Top 10 Most Played Tracks On Your iTunes/iPod - Page 2

vivfox · #16 01-20-2010, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by FMlex

10. "Miracles" - Jefferson Starship

I get a professional massage bi-weekly and he comes to my house. Each time I play a different set of oldies. This was on last weeks list.

vivfox · #17 01-20-2010, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

Could be intentional. It's blatantly about Dylan.

Didn't Dylan write this song??

LikeAWillow · #18 01-20-2010, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by vivfox

Didn't Dylan write this song??

Diamonds and Rust? Nooo. Dylan called Joan from the famous "booth in the Midwest" to read, I think, the lyrics of another song to her. After the call, and the emotions it brought up, she wrote Diamonds and Rust about their relationship and the feelings she still had for him.

FMlex · #19 01-20-2010, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by vivfox

I get a professional massage bi-weekly and he comes to my house. Each time I play a different set of oldies. This was on last weeks list.

That's awesome! I lovelovelove that song.

vivfox · #20 01-20-2010, 10:59 PM

"Diamonds & Rust" is a 1975 song written and performed by Joan Baez. In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time, to a seedy hotel in Greenwich Village. She recalls giving him a pair of cuff links, and summarizes that memories bring "diamonds and rust" (time both turns dirty charcoal into beautiful diamonds and shiny metal into ugly rust).

The song, which was a top-forty hit for Baez on the U.S. pop singles chart, is regarded by a number of critics, as well as by Baez fans, as one of her best compositions. It served as the title song on Baez's gold-selling Diamonds & Rust album in 1975.

For her 1995 live recording Ring Them Bells, Baez performed the song as a duet with Mary Chapin Carpenter. In that performance, she changed the end lines: "And if you're / offering me diamonds and rust / I've already paid," to: "And if you... well I'll take the diamonds." And also : "I bought you some cuff links, you brought me something" turned out to be "I bought you some cuff links, you brought me troubles" And on 25 February 2009, in Austin, she sang it, "And if you... well I'll take the Grammy."

[edit] About Bob Dylan?
It is often said [1] that the song describes Baez's relationship with Bob Dylan, ten years prior. In Baez's memoir, And a Voice to Sing With, she recounted how she told Dylan that the song was actually about her husband David Harris, thereby countering the claim that the song was about Dylan and Baez. Although Dylan is not specifically named in the song, Baez has admitted in her memoir as well as in a number of interviews that he is the inspiration for the song.

The following excerpt shows Baez's rendition of this conversation between her and Dylan:

"You gonna sing that song about robin's eggs and diamonds?" Bob had asked me on the first day of rehearsals.
"Which one?"
"You know, that one about blue eyes and diamonds..."
"Oh", I said, "you must mean 'Diamonds And Rust', the song I wrote for my husband, David. I wrote it while he was in prison."
"For your husband?" Bob said.
"Yeah. Who did you think it was about?" I stonewalled.
"Oh, hey, what the f*** do I know?"
"Never mind. Yeah, I'll sing it, if you like."

- Joan Baez, And a Voice to Sing With (1987)

In an interview [2] with music writer Mike Ragogna, Joan admitted that the character in the song is Dylan:

MR: "Diamonds And Rust" was another magic moment. You've said when you began writing the song, it started as something else until Dylan phoned you. Then it became about him. That must have been one helluva call.
JB: He read me the entire lyrics to "Lily, Rosemary, And The Jack Of Hearts" that he'd just finished from a phone booth in the Midwest.
MR: What was the song about originally?
JB: I don't remember what I'd been writing about, but it had nothing to do with what it ended up as.

- interview in The Huffington Post, 15 October 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_&_Rust_(song)

LikeAWillow · #21 01-20-2010, 11:02 PM

^^ Exactly. The first conversation quoted always reminds me of myself haha. "Oh, you want me to play that song? WELL IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU, ASSHOLE."

hippilil86 · #22 01-20-2010, 11:24 PM

My top 10.....

