{"id":421,"date":"2006-07-24T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/24\/top-25-answers\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T20:30:25","slug":"top-25-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/24\/top-25-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twelve of the Top 25 Most Played<\/a> songs were correctly identified over the weekend. Given the obscurity of some of these, that’s pretty impressive. I think there’s only one that should’ve been obvious that didn’t get guessed.<\/p>\n

Full answers are below the fold.<\/p>\n

(Edited to add: If you enjoy this sort of thing, here’s another list<\/a> of lyrics to identify.)<\/p>\n

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  1. “Holiday In NY,” The Ike Reilly Assassination. I have no idea how this is the<\/strong> most-played song in my library.<\/li>\n
  2. “Roots Radicals,” Rancid. When in doubt, rip off the Clash.<\/li>\n
  3. “Valentine,” Bobby Bare Jr.. A twisted little pop gem, via KEXP.<\/li>\n
  4. “So It Goes,” Nick Lowe. <\/li>\n
  5. “Short Skirt\/Long Jacket,” Cake. Wouldn’t we all like a girl with a short skirt and a looooonnnnnng jacket?<\/li>\n
  6. “The Boat Song (We’re Getting’ Loaded),” The Ike Reilly Assassination. The fact that these guys have two of the top ten is a good indication of how skewed things get from running the “party shuffle” on the recent acquisitions list for a few weeks.<\/li>\n
  7. “Big Brown Eyes,” Old 97’s. Might be the best tune off Too Far to Care<\/cite> and<\/strong> Wreck Your Life<\/cite> both.<\/li>\n
  8. “Shake It Up,” The Cars. Classic 80’s cheese. I actually like “Magic” more, but it’s a good track.<\/li>\n
  9. “Life, In A Nutshell,” Barenaked Ladies. One of the very few good songs off their second album. Underappreciated.<\/li>\n
  10. “First Few Desperate Hours,” The Mountain Goats. One of the best tracks off Tallahassee<\/cite>.<\/li>\n
  11. “Lost In The Supermarket,” The Afghan Whigs. A killer cover, and dancing to it was a highlight of our wedding.<\/li>\n
  12. “Southwood Plantation Road,” The Mountain Goats. The other best track off Tallahassee<\/cite>.<\/li>\n
  13. “Diamond In Your Mind,” Solomon Burke. A Tom Waits song, only performed with an actual singing voice.<\/li>\n
  14. “The Whole Of The Moon,” The Waterboys. Pretty much the only reason I know about Brigadoon<\/a>. This is the one I thought would’ve been obvious.<\/li>\n
  15. “Now It’s On,” Grandaddy. Another one that I’m not sure how it got up here. I don’t think I’ve listened to it that<\/strong> much.<\/li>\n
  16. “Secrets Of The Sea,” Billy Bragg & Wilco. One of their Woody Guthrie covers, of the second album of same.<\/li>\n
  17. “The Rock Show,” Blink-182. Pure pop gold. Maybe their best track.<\/li>\n
  18. “Rudie Can’t Fail,” The Clash. You can’t have a Top 25 without at least one Clash song.<\/li>\n
  19. “Conrad,” Jets To Brazil. Maybe the cheeriest song about a suicide ever.<\/li>\n
  20. “Kitchen,” The Lemonheads. The song with the chorus that people confuse with “Hey Jealousy.” (“Run around until morning\/ and we’ll stay awake all night…”)<\/li>\n
  21. “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You,” Bob Dylan. Not really my favorite Dylan song, but I couldn’t possibly have a Top 25 with no Dylan in it.<\/li>\n
  22. “There She Goes,” The La’s. Some would say, the perfect pop song.<\/li>\n
  23. “Pride And Joy,” Marvin Gaye. Again, not really my favorite, but he couldn’t be left off.<\/li>\n
  24. “Mother And Child Reunion,” Paul Simon. Once again, I’m not sure how this one of all his songs made it into the top of the list. I would’ve taken “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,” but iTunes works in mysterious ways.<\/li>\n
  25. “Another Saturday Night,” Sam Cooke. Some of the lyrics sound a little dated, but it’s an absolute classic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Some songs that I’m surprised to not see on the list: “Your Little Hoodrat Friend” by the Hold Steady (because I played it every day for about a month), “Reconstruction Site” by the Weakerthans (Beauty’s just another word I’m never certain how to spell), “W.I.F.E.” by the Old 97’s (which might be a better sing-along than “Big Brown Eyes”), “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan (which probably misses because I have three or four different versions), and “My Old School” by Steely Dan (not because I like it all that much, but because the iPod seems to cough it up every time I listen to the thing).<\/p>\n

    Under-represented artists: The Beatles, the Stones, David Bowie, Dire Straits, the Afghan Whigs, the Weakerthans, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, the Pogues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Twelve of the Top 25 Most Played songs were correctly identified over the weekend. Given the obscurity of some of these, that’s pretty impressive. I think there’s only one that should’ve been obvious that didn’t get guessed. Full answers are below the fold. (Edited to add: If you enjoy this sort of thing, here’s another… Continue reading Top 25 Answers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}