Your top 5 songs ever. - The Bear and Badger

FranticPea

djchump wrote:

https://spotitracks.com/

Unfortunately I share Spotify with a 6 year old, but as per the start of the thread it seems Disorder is still my favourite.

djchump

Don't lie though, The Poo Poo Song and Cotton Eye Joe are from you. And that's 6 songs there, so Joy Division drops off your top 5. I don't make the rules.

FranticPea

DAMMIT

poprock

I just tried the Spotitracks thing and it’s showing The Waterboys and Ryan Adams as my top two tracks ever. That can’t be right. I don’t like either artist and haven’t even heard of the songs. There’s quite a lot of tracks in their list for me which are waaaay off base.

I’m gonna go change my Spotify password right now.

Kow

It showed a load of weird stuff for me too, until I realised that it was logging in for another member of my family account. My account was a bit of a surprise. Not sure how Satyricon got into the all time top ten. I do like that song KING though.

poprock

Weird thing is that I have Spotify linked to Last.fm for logging my listening … and none of those off-base tracks are showing up on Last.fm.

djchump

Spotitracks could be way off for all I know - just saw a link when I was searching for how to find my top tracks.
TBF though, other Spotify API examples give me the same results - e.g.: http://static.echonest.com/NowPlayingOnSpotify/#

So really, what isn't clear is how Spotify is rating the songs as "your top tracks". Maybe it isn't based on just the number of listens to the track itself, there might be other analtics kicking in for the weightings.

However, I still cry when I think about Frantic's poor "Discover Weekly" playlist every monday.

Tempy

I reckon my top 10 is accurate as they are all songs I've learnt on guitar apart from Chartjunk cos it's too hard.

Smooth Sailing - Queens of the Stone Age
Tigers - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Stick Figures In Love - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
I Sat By The Ocean - Queens of the Stone Age
Senator - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Lariat - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
The Ideal Husband - Father John Misty
Discretion Grove - Stephen Malkmus
Chartjunk - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Futurology - Manic Street Preachers

FranticPea

Mrs Pea shares it too so Discover Weekly is all over the shop.

Daily Mix is always great though, and only has stuff I listen to. Weird that.

FranticPea

I think I like Manchester bands.

Skerret

Fuck a Spotify, also I can't do a top 5

FranticPea

Do a top 3 then.

Skerret

That I can do.

Evie Part 1
Evie Part 2
Newspaper Mama

FranticPea

Always had faith in you.

regmcfly

Ten rapid fur skerret

Moot_Geeza

Ignoring what Spotify tells me, I think my updated top 5 would be...

Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan
Me & Bobby McGee - Kris Kristofferson
Ruby & Carlos - James McMurtry
Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
Blue Umbrella - John Prine

Blue waterproof stuff ftw. Wish I'd Tempy'd it and done a 10, the culling was tough.

Tempy

I dunno what my actual top5 is, I was just grabbing the Spotify stuff

Moot_Geeza

Ah. Only three of your original choices are still showing - Marquee Moon, Terrible Love, A Lady of a Certain Age. Still in contention? 24hrs is a long time for something like this, let alone 5 years.

Moot_Geeza

I love it, but I also reckon the only time Steve Earle's Guitar Town has been one of my top 5 tracks ever was in the moment I sat down to do my original list.

Tempy

Lady of a Certain Age and Marquee Moon would probably stick

trippy

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Vela

Top 5 is impossible and would change year by year I reckon. As of right now the songs I would be compelled to include are:

The Avalanches - Saturday Night Inside Out
Leonard Cohen - The Partisan (Songs from the Road live version)
Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany

Still cant convince myself of two more. Tough to split a few.

LarryDavid

iTunes tells me my top 5 listened to in the last year are:

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - So Glad
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Jam City - Today
Ariel Pink - Lipstick
The Fall - Last Orders

Not exactly a top five ever (I think I added them way back when this thread first came around) but good enough. Looking back on my original list there’s about a thousand more I’d like to add.

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Lazarus (12” version) - The Boo Radleys
Reservations - Wilco
Vanishing Point - New Order
Weaponized - bravecaptain
Comforting Sounds - Mew

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poprock

I’ve been thinking about this thread and I just can’t bloody do it. I can’t pick five. It’s not enough.

I doubt a top 50 would be enough. My brain’s just not wired this way.

poprock

I think I can do my number one. Blood of a Young Wolf by Buck 65. Beyond that I’m lost. As soon as I start to think about it 10, 20, 30-odd songs start springing to mind and I can’t prioritise them over one another.

Tempy

I quite liked Buck 65 back in the day

MoesTavern

I like these threads

Nick Drake - Time has Told Me
The Smiths - Rusholme Ruffians
The Beach Boys - In My Room
Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
The Stone Roses - Elephant Stone

WorKid

Spotify says my top 5 are:

Run Away With Me
I Really Like You
Making The Most Of The Night
Cut To The Feeling
Emotion

probably right in terms of played, certainly not top 5 ever clearly. Although this week Paradise By The Dashboard Light breaks the CRJ stranglehold.

Dark Soldier

Oohh I didn't do a proper Jungle/DnB one okay there's eight shoot me, I'm missing out about 30. The first is the greatest build up to anything ever. The B side is Alien Girl ffs, probably the best vinyl an artist has pressed fuck it I've added Alien Girl I'll stop now.

Baraka is a treasure. That second drop on Whiplash sends me ballistic (tease that into a mix and I'm smashing summat), Deadline's construction is masterful, Soundwall is a God at work, Dillinja has knocked out so many next level tracks but The Angel's Fell oh my days. I adore Mr Majestic, its my go to summer track and Jah Dread is a slice of raw heaviness from my own personal DnB idol - 1:55 son get in.

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