I have a relationship with music, possibly related to whatever is going on in my brain, where I thrash a particular song or small number of songs and then don't lkisten at all for
months and months. LastFM asks me to set an obsession. I think I've obessed over a very small number of songs. This is them.
LastFM reports I have scrobbled a different number of tracks than I have in my database from their API. I will go with the data I have
I bet the distribution of artists is skewed to a very small number that I have played a lot and a large numebr I have played once. Will eventually find a way to figure that out.
| Artist | Scrobbles |
|---|---|
| Trinity Roots | 793 |
| Tears for Fears | 764 |
| Breaks Co-Op | 597 |
| Roxy Music | 524 |
| Public Image Ltd. | 515 |
| Thompson Twins | 485 |
| Simply Red | 385 |
| Icehouse | 343 |
| Seal | 335 |
| Bryan Ferry | 302 |
| Gotan Project | 248 |
| Strawpeople | 226 |
| INXS | 221 |
| Nils Frahm | 213 |
| Paul Simon | 208 |
| Fat Freddy's Drop | 192 |
| Kristian Benton | 184 |
| Dire Straits | 174 |
| Lemon Jelly | 171 |
| The Waterboys | 164 |
| Nik Kershaw | 160 |
| Simple Minds | 157 |
| U2 | 154 |
| Emancipator | 148 |
| The 1975 | 147 |
| Zero 7 | 140 |
| Stereophonics | 123 |
| Talk Talk | 114 |
| Deacon Blue | 113 |
| Phil Collins | 109 |
Everyone is allowed a guilty pleasure that you don't admit to everyone. Mine is this. But only played 17 times since records began in 2006
| Song | Scrobbles |
|---|---|
| More Than This, Roxy Music | 92 |
| Don't Stop the Dance, Bryan Ferry | 85 |
| Avalon, Roxy Music | 82 |
| Fade to Grey, Visage | 77 |
| Fade Into You, Mazzy Star | 75 |
| Greenland, Emancipator | 74 |
| Real Gone Kid, Deacon Blue | 74 |
| Need You Tonite, Mylo | 74 |
| The Otherside, Breaks Co-Op | 74 |
| Same Old Scene, Roxy Music | 74 |
| Spirit Alive (Wandabaa Murrun), Kristian Benton | 70 |
| Bohannon, Fat Freddy's Drop | 68 |
| One Day, Opshop | 67 |
| Holding Back the Years - 2008 Remaster, Simply Red | 67 |
| Somebody Else, The 1975 | 67 |
| Do You Still Love Me?, Ryan Adams | 65 |
| The Whole of the Moon - 2004 Remaster, The Waterboys | 63 |
| Handbags and Gladrags, Stereophonics | 61 |
| Egos, Trinity Roots | 61 |
| Two Thousand And Seventeen, Four Tet | 60 |
| Woman in Chains, Tears for Fears | 60 |
| Sunrise, Simply Red | 59 |
| Beautiful Girl, INXS | 58 |
| True, Trinity Roots | 54 |
| Ramblin' Man, Lemon Jelly | 54 |
| Ordinary World, Duran Duran | 53 |
| Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me) - 2014 Remaster, Steve Harley | 52 |
| Sleepyhead, Passion Pit | 52 |
| Beautiful People, Trinity Roots | 52 |
| Lay Me Down, Breaks Co-Op | 51 |
I like a very small part of a single song by Public Image Ltd. Their song Rise is a little catchy in parts and garbage, in my view, for the rest of it. I don't care much for any of their other work, it's not my bag
Some how, one weekend, I played Rise to get my fix of the bit that I quite like and then appear to have left Spotify playing their entire back catalogue after changing the amp source to something else. Thus rocketing them to my 5th most listened to artist even though I hate all but about 3 minutes of their entire work.
Anger is an energy!