ooooh, interesting. My guess, before I even look on our shared computer is that it will be the Beatles. Because that's what we tend to play in the mornings, for the kidling (she's a fangirl).

*checks*

Yep. Nowhere Man.

I don't allow my music software that much access to the files.

Gosh -- they're all pretty good!

Might be "Summertime Clothes" by Animal Collective. I need something driving and catchy like that today.

Aw, hell, you're gonna get all of 'em.

Alexandre Gretchaninoff (composer): Ne rïdáy Meñé, Máti (Do Not Lament Me, O Mother)
Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes
Arcade Fire: Cold Wind
Beatles: Michelle
Beatles: What Goes On
Beautiful South: Livin' Thing
Ben Folds: Time
Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens): Tortoises
The Clash: Rudie Can't Fail
Damien Rice: Delicate
Dionne Warwick: I'll Never Fall In Love Again
Requiem (Faure): In Paradisum
Housemartins: Happy Hour
Jason Falkner: Lost Myself
Jason Falkner: I already Know
Jason Falkner: Hectified
Jason Falkner: Miss Understanding
Jeff Buckley: Vancouver
Justin Timberlake: SexyBack (Richard "Humpty" Vission mix)
Katamari Damacy: Katamari on the Rock (Main Theme)
Pet Shop Boys: Integral
Philip Glass/Kronos Quartet: Mina on the Terrace
Queen: We are the Champions
Rufus Wainwright: I Don't Know What It Is
Rufus Wainwright: The Art Teacher
Simon and Garfunkel: Emily's Song
Simon and Garfunkel: Blues Run the Game
Spinal Tap: Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
Tom Jones: Take Me to the River
White Stripes: Seven Nation Army (Adam Freeland mix)

Damn, that's a nice playlist. I might just have to make it so.

Awesome. Tied at 13 plays each (along w/ others, of course):

Joy Division, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and New Order, "Blue Monday."

My hard drive took a permanent vacation last week (less than 24 hours after I backed up the 35,000+ songs loaded!!!), so I currently don't have the option to sort by plays. But Last.fm comes to the rescue!

According to Last.fm, here are my first 13 songs played 13 times (one for each artist)

Echo & the Bunnymen – The Cutter
Spoon – Lines in the Suit
Modern Lovers – Roadrunner
Didjits – Headless
Guadalcanal Diary – Get Over It
Lords of the New Church – Russian Roulette
Buzzcocks – Sitting Round at Home
Sweet – Action
Stiff Little Fingers – Gotta Gettaway
Naked Raygun – Wonder Beer
Cheap Trick – Oh Caroline
Franz Ferdinand – Darts Of Pleasure
The Kinks – Tired Of Waiting For You

Ooops - I see we were supposed to pick a fave. At this moment I'll go with Echo & the Bunnymen's "the Cutter" from that list since I just saw them do a ripping great version of it last week.

Closest one I have is "Wouldn't it be nice" by the Beach Boys. I heart that song!

I don't have any music software that does that.

Mine doesn't either.

So instead I loaded this remix of Miss Fatty up and listened to it 13 times.

Hm. Lastfm only sorts down to 24 plays each. Of those 22 tracks, I'd say my favorite was Garbage "Supervixen" or David Bowie "Heroes".

Alison Krauss - Lord Don't Forsake Me
Amy Rigby - Always With Me
Black Prairie - Across the Black Prairie
Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer - Disappearing Man
Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer - 236-6132
Decemberists - Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
Jefferson Airplane - Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon
Kasey Chambers - We're All Gonna Die Someday
Leonard Cohen - If It Be Your Will
Lucinda Williams - Jackson
The Puppini Sisters - Wuthering Heights
Sleater-Kinney - Ballad of a Ladyman
Tegan and Sara - Fix You Up
Thea Gilmore - Contessa

I could not choose a favorite, out of these.

Question:
This is, of course, dependent upon which machine you're currently using and how recently you wiped it, but how many times have people played their most-listened songs?

I'm at 39, 35 and 32 for my top three. The top two are on my "Okay, buckle down and WORK!" mix.

I can't do this--on just my playlist of 5-star songs, I have over 70 that have been played 13 times.

Hmmm, a somewhat embarrassing list:

A-Ha - Take On Me
AC/DC - House of the Rising Sun
Adrian Gurvitz - Classic
Aerosmith - Walk This Way
Aerosmith - Draw the Line
Aerosmith - Come Together

If I had to pick a favourite, it would be 'Walk This Way', I guess. Which is fine by me.

I suspect this is because of my tendency to play all the stuff on shuffle while I'm working, so it tends to start from A? iTunes was re-installed recently so the counts have been re-set. The most-played on that list is AC/DC - Back in Black, but it's only 18 times. I most often play music from my iPhone, but it doesn't provide counts - my guess would be that Shine on You Crazy Diamond would be the most-played.

I lose my playcounts 2ce a year, as if they're on schedule, so my list reflects really really really recent plays.

Mine is Matraca Berg, Oh Cumberland.

Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work

By lastFM, here's all the tracks played 13 times:

Gillian Welch – Orphan Girl
Son Volt – Medicine Hat
Wilco – I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
Grateful Dead – Loser
Gillian Welch – Wayside/Back In Time
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – A Night in Tunisia
Wilco – Hummingbird
Over the Rhine – Hush Now (Stella's Tarantella)
Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place
The Black Keys – The Wicked Messenger
Death – Keep on Knockin
Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station Medley
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Dragon Queen

Pretty much what I'd expected.

I just cleared the memory of my player so everything has been reset to zero

Can't decide a favourite between:

Ohio - Beats Never Rust
The Israelites - Desmond Dekker

(have discarded: Psycho Killer and This Charming Man)


...all from the laptop which is rarely a source...

So instead I loaded this remix of Miss Fatty up and listened to it 13 times.

Thanks for that, it's a fantastic tune. I was surprised to hear the original (video featuring durrty dancin, possibly NSFW) has some of those Reece-like basslines - very electronic-ey for dancehall. Or I may be missing out on modern dancehall tunes.

And I can't tell play counts on my iPod (or I don't know where to see that without iTunes). Instead, I offer Deadboy's remix of Fireworks by Drake (found on Ca$h Antic$ Vol. 2). I've listened to it more than 13 times, but it'll do for now.