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Posted 03 December 2006 - 11:59 PM

It's been a few years since this topic last came up, so I figured it's worth another whirl. Post the top five songs from your iTunes and their artist, (optionally) along with a brief sentence or two for each. No cheating and skipping over the Brit-pop.

My top 5 is dominated by songs I consider beautiful, even if most of them are sad.

#1: A Perfect Circle - The Noose (played 318 times)
Understatedly chilling, but utterly gorgeous.

#2: VAST - Touched (played 271 times)
All song about a loss so deep's it's spiritual.

#3: Shihad - Spacing (played 199 times)
Sad, but optimistic. Not all partings are forever.

#4: Seal - Kiss from a Rose (played 187 times)
I'm not entirely sure what he's singing about, but damn can Seal sing.

#5: A Perfect Circle - Pet (played 179 times)
Angry, possessive, and covertly political. Pretty much the opposite of the way I live.
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 12:25 AM

Note: I don't use iTunes a great deal anymore, so this is a bit out of date; if there was a way to show my iPod's most played it'd be far more accurate.

Dragostea Din Tei-O-Zone (54 plays)
The Numa Numa song. Was an obsession for a while.

Haben Sie Gahort Das Deutche Band?-The Producers (41 plays)
LipSync. Enough said.

Whip It-Devo (27 plays)
I'm kinda surpried at this one.

I Bet You They Won't Play this Song on the Radio-Monty Python (27 plays)

Dr Mario-Super Smash Bros. Melee (24 plays)
Er, yeah. Just, yeah.

Nothing particularly profound here; most of the time if I'm listening to iTunes I'm mostly looking for background noise.
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 01:00 AM

I generally like a lot of variety in what I listen to, so, despite having iTunes playing nonstop whenever I'm on the computer, I don't have any huge playcounts on anything.

Alison Krauss - The Lucky One (43 plays)
Been a while since I've really been into Alison Krauss's stuff, still great vocal stuff though.

Iron & Wine and Calexico - Dead Man's Will (38 plays)
Unbelievable song. Sam Beam is the friggen' king of slow, minimalist, vocal work.

Indigo Girls - Love Will Come To You (36 plays)
I need to find more lesbian harmonizing duos. Two of my favorite groups are the Indigo Girls and The Ditty Bops, some of the best stuff out there.

Iron & Wine - Sodom, South Georgia (34 plays)
Sam Beam again, can't be beat.

Tom Waits - Telephone Call from Istanbul (32 plays)
How can you not like a song whose chorus includes the lyrics, "Will you sell me one of those if I shave my head/Get me out of town is what Fireball said/Never trust a man in blue trench coat/Never drive a car when you're dead." Classic mad Tom Waits.

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 01:25 AM

1. Vesper – David Arnold played 726 times

It's just a kind of sad piece, but I like it.

2. And I love Her – The Beatles played 286 times

I listen to the Beatles a lot while I read, and this song reminds me of one of my books, oddly enough.

3. Gregorian Chant, Dies irae – Charles Hoffer played 120 times

This piece is kind of haunting.

4. Theme of Schindler's List - Izthak Perlman played 109 times

Another haunting piece.

5. Siege of Madrigal – Martin O'Donnell – played 109 times

A cool piece from the guy who wrote Halo's music.
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 01:48 AM

At the Drive-In - Invalid Litter Dept. (219 Plays)
Not much to say besides that this is a great song. Somewhat political, although that's buried under the obtuse lyrics.

The Mars Volta - Intertiatic E.S.P. (164 Plays)
One of those songs, that probably only makes sense if you use some scheduled substance (I believe it's about a Heroin overdose), but the energy and the interplay of guitar and keyboard make it good.

Tool - Lateralus (151 Plays)
A piece that builds up slowly of over it's nine minute length. What's most interesting about it is rhythm in the vocals in the first three or four minutes in this song.

At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor (130 Plays)
Comments about the same as for Intertiatic E.S.P.

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Sunshine the Werewolf (125 Plays)
Sometimes it's fun to listen to hyper-aggressive vocals (a.k.a. screaming). This just happens to have excellent music to accompany it as well.

