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01 February 2010

What key are most of your favorite songs in? According to this gadget, which analyzes your favorites via Last.fm, my favorite key is G♭ minor (29%). Mouse over the colors in your pie chart and it'll tell you some of the songs in each key.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 11:16 | 17 comments

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posted by BoringPostcards 01 February | 11:17

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posted by gaspode 01 February | 11:23

Interesting!

posted by gaspode 01 February | 11:24

Wow! I'm a lot more cheerful than I thought I was.

posted by maudlin 01 February | 11:25

G♭ minor, BoPo? Do we need to worry about you slitting your wrists any time soon?

Mine won't resolve. It says D Major, but it got hung up on a weirdo Andrew Bird song. I think maybe it's confused now. As it should be.

posted by mudpuppie 01 February | 12:03

I have perfect pitch. Whenever someone pitches up or down one of my favorite hymns at church, it literally ruins it for me. Can't access this (blocked at work), but I know that my favorite key is A, no question.

posted by Melismata 01 February | 13:15

I know from playing guitar that the answer, for me, is G Major - "the people's key."

posted by Miko 01 February | 13:18

G♭ minor, BoPo? Do we need to worry about you slitting your wrists any time soon?

I thought D minor was the saddest key of all.

posted by fogovonslack 01 February | 14:04

C# major, even though my 'others' section was bigger than it.

posted by sperose 01 February | 14:24

G♭minor would be a very unusual way to notate that key.

posted by Wolfdog 01 February | 14:45

B♭ major. Interesting.

posted by chrismear 01 February | 16:59

G Major for me but I'm totally musically illiterate so I have no idea what that means. Is that a good key?

I've never really understood what a key was.

posted by octothorpe 01 February | 17:06

Octothorpe: It's just something that westerners invented.

posted by Melismata 01 February | 17:45

E major for me. I am also unsure about what that means. 30% though, seems like it might mean SOMETHING.

posted by richat 01 February | 21:31

This was fun. I got Gminor

BUT since most of the favorite songs were from the same band, I suspect it's Dean Garcia's favorite key or Toni Halliday's natural key.

posted by crush-onastick 02 February | 19:22

A quick survey of the internet and my sheet music reveals that none of my favorite classical music is in G Minor.

posted by crush-onastick 02 February | 19:24

Mine's A Major, which is interesting since I always thought I was drawn to minor keys.

posted by evilcupcakes 03 February | 02:56

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