Meme time 3: Musical navel gazing

Since I’m way too lazy to do some real blogging, I stole this from the internets. Deal with it. ;-)

The instructions for this one are simple: open up your favorite music player (in my case, foobar 2000) and answer the following questions truthfully.

  • How many songs total: 12,291
  • How many hours or days of music: 6 weeks, 3 days, 6 hours, 50 minutes and change.
  • Most recently played: Circle II Circle — “Burden of Truth” (acoustically enhanced)
  • Most played: Jim Steinman — “(Vespers) The Song of Gotham City / The Graveyard Shift” (40 plays according to Last.fm)
  • Most recently added: Meat Loaf — 3 Bats Live
  • Sort by song title:
    • First Song: Metallica — “- Human” (pronounced m?’n?s hy?’m?n)
    • Last Song: Acda en De Munnik — “Zwerver met een Wekker”
  • Sort by time:
    • Shortest Song: Dream Theater — “John Thinks He’s Randy Song” (0:10)
    • Longest Song: Dream Theater — “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” (41:33)
  • Sort by album:
    • First album: Meat Loaf — (Give Me the Future with A) Modern Girl
    • Last album: Zwerfhond — Zingend de Kerk in (not counting a title-less bootleg recorded in Zurich)
  • First song that comes up on shuffle: Bløf — Mooie Dag (live)
  • Search the following and state how many songs come up:
    • Death: 124 (including Iron Maiden’s Live after Death, Dance of Death, Death on the Road and A Matter of Life and Death albums)
    • Life: 195 (including 26 versions of “Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back”, and 11 versions of “Bring Me to Life” by Evanescence)
    • Love: 491 (“I’d Do Anything for ~” — 43, “Dead Ringer for ~” — 27)
    • Hate: 13
    • You: 675 (excluding ‘young’, ‘Youp’ and ‘your’, including 38 versions of “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth”)
    • Sex: 35 (including a Meat Loaf bootleg called Sex Muffin)