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In looking over the 19,078 songs we now have on the iPod, I began to wonder about what songs I had in the most cover versions. I am, after all, a music geek.
So, I made up a list. Which wound up being more of a pain than I figured, as not all the versions wound up being alphabetized the same ways ("Satisfaction" vs. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" for example), and I have many songs in multiple languages with non-English titles ("House of the Rising Sun," for example), so alphabetizing by song title was just one step.
Berit wasn't terribly interested in the process, but did suggest a firm rule on multiple versions by the same artist only being counted in they are notably different versions -- most live versions don't count, nor things like the Italian, French, and German versions of Petula Clark doing "Downtown," as they're the same backing track with new vocals, but Marianne Faithfull's two versions of "As Tears Go By" or Martin Denny's of "Quiet Village" count, as the arrangements/approaches are so different.
So what came up as the "standards" that the artists we like go back to? Here are the number of versions we have of each song following:
44
Louie Louie
38
Hey Joe
27
Harlem Nocturne
16
Misirlou
11
Caravan
9
Fever
8
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
7
Ebb Tide
Hound Dog
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
I'm a Man
Who Do You Love?
6
A Lover's Concerto
Ballad of Mack the Knife
Begin the Beguine
House of the Rising Sun
Quiet Village
Stagger Lee
You Don't Love Me (This I Know)
5
20th Century Boy
96 Tears
Alone Again Or
As Tears Go By
Do You Love Me?
Five Long Years
Guilty
Long Tall Sally
Mas Que Nada
Memphis
Oh Lonesome Me
See See Rider
Speak Low
Surabaya Johnny
Tico Tico
Unchained Melody
Walkin' the Dog
Watermelon Man
Hmn. Oddities there ("Mas Que Nada"?) as well as some to be expected. "Long Tall Sally?" I don't even like that song much, but at the same time, I couldn't imagine giving any of these version up. No "Stardust?" No Night and Day?"
Interesting group.
So, I made up a list. Which wound up being more of a pain than I figured, as not all the versions wound up being alphabetized the same ways ("Satisfaction" vs. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" for example), and I have many songs in multiple languages with non-English titles ("House of the Rising Sun," for example), so alphabetizing by song title was just one step.
Berit wasn't terribly interested in the process, but did suggest a firm rule on multiple versions by the same artist only being counted in they are notably different versions -- most live versions don't count, nor things like the Italian, French, and German versions of Petula Clark doing "Downtown," as they're the same backing track with new vocals, but Marianne Faithfull's two versions of "As Tears Go By" or Martin Denny's of "Quiet Village" count, as the arrangements/approaches are so different.
So what came up as the "standards" that the artists we like go back to? Here are the number of versions we have of each song following:
44
Louie Louie
38
Hey Joe
27
Harlem Nocturne
16
Misirlou
11
Caravan
9
Fever
8
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
7
Ebb Tide
Hound Dog
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
I'm a Man
Who Do You Love?
6
A Lover's Concerto
Ballad of Mack the Knife
Begin the Beguine
House of the Rising Sun
Quiet Village
Stagger Lee
You Don't Love Me (This I Know)
5
20th Century Boy
96 Tears
Alone Again Or
As Tears Go By
Do You Love Me?
Five Long Years
Guilty
Long Tall Sally
Mas Que Nada
Memphis
Oh Lonesome Me
See See Rider
Speak Low
Surabaya Johnny
Tico Tico
Unchained Melody
Walkin' the Dog
Watermelon Man
Hmn. Oddities there ("Mas Que Nada"?) as well as some to be expected. "Long Tall Sally?" I don't even like that song much, but at the same time, I couldn't imagine giving any of these version up. No "Stardust?" No Night and Day?"
Interesting group.
