The 25 Most Played Songs on my iPod - First Edition

So, while adding some recently acquired songs onto my iPod, I was thinking to myself:"Self, what are like the most played songs on this wonderful device?" Then I looked and saw there was a default playlist on there labeled "Top 25 Most Played Songs". So for your enjoyment/curiosity/source material for future mockery here it is, along with a brief description of why it has been played

A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON PRESENTS: MY iPOD TOP TWENTY-FIVE FOR JAN. 15/08

1. Green Day - "She's a Rebel"
-One of the few songs that hasn't been overplayed from their American Idiot album. Had it featured as part of the unofficial soundtrack to Apocalypse Wow! Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The End Of The World.

2. Kayne West feat. Chris Martin - "Homecoming"
-Figured I better put Mister West on here otherwise he'd claim I don't care about black people... by featuring a song done with the guy that fronts Coldplay.

3. Pink Floyd - "Free Four"
-A surprisingly upbeat song for such a depressing subject matter (The realization of one's own mortality). Was a small hit on the US radio waves for the Floyd.

4. Tenacious D - "Beezleboss (The Final Showdown)"
-The climatic showdown between Jack Black, Kyle Gass, and the Prince of Darkness himself from Tenacious D In The Pick of Destiny. Should have been the final boss battle song in Guitar Hero III.

5. The Coasters - "Down in Mexico"
-Part of the only scene that was worth anything in Death Proof - Quentin Tarantino's half of Grindhouse.

6. April March - "Chick Habit"
-As an addendum to number five, the sound track for Death Proof pretty much helped make it tolerable to sit through.

7. Kylie Minogue - "In My Arms"
-From her 2007 album X and her first album since successfully beating breast cancer. Way to be, Kylie!

8. The White Stripes - "As Ugly As I Seem"
-Originally from their Get Behind Me Satan disc, this version was a live studio performance on a radio program that I found in a B-Sides collection. God bless the internets!

9. Gwen Stefani - "Harajuku Girls"
-So, Gwen can have a gaggle of Japanese school girls follow her around and she is called a "trend setter"; but if *I* had a gaggle of Japanese school girls follow *ME* around, Chris Hanson would want to have a talk with me and *I* get labeled "a pimp"... erhm, hypothetically speaking of course...

10. Avril Lavigne - "Hot"
-One of the few songs from The Best Damn Thing in which Avril doesn't sound angry.

11. Chris Cornell - "You Know My Name"
-The opening theme from Casino Royale - one of better of the newer James Bond films. Sorry fat housewives who want Pierce Bronson, I think Daniel Craig is gonna prove to be a better Bond than him.

12. Eric Clapton - "Cocaine"
-... is a helluva drug. Just ask Lindsay Lohan lol amirite?! ZING!

13. Amy Winehouse - "Rehab"
-... nah, this one is too easy.

14. Fergie feat. Ludracris - "Glamorous"
-There was a story behind why I played this song lots lately, but it is rather boring so I spare the details.

15. McFly - "Little Saint Nick"
-One of the constantly played songs on my Xmas playlist. Wouldn't have ever come across it if I didn't search for the original version by The Beach Boys.

16. Gwen Stefani feat. Akon - "The Sweet Escape"
-Real-life friends know how I like to sing the "Wooohooo! Yeeehooo!" parts that Akon does. Then they kick my ass for doing so. Such is life...

17. Hawksley Workman - "Smoke Baby"
-Got no real story for this one. It is just a good song in my opinion.

18. Rihanna - "Shut Up and Drive"
-Knocked off Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" off my "Five Double-Entendre" song list.

19. Sloan - "Ill Placed Trust"
-In a perfect world, Sloan would be the premier Canadian rock band and Nickelback would be banished from ever performing again.

20. Roy Orbison - "Claudette"
-Found a greatest hits compilation at a local 7-Eleven and being somewhat unaware of his songs outside of "Pretty Woman" and "Only the Lonely" I began to dig this little ditty.

21. The Tragically Hip - "My Music At Work"
-Just one of many of the Hips' "What the fuck is Gordon Downie talking about?!" songs. May or may not be a jab at all of those "easy rock" format stations which usually have the title in their slogan

22. The White Stripes - "Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine"
-In my top five favorite White Stripes songs.

23. Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
-There was a story to this one too, but now it has left me. Sorry...

24. Dido - "White Flag"
-She is better known as "Who was the chick singing the song used for the opening for Roswell?" or "The chick whose song Eminem sampled for 'Stan'" but she DID do other songs.

25. t.A.t.u - "All The Things She Said"
-Some of my guilty pleasures wrapped in one song: europop, fake Russian lesbians, and one hit wonders.

I'll do another post like this in about a month or so just to see how much it has changed.