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F008.25 Quarterly Report

Posted on March 29, 2008 
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Today is March 29, which means I can do a rolling 3 month playcount to get a rough approximation of what F008 would look like if published today.

1. The King’s Singers - Veronika, der Lenz ist da - the one you may be familiar with from Degen’s YouTube video
2. Bola de Nieve - Drume negrita - not the Arturo Sandoval one from F007
3. Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke - because we bought a Stevie Wonder greatest hits CD over Christmas
4. a spanish classical guitar version of Hava Nagila
5. Danny Elfman - This Is Halloween
6. The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
7. Craig Armstrong - Introduction to Romeo
8. Mocean Worker - Right Now (Album Version)

Okay, I’ll stop there, because we’re not far enough in the year to have much statistical validity beyond this point.

Popularity: 35% [?]

F004

Posted on February 26, 2008 
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Title	Artist	If you like this song, we recommend this album
Men	Martin Mull	American Comedy Box 1915-1994: But Seriously… Disc 1
Love You More	Stevie Wonder; Kimberly Brewer	A Very Special Christmas, Vol. 5
New Math	Tom Lehrer	That Was the Year that Was…
Mambozart (Symphony No. 40 in G Minor)	Klazz Brothers; Cuba Percussion	Classic Meets Cuba
Everybody’s Talkin’	The Beautiful South	Carry on up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South
Steak and Shrimp	Veggie Tales	Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie
If I Fell	Maroon 5	1.22.03.Acoustic
The Audition	John Bird; John Fortune	Dead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy
Song of the Patriot	Johnny Cash; Marty Robbins	Essential Johnny Cash
Lonely Man Theme [from “The Incredible Hulk”]	Joe Harnell	Fantastic Television!!
Just the Way It Is, Baby	The Rembrandts	The Rembrandts
The Vatican Rag	Tom Lehrer	That Was the Year that Was…
Give Said the Little Stream	Matt Harding	The R.M.
Every Season	Nicole Nordeman	This Mystery
Beautiful Savior	BYU Men’s Chorus	Awake My Soul
I Hope They Call Me on a Mission	Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand	The R.M.
Jung Hwa Ban Jum (The Restaurant)	Louis	Maldroit.com
Your Smiling Face	James Taylor	Greatest Hits II
Fat Fingers	The Simpsons
Honey	Moby	Play
Jim Henson’s Dead	Stephen Lynch	A Little Bit Special
That’s Life	Frank Sinatra	Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
Hava Nagila (techno)
You Raise Me Up	Josh Groban	Closer
The Grand Finale	Danny Elfman	Edward Scissorhands
Why Must the Good Die/Free at Last	Kenneth Cope	My Servant Joseph
Onward Christian Soldiers	Stretch Armstrong	The R.M.

Popularity: 72% [?]

F003

Posted on February 26, 2008 
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Title	Artist	If you like this song, we recommend this album
Tribute (edited)	Tenacious D	Tribute Single
Sage of Lamberéne	Kurt Bestor; Sam Cardon	Innovators
African Alphabet	The Muppets; Ladysmith Black Mambazo	35 Years of Songs from the Street
Ode II Joy (Symphony No. 9)	Opera Babes	Beyond Imagination
James Bond Theme	Moby	Tomorrow Never Dies
A Little Less Conversation	Elvis Presley	Elvis vs. Junkie XL A Little Less Conversation
537 C.U.B.A.	Orishas	A Lo Cubano
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door	Adam Sandler
Dig It	D-Tent Boys	Holes
God Gave Rock & Roll To You	Kiss	Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Bridge Over Troubled Water	King’s Singers
Waltzing Matilda	Tom Waits
Viva Las Vegas	ZZ Top	Greatest Hits
Vivir Sin Aire (MTV Unplugged)	Maná	Maná Unplugged
Loch Lomond	King’s Singers
Solitaire	Clay Aiken	Invisible / Solitaire
Across the Universe	Rufus Wainwright	I am Sam soundtrack
Your Smiling Face	James Taylor	Greatest Hits II
The Star Spangled Banner	The Mormon Tabernacle Choir	God Bless America
Honey	Moby	Play
Goodnight	Erasure	Other People’s Songs

Popularity: 60% [?]

F002

Posted on February 19, 2008 
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2002 we got married, and there was still a grey-ly-legal way of discovering new music via filesharing.  As we were young and poor, our old computer got older and at times it seemed like we only used it as a music server to play music around the house.  Our music was incredibly varied because of Kazaa or whatever it was back then, and we listened to it constantly.  I was also starting a magazine, and the emotional rollercoaster of that required a pretty anti-work catharsis at the end of each day…

Popularity: 63% [?]

What is Foo Music?

Posted on December 22, 2007 
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Foo, FØØ, F00, whatever you call it…  In the summer of 2000 I discovered the Play Count column of Windows Media Player.  I was in college, heading home for the Christmas break and was excited to show my sisters and parents all the neat music I had discovered since I had seen them last.  I needed music for myself and music to show them, and that turned out to be 20 CDs I was bringing home.  I didn’t want to take up suitcase space for that, so I went into Windows Media Player, sorted by playcount, and burned a CD of my most heard music that year.  Because it was the Fall of 2000, I scribbled “FØØ” with a black sharpie on the disc.  This quickly became my favorite mix-CD.  My friends wanted copies, and their friends wanted copies.  Eventually there became a ring of people who referred to the CD, and eventually the process, as “foo.”  Search google for it and link here… And so we are here, on the weekend I am burning “foo seven,” spelled FØØ7.  And people love this one…

Popularity: 100% [?]

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  The F00 style of musical compilations reference the yearly burning of CDs comprised of the top 80 minutes of music listened to that year, generally as defined by the Play Count column in most software players and scrobbling programs like last.fm. It also connotes the retroanalysis of the author and his or her time through said diary/album.