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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

My 25 Most Played Songs



This feels like one of those dreams where you show up to class in your underwear. Itunes has a feature that lets you create "smart" playlists. One of the smart playlists lets you track your top 25 most played songs of all time. It's almost like reading someone else's diary if you think about it. I'm surprised at a lot of the songs on this list. I haven't listened to a Rogue Wave song in over a year, but damn I must have been rocking that album hard when it came out.

Some of these songs make sense for me, and some I wouldn't even think to put in my top 50 if I was making a list from scratch. When using hard facts like this smart playlist, my hands are tied on the cool factor. I'm unable to tweak this by adding any kind of obscure noise rock band just to prove I'm worthy of your readership (I actually considered playing a Battles song over and over again until it made the list), or conjure up any visions of me being one of those "hip" people you see walking the streets wearing an outfit that is supposed to look like they don't care, but actually probably took way more effort and money to put together than a normal outfit.

By some minor miracle or act of God, Phil Collins' "Don't Lose My Number" didn't appear in my top 25. So here it is without any edits, and without any shame, my Top 25 most played songs in Itunes.

  1. The Knife - Heartbeats
  2. Editors - Bullets
  3. MP3: Panda Bear - Ponytail alt link
  4. Joy Divison - Love Will Tear Us Apart
  5. Sigur Ros - Glosoli
  6. MP3: Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Matt Sweeney - My Home Is The Sea alt link
  7. Interpol - PDA
  8. Morphine - All Your Way
  9. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
  10. Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Matt Sweeney - Beast For Thee
  11. Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye'd Boy
  12. MP3: M. Ward - To Go Home alt link
  13. Rogue Wave - 10:1
  14. Rogue Wave - Are You On My Side
  15. MP3: Broken Social Scene - Superconnected alt link
  16. Interpol - Untitled
  17. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
  18. MP3: Rogue Wave - Salesman At The Day Of The Parade alt link
  19. Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
  20. Tom Waits - Hang Down Your Head
  21. Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
  22. Band Of Horses - Is There A Ghost
  23. MP3: The Bees - Listening Man alt link
  24. Beirut - Scenic World
  25. Talking Heads - I'm Not In Love