Retrospecticus, Part One

The top twenty most played songs of 2007, according to my iTunes:

1. Smith, "Baby, It's You"
2. Talking Heads, "Psycho Killer"
3. Bill Callahan, "Diamond Dancer"
4. The Pristeens, "Beat You Up"
5. Professor Murder, "Stress Free Test"
6. The Editors, "An End Has a Start"
7. Of Montreal, "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games"
8. Talking Heads, "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
9. Menomena, "Wet and Rusting"
10. The New Pornographers, "High Art, Local News"
11. Cyndi Lauper, "Money Changes Everything"
12. The Knife, "Heartbeats"
13. TV on the Radio, "Walking the Cow"
    
14. M. Ward, "Right in the Head"
15. Data Rock, "Computer Camp Love"
16. April March, "Chick Habit"
17. CSS, "Let's Make Love (And Listen to Death From Above)"
    
18. Nada Surf, "Indochine"
19. Nelly McKay, "Dog Song"
20. Neko Case, "Maybe Sparrow"

Top twenty songs downloaded in the past six months, according to iTunes:

1. The Editors, "An End Has a Start"
2. TV on the Radio, "Walking the Cow"
3. Data Rock, "Computer Camp Love"
4. The Marbles, "Circuit"
5. The Crystals, "He's a Rebel"
6. Scissors for Lefty, "Ghetto Ways"
7. The Greenskeepers, "Lotion"
8. The Envelopes, "Audrey in the Country"
9. Milke, "Resignation"
10. Rilo Kiley, "Silver Lining"
11. Rilo Kiley, "The Moneymaker"
12. The Friendly Fires, "Photobooth"
13. Josephine Oniyama, "Closer"
14. The Cheap Deats, "Sodium Lights"
15. Pelle Carlberg, "Clever Boys Like Clever Boys More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls"
16. Rilo Kiley, "Breakin' Up"
17. The Islands, "Rough Gem"
18. The Mary Onettes, "Lost"
19. Simian Mobile Disco, "I Believe"
20. Asylum Street Spankers, "Funnel of Love"

Top twenty most played songs, according to last.FM:

1. Neko Case, "Maybe Sparrow"
2. Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, "Some Velvet Morning"
3. Nancy Sinatra, "Friday's Child"
4. M. Ward, "Right in the Head"
5. The Coral, "Pass It On"
6. Kitty Lester, "Love Letters"
7. Father Bingo, "Dry Lots and Red Ones"
8. Talking Heads, "This Must Be the Place"
9. Menomena, "West and Rusting"
10. Nada Surf, "Indochine"
11. Fool's Garden, "Lemon Tree (I Say You're a Scream)"
12. CSS, "Let's Make Love (And Listen to Death From Above)"
13. Need New Body, "Show Me Your Heart"
14. Maximo Park, "The Night I Lost My Head"
15. Pierre Henry, "Psyche Rock"
16. Noonday Underground, "London"
17. The Shangri-Las, "Remember (Walking in the Sand)"
18. Modest Mouse, "I Came as a Rat"
19. Electric Light Orchestra, "Turn to Stone"
20. The New Pornographers, "The Jessica Numbers"

Top twenty most played bands, according to last.FM:

1. Beck
2. The New Pornographers
3. The White Stripes
4. The Appled in Stereo
5. The Pixies
6. Neko Case
7. Spoon
8. The Dandy Warhols
9. Cake
10. The Magnetic Fields
11. Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
12. Modest Mouse
13. Of Montreal
14. Scissor Sisters
15. The Beatles
16. Franz Ferdinand
17. Rilo Kiley
18. Soul Coughing
19. Blur
20. The Coral