{"id":753,"date":"2012-01-01T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2012-01-01T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T19:06:04","slug":"top-music-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/top-music-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Music in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking at iTunes, I see my top song this year was “40 Day Dream<\/a>” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes<\/a>. I listened to it 137 times. A few of those must have been in 2010, since I bought it that October, but there’s no question it was one of my favorites this year. (Sadly, there’s no way with an iTunes Smart List to learn what a song’s play count was during a certain period of time.)<\/p>\n

(Note that “40 Day Dream” is on the same (eponymous) album as “Home”, a song covered by Jorge & Alexa Narvaez in their charming YouTube viral video<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Following “40 Day Dream” in my most-played list were “Bye Bye Bye” by Plants and Animals<\/a>, “Buildings and Mountains” by the Republic Tigers<\/a>, and “Can You Tell” by Ra Ra Riot<\/a>, with 116, 111, and 106 plays, respectively.<\/p>\n

As it happens, all those are digital downloads from Amazon. I have a handful of songs from the iTunes store, but only a few, since a web browser offers a much <\/em>better shopping experience than iTunes does. Web browsers have offered tabs since, when, 1997 or so? But iTunes is pure-linear, and shopping on it interferes with other things you might be trying to do with iTunes.<\/p>\n

If we subtract out all the digital downloads, leaving just songs that I’ve ripped from actual physical brick-and-mortar CDs, my top songs from 2011 were: “If You Leave<\/a>” by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, “He’s a Pirate” by Klaus Badelt<\/a> and Hans Zimmer<\/a>, “Mr. Roboto<\/a>” by Styx, and “Africa<\/a>” by Toto. (Don’t wince at my taste: serious musicians love that song! See track 11 here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The pirate song is from my collection of Film Music of course. The others are, like those I mentioned previously, from a playlist of music that has appeared on the TV show Chuck<\/a>. If we subtract out “Chuck” music and “Film Music” then my top songs in 2011 were: “YYZ<\/a>” by Rush, “A Raft of Penguins<\/a>” by Ian Anderson<\/a>, “La Villa Strangiato<\/a>” by Rush, and “There is a Green Hill” by the World Wide Message Tribe<\/a>. Also in the Top 10 list are the Genevan Psalter’s Psalm 124<\/a> by Calvin College<\/a>, “Peace of Mind<\/a>” by Boston<\/a>, and “Just Showed Up (for My Own Life)” by Sara Groves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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