my most played songs of 2016 (via Spotify)

here is a list of my most played songs of 2016, using Spotify. i don't know the exact amounts of time listened. i know only the order of the highest played to the not-as-much played. i haven't used Spotify to much frequency since about last summer. looking at this list made me nostalgic of a period of six months, from approximately January to June. i continued to listen to about most of these songs still throughout the year, just maybe not necessarily on Spotify; or even still Spotify, i'm not too sure; what i do know, though, is some of these songs maybe were played without my discretion or direction. they might've played at a social gathering or via automated shuffle or fate. this is by no means a 100% accurate reading of my entire listening volume of 2016 (i listen to most of my music either on YouTube or Apple Music now). the songs that were selected however i hold favorably, all in all.


i'm disappointed "Let it Happen" made it. some songs i felt i didn't know until relistening and thought oh yeah, i think i've heard this song before or something like that. i feel as though these songs are a part of me now, like a soundtrack for that particular moment in my life. if my life were a really long movie, i hope they would use these songs for this particular scene. for the most part, i feel strongly about the greater portion of these songs. songs like "Tennyson" and "Senandung Maaf" i regard earnestly, and with the warmest familiarity, even though, to be sure, i only discovered these songs in the past year. music has that effect. Nietzsche, i think perhaps, said something to the degree that Without music, life would be meaningless: this might be a gross redressing of any existential philosopher, for that matter, but i believe in that sentiment mostly - perhaps not the nihilistic view - certainly in its core ideology, in that music really makes people happy. i hope my list makes you think of what you've listened to this year, and you'll go back and listen to them and think I've listened to a lot of music this year that i enjoyed and feel content.


i would also like to recognize:
"Ocean Side (オーシャン・サイド)" // Kikuchi Momoko

and João Gilberto (1973) by João Gilberto

both of which i also found to be significant in my 2016 musical experience.



random statistics of list (as accorded by me)


Top Artists:
Pavement - 7 songs
Guided by Voices - 5 songs
The Beach Boys - 4 songs
ko-ko-ya - 4 songs
Dean Blunt - 3 songs
Drake (not counting Nick Drake) - 3 songs
Life Without Buildings - 3 songs

Top Albums:

Slanted and Enchanted (1992) by Pavement - 4 songs
Frevo! (2011) by ko-ko-ya - 4 songs
Pet Sounds (1966) by The Beach Boys - 3 songs
Bee Thousand (1994) by Guided by Voices - 3 songs
Any Other City (2001) by Life Without Buildings - 3 songs
Double Figures: Ten Years of Chapter Music (2002) by various artsts - 3 songs
What a Time to Be Alive (2015) by Drake/Future - 3 songs


Genres:
43 rock songs
14 pop songs
13 rap songs
9 experimental songs
4 choro songs
4 folk songs
2 ambient songs
2 modern classical songs
2 r&b songs
2 IDM songs (they're Boards of Canada, i don't know how else to label them)
1 hardcore punk song
1 doo-wop song
1 reggae song
1 electro-house song
1 post-bop jazz song



My Most Played Songs of 2016 (via Spotify):

1. “Tennyson” // The Cannanes

2. “Depreston”// Courtney Barnett
3. “One More Chance/Stay With Me Remix” // The Notorious B.I.G.
4. “Mincer Ray” // Guided By Voices
5. “Zurich Is Stained” // Pavement
6. “Roygbiv” // Boards of Canada
7. “Waltz of a little bird” // ko-ko-ya
8. “I Wouldn’t Do It” // Gucci Mane
9. “Surf’s Up” // The Beach Boys
10. “Slow Burn” // Made in Heights
11. “These Days” // Nico
12. “Pale Blue Eyes” // The Velvet Underground
13. “Be Apart” // Porches
14. “Emma’s House” // The Field Mice
15. “Pacific Theme” // Broken Social Scene
16. “raindrops” // ko-ko-ya

