1. Soft Machine – Nettlebed
2. King Crimson – Cat Food
3. Nick Cave – Jubilee Street
4. Slapp Happy / Henry Cow – Apes in Capes
5= Grateful Dead – Box of Rain
5= Miles Davis – So What
My top 10 (actually 11) is
1. Dandy Warhols — Bohemian Like You (99) (yes, honestly!)
2. Saint Etienne — Hobart Paving (80)
3. The Congos — Children Crying (79)
4. Aerogramme — Exits (75)
5. Elastica — Connection (75)
6. Iliketrains — Stainless Steel (75)
7. Massive Attack & Mos Def — I Against I (75)
8. Underworld — Cowgirl (Bedrock Mix) (74)
9. Lionrock — Are You Willing To Testify? (74)
10. Paul Oakenfold — Eternal (74)
11. Sleater Kinney — Sympathy (73)
Great list.
I share an iTunes account with my OH, and she listens, apparently, to nothing but Mumford and Sons while running. My assumption is that she’s incentivising herself by giving herself something to run away from.
Just kidding, I can’t find it in my heart to hate the Mumfords (as previously discussed on here or a older incarnation) but they do take up all my most playeds, and it ain’t down to me.
We’ll believe you…..
Damn autocorrect. The Oakenfold track should of course be ‘Aeternal’
According to my i-tunes;
1. 52nd Street – Express
2. (Do) The Hucklebuck – Coast To Coast
3. Caffeine Bomb – The Wildhearts
4.Take Me To The Cleaners – Ian Dury And The Music Students
5.Born To Be Alive – Patrick Hernandez
Every one a classic in my book
This is the 52nd Street track if you’re not familiar with it
Get it Daddy – Sleeper Agent
Buy Nothing Day – the Go! Team
With Ur Love – Cher lloyd
Top Ranking – Blonde Redhead
70 Million – Hold Your Horses
Blackout – Anna Calvi
Car Song – Madder Rose
Abel – the National
Closer – Tegan and Sara
Don’t Think Twice – It’s Alright – Ke$ha
Actually Video Games by Lana Del Rey and
This Ain’t New Jersey by Smith & Burrows tie with Ke$ha
Having twice (at least) lost my play statistics during hard disc upgrades, the best I can muster are:
Judgement Day – Johnny Dowd & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts (13 plays)
The Dead Man’s Dream – Procol Harum (13 plays)
My Daddy Is a Mummy – Richard Thompson (12 plays)
You Done My Brain In – The Bonzo Dog Band (11 plays)
Run Through the Jungle – Creedence Clearwater Revival (11 plays)
Love Is – Kangaroo Moon (11 plays)
Peace – Shivkumar Sharma & Hariprasad Chaurasia (11 plays)
Prelude: Nightmare – Arthur Brown (11 plays)
(There’ll Be) Peace In the Valley – Red Foley (11 plays)
Riders On the Storm – The Doors (10 plays)
Let’s Get Together – H.P. Lovecraft (10 plays)
Peace Of Mind/Voyage – Family (10 plays)
It’s So Peaceful In the Country – Mildred Bailey with The Delta Rhythm Boys (10 plays)
Knoxville Girl – Brett Sparks & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts (10 plays)
Oh Death – Diane Izzo & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts (10 plays)
Probably totally unrepresentative but WTF…
It’s all very singer-songwriter round here:
Mainstream – Thea Gilmore
Wokin’ Man’s Pay – Warren Zevon
Yesterday is Here – Tom Waits
Stony Ground – Richard Thompson
Beautiful Hopeful – Thea Gilmore
(The actual most-played is an hour long MP3 of rain and thunder that I often play to fall asleep.)
That’s interesting, @Gatz – does it work?
It does for me, but these days I sleep pretty well anyway (this has not always been the case). I mainly use it because I have tinnitus, and it distracts me from that. The gentle babble of a quiet podcast, or some ambient Eno works too. I almost always have something playing to drop off to.
What if your ‘chosen music generating engine’ is the girl with the ‘big lungs’ in yer local boozer?
Karen.
You HAVE to tell us more about this……
according to itunes, mine are
Acetylene – Patty Hurst Shifter
Omerta / The Vampire Lanois – The Afghan Whigs
Headhunter – Front 242
Crime Scene Part One – The Afghan Whigs
Good Taste – The Cramps
I am a hipster
1. Rooms on Fire – Stevie Nicks
2. 1963-94 – New Order
3. Animal – Def Leppard
4. Don’t Change – Inxs
5. (Don’t fear) The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
6. Lido Shuffle – Boz Scaggs
7. I feel love – Donna Summer
8. Roll away the stone – Mott the Hoople
9. Theme for Great Cities – Simple Minds
10. Highway Star – Deep Purple
Pffft….I am not actually a hipster it appears.
My most played are all on my ‘Sleep’ playlist. Budd and Eno mostly. They get 8-10 hours play, all night every night. But I rarely listen past track two.
Aside from those my most played appear to be:
1. Midnight Blue – Sainkho Namtchylak
2. It’s Only Mystery – Eric Serra
3. Some Things Don’t Matter – Ben Watt
4. Many Waters (Reprise) – Ziggy Marley
5. Reveal – Bliss
How do you filter to find this out?
iTunes? In My Music set to Songs, then in the drop down menu from Songs open Show Columns and tick Plays. With Plays as a column, click at top of column to put them in order.
Thanks
Well I’m going to include the songs the kids have made us listen to on repeat as well.
1. Love Love Love – Avalanche City.
2. Proof – I Am Kloot
3. Black Winged Bird – The Cake Sale feat. Nina Persson
4. The Commander Thinks Aloud – The Long Winters
5. Falling – Ben Kweller
I share an iTunes account with the missus and our kids (daughter 10, son 5), who also use the iPods for their bedtime stories, so there are 3 top 5s really.
Firstly, the actual top 5, of which 4 are stories and the other is my daughter’s favourite song:
1 – The Flying Horse by Julia Donaldson (294 plays)
2 – The Unusual Pets Club by Julia Donaldson (274)
3 – The Magic Ball by Julia Donaldson (262)
4 – Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen (246)
5 – The Seamonster’s Cave by Julia Donaldson (207)
The ‘songs only’ top 5:
1 – Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen (246)
2 – Baby by Justin Bieber (78) – this actually comes in at number 82 in the overall list
3 – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie by Sophie Ellis-Bextor (71) – the family ‘dance around the kitchen’ song and, truth be told, probably my favourite track, cos it’s just fab!
4 – Any Dream Will Do by Jason Donovan (61) – this actually comes in at 144th on the overall list
5 – Incy Wincy Spider by Justin Fletcher (53)
And finally, the top 5 for which the kids have no influence:
Joint 1 – Zoom by Fat Larry’s Band (42) – actually comes 254th!
Joint 1 – Creeque Alley by The Mamas and the Papas (42)
Joint 3 – The Model by Kraftwerk (40)
Joint 3 – Babies by Pulp (40)
5 – Wild Wild Life by Talking Heads (39)
If you ask me the same question this time next year I would guess that the top 50 places will all be taken up by chapters of David Walliams’ audiobooks, as they are rapidly clocking up the playcounts.
I love music, I love order and I love lists. ITunes could have been invented for me.