Vodkapundit - Now Show Me Yours II

Now Show Me Yours II

Posted by Stephen Green · 17 February 2006

A while back, John Scalzi came up with a fun & useless little game. Hit "random" on iTunes or whatever MP3 software you use, then tell the world the first ten songs that came up.

I'm willing to go John one better.

Instead of randomizing, sort your entire library by how many times each song has played. This is easy to do on iTunes, but I'm not sure about other players. With my game, there's no hiding your bad taste behind the randomizer - the cream (or spoiled milk) will rise to the top. If you're willing to play, the whole world will know what you really like to play.

Here's my list:

Sex And Candy - Marcy Playground
Cryin' Shame - Lyle Lovett
Sleep All Day - Jason Mraz
Caramel - Suzanne Vega
Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
Maybe Tomorrow - Stereophonics
Still The Same - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
Let's Live It Up - The Brian Setzer Orchestra

Nothing terribly embarrassing there, although I can't believe Marcy Playground got the #1 spot. And "Sleep All Day" at number three? Really? On the other hand, only one disco tune made the top ten, so I'm not doing too badly.

The next ten, just because:

Moondance - Van Morrison
Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols
Strict Machine - Goldfrapp
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
Gloria - Patti Smith
Josie - Steely Dan
When I Found You - Mel Torme & Buddy Rich
JoJo - Boz Scaggs
Suffragette City - David Bowie
Personal Jesus (Acoustic Mix) - Depeche Mode

No, I'm not embarrassed by the Boz Scaggs selection. I'm a big fan of the Boz, and always have been - although I have to admit to a little relief that "Georgia" is only in the Top 30.

Comments

Here we do go, though I had to rebuild my machine awhile back and this isn't a long history:

"Young Man's Dream", The Galactic Cowboys, At The End Of The Day
"Bengali and Assamese Folk Songs", Amjad Ali Khan and sons, Live on the BBC
"You", Breakfast with Amy, Dad
"Paperback Believer (remastered)", Go Home Productions
"Shakespeare's Sister", The Smiths, Singles
"Godzilla", Blue Oyster Cult
"How To Bring A Blush To The Snow", Cocteau Twins, Victorialand
"Africa: Ahwach, Wedding Dance", Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Best Selection of
"Who By Fire", Leonard Cohen, The Best Of
'Track 07', Muse
"Fairpoint Diary", Over The Rhine, Films For Radio
"Panic", The Smiths, Singles
"hé, jelfej!", tigrics, mint egy befejezőnő (E.P)
"Work It Out", Undercover, Devotion

Okay, that's not 10, but there was a logjam tie after the top 5. No Boz Scaggs was heard in the making of this post.

Really, all pretty shiny stuff. I consider it my contribution to the community, countering air pollution.

Posted by: Guruzilla at February 17, 2006 11:20 PM

I played this game a few months ago.

3 Mustaphas 3 - Mamo, Snezhets Navalyalo
Annie Hayden - Start a little late
Kehilat Hadar - KeVakarat Ro'eh Edro
The Roches - Hammond Song
Frank Sinatra - Young at Heart
French Frith Kaiser Thompson - Hunting Sunsets
French Frith Kaiser Thompson - The Same Thing
Elysian Fields - Black Acres
Michael Callen - Dicky D
Bruce Springsteen - Jersey Girl (live)
Frank Sinatra - Dancing in the Dark
Robin Holcomb - Mah L'kha Ha-Yam Variation
Michael Hall - When September Comes
Joe Jackson - One More Time
Frank Sinatra - Oh Look at Me Now
Tom Petty - Here Comes My Girl
Waterson Carthy - a set of hornpipes, not going to list them
3 Mustaphas 3 - Cabra
Alejandro Escovedo - Rhapsody
James McMurtry - See the Elephant
Pixies - Debaser
Tara Jane O'Neill - Bullhorn Moon
Christine Lavin - The Vacation of Their Lives
Flirtations - Whole Lotta Shaking Going On
Kath Bloom - Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Peter Bellamy - Ward the Pirate
Pat MacDonald - Personal Jesus
Joe Jackson - Fools in Love/For Your Love (live)
Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire? (live)
Death Cab for Cutie - Wait
Breeders - Do You Love Me Now?
Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner (live)

Posted by: Yehudit at February 17, 2006 11:46 PM

Hey, we both had "Who By Fire?"

Was yours the live version? That is so awesome.

