Goodbye Mrs. Durkin – Irish Rovers
Finnegan’s Wake – Dropkick Murphys
The Orange and Green – Irish Rovers
Black Velvet Band – Irish Rovers
Seven Drunken Nights – Dubliners
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The Killers’ awesome cover of one of my favorite Dire Straits tracks — Romeo and Juliet — is more than enough of a reason to buy Sawdust. There are 17 b-sides and otherwise unreleased covers and studio versions on this excellent collection. I grabbed it from iTunes about a month ago and have [...]
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I just finished reading Mark Hertsgaard’s excellent book, A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles and I loved it. My father-in-law — who, in 1974, was actually kicked out of the Troubadour with John for heckling the Smothers Brothers — gave it to me a few weeks ago after [...]
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You’re asking me, “What are the ten songs you played the most in iTunes this year, David?” Unfortunately I’m not going to tell you that. I’d love to do it, but I can’t. See, the thing is that iTunes doesn’t store meta data in a true RDBMS; it’s just a flat XML [...]
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Wednesday September 27, 2006
I‘ve decided that Goodbye in Gasoline has overtaken How’s My Driving, Doug Hastings? as my favorite Less Than Jake song. It’s a tough call to make. I’ve had How’s My Driving posted here for download since early 2000. That is a seriously long time to have been awake late every night, nervously [...]
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Here’s another silly music meme. This one’s from A Small Victory. Take all the songs in iTunes (or your music player of choice), alphabetize ‘em, and tell the first song of each letter. Yes, it’s lame. Yes, it’s fun. I got more than 26 because I couldn’t resist including numerals [...]
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Gee, I haven’t been involved in a meme in quite some time, and I’m currently nursing a wicked sinus infection and suffering from post-Sith syndrome, but I’ll play along. It’s a music meme, and everyone knows I’m a sucker for both. I should note that my copy of iTunes has 6811 songs, some [...]
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Because I know you’re dying to know, I present my top fifty most-played tracks according to iTunes:
Title: Woke Up This Morning – Artist: A3 (PlayCount: 116)
Less Than You Hoped For – Gunmoll (108)
My Friend Peter – Alkaline Trio (72)
Open All Night – Bruce Springsteen (66)
Whatsername – Green Day (64)
How’s My Driving, Doug Hastings? – [...]
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Amazon XML? Google API? Web services? You want some cool web services?
The Covers Project … building a database of cover songs (songs performed by an artist other than the original performer) with the intention of creating cover “chains.” A cover chain is a set of songs in which each song is a [...]
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