OK, because this Tohu Bohu was getting lonely, but Your Humble Blogger hasn’t the mental capacity at the moment to write an actual note: The latest iTunes meme! (Ooh, I’m using meme<\/I> that way again. Ooh!)\n
How many songs?<\/b> Oddly enough, at the moment, there are seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy-seven songs in my Library. 19 days.\n
Sort by song title, first and last<\/b> Last is “Zoot Suit Thing”, by, you guessed it, Zoots and the Swingin’ Suits, closely beating out the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies and “Zoot Suit Riot”. First by sorting is the “’49 Mercury Blues”, by the Brian Seltzer Orchestra, although if you don’t like the way computers alphabetize punctuation, it would probably be “A Bad Case of the Blues”, in the Dinah Washington version.\n
Sort by time; first and last?<\/b>Well, there are the sixty or so 4-second segments of Dots Will Echo’s annoying “Within or Without You”; they split the song up into a zillion four-second slices so that there are 99 tracks on the CD. Then, of course, there are the Fingertips, mostly under 10 seconds. There’s Jim’s Big Ego’s four-second “Intro” to Noplace Like Nowhere<\/I>, a couple of six-second pause tracks from the Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert (1938), and a few intros of various kinds. The shortest track I would call a song is “Miracle Cure”, from the Who’s Tommy<\/I> (the band’s album, not the movie soundtrack or the show’s). It’s twelve seconds. The longest track is Winton Marsalis’ “Blue Interlude (The Bittersweet Saga of Sugar Cane and Sweetie Pie)”, at 37:14; it beats out the Rebirth Brass Band’s “The Main Event” by more than five minutes.\n
Sort by album; first and last?<\/b> ’Round Midnight<\/I>, a Mel Torme album. Again, if you don’t count punctuation, or numbers, or whatnot, the first would be the Billie Holiday collection called A Fine Romance<\/I>, but that’s the eighth album listed (two of which I own only one track from). The last is Zoot Suit Riot<\/I>, by the aforementioned Cherry Poppin’ Daddies.\n
Top five played songs?<\/b> The most played is “Sleepwalkers”, of They Might Be Giants’ No<\/I>, with eleven. Second most is “Cockles and Mussels”, and third is “Friends Lullaby”, both from Larry Grace and the Disneyland Children’s Sing-Along Chorus recordings released as Disney Children’s Favorites (vols. 1-4). Fourth is They Might Be Giants’ “Lazyhead and Sleepybones”, also from No<\/I>, and fifth is Tom Chapin’s “I Need a Lullaby” from Making Good Noise<\/I>. These are all from a lullaby playlist, if y’all hadn’t guessed. I should add that we’ve only started using iTunes fairly recently, so the playcount doesn’t really denote how often I listen to stuff.\n
Find “sex”; how many songs show up?<\/b> 54. Mostly from the Bodeans album Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams<\/I>, the Dave’s True Story album Sex without Bodies<\/I>, and the shouldn’t-count-at-all Sinatra and Sextet Live in Paris<\/I>. In fact, leaving out album titles, and instances of ‘Sussex’ or ‘Essex’, I have three: “War between the Sexes”, off the Jabbering Trout album Swell<\/I>, the final track off Live Stiffs Live<\/I> where Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and the rest join Ian Dury for “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll & Chaos”, and the title track from the aforementioned Dave’s True Story album.\n
Find “death”; how many songs show up?<\/b> Again, most of the 30 songs have the word only in the album title, in this case from the Punk anthology Forward Til Death<\/I>. Going with song titles only, there are seven: “Death of Zorba”, the Jody Grind; “The Death of Suzzy Roche”, the Roches; “My Death”, a Christopher Tye number recorded by Hespèrion XX; “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”, Phranc’s cover; “Death is a Star”, the Clash; “Angel of Death”, Shane MacGowan; “Death and the Lady, a John Renbourn group version.\n
Find “love”; how many songs show up?<\/b> 405. (52 of these turn up because of album titles, though).\n
Oddly enough, this probably gives a Gentle Reader a fair picture of what’s on the ol’ hard drive.\n
Thank you,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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