I thought this might be a fun sort of game.

Just go to your iTunes or your iPod (if you use either) and see which tMG song has the most plays.

For iTunes my most played is Cubs in Five

on my iPod it ranks:

1. Fault Lines- 48
2. Thought About You a Little (Birthday Cake Song)- 45
3. Home Again Garden Grove- 44
4. This Year- 40
5. The Irony Engine- 36

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MediaMonkey says:
Most Played Tracks By The Mountain Goats
Nine Black Poppies (spin.com session) 185
Anti-Music Song 102
Flight 717: Going to Denmark 83
Going to Scotland 78
Leaving Home 72

iTunes (since 2004/12/22)

(tMG only):
1. Palmcorder Yajna (124)
2. If You See Light (117)
3. This Year (112)
4. Going to Georgia (100)
5. No Children (98)

(non tMG, to put the numbers in perspective):
1. The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want to Get Over You (168)
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 (147)
3. Peter Gabriel - The Book of Love (134)
4. Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money (123)
5. Frank Black - Changing of the Guards (116)

I Don't Want to Get Over You is such a great song! my favorite MF song



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My most played tMG songs are:

1. Weekend in Western Illinois - 107
2. Nova Scotia - 89
3. Going to Georgia - 85
4. Tallahassee - 82
5. Cai Dao Blowout - 79

Ok, from iTunes:

1. Treetop Song - 71
2. Noctifer Birmingham - 67
3. Leaving Home - 65
4. Alpha Incipiens (from the Village Tavern 10/19/04) - 63
5. Sax Rohmer #1 - 59

Man, Sax Rohmer sure caught up quickly.

I'm not at home but I know Noctifer Birmingham and Going to Maine are #1/#2.

Good idea!

1.) Weekend in Western IL
2.) Ox Baker Triumphant
3.) Fault Lines
4.) Store
5.) Love Love Love
6.) Alpha Rats Nest
7.) Stable Boy Song
8.) No Children
9.) Saigon Shrunken Panorama (May 18 is my birthday)
10.) You or Your Memory

oops that's 10. Oh well.

Alpha Rats Nest-142
Woke Up New-138
Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod-110
Color In Your Cheeks-98
Pure Gold-87

holland 1945 by neutral milk hotel is defintaely up there on my list of most played non tmg songs

I don't know how to find this out - I use Foobar, not iTunes, to play from my iPod when it's plugged in, and I don't keep the library on the PC.

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(non tMG, to put the numbers in perspective):
1. The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want to Get Over You (168)
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 (147)

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holland 1945 by neutral milk hotel is defintaely up there on my list of most played non tmg songs

it's number one on my iTunes top played.


My non-tMG top played on my iPod is very similar to just tMG

1. Fault Lines- 49
2. Thought About You a Little (Birthday Cake Song)- 45
3. Home Again Garden Grove- 45
4. This Year- 41
5. King Without A Crown - Matisyahu - 40

Apart from Parentheses by the Blow, You Can't Hurry Love by Diana Ross and the Supremes and La Belle S'Est Etourdie by Kate and Anna McGarrigle, my top 25 played songs on my iPod are all by tMG.
(1) Parentheses)
2) The Sign
3) The Alphonse Mambo
4) We Were Patriots
5) Onions
6) Golden Boy
I walk to and from school listening to music, and I must have decided these are the songs which are best for walking or making myself not turn back around and run away.

On iTunes:
1. Snow Crush Killing Song- 85
2. New Britain- 52
3. Twin Human Highway Flares- 49
4. There Will Be No Divorce- 40
5. Snow Owl and I Love You. Let's Light Ourselves on Fire (shhhhhhhh) are tied at 35

On my iPod, it's almost the same, as far as selection:
1. Snow Crush- 88
2. Twin Human- 32
3. Snow Owl- 30
4. TWBND tied with New Britain at 29
5. Orange Ball of Love- 28

It's funny, I really expected Snow Crush Killing song to top my entire library for plays, but for some reason, Fiery Furnace's Ex-Guru takes the cake. This is probably because it's on a mix I made which I listen to a lot, but damn--I feel like I have listened to TMG a lot more than that one song. Weird. Maybe it plays on shuffle when I'm away from my computer.

i know that the 3 that i often put on repeat are:

against pollution
store
nine black poppies

lately, it's probably been;
warm lonely planet
thought about you a little
ghosts
the sign
no, I can't

I've just shifted my music to my new MacBook, so the ratings are very low and skewed!

Top of the Pops are

Sign of the Crow - 8
Dance Music - 8
No Children - 7
Palmcorder Yajna - 7

But on my old machine I'm pretty sure Broom People is my clear #1! It's the one I sing along to and play on guitar most!

I've reset my iTunes a few times, but my guess is that my list would look something like this:

Alpha Rat's Nest
Treetop Song
Jam Eater Blues
Attention All Pickpockets
Baboon
The Recognition Scene
Nine Black Poppies
Jaipur
Cubs in Five

My iTunes and last.fm screw up a lot, but my list is probably:

1. Attention All Pickpockets
2. This Year
3. Cobscook Bay
4. Distant Stations (Zoop Version)
5. Tulsa Imperative
6. Twin Human Highway Flares

And pretty much the rest of The Sunset Tree

(There was seriously a point when I had Attention All Pickpockets on more or less constant repeat for 2-3 days.)

sadly, itunes got reset somehow back in feb... so, since february, out of my 6000 some songs, my top played are

How to Embrace a Swamp Creature (15)
Marduk... (7)
Michael Meyers... (7)
Sail Babylon Springs (4)

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last.fm says...

1. Minnesota (72)
2. No Children (65)
3. Commandante (63)
4. Going To Georgia (61)

i need to ad minnesota. 288 plays.

According to my iTunes (new computer, so this is only for the past month or two)

1. Weekend in Western Illinois (21)
2. Ox Baker Triumphant (20)
3. Ontario (19)
4. This Year (19)
5. Down Here (17)

I've kinda been binging on FFG. I am glad to see that I'm not alone in having Weekend in Western Illinois as my most played... it's one of my favorite songs, but my girlfriend mocks me for it, so I feel a little vindicated now. She and I too often get into tMG-related battles (e.g. I'm forced to pretend not to like San Bernardino, one of her favorites, since she's always hating on So Desperate, which I love).

"Dance Music" no question. Taps into a lot of childhood and teenage pathos. One of those songs where you can stomp to it 50 times and start crying the 51st.