what song have you played most this year?

I don't have to play a lot of these because they're everywhere: Nelly's "Ride wit' Me" (always thought that was the best song on the album and radio/MTV has validated me--it's also the best video I've seen in years) and Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On," a.k.a. the funniest single of the year except "Digital Love." I love them just as much as the above.

These are the songs I've listened to most this year, I'm pretty sure!

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Otherwise, probably something from the last Johnny Cash CD and Get UR freak on.

I must have listened to Pyramid Song two hundred times. The best was on a plane at night. I was palpably terrified and overcome with melancholy, and at the same time so amazed to have been moved that much by anything at all.

eve + gwen + dre is fantastic. i think i could listen to that song thrice every day for the rest of my life and be happy. funniest thing seen on trl this year was kids from the audience randomly picking the order of the top ten and seeing some girl turn around holding a card rather sloppily, clearing displaying 'LET ME BLOW YA'. oops.

Gluecifer - "I Got A War"
Turbonegro - "I Got Erection"
Lifehouse - "Hanging By A Moment"
Gluecifer - "The General Says Hell Yeah!", "Sputnik Monroe", "Bossheaded"
Memphis Bleek/Jay-Z - "Is That Your Bitch"
Madonna - "Into the Groove"
Guns 'N Roses - "Rocket Queen"
Mensen - "City of Lights"
The Wipers - "Is This Real?"
Turbonegro - "The Age of Pamparius"

Hrmmm... this is a hard question, because I haven't really Carolanned on anything recently.

Maybe "Who's Got The Crack?" by the Moldy Peaches. Oh, and "The Twelve Steps" by Spiritualized.

But then again, hearing Amnesiac would probably make Paul cringe at this point.

Anyway, what the HELL are you doing on the internet, boy? Get back to work, or you'll never make it home tonight!

Ernest: (damn time zone difference) "More Light" is definitely underrated and rocked big time. It got me back into Dinosaur Jr., at a time when I had enough of listening to them. He rules live, too.

Love - "Forever Changes" remaster. Tyde - "Once" Verlaines - "Over the Moon" Life Without Buildings - "Any Other City" Belle & Sebastian - "Jonathan David" Strokes - "Is This It?" Super Furry Animals - "Rings Around the World" Television Personalities - "Part Time Punks" compilation Get Up Kids - "Something to Write Home About"

I tried listening to the radio instead for a while, but XFM was driving me slowly insane. Or is that inane.

Also: Sitting in my hotel room at night with Loveless, particularly "To Here Knows When", playing at very low levels. Outside, I could hear both the crashing ocean waves and disco club dance beats ( They had a small club inside the hotel ). Occasionally, the tones of Loveless would synchronize with the sounds emanating from outside my window and the perceived magnitude of the music would increase dramatically. Astounding.

Ah, Keith, you speak the truth. _Hammers & Anvils_ coming sooooon... And the new Morning Jacket album (_At Dawn_) is quite excellent.

Most played this year, to date (song or CD):

• Destiny's Child - "Bootylicious"
• Pernice Brothers - "Our Time Has Passed"
• Spoon - "Me and the Bean"
• Franklin Bruno - "Just Because It's Dying"
• Ida - _The Braille Night_
• Burning Airlines - _Identikit_
• The Fall - _Hex Enduction Hour_
• Radiohead - "Pyramid Song"
• Lightning Bolt - _Ride the Skies_

Catching up: 'Amnesiac'; 'Go Plastic'; '10,000Hz Legend'.

Boy with the Arab Strap and Velvet Underground & Nico CDs, generally.

I've rolls of film with pictures from both shows I need to develop one of these days. Oh, yeah.

elbow - newborn

Clientele - we could walk together, (i want you) more than ever

BRMC - rifles

Kings of Convenience - Winning the Battle....

Avalanches - Etoh, Since I left you.

Most played in 2002 is probably "So Now" by Herbert.

• "Stout-Hearted Men", by Shooby Taylor
• "Rockin' and Rollin'", by W. L. Horning
• Datacide, Flowerhead
• "Aldrigpunkt", Polyester Orkester

  ― Phil, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

crap, hit submit too soon.

So far this year I've probably played Can's "I Want More" the most. Lord knows why. The re-recording of Japan's "Adolescent Sex" and the Avengers' "We Are The One" are pretty high up there, too.

Four Tet - Morning Side
Grimes - REALiTi
Jamie xx feat. Romy - Loud Places
Lower Dens - To Die in LA

R Stevie Moore - Sort of Way
Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle
Phil Collins - Sussudio
Chiskop - Klaimar
Righeira - Vamos A La Playa

Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
Anderson Paak - Miss Right
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
Songhoy Blues - Soubour
Ezra Furman - Restless Year

Susanne sundfor - fade away. Easily and both physically and p much constantly on a loop in my brain the whole year.

My top 5 according to Last.fm:

HI DERE – Came Back Haunted
Marriages – Skin
HI DERE – Going Places
HI DERE – Dragon
HI DERE – Love Is Lost

apparently I love myself

My most played song this year is every song off Envy's new album

Yes -- Starship Trooper
King Crimson -- Starless

My Last.Fm last 6 months is made up solely of Miami Horror and Vashti Bunyan songs, which leads me to believe I must have fallen asleep or left the house with these two albums playing.

Top song of the last year is Joni Mitchell's 'People's Parties', which is great and I love. Overall is 'Bats In The Attic' by King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, but I think that comes from a 2011 error when Last.Fm was scrobbling songs multiple times over.

Conclusion - Last.FM is pretty useless.

Last.FM chart reflects my perfectly well-adjusted personality with a tie between:

Dinah Washington – September In The Rain
The Fall – New Face In Hell

In actuality though the top songs would be the soundtrack to whatever I'm editing. My poor neighbours.

Four Tet - Morning Side (and Evening Side)
Polar Bear - We Feel The Echoes
Kamasi Washington - Re Run Home
Shamir - On The Regular
Sweater Kinney - A New Wave
Young Fathers - Nest

Sweater Kinney. Fucking iPad.

Yeah I have to keep vetting my Last.FM because it has an app that automatically posts my top songs of the week, and it's always something like 'Disco Zhivago - AOB v1.1 310715'

I killed off my last.fm account months ago, so I have no real means of tracking things anymore. However, I'd be surprised if my most-listened-to song so far this year isn't "Delirious" by Susanne Sundfør.

She's good that Susanne Sundfør. I was listening to her yesterday.

(tie)
Wand - reaper invert
Kool & The Gang - summer madness