Interesting (not really, but let me pretend)

[pocketnovel]

I just glance at my Top 25 Most Played list from iTunes. Now, this is only since I got this computer in September 2005 and probably wildly inaccurate because it doesn't account for any of my non-iTunes listening (which is substantial--hi iPods!). But still:

1. Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head
2. The Essex Green - Rue de Lis
3. Andrew Bird - Sovay
4. Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - You Are What You Love
5. KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle - Live Stream (haha--how did I ever think I wouldn't move to Seattle?)
6. Knife in the Water - Watch Your Back
7. The Essex Green - Penny & Jack
8. Andrew Bird - Measuring Cups
9. Edith Frost - Emergency
10. The Essex Green - Don't Know Why (You Stay)
11. The Magnetic Fields - When My Boy Walks Down the Street
12. Palaxy Tracks - The Sediment
13. Art Brut - Good Weekend
14. Belle and Sebastian - Act of the Apostle Part 1
    
15. The Essex Green - Uniform
16. The Jayhawks - Blue
17. Knife in the Water - Promenade
18. Okkervil River - Dead Dog Song [Radio]
    
19. Knife in the Water - Kill a Tiger
20. Michael Franti & Spearhead - Never Too Late (Live on KEXP) (ok, that's embarassing)
21. Okkervil River - Riot Act
22. Palaxy Tracks - To the Chicago Abyss
23. Pavement - Gold Soundz
24. Shearwater - A Hush
25. Stephen Malkmus - Malediction

Okay now, I can buy most of these.  Not necessarily all-time faves or true most-listened, but generally pretty frequently-listened at some point in the last year.  But numbers 14, 18, and 21 surprised the hell out of me.  I mean, I like them, but those are a couple of my favorite bands and hardly favorite tracks by them.  Weird.

For the record, my favorite Okkervil River song is "He Passes Number 33" (the version on the split EP with Julie Doiron, not the LP version).  Not sure about Belle & Sebastian.  "Lazy Line Painter Jane," "Piazza, New York Catcher" or "Seeing Other People" are all good candidates.  Or "The State I Am In," after all I named my LJ after it!  Or...okay, too hard to choose.  Maybe I'm splitting the vote here.