Rococo Cocoa

Number of Songs: 12,707
Most Recently Played Song: Little Boots - New in Town
Most Played Song: M83 - Skin of the Night
Most Recently Added Album: Little Boots - Hands

First Song Alphabetically: Vampire Weekend - A Punk
Last Song Alphabetically: Basement Jaxx - Zoomalude
Smallest Song Numerically: Sol Seppy - 1 2
Biggest Song Numerically: Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies

Shortest Song: Janet Jackson - Interlude: Memory (0:05)
Longest Song: Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline (18:08)

First Album Alphabetically: Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Last Album Alphabetically: Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
First Album Numerically: Beatles - 1 (Even though its a compillation)
Last Album Numerically: Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak

First Five Songs That Pop Up On Shuffle:
Louis Armstrong - La vie en rose (Single Version)
Joss Stone - Less Is More
Tresspassers William - My Hands Up
Aqualung - The Lake
Death Cab for Cutie - Lightness

Interesting. To me, at least.

Reblogged from Triumph of BS

For a while, I had a Song of the Week post, and then I got lazy or something (who knows with me) and stopped. But I still yearn to share my love of music with you somehow. And so! This new category appears- Play Count Day. Every Monday, I shall detail to you what songs have been all up in my craw as of late.



This week's Play Count comes courtesy of Beyonce's latest album I am... Sasha Fierce.

I don't care how gay the title of the album sounds, it's really good and she'll probably take home 47 grammies. I tend to listen to songs on repeat a lot. Not just a lot. a. lot. I've been overly obsessed with the second track "Halo" on her album and the play count on my iPod is officially at 89. Yup- that's right. 89.

You may wonder how in the hell I could of listened to the song almost 100 times in 6 days. Let me give you a fair vision on how often I listen to music:

I wake up at 6:30AM to an iPod set alarm and take a shower with my battery powered speaker system (which I connect my ipod to) then travel to work listening to- you guessed it- my iPod. At work I listen to music most if not all of the 8 hours while I'm working and when I travel home I continue to listen.

When I get home I sometimes make dinner to music and that's usually where my music listening stops, around 6:30PM. Thats 12 hours 5 days a week. I dont know about you, but I seem to like music.

So today I was looking for songs by Laura Love on my iPod and I discovered that I have 823 songs with the word, album, or artist including the word "love" in it. Since I never let things concerning my iPod rest, I decided to do a little math.

I have 13,169 songs total. This means if I calculate the percentage ("love" songs divided by all songs) then I get .0643177, or about 6.43%. That's a lot of love, considering everything you could possibly write about. My friend Carly has 1,343 "love" songs and 22,033 (Jesus!) songs total, which makes her love song percentage a pretty solid 6%.

Because I'm at work and bored to death, I decided to go a step further. "Love songs" don't necessarily have to have the word "love" in it, so I compiled a short list of words that are synonyms of love and how many are on my iPod:

• passion- 30 songs
  
• marry+marriage- 7+14=21
  
• heart- 247 (I mean, christ, people- can a brotha get some original lyrics?)
  
• romance- 10
  
• sex (generalizing)- 58
  
• erotic (again, generalizing)- 1 (can you guess which song this is?)

I of course went through and tacked on a "-1" for songs with more than one of these words in it, Frank Sinatra. Accounting for the Minuses, which were -52. So, 823+347-52. That leaves me with a total of 1,118 love related songs- of course, this is only by title, so I guess this would be uncreatively titled love related songs, right?

My iPod thusly has a 8.5% uncreatively titled love related song ratio. What does yours have?

In accordance with Hooray Ray.

I bought a bowtie! A real, tie it yourself one too. It's a terrible picture for actually SEEING the bowtie.... I think I need to locate a place in my house that actually supports light, my bedroom is on the bottom floor, and light is sparse. Maybe one day I'll take a picture in the brilliance of day when I wear it out.

I'm definitely wearing it in November, My friend Carly and I are going to go see the Washington National Opera's production of Carmen at the Kennedy Center. Denyce Graves is starring. Apparently she happens to be one of the best opera singers on earth. Awesome.

I have no idea how Fred Astaire found a bowtie for guys with necks as big as his waist, But I want to try this sometime... It most likely would have to be that exact outfit in order to not look ridiculous.

I heart Stereolab. They say you either love all of Stereolab, or nothing about them at all, and I have to say I'm one of the people who proudly love everything they come up with. So, on this delicious friday, enjoy my 20th song of the week theme, Stereolab*.

1."The Man with 100 Cells" by Stereolab
2."Excursions into Oh, A-Oh" by Stereolab
3."Space Moth" by Stereolab

(*These are my three favorite songs by them.)

