4749 songs, 21.16 GB.
My "most played" list is a little skewed since I listened to the Postal Service album when I went to bed every night for about a year, so that occupies the top 10 spots. The next 20:
1. Ha Ha You're Dead-Green Day
2. Somebody Told Me-The Killers
3. Jen Doesn't Like Me Anymore-Less Than Jake
4. Get Over It-OK Go
5. Beer-Reel Big Fish
6.Scum of the Earth-Rob Zombie
7. Vertigo-U2
8. Where The Streets Have No Name-U2
9. American Idiot-Green Day
10. Scotty Doesn't Know-Lustra
11. Brain Stew-Green Day
12. Lysergic Bliss-Of Montreal
13. Land of Pleasant Living-Ponded
14. Undone - The Sweater Song-Weezer
15. Stars and Sons-Broken Social Scene
16. Mass Romantic-The New Pornographers
17. Walking Away-Catch 22
18. Riding The Fourth Wave-Catch 22
19. This One Goes Out To The Friends-Catch 22
20. 9mm And A Three Piece Suit-Catch 22
This is sort of a weird list, it doesn't include the stuff I listen to on my iPod, even though I hardly listen to music on my computer.
Also weird: no Dave Matthews on the list, even though I have 28 hours of it on my computer. Though with that much, I guess it's hard to play one song enough to make it into the top list.
Xmms and the beep media player don't keep such statistics, though I understand there are plugins that will create an itunes-like adaptive db effect.
However, there's this. NB: it hasn't been turned on in a while, and was turned off for about a year, because the plugin tended to cause the media player to crash when it encountered some kinds of metadata, even though said metadata could be read fine by other programs. I really don't think it's very informative: I haven't listened to Supersilent or Harry Nilsson at all in a while, and I can't fathom why I would have been listening to that particular Supersilent track so much. OTOH, random play, so, who knows.
Or take the Fred Frith/Henry Kaiser entry for overall artist listens, at 45. 36 of those plays represent listening to their album. Something's screwy!
(Other stats: 25768 tracks (2407 albums/album-like units, plus orphans) listened to at least once, 971 tracks (comprising 82 albums) not listened to yet, with the exception of the album I'm in the middle of listening to right now; total 187 GiB/201 GB).)
Here is my list.
1. ladyflash-the go team
2. the power to be- the go team
3. got to give it up part1-marvin gaye
4. Tribulation- lcd soundsystem
5. I'm going to run away-Joan jett
6.lady be good-django reinhart
7. heaven can wait-aukufen
8.nagasaki-benny goodman
9.ridin' high-benny goodman
10. slow jamz- kanye west
11. immigrant dub-basement 5
12. express yourself-charles wright
13.i could be happy-altered images
14. musical communion- baba brooks
15. one love-bob marley
I only had the ipod for a couple weeks so a few repeats are good enough to get in the top 15.
Sleater-Kinney is one of my favorite off-ramps.
the first 24 songs on mine are cantatas by Bach - mostly Trauerode.
then:
Sorry - Madonna
Alles sehen - Ellen Allien
Sehnsucht - Ellen Allien
Trash scapes Voc - Ellen Allien
Track 1 - Best of the Best (a Bollywood pop album)
Solaar Pleure - MC Solaar
Les colonies - MC Solaar
7 seconds - Youssou N'Dour
Last Good Day of the Year - Cousteau
Deceptacon - Le Tigre
Oh, this is good. Here goes:
1. Waillie, Waillie!/Dan Zanes
2. All Grown Up/Gore Gore Girls
3. Mass Ave./Willie Alexander
4. Sooprize Package for Mr. Mineo/Supercharger
5. 100,000 Fireflies/The Magnetic Fields
6. Grass Skirt/All Girl Summer Fun Band
7. Pills/Bo Diddley
8. Jackie Onassis/Human Sexual Response
9. She Pays the Rent/The Lyres
10. Alcohol and Pills/Fred Eaglesmith
11. Trick Bag/Earl King
12. Doublewide/Southern Culture on the Skids
13. Modern Kicks/The Exloding Hearts
14. In Between Tears/Irma Thomas
15. I'll Go Down Swinging/Porter Wagoner
Links are to free, legal (well, mostly) downloads. A good list - I was worried that some of the SO's Bobby Sherman would find its way in there. Only a couple (the Magnetic Fields, Eaglesmith) that I'm ambivalent or embarrassed about. The top 4, by contrast, I'm apt to click repeat and listen to over and over again. 14 got a lot of post-Katrina play (and ever since), and 13 is appropriate.
