My top 20 most listened to. (My Top 20 Most Played Songs)

Member Name: paulhanton

Product:	My Top 20 Most Played Songs
Date:	26/09/09 (237 review reads)
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My top 20 most listened to songs.

It will come as no surprise to many on Dooyoo that I like music, so when I saw this category/review, I just knew I had to write, regardless of the fact I won't earn any miles.

In reverse order you will now see my top 20 most listened to songs according to iTunes....varied and a bit of a surprise to me, not that it was so varied, but that they were in this order of being listened to, and there were some strange omissions.

With over 6,000 songs on my iTunes it was a great exercise this, and meant I played some over again, never a thing to moan about.

20. I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown rats

Listened to 81 times, when this first came out it struck a chord, it chilled and excited me.


19. I Want You - Elvis Costello

84 listens, the most angst ridden song ever written in my opinion, the ultimate listen of self indulgence when you see an ex with their new squeeze.


18. I'd rather go Blind - Etta James

84 listens too, another angst ridden song with a woman who's voice typifies jazz blues.


17. Concerto for Saxophone number 1 - Andrew Sterman, Philip Glass, the Rascher saxophone quartet.

90 listens for a piece of modern classical music, written for saxophone, an instrument less than 200 years old that traditionalists said was an abomination that could never play classical music...pah!


16. Big Bad Handsome Man - Imelda May

When I first heard this piece of modern rockabilly music it blew me away, ultra cool and should feature in a Tarantino film! 96 listens


15. A Beautiful Mess - Jason Mraz

What sentiment, what a voice, beautiful through and through. 111 listens.


14. Underneath This Lamppost Light - The King Blues

From probably the best British album from a new band for a decade, brilliant lyrics that some up a modern life and love. 118 listens.


13. Daydream - Back to The Planet

Most of you will not of heard of these, an 80's festival band that have just reformed, I had a huge crush on the lead singer. Bit of a leap here to 127 listens.


12. No Woman No Cry (live) - Bob Marley and The Wailers

Words do not convey the feeling that this song evokes in me. Another giant leap to 141 listens.


11. Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam

Get in....my favourite song of all time, the drum beat, the lyrics...yet not my number one most listened to, that is a surprise. Listened to a staggering 144 times.


10. Coming Up easy - Paolo Nutini

Probably the newest track on my list and yet listened to 144 times too, I just love that baritone sax...this song never seems to go a day lately without being played.


9. The Neden game - Insane Clown Posse

Oh my word, 146 listens, though in fairness, some of those was my son playing this to his mates who had never heard of this horror rap band.


8. Welcome to Jamrock - Damian 'Junior Gong' Marley

Son of Bob with an absolute modern reggae classic, and the video rocks...150 listens.


7. Rainy Night In Soho - The Pogues

It is not a surprise to me that this song has had over 150 listens, one of the pogues's bests and McGowan at his song writing pinnacle.


6. Mr. BoJangles - Sammy Davis Junior

157 times I have heard this on iTunes, and I reckon I have shed a tear at least half the time, brilliant and moving, the only version of this worth listening to.


5. Moody's Mood for Love - Amy Winehouse

Into the top 5 now. Amy has a vocal range that is exploited to the full here, she goes up and down a scale with her voice like it was another instrument...good, smokey, back of house jazz. 161 listens.


4. Handlebars - The Flobots

Bit of a modern classic that came out of America at a time when it seemed the Bush administration was pulling us ever closer to the brink of implosion, brilliant, brilliant animated video that accompanies it too. 163 times this one has been played.


3. Over The Rainbow - Art Pepper

Recorded by Pepper shortly before his death at a live concert (do not settle for any other version), the intro to this song brings me to tears each and every one of the 193 times I have heard it....the best piece of saxophone playing I have ever heard, period.


2. Green Fields of France - The Furey Brothers

Now I was pretty surprised that this has been played 196 times, though again, one my son plays too. The futility of war and the sentiment of a lilting Irish brogue make this, for me the ultimate 'peace' song.


1. Summertime - Charlie Parker

Well, here we are at number one, by a clear 20 listens 217 times I have played this. It was the tune that got me into playing saxophone, I could not believe this rendition of a classic. I do not listen to it much nowadays which just shows how much I used to listen to it.


I suppose what surprised me most about this list of most listened to was the absence in the top 20 of; John Coltrane, The Clash, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Acoustic Ladyland, Eminem, Louis Armstrong and other artistes I thought I listened to more than I do.

Hope you like some of these, if you havn't heard them, give them a go, they might just make it into your top 20.

Summary: Top 20 iTunes songs.