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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Song The Song I Listened to Over 100 Times This Year

Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:25 PM

"Master of Art"-Laura Stevenson & the Cans from Sara Crow on Vimeo.

What song(s) have you listened to over 100 times in 2011?

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"Ice Cream" by Battles

Damn catchy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsvMyQeC…

Posted by TORMATO on December 28, 2011 at 2:43 PM

Ooh. I like that one.

Mine was Ride This Out by Imaginary Cities.

Posted by Allyn on December 28, 2011 at 2:45 PM

love laura stevenson & the cans <3

according to ye ol' itunes, these songs were listened to 100+ times in 2k11:

the maytals - never you change
the mountain goats - this year
mike kinsella + bob nanna - boxcar (jawbreaker cover)
toots & the maytals - 54-46 was my number
the debonaires - eenie meanie gypsaleenie
neutral milk hotel - i love how you love me

Posted by alithea on December 28, 2011 at 2:50 PM

Mine was 'Where I'm Going' by Cut Copy.

Posted by Ziggity on December 28, 2011 at 3:07 PM

"You can't stop the Beat" from Hairspray.

Posted by jeffy on December 28, 2011 at 3:19 PM

Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People; too dang catchy.

Posted by westello on December 28, 2011 at 3:20 PM

"Last Living Rose" - PJ Harvey.

Posted by biffp on December 28, 2011 at 3:21 PM

"Sleep Forever" - Portugal. The Man

And I've easily listened to Touche Amore's Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me in its entirety well over 100 times (though it's only 20 minutes long, but whatever).

Posted by T on December 28, 2011 at 3:30 PM

Twin Shadow – At My Heels

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on December 28, 2011 at 3:31 PM

Gotye - Somebody I Used to Know

Snuck into the remaining days of 2011 to explode my mind.

Posted by More, I Say! on December 28, 2011 at 3:34 PM

"Sin City" - The Flying Burrito Brothers

Posted by no marketable skills on December 28, 2011 at 3:36 PM

I don't really trust my last.fm statistics, but they say that I didn't listen to any one song more than 29 times in the last 12 months. That said, my top repeats were:

Bon Iver - "Calgary"
James Blake - "the Wilhelm Scream" / "Lindisfarne I & II"
Beirut - "East Harlem"
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Belong"

(I also listened to the first two tracks from M83's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming" and Typhoon's A New Kind of House what felt like a hundred times over the course of a couple weeks, but that was on Spotify and may not have been logged.)

Posted by Josh Bis

on December 28, 2011 at 3:37 PM

"I know where I've been", from the musical "Hairspray"

Posted by mr pinky on December 28, 2011 at 3:40 PM

Oh My God - Cults

Posted by ceefurn

on December 28, 2011 at 3:44 PM

"Great Pan Is Dead" or "Confetti" by Cold Cave

Also "Lose It" by Austra, "Collapse" by Iceage, "Money" by the Drums and "Midnight City" by M83.

And although these aren't new songs, " I Can't Stand" by Zola Jesus and "Under Your Spell" by Desire (although I listened to instrumental version a lot more than the version from Drive)

Posted by LEE.

on December 28, 2011 at 3:54 PM

The baby voiced female of that indie tune insures that it will find a place as bumper music for UPS or Target ads during the Super Bowl.

Also, intro: Beach Boys. Don't Worry Baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9E1by7Po…

Maybe the Ronettes...

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on December 28, 2011 at 3:55 PM

"I throw my hands up in the air some times
Saying, 'Hey, yo,
Gotta let go!'"

Posted by Big Matt G on December 28, 2011 at 3:57 PM

Kaki King - "Death Head" and "Betrayer" - I always liked her playing but didn't realize she'd started writing awesome rock songs. She got really great with "Junior."

Posted by virginia mason on December 28, 2011 at 4:13 PM

Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter - Your Own Kind

Posted by DeaconBlues

on December 28, 2011 at 4:54 PM

@10, looking forward to the Gotye show at the Neptune 4/10/12

Posted by biffp on December 28, 2011 at 5:04 PM

Wakka fllocka flame-no hands
Twin shadow-castles in the snow
Onethrix point never-betrayed by the octagon
The entire hunx and his punx album
If i didnt discover the album so late in the year,nacho picasso's, more gang would def be on the list.

