Just restored my iPod.  So unfortunately my top 25 are just the last couple of albums I listened too-LOL  (mainly Bob Dylan's new album, Guggenheim Grotto-Happy the Man, Chris Issak- Mr Lucky).  Pretty boring......

Allright,from 1-25...Keeping in mind I almost always just keep it on shuffle and listen to whatever pops up.
1.Kings & Queens - Aerosmith
2. I'm Eighteen - Alice Cooper
3. Pressure - The Kinks
4. Joe Fabulous - Bad Company
5. Don't Worry Baby - The Beach Boys
6. Seeing Things - The Black Crowes
7. Nutbush City Limits - Bob Seger& The Silver Bullet Band
8. Let The Day Begin - The Call
9. Beginnings - Chicago
10. Gravity's Gone - Drivew-By Truckers
11. Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim
12. Around & Around - The Rolling Stones
13.Two Sides of Love - Sammy Hagar
14. Insider - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
15. Big Boss Man - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
16. Let it Roll - UFO
17. Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
18. No More Mr Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
19. Gimmie Your Money Please - BTO
20. Midnight Caller - Badfinger
21. Jody Girl - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
22. Bo Diddly - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
23. Two Faces - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
24. One Step Up - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
25. It's Hard to Be A Saint in the City - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

How do you access the 'most played' on an i-Pod Classic?

I can access the 'top 25' on my iTunes.

Thanks Meg, but no luck 

There doesn’t appear to be such an option on my i-Pod

Like I said: I can access the 25 most-played on my i-Tunes

Nellcote wrote on Jul 6^th, 2009 at 7:09am:


I felt like that for a long time. I was concerned that by getting an i-Pod, I would be discarding all the CD’s I have listened to and cherished for all these years. However, this has turned out to be not the case.

All my i-Pod has done is to replace my old Disc Man. I listen to it on the train to work and occasionally at home.

I particularly enjoy the freedom of being able to create my own compilations and playlists. It is almost harking back to the days when I would spend hour-upon-hour creating comps on cassette – its still time consuming this way too!

I still buy CD’s and despite having my i-Pod for nearly a year now, have yet to purchase a single track from i-Tunes.

Long live the CD and vinyl.

A large proportion of the music on m actual i-pod is not in my i-Tunes library.

Like I said, I can view the top-25 most played from my i-tunes playlist, but not from my i-Pod.

I don't understand 

OK, the top-25 from my i-tunes is the following:

1   Baby I Love You - The Ronettes
2   Theres No Other Like My Baby - The Crystals
3   My Girl - Madness
4   Be My Baby - The Ronettes
5   Do I Love You - The Ronettes
6   Jimmy Jimmy - The Undertones
7   He's Sure The Boy I Love - The Crystals
8   Hes A Rebel - The Crystals
9   Uptown - The Crystals
10  (Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry - Darlene Love
11  Wait 'Till Mty Bobby Gets Home - Darlene Love
12  iViva La Gloria! - Green Day
13  One Step Beyond - Madness
14  Michael Caine - Madness
15  Christmas Ghost - Manic Street Preachers
16  Further Away - Manic Street Preachers
17  (The Best Part) Of Breakin' Up - The Ronettes
18  Shes A Runaround - The Undertones
19  I Don't Beleive You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - Bob Dylan
20  You're No Good - Bob Dylan
21  Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
22  Know Your Enemy - Green Day
23  Before The Lobotomy - Green Day
24  Christians Inferno - Green Day
25  The Prince - Madness

I love Throwaway's list. You could definitely replace my iPod with his and I probably wouldnt notice the difference

here's mine:

"Danko / Manuel" - Drive-by Truckers
"Taper Jean Girl" - Kings of Leon
"Harvest" - Neil Young
"(Wish I Could) Hideaway" - Creedance Clearwater Revival
"Slow Night, So Long" - Kings of Leon
"The Importance of Being Idle" - Oasis
"A Kiss Before I Go" - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
"10 A.M. Automatic" - The Black Keys
"The Bucket" - Kings of Leon
"Let It Ride" - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
"Monkey Man" - The Rolling Stones
"Tailspin" - The Jayhawks
"Shuffle It All" - Izzy Stradlin
"A Song For You" - Gram Parsons
"Sway" - The Rolling Stones
"Highway Blues" - The Izzys
"I'm A Ram" - Al Green
"Hot Burrito No.2" - The Flying Burrito Brothers
"Call My Name" - The Izzys
"Factory Girl" - The Rolling Stones
"Lost My Driving Wheel" - The Byrds
"Don't Do It" - The Band
"Ain't No More Cane" - Bob Dylan and The Band
"Monkey Man" - Toots & The Maytals
"We Had It All" - Keith Richards & Willie Nelson