Posted by: Yehudit at February 17, 2006 11:47 PM

St. Theresa - Joan Osborne
Rattlesnake - Live
Go Down, Moses - Paul Robeson
(Shoutcast stand-up comedy station)
(Shoutcast Reggaeton station)
Stupid Girl - Garbage
The Whole of the Moon - Waterboys
Pick a Card - Jessy Moss
Hot in Herre - Nelly
Deacon Blue - Steely Dan

Posted by: James M. at February 17, 2006 11:48 PM

Foto Viva - Mo' Horizons
Feuer Frei! - Rammstein
My Friend - Groove Armada
Megalomaniac - KMFDM
Bring Me To Life - Evanescence
Erase-Rewind - The Cardigans
Alepheuo (truthspeaking) featuring Angelina Esparza - DJ Krush
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
When Worlds Collide - Powerman 5000
Trainsong - Sumack

Posted by: Anjali at February 18, 2006 12:10 AM

Holy crap! Where's all my electronic music?

The Great Escape - Elmer Bernstein
Patricia - Perez Prado & His Orchestra
More than this - Bill Murray, Lost In Translation
Boccherini La Musica Notturna Delle Strade Di Madrid, No. 6, Op. 30 [String Quintet In C] - Ira Davies, Christopher Gordon, Richard Tognetti, Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World
Across the Stars (Love Theme) - John Williams, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Theme from Schindler’s List - Itzhak Perlman
America The Beautiful - Ray Charles
Neodämmerung - Don Davis, The Matrix Revolutions
Suite From Pleasantville, Randy Newman
Duel of the Fates - John Williams, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

I swear to God I'm under 40.

Posted by: elgato at February 18, 2006 12:54 AM

This thread is so depressing. I have a rack full of hundreds of CDs and listen to near-enough-to-none of them.

In the car with the kiddos, I like Ralph Covert. His stuff does not suffer from being played repeatedly.

I wanted an iPod for Christmas, but got diamond earrings instead. It's not like I can complain about that, as I am not a completely heartless bitch.

Some day I'll be able to participate in a thread like this...

Posted by: Joan at February 18, 2006 02:04 AM

Well here goes. Gee, not even the really good stuff.

One Last Breath - Creed
Tequila Sunrise - The Eagles
The Love - A Tribe Called Quest
The Lonely One - Alice Deejay (Global Trance)
One Flight Down - Norah Jones
Lonestar - Norah Jones
Shoot the Moon - Norah Jones
Love One Another - Amber (Global Trance)
Almost - Tracy Chapman
Don't Know Why - Norah Jones
A Day Without Ran - Enya

Posted by: EXDemocrat at February 18, 2006 04:16 AM

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Bring Me My Bride
Scottish Lute - Lett Never Crueltie Dishonour Bewtie
Matchbox 2020 - Bent
Rush - Anthem
Ai Orikasa, Yumi Takada - Up Walk in Galaxy
Amy Studt - Just A Little Girl
Wabbitslayer
Queen - Hammer to Fall
Alphaville - Big in Japan
Dio - Fever Dreams

Posted by: David Emami at February 18, 2006 04:17 AM

Can I play?

I'm going to anyhow.

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Psychosis - The Refreshments
River - Natalie Merchant
Ride Across the River -Dire Straits
The Highwayman - Loreena McKennitt
I will Survive - Cake
After Dark - Tito & Tatantula
Interstate - The Refreshments
Roderigo - 7 Mary 3
Into the West - Howard Shore and Annie Lennox

Posted by: Texican at February 18, 2006 05:10 AM

Guruzilla
I gotta say I admire anyone who likes the Cocteau Twins.
Victorialand is a gorgeous album.

Posted by: E-HO at February 18, 2006 07:38 AM

Yehudit: Nope, nothing that cool -- just the studio version, from the 'Best of'. I discovered Lenny Cohen via Adam Again's "l.c.", as well as their mention of him in "Songwork".

E-HO: Danke. For that discovery, I can only point at yaga.

Posted by: Guruzilla at February 18, 2006 09:13 AM

1.Daylight, Cold Play
2.Earthquake Weather, Beck
3.Para Machuchar Meu Coracao, Stan 4.Getz and Joao Gilberto
5. Breath, Telepopmusic
6. Plateau, Nirvana
7. Halleluja I Love Her So, Harry Belafonte
8. Satisfaction, Rolling Stones
9. I heard it Through the Grape Vine, Marvin Gaye
10. Ascanio in Alba, K.11, Hons Vonk:Drsdener Staatskapelle

Next 10

1. Fish On, Primus
2. Creeping Death, Metallica
3. My Prayer, Harry Connick Jr.
4. Chinese Rock, The Ramones
5. I Seen A Man Die, Scarface
6. Undercover of Night, Rolling Stones
7. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want, The Smiths
8. Smooth, Santana ft. Rob Thomas
9. The Way I Feel Inside, The Zombies (Life Aquatic Soundtrack)
10. That'll Be the Day, The Beatles.