This week's theme is where I'm from by way of my parents... Haiti!
(Each artist on this list is from my home country, Haiti.)

1."Gade Papi" (Look, Boy) by Emeline Michel
2."Black Wave/Bad Vibrations" by Arcade Fire
3."Pa Manyen Fanm Man" (Don't Touch My Hand) by Sweet Micky
4."911" by Wyclef Jean

Today's theme is Independence... tommorow is Freedom Day! Hurray! USA! USA!


1."Think" Aretha Franklin
2."The Star Spangled Banner" Whitney Houston
3."America the Beautiful" Ray Charles with Alicia Keys
4."Freedom" George Michael
5."The National Anthem" Radiohead

Have a happy fourth! Get drunk and watch fireworks!

• Aaliyah "Aaliyah"
• Arianne Moffatt "Aquanaute"
• Bat for Lashes "Fur and Gold"
• The Bird and the Bee "The Bird and the Bee"
• Bjork "Vespertine"
• Blonde Redhead "Misery is a Valentine" & "23"
  
• Charlotte Church "Tissues and Issues" (shut up)
• Delgados "Hate"
• Feist "The Reminder"
• Final Fantasy "He Poos Clouds"

• Frou Frou "Details"
• Imogen Heap "Speak for Yourself"
• Jason Mraz "Waiting for My Rocket to Come"
• Jem "Finally Woken"
• Kate Havnevik "Melankton"
• Keane "Under the Iron Sea"
• Kenna "New Sacred Cow"
• Kings of Convenience "Riot on an Empty Street"
• Lavender Diamond "Imagine Our Love"
• M83 "Saturdays=Youth"
  
• Madonna "Confessions on a Dance Floor" (hey, gay here, remember)
• Margot and the Nuclear So and So's "The Dust of Retreat"
• Menomena "Friend and Foe"
• Midlake "The Trials of Van Occupanther"
• Ms. John Soda "Notes and the Like"
• Natalie Walker "Urban Angel"
• Peter Bjorn and John "Writer's Block"
• The Postmarks "The Postmarks"

• Radiohead "Kid A"
• Sade "Lovers Rock" and "Stronger than Pride"
• Sara Bareilles "Little Voice"
• Sarah McLachlan "Fumbling Toward Ecstasy" and "Surfacing"
• Scissor Sisters "Music is the Victim"
• Sia "Colour the Small One"
• Sissy "All Under"
• Every Stereolab Album. Literally.
• Telepopmusik "Angel Milk"
• Tori Amos "Scarlet's Walk" And "Little Earthquakes"
• Yelle "Pop Up"
• Zero 7 "When It Falls"
  

*My resident brit and I were having a convo this morning about albums I love from beginning to end, and it got me thinking.

You gotta love Google Image Search... singer with guitar...

This week's theme is a little self serving... whateva. I'm starting Guitar lessons with my sister and brother (so we can all star in the black remake of The Partridge Family together) and I want to eventually be able to learn some songs that I've been singing along to for a little while. That list is huge, but here are a few choice songs:

1. "White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes
2. "My Goodbye" by Elizabeth and the Catapult
3. "Butterflyz"(I despise that spelling) by Alicia Keys
4. "I Get a Kick Out of You" sung by Ella Fitzgerald

Till next week!

So with a few of my friends (who may be reading my blog for the first time-Hey!) I send out a Song of the Week e-mail, with a few songs that share a theme, a word, a type, whatever. I've decided to take this on to my blog thanks to this media player I found. Pretty awesome.

For Newcomers, Song of the Week is something to keep me sane at work. Plus, you get to listen to music without haveing to download anything. Think of it as Rococo Cocoa Radio.

Today's theme is Heat. Yesterday it was 100 degrees in my office. Thank it for my inspiration. Click the little play buttons and a player will magically appear. It's really frackin' nifty.

"Summer in the City" Regina Spektor
"Heat Wave" Martha and the Vandellas
"The Heat" Toni Braxton
"Hot Child in the City" Nick Gilder
"Hot Hot Hot" Buster Poindexter

Do me a favor people. Leave me a comment. I want to gauge how many peeps read my stuffs. I'll keep doing it if no one does, the three people who definitely read it! :)

Régine Chassagne (of the sweet, smooth and delicious band Arcade Fire) is Haitian! How exciting is that! Well for me it is, both of my parents are from Haiti. Of course, this means nothing outside its patriotic exterior because I don't know French, and I don't know Creole. But! Who cares! It's super cool man!

This interactive video by arcade fire is also pretty friggin' sweet. Check it out.