I don't have a recent list from home, but the last top 15 (from my work computer and thus a few months old) is:
Britney Spears - Toxic
Gipsy boys - Caravan
Enno Voorhorst - Sonata in G(A)m adagio :Bach Bwv1001.1
Franco Platino - Chaconne from D minor - Partita, BWV 1004
Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend
George Benson - The Borgia Stick
The Rosenberg Trio - Valse A Rosenthal
Cee-Lo Feat. Timbaland - I'll Be Around
Mattias IA Eklundh - Minor Swing
Jonathan Kreisberg - Old Devil Moon
Nicolas Goluses - Adagio - Sonata no. 1 in G Minor - BWV1001
Matt McGrattan - Potemkin
Franco Platino - La catedral Allegro solemne
Sylvain Luc & Bireli Lagrene - Stompin' at the Savoy
Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO Sighting Near
Includes one of my own things (ego!) and a lot of guitar music as that's jsut what happened to be on my work machine.
Does it say something bad about me that its my 47 year old boyfriend who's tried to teach me to get into Sleater-Kinney?
(To the point of showing me his Xerox copied Sleater Kinney zines?)
I do not own any IPods. I was very glad though, to purchase a portable CD player a couple of weeks ago, and am now listening to discs on the train to and from work. This morning it was the newly purchased Avalon Blues by John Hurt and it was sweet. I don't know how you go about gettting tunes onto your IPod (don't have one), but if you know how to download them you ought to check out "Frankie" and "Nobody's Dirty Business" and especially "Candy Man" for its Mineshaft content. Fontana Labs is the Candyman!
Candy Man lyrics. Don't stand too close to the candy man, he'll leave a big candy stick in your hand. Donovan Leach can go to hell.
2346 items, 11.44 GB.
I just discovered a neat feature of iTunes -- since I mostly play my mp3s over the network on my roommate's computer (he has the fancy speakers), my 25 most played is no longer updated.
The Woods seems to be qualitatively better than their previous albums.
2 - Yeah, I think my top stats are a little skewed, too, because instead of putting iTunes on a one-song repeat, I'll often jump back to the beginning of a song to listen to it again in the remaining seconds, which doesn't update the playcount. I think there are some songs that should be higher.
11 - Xeroxed zines? Are they old or new? That's so quaint in the age of blogging.
(I don't trust myself with 10, Tia. All of the jokes I have are bad.)
Ok, this is a little weird. I knew I'd been listening to a lot of New Pornographers recently, but this is ridiculous. As of about last Saturday:
3456 songs, 7.1 Gb
1. "The Engine Driver", The Decemberists
2. "We Both Go Down Together", The Decemberists
3. "From Blown Speakers", The New Pornographers
4. "The Laws Have Changed", The New Pornographers
5. "Loose Translation", The New Pornographers
6. "The New Face of Zero and One", The New Pornographers
7. "Miss Teen Wordpower", The New Pornographers
8. "The Way You Look Tonight", Frank Sinatra
9. "The End of Medicine", The New Pornographers
10. "All For Swining You Around", The New Pornographers
10. "Twin Cinema", The New Pornographers
11. "Section 12 (Hold Me Now)", The Polyphonic Spree
12. "Always", Rilo Kiley
13. "The Execution of All Things", Rilo Kiley
14. "Fall At Your Feet", Crowded House
15. "The Sound of Settling", Death Cab for Cutie
I swear the next 10 shows some more variety.
Does your iTunes keep track of songs most-listened to on a linked iPod, or is that information any way accessible? Or can it only track songs listened to in iTunes?
My first 9 are all Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz duos.
