{"id":2338,"date":"2011-05-26T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2011-05-26T12:11:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T20:11:39","slug":"heres-some-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2011\/05\/26\/heres-some-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s some data!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a list of all the songs I&#8217;ve listened to at fifty or more times on my computer or an iDevice, since I started keeping track a little over four years ago:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;David,&#8221; The Radio Dept.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Police And The Private,&#8221;\tMetric<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Too Young,&#8221;\tPhoenix<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Good Morning, Hypocrite,&#8221; Electric President<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Daylight Savings Time,&#8221;\tJosh Rouse<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Dance Anthem of the 80&#8217;s,&#8221;\tRegina Spektor<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Adventures In Solitude,&#8221;\tThe New Pornographers<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Lisztomania,&#8221;\tPhoenix<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Citrus,&#8221;\tThe Hold Steady<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If I Ever Feel Better,&#8221;\t Phoenix<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Like She&#8217;ll Always Be,&#8221; Jimmy Eat World<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Hold On, Hold On,&#8221;\tNeko Case<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;This Tornado Loves You,&#8221;\tNeko Case<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;La Costa Brava,&#8221;\tTed Leo and the Pharmacists<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Powerstripe,&#8221;\tTigercity<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;My Love Has Gone,&#8221;\tJosh Rouse<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Alone in Kyoto\t,&#8221; Air<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You Stopped Making Sense,&#8221;\tThe Radio Dept.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Cars And History,&#8221;\tStrays Don&#8217;t Sleep<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Summer,&#8221;\tGeneral Fuzz<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;June,&#8221;\tRJD2 ft. Copywrite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lot of these actually date back to 2007, when my music collection was constrained by hard drive size and I did a lot more walking around with my iPod.  On the whole, though, it&#8217;s a pretty accurate list of every <a href=\"\/anacrusis\/2005\/07\/29\/lettie\/\">song that has obsessed me<\/a> in recent memory, for better or worse.  (It doesn&#8217;t include soundtrack songs, which I often loop without really hearing when I&#8217;m working or writing.)<\/p>\n<p>I find it interesting that there&#8217;s a pretty standard distribution evident in the playcounts:  the top three songs have been played as many times as the next six put together, etc.  If you want to get a sense of how easily I succumb to certain musical tricks, I made a Grooveshark playlist called <a href=\"http:\/\/grooveshark.com\/#\/playlist\/The+Fifty+Club\/54302792?src=5\" title=\"Why didn't anyone else ever go nuts over Electric President?\">The Fifty Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a list of all the songs I&#8217;ve listened to at fifty or more times on my computer or an iDevice, since I started keeping track a little over four years ago: &#8220;David,&#8221; The Radio Dept. &#8220;The Police And The Private,&#8221; Metric &#8220;Too Young,&#8221; Phoenix &#8220;Good Morning, Hypocrite,&#8221; Electric President &#8220;Daylight Savings Time,&#8221; Josh Rouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,13,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-obsessions","category-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}