Sunday, March 08, 2009

In Where Blake Finds the Answer to a Question he Pondered, and Invites the Reader Along to Share in the Answer

So I've been listening to some Black Flag recently and thus put several of their songs on to my zune (that's right I actually have a zune instead of an ipod). One of the songs I have been listening too over and over again is "My War". When selecting songs I generally do not choose by artist, but instead just scroll through the alphabetical list of all the songs I have on the zune. In doing so I noticed that there are a whole bunch of songs on my zune that start with the word "my". It turns out there are 12. That got me to thinking, what word would have the most songs? Well since I have the list in front of me in alphebetical order, and because I'm a curious kinda guy, and because it's 9:06 and there's nothing on TV but I don't want to go to bed yet, I'm going to find out.

Hold on a second...

Okay, so for alphabetical listings Zune doesn't consider the word "the" to be the actual first word of the song. And seeing as how video rental stores do he same thing when stocking movies, I'm going to ignore "the" for this list as well. So in order to show you just how not close this contest was I'm going to show you the "competition" first. Oh, one clarification, I joined together different versions of the same word, i.e. I consider it and it's to be the same word for the purpose of this list. Anyway here we go:
America - 7
Break - 6
Get - 6
Great - 6
It - 8
Let - 7
My - 12
Rock - 13
Walk - 6
We - 6
What - 6
You - 13

And the winner, with an absolutely amazing 51 is:

"I"

That's right, I guess singers are just obsessed with themselves, or maybe just I am, but anyway I blew everyhing away. And now, for pretty much no reason I'm gonna write the list hereL:

I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore, Beck
I Am the Bullgod, Kid Rock
I Am the Walrus, Beatles
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Wilco
I Believe in a Thing Called Love, The Darkness
I Can Remember, Korn
I Choose, Offspring
I Don't Care, Black Flag
I Don't Like Mondays, The Boomtown Rats
I Don't Like You, Stiff Little Fingers
I Don't Wanna Grow Up, Ramones
I Don't Wanna Get Over You, The Magnetic Fields
I Fought the Law, The Clash
I Fought the Law, Dead Kennedys
I Hear You Knocking, Dave Edmunds
I Held Her in My Arms, Violent Femmes
I Hung My Head, Johnny Cash
I Just Wanna Make Love to You, Foghat
I Just Want You, Ozzy Osbourne
I Knew the Bride When She Use to Rock-N-Roll, Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe
I Love NYC, Andrew WK
I Love Rock-N-Roll, Joan Jett
I Need Candy, mc chris
I Never Picked Cotton, Johnny Cash
I Predict a Riot, Kaizer Chiefs
I Saw Her Standing There, Beatles
I Think I Need a New Heart, Magnetic Fields
I Think I'm Turning Japaneese, The Vapors
I Walk the Line, Johnny Cash
I Wanna Be Sedated, Ramones
I Wanna Go Home, Beach Boys
I Want it All, Queen
I Was in Love with a Girl On LSD, Tom Petty
I Was in the House When the House Burned Down, Warren Zevon
I Will Survive, Cake
I Wish, Skee Lo
I Wish I Was Queer so I Could Get Chicks, Bloodhound Gangs
I Would Walk 500 Miles, The Proclaimers
I'll Melt with You, Modern English
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Warren Zevon
I'll Stick Around, Foo Fighters
I'm Holding On, Ween
I'm in the Mood to Move, Ween
I'm Nothing, Violent Femmes
I'm the Man, Joe Jackson
I'm the Man Who Loves You, Wilco
I'm Waiting for the Man, David Bowie
I'm Waiting for the Man, Velvet Underground
I've Been Everywhere, Johnny Cash
I've Done Everything for You, Rick Springfield
I've Never Been in a Riot, The Mekons

Glad that's settled.