After that, it's:
1. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
2. Easy - The Commodores
3. Midnight Train to Geogia - Gladys Knight
4. Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon
5. Heaven Help Us All - Ray Charles & Gladys Knight
The next dozen or so are the rest of Negotiations And Love Songs by Paul Simon
15: Actually, upon reflection they were Bikini Kill zines. Didn't Bikini Kill start as a zine before it was a band? And they were pre-blogging.
A potential problem with this methodology, as evidenced by my list, is that my oldest tracks, in terms of when I put them into iTunes, appear to be more popular than newer songs, because, in fact, that's all I had to listen to at the time.
Not that Negotiations And Love Songs isn't a great record or that I'm ashamed that it occupies roughly half of the spots on my 25 most-played songs.
omigod, do i want to do this
a) being largely deaf in one ear, headphones are impossible, so music comes from my PC;I also don't have a "most played" easily available;later I may try to compile a list, tho I listen to so much it is largely meaningless
b) a random 15, based on a fresh shuffle;groups only;I load albums
1 Drive by Truckers
2 Afghan Whigs
3 blueboy (I love Sarah brit-pop)
4 Stackridge
5 Bob Dylan
6 Strawbs
7 Jana Hunter
8 Creation of Sunlight (obscure US Psych)
9 Ethos (obscure US Prog)
10 Trash Can Sinatras
11 Smithereens
12 Hugh Blumenfeld(new folk)
13 Sonny Stitt
14 Greg Piccolo(blues)
15 Naked Raygun
Bonus:Bonnie Raitt,Aerosmith,Scruffy the Cat,Grateful Dead,Joni Mitchell,Maxophone,Al Stewart,Charlie Parker,Belle & Sebastian,Hollies
I refuse to say how much music I have on grounds of self-incrimination. Suffice to say it is measured in shelf-feet of slimlines and that I currently have about 200 gb or 27000 songs in my playlist and was looking at a 250gb in the paper this morning. More than I can ever listen to. Don't fink me to RIAA.
I am an evil person, or at least one with an uncontrollable vice.
(BTW -- hadn't noticed "Catch the Wind" on your playlist first time I read it -- my dissing of Donovan Leach in 13 should not be read as a negative comment about your music-listenin' abilities, Bechs -- I just meant to say I hate his "Candy Man".)
I'm even more archaic than McManus, having switched from 78s to 33 1/3 only recently. And no randomizer thingie.
Most recently played:
Sonny Sharrock / Pharoah Sanders / Elvin Jones: "Ask the Ages".
Buddy Guy: "Stone Crazy"
Mussorgsky: "Boris Gudonov."
Tarika: "Balance"
Larry Young: "Lawrence of Newark"
Sonny Sharrock: "Highlife"
Mussorgsky: "Complete Piano Works"
Satie: "Popular Piano Works"
Zap Mama: "Sabsylma"
Donavon Leitch gave hippies a bad name which even Charlie Manson couldn't entirely remove.
3647 "songs" 14.49 GB.
(iTunes is a real pain for classical music and even for jazz, but complaining about that is not the purpose of this post.)
These are from my PC at home. Non-classical music doesn't show until after #20! I swear I have some. I feel like such a philistine.
