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Abouti’m a 31 yr. old (eek!) male, happily married with one son, gavin, and one daughter, lilah. with erin , i started arcane palette creative design — a web design studio hell-bent on spreading awesome, artistic design to the masses. i get my rocks off from technology, hacking html and css, watching (good) anime (like, say, trigun, neon genesis evangelion, his and her circumstances, lain), making/listening to music, and being generally a nrrd. having worked in the specialty department at whole foods for about a year, i’m a bit of a food snob, and my favorite cheeses are cambozola, dubliner with stout, cowgirl creamery’s mt tam, and humbolt fog i like amano chocolate, fran’s salt caramels and truffles and bissinger’s chocolate barks. curry puffs (especially from Sawadee Thai Restaurant) are like thai food heaven. i also like vietnamese food and sushi. my musical tastes are eclectic, but you can’t go wrong with some saul williams or nine inch nails. you can check me out on last.fm or the arcane palette page on blip.fm to see what i’m listening to. right now i’m playing a lot of borderlands, but i also play a lot of guild wars and classics like civ 3 and heroes of might and magic 3. i recently started a tumblog…
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30 Most Frequently Played Songs of 2014

It’s the time of year when everyone is making end-of-year lists of various things. I decided to make a list of the top songs I’ve listened to in 2014. Now a few things went into this and there should be some things stated up front.

First — I almost always listen to music on random. Usually it’s a playlist I’ve created and there are a couple playlists I have in iTunes that have been my go-to work music this year. But what that means is that for any single song to appear multiple times it means I was probably listening to that artist a lot.

Second — Since I listen to so much stuff on random, and since that “random” list often comes out of a playlist with a bunch of stuff by a bunch of specific artists, a lot of songs cropped up from the same artist or album. So, in compiling this list, I made an effort to select songs by unique artists so it wasn’t all clogged up by Chromeo and M83 and nothing else.

Third — The way I ranked items was based on a combination of Last.fm stats for the year and iTunes # of plays. Now, iTunes doesn’t reset the number of plays each year, so its’ numbers are cumulative . And Last.fm wasn’t working 100% through the whole year, and regardless, the numbers were very different from Last.fm to iTunes so I really don’t know how these things compare.

The stuff from this list, therefore, has a fair bit of fudging around specific tracks and artists to be a more accurate representation of what has been playing through my speakers this year. Since each artist on the list could be taken as an entry into “most listened-to album“, I also pared this list down based on artists I played more frequently.