Top 5 Most Played Songs on my iPod and What These Things Could Possibly Mean about Me and My State of Mental Well Being.

Raptor here, still counting down the days to infinity.

Originally, I was going to do a rant list on how much Herm “ I overrun my runningbacks because I want them to be test subjects for the next generation of prosthetic knees and joints” Edwards and Carl “I snookered the president into buying a shitty charity hat” Peterson need to retire and leave my beloved Chiefs, but I was intrigued by the whole Coldplay getting snaked out of the 1,000^th number 1 single on the Hot 100 list by Kate Perry’s Kissed a Girl(awesome song by the way).

For some reason this made me want to look and see what songs were the most played songs on my iPod. I fully expected the top 10 to be dominated by Guster, Weezer, Ozma, and some Queen. How naïve.

iTunes software doesn’t count the song until the song has played all the way through. This seems reasonable until you factor in the level of ADD I have had since switching from CDs to MP3s. I have no patience for long outros or fade outs. I want the next song. Now. This phenomena fully explains why Mr. Blue Sky, a song I play on a regular basis, has only 15 plays and is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down on the list. (On a side note, this fractured listening practice is probably why I’ve been losing my appreciation of albums. The last full album I was like, “Man all of these songs fit and slide right into each other,” was Ozma’s Rock and Roll, Pt III. That’s not to say there aren’t releases of CDs where the entirety of said released recordings are good music. They just don’t have a Sgt Pepper or Tommy kind of feel. Do bands still make complete album experiences? Would Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band mean anything if it were released today? Would I be able to sit through an entire listening? Am I just missing the album experience because I’ve become more fractured in my listening experience? Is this too long to be a side note?)

So in the end the most played list is not necessarily representative of the songs I most listen to, a lot of them are more a representation of what songs come on when I play my music in the background at work or at home on random. At the same time, all these songs were downloaded by me so they must have some sort of connection to my state of mind. Also, I do sometimes hit next while it’s on random, so why did these songs out of apparently 39.3 days worth of music make the jump to the top? All these questions need to be answered.

5. Satellite- Mika-

I’ve never been a huge fan of Mr. Dave Matthews. He annoys me for varied reasons I can’t explain. I know a good portion of it stems from being told how much I should love him by people who refer to him as Dave, except when they say it they say, “Duh-ave”. Still I recognize he does have a great amount of talent. He can play the guitar and pens some pretty good tunes. He can’t sing very well but a lot of rockers can. Mika’s cover of “Satellite” made me realize that perhaps he is this generations less talented version of Bob Dylan. You know the guy who you love all there songs as long as they are sung by other people. I need more covers to base this off of but this was a good start. Mika throws an operatic vocal range into the mix and the results are pretty entrancing.

What does this say about me?
That my appreciation for flamboyantly gay pop vocalist carried on past the death of Freddie Mercury.

4. All For You- Sister Hazel

Ok this one was a real head scratcher. I really don’t have anything against Sister Hazel and this song is pretty catchy. But it made it way hire up the list than any of my other guilty pleasure songs (example Sweet Escape which I thought I had listened to an excessive amount only came in 31^st). Upon seeing it come in at #4 I relistened to try and figure out why it flew up the charts and that promptly bumped it up to #3.

What does this say about me? I don’t know. The song is so inoffensive that it’s offensive. It’s fun and over before you realize. It’s like a good friend who shows up, parties, and leaves before the hours too late and you have to come up with awkward excuse for why you want them to leave. Really this song just leaves me with more questions. Did Sister Hazel Have any other songs? How did I get to a point in my life where All for You is the #4 song on my most played list?

I guess more than anything this song says I like 90’s pop-rock more than I thought or maybe my Mac just really likes Sister Hazel.

3. Happier- Guster

Ok. Finally a song I expected to be up in this group. This song is probably my favorite song by my favorite band.

What does this say about me?

I apparently am in a rut and need to break out to save my sanity. This is true. So what better way to do so than to listen to the same song over and over again… wait. Crap. Also, I view my friends as weak, beneath me, and expendable.

2.The Joker-Steve Miller Band

This one’s a shocker. If I were to pick a classic rock song that I expected to be in this spot I would have gone with “Sweet Home Alabama” or “Take it Easy”. But no Steve Miller somehow has this spot locked up.

What does this say about me?

I enjoy the pompetacity of creating the word pompetous. From the outside I would think it would signal to the world that I’m into pot and free love. To me it says, “I like boobs, and like to use aliases such as Maurice and Ron Mexico while engaging in unprotected coitus.”

1. I Will Survive- Cake

This song takes me back to 10^th grade when a couple of friends came up with a dance they referred to as the Kramer to this little ditty. It involved a lot of twitching and shaking. It became a pre race ritual for half the swim team. Thusly, this song has wound up on several of my playlists listed as “Pump up Jams I- IV”

What does this say about me? Despite 2 songs above viewing my friends as expendable, I have an overwhelming level of nostalgia. So in literary terms that makes me a complex character. In real world terms that makes me an asshole.