{"id":533,"date":"2020-12-24T17:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2020-12-24T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:24:37","slug":"oh-no-more-music-stats-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/oh-no-more-music-stats-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, no! MORE music stats? WHY?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday I wrote<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/too-much-about-music-stats\/\"> a long boring post no one will read about music I listened to in 2020<\/a>. Everyone loves spreadsheets about music! Today I realized I forgot the thing I normally add: the iTunes list of most heard songs.  <\/p>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:99,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/songstowearpantsto&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250721085439\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/songstowearpantsto&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 14:12:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 18:16:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 18:16:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ITunes_12.2_logo-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"You'll always be iTunes in my heart. You play music. Tunes are music. YOU ARE ITUNES.\" class=\"wp-image-546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ITunes_12.2_logo.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ITunes_12.2_logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ITunes_12.2_logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ITunes_12.2_logo-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>I KNOW IT ISN&#8217;T ITUNES BUT MUSIC IS A STUPID OVERLY-GENERIC NAME FOR AN APP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here, another spreadsheet for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vQ1hSFpW_vL2NWxPTvQ5voTbhIGdsaPlFHLySQwX39v5EnO-TD0Nb6WjXV7ILnGUg\/pubhtml?widget=true&amp;headers=false\" height=\"450\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve posted it in some form every year, and every year it grows more inaccurate at showing what I actually listened to during the year. The problem is that it doesn&#8217;t just include this year; it&#8217;s every play of every song in my library since I started counting. Prince&#8217;s &#8220;Baby I&#8217;m a Star&#8221; sits at number four even though I (probably) haven&#8217;t listened to it for a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baby I&#039;m a Star\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4YdPZ1J0KrE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Good song, though.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And right at the top is &#8220;He Will State The Obvious (Captain Obvious Theme Song)&#8221; That I originally found on the now-gone songstowearpantsto.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"He Will State the Obvious (Captain Obvious Theme)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L4z0rbqp464?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Many years later I found Andrew Huang&#8217;s youtube channel and had no idea he was the songstowearpantsto guy, which is funny because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/songstowearpantsto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his channel is named songstowearpantsto<\/a>. I&#8217;m not smart.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At number 13 is everyone&#8217;s favorite song, &#8220;Track06.&#8221; I can&#8217;t find it online, but it&#8217;s a station ID from Oldies 103.3, a Boston oldies station (Los Angeles, think KRTH) that went off the air 8 years ago.  It&#8217;s very short, so if it pops up on shuffle it almost always plays through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to this list I haven&#8217;t listened to The Magnetic Fields&#8217; &#8220;The Book of Love&#8221; since July of 2019, but <strong>that&#8217;s a damned lie.<\/strong> I&#8217;ve listened to it a bunch because it&#8217;s one of the songs Spotify has decided to always play for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Book of Love\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7FtbrDFgB_4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Stephin Merritt&#8217;s voice always sounds like it&#8217;s about to slide out of tune. Maybe the crazy deepness of it makes me notice the pitch more.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number 44 is &#8220;hulk[1]&#8221;, a quote from the Incredible Hulk TV show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"mr mcgee.....dont make me angry\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dHSxQ2RRD9o?start=13&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Check out Bill Bixby&#8217;s sweet mom jeans!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number 56 is Echo &amp; The Bunnymen&#8217;s &#8220;Lips Like Sugar,&#8221; folled at number 57 by Echo &amp; The Bunnymen&#8217;s &#8220;Lips Like Sugar.&#8221; Maybe they&#8217;re different versions; maybe they&#8217;re the same version on different albums. Who knows? If they&#8217;re the same one, then they win for most popular Luke song of all time, apparently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Echo &amp; The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9hGcJA8fXvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Miracles Will Start To Happen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1lxBeg7lFEI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Jonathan Richman&#8217;s &#8220;Miracles Will Start to Happen&#8221; would be next if you combine the 16 plays at numbers 135 &amp; 136.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most recently played song on the list is number 93, Adam &amp; The Ants&#8217; single version of &#8220;Cartrouble,&#8221; last heard on December 8th. The least recently heard is number 22, the Dead Kennedys cover of &#8220;Viva Las Vegas,&#8221; which played September 19, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, two days of music stat posts. What have we learned? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote a long boring post no one will read about music I listened to in 2020. Everyone loves spreadsheets about music! Today I realized I forgot the thing I normally add: the iTunes list of most heard songs. Here, another spreadsheet for you! 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