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01 January 2006

#1 On My Playcount Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

What's #1 on yours? Care to share it? And yes, this is a blatant attempt to add some high quality tunes to my collection. And yours. But yeah, mostly mine.

post by: fenriq at: 12:27 | 22 comments

Dictators - Who Will Save Rock & Roll?

(jeez, I'm predictable aren't I?)

posted by jonmc 01 January | 12:33

Playcount?

Last.fm says it's "Untitled" by Sturm, but that doesn't work, because all of Sturm's songs are called "Untitled".

posted by cmonkey 01 January | 12:50

Yeah, I couldn't figure out how to get that info from last.fm; all they gave me was the artist. So I picked my favorite song and here it is for you. Drivin' and Cryin', Straight to Hell, with thanks to Goatdog, who made the cd and mailed it to me the old fashioned way.

posted by mygothlaundry 01 January | 13:03

Here's my chart.

My number one track is Somebody's Going To Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight - The Rezillos. That's mostly because I keep playing it in my radio sets.

The top track that I've hardly played on the radio sets is Loudon Wainwright III - Little Ship. A very simple song but then many of the best are.

posted by dodgygeezer 01 January | 13:04

Here's my chart, and the second most played song, This Year - The Mountain Goats.

posted by cmonkey 01 January | 13:18

10 A.M Automatic, by The Black Keys. More available here.

posted by brainwidth 01 January | 13:18

iTunes says it's Low - Monkey, and last.fm says it's Stina Nordenstam - Get On With Your Life.

posted by matildaben 01 January | 13:26

I don't keep track of these thing very well (don't actually listen to music on the computer much), but I'm pretty sure it was Smog - Let Me See the Colts, followed closely by Fake's album, You Are Not Dead (samples).

posted by dobbs 01 January | 13:48

Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything

Mygoth, according to last.fm, your top track is "Bad Company - Feel Like Makin' Love"!!!!!!!

posted by taz 01 January | 14:11

Excellent choice, fenriq, that's been a fave of mine for along looong time!

I wanted to share one via YSI with mechas but I'm clueless. In poking around on the YSI site, "applications have been temporarily suspended", and it looks like I can only send via an email addy. Am I nuts?

http://www.yousendit.com/community.aspx

posted by chewatadistance 01 January | 14:29

According to iTunes, it's Neko Case - Favorite, which is only appropriate.

Try it again, chewatadistance. It was slow, but I was able to get it to upload.

posted by bmarkey 01 January | 14:39

my most played on my itunes is : Let Love Speak up Itself/Beautiful South

my most played on my ipod is : Waiting for the Siren's Call/New Order

(I listen to my ipod much more than my itunes, so rounding out my ipod's top 10--email me if you want any of them-- To the sky/Cure, Krafty/New Order, Caravan of Love/Housemartins, Book of Love/Magnetic Fields, Ladyflash/Go! Team, Busby Berkeley Dreams/Magnetic Fields, Baby Love Child/Pizzicato 5, Ribbons & Chains/Ian McCullogh, It's Been Done/Angela McCluskey)--It's Been Done has been the current fav for a while.

posted by amberglow 01 January | 14:42

google yousendit and use their cache--it works.

posted by amberglow 01 January | 14:43

chew, just put in your own email addy. It will provide a link when it's done uploading, and you can post that link here. (unless I'm misunderstanding the problem you're having with it.)

Mine is Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You in the End, although last.fm seems to have stopped tracking my listening habits.

posted by goatdog 01 January | 14:43

chew, just put in your own email addy.

I just leave that field blank. The URL will appear on the "done" page for you to cut and paste.

posted by dobbs 01 January | 15:07

I know taz - I finally figured it out, through the clouds of hangover. It's because I keep all the yousendit music in one big folder called miscellaneous and play that all the time; it's like permanent radio mecha. :-) And, actually I do like that song too. Although my latent coolness is embarrassed by it.

posted by mygothlaundry 01 January | 16:54

ooooo thanks for the tips, kids - it worked that last time! Here ya go:

http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3F8KWQ4H8HX7412NAJZ49L7Y20

posted by chewatadistance 01 January | 18:51

#1 in Itunes is this vaguely eastern european/ polish folk rock thing called Taniec Chasidyzki (which i reckon means Hasidic Dance). I have no idea where I got it from, but the melody is very light and happy. Which is why I listen to it so often, I guess.

posted by dhruva 01 January | 19:33

In iTunes, #1 is Of Montreal - Will You Come and Fetch Me with a playcount of 85(!). On my last.fm it is Chris and Thomas - Take These Thoughts, which I cannot ysi because I bought it from the iTunes store and its DRM'ed all to hell.

posted by mayfly wake 01 January | 22:22

MGL..I haven't thought of Drivin' and Cryin' since I saw them play in the 80s. I think they opened for REM.

And brainwidth, The Black Keys are mr. rossi's favorite.

posted by jrossi4r 01 January | 22:51

goatdog, can you upload yours again? I'm getting a "File Transfer: Unavailable", so I guess it's exceeded the download limit.

Also, the link for jonmc's file times out for me...

posted by taz 01 January | 23:36

Dhruva, I loved that. thanks.

posted by theora55 02 January | 15:42

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