17. “From the Morning” // Nick Drake
18. “Daylight” // Aesop Rock
19. “30 for 30 Freestyle” // Drake
20. “Saturday” // The Clientele
21. “Evening’s Kiss” // Willis Earl Beal
22. “Go Outside” // Cults
23. “Long Distance Call” // Phoenix
24. “Shadows” // Yo La Tengo
25. “Frevo!” // ko-ko-ya
26. “Pink Frost” // The Chills

27. “Patchwork” // Tindersticks
28. “The Leanover” // Life Without Buildings
29. “Dream Team” // Mark McGuire
30. “Summer Babe (Winter Version)” // Pavement
31. “Bad Kids” // Black Lips
32. “1/1” // Brian Eno

33. “What We’ve Learned” // McLusky
34. “Jumpman” // Drake, Future
35. “untitled 01 | 08.19.2014.” // Kendrick Lamar
36. “Here” // Pavement
37. “We Are Your Friends – Original Mix” // Simian
38. “Beautiful” // A.G. Cook
39. “I Only Have Eyes For You” // The Flamingos

40. “Bam Bam” // Sister Nancy
41. “Infant Eyes” // Wayne Shorter
42. “New Town” // Life Without Buildings
43. “21 Questions” // 50 Cent
44. “Downtown” // Majical Cloudz
45. “I Run New York” // Dean Blunt
46. “Tractor Rape Chain” // Guided by Voices
47. “Senandung Maaf” // White Shoes & The Couples Company

48. “Do While” // Oval
49. “Schizophrenia” // Sonic Youth
50. “Ain’t Missing You (feat. Jenn Em) // Chief Keef
51. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” // The Beach Boys
52. “Old English” // Young Thug, A$AP Ferg, Freddie Gibbs
53. “Hot Freaks” // Guided By Voices
54. “Gold Soundz” // Pavement
55. “Pristine Christine” The Sea Urchins
56. “John Wayne Was a Nazi” // MDC
57. “Lemonade” // Gucci Mane
58. “Diamonds Dancing” // Drake, Future
59. “Heartbeat” // Annie
60. “Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite at :17” // Pavement
61. “14 Days” // Life Without Buildings
62. “She’s So High” // Tal Bachman
63. “LUSH” // Dean Blunt

64. “End of the Road” // Boyz II Men
65. “There She Goes” // The La’s
66. “Radio” // Alkaline Trio
67. “Fuck Up Some Commas” // Future
68. “Stereo” // Pavement
69. “Pink Moon” // Nick Drake
70. “Game of Pricks” // Guided by Voices
71. “God Only Knows” // The Beach Boys
72. “Sensitive” // The Field Mice
73. “Big Yellow Taxi” // Joni Mitchell
74. “Fool in the Rain” // Led Zeppelin
75. “New Direction” // Black Lips
76. “I Really Like You” // Carly Rae Jepsen
77. “One Call Away” // Chingy

78. “Let it Happen” // Tame Impala
79. “Earth to Heaven” // Esperanza Spalding
80. “Laurel Canyon” // Chief Keef
81. “Have You Seen the Rain?” // Creedence Clearwater Revival
82. “What Would I Want? Sky” // Animal Collective
83. “Tears of Unicorn // Masayoshi Fujita

84. “Teen Age Riot” // Sonic Youth
85. “Wrapped” // Minimum Chips
86. “Otherside” // Red Hot Chili Peppers
87. “I Hate Summer” // Smiley
88. “Shady Lane” // Pavement
89. “Motor Away” // Guided by Voices

90. “Umi Zoi No Michi” // ko-ko-ya
91. “Discreet Music” // Brian Eno
92. Eleven Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty-Nine Died of Natural Causes” // Johann Johannsson
93. “Sorry 2004” // Ruben Studdard
94. “That’s Not Me” // The Beach Boys
95. “Love Stepping Out” // Disco Inferno
96. “The Pedigree” // Dean Blunt
97. “Wildlife Analysis” // Boards of Canada
98. “Did You See the Words” // Animal Collective
99. “Blue Suburban Skies” // Even As We Speak
100. “Return of Hot Chicken” // Yo La Tengo
101. “Get Free (feat. Amber of Dirty Projectors)” // Major Lazer



thanks for reading. i hope you find some good music to make you feel okay.