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Counting Down my iTunes Play Count (VANITY) – Day #2
AC’s iTunes Directory | 8/5/2024 | Alberta's Child

Posted on 08/05/2024 2:44:40 PM PDT by Alberta's Child

I started a thread like this a couple of years ago when I bought a new computer and transferred all my music files to it. I didn't stick with it, but maybe this time I'll be more dedicated!

One of the things that caught my eye was the "Play Count" number for each of the MP3 and MP4 files I moved from one computer to the other. As I went through these tracks on iTunes, I decided to rank them in the order of their play frequency to see if there were any interesting patterns in the number of times I've played them over the years. I'll take the Top 50 songs on this list and present them here on a series of FR threads. I'll post them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the next couple of months. I'll only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so it will take at least ten weeks to do this.

And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity threads like this, I'll be making a contribution for the current quarterly fundraiser. I would encourage everyone on these threads to do the same! :-)

Have fun with this, folks!

(One thing I noticed last week is that there was a tie at the end of the list for #50, so there will actually be 51 songs on 51 threads here.)


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: dailypost; itunes; music; vanity
#50T – “Fly Over States” by Jason Aldean ... Click Here (YouTube version)

No Rumble version readily available for this one, folks.

1 posted on 08/05/2024 2:44:40 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: Alberta's Child
List to Date:

#50T -- "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel
#50T -- "Fly Over States" by Jason Aldean

2 posted on 08/05/2024 2:46:06 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: Fester Chugabrew; SamAdams76; dfwgator; gibsonguy; DallasBiff; ShadowAce; UB355; Tell It Right; ...

Pinging to the Day #1 list. Let me know if you’d like me to drop you from the ping list!


3 posted on 08/05/2024 2:47:42 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: Alberta's Child

I’ve not heard this one before—but I’m not much of a country fan. I like some, but not all.


4 posted on 08/05/2024 3:23:15 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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I’ve come to like country music a bit more over the years. I first heard this in 2016 and immediately thought it would be a perfect national anthem for “Trump Country.” :-)


5 posted on 08/05/2024 3:25:05 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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"Flyover States" has 45 plays in my Apple library, which makes it #18 on my all-time playlist. The lyrics about the two businessmen flying from New York to Los Angeles, totally indifferent to the country rolling 30,000 feet below them, are very powerful and really hits home for me.

Jason Aldean is an unabashed good friend of Trump. Actually sat in his skybox during the RNC a couple weeks back. Also, for some trivia, it was Jason Aldean who happened to be playing onstage at the Las Vegas Harvest music festival in 2017, when that horrible shooting happened.

Anyway, enough of that and back to the music. I do not have your number 1 song, Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill in my collection and I'll have to remedy that. I do have a cover version of that song by Erasure.

As I said on your first post, much of my music collection is due to discovery of what other people have in their playlists, so keep these threads coming!

6 posted on 08/05/2024 5:36:00 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (7,234,971 Truth | 87,532,095 Twitter)
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You've got the best posts on interesting topics related to almost any subject. LOL.

I'm genuinely surprised you have 45,000+ song files, and that Peter Gabriel classic was NOT among them!

P.S. -- "Solsbury Hill" was posted on Day 1, but it's actually tied for Song #50. I'm posting these in reverse order, to count them down!

7 posted on 08/05/2024 5:59:40 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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Thanks for the clarification that you are counting down from the bottom up. That makes more sense. My #50 song (not a tie) is "The Lights and Buzz" by Jack's Mannequin, which I have in some of my Christmas playlist because the lyrics reference Christmastime. If you don't mind, I'll reply to your future threads with what song I have in my Top 50 rankings.

Despite my massive library, there are many surprising holes in it that I'm happy to fill in. Peter Gabriel was part of the progressive rock scene that I did not really get into until the past ten years or so. For most of my life, I was more into rock, new wave, classical, country, and pop. I started listening to Deep Tracks on Sirius/XM a few years back and I've been rapidly discovering the music of Genesis, Rush, Yes, Asia, Jethro Tull, and King Crimson, etc. So I'm catching up to all of that!

8 posted on 08/05/2024 6:14:24 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (7,234,971 Truth | 87,532,095 Twitter)
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If you don't mind, I'll reply to your future threads with what song I have in my Top 50 rankings.

That would be awesome. I hope others follow your lead and do the same!

9 posted on 08/05/2024 6:21:47 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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