Is this eclectic enough for you?

[chickenfeet]

Stolen from itchyfidget

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrassing it is.


How many songs?
2531, though "songs" is a complete misnomer. "tracks" is more appropriate.

Sort by artist
First artist: A.L.Lloyd - The Balaena
Last artist: Sumi Jo - Theme from the Ninth Gate

Sort by song title
First Song: A toy, while it was in the water from the Goodall recording of Rhinegold.
Last Song: Zigeuner by Noel Coward sung by Joan Sutherland.

Sort by time
Shortest Song: 5s - E tu, Poppea from Handel's Agrippina.
Longest Song: 1:35:05 - Antigone by Sophocles

Sort by album
First Album: ¡Ay que sí! - Suzie LeBlanc
Last Album: Workers' Playtime - Billy Bragg

First song that comes up on shuffle: Gwaed ar eu dwylo by Plethyn

How many songs come up when you search for "sex"?
Two - Sexuality by Billy Bragg and Sex Appeal from Ute Lemper's Berlin Cabaret album.

How many songs come up when you search for "death"?
Twelve, four of which involve Cleopatra and two involve saints.

How many songs come up when you search for "love"?
Forty seven. I might point out that that includes two settings of Houseman's Loveliest of Trees.

Comments

[thera-flu.livejournal.com]

1245 items.
Artist sort:
Adam Sandler The Thanksgiving Song
Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin Good-bye

Song sort:
'Til a Tear Becomes a Rose by John Prine and Fiona Prine (punctuation seems to trump letters)
Ziplock Bag Beck

Time:
I Dream a Highway by Gillian Welch (14:35)
The Mustard (:18) (ok this is embarrassing) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Once More with Feeling soundtrack

Album:
Anthology Lyle Lovett
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Flaming Lips

Shuffle:
Oh, Little Child Joan Baez

Sex:
Four, Nasy Sex from y tu Mama tambien, Sexx Laws by Beck, Sexual Healing cover by Ben Harper, and Sexi Plexi by Jack Johnson

Death:
only two! O Death from O Brother Where Art Thou? and a long titled somethin' from Joan Baez again

Love:
133 items! Oh, that's because Lyle Lovett has "love" in his name and I own most of his oeuvre. So I cheated.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

I have no iTunes -- shall I try it with Rhapsody?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

why not?

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

How many songs?
4844 tracks


Sort by artist
First artist: ABBA -- Waterloo (although this is not the first ABBA song alphabetically)
Last artist: Yuri Buenaventura -- L'eau a La Bouche


Sort by song title
First Song: A Boat Like Gideon Brown -- Great Big Sea
Last Song: Zungo -- Nina Simone


Sort by time
Shortest Song: 14 s -- Già da tre Luna from Rigoletto
Longest Song: 25:28 -- Appalachian Spring


Sort by album
First Album: A Bigger Bang -- Stones
Last Album: Zooropa -- U2


First song that comes up on shuffle: Barber's Cello Concerto Op. 22 Allegro moderato


How many songs come up when you search for "sex"?
Not counting Martin Sexton? Two: Sexbomb -- Tom Jones and So Unsexy -- Alanis Morrisette


How many songs come up when you search for "death"?
23, but that includes two Death Cab for Cutie albums. Not a good search finction. O Death from the O Brother, where art thou soundtrack is the other


How many songs come up when you search for "love"?
417 -- including all of the Lyle Lovett on the list. Also a Nina Simone Love Songs album and a couple of Ella Fitzgerald Love Songs albums, as well as albums by Paul Simon, Enigma, and Everything But the Girl