Sunday, January 15, 2023

100 iTunes Songs

I still have iTunes, and it shows me my top 100 most-played tracks. Granted, this list reset when I got a new computer back in 2018, so the play counts are relatively low. Excluding whole albums, then, here are my top 106 songs (anything 5 times or more), in order:


The State I Am In – Belle and Sebastian - 13 listens

Expectations – Belle and Sebastian

She’s Losing It – Belle and Sebastian

Turn on the News – Husker Du - 12 listens

The House of the Rising Sun – The Animals - 11 listens

Don’t Bring Me Down – Electric Light Orchestra

Feel It Still – Portugal. The Man

Rock On – David Essex - 10 listens

That’s All – Genesis

Disturbia – Rhianna

Enemy – Tara Mackey

Morningstar – A.F.I. - 9 listens

Dream On – Aerosmith

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Alice – Pogo

L.E.S. Artistes – Santigold

The Game of Love – Wayne Fontana

Ohio – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 8 listens

Runaway – Del Shannon

Runaround Sue – Dion

American Boy – Estelle ft. Kanye West

What It’s Like – Everlast

Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand

Video Games – Lana Del Rey

Lightnin’ Strikes – Lou Christie

Sound of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel

Lido Shuffle – Boz Scaggs - 7 listens

For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield

Jack’s Lament – Danny Elfman

Babylon – David Gray

Personal Jesus – Depeche Mode

Blue Skies – Irving Kaufman

99 Problems – Jay-Z

Humanism Redux – Jon Baptiste and Stay Human

Junk Food Junkie – Larry Groce

Stagger Lee – Lloyd Price

Danny’s Song – Loggins & Messina

Black is Black – Los Bravos

Transfusion – Nervous Norvous

O Children – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Shut Up and Drive – Rihanna

She’s Not There – The Zombies

We Gotta Get Out of This Place – The Animals - 6 listens

Hazy Shade of Winter – The Bangles

The Music Scene – Blockhead

Private Eyes – Hall and Oates

Everlong – Foo Fighters

Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People

Reach Out – The Four Tops

Grease – Frankie Valli

My Sweet Lord – George Harrison

Tuesday Afternoon – The Moody Blues

Knights of Cydonia – Muse

These Boots are Made for Walkin’ – Nancy Sinatra

Cracklin’ Rosie – Neil Diamond

Let It Slide – No Use for a Name

Downtown – Petula Clark

Portions for Foxes – Rilo Kiley

Los Ageless – St. Vincent

Pills – St. Vincent

Uptight (Everything’s Alright) – Stevie Wonder

Tribute – Tenacious D

For Your Love – The Yardbirds

96 Tears – ? and the Mysterians - 5 listens

Money – Barrett Strong

I Fought the Law – Bobby Fuller Four

Rasputin – Boney M.

The Letter – Box Tops

Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues – Charley Patton

The Devil Went Down to Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band

A Lover’s Question – Clyde McPhatter

White Room – Cream

Friday I’m in Love – The Cure

Rich Girl – Hall and Oates

American Pie – Don McLean

Black Water – Doobie Brothers

Build Me Up Buttercup – The Foundations

Some Thing About You – Four Tops

Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty

Mind Playing Tricks on Me – Geto Boys

We Got the Beat – The Go-Go’s

St. Stephen – Grateful Dead

No Time – The Guess Who

These Eyes – The Guess Who

Heard It Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye

Hang on Sloopy – The McCoys

Kids – MGMT

Devil with the Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly – Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels

The Lighthouse’s Tale – Nickel Creek

Fireflies – Owl City

Maybe I’m Amazed – Paul McCartney

Band on the Run – Paul McCartney and Wings

Autumn to May – Peter, Paul, and Mary

Beer – Reel Big Fish

6 Underground – Sneaker Pimps

Flowers on the Wall – The Statler Brothers

Edge of Seventeen – Stevie Nicks

Green Eyed Lady – Sugarloaf

Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears

Beginning to See the Light – The Velvet Underground

Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon

Your Woman – White Town

29 Ways – Willie Dixon

On the Road Again – Willie Nelson

In the Midnight Hour – Wilson Pickett

Land of 1,000 Dances – Wilson Pickett

I Do – The 5 Royales


Some of my top 100 most played