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Top 40 Most-Played Songs on My iPod at the Moment
1. "True or False" - Bishop Allen
2. "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" - The Hold Steady
Like a lot of this list, this is actually a tie only broken by alphabetization (I think it should be broken by whatever's more recently played, but that feels too much like tinkering. In this case, though, that distinction would move "Hoodrat" to the top).
3. "Stuck Between Stations" - The Hold Steady
4. "Zero" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The concert gave me a much-needed periodic reminder of the rest of the songs on It's Blitz!, but while "Softshock," "Heads Will Roll," and "Hysteric" are all hovering around the next-40 list, "Zero" continues to dominate.
5. "Sequestered in Memphis" - The Hold Steady
Weird trivia: when they play this live, it never sounds quite as good, not just because there's no sax, but because the central riff always sounds weirdly muted in the mix for some reason.
6. "Hop a Plane" - Tegan + Sara
7. "The Modern Leper" - Frightened Rabbit
8. "Most People are DJs" - The Hold Steady
9. "Banging Camp" - The Hold Steady
10. "Stay Positive" - The Hold Steady
I'm glad Katie put this on her CD game mix because I wasn't sure if other people also thought this song was awesome.
11. "The Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water, Triumph of" (live) - The Mountain Goats
12. "Titus Andronicus" - Titus Andronicus
13. "Dirt On Your New Shoes" - Bishop Allen
14. "Knuckles" - The Hold Steady
15. "People Got a Lotta Nerve" - Neko Case
This was so close to being one of my CD game songs, but it was a casualty of me trying not to just make a "best of the year so far" mix.
16. "Stevie Nix" - The Hold Steady
17. "My Life Would Suck Without You" - Kelly Clarkson
18. "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week" - Mandy Moore
Another technical tie between KC and Mandy (as well as several songs on either side of them), but I only buy albums from one of them. You know, thinking about it, I feel like you don't see Kelly Clarkson albums in the used racks as often as you do with most mass-appeal music. I'm also thinking about what would be the right price for a used Kelly Clarkson CD. Probably like three dollars, except not that first album, and if I recall even the one with "Since U Been Gone" has plenty of junk. I'm kind of curious about that bitter album she made against Clive Davis's wishes that no one (and by no one I mean thousands of people) bought. OK, I guess most of them are readily available for a dollar on half.com, but despite Beyonce's lack of chart placement here, that's really more her territory. I wish Beyonce was as productive as KC, though -- there are already four Kelly Clarkson records!
19. "The Sign" - The Mountain Goats
If I were a more attentive Mountain Goats fan, I would happily listen to a dozen different live versions of "The Sign" where Darnielle talks through slight variations on his usual shpiel, but I only have this one and a studio version without any storytelling, which is pretty much useless.
20. "Under the Blacklight" - Rilo Kiley
21. "Joset of Nazareth's Blues" - Titus Andronicus
The little piano crescendo in this song is just tremendous. I think I probably underrated this record when I did my best-of list last year.
22. "Fireworks" - The Tragically Hip
23. "Middle Management" - Bishop Allen
24. "South China Moon" - Bishop Allen
25. "Even in the Rain" - The Fiery Furnaces
26. "40 Bucks" - The Hold Steady
The better of the two new bonus tracks on A Positive Rage. Yeah story songs!
27. "I Support Women in Science" - The Sinister Turns
Here's what sometimes happens with CD game entries: I usually listen to them as CDs rather than ripping them, so I can better keep track of what I'm listening to. So I listen to them, like certain songs, and move on to the next one. Then I forget to rip said songs and put them on my ipod and remember six months later and listen to the Sinister Turns over and over. I even managed to do this twice with the Sinister Turns, because after I ripped this song from Cristin's CD (along with the Aly & AJ and GnR, and probably others that I can't think of right now but aren't more embarrassing than Aly & AJ), I sought out other Sinister Turns songs, which I promptly downloaded and forgot to add into my iTunes until another bunch of months went by. However, "Anatomy Assessment" and "The Last Time" are on there now, and I listen to them all the time, especially "The Last Time," and I fucking love this band; I wish I could find evidence of an album beyond an old MySpace posting that makes it sound like they have a bunch of albums. Anyway, thanks Stickles!
