Whilst I'm waiting for the second episode of the third series of the brilliant The Last Detective - everything that the television adaptation of Rebus isn't and more - to download, I thought I would throw this iTunes meme your way. I'm not going to tag anyone to do it, but if you do end up doing the meme on your blog, let me know so I can check it out. Cheers.
Total Songs
6918 songs, 28.13 GB
Sorted by Song Title
First: 'A' Bomb in Wardour Street - The Jam
Last: Zurich is Stained - Pavement
Sorted by Artist
First: Voices Carry - 'Til Tuesday
Last: Loads of Noise - Zounds
Sorted by Album
First: Sex Boy - The Germs (from (MIA) The Complete Anthology)
Last: When the World is Running, You Make the Best of What's Still Around - The Police (from Zenyatta Mondatta)
Ten Most Played Songs1. New Moon on Monday - Duran Duran (124 plays)2. Tell You Now - Le Tigre (113 plays)3. Living For The Weekend - Hard-Fi (108 plays)4. New Slang - The Shins (105 plays)=5. Baader Meinhof - Luke Haines (103 plays)=5. Lovestruck - Madness (103 plays)7. Modern Way - Kaiser Chiefs (99 plays)8. Take My Temperature - Kaiser Chiefs (96 plays)9. Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners (92 plays)10. We've Been Had - The Walkmen (90 plays)
Ten Most Recently PlayedCafeteria Rock - The RondellesThe Death of All The Romance - The DearsSee You Through - Lizzie West11 O'Clock Tick Tock - U2Christian Girls - HefnerKeep Sending Me Black Fireworks - Of MontrealSo Tired of Being Alone - Al GreenFree Saptal Ram - Asian Dub FoundationForbidden Colours - Sakamoto & SylvianCatastrophe - Rainer Maria
Find 'sex' - how many songs show up?
18Sex Boy - The GermsContre Le Sexisme - Sonic YouthSex as a Weapon - Pat BenetarSex and the Church - David BowieSexuality - Billy BraggDress Sexy at my Funeral - SmogIt's So Sexy - Eagle*SeagullSelf-Obsessed and Sexxee - Sonic YouthSheffield: Sex City - PulpSexx Laws - BeckSex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll - Ian Dury and the BlockheadsSecret Sex Friend - Free KittenSex Dwarf - Soft CellSex Without Stress - Au PairsSex Life - Black Box RecorderSexy Sadie - The BeatlesSex Boy - Free KittenNasty Sex - La Revolucion De Emiliano Zapata
Find 'death' - how many songs show up?
22Death Valley '69 - Sonic Youth (with Lydia Lunch)Death Disco - Public Image LimitedBirth, School, Work, Death. - The GodfathersDeath Of A Party - BlurLife Will Be The Death Of Me - The Ordinary BoysPosed To Death - The FaintDeath Of A Minor TV Celebrity - The Candy SkinsDeath Penalty - Witchfinder GeneralDeath Could Be At The Door - Eagle*SeagullDeath Or Life We Want You - The DearsDeath Goes To The Disco - PulpA Sudden Death - The OrganAccidental Death - Rilo KileyThe Death Of All Romance - The DearsDeath In The Suburbs - The DiodesDeath II - PulpResist Psychic Death - Bikini KillDeath Of Sarah Lucas - Luke HainesDeath Of A Shade Of A Hue - Of MontrealThe Lonesome Death Of Rachel Corrie - Billy BraggBlackfire Choked Our Death - BeckDeath Of A Clown - The Kinks
Find 'love' - how many songs show up?
249, and 10 picked via an iTunes shuffle are as follows:Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Saint EtienneWords Of Love - Mama Cass ElliotI Must Be In Love - SyreetaTunnel Of Love - Fun Boy ThreeFools In Love - Joe JacksonLove At First Sight - XTCL-O-V-E (Love) - Al GreenTattooed Love Boys - The PretendersDoes He Love You? - Rilo KileyLove In Vain - The Ruts
Find 'war' - how many songs show up?
16Rumours of War - June TaborWarrior In Woolworths - X Ray SpexWar - CelebrationWar-Subvert - ZoundsTarget/Mr. Disney/War - ZoundsLife During Wartime - Talking HeadsAct Of War - Arab StrapLove And War (11/11/46) - Rilo KileyWar Or Hands Of Time - Master ApprenticesHate And War - The ClashRich Man's War - Steve EarleWarrior - Steve EarleCivil War - Guns 'N' RosesMasters of War - Bob DylanStop Da War - Sergeant GarciaWar Baby - Tom Robinson
Find 'peace' - how many songs show up?
2Peace Attack - Sonic Youth(What's So Funny About) Peace, Love And Understanding? - Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Find 'rain' - how many songs show up?
25, and 10 picked via an iTunes shuffle are as follows:Fire And Rain - James TaylorThe Day It Rained Forever - Nick HeywardTinseltown In The Rain - The Blue NileI See The Rain - Matthew Sweet & Susanna HoffsKingdom Of Rain - The TheIt's Raining - Irma ThomasEscalator In The Rain - MicrodisneyA Rainy Night In Soho - The PoguesRaindrop - The Reindeer SectionRainy Day In June - The Kinks
Find 'sun' - how many songs show up?
