Simple Math II - The Raw Data
So how did I spend my limited listening time this year? As of December 27, 2011:
- By my count, over the course of this year I listened to exactly 250 LPs / EPs / splits / compilations released in 2011.
- There were 3,306 songs added to my iTunes library this year got at least one play (this includes older music added this year).
- In total, songs added to my iTunes library in 2011 received 7,982 plays
- My albums with the most track plays were:
- Go Radio - Lucky Street (319)
- Panic! At The Disco - Vices And Virtues (214)
- Sparks The Rescue - Worst Thing I’ve Been Cursed With (211)
- Tancred - Capes (193)
- Dredg - Chuckles And Mr. Squeezy (171)*
*it’s funny how skewed these results get due to my reviewing; I don’t think I’ve given that Dredg album a single listen since I wrote my review
- My most played songs were:
- Go Radio - Kill The Beast (57)
- The Bigger Lights - Bullet Believers (Rah Rah Rah) (38)
- Sparks The Rescue - Saturday Skin (38)
- Panic! At The Disco - Always (33)
- Go Radio - Lucky Street (33)
- I wrote 37 album reviews this year (as well as 10 short, lighthearted reviews of holiday singles for the annual PropertyOfZack Christmas Extravaganza). By my own rule, each album I review gets no fewer than 10 listens over the course of no less than one week.
This is all focusing on 2011 releases, but of course I spent plenty of time this year both revisiting old favorites and digging into new-to-me music from years past. I’m not going to try and figure out how and where I spent this listening time; my last.fm account (feel free to add me) was out of commission for the first half of the year or so, and that totally skews any data I try and pull regarding my overall year. I will say that there was a good two month stretch where I was listening almost exclusively to Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s back catalog; my newly-developed OMD obsession will be as strong a musical memory of this year as any current release.
In addition, I spend a lot of time listening to music live, and I feel like that counts as much (if not more) than listening to CDs. I won’t argue that a live performance is necessarily better than a recorded album — they’re two very different arts, and both can be great or lousy, and just because a band is lacking in one of these forms doesn’t make them less enjoyable in the other, at least not to me — but it’s definitely something different, and should be included here as well.
- I attended 108 shows this year (including three festival-style shows — all 3 days of Bamboozle, the Long Island stop of Warped Tour, and the Poughkeepsie dates of A Very GK Holiday).
- At those shows, I saw (by my inexact count) 363 different sets played.
The full list of albums and EPs from 2011** that I’ve listened to this year, alphabetical by artist, is after the cut. Unfortunately I don’t have any way of pulling the info from my Foursquare checkins other than by hand, so I’m not going to try and figure out which bands I saw this year or how many times I saw each (though I may go back and do this sometime in the future, if I’ve got a little time to kill).
**I think these are all 2011 releases; I’m excluding anything I’m pretty certain is older, as well as rereleases, but I’m not about to go and crosscheck all of these.
- Aaron Gillespie - Anthem Song
- Aiden - Disguises
- Aiden - Some Kind Of Hate
- The Airborne Toxic Event - All At Once
- Alkaline Trio - Damnesia
- All Time Low - Dirty Work
- Amely - The Raleigh Sessions
- Anarbor - The Mixtape
- Animals As Leaders - Weightless
- Any Time Today - Any Time Today
- Asking Alexandria - Reckless And Relentless
- A$AP Rocky - LIVELOVEA$AP
- Balance And Composure - Separation
- Basement - I Wish I Could Stay Here
- Battles - Gloss Drop
- Bayside - Killing Time
- Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
- Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
- The Bewitched Hands - Birds & Drums
- The Bigger Lights - Battle Hymn
- Bilal - Airtight’s Revenge
- Blood On The Dance Floor - All The Rage
- Brian Posehn - Fart And Wiener Jokes
- Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
- Brighten - I’ll Always Be Around (EP)
- Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
- Butch Walker - The Spade
- The Cab - Symphony Soldier
- Cartel - In Stereo (EP)
- Cash Cash - Love Or Lust
- Cassette Kids - Nothing On TV