28. "Keep Me in the Dark" - The Fiery Furnaces
29. "Broom People" - The Mountain Goats
If you asked me for my favorite Mountain Goats songs, my mind likely wouldn't go straight to this one, but apparently it's up there. I appreciate the quieter tone ("inside voice," I believe John and/or an interviewer called it) on the new record, but there's nothing quite like Darnielle going "I am a babbling brooooooooooook" in this song.
30. "Up the Wolves" - The Mountain Goats
31. "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I would think that off of the War Child Heroes compilation, it would be the Hold Steady doing "Atlantic City" that would make it to this list, but go figure, it's the YYYs doing the Ramones, I guess maybe because I've already listened to the original "Atlantic City" so many times in the past couple of years.
32. "The Swish" - The Hold Steady
33. "Girls Like Status" - The Hold Steady
34. "Acid Tongue" - Jenny Lewis
35. "My Year in Lists" - Los Campesinos!
36. "You! Me! Dancing!" - Los Campesinos!
Some playlist shenanigans booted "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed" off of here, but that's semi-accurate as I sort of overdosed myself on that song and have been concentrating more on "Miserabilia" and "The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future" lately (but not enough to overtake these two monsters).
37. "Palmcorder Yajna" - The Mountain Goats
If you asked me for my favorite Mountain Goats songs, this, in fact, is where my mind would likely go.
38. "15" - Rilo Kiley
39. "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" - Weezer
I burned myself out a little on this song when I first got it, which is not to say I dislike it now -- it rules -- but I'm chilling out a little until the full record comes out. I've listened to it enough so that it pretty naturally comes into my head without much prompting.
40. "You Don't Know What Love It (You Just Do As You're Told)" - The White Stripes
I'm going to put some more White Stripes on my ipod right now.
Top 40 Most-Played Songs on My iPod at the Moment
1. "True or False" - Bishop Allen
2. "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" - The Hold Steady
Like a lot of this list, this is actually a tie only broken by alphabetization (I think it should be broken by whatever's more recently played, but that feels too much like tinkering. In this case, though, that distinction would move "Hoodrat" to the top).
3. "Stuck Between Stations" - The Hold Steady
4. "Zero" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The concert gave me a much-needed periodic reminder of the rest of the songs on It's Blitz!, but while "Softshock," "Heads Will Roll," and "Hysteric" are all hovering around the next-40 list, "Zero" continues to dominate.
5. "Sequestered in Memphis" - The Hold Steady
Weird trivia: when they play this live, it never sounds quite as good, not just because there's no sax, but because the central riff always sounds weirdly muted in the mix for some reason.
6. "Hop a Plane" - Tegan + Sara
7. "The Modern Leper" - Frightened Rabbit
8. "Most People are DJs" - The Hold Steady
9. "Banging Camp" - The Hold Steady
10. "Stay Positive" - The Hold Steady
I'm glad Katie put this on her CD game mix because I wasn't sure if other people also thought this song was awesome.
11. "The Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water, Triumph of" (live) - The Mountain Goats
12. "Titus Andronicus" - Titus Andronicus
13. "Dirt On Your New Shoes" - Bishop Allen
14. "Knuckles" - The Hold Steady
15. "People Got a Lotta Nerve" - Neko Case
This was so close to being one of my CD game songs, but it was a casualty of me trying not to just make a "best of the year so far" mix.
