The Very Quick Play-Count Meme

Borrowed from Websnark, who borrowed it from Howard Taylor… It’s The Very Quick Play-Count Meme. I pared down my iTunes library recently, and some of the mid-to-low-playcount stuff got ditched, so this should be interesting.

    For this little three-question game you’ll need some sort of play-count record on your mp3 library. No guessing!

  1. What’s the most-played track in your mp3 collection, and how many times has it been played?

A cover of “I Feel Love” by the Blue Man Group: 46

  1. Divide that play count in half and round up. What’s the nearest song?

Oddly, there’s nothing that’s been played exactly 23 times. Bumping it up to 24 plays, it’s a tie between “I put a Spell On You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and “Bob” by “Wierd Al” Yankovic. Dropping down to 22 is a tie between two Oingo Boingo tunes, “Where Do All My Friends Go?” and their cover of “I am the Walrus” from the albums “Boi-ngo” and “Boingo”, and in that order.

  1. Divide that play count in half, and round up again.

Down at 12, there’s quite a crowd. The top rated ones are the English National Opera’s rendition of “The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring” from the Mikado, “Poor Tom” by Led Zeppelin, and the six-second thrash metal opus “Anti-procrastination Song” by the Stormtroopers Of Death.

  1. Care to explain yourself?

No, not really.

Ok, ok… “I Feel Love” is in my Songs that Get Stuck in My Head playlist. Other than that, my musical tastes are a storm of ecclecticism. A random dart-throw could hit anything from Techno to Punk to Classical to an MP3 of a 78 RPM novelty record from the 1930’s.

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