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another iTunes meme

Via Andrea, who, if she has a public website these days, should let me know :-)

Total Length
8293 songs, 21:15:02:22 total time, 58.56 GB
(all my studio mixes are in uncompressed AIFF format, so they take up more room than MP3s)

First and Last Songs (by title)
“Abandoned” by Linda Thompson
“2000 Miles” by the Pretenders (best Christmas song ever, btw)

Shortest and Longest Songs
Shortest: a bunch of synth and percussion samples (0:00)
[honorable mention goes to a number of sound effects from the original Star Trek series, ranging from 0:01 to 0:09]
Longest: Thursday Afternoon by Brian Eno (60:53)

First and Last Albums (by title)
A.M. by Wilco
() by Sigur Rós

First and Last Artists
Aaron Neville
50 Foot Wave

Top Five Most Played Songs
“Strange Condition” by Pete Yorn (50)
“Flugufrelsarinn” by Sigur Rós (46)
“The Roots of Coincidence” by Pat Metheny (44)
“Great Spangled Fritillary” by Cocteau Twins (43)
“She’s no fun, she fell right over” —a little snippet edited from a Firesign Theatre album (42)
[it’s fun to hear odd little things randomly come up between songs]

Search for the following words. How many songs show up?
Sex: 8 (and one of those is Ron Sexsmith. I’m so pathetic)
Death: 26
Love: 534
You: 1012
Home: 54
Boy: 164
Girl: 253

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
“Hole In My Pocket” by Sam Phillips
“It Won’t Be Long” by The Beatles
“Captain’s Table” by Shack
“More Than Ordinary” by Kasey Chambers
“World View Blue” by The Blue Aeroplanes

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I don't have a public one at the moment. There's too much *stuff* that happens when certain people (and not just the foot fetishist) find my blog. It's very annoying because I've always enjoyed having a public blog. *sigh* Anyway...

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