Brahms, Symphony No. 2 (Szell; Cleveland)
Brahms, Symphony No. 3 (Szell; Cleveland)
Brahms, Symphony No. 4 (Szell; Cleveland)
Brahms, Academic Festival Overture (Szell; Cleveland)
Brahms, Tragic Overture (Szell; Cleveland)
Brahms, Symphony No.1 (Szell; Cleveland)
Dvorak, Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 (Takács Quartet; Andreas Haefliger, piano)
Bach, BWV 1052 Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in D minor (Trevor Pinnock; English Concert)
Bach, BWV 1053 Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in E minor (Trevor Pinnock; English Concert)
Bach, BWV 1054 Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in E minor (Trevor Pinnock; English Concert)
Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor (Anne-Sophie Mutter;Karajan; Berlin)
Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21 & 61 (Bramall/Slovak PO)
Dvorak, Symphony No. 8 (Dohnányi; Cleveland)
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 (Norrington)
Glass, Akhnaten (Davies; Stuttgart State Opera Orch & Chorus)
Vinheta Bagulhao --off some Baille Funk mix
WLOK: Spot --MG's/House Band--Ghost in the Stax
WLOK: Weather--MG's/House Band--Ghost in the Stax
Disco Clone (disco mix)--Cristina--off some Ze Records mix
WLOK: News Intro--MG's/House Band--Ghost in the Stax
Porno graphique--Mylène Farmer--Avant que l'ombre Pop
Sunshowers--M.I.A.--Arular
Because Before--Orb--Kompakt 100
Radeln--Sascha Funke--Kompakt 100
Anakrousis--Atrium Musicae of Madrid Music of Ancient Greece
Wir sind hier--März--Wir Sind Hier
Bia Lulucha--Césaria Évora--La Diva Aux Pieds Nus
Zu Dicht Dran--DJ Koze Kompakt 100
Azara alhay--Rasha--Sudaniyat
17&4--Joachim Spieth--Kompakt 100
Cuts off the Kompakt 100 seem over represented here and somehow those WLOK spots always show up. I'm surprised nothing off Ned Sublette's amazing Cowboy Rumba made it to top 15. But given that the next ten songs were off the Ethiopiques Vol. 4, The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, and The Art of Amália Rodrigues, the list isn't a too inaccurate outline of my listening habits. In general, I refuse to embarassed by anything I listen to, not even Mylène Farmer.
No worries, Modesto Kid. I love Catch the Wind and Colours, some of his other songs are good, but he also does have a number of stinkers.
1. Who by Fire-Leonard Cohen
2. Useless Desires-Patty Griffin
3. For the Turnstiles-Neil Young
4. I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow-Soggy Bottom Boys
5. Across the Universe-Rufus Wainwright
6. Tacoma Trailer-Leonard Cohen
7. Come on in My Kitchen-Cassandra Wilson
8. Hellhound on My Trail-Cassandra Wilson
9. Ashes to Ashes-David Bowie
10. This Land is Nobody's Land-John Lee Hooker
11. I Cover the Waterfront-John Lee Hooker
12. God Don't Never Change-Blind Willie Johnson
13. Fifty Foot Queenie-PJ Harvey
14. Sharkey's Night-Laurie Anderson
15. Jackson-Lucinda Williams
That's my work computer. I can't find a top-25 List on my Nano, but it would probably be the Bach pieces I'm trying to learn, followed by mostly the same.
normally i don't really get the friday ten either, but its sorta interesting hearing what's playing atm. sez itunes, though most of my listening is done on a creative mp3 player...
hey now now - the cloud room
into the sun - locksley
iron woman - devin davis
so begins our alabee - of montreal
july, july! - the decemberists
human nature - david mead
fall on my knees - old crow medicine show
goddamn lonely love - drive by truckers
little black ache - bishop allen
skin of my yellow country teeth - clap your hands say yeah!
the others are from bands i was in, and thus boring to others. though we did play some sweet star wars-based hip hop jazz funk rock.
I don't have an iPod either, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out which LPs and CDs have been playing the most recently.
LPs:
1. Eureka Brass Band: Jazz at Preservation Hall (Now playing)
2. David Murray Big Band: live at Sweet Basil Vol.1 (thanks Apo!)
3. Original Olympia Brass Band: New Orleans Street Parade
4. Clifford Brown and Max Roach: At Basin Street
5. Jelly Roll Morton: 1923/24 (piano solos, mostly)
6. Eric Dolphy and Booker Little: Live at the Five Spot
7. Chet Baker: The Touch of Your Lips (I prefer toothless Chet)
8. Mickey Katz: and his Orchestra (the one with "Herring Boats," for slol)
9. John Fahey and His Orchestra: After the Ball
10. Henry Threadgill: x-75 vol. 1
11. John Fahey: Old-Fashioned Love
12. Paul Smoker Trio: Alone
13. Paul Smoker Trio: Mississippi River Rat
14. Michele Rosewoman Quartet: The Source
15. Duke Ellington: 1938
Of all y'all, Emerson's listening habits most closely resemble mine by far.
