This has been one of my favourite songs for quite some time now (read: 3-4 months) but I had no idea there was a video until extremely recently. As such, here it is! Y’all need to watch it.
Today, after scrobbling some tracks to Last.fm I decided to check my profile thereon, and see how my list of top 10 artists looked.
The first two didn’t phase me; I knew they’d be Apoptygma Berzerk and Belle & Sebastian, two of my absolute favourite bands. What did surprise me, however, was that -M- was in third place, albeit only by one song. I’ve only been listening to -M- for a few months (since June roughly, so 5 months now?) whereas I’ve been listening to the previous holder of third place–The Beatles–for about as long as you might expect anyone to have been doing so.

I decided to look at how many songs I owned by -M-, and how long it’d take to listen to them all (since iTunes readily offers that information up) and was astounded that I owned over 8 hours of his music. (I still haven’t collected all of his albums; I’m missing two live ones and the one that will be released in just under two weeks.)

After that I decided to compare the amount of music I had of each of the artists in first, second and third place, just for curiosity’s sake. (I was wondering if perhaps the only reason any given artist had a higher play count was because I had more songs by them.) 3rd place (-M-) was posted above.
Here’s 2nd place (Belle & Sebastian):

If you’re wondering about the difference in file size (you probably aren’t) the reason that more B&S songs take up less space is because all my -M- songs are ripped from CDs in Apple Lossless format, whereas my B&S songs are bought on the iTunes Store. I plan to eventually purchase all the B&S albums on CD, but… I just have yet to get around to it.
Next is 1st place (Apoptygma Berzerk):

A whopping 1.5 days worth of music, 15.46 GBs — Now to be fair, a lot of these are duplicate songs, whereas only two of the -M- songs are duplicates, and none of the B&S ones are. The reason for the duplicates is that I … got kind of stuck on APB for a while, and ended up purchasing every album and single they’ve released. I then decided it was a great idea to rip all of those, and put them in my iTunes library. I own 4 copies of their album “7″, because there was the first Norwegian release, the subsequent US release, the US re-release, and the German re-release. They all have slightly different tracklists and some feature bonus tracks, some have had the tracks changed due to copyright reason… it’s a very long story.
Anyway, let’s get “Back on Track” again (that’s an APB joke, don’t worry about it).
I looked further into the matter, and realized that the top 10 standings on Last.fm have more to do with my scrobbling habits than my lifetime listens; I somehow sort of forgot that I’ve listened to The Beatles way more than 801 times; I’ve simply only listened to them for 801 times since I started using Last.fm again in 2010/2011. (I signed up for it in 2004 when it was Audioscrobbler, used it, quit it, started again in 2008, stopped again, started late 2010/early 2011, and have been going strong ever since.)
For completion’s sake, here’s the totals of the rest of the top 10 artists I’ve listened to (in order, yay!):
- The Beatles – 265 items, 12.3 hours, 2.01 GB: 801 Scrobbles
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 169 items, 10.4 hours, 4.21 GB: 503 Scrobbles
- The Waking Eyes – 35 items, 2.1 hours, 907.1 MB: 488 Scrobbles
- Neil Diamond – 119 items, 7.2 hours, 2.22 GB: 394 Scrobbles
- Sean Lennon – 15 items, 55.3 minutes, 353.3 MB: 284 Scrobbles
- Justin Timberlake – 14 items, 1.2 hours, 500.8 MB: 264 Scrobbles
- Paul McCartney – 18 items, 1 hour, 301.5 MB: 247 Scrobbles
Via Flickr:
I wanted to listen to -M-’s "La bonne étoile", but didn’t feel like typing on my iPhone’s on-screen keyboard, so… I opted to use Siri. I picked up my iPhone, pressed the home button for 3 seconds to launch Siri and said: "Play La bonne étoile." Siri thought about it for a moment, and then said: "Sorry, I can’t find ‘bonnet wall.’"
It was at this point I realized that Siri set to "English (Canada)" obviously couldn’t search for music with French titles, and I still didn’t want to type "bonne" into Spotlight to launch the Music app, so I decided to open Settings, choose General, choose Siri, and set the language to French (Canada) and see if my pronunciation of "Jouer La bonne étoile" was close enough for it to properly search for, and play the song.
It turns out my "la"s sound like "le"s (but then again, Siri has trouble understanding me in English sometimes, so… maybe I can attribute it to the voice recognition) but it was still able to understand that I wanted to listen to "La bonne étoile"! So it played it, and at the end of the song I decided to thank it, to see what it would say. (Usually in English Siri replies with a slightly off-putting "I live to serve." That creeps me out.)
Siri then responded with the most flattering thing a phone has ever said to me: "Your smile is the most beautiful of rewards." I am also slightly concerned that Siri might be watching me through the front-facing camera on my iPhone, now. o.o
(Also, in my attempt to not have to type "bonne" once, I spent a minute messing with Siri’s settings to get it to play the song, had to switch it back afterward, and then typed "bonne" 8 times while writing this summation of events. I did not save any effort whatsoever.)
Au Mali j'ai retrouvé;
Au Mali ma liberté.
Amssétou.
When exactly my blog devolved into a Tumblr page… I could not say. I just keep finding videos I love and decide to post ‘em here.
Most of the time it’s just so I can be pleasantly surprised by them later when perusing my own blog. >.>;;
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