- Cher Lloyd - Sticks And Stones
- Childish Gambino - Camp
- Chris Carrabba - Covered In The Flood
- The Cinema - My Blood Is Made Of Airplanes
- Circa Survive - The Myspace Transmissions (EP)
- Clive Tanaka y Su Orquesta - Jet Set Siempre
- Close To Home - Never Back Down
- Cobra Starship - iTunes Session (EP)
- Cobra Starship - Night Shades
- Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
- Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
- ††† (Crosses) - † (EP)
- Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain II
- The Dangerous Summer - An Acoustic Performance of “Reach For The Sun”
- The Dangerous Summer - War Paint
- Dave Melillo - Future Focused (EP)
- Dave Melillo - Thinking Of You
- Death Cab For Cutie - Codes And Keys
- The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
- Decoder - Decoder
- Demi Lovato - Unbroken
- Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows
- Dia Frampton - Red
- Divided By Friday - Prove It (EP)
- Dot Dot Curve - Dot Dot Curve
- The Downtown Fiction - Let’s Be Animals
- The Downtown Fiction - Pineapple (EP)
- Drake - Take Care
- Dredg - Chuckles And Mr. Squeezy
- Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now
- Edelweiss - Pre-Columbians EP
- Eisley - The Valley
- Every Avenue - Bad Habits
- Falling In Reverse - The Drug In Me Is You
- Family Force 5 - III
- Farewell Fighter - The Way We Learn (EP)
- Fireworks - Gospel
- Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
- Forever The Sickest Kids - Forever The Sickest Kids
- Four Year Strong - In Some Way, Shape Or Form
- Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
- Frank Turner & Jon Snodgrass - Buddies
- Freezepop - Imaginary Friends
- The Friday Night Boys - Everything You Ever Wanted: The B-Sides
- The Front Bottoms - The Front Bottoms
- Fucked Up -David Comes To Life
- Further Seems Forever - Acoustic (7”)
- Gallows - Death Is Birth (EP)
- Gates - The Sun Will Rise And Lead Me Home
- The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
- Glassjaw - Coloring Book (EP)
- Go Radio - Lucky Street
- Good Problems - Be Eccentric (EP)
- Good Problems - I’m Changing My World (EP)
- The Graduate - Every Other Time: B-Sides From Only Every Time (EP)
- The Graduate - Sea Legs
- A Great Big Pile Of Leaves - Boom! (EP)
- Great Cynics - Don’t Need Much
- The Greater The Risk - Say What You Never Said (EP)
- Gym Class Heroes - The Papercut Chronicles II
- Hawthorne Heights - HATE
- Hey Monday - Candles (EP)
- Hey Monday - The Myspace Transmissions (EP)
- The Horrible Crowes - Elsie
- An Horse - Walls
- Hot Chelle Rae - Whatever
- The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
- I Am The Avalanche - Avalanche United
- I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business - Gold Rush
- I Fight Dragons - KABOOM!
- I See Stars - The End Of The World Party
- The Icarus Account - Love Is The Answer
- If By Yes - Salt On Sea Glass
- Innerpartysystem - Never Be Content (EP)
- Into It. Over It. - Proper
- Into It. Over It. - Twelve Towns
- Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
- Jack’s Mannequin - People And Things
- James Blake - James Blake
- Jamestown Story - Find A Way
- Jesse Barrera - You’ll Feel Alive (EP)
- John Nolan - Songs I Didn’t Write (EP)
- Jonah Matranga - You’re All These Things And Then You’re None
- Joyce Manor - Joyce Manor
- Just Kait - Here We Go Again
- K. Flay - I Stopped Caring In ‘96
- Kevin Devine - Between The Concrete And The Clouds
- Kevin Devine - Nevermind
- Kids Of 88 - Sugarpills
- Kula Shaker - Pilgrim’s Progress
- La Dispute - Wildlife
- Lady Gaga - Born This Way
- Late In The Playoffs - Everything I Know (EP)
- Lemuria - Pebble
- Lights - Siberia
- Lights Resolve - Feel You’re Different
- Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow
- Little Bombs - Little Bombs
- The Little Indians - Let’s Split / What Makes You Grin (7”)
- LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking
- A Loss For Words - No Sanctuary
- Lydia - Paint It Golden
- Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
- The Maine - In Darkness And In Light
- The Maine - Pioneer
- Man Overboard - Man Overboard
- Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
- Maniac - Mania
- Mansions - Dig Up The Dead
- Marianas Trench - Ever After
- Maritime - Human Hearts
- Mayday Parade - Mayday Parade
- MC Lars - Indie Rocket Science
- Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Go Down Under (EP)
- Meg & Dia - Cocoon
- Mike Posner - The Layover
- Mod Sun - Blazed By The Bell
- Mod Sun - In Mod We Trust (EP)
- The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
- Moving Mountains - Waves
- My Favorite Highway - As/Is: The Storytellers Tour Live
- The Narrative - Kickstarter EP
- Never Shout Never - Time Travel
- Nick 13 - Nick 13
- Nightmares For A Week - Don’t Die
- Noah And The Whale - Last Night On Earth
- Nocturnal Me - Two Faced (EP)
- Now Now - Neighbors (EP)
- Nowe Gloaming - Shuttle Plume
- O’Brother - Garden Window
- Of Legends - Stranded
- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - History Of Modern
- Owen - Ghost Town
- Owl City - All Things Bright And Beautiful
- Panic! At The Disco - Vices And Virtues
- Patrick Stump - Soul Punk
- Patrick Stump - Truant Wave (EP)
- Pianos Become The Teeth - The Lack Long After
- PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
- Places And Numbers - Travels
- Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
- Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
- Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin’
- Ratt - Infestation
- The Ready Set - Feel Good Now (EP)
- Relient K - K Is For Karaoke
- R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
- Rhett Miller - The Interpreter: Live At Largo
- Richard Benjamin - Patience Is A Virtue
- Rise Against - Endgame
- The Rocket Summer - Bryce Avary, His Instruments And Your Voices
- Roy English - FearLove
- Runner Runner - Runner Runner
- Sainthood Reps - Monoculture
- Santah - White Noise Bed
- Saves The Day - Daybreak
- Set It Off - Horrible Kids (EP)
- Set Your Goals - Burning At Both Ends
- A Skylit Drive - Identity On Fire
- Social Distortion - Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes
- Sparks The Rescue - The Worst Thing I’ve Been Cursed With
- Squid The Whale - A Worrisome Voyage Through Inclement Weather
- Stamps - Stamps Ventures Of A Lifetime (EP)
- Stay - American Cherry Bomb
- Stephen Jerzak - Miles And Miles
- Steve Moakler - Watching Time Run
- The Story So Far - Under Soil And Dirt
- The Strokes - Angles
- The Summer Set - Everything’s Fine
- The Summer Set - What Money Can’t Buy (EP)
- The Sunbeams - The Ocean, You And Me
- The Swellers - Good For Me
- Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday
- Tancred - Capes
- Tancred - String & Twine (EP)
- That’s Outrageous! - Teenage Scream
- There For Tomorrow - The Verge
- Thrice - Major/Minor
- The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) - Watch The Throne
- Thursday - No Devolucion
- Tiger’s Jaw - Two Worlds
- Title Fight - Shed
- Tonight Alive - What Are You So Scared Of?
- Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
- The Trace - The Trace (EP)
- Transit - Listen And Forgive
- Transit - Something Left Behind
- TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
- Tyler, The Creator - Goblin
- Unicorn Kid - Tidal Rave (EP)
- VersaEmerge - Live Acoustic (EP)
- VolHolla! - Villains
- Washed Out - Within And Without
- We Are The In Crowd - Best Intentions
- We Still Dream - Chapters
- Wilco - The Whole Love
- William Control - Novus Ordo Selcorum
- Wim - Wim
- The Wonder Years - Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing
- The Xcerts - Scatterbrain
- Yellowcard - When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes
- You, Me And Everyone We Know - Things Are Really Weird RIght Now (EP)
- Young Statues - Young Statues
- Young The Giant - Young The Giant
- Various Artists - The American Scene / Daybreaker (Split)
- Various Artists - Fences / Mansions (Split)
- Various Artists - Germs Of Perfection: A Tribute To Bad Religion
- Various Artists - Handguns / Forever Came Calling (Split)
- Various Artists - Run For Cover: Mixed Signals
- Various Artists - The Muppets: The Green Album
- Various Artists - Never Shout Never And The Maine (Split)
- Various Artists - Punk Goes Pop 4
- Various Artists - SPIN Presents Newermind: A Tribute Album
- Various Artists - Such Gold / A Loss For Words (Split)
- Various Artists - Such Gold / Into It. Over It. (Split)
- Various Artists - A Tribute To Alkaline Trio
- Various Artists - Vs. The Earthquake
- Various Artists - Motion City Soundtrack / Trampled By Turtles (Split)
- Various Artists - Fueled By Ramen Winter Rarities Vol. 2
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