Fuddland
For no real reason, I’ve decided to reveal some statistics about the music I listen to.
A few years ago I started using my PC as my all-in-one entertainment centre—stereo, radio, DVD player—and the whole reason I signed-up to Audioscrobbler last year was in order to get a genuine, unobscured insight into my musical tastes, and not try and make out that I only ever listen to obscure acapella trance-dub from Norway. If my most listened-to song turned out to be You Can Count On Me [The Theme from Hawaii Five-O] by Sammy Davis Jr., there’d be no point in denying it any longer. [Thankfully this turned out to not be the case. It only comes in at number 14. Ha!]
Heavy listening
If I tried to listen to every piece of music in my collection right through in one go, it’d take me 14 days, 13 hours, 53 minutes and 5 seconds [approximately]; I’d tell you what this amounts to in gigabytes if that wasn’t an entirely pointless statistic, given the variety in bit-rates at which each file is encoded. But if I told you it totals 34.31GB, I’m sure you could work it out from there.
CD purchasing habits
Resoundly refuting the arguments of the RIAA, the availability of freely-downloadable music has not diminished the frequency of my CD purchasing—it’s the having not much ready cash that’s doing that. Still, the last CD I bought was Eric Clapton’s Me and Mr. Johnson, after a tip-off from mrtn. It’s not a bad disc either, but I do prefer the less-polished original versions.
Perennials
This is what I really wanted to know: after a year of having my [at home] listening habits tracked, which songs have come out as the top five?
- The Killers—All These Things That I’ve Done [25 listens]
- R.E.M.—Leaving New York [24]
- Aqualung—Easier To Lie [23]
- Radiohead—True Love Waits [21]
- Snow Patrol—Run [21]
So it’s not just five R.E.M. songs: yah, boo and sucks to you for thinking it would be. I can see immediately where my head’s been for most of the year—exactly where I’d have guessed—and that’s about all the public analysing we’ll do for now. Thanks for listening.
Comments
Dina | 2005 / 05 / 20 – 17:52
Similar bands to what top the listening charts in my mp3 player. Actually they’re all on it…
Recent chart-toppers for me also include Martha Wainwright, Interpol, Gorillaz and Olive.
Free music online also has not stymied my CD buying—in fact I tend to buy more CDs now than ever before, even though I can ill-afford so to do. I preview by listening to mp3’s from mp3search.ru and then buy the CDs. Bit backwards of me, I know.
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