Starslinger vs teams ep
Last but not least, rubber band business by juicy j and lex luger

Posted by ryjan on December 28, 2011 at 5:19 PM

You Let Me Down by Joel Plaskett, on his cd set Three.
For a letdown song, it's lively and catchy.
Actually, almost everything on Three is great.

Posted by shambhaladawa on December 28, 2011 at 5:55 PM

Pumped up Kicks, almost every song from the new Dengue Fever disc, Fuego by Bomba Estereo (OK, that obsession started after I saw them at Bumbershoot '10), and Rolling In the Deep.

Posted by Tingleyfeeln on December 28, 2011 at 6:10 PM

We Got it Wrong - St. Lucia

Way more than a hundred. Way, way more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVz23zAru…

Posted by Soo on December 28, 2011 at 7:27 PM

Two: Toro y Moi 'Still Sound' and Horse Feathers 'The Drought.'

Yes!

Posted by disintegrator

on December 28, 2011 at 7:37 PM

Wow Megan. Great song. Great Vid.

I think the song I listened to most often this year was probably Gogol Bordello "Immigraniada", but honestly I can't remember what I did the first 6 months of the year when I was strapped in a chair in a white cubicle. Things happened there....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oioNZSPq…

Posted by cracked on December 28, 2011 at 10:27 PM

Ungirthed by Purity Ring
http://youtu.be/YyFtyKZ1Orc

Suspended in Gaffa by Kate Bush
http://youtu.be/V3XAeg3B0To

Posted by dangerousgift on December 28, 2011 at 11:22 PM

beast of burden , rolling stones .

Posted by whatsbeckgottadowithit on December 29, 2011 at 12:10 AM

Hillstomp's Little Angel Child. It was on repeat and cranked for the passing of my father-in-law in February and then again for for my own dad's death last month.

Posted by David Thompson on December 29, 2011 at 12:48 AM

Radiohead's "Little by Little", but

@7: that's in my Top 5 DEF!

Posted by hello/goodbye stranger

on December 29, 2011 at 2:17 AM

"Our Last Shot" by Groenland

Featured in the movie about The Village in Montreal "Les Boules Roses"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJS2R1XCC…

Posted by zephsright on December 29, 2011 at 8:50 AM

breath clad in happiness ---Envy

Posted by zest4life187 on December 29, 2011 at 8:57 AM

like a couple of other people on this list "pumped up kicks" may be my most listened to song of the year. maybe not 100 times, and definitely not by choice. i fucking hate that song.

Posted by yos-wa on December 29, 2011 at 10:02 AM

@3 Did you catch the mountain goats cover of boxcar?

@10 That's mine, too. Can't. Stop.

Posted by cat'spajamas on December 29, 2011 at 10:08 AM

@30, any song that begins with "Goddamn Europeans" is pretty sure to be top 5, particularly in a year when their politicians are causing the problems (for a change).

Posted by biffp on December 29, 2011 at 10:10 AM

@20, totes excite!!!

Posted by More, I Say! on December 29, 2011 at 11:48 AM

If we're including times I watched the videos it would probably be a 3-way tie between Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's "Huzzah!" and "The Last Huzzah!" (always back-to-back), Nacho Picasso's "Numbnuts" and Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci."

Posted by bunnypuncher

on December 29, 2011 at 1:49 PM

Morning Glory -- The Whole World is Watching

Posted by nick9871 on December 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM

@15 i came close (no pun intended) w/ "the great pan is dead" but don't think i hit 100.

Posted by northaxe on December 30, 2011 at 2:33 PM

@15 i came close (no pun intended) w/ "the great pan is dead" but don't think i hit 100 for that or any song this year or in years, maybe "the magic position" in '07?

Posted by northaxe on December 30, 2011 at 2:35 PM