For those of you wondering who The Izzys are - they are a MUST have for any Stones fan. My favorite new band. Very Stonesy. Excellent. Check them out and thank me later.

Is Jackie Greene opening for the Crowes? Or is Rat Dog?

what are your thoughts on "I Aint Hiding" ?  - Emotional Rescue-esque, no?

I've got a rough mix of the new stuff.... I'm not happy with it. Its too New Earth Mud sounding if you know what I mean. Chris has taken another sappy turn and the rootsy retro strut rock of Warpaint is gone. He's even singing about Mermaids on one song.

I'm not feeling it. I just cant get into it and keep hitting the skip button. Not enough of that classic Rich Robinson Crowesy geetar sound. Its just too mellow. Maybe it'll grow on me...

I'm sure I don't care to examine which songs are played the most but I'm sure it's mostly Stones & Heart of Glass by Blondie.

Honky Tonk Man wrote on Jul 6^th, 2009 at 8:04am:


Lots of Green Day and Phil Spector girl group stuff, Alex. Not that I'm opposed to it at all. So here's my top 25. There's a lot of other stuff in my collection. This is a very small sampling considering I have over 6000 songs! I'll give some comments too since I'm always full of insight:

1 Dust-Fleetwood Mac (Really underrated, mellow ballad from Danny Kirwan who shares lead vocal with Christine McVie from this 1972 gem)

2 Procession-New Order      (One of their first singles from 1981)

3 Dyslexic Heart-Paul Westerberg (A wonderfully novel love song Paul did for the soundtrack to the movie Singles in 1992)

4 Four Winds      -Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst is definitely one of the few in the rock vein worth watching today and I really like when Bright Eyes matured beyond their slightly whimpish Elliot Smith-like beginnings to become rootsy and fresh)

5 Capital Radio Two-The Clash (Great little commentary on radio by the Clash from 1979)

6 Albatross-Fleetwood Mac (One of rock's great instrumentals and a rare #1 hit in the UK that was vocal-less in 1969. Long live Peter Green!)

7 Still Water (Love)-The Four Tops (Beautiful latter-day ballad from the Tops in 1970 after H-D-H left Motown and the Tops in a lurch)

8 There Was A Time-James Brown (Great live rendition that's just a stone groove with only one chord but plenty of other things happening)

9 Giant Steps-John Coltrane (Essential modal jazz from the late 50s by one of jazz's pre-eminent geniuses before he really went weird years later)

10 Hold My Life-The Replacements (Lead cut on the 'Mats 1985 Tim LP and a typically heart-tugging Westerberg tune)

11 It's All Over Now Baby Blue-Van Morrison & Them (Van showed even in 1965 what a great singer and interpreter he could be, re-inventing the Dylan classic to his own style)

12 Dreaming From The Waist-The Who (The best rocker from The Who By the Numbers in 1975, more of Townshend's moping on aging and his alcoholism)

13 Ecaroh-Art Blakey & Horace Silver (Gotta love Art Blakey not just for his timekeeping impressiveness but for the solid arrangements he give his ensemble and when joined by piano whiz Horace Silver there were awesome results, such as this 6 minute bopper)

14 Rain-The Beatles (A psychedelic journey extraordinaire from the Fabs)

15 Dreamin' Of You-Bob Dylan (What a great uncovered gem from 1997 that was unearthed on Tell Tale Signs last year)

16 You're Welcome, Stop on By-Bobby Womack (Nobody was smoother, funkier or smokier in soul than Womack in the early 70s)

17 Rock & Roll Woman-Buffalo Springfield (Stills never wowed me much after the 60s but you gotta admit this guy had his shit going in his early days and this was a tour de force of his talents)

