VLM Celebrates One Year of Indie-Bashing!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, it was one year ago today that Viva La Mainstream first launched. It's gone through a number of changes, most notably its name and its focus, but the goal is the same: Bringing the ROCK back to the blogotubes, or whatever the hell it's called these days.

In celebration of one year of blogging, I'm reposting the intro survey I did in the first entry. You can see the original answers here. Also posting MP3s when available. Let's get started!

Number of songs: 3058
Total Time: 8:05:33:38 (days:hours:minutes:seconds)

Sort by song title:
-first song: Bowling For Soup - A-Hole
-Last song: Jay-Z - 99 Problems

(Note that in the past year iTunes in their infinite wisdom did an update which decided that numbers now belong at the end of the alphabet.)

Sort by length:
-Shortest song: Ronnie Day - Insert 1 (:09)
-Longest Song: Allman Brothers Band - Mountain Jam (33:41)

Sort by album:
-First Song: The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun (Abbey Road)
-Last Song: Collective Soul - The World I Know (last listed album; there are a bunch of songs with unknown album)

First five songs that come up on shuffle:
1. Linkin Park - Crawling
2. The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It
3. U2 - One
4. My Chemical Romance - All I Want For Christmas is You
5. Familiar 48 - Learn to Love Again

Top 10 Most Played Songs:
1. Linkin Park - Bleed it Out (22)
2. Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch (16)
3. Buckcherry - Everything (15)
4. Foo Fighters - Long Road to Ruin (14)
5. Stone Sour - Zzyzx Rd. (14)
6. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down (13)
7. AFI - Summer Shudder (12)
8. The All-American Rejects - Move Along (12)
9. The Fray - How to Save A Life (12)
10. Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me (12)

Search "sex", how many songs come up? 16
Search "love", how many songs come up? 111
Search "death", how many songs come up? 2
Search "hate", how many songs come up? 14
Search "wish", how many songs come up? 6

(adding some more questions for the hell of it)
Which artist appears most often?
Foo Fighters (125 songs)

Sort by date added:
Most recent: Led Zeppelin - Fool in the Rain (added 1/16/08 4:36 PM)
Least recent: 3 Doors Down - Let Me Go (Acoustic) (Added 7/20/06 5:37 PM)
[About 20 songs are listed as being added at that time, but this is the one at the bottom of the list]

Which song appears most often?
"Happy Xmas (War is Over)" (6 Versions)
Versions by Acceptance, The Fray, John Lennon, Melissa Etheridge, Sense Field, and The Used/Street Drum Corps

Number of songs never played: 780
Number of songs with 5-star ratings - 618
Number of songs DRMed/bought on iTunes - 195

And I think that just about does it. Here's to another year of blogtastic awesomeness!

Currently listening: Jimmy Eat World - Electable (Give It Up) [iTunes]

SaveFile acting up right now...will be back with MP3s...sorry!

==TJ==