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 12:39 PM

I only listen to Mars, Beethoven, and Star Wars. That's not even five.

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 04:49 PM

I generally listen to music by the albums, rather than specific songs. My Top 5 will be listed accordingly.


Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (~40 plays)
Ambient electronic instrumentals that I play while doing homework

David Bowie - Scary Monsters (~20 plays)
The last of Bowie's artsy, experimental albums

N.W.A. - Efil4zaggin (~15 plays)
Contains the gangsta rap gems "Real Niggaz", "She Swallowed It", and "One Less Bitch"

David Bowie - Stage (~11 plays)
Live album from 1978

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (~10 plays)
The start of Bowie's soul phase
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 05:41 PM

Heh, I just cleaned out my iTune's library so the most played are 4 I guess.

Throw it up - Lil Jon

Chunk up the duece - Lil Keke

Shoulder lean - Young Dro

Moneymaker - Ludacris

How exciting. It's SA's favorite music... RAP!
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 05:58 PM

I don't use iTunes...
You put what in my Power Mac?
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Posted 04 December 2006 - 11:55 PM

...where's the Windows Media Player topic?
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Posted 05 December 2006 - 01:17 AM

View PostBoris Yetskins, on Dec 4 2006, 10:41 PM, said:

Heh, I just cleaned out my iTune's library so the most played are 4 I guess.

Throw it up - Lil Jon

Chunk up the duece - Lil Keke

Shoulder lean - Young Dro

Moneymaker - Ludacris

How exciting. It's SA's favorite music... RAP!


Indeed. Except I usually spell it with a "C".

View PostTAC, on Dec 5 2006, 04:55 AM, said:

...where's the Windows Media Player topic?


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Posted 05 December 2006 - 01:27 AM

View PostSundered Angel, on Dec 5 2006, 02:17 AM, said:

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Indeed.

And I think I win handily for 'most played' music. Though technically I should have songs with even greater counts, but for some reason they got reset when I switched computers… *shrug*

Can anyone beat me? :P
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Posted 05 December 2006 - 01:43 AM

Like dude3, I also listen to music in sets (by album) rather than specific songs. Since the albums are mostly instrumental, I often chain a bunch randomly in a playlist that I use to replace computer game music.

Dave Seaman - Renaissance: Awakening (Disc 1) - ~176 plays

Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure II: West Coast - ~174 plays

Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure II: East Coast - ~161 plays

Dave Seaman - Renaissance: Awakening (Disc 2) - ~147 plays

Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure III: Expeditions ~145 plays

You can't tell from the list (actually, I don't know if you can tell much from the list), but I do have sets from other artists. The two groups above just happen to be my favorite mixers, so it takes longer to get tired of their albums.
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Posted 05 December 2006 - 04:30 PM

View PostSundered Angel, on Dec 4 2006, 11:17 PM, said:

Indeed. Except I usually spell it with a "C".

Well, as long as we're criticizing each other...Kiss From a Rose?

Hey Sundered, 1995 called. It wants its ambience back.
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Posted 05 December 2006 - 04:53 PM

The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen (95)
The Offspring - Hit That (89)
Foo Fighters - Everlong (86)
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy (77)
Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight (76)


Yeah, I'm into that late 90's/early 00's pop rock. 1996 was a good year.
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Posted 05 December 2006 - 08:23 PM

View PostSundered Angel, on Dec 5 2006, 12:17 AM, said:

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Posted 05 December 2006 - 08:45 PM

I think I recently reset my play count on everything, as I had a few 200+ songs (and one 450, but that was 4 seconds of silence that I put on loop and forgot to turn off as I tried to figure out if there was anyhting but silence, which there wasn't).
So, what you see here are the songs that pop up most often in my current, often played playlists, not any other ones, or ones that used to exist but don't.


Lips of Deciet/Avenged Sevenfold/Sounding the Seventh Trumpet/127
Sick song. Really.

Mistress/Disturbed/Believe/109
Also insanely good. In fact, I don't know how this got passed. Oh well.

