iPod Top 25

The top 25 songs on my iPod have changed enough to warrant a new post:

Joe Jackson - Stepping Out - 60 plays
Madonna - Hung Up - 59 plays
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime - 56 plays
Rhett Miller - Terrible Vision - 56 plays
The Old 97's - Question - 50 plays
Huey Lewis and the News - If This is It - 48 plays
The Beatles - The Two of Us - 45 plays
Genesis - Follow You, Follow Me - 43 plays
Elvis Costello - Either Side of the Same Town - 42 plays
Elton John - Sorry seems to be the Hardest Word - 41 plays
Rhett Miller - Your Nervous Heart - 39 plays
Elton John - Goodbye - 38 plays
Elvis Costello - Welcome to the Working Week - 37 plays
Rush - New World Man - 37 plays
Squeeze - Pulling Muscles (From the Shell) - 36 plays
Bread - Lost without Your Love - 34 plays
Elvis Costello - Blue Chair - 34 plays
Lenny Kravitz - Lady - 32 plays
No Doubt - Just a Girl - 32 plays
Rush - Freewill- 31 plays
Squeeze - Walk Away - 31 plays
Elvis Costello - Almost Blue - 29 plays
Joe Jackson - Got the Time - 29 plays
No Doubt - Don't Speak - 29 plays
Split Endz - Message to my Girl - 28 plays

The last time I did this particular list, my favorite artist was overwhelmingly Elton John. These days, it seems that the Elv is taking over. Oddly, I listen to way more EC than EJ, but I guess because I have so many EC albums and not so many EJ albums, I tend to listen to the particular EJ songs more often than any particular EC song.

And I way didn't realize that I was listening to Bread that often. I downloaded this song one very early morning when the only thing on TV was an "infomercial" done by Time Life by Air Supply. They played a bit of this song, and I don't think I'd heard it in its entirety in 20 years. So I downloaded it.

As of last week, I've been listening to a CD by a German band called "Ich & Ich". Good stuff. It belongs to a genre the Germans are apparently calling "the new German wave." This isn't anything like Nena. It is kind of jazzy and I think I'd liken them to a cross between the Brand New Heavies and Radiohead.