Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Top oldies of the year

Statistics don't lie and the iTunes play counts reveal all sorts of interesting things. Here are the top twenty most played tunes that were not released this year.

Rank Title Artist Album
1 Lewis Boogie Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club - Hamburg
2 Deep Six Big Black Racer-X
3 St. Stephen Grateful Dead Complete Fillmore West 1969
4 Money Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club - Hamburg
5 Starless King Crimson Live in Asbury Park, NJ Jun 28, 1974
6 Theme for Great Cities Simple Minds Sons and Fascination (Includes Sister Feelings Call)
7 Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) Stevie Wonder Looking Back
8 Tatas-Matoes Art Ensemble Of Chicago 1967 - 68
9 E=MC^2 Big Audio Dynamite Super hits
10 Sweet Leaf Black Sabbath Live At Last
11 Guess I'm Dumb Glen Campbell Pet Projects - The Brian Wilson Productions
12 The Eleven Grateful Dead Complete Fillmore West 1969 
13 Isolation Iggy Pop Blah Blah Blah
14 High School Confidential Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club - Hamburg
15 Dagenham Dave Morrissey Southpaw Grammar
16 All the Way from Memphis Mott the Hoople The Ballad of Mott: A Retrospective 
17 Roll Away the Stone Mott the Hoople The Ballad of Mott: A Retrospective 
18 Riding To Vanity Fair Paul McCartney Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
19 Something that I said The Ruts The Peel Sessions
20 This Fear Of Gods Simple Minds Empires And Dance

What does it all mean? The Jerry Lee Lewis album is one of the best live albums ever. Simple Minds were good once. The Grateful Dead are great despite their fans. The rest are just great tunes. I have to say though that the King Crimson track is just perfect. It's 15 minutes long so it did very well to get so high in the chart.

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