Posted by: aaron at February 18, 2006 12:06 PM

Those were both random lists, I pretty much always listen to my Ipod on random. I haven't a most played list yet.

Posted by: aaron at February 18, 2006 12:10 PM

I'll try, although my list is nowhere near as interesting as most of yours and is distorted by having had to reformat this hard drive about 3 months ago.

Living Prayer - Alison Krauss and Union Station
What If I Stumble (live) - dc Talk
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon
Blazin' Mics - T Bone
Are You Real? - KJ-52
The Man at the Top of the Hill - Twopenny Hangover
Atmosphere - tobyMac
El Amor de mi Vida - Warren Zevon
This Cowboy's Hat - Chris Ledoux
Gentle Healer - Michael Card

Tim

Posted by: bash91 at February 18, 2006 12:11 PM

Just noticed I only listed 9 in the first list (Skipped number 4).

The song that just came up was Speed of Light, OMD. How's that for embarrassing?

Posted by: aaron at February 18, 2006 12:16 PM

It doesn't work so well when one's collection is on vinyl. Plus I need a new needle.

Posted by: rbj at February 18, 2006 12:43 PM

If you've Only Got a Moustache - Samuel Ramey
Aya Sofia - The Acoustic World?
Humanity - Everett Quinton
Eddie's Swing - Jim Badrak
Heterosexual Heidi - Noelle Kalom
Strange Way Song - Everett Quinton
Sophisticated Love - Sophie Maletsky
Reverse Psychology - Vicky Raab
The Conqueror - everett Quinton
Miss Nickelodeon - Kinky Friedman

Posted by: JimHer at February 18, 2006 03:06 PM

The first 10 on my list are the first 10 tracks of the soundtrack to Stargate: The Movie. Its what I listen to while studying or doing homework, so that makes sense.

Posted by: MikeTheLibrarian at February 18, 2006 03:14 PM

Plastic Sun--Sonic Youth (Murray Street)
Move Away--Sonic Youth (Demonlover soundtrack)
I Love You Golden Blue--Sonic Youth (Sonic Nurse)
Safe in Hell--Sonic Youth (Demonlover soundtrack)
Electric Noisefield--Sonic Youth (Demonlover soundtrack)
Nevermind--Sonic Youth (NYC Ghosts & Flowers)
Pattern Recognition--Sonic YOuth (Sonic Nurse)
Superdead--Sonic Youth (Demonlover soundtrack)
Dirty Boots--Sonic Youth (Goo)

Anybody detect a pattern here?

Posted by: Bostonian at February 18, 2006 03:56 PM

PS: If I go further down in my list, there ARE some other artists:
London Suede
Boredoms
Ciccone Youth (which is actually Sonic Youth)
White Stripes
Fun Lovin' Criminals
Kottonmouth Kings
Free Kitten (um, yeah)
Clash
Kim Gordon (well....)

Posted by: Bostonian at February 18, 2006 04:02 PM

what are ITunes?

All I have to do is flip through the LP's at the front of the stack...

/sarcasm

Posted by: bains at February 18, 2006 05:06 PM

I tend to listen to entire albums, so that's how I'm listing.

Welcome Interstate Managers - Fountains of Wayne
The Three EP's - The Beta Band
Carmina Burana - Carl Orff
Halo 2 Soundtrack - Bungie
Greatest Hits- Jim Croce
Stand Up - Jethro Tull
Movement in Still Life - BT
Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
It Serves you Right to Suffer - John Lee Hooker
Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd

Posted by: michael parker at February 18, 2006 05:16 PM

ps
Genesis
Tool
Beethoven
Peter Gabriel
Talking Heads
Santana
Stabbing Westward
Yes
Fixx
Herb Albert

Posted by: bains at February 18, 2006 05:18 PM

Wow, am I out of sync with the rest of you. The 10,836 tunes on my iTunes include only one tune and one artist that anyone else has named that I've paid for (Kinky Friedman), and only two more artists/groups that I've ripped from borrowed CDs (Sinatra and The Beatles), despite the fact that less than 10% of my tunes were borrowed. Here's my list:

1. Vernon Oxford: State of Depression
2. The Beatles: Twist and Shout
3. Ernest Tubb: When a Soldier Knocks and Finds Nobody Home
4. Janis Joplin: One Night Stand
5. Del McCoury: How Could I Explain?
6. Del McCoury: Queen Anne's Lace
7. Suzy Bogguss: Somewhere Between
8. "New Orleans" Willie Jackson: How Long How Long Blues
9. Cliff Carlisle: Trouble Minded Blues
10. Confederate Railroad: Bill's Laundromat, Bar, and Grill

Number 8's a bit of a fluke: the quotation marks put his name first on my iTunes artist list, so he gets played whenever I forget and start iTunes in non-shuffle mode. Then again, I like the tune, so I don't always hit 'next' when that happens.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at February 18, 2006 06:02 PM

1. My immortal Evanescence
2. The trouble with love is Kelly Clarkston
3. I don't give a damn Avril Lavigne
4. Winter Tori Amos
5. This Love Maroon 5
6. Down So Long Jewel
7. Doctor my eyes Jackson Browne
8. When going home Bering Straight
9. Hush, hush, hush Paula Cole
10. Blowin' sky high Berlin

Posted by: storkdoc at February 18, 2006 06:27 PM

The Pass - Rush
All of My Life - Todd Snider
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
Laid - James
Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright
Best Imitation of Myself - Ben Folds Five
Your Wildest Dreams - The Moody Blues
The Trees - Rush
Haze of Love - Cake
Never There - Cake

How fun!

Posted by: DMW at February 18, 2006 06:32 PM

Robert Safdie says that the economy, taxes, and public perception create the environmental changes to sustain growth and development. He says, "We cannot afford to lose sight of that fact."

Posted by: Robert Safdie at February 18, 2006 07:27 PM

I've not listened on ITunes very much, so this is a distortion (esp. Elvis in the #1 spot), but here it is:

Elvis Presley -- All Shook Up
Love Squad -- No Regrets*
Abba -- Waterloo
Barenaked Ladies -- One Week
Everclear -- Santa Monica**
Frank Sinatra -- Come Fly with Me
JC -- Folsom Prison Blues
JC -- I Still Miss Someone
Marvin Gaye --Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
Montgomery Gentry -- Speed

* The Love Squad was a local band in Lawrence, Kansas with some guys I went to high school/college/law school with. They released some CDs and did well enough regionally to make a living for a while, but not well enough that I would expect anyone here to have heard of them.

** This is my favorite running song. I need to listen to it more to make me want to start running again.

Posted by: denise at February 18, 2006 08:29 PM

Hrm. Well... Okay. I don't listen to music on the computer much at all. I borrowed a Merle Haggard box set from my dad recently, though, so I could rip some of those old songs I grew up listening to onto a CD. I listened to the playlist on the computer a few times then, so now my top ten are all Merle Haggard tunes (with one exception):

Workin' Man Blues
White Line Fever
Branded Man
The Fugitive
Do-Wacka-Do (That one is Roger Miller... don't ask)
The Fightin' Side of Me
Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (Women Make a Fool Out of Me)
Waiting for a Train
I Started Loving You Again

But my CD player is full of Mozart... (and one CD entitled Musical Evenings with the Captain that might be of interest to elgato. It's music by composers mentioned in the Aubrey/Maturin series.)

Posted by: Ardsgaine at February 19, 2006 01:44 AM

I wanna play!

May This Be Love - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Strings of Nashville - Pavement
Father O'Blivioin - Frank Zappa
The Prisoner - Squeeze
Coolin' By Sound - Pavement
Call Any Vegetable - Frank Zappa
Church on White - Stephen Malkmus
Art Lover - The Kinks
Shattered - The Rolling Stones
My Love Explodes - The Dukes of Stratosphear

1,290 songs and I get two from Zappa and three from Pavement/Malkmus. I can't believe there is no Steely Dan there either, I have 80 songs worth!

Posted by: Monk25 at February 19, 2006 10:06 AM

Mine is embarrassing and reflects my love of odd covers:

You Give Love A Bad Name - Atreyu
Shake Your Rump - Beastie Boys
Rise Above - Henry Rollins and Chuck D
Stone Cold Crazy - Metallica
The Suffering - Coheed
As We Go - DV8
Dumb Romantic - DV8
Last Caress/Green Hell - Metallica
Revenge - Tom Araya
Big Shot (Billy Joel) - Big Drill Car

DV8 is a great band made up of a bunch of kids in Texas and are shockingly good. If you like older blink-182 or Green Day, you'd like them:

http://www.dv8rock.com/News.aspx?bhcp=1

Posted by: John at February 19, 2006 11:47 AM

How can everyone of my favorites be a suprise?