It's funny, I don't see myself as a hip-hop fan at all, but every song on my top 15 (save two) is either hip-hop or a mash-up of hip-hop and Queen(I listened to that album a lot this summer). The highest count for any one song is 28, the lowest of the top 15 is 20, lots of ties. I guess I'll just link to one of the many times I've disclaimed taste in music.
Ride - The Kleptones
Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground
Excursions - A Tribe Called Quest (I think this shows up in virture of being alphabetically first in my playlist for a long times, it's not the song I listen to most on that album)
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
Moment of Clarity - Jay-Z
Bite - Kleptones
Ridicule - Kleptones
What - Kleptones
See - Kleptones
Live - Kleptones
Scenario - A Tribe Called Quest
Jesus Walks - Kanye West
Get 'Em High - Kanye West
Precession - Kleptones
Break - Kleptones
CDs (not in order; approx.):
Remmy Ongala: Songs for the Poor Man
Orchestra Makassy: Legends of East Africa
Jelly Roll Morton: Volume Two
Louis Armstrong: Hot Fives and Sevens, Vol. 1
Dexter Gordon: Doin' Allright
Matthew Shipp's New Orbit
Jack DeJohnette: Earth Walk
Alasdair Roberts: The Crook of My Arm (thanks w-lfs-n!)
Spring Heel Jack: Amassed
Jelly Roll Morton: Volume one
Paul Bley Trio: Closer
Yeah, Matt, I've got three or four of those albums (Sweet Basil, Roach/Brown, deJohnette, and maybe Dolphy). Sweet Basil and Roach/Brown are two of my favorites.
I've got three or four of yours too -- "Ask the Ages" (which is also on the listened-to-pretty-recently list), "Lawrence of Newark" (which pwns), and some Satie piano stuff; I don't think I have "Highlife" but I've got several other Sharrock albums.
I'm a bit surprised and pleased to find so much support for the David Murray Big Band.
Artists in rotation the last month or so:
Weezer (I just got the new album last week and I'm already just about burned out on it)
Metallica (the old, good stuff)
Judas Priest (ditto)
Pixies
The Killers
Rilo Kiley
Waylon Jennings
Stiff Little Fingers
Gang of Four
Mission of Burma
I don't have an ipod, but here are the tracks I've been listening to most lately, if I'm going to approximate:
Heard 'Em Say, Kanye West
Touch The Sky, Kanye West
Crack Music, Kanye West
How Glory Goes, Audra McDonald
Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin, Magnetic Fields
Harmonielehre, John Adams
Bury Me, Dwight Yoakam
Little Ways, Dwight Yoakam
Tyrone, Erykah Badu
Follies, OCR (I listen to the whole thing when I listen to it)
Merrily We Roll Along, OCR (same deal as above)
The Truth, Prince
How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore, Prince
Everything Means Nothing To Me, Elliott Smith
I Am Telling You I'm Not Going, Jennifer Holiday
...and several tracks that were written by me.
Lester Bowie's big band is great too. I don't like either of their small groups as well.
My favorite unknown musician is Marion Brown. Sweet Earth Flying, Geechee Recollections, and Afternoon of a Gerogia Faun. It's like the spaciest Art Ensemble of Chicago stuff; I think that they were following him.
Haven't heard those first two Brown albums; most of the stuff of his I've heard is more straight-ahead free jazz, except for Afternoon and a really spacy album of duets with Leo Smith and Elliot Schwarz (which I remember as not that great, but may pull out now anyway). If you're interested in the other kind of stuff, I recommend Songs of Love and Regret by Mal Waldron/Marion Brown; there's one track which is just heartbreaking in its simplicity and directness, and like about no other jazz I've heard.
Let's not knock Donovan too hard. He is, sadly, all I was allowed to listen to until I was a teen. When I get drunk, I do a mean solo version of "Atlantis." It's helpful if friends will join in on the "uh she may uh she may uh she may" bit.
Chopper -- is the Gang of 4 record "Entertainment!"? This is probably my all-time favorite punk rock album. I never heard anything else by them though.
My condolences, WB. You obviously are eligible for the Raised by Wolves club.
Matt W, theose two seem to be unavailable but they're fantastic. I even tracked down the producer of one of them and he says that the record company just doesn't care. Pirate them if you can. I'd send something if I could but my stuff is scattered around.
