At the top of the list as iTunes counts it is R.E.M.'s "Radio Free Europe" with 82 plays. (I put it in a lot of my mixes.) But one bugaboo with letting a computer count plays is that it can't aggregate different mixes of the same song. If the single and album versions of LCD Soundystem's "All My Friends" were combined, that'd be over 100 plays.

Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys

according to iTunes Fluorescent Adolenscent by Arctic Monkeys

This isn't our parade - Santigold
When the ships arrive - Guano Apes
Kiss with a fist - Florence and the Machine

Don't forget that we often listen to a song in more than one place. For instance, my iPod count is not added to my iTunes count (unless I do it manually).

I was not surprised by my first most played (Adele's "Melt My Heart to Stone" - 713) but I was surprised by my second most played (Maxwell "Pretty Wings" - 701). I guess I'm one of the few R&B listeners blogging. Loved the show!

I'm a huge fan of Built to Spll, and "Randy describes the Universe" in particular. I started listening to it long before iTunes. I would have to guess a few hundred plays along with many other BTS songs. Interestingly, I have also listened to bostons "more than a feeling" many hundred of times since the early 80s. Right now im into foster the people's "pumped up kicks".

The song that would likely have driven my neighbors crazy over this past weekend:

Arctic Monkeys' BBC In-Studio performance when they covered Girls Aloud's song "Love Machine" - I kept replaying it this weekend. It's a short song. But I was waiting for the petition from my neighbors to appear under the door.

I see a theme for another show developing: what is the song that, when you hear it publicly, just stops you in your tracks?

The woman who called in saying she is moved by the Boston song "More Than A Feeling" made me think that you need to do this - the way she really honored the song when she listened to it. We all have those songs that when we hear them randomly, we don't just hum along, we are transported. Sounds like another fun call-in program! : )

p.s. and for me the winner, at 98 plays, was Cut Copy's "Lights and Music" - but I don't think you can really judge this. the iPod would probably have some other songs weigh in more heavily (Foster the People & Hot Chip have had a lot of play over the course of the last year) as I run it through my stereo receiver. but from what I can tell, there is no way to seel what was most played on the iPod.

Oh, the Messiah! I wrote my dissertation to the Messiah (streamed through headphones on my laptop) and it still makes me feel anxious and exhilarated, even a bit overcaffeinated. But currently, as a beginning drummer, I'm trying to transcribe drum parts through constant listening... right now to The Black Keys' "10 a.m. Automatic." (hey, I tried Wilco's "Dawned on Me" but it's just too hard to catch all of Glenn Kotche's genius...

"A Song of Simplicity" by Elijah Bossenbroek. 482 plays. I find it soothing and beautiful and it makes me keep my kids in piano lessons.

1634xs - Sans la Nomer Georges Moustaki

I've listened to Yo-Yo Ma's Sergio Leone Suite: Deborah's Theme from Once Upon A Time in America the most: 185 times

Second most: Chopin's Nocturne in E-Flat: 181 times.

Great program!

The Radio Dept. - Heaven's on Fire

This is the sound of life when everything is alright.

i really wonder, if determining when something is,"interfering with one's life", is so easy to determine. other than extreme cases,that determination point, would seem to most likely encompass quite a broad gray area. so, knowing when obsession is a factor[re too much same song listening],would not be so easy to determine, in many if not most cases.

here comes the next twelve step recovery group.

Fridays and Saturdays by the Jon Braman Band from You and Me

Stuart

stuartbraman@yahoo.com

Fridays and Saturdays by the Jon Braman Band from You and Me

Walk on By (the Issac Hayes remake from the early seventies).At least 20 times each year over the past 40 years , uncovering some new nuance upon each listening.

I erased and reset my itunes at the beginning of the year, but topping it now is No Solid Ground - Simon Spire, at 88 times, love this song - and the album Four Letter Words I bought traveling in New Zealand... great music, clearly addictive.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and the Beatles.

I'm curious, for obsessive listeners, does it have to be the exact same version of the song? What about covers or live vs studio recordings?

Andy Staman's "Flatbush Walz". For some reason that mandolin piece has the ability to capture my emotions at any given time-when I have been depressed I listened to it over and over again,and when I got married the orchestra played it during the wedding ceremony.

Aside from the songs I listen to a billion times for work, the top song on my desktop computer is "Glory" by Liz Phair, from Exile in Guyville. It's short and a little mysterious. Top ones on my laptop are "The Boy from Impanema" by Crystal Waters and "Queen Bitch" by Bowie. I THOUGHT the top song was going to be "Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens, because I was kind of obsessed with it but it was only the 10th...go figure!

magnetic fields "papa was a rodeo" captures me in it's grip over and over. i will listen to this song 10 to 20 times in a row and it just takes over for days. wears off after a while but usually occurs again after a few months. sleeping becomes tough.

At about 300+ plays would be for me A Real Hero by College featuring Electric Youth. It's set as my wake-up song every day on my ipod alarm clock. Great way to start the day as it's both sad and optimistic in tone and melody.

Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys.

We share the music on I Tunes, our # 1 is Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings

So You Wanna Be a Rock n Roll Star - The Byrds

Petra Haden and Bill Frisell's

Satellite

top of the laptop, desktop and iphone lists.... fits as the "breather" in any of my playlists

I cannot stop listening to "Cosmopolitan Blood Loss" off of Glassjaw's "Worship and Tribute" over and over again. I notice new things within the song and enjoy my favorite parts again, every time I listen. I have also worn out copies of Sex Pistols "Never Mind The Bollocks" going back to the solo on "No Feeling" many times over the past 24 years! I have done the same with songs by Refused, The Smiths, Joy Division and others. I'm known to be a bit obsessive, though.

I acquired a bunch of my obsessions listening to WNYC, starting 30 or more years ago. So, Couperin's "Les Barricades Mysterieuses" and Fats Waller's version of Irving Berlin's "Waiting at the End of the Road" -- both used as theme songs by WNYC music programs -- are two of my musical obsessions.

Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups over 300 times since I bought it last fall :D

This show is a hipster ghetto... the same ol hiptser bar crowd ... the host... well, if he does not say Radio head or some obscure aging hipster attempting to be cool "band" every 5 min will probably have a stroke..... They even listen to Shakira in English ... ! cheesh!

I have been addicted to this song called Night Song ever since I was In grade school and I am 38 years young now and before I upgraded to a new computer my plays of this song on I tunes was 926 I played it all day when I was at home I couldn't sleep unless it was playing on repeat I even would blast it on my kicker box in my chevy all day a older white women pulled up on the side of me one day and flaged my down and said what is that wonderful song that you are playing i love it!

Pearl Jam "Ten" - I listen to it all the time. Sometimes over and over
can never get enough!

I've listened to Crooked Teeth by Death Cab for Cutie 78 times!

Looks like my top numbers are ones that we use(d) to try to get the kids to sleep.
White Noise Loop is #1 by a LOT at 513
Some calming playlists we used come in next a factor of 10 lower, but still there.

I've played Pink Floyd's Animals over 400 times. Yes, the whole album from start to finish.

It was mostly through my late teenage years; it resonated with me emotionally (both in the music and in the lyrics) and really helped in the shaping of my world views.

I've noticed that I frequently go on binges like this, looking for the next hit like a junkie. Two years ago I kept going through Portishead's three albums back to back to back to back to back, trying to soak up every last bit of creativity in those works of genius.

Lately, I've been playing Kendrick Lamar's Section 80 on repeat trying to learn the patterns of his delivery and catch every little nuance in his lyrics. It also resonates with me since I'm an 80s baby, which is what the album is about.

Anything by these guys-sadly defunk Brooklyn group
http://www.myspace.com/mansonfamilypicnic
"The Mistakes" is great!

When I was a little bit younger, I had two owen tracks over a thousand- everyone feels like you & the ghost of what should have been. Ahh, children.

Radiohead - Reckoner

A very palindromic 272 times. Specifically and most frequently the last 1:19 of the song, an excellently outstanding outro.

Happy - The Rolling Stones

Keith's voice!

I just got a new computer, so at least for the last month worth of itunes counts it's a tie. I've listened to:

"Hard Times" from Gillian Welch's new album the Harrow and the Harvest
and
"Everyday will be like a Holiday" from William Bell's Stax/Volt Singles

both 21 times.

Very different. Very excellent!

thanks for this.

Brian Eno's music from the film Dune. Not a favorite, but I found it good music to write to, and as a result I hit 386 plays.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's cover of Somewhere Over the Rainbow
and
Sufjan Stevens' cover of Joni Mitchell's A Free Man in Paris

'9 Crimes' by Damien Rice tops out at 786 plays!

I listen to physical products more than I use my itunes. According to my itunes the winner is Harlem Shakes' "Strictly Game". The song puts me in a time and place that I associate with it - a happy time that helped to rocket this to the top of the list a few years ago. Twenty six plays later, it still puts me there.

I'm surprised and quietly delighted to know that the song I've listened to most frequently - and by a long shot, according to apple's geniuses - is Colin Stetson's "Slow Descent Into Happiness, Pt. I". As a self-proclaimed cynic and sometimes pessimist, I appreciate the irony and subtle hope in that.

not kissing up to you guys, but the top thing in my playlist in itunes is my WNYC radio stream. Played 649 times. The second running up is only played 24 times.

Petra Haden and Bill Frisell

track 1 Satellite

I've "used" Peter Gabriel's "So" in my studio for years. Red rain, appropriate for today- the ups and downs of the whole album keeps me going in the studio. Soooo

My iTunes claims that my top song is El Carretero, by Buena Vista Social Club, and has had over 3 TRILLION plays! I think there's some technical issue going on here...

Goldberg Variation 10 a 1 Fughetta

Stay Where You Are - Ambulance Ltd. - 27 plays, work computer!

Neil Young - For the turnstiles, 574 times over the past 41/2 years

Praise for I by The Ethiopians 82 plays :)

"Alimony:, an early Ry Cooder release that I have listened to thousands of times over the past 40+ years.

Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Circle Game (Best of Buffy Sainte Marie)

Toto by Africa. Too embarrassed to tell you how many times.

Kurk Whalem - All I do - 378 times
John Legend - Save Room - 202 times

Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell's Brazilian Trip album--346 times.

According to iTunes (and it's probably true once I were to confirm it with my iPhone), my top track is "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" by Coldplay. This song was my "London Song" when I was abroad last semester... I played it all the time then, and I play it now whenever I'm feeling nostalgic. There's nothing like putting it on and dancing out any feelings you've got brewing!

Jigsaw Falling Into Place by Radiohead at 92 times.

191 for Moonglow by Artie Shaw. That song gets me every time. Katie is tougher than I am - that BTS record was one of the most depressing records I had in the 90s.

John Denver, Country Roads, 511 times!

Go Katie! "Perfect From Now On" is worthy of listening to again and again. I love the album so much that I actually got its name tattooed.

I was surprised to see that my most played song is Rise Above by Black Flag. I guess I rage out a lot more than I think.

I've listened to strawberry swing by Coldplay a little too much and Dead Sound by The Raveonettes

Martha My Dear. The Beatles.

7136 times. many more to come!

Top ipod spins!

"Play that funky music (white boy)" - Wild Cherry with 158 spins
"Purple Rain" - Prince 89 spins
"PYT" Michael Jackson 75 spins
"Put on your red dresss" - 60 spins - Jerry Lee Platypus
"Papa's got a brand new bag" - 56 spins - James Brown

Weird. According to iTunes my top two are Ivy's "This is the Day" and The New Pornographers' "The Bleeding Heart Show," with Bettie Serveert's "Kid's Alright" one play behind them. I don't consider those to be my favorite Ivy or NP tunes. I guess I'm wrong.

Though this might be bad data. I don't actually listen from iTunes as often as I play music on my mobile unit, which doesn't do play counts.

Oh Man! I also had that album (that song) living in my mind for years. More than that, however, I listened to "Off Your Face" by My Bloody Valentine easily hundreds of times. For a couple of years, every day with a few exceptions.

My reason maybe is linked to the fact that it's one of the few songs that gave me that tingle down my spine that music often does to me. And it did it longer than any other song I can remember. It kept sounding unique, each time. It kept surprising me. Most songs wear out after a time, this one still hasn't.

Seriously, my top play is "WNYC - FM: New York Public Radio". It's the WNYC stream that I just have in my iTunes. 455 Plays. Next best was High Life, Counting Crows (This Desert Life) with 301 Plays.

Some songs we enjoy but eventually tire of, while a few we enjoy without tiring. Why?

I've been totally stuck on Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn - "Astronomy Domine" for over a year now. Syd Barrett at the top of his game, and it's become an obsession. Actually, at this point I refrain from playing it (even though I played it last night).

But play anything too often and yeah, it gets played out!

Hard to tell really....but I would say that, for me, "Don't Let Me Down" by The Beatles would be right up there. Such a beautiful, compelling song.

This is a little scary for me. It's a 61-second portion of Captain Beefheart's "The Blimp." Thanks for drawing my attention to the fact. Now I realize I need therapy.

Some of us don't use I-Tunes.... so I can't tell you how many times I've listened to it, but it's A LOT, and it's - "Sunday Morning Coming Down." Original Kris Kristofferson version is my favorite, but I'll listen to any cover too. Just love it.

spit on a stranger: pavement
shipbuilding: the robert wyatt version.

endless.

nothing on the passing of robin gibb on today's show?

Barney McAll 'Jazz Epidural' - 304 plays.
http://soundcloud.com/goldfishprize/barney-mcall-jazz-epidural

I'm at work right now, and it's 3OH!3 with "My First Kiss". My home computer and ipod... They would be different stories. In fact, according to last.fm my top played song is "Blue and Yellow" by The Used with well over 200 plays.

Pavement's Carrot Rope takes the prize with 209 plays. That pretty much sums up that is one of my favorite Pavement and all time songs.

I just discovered the Mr. Bungle song "Retrovertigo" two weeks ago, and have already played it 43 times, according to iTunes. I CAN'T STOP. I think my problem is genetic. A couple summers ago, my father listened to Shakira's Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) about 15 times a day. My mom and boyfriend think we're both crazy but we just seem to have the obsessive gene.

The winner by a mile is WNYC-FM! That has 69 plays, and the next-closest track -- "Life Support" from the "Rent" Soundtrack -- has 50.

Behind that, with 47 apiece, are "Savin' Me" by Nickelback and Sean Paul's "Temperature." Yes, I have eclectic taste.

Going purely by a hard count on my most recent Ipod - "Constructive Summer" by the Hold Steady was far and away the most played song. But it looks like "Alex Chilton" by the Replacements will eventually overtake it. But if we go back to my childhood, then "You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon may be the ultimate king - I recall playing the song 13 times in a row one Summer afternoon. I was (am?) a dork.