1.Wax Museum- The Red Thread

2.Feel My Way-Mysteries of Life

3.Don't Tell Me-Buddy Miller

4.Ablaze-Liz Durrett

5.Between Darkness and Dawn-Big Sandy

6.Braggadocio-MC Frontalot

7.Love Gets In The Way-Dayna Kurtz

8.My Baby Just Cares For Me-Nina Simone

9.I've Been Good To You- Smokey Robinson

10.Never Gonna Change-Drive By Truckers

Posted by: redclay at February 19, 2006 03:48 PM

Here's my list

1. Gold in the Sunset - Bob Schnieder
2. High Summer - Van Morrison
3. Wasting Time - Jack Johnson
4. So What - Miles Davis
5. Politik - Coldplay
6. Layla - Eric Clapton
7. Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson
8. St. Judy's Comet - Paul Simon
9. The Rescue Blues - Ryan Adams
10. The Wrong Direction - The Ugly Americans

Posted by: trent at February 20, 2006 08:42 AM

This is the top 20 for the songs I listen to while exercising.

Linger Ficken' Good - Revolting Cocks
Pictures - Timo Maas
my funny valentine - chet baker
Make Love To Me Forever - Snow Patrol
Broken Butterflies - Lucinda Williams
Please Help Me - Underworld
Ingrid Bergman - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Se Lest - Sigur Rós
Cross Bones Style - Cat Power
From Rags to Riches - The Blue Nile
Milano - Sigur Rós
Gong - Sigur Rós
Andvari - Sigur Rós
Donimo - Cocteau Twins
Train - Goldfrapp
Matador - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
So What'cha Want - Beastie Boys
birthday, icelandic demo vinyl - Björk
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
ibiza, trance mix - delta dreams

Posted by: Scott R at February 20, 2006 09:08 AM

1) How soon is now?--The Smiths
2) How Bizarre--OMC
3) Destination Unknown--Missing Persons
4) South Side--Moby
5) X Offender--Blondie
6) Heartbreaker--Led Zeppelin
7) Can't Cry Anymore--Sheryl Crow
8) Feel Like Makin' Love--Bad Company
9) Go Your Own Way--Fleetwood Mac
10) Bye Bye Love--The Cars

Posted by: Todd Lokken at February 20, 2006 12:17 PM

This is random, not sorted. Yay for 2001-era Winamp!

Awake - Godsmack
Limo Wreck - Soundgarden
In Too Deep - Sum 41
Skiers Must Perish - Goldfinger
Revolution - The Beatles
Snakes - Papa Roach
Still Counting The Days - Goldfinger
New World Symphony, Movement 4 - Dvorak
Keep On Rocking In The Free World - Neil Young
Six Shooter - Queens of the Stone Age

Nothing particularly embarassing on there, but nothing amazingly good either. A pretty reasonable cross-section, really.

Posted by: Alex Sloat at February 20, 2006 08:27 PM

First Time Lover, by Si Kahn
The City, by Jimmy Buffett
Four Leaf Clover, by Alan Munde
Táimse Im' Chodladh, by The Chieftains
Mustang Ranch, by Cosy Sheridan
Dooley, by The Dillards
Never See My Home Again, also by The Dillards
You Take Me For Granted, by The Forester Sisters
What Might Have Been, by Little Texas
The Letter, by The Medallions

And, continuing until the number of plays changes:

Nine Pound Hammer, by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
All Around My Hat, by Steeleye Span
Be Thankful For What You've Got, by William DeVaughn

These are what iTunes currently shows, but they're not totally accurate - I often plug my Shuffle into a USB port at work and use Windows Media Player to play the music, rather than wearing earbuds for hours.

Posted by: wheels at February 20, 2006 11:11 PM

Lex's top ten:

Beyond The Beat Generation-(online garage,psychedelia,mod,teenbeat,freakbeat,60's punk,hippie,psychedelia)
Another Light - Lisa Marr (demo version)
Cesare Said - Lisa Marr (demo version)
Isn't Love Grand? - Los Straitjackets
Thalassocracy - The Beards
Andy - Neko Case
Baby My Heart - Bobby Fuller Four
My Fascination - Lisa Marr(demo version)
Loretta - Neko Case
Home In Your Heart - Ghetto Ways

Posted by: Lexington Green at February 21, 2006 10:04 AM