Modesto Kid-
Yes--Entertainment!, plus the Peel sessions and the new one.
I didn't really get turned onto Go4 until a couple years ago, but I've been listening to them a lot since then.
Chopper -- the songs on "Entertainment!" are part of my consciousness in a way no other punk rock album ever really was. (Well maybe "Live at the Witch Trials" -- but only a couple of songs off that, not the whole thing.) I can be walking down the street and suddenly think to myself "The worst thing in 1954 was the Bikini", and go off to my special place and turn it over in my head, I'll be walking down the street and want to yell, "She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the H-Bomb (for the H-Bomb)!" I played "Essence Rare" for a friend a couple months ago who had never head Go4 and it blew his mind.
No ipod, but a portable CD player at work.
Looking at the CD's that are on top of the pile -- I just ended a stretch of listening to a lot of early 80's british pop -- mostly stuff that I don't listen to often, but get into when I'm in the mood for it.
English Beat -- I Just Can't Stop It
English Beat -- Special Beat Service
Psychedelic Furs -- Greatest Hits
Squeeze -- Singles
Joe Jackson -- Big World
Jurassic Five -- Power in Numbers (not British, not 80's, I know)
This last week I've listened to
Jimmy Cliff -- The Harder They Come
Caetano Veloso -- A Arte De Caetano Veloso
The Bangles -- essential bangles
Rufus Wainwright -- Poses
Ken Stringfellow -- Soft Commands
Uncut Magazine presents -- best of 2003
British Sea Power -- Decline of British Sea Power
MK--I was a metalhead during my formative years--I feel the same way about Metallica's Ride the Lightning.
My wife gets a little unnerved when I, out of the blue, will chant "Nuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuh DIE! by my HAND! (Die, Die) I creep across the LAND! Killing firstborn MEN!"
I don't quite know what her problem is.
Chops, you need to see the Metallica documentary if you haven't.
34: Sonny Sharrock kicks ass.
I don't use my Powerbook to listen to music, only to burn CDs for in the car, and I don't have an iPod, so my most played list is useless. The recent rotation:
Little Feat - Live at Ultra Sonic Studios
Dinah Washington - After Hours with Miss D
Pavement - Terror Twilight
Art Blakey - Moanin'
Charles Mingus - Live at Antibes
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Cornelius - Point
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe'/Overnite Sensation
The Clash - The Clash
Tom Waits - Big Time
Donovan was all you were allowed to listen to? What was the idea there?
re: 44
I'd put Entertainment! on any list of 'Best Albums Evar...'.
I've even tried recreating Go4 type sounds myself and ahve unleased said sounds on internet [no url as there's some copyright infringement of a certain US right wing talk radio guy] - but Andy Gill is hard to do.
My list above has a lot of gypsy swing and classical guitar on it, but that's not really that representative. I suspect thatlike most people I go through fads so any top 15 list will reflect that month's fad rather than longer term trends.
I listen to a lot of the Emerson/Weiner stuff listed above too, for example.
Slol, I would, but Metallica started to die for me as soon as they made the decision to record "Nothing Else Matters." (I'm an old fogie--the last great metal album was Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power as far as I'm concerned.)
Metallica began sucking when they outgrew acne.
I say it not because I am or was a Metallica fan, but because the movie is in itself awesome, and I imagine a Metallica fan would find it double-plus awesome.
It's really a great piece of film-making and story-telling, if you're at all interested in the creative process, and who owns a creative work, and if so how.
Yeah, my list isn't particularly representative of everything I listen to, either. I need to round up my CDs from the car and everywhere and dig out some other stuff from the library. (I listen to a fair amount of bop-era jazz, for example. )
To jump into the library count above, I have around 700 CDs, plus an additional 40+ GB on the computer.
I've seen Metallica live 2 or 3 times - in the late 80s - and they suck live.
Pretty much every time their support band blew them off the stage.
Donovan was all you were allowed to listen to? What was the idea there?
You see this kind of chick in every town
Whenever there's a scene she's always hanging around
She's so naïve and innocent, she stares at you with awe
She's only 14 but she knows how to draw
(I'm an old fogie--the last great metal album was Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power as far as I'm concerned.)