1. I can't make you love me- Bonnie Raitt
2. All my friends- Amos Lee
3. Arms of a Woman- Amos Lee
4. Seen it all before- Amos Lee
5. Brown Eyes- Fleetwood Mac
6. Hometown Glory - Adele
7. Beautiful Child - Fleetwood Mac
8. Need You Now- Lady Antebellum
9. Outside the Rain - Stevie Nicks
10. Sleeping Angel - Stevie Nicks

I fall asleep to the same playlist each night for weeks and weeks until I add or subtract a few songs....so that's what most of these are from.

Zombie · #23 01-21-2010, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by chriskisn

The one I like is from the 40,000 Headmen tour (Jim and Dave). To my mind it is a much better song than the original Traffic version.

I don't think I've heard that version. I will have to track it down.

I inherited the original Traffic album on vinyl from my mother back in the day, and it was one of the ones I played to death before it got ruined in a flood.

Man, I miss those records.

She had a lot of awesome stuff and I treasured all of it. I remember sitting on the floor after the flood with a hair dryer, sobbing and trying desperately to salvage what I could.

chriskisn · #24 01-21-2010, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by vivfox

JB: He read me the entire lyrics to "Lily, Rosemary, And The Jack Of Hearts" that he'd just finished from a phone booth in the Midwest.

That must have been a long phone call. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts is nearly a 9 minute song (and his misses out a verse).

Certainly one of my favourite Dylan songs too...

chriskisn · #25 01-21-2010, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Zombie

I don't think I've heard that version. I will have to track it down.

I inherited the original Traffic album on vinyl from my mother back in the day, and it was one of the ones I played to death before it got ruined in a flood.

Man, I miss those records.

She had a lot of awesome stuff and I treasured all of it. I remember sitting on the floor after the flood with a hair dryer, sobbing and trying desperately to salvage what I could.

I don't know if the 40,000 Headman Tour album is still in print? If not PM me and I'll send you the mp3 of the song...

Stew_Matthews · #26 01-21-2010, 03:38 PM

I think this is the most played over the last 3 months.......

1. Last Train to Clarksville - Cassandra Wilson
2. Split Decision - Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
3. Come Pick Me Up - Ryan Adams
4. My Thanksgiving - Don Henley
5.'Round Midnight - Miles Davis
6. Court & Spark - Herbie Hancock
7. Gloomy Sunday = Billy Holiday
8. A Night in Tunisia - Lee Morgan
9. Hey Jack Kerouac - Natalie Merchant
10. Fever - Shirley Horn

Travis · #27 01-21-2010, 04:43 PM

My Top 25 Most Played (from iPod)

I'M JUST HERE FOR THE MUSIC
Paula Abdul

WOW (Radio Edit)
Kylie Minogue

IN MY ARMS
Kylie Minogue

NIGHTLIFE (Mike Rizzo Global Radio Mix)
An-ya

RAIN DOWN LOVE
Freemasons

COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS
Sunfreakz feat. Andrea Britton

LIKE A DRUG
Kylie Minogue

VIOLET AND BLUE (Remix)
Stevie Nicks

SEE YOU DANCIN' (Radio Edit)
Junior Jack

2 HEARTS
Kylie Mingoue

SPEED UP (Radio Edit)
Funkerman

AFFECTION
Jody Wately

SPEARKERPHONE
Kylie Minogue

THE ONE
Kylie Minogue

ALL I SEE
Kylie Minogue

I WANT YOUR SOUL
Armand VAN Helden

DAYLIGHT
Kelly Rowland & Travis McCoy

IN MY ARMS (RMX Radio)
Kylie Minogue

PICNIC IN THE SUMMERTIME
Deee-Lite

INCREDIBLE
Shape: UK

IF ANYONE FALLS
Stevie Nicks

GOLD AND BRAID
Stevie Nicks

CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD (Greg Kurstin Remix)
Kylie Minogue

SENSUAL
PhonJaxx & Cosi Costi

YOU KNOW ME BETTER
Roisin Murphy