43, and 10 picked via an iTunes shuffle are as follows:Sunshine And Clouds And Everything Proud - Clap Your Hands Say YeahOcto Realm: Ketamine Sun - The FallWait For The Sun - SupergrassThe Sun Goes Down (Living It Up) - Level 42The Sun And The Rain - MadnessPerfect Sunset - Vytas NagisettyHits Of Sunshine (For Allen Ginsberg) - Sonic YouthWhen The Sun Goes Down - The Arctic MonkeysSweet Sunshine - BeckSunrise Telling - Monade
Find 'socialist', 'communist' or 'anarchist' - how many songs show up?
5Cocaine Socialism - PulpCommunist Daughter - Neutral Milk HotelArmchair Anarchist - KingmakerAnarchy In The UK - Sex PistolsI'm A Better Anarchist Than You - David Rovics
14 comments:
Some good shit there, Dazza, but Level 42? Level fucking 42? I can just picture that tosser now slapping his fucking bass.
Darren, they were so shit - I cannot take you seriously ever again.
Tee hee hee hee hee.
Sorry Reidski,
I have a soft spot for Level 42. 'Something About You' and 'It's Over' are great tracks.
Btw, realised that survey/meme was far too long and no other bugger will do it. Therefore, no one else has the chutzpah to reveal their musical vulnerabilities. ;-)
Have I ever mentioned having Marillion's Script for a Jester's Tear in my record collection at one point. I was at a very low ebb in my musical life at the time.
My sister owned a copy of Marillion's Script for a Jester's Tear way back in the mists of time that was the 1980s (She also fancied Fish... she never had taste)
Well, Darren, great eclectic tunes. New Moon on Monday by Duran Duran, my fave on Seven and the Ragged Tiger. Though I think Waiting for the Great Leap Forward by Billy Bragg is better than Sex-u-ality. O
h and the fantastic Sex Dwarf by Soft Cell from Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret though I would also include My Secret Life (the new theme tune for Shagger Sheridan I don't suppose!)
Oh and XTC... early 1980s and secondary school (god, I hated school)and thought they were great.
Louise,
I have to come clean and admit that it is Kara that loves 'New Moon on Monday', not me. (She's also the massive Sonic Youth and Beck fan). I was always more of a 'Save A Prayer' kind of Duranie.
I think Marillion are due a re-evaluation.
Darren, no they are not!
Louisefeminista - I also fancied Fish, but only if it was battered and had mounds of chips with loads of salt and vinegar with it!!
Now let's get back to Level 42 ...
Reidski,
I do the bad gags in this comment box. ;-)
As my music cred has now gone for a burton with my admittance that I like some Level 42 tracks, I may as well go the whole nine yards by admitting now that I like early Spandau Ballet and early Simple Minds.
There . . . I've said it.
Darren, Your Meme was far too long, nonetheless, using every moment I can to avoid some plumbing tasks, I've had a go at it. I'm less vulnerable though cos I haven't included my pre sony walkman mp3s cos I can't sort them the same way.
P.S. Early Simple Minds weren't all that bad. But Level 42 FFS? I laways wanted to slap that guy with a plank!
Jim,
you're right that the meme was much too long but it was one of those situations where you reach a certain point in the meme where you realise that this is taking up far too much time, but you feel compelled to continue as to abandon it at this late stage would by self-defeating.
Really amazed at the levek of hostility displayed against Level 42 from the people of Irvine. I could understand if we were talking about Shakatak, but Level 42?
I guess the jazz-fusion scene never reached Ayrshire.
Awh this is a GREAT meme and screw the length (hmm, that sounds obscene...)
Nowt wrong with Spandau Ballet.
Chant Number One - a funk classic.
Duran Duran tho'? You need your heed examined. Posh gits.
Oi comrade, liking Duran Duran in your yoof doesn't constitute being a posh git! So there....
Yes, Chant No. 1 is still good to listen (and I was only listening to it yesterday on Napster).
Early Simple Minds were a good and esp. like Sparkle in the Rain (whether that is early is another thing).
And I also shamefully admit to liking some Level 42 (don't worry Darren you aint on ya own...)
Oh and what about Heaven 17... Truly classic esp. Temptation.
I have also been listening to Icicle Works, Bauhaus, Visage, Flock of Seagulls and Pale Fountains.
Oh Reidski, I agree re: Fish (Marillion variety not the gill variety) and said my sister had no taste!
Will,
early, middle and late Duran Duran - apart from a few damp patches - were class. And I'm not just saying that 'cos 'Save A Prayer' was the first single I ever bought. (Well, maybe). And anyone I always thought they were Brummie scruffs - ask Scribbles.
Louise,
though I like Sparkle In The Rain, I do think it was the point of no return for Jim Kerr and his Bono fixation. Check out the early, early stuff when his fixation was on Bowie. Much better person to musically stalk, I find.
Totally agree that Heaven 17 were especially brilliant. I sometimes wonder if part of the reason that they are not so well regarded now is because so much more was expected of them. By not properly going stratospheric, people dismiss Penthouse Pavement & The Luxury Gap, when they should be celebrated.
'Fraid to say that apart from the obvious, Ian McNabb and the Icicle Works were a bit overrated. Motormouth Pete Wylie of the Mighty Wah was the lost scouse musical treasure of that particular era.
"Motormouth Pete Wylie of the Mighty Wah was the lost scouse musical treasure of that particular era."
Darren: Totally agree!
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