Playlist: March 2009

I’ve been adding a few tracks here and there to this playlist, and finally wrapped it up tonight. There’s a few brand new songs, and a few older ones too. I saw The Ting Tings on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon a few nights ago and I’m addicted to this song now. Comments here, or Twitter.

Artist Song Album
01. The Ting Tings That’s Not My Name We Started Nothing
02. Dierks Bentley Lot OF Leavin’ Left To Do Modern Day Drifter
03. Scars On Broadway They Say Scars On Broadway
04. Metallica Am I Evil Garage Inc.
05. Toby Keith Courtesy Of The Red, White & Blue 35 Biggest Hits
06. Spacehog In The Meantime Resident Alien
07. Black Tide Warriors Of Time Light From Above
08. Weezer Troublemaker Weezer (The Red Album)
09. Creedence Clearwater Revival Who’ll Stop The Rain Chronicle
10. Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder Getting Away With Murder
11. Franz Ferdinand No You Girls Tonight
12. Billy Idol Rebell Yell The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself
13. Filter Welcome To The Fold Title Of The Record
14. Dropkick Murphys I’m Shipping Up to Boston The Warrior’s Code
15. Nickelback Something In Your Mouth Dark Horse
16. Sting & The Police Don’t Stand So Close To Me The Very Best Of Sting & The Police
17. Clutch Careful With That Mic… Pure Rock Fury
18. Shinedown Son of Sam The Sound of Madness
19. Dead Kennedys California Ãœber Alles Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
20. Anthrax Keep It In The Family The Greater Of Two Evils

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Playlist: February 2009

Took me a little while, but I finally finished up the February playlist. Got a few new ones in there, and some old ones too. I got Slacker Radio for my Storm, so hopefully I’ll discover some new stuff and dig up even more old ones. Don’t forget to check out my music stats too.

Artist Title Album
01. Stone Temple Pilots Crackerman Core
02. Creed Bullets Greatest Hits
03. Jason Mraz I’m Yours We Sing We Dance We Steal Things
04. The All-American Rejects The Last Song All-American Rejects
05. Franz Ferdinand Ulysses Tonight
06. Godsmack Trippin Awake
07. The Cranberries Zombie Stars
08. Apocalyptica I Don’t Care Worlds Collide
09. Black Label Society Fire It Up Mafia
10. Garth Brooks Pappa Loved Mama Ropin’ The Wind
11. The Subways I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say Young For Eternity
12. Alice In Chains Sick Man Dirt
13. Clutch The Soapmakers The Elephant Riders
14. The Lonely Island I’m On A Boat (feat. T-Pain) Incredibad
15. Anti-Flag Fuck Police Brutality Die For The Government
16. Nirvana Something In The Way Nevermind
17. Dierks Bentley What Was I Thinkin’ Dierks Bentley
18. Queen Flash Greatest Hits I
19. M.I.A. Paper Planes Kala
20. Atmosphere Trying To Find A Balance Seven’s Travels

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Playlist: January 2009

Didn’t get this posted right away this month, but I’ve been rocking out to this playlist to and from work lately. See past playlists here, and all music stats here. Noteworthy, I have passed 100,000 plays of the songs in my iTunes database. I also have over 12,000 songs now.

Artist Name Album
01. Papa Roach Time And Time Again Lovehatetragedy
02. Tim McGraw Indian Outlaw Greatest Hits
03. Shinedown Second Chance The Sound of Madness
04. Rancid The Wars End Live Nottingham 2003
05. Korn Coming Undone See You On The Other Side
06. Crash Test Dummies Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm The 90’s
07. Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower Experience Hendrix
08. The Who Won’t Get Fooled Again Who’s Greatest Hits
09. Hoobastank Crawling In The Dark Hoobastank
10. Tool Forty Six & 2 Ænima
11. Metallica Breadfan Garage Inc.
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers She’s Only 18 Stadium Arcadium
13. Katy Perry Fingerprints One of the Boys
14. Green Day St. Jimmy American Idiot
15. Chris LeDoux This Cowboy’s Hat The Ultimate Collection: Chris LeDoux
16. Five Bolt Main Pathetic Venting
17. Pearl Jam Daughter Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003)
18. The Misfits Rat Fink Collection
19. Clutch Wishbone The Elephant Riders
20. T.I. On Top Of The World (Ft. Ludacris & B.O.B.) Paper Trail

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Playlist: December 2008

Back to the same old, here’s the playlist for December twentyoheight. Word.

Artist Name Album
01. Deftones Hexagram Deftones
02. Tim McGraw Where The Green Grass Grows Greatest Hits
03. Korn Got The Life Follow The Leader
04. Billy Idol Dancing With Myself The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself
05. Clutch When Vegans Attack From Beale Street To Oblivion
06. Killswitch Engage Breathe Life The End Of Heartache
07. The Darkness I Believe In A Thing Called Love Permission To Land
08. Incubus Drive Make Yourself
09. Five Finger Death Punch Ashes The Way Of The Fist
10. Eric Clapton Cocaine Greatest Hits
11. Atmosphere Always Coming Back Home To You Seven’s Travels
12. Hootie & The Blowfish Let Her Cry The Best of Hootie & The Blowfish
13. Turbonegro Turbonegro Must Be Destroyed Scandinavian Leather
14. Elton John Bennie And The Jets Greatest Hits 1970-2002
15. Nickelback Just To Get High Dark Horse
16. Big Fuckin’ Skull Skulls That Ride City Buses Six Skulls Against The World
17. Damageplan Blink of an Eye New Found Power
18. Blink-182 All The Small Things Enema of the State
19. Led Zeppelin Kashmir Mothership
20. MXPX My Life Story The Ever Passing Moment


View other playlists here, and my entire music collection here.