16. "Stevie Nix" - The Hold Steady
17. "My Life Would Suck Without You" - Kelly Clarkson
18. "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week" - Mandy Moore
Another technical tie between KC and Mandy (as well as several songs on either side of them), but I only buy albums from one of them. You know, thinking about it, I feel like you don't see Kelly Clarkson albums in the used racks as often as you do with most mass-appeal music. I'm also thinking about what would be the right price for a used Kelly Clarkson CD. Probably like three dollars, except not that first album, and if I recall even the one with "Since U Been Gone" has plenty of junk. I'm kind of curious about that bitter album she made against Clive Davis's wishes that no one (and by no one I mean thousands of people) bought. OK, I guess most of them are readily available for a dollar on half.com, but despite Beyonce's lack of chart placement here, that's really more her territory. I wish Beyonce was as productive as KC, though -- there are already four Kelly Clarkson records!
19. "The Sign" - The Mountain Goats
If I were a more attentive Mountain Goats fan, I would happily listen to a dozen different live versions of "The Sign" where Darnielle talks through slight variations on his usual shpiel, but I only have this one and a studio version without any storytelling, which is pretty much useless.
20. "Under the Blacklight" - Rilo Kiley
21. "Joset of Nazareth's Blues" - Titus Andronicus
The little piano crescendo in this song is just tremendous. I think I probably underrated this record when I did my best-of list last year.
22. "Fireworks" - The Tragically Hip
23. "Middle Management" - Bishop Allen
24. "South China Moon" - Bishop Allen
25. "Even in the Rain" - The Fiery Furnaces
26. "40 Bucks" - The Hold Steady
The better of the two new bonus tracks on A Positive Rage. Yeah story songs!
27. "I Support Women in Science" - The Sinister Turns
Here's what sometimes happens with CD game entries: I usually listen to them as CDs rather than ripping them, so I can better keep track of what I'm listening to. So I listen to them, like certain songs, and move on to the next one. Then I forget to rip said songs and put them on my ipod and remember six months later and listen to the Sinister Turns over and over. I even managed to do this twice with the Sinister Turns, because after I ripped this song from Cristin's CD (along with the Aly & AJ and GnR, and probably others that I can't think of right now but aren't more embarrassing than Aly & AJ), I sought out other Sinister Turns songs, which I promptly downloaded and forgot to add into my iTunes until another bunch of months went by. However, "Anatomy Assessment" and "The Last Time" are on there now, and I listen to them all the time, especially "The Last Time," and I fucking love this band; I wish I could find evidence of an album beyond an old MySpace posting that makes it sound like they have a bunch of albums. Anyway, thanks Stickles!
28. "Keep Me in the Dark" - The Fiery Furnaces
29. "Broom People" - The Mountain Goats
If you asked me for my favorite Mountain Goats songs, my mind likely wouldn't go straight to this one, but apparently it's up there. I appreciate the quieter tone ("inside voice," I believe John and/or an interviewer called it) on the new record, but there's nothing quite like Darnielle going "I am a babbling brooooooooooook" in this song.
30. "Up the Wolves" - The Mountain Goats
31. "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I would think that off of the War Child Heroes compilation, it would be the Hold Steady doing "Atlantic City" that would make it to this list, but go figure, it's the YYYs doing the Ramones, I guess maybe because I've already listened to the original "Atlantic City" so many times in the past couple of years.
32. "The Swish" - The Hold Steady
33. "Girls Like Status" - The Hold Steady
34. "Acid Tongue" - Jenny Lewis
35. "My Year in Lists" - Los Campesinos!
36. "You! Me! Dancing!" - Los Campesinos!
Some playlist shenanigans booted "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed" off of here, but that's semi-accurate as I sort of overdosed myself on that song and have been concentrating more on "Miserabilia" and "The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future" lately (but not enough to overtake these two monsters).
37. "Palmcorder Yajna" - The Mountain Goats
If you asked me for my favorite Mountain Goats songs, this, in fact, is where my mind would likely go.
38. "15" - Rilo Kiley
39. "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" - Weezer
I burned myself out a little on this song when I first got it, which is not to say I dislike it now -- it rules -- but I'm chilling out a little until the full record comes out. I've listened to it enough so that it pretty naturally comes into my head without much prompting.
40. "You Don't Know What Love It (You Just Do As You're Told)" - The White Stripes
I'm going to put some more White Stripes on my ipod right now.