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I saw this over at Tom’s, and it looked like fun.

total tracks

2824

sort by title

first: ...Dust, Elvis Costello
last: Zoo Station, U2

sort by time

shortest: 0:09, Horn Intro; from Good News for People who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse
longest: 18:00, Play It All Night Long > [Encore:] 5D (Fifth Dimension) > I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead > Lawyers, Guns and Money; Warren Zevon, 2005-05-29

sort by artist

first: Chain Reaction, 31knots
last: Kodiak, Zykos

sort by album

first: #1 Record / Radio City, Big Star (same as Tom’s)
last: Zopilote Machine, The Mountain Goats

ten most-played

(actually 11, because one is a radio stream and Teddy Morgan is too good to miss the list)
Son Volt, Windfall, Trace
Bishop Allen, Eve of Destruction, Charm School
Joel RL Phelps, Goodbye Kelly Grand Forks, Customs
Son Volt, Live Free, Trace
Son Volt, Tear-Stained Eye, Trace
KNAU streaming audio
Calexico, Alone Again Or, Convict Pool
Erica Wylie, What’s Unseen, Stoop
Cake, Short Skirt/Long Jacket, Comfort Eagle
The New Pornographers, From Blown Speakers, Electric Version
Teddy Morgan, 1000 Miles, Freight

first five on party shuffle

Elvis Costello, Petals, When I was Cruel
Modest Mouse, The World at Large, Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Chris Cubeta, Sugar Sky, Sugar Sky
Jay Farrar, 6 String Belief, Stone, Steel & Bright Lights
Ted Leo, The Sword in the Stone, Balgeary EP

Number of search returns for

sex: 12
love: 136
you: 241
death: 22
hate: 2
wish: 4
life: 37

10 last played

The Hold Steady, Charlemagne in Sweatpants, Separation Sunday
The Hold Steady, Hornets! Hornets!, Separation Sunday
Okkervil River, A King and Queen, Black Sheep Boy
Okkervil River, Get Big, Black Sheep Boy
Okkervil River, Black, Black Sheep Boy
Okkervil River, In a Radio Song, Black Sheep Boy
Okkervil River, For Real, Black Sheep Boy
Okkervil River, For Real, Black Sheep Boy
Okkervil River, Black Sheep Boy, Black Sheep Boy
Gina Villalobos, Fooling Around, Rock N Roll Pony

  1. How’s that Okkervil River album?
    — Jason Speck    Jan 21, 11:49 AM    #
  2. Looks like a lot of work to actually figure it out. Easier to guess. Mine would be about the same number of tracks, with Americano by Roger Clyne showing up at the top (because it uses Spanish punctuation), and albums by Japanese artists at the bottom (because of the way iTunes alphabetizes non-alphabet languages). Shortest will be some intro thing, and longest will be some Yo La Tengo ambient piece. Most played will be Apoptygma Berzerk’s latest, and party shuffle will be something like Smoking Popes, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Cure, Velocity Girl, and John Coltrane.
    — lago    Jan 21, 02:38 PM    #
  3. I’ve only given Black Sheep Boy about a listen and a half, but so far I really like it. “For Real” and “Black” are available from the band’s web site, and they’re pretty good representatives of the album—good stuff, I think. (And the album is available from eMusic; even better!)
    — Alan    Jan 21, 02:39 PM    #
  4. And to Lago:

    1. Easy to figure out, hard to transcribe. (There must be an applescript for that.)

    2. Something about the positivist versus gestalt method of data collection.

    3. Roger Clyne’s playing in Flagstaff in a couple of weeks. Worth checking out?
    — Alan    Jan 21, 02:44 PM    #
  5. Yeah, the missing “export in exactly the format I want” button threw me off. Re: Roger Clyne, I highly recommend seeing them play live. I see them live every chance I get (which is maybe twice a year, since they hang around the Baja/Sonora deserts, mostly).
    — lago    Jan 21, 04:37 PM    #
  6. Premature submission there. In case you don’t already know, Roger Clyne and drummer P.H. Naffah were the main guys behind the Refreshments. Depending on how long you’ve been in AZ, you may remember some of the bands the current Peacemakers used to be in, including Dead Hot Workshop, the Mortals, Rain Convention, and Gloritone.
    — lago    Jan 21, 04:44 PM    #
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