18 Ever Fall in Love?-The Buzzcocks (Combining pop sensibility and wonderful punk hooks was the Buzzcocks forte and this was a supreme representation of that)

19 Neat Neat Neat-The Damned (Punk could be mindless but still as transcendent as "serious" prog or art rock and the Damned knew how to pump out the furious classics)

20 Stay-David Bowie (Coke-mad and paranoid Bowie and his arty ways meets 70s funk and creates a sort of detached kraut rock)

21 What Love is-The Dead Boys (Of all the American punk bands early on, though there weren't many, the Dead Boys were devoted thrashing punk rockers and this song was simple fun and filth)

22 Eight Miles High-Husker Du (About as psychotic a cover you're gonna here but so amazing as the Huskers make the Byrds landmark song a fuzz-drenched, distorted, madcap alt-rocker with Bob Mould screaming almost incomprehensibly)

23 Soul Power-James Brown (Another of James' many incredible jams from the early 70s that proved he was funk's master and band leader unrivaled by anyone)

24 Open My Eyes-The Nazz (Todd Rundgren's first group the Nazz created a few stellar songs but none better than this 3 minutes of Beatley, catchy psychedelic rock that has the usual trippy solos and harmonies but a propulsive drive that sounds like Moby Grape on speed or something)

25 Duncan-Paul Simon (Simon's first LP is a masterpiece and this song a delicate triumph with Simon singing a seafaring tale with a standard folk arrangement that is fleshed out beautifully by his acoustic guitar picking and the chilling sounds of the Peruvian pan flutes of South America- also heard in breathtaking form on his "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" from Bridge Over Troubled Water)

Prodigal raised the bar and included reviews


shame on the rest of us

I'll do like PS, add comments, why not:

Whiskeytown/Drank Like a River (they likened this one to a FBB tune meets "Satisfaction" - the song oozes attitude)
Neal Casal/Sundowntown (demo) (another great vocal from Neal)
Son Volt/Cemetery Savior (a more rocking tune than most of Straightaways, wish they played it live more)
Jackson Browne/These Days (beautifully written, at such a young age)
Velvet Underground/Oh Sweet Nuthin (like most of VU's songs, not the happiest topic, but pays respect for those like "Salt of the Earth" does - amazing lead guitar, over 7 mins of heaven)
Whiskeytown/Houses on the Hill (one of the saddest songs, beautiful fiddle from CC as always)
Neil Young/Big Time (amazing riff, its a monster on the level of "Citadel" and turns into a classic Crazy Horse full band jam)
Ryan Adams/Cold Roses (another awesome riff - the instrumental break has all members right on the mark)
Warren Zevon/Carmelita (singing about doing Heroine in a border town, Warren being Warren)
Whiskeytown/Crazy Lonesome (a Memory Away) (outtake that the band liked enough to play live a bunch of times - has that Stonesy swagger)
Whiskeytown/Barn's On Fire (short but good country-riff)
Free/Ride on a Pony (live) (THE blues riff, Paul Rodgers and Paul Kossoff make this thing GROOVE)
Tom Petty/Jammin' Me (one of the few bright spots from this album, but rocks in a nice Keith-like way)
Black Keys/Your Touch (check out Eastbound and Down's first few episodes, and you'll hear this danceable blues-rocker)
CSNY/Everybody I Love You (the slow part at the end gets nice and bluesy)
George Jones/He Stopped Loving Her Today (another sad one, not my favorite of Jones' but it might give you goosebumps if youre not ready)
Ryan Adams/Magnolia Mountain (see Cold Roses, one of the best songs Adams ever wrote)
Chris Robinson/Red Road (builds nicely, too bad its not more well-known)
Cracker/Mr. Wrong (cheeky lyrics, very Stonesy)
Flying Burrito Brothers/Hot Burrito #1 (Grams best)
George Harrison/Beware of Darkness (listen to the slide guitar, a reason why GH had the best solo career)
Rolling Stones/Crazy Mama' (nuff said)
Johnny Cash/I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow (I like Hank's original too, I could see Keith playing this one)
Old 97s/Crash on the Barrelhead (97s being a bit spooky for them, with good results, short but sweet)
Wilco/Casino Queen (the band needs more stuff like this instead of some of their more boring recent stuff - this ones SUPER stonesy)