But Isis' Panopticon is fuckin' awesome!
A potential problem with this methodology, as evidenced by my list, is that my oldest tracks, in terms of when I put them into iTunes, appear to be more popular than newer songs, because, in fact, that's all I had to listen to at the time.
I was wondering if this would be the case with mine, but it wasn't. I don't recall when we set up Itunes, but it was sometime before October 2004. While I'm not at home to check right now, it seems to me that almost everything on my list comes from mid-2005, a few from as late as last fall. But then I've realized that I only go with the downloading culture so far - I'm not a hoarder. If I don't really like something, it gets deleted fast. As a result, everything on my list had been played many times - I think all over 100.
If I had to say what I was listening to lately, the list would be quite different, though not completely so. I think it would be topped by The Who's "Cut My Hair" (a throwback to high school, I'm afraid), and Neko Case backed by the Sadies on Loretta Lynn's "Rated X" (which is pretty rockin'.)
I saw Metallica live twice in the 90s. They were incredible once (On the same bill as G'n'R--who sucked--and Faith No More) and sucked serious ass the other time (I swear the played "Whiplash" at half speed.)
Slol, I didn''t mean to sound dismissive of the documentary, I just can't handle watchnig the guys from Metallica--too irritating.
Apo, are you saying that Justice sucks, or are you going back even farther? (I have a deep attachment to "Dyer's Ever" off that album, and I think a few of the other songs hold up pretty well, but it doesn't meet the standard of their previous albums.)
Chopper,
I think one time I saw then they were supported by Testament, a band who may not have been the most original ever (or even really that good, for that matter) but were an incredible live act.
Metallica seemed like a pale imitation afterwards.
Chops, to be honest, I don't really care for any of it. But it was at least understandable when they were pimply kids.
a little late to the party but -
1. Blankest Year - Nada Surf
2. Standing in the Way of Control - the Gossip
3. Back to Me - Kathleen Edwards
4. Sporting Life - the Decemberists
5. Snow - the Pernice Brothers
6. Temporary - Rogue Wave
7. Bird on a Wire - Rogue Wave
8. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon
9. Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Scientists
10. Headlock - Imogen Heap
(And it would usually be S-K and New Porn heavy but I had to put them aside as I was listening to them INCESSANTLY and it was put them aside or throw them out of the car.)
How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore, Prince
Joe D., it's always a pleasure to find another human who knows and likes this song.
Here's another vote for "Entertainment" (and "Essence Rare" - wow). I was converted to Go4 in 1981, when my summer roommate played side 1 continuously until I got it. Solid Gold has some great stuff on it too ("Paralysed", "What We All Want"). And another vote for Marion Brown as well, who is not at all "unknown".
My own recent listening is new discoveries from netlabels, so the names will be obscure: Elian, Renniac, Lomov, Aidan Baker, Lezrod, Motionfield. But also Oophoi or Robert Rich before bed.
1: Re: Ponded. Matt, do you happen to be an alumnus of the same college as the band?
My list is all The Shins and Modest Mouse, thanks to my little brother. I hardly ever listen to anything often enough to knock them out of the list.
Not that I don't love both bands.
Right now I'd guess I'm listening mostly to The Decembrists, Death Cab, Iron & Wine, The MarsVolta, and a few others I'm forgetting.
Well, not exactly an alumnus...I'm taking a rather non-traditional path to graduation. But yes, I did attend the same school. I was actually supposed to live in a suite with them my sophomore year, until I dropped out for the first time. How do you know about them?
Former student of same institution. I saw them once at Monk's. Not bad. I only have "Side Scrolling" on my computer though. I think I downloaded it from their website. It was the one song that really caught my ear when I saw them.
I'm pretty sure they opened for The Charm City Players, who are also quite good, a fantastic hard blues band. The guitarist was a good friend of mine while I was there. One of the best guitarist I've seen live, if I do say so with a bit of bias.
FWIW, I also am on the multi-year program, just now at a different school.
*multi-year* meaning more than four, of course.
Ah, Monk's. Such a great shitty bar. When I was 18, I'd go there and order a "coke", which would invariably contain rum when it was served to me.