Unholy Confessions/Avenged Sevenfold/87
The video :P

Intoxication/Disturbed/Believe/85
This doesn't stand out to me as a song that I actually play a lot. Not at all bad, but... the reset must have been really recent.

Prayer/Disturbed/Believe/84
Really a good song here, but still, I don't know how it got in my top five. Oh well.
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Posted 08 December 2006 - 03:45 AM

It's interesting how many people comment that they play music by album. I rarely, if ever, play music by album. I've rated pretty much most of my collection, and have three playlists which I mostly listen to: OK Music (3+ stars), My Top Rated (4+ stars), and My Very Top Rated (5 Stars). The end result is distinct striations in the playcount of my library; for instance, I have 65 songs with 100+ playcount, 205 with a 40+ playcount, and 517 with 10+.
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Posted 08 December 2006 - 06:21 PM

One of the things I like about sets from a good mixer is often the moments between songs, more than the individual songs themselves. If done well, the period where one melody begins to blend into something completely different can create a unique sensation you can't get anywhere else, even if you hear the same two songs on the radio or another album. So, most of my albums are mix CDs.

If you still have "Dammerung" buried in your library (from a year ago), you'll notice it abruptly starts and stops - though admittedly, it works as a stand-alone better than most of the other tracks I have, one of the reasons I picked it. So in my case, it doesn't really make sense to not shuffle by album, because then I'd get a bunch of abrupt starts and transitions into nothing.

I used to rate my collection with a star system, until my hard drive got wiped a year ago and I had to start all over. Now I just flag songs with 4 stars if I liked them enough to return to them later, or 5 stars if its something I can play over and over and never get tired of. Somehow, I ended up with a similar "striation" situation, except its more on the album level than the song level (and obviously with different numbers).
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Posted 09 December 2006 - 01:29 AM

Looking at my "Top Rated" playlist, I see that I've ranked all of two songs out of the 2200 or so I have on this computer (classical stuff is on a different laptop; the two songs are Ghost by the Indigo Girls and Wedding Day by Rosie Thomas, if anyone is curious), both of which I've undoubtably ranked by accident as I've never really seen the point behind it. I either like a song or I wouldn't continue wasting hard drive space on it.

I rarely listen to stuff by album, unless it's an album that happens to have a group of songs that flow well that I really like (Iron & Wine and Calexico - In the Reins, for example), but I do listen to songs by artist frequently. For example, today while studying I decided that I felt like listening to some Cake, so I started some up. I have five partial Cake albums on this machine, but that is irrelevant as I listened to the songs from those albums in alphabetical order of title rather than by album. It was, however, all Cake with nothing else. If there's any striation on my machine, it is by artist rather than by album/rating.

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Posted 09 December 2006 - 11:37 PM

#1: AC/DC - Back In Black (played 168 times)

#2: Nirvana - Sliver (played 168 times)

#3: Boston - More Than A Feeling (played 167 times)

#4: Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (played 165 times)

#5: Green Day - Minority (played 158 times)
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Posted 12 December 2006 - 04:11 PM

#1: The Dandy Warhols - Every Day Should Be a Holiday - 201 plays
Yeahhh... far from my favorite song but I'm using it for this little media project I'm doing in my spare time so I've really gotten to know it.

#2: Actionslacks - Sporting Life - 175 plays
Ah, I just like this song, it's from a very obscure indie band.

#3: The Dandy Warhols - Be-In - 170 plays
One of my favorites... seven minutes of awesome.

#4: The Dandy Warhols - Plan A - 164 plays
I don't know why...

#5: The Beta Band - Dry the Rain - 148 plays
Now THIS is probably my favorite song! Beautiful, suits any mood, I almost never skip it, unlike the four songs above this.


I'm surprised there's no Gomez on there... My Top 5 on my last.fm is a bit different.
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 03:31 PM

This is from my new computer.

Who Needs Shelter - Jason Mraz - 64
A Soapbox Opera - Supertramp - 56
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles - 55
Gravity - Embrace - 52
But For Now - Jamie Cullum - 45

Kinda sad that my favorite song isn't even number one. Oh well.
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