itunes Top 25 (Response to Paul Wheatley's Entry)

"Ok. I want everyone who reads this to be vulnerable. No editing. No kidding. Post your Top 25 Most Played from your iTunes in the comments section. Just do it. Remark on mine as you deem necessary. I'm ready. Be brutal. Ask questions. Let's make it a dialogue."

Extremely good idea...if you have itunes on your computer...which I do...I've always had it hoping to get an Ipod or something similar...which I haven't...that will be the title of a future entry.

My top 25, as of 03/04/05, no editing:

1. Every Double Life* - The New Amsterdams - Never You Mind - 31 - 12/30/04
2. Transistor - 311 - Transistor - 27 - 2/15/05
3. We Laugh Indoors* - Death Cab for Cutie - 25 - 12/2/05
4. Cosmonaut* - At the Drive In - Relashonship of Command - 24 - 2/9/05
5. 405 (Accoustic) - Death Cab for Cutie - 24 - 12/30/04
6. One By One All Day - The Shins - Oh, Inverted World - 23 - 2/11/05
7. Lockdown - Less than Jake - Losing Streak - 22 - 2/4/05
8. Pretend to Be The Same - Slick Shoes - The Biggest and the Best - 22 - 12/2/04
9. Mistakes and Regrets* - And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Madonna - 21 - 11/21/04
10. In Spite of the World* - The Ataris - Blue Skies, Broken Hearts, Next 12 Exits - 21 - 3/1/05
11. Company Calls - Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes - 21 - 2/7/05
12. What Happens Next - Slick Shoes - Burnout - 21 - 2/7/05
13. All My Best Friends Are Metalheads* - Less than Jake - Hello Rockview - 20 - 2/4/05
14. Pepper - Millencolin - Pennybridge Pionners - 20 - 1/17/05
15. San Francisco - Mu330 - s/t - 20 - 2/28/05
16. Responsible - Slick Shoes - Burnout - 20 - 1/24/05
17. A Better Place, A Better Time* - Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb - 20 - 2/28/05
18. Look What Happened - Less than Jake - Borders and Boundaries - 19 - 2/9/2005
19. Food (A.K.A. Aren't You Hungry - Reggie and the Full Effect - 19 - 10/27/05
20. For Better, For Worse* - Slick Shoes - Burnout - 19 - 2/4/05
21. A Movie Script Ending - Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album - 18 - 12/8/04
22. Erin With An "E"* - The Impossibles - Anthology - 18 - 1/31/05
23. Sugar in Your Gas Tank - Less Than Jake - Losing Streak - 18 - 1/17/05
24. Consequential Apathy* - RX Bandits - Progress - 18 - 12/5/04
25. Fighting In A Sack - The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow - 18 - 2/11/05

*Appears on my all time favorite songs mix...see earlier entry

Some preliminary notes:

It is importiant to remember that I do not have an ipod...this list only represents songs that I've listened to while at my computer. When I'm at my computer I am either studying, blogging, or making mix cds. Thus, my list is biased towards good study songs or songs that are on mix cds that I have made. I occasionaly get "obsessed" with a single song, but most often that happens while I am listening to a cd in the car or on my portable cd player, and not at the computer. However, this does explain why "Tranistor" is at #2, I was just sitting at the computer, putting it on a mix, and I ended up playing it for an hour straght because I was rocking out.

Because I listen mostly to cds, some bands that I listen to more than others are way underrepresented (RX Bandits highest song is #24, but I listen to them as much as anyone, no Mars Volta yet I spent the whole summer listening to them last year). But, if you keep the limitations in line, then this is a pretty good representation of the music I listen to while at the computer. You'll also note that many of the songs are also on my all time favorites mix cd...which can be explained both by the fact that I was listening to them to put on in the right order on the mix, as well as the fact that I can listen to those songs over and over again and not get tired of them.