Yeah, they played with the Charm City guys a few times, I never saw any of the shows, though. The Ponded guitarist was pretty damn good, very cool guy too. He was in a poli-sci class with me.
When were you there?
Fall of '02.
Monk's was great for shows and 'College Night,' but my heart still belongs to the Green Door.
Were you there for any of the Unprovoked Moose Attack era? I'd always heard about them, but I never saw them and I've never heard any of their stuff. They easily hold the title for "best band name ever" though.
Also, I feel privileged that, on this blog of innumerable in-jokes, you and I are the only ones who know what the name "Ponded" refers to.
I got ponded once, though not on my birthday. We were filming a video for a history class, and I unfortunately got the short straw. It was in late November I think. It was freakin' cold.
That was my first semester there. So long ago, it seems...
Oh, the Door was awesome too. Pitcher and Pizza night, ah those were the days. I'm sorry I wasn't there when they still had the dirt floor. Apparently they only threw down some floorboards a few years before I got there.
Never saw Unprovoked Moose Attack, must have been before my time. The name sounds familiar, though.
I managed to avoid pondings the whole time. My birthday is always a few days before people start showing up in August, so I lucked out. But I flipped my crew shell a few times, so that makes up for it.
Yeah, Unprovoked Moose Attack was there when I was in high school at the local Catholic school.
Crew team? Or was that a cardboard boat race thing? I played lacrosse there.
The floorboards at the Door aren't as cool as the dirt floor apparently was, but I understand they would have lost their liquor license if they hadn't put them in.
That bar is part of the reason I'm not there anymore. I'd go there, especially monday with pizza and a pitcher and thursday with pint night, get drunk and miss class.
I still know a few of the bartenders there, so even now I can walk out shitfaced with two or three friends and the tab for all of us will be around 25 bucks.
And pool there is free because the tables are broken. I love that place.
Unprovoked Moose Attack[...] easily hold the title for "best band name ever" though.
That title is actually held by REO Speeddealer. Silver goes to The Menstrual Tramps.
I have a soft spot from my college DJ days for Butt Trumpet and Lubricated Goat.
74: I'm claiming bronze for Unprovoked Moose attack then.
Once in Pittsburgh I saw a sign for a show featuring "Marilyn Hanson." This during the one week that that joke was funny.
I have a soft spot...for Butt Trumpet and Lubricated Goat
It won't be soft for long, if you keep that up.
Ah, Butt Trumpet. I used to play their songs every now and then just to be able to say the name on the air. I could never bring myself to call Anal Cunt anything but "A.C.," though.
Another favorite from back in the day: Killdozer. (They had a really fucking awesome cover of Janet Jackson's "Nasty.")
Crew team. I'm crazy like that.
Ah, you went to Ryken. You might know Tucker Grube-O'Brien? He went there (graduated '02), he did crew as well. Yeah, the missing class...I'm paying for it now. Two jobs and night classes, I want to slap the me of three years ago. Ah well, they were good times.
Yeah I know Tucker. Semi-normal kid in high school, went a little crazy hippy in college. Not like dreadlocked-phish-listening-hippie, but more like hardcore libertarian kinda hippie. Good kid, though. I heard his mom isn't president anymore. That true?
Don't hand out the medals for best band name yet. There are a lot more contenders for that title.
You know what's a great band name? The Beatles.
In high school I was in a band called 'Purple Monkey Dishwasher.'
We played a one night affair, the talent show. It was a magical night for all involved. At least I think it was; I was too drunk to know what the hell was going on. It was the only way I was comfortable enough to go on stage.
A week or so later, I found out I had been replaced, mostly because I quit smoking pot.
It won't be soft for long, if you keep that up.
Did I just experience deja vu, or did Joe Drymala just allude to a classic unfogged moment?
Re Anal Cunt: it's a good thing you didn't say their name on air, Chopper, since that could have earned you an FCC fine.
Yes, well, it was a 10-watt station. I think our broadcast radius was about 4 blocks. I would play the songs with the bad words, just couldn't overcome all of the soap-in-mouth moments of my youth to actually say it out loud.