Tuesday, June 23 2009
What better way to procrastinate than by plundering my iTunes library?
Here are some select data from yours truly’s music collection:
Number of Songs: 4,615
Number of Albums: 702
Most Recently Played Song: “Zat You Santa Claus” - Louis Armstrong
Most Played Song: “Suffragette City”- David Bowie
Most Played Song that maybe you haven’t heard: “A House Is Not A Motel”- Love
Most Recently Added Album: Wilco (The Album) - Wilco
First Song Alphabetically: “Abbaon Fat Track”- Tricky
Last Song Alphabetically: “Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back)”- Harry Belafonte
Longest Title: “Americans Own The Moon, They Bought It From The Germans - Who Won It At A Poker Game In World War II”- Mushroom
Smallest Number In A Song Title: “.000.000” - Beck
Largest Number In A Song Title: “Excerpt 31 69 c. 121733-122533 PM NYC” - La Monte Young
Shortest Song: “Cosmic Tomes for Sleep Walking Lovers (Pt. 4) [Fifteen Ways Towards a Finite Universe]”- Exploding Star Orchestra (0:11)
Longest Song: “Gondwana”- Miles Davis (46:05)
Shortest Song With A 5-Star Rating: “The Second Line” - Clinic (2:28) (Well, excluding Glenn Gould’s 1955 recording of The Goldberg Variations)
Longest Song With A 5-Star Rating: “Bitches Brew” - Miles Davis (27:01)
First Album Alphabetically: ABC Music - Radio 1 Sessions, Stereolab
Last Album Alphabetically: Young Team, Mogwai
First Album Numerically: The 3 EPs, The Beta Band
Last Album Numerically: 1968, Pajo
First Five Songs That Pop Up On Shuffle iTunes DJ:
“FDR in Trinidad”- Van Dyke Parks
“Think About Carbs”- Hot Snakes
“Juramento”- Compay Segundo
“My Favorite Things”- Alice Coltrane
“I Think I’m A Mother”- PJ Harvey
Five Songs I have Never Played
“Lieber Honig”, Neu!
“Projection Esemplastic for White Noise” - Joji Yuasa
“Pop Tones” - Public Image Ltd.
“Frankie” - Mississippi John Hurt
“Airport Jail” - Tricolor (bullshit, iTunes, I’ve totally played that)