Who put my song list in alphabetical order?

[vovat]

I got this from revme. Basically, you arrange your MP3's in alphabetical order, and record the first one for each letter. (I also included digits.)

1-202-456-1414 - Cracker (a hidden track from Gentleman's Blues)
2 Days Smug And Sober - Carolyn Mark
32 Footsteps - They Might Be Giants
4 Year Plan - Camper Van Beethoven
5-4=Unity - Pavement
6'1" - Liz Phair
9 Of Disks - CVB
A Battleship Called Greed - Sgt. Major
B.J. Don't Cry - Moxy Früvous
C'mere - Interpol
D & W - TMBG
E Eats Everything - TMBG
Fabulous - Muckafurgason
G Turns To D - Sloan
Hackensack - Fountains of Wayne
I'd Like That - XTC
J C Cohen - Allan Sherman
K Street - Fastbacks
L'Aguardiente - CVB
Mach 1 - Trailer Bride
N Apostrophe T - Tom Lehrer
O-U (The Hound Song) - Tom Lehrer
Pablo And Andrea - Yo La Tengo
Q's Impersonation - Hypnotic Clambake
R 'n' R Uzbekistan - CVB
S-E-X-X-Y - TMBG
T-Shirt - TMBG
U-Mass - Pixies
Vagabond Motel - Trailer Bride
Wafflehead - Robyn Hitchcock
X-Ray Man - Liz Phair
Y2K - Apples in Stereo
Z Y X - TMBG

The winner is TMBG, with six songs. CVB comes in a close second, with four.

I'm going to continue revme's meme-tracking thing, so I'll say that this can be traced back to: revme, doktorfrank, Michelle, Timmer, Styker, Photodude, Pat, Reecie, Knotted Knickers, Scott Feldstein, and Verbatim. I don't know any of those people, but that's the way these things go.

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[loz]

I know so, so few of those songs.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't know a fair amount of them all that well myself. {g}

[revme.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that Here Come the ABCs didn't seem to do you in as much as it did me. I guess you've just got more songs with letters as the first word than I do.

(Also, I think "T-Shirt" is "Even My T-Shirt" from the McSweeney's disc, no?)

And, to be fair, I got the "tracking" meme from justjohn, which I'm sure would thrill him, since he thought of that idea to discourage folks from doing memes, heh.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

It looks like you got ABCs tracks for C, L, and Q, while I got different songs. (Actually, "Q's Impersonation" isn't really a song, but just a goofy concert banter thing. I figured it still counted, though. I think "Q U" was right after that.) But I got "Z Y X," while you didn't. Tom Lehrer's Electric Company songs worked much the same way as the ABCs ones, although there aren't anywhere near as many.

I actually also got "F Anqui 1" for F, but I figured that was more of a filename than a title, so I skipped to the next one.

If I were to alphabetize by hand (not that I would ever actually do that, mind you {g}), I'd probably get different results, becuase I don't think I'd count punctuation.

"T-Shirt" is actually an iTunes exclusive that came out around the time of ABCs, and not the same as "Even My T-Shirt."

That's kind of funny about the tracking thing. I actually think it's kind of fun, although re-inserting the links was kind of annoying. (There was probably a way I could have copied and pasted leaving the links intact, but oh well.)

[revme.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK -- I just thought "t-shirt" might have been that, since they weren't terribly consistent with the McSweeney's song titles. Like, I know that the eMusic stuff listeed "I Am 40 (Memories of West St. and Lepke)" as "Robert Lowell", which is actually how it appears on the song shirt. (Song shirt also only lists one of the Hotel Detectives! This is SCANDALOUS!)

Heh, yeah -- I would be kind of amused if that turned out to be a meme in itself. But yeah -- I wish there was a way to keep the links. It's weird, because things like that only seem to copy the links when you don't want them to. Like, if you copied it into Word, you'd have to spend time removing all the links... but if you copy them into an actual interent-publishing type program, like, say, a dialogue box on LJ or a LJ Posting Client, it'll think you just want the raw text. Despite that the links would actually be _useful_ in that context....

[vovat.livejournal.com]

There was also "Bathymetry For Two"/"Down To The Bottom Of The Sea," and another song that was listed as "Budnitz #1" on eMusic, but had a different name ("Candy Stripers"?) in McSweeney's. I figured that the McSweeney's titles trumped the eMusic ones, but the former song was given its eMusic title (DTTBOTS) when it was on They Got Lost, so I just don't know.

Weren't "Edison Museum" and "THE Edison Museum" listed separately on the shirt? Maybe that was something they corrected eventually; I only actually read the shirt on a scan that someone made before it was even available for purchase. I think there was also a song on that called "Self-Made Millionaire," or something like that.

[revme.livejournal.com]

I thought "Bathymetry for Two" was another song all together -- I think that's actually on the McSwy's disc. I found my mp3 of it, ripped from that, so it'll play next for me, so I'll be able to mention either way.

I think you're right about Budnitz #1 -- probably because the piece the song was for was by Judy Budnitz?

I was going to check on Edison Museum, but my copy of the shirt is in the wash, it looks like, so I can't say. I think it's one of the new ones.

Oh, weird, "Bathymetry" _is_ "Down To The Bottom Of The Sea". I think I just always remembered it as "DTTBOTS", just because that's the most obvious title. I always thought "BFT" was one of the funky little instrumental things. Wiggy. I could have sworn both titles were on the disc. Shows what I know!

[revme.livejournal.com]

Found my copy of the shirt, and yep, "Edison Museum" _was_ listed twice! And yeah, "Self-Made Millionaire" (or maybe "A Self-Made Millionaire" is the title?), and I don't know that one. Nor do I have it in the bowels of my mp3 collection amongst the tracks I have but have never heard.