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Music Stats Updated

I did some tweaking to the stats display engine that I wrote for generating my own music stats today, which now includes data about the top 10 albums by play count, play count by genre, and I improved the execution time a bit with some newly learned functions. I also squashed a bug that was causing artists or albums with “&” in their name to display improperly due to the way PHP handles “&” in URLs. Rich helped me out with that one and we got it all squared away.

I looked around at a few scripts and libraries that allow you to easily make charts and graphs from your data, but I didn’t get too far. After all the work to get things to the state they’re in now, I didn’t feel like creating another headache for myself. At least not today. But it’s on the back burner for now. I am also thinking of some sort of way to track the history of say, the top 100 tracks/artists/albums to show how their play counts change over time. The only problem with this is that I would need to sync at specific intervals, which doesn’t happen very much right now.

Anyways, with the new data that I was able to harvest, I found some interesting information regarding my listening habits:


Genre Plays %OT Total %OT
Rock 41,379 48% 4,928 42%
Metal 21,633 9% 2,545 12%
Classic Rock 7,962 9% 1,412 12%
Punk 7,440 9% 1,558 13%
Country 4,559 5% 516 4%
Rap 1,556 2% 329 3%
Alternative 1,160 1% 218 2%
Pop 683 1% 133 1%
Industrial 490 1% 142 1%
Techno 135 0% 12 0%


This table illustrates the number of plays that each genre has, and the percent of the total plays for that genre on the left; and on the right it shows how many songs there are for that genre, and the percentage of the total library that that particular genre accounts for. While it’s pretty much assumed that these two would have very similar percentages, I found it interesting that Rock takes up nearly half of all of my listening time.

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Anyone care to share their listening habbits? I would be more than happy to run your iTunes library through my stats engine so you could have a gander. Just let me know!

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Playlist: November 2008

Being that I waited a year between the last two playlists, I’m going to try and keep the consistency up on them from now on. Here’s November 2008, which features all live recordings. Enjoy :)

Artist Track Album
Deftones Digital Bath [Acoustic][Live] B-Sides & Rarities Disc 1
Nirvana Lake Of Fire (Unplugged) MTV Unplugged In New York
Clutch The Soapmakers (Live) Live At The Googolplex
Guns N’ Roses November Rain Live Era
Seether Remedy [Live] One Cold Night
Korn Got The Life Live & Rare
Marilyn Manson The Beautiful People (Live) The Last Tour On Earth
Dropkick Murphys Alcohol (Live) Live On St. Patrick’s Day
Nonpoint The Truth Live And Kicking
AC/DC Hells Bells (Live) Live
Queen Let Me Entertain You (Live) Live Killers
Metallica Sad But True Live Shit: Binge & Purge
Rancid Fall Back Down Live Nottingham 2003
Green Day Brainstew [Live] Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking
Nine Inch Nails Starfuckers, Inc. (Live) And All That Could Have Been
Anthrax Indians Alive 2
Garth Brooks American Honky-Tonk Bar Association Double Live
NOFX Eat the Meek They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live!
American Head Charge Dirty [Live] Can’t Stop The Machine
Lamb Of God Now You’ve Got Something To Die For Killadelphia



View other playlists here, and my entire music collection here.

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Playlist: October 2008

I used to post these somewhat regularly, but the last one was a year ago. Here’s the playlist I’ve been listening to lately:

Artist Name Album
01. Noize Poison Legacy Noize Poison
02. Eve Let Me Blow Ya Mind (feat Gwen Stefani) Scorpion
03. Velvet Revolver Get Out The Door Libertad
04. Airbourne Diamond in the Rough Runnin’ Wild
05. Brooks & Dunn My Maria The Greatest Hits Collection
06. The Righteous Brothers You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ Top Gun
07. Nonpoint Bullet With A Name To The Pain
08. Pearl Jam Man of the Hour Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003)
09. The Misfits Shining American Psycho
10. Green Day King For A Day Nimrod
11. The Donnas Better off Dancing Bitchin’
12. Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards The Viking Viking
13. Black Tide Shockwave Light From Above
14. Johnny Cash A Boy Named Sue Legend
15. Avenged Sevenfold Bat Country City Of Evil
16. Foo Fighters Monkey Wrench The Colour and the Shape
17. Metallica All Nightmare Long Death Magnetic
18. Papa Roach Last Resort Infest
19. Lostprophets The Fake Sound of Progress The Fake Sound of Progress
20. Clutch You Can’t Stop Progress From Beale Street To Oblivion



You can view my entire music collection, and feel free to suggest some of your own favorites to me.

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