What I(tunes) Like About You

[tahnan]

With more stupid iTunes tricks, I've learned that I have songs about your cat, your eyes, your hand, your hands, your head, your heart (x2), your latest trick, your local emperor, your man, your mink, your money, your neighborhood, your ocean, your own way, your peak, your room, yourself (x3), your sister, your sleep, your song, your spell, your time, your trail, your will, your wires, and your Yoko Ono. (No bonus points for identifying the actual songs, but feel free to guess. Or just ask.)

Much more interesting, puzzlewise: what auto-playlist generated the following list? (And, for bonus points for each song, why?)

title	Artist
All Purpose Folk Song	The Flash Girls
And The Money Kept Rolling In	Mandy Patinkin (Evita)
Army	Boiled in Lead
Bahcevanci	Boiled in Lead
Between Here and Now	Einstein's Little Homunculus
Blue Moon Revisited	Cowboy Junkies
Chant No. 1	Spandau Ballet
Epilogue	Sting
Flowers	Talking Heads
Get It On	Power Station
Gethsemane	Jesus Christ Superstar
Give Me The Keys	Huey Lewis and the News
Go! Move! Shift!	Boiled in Lead
Grip	The Stranglers
House-Husband's Lament	Boiled in Lead
I Am Weary	The Cox Family (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
I Eat Cannibals	Total Coelo
I Love, I Love	Dar Williams
I Ran	Flock of Seagulls
I Want You	The Beatles
Iowa	Dar Williams
It Ain't What You Do	Fun Boy Three With Bananarama
Jeremiah Blues	Sting
King Herod's Song	Jesus Christ Superstar
Lefthand Cabahaba	Einstein's Little Homunculus
Lullabye	Billy Joel
Major Tom	Peter Schilling
Miami 2017	Billy Joel
Movin' Out	Billy Joel
Quartet	Andersson/Ulvaeus/Rice (Chess)
Real Wild Child	Iggy Pop
Seaside Lament	Da Vinci's Notebook
Sexy + 17	Stray Cats
Skaista Gaida	Einstein's Little Homunculus
Skating Away	Jethro Tull
Sobabamba	Boiled in Lead
The Actress Hasn't Learned The Lines	Patti LuPone (Evita)
The Deal	Andersson/Ulvaeus/Rice (Chess)
The Dock of the Bay	Da Vinci's Notebook
They Dance Alone	Sting
This Must Be The Place	Talking Heads
Travelling Again	Dar Williams
Trial Before Pilate	Jesus Christ Superstar
Try	Janis Joplin
Ugros	Boiled in Lead

Comments

[tablesaw]

This might be easier if I knew what Auto-playlist is capable of doing.

[fuldu.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to do something with parenthetical subtitles. Epilogue has one ((Nothin' 'bout Me), I believe). Major Tom has one, (Coming Home). I've never heard of Boiled Lead, but given the profoundly non-English nature of nearly all those titles, it wouldn't surprise me if there were translated titles. I seem to recall Lullabye having one, but at the same time, I don't remember one at all for Movin' Out. And I'm pretty sure Iowa doesn't have one either, though Travelling Again might.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Movin' Out -- Anthony's Song
Iowa -- Travelling III
Travelling Again -- Travelling I

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

Basically, think of all the metadata fields you can apply to a track (title, artist, composer, album, date, file type, beats-per-minute, etc.--note that not all the fields will be filled in unless you do it yourself). You can apply operators to most of these fields such as contains, does not contain, starts with, is greater than, is less than, equals, does not equal. You can combine any number of elements with AND or OR, but (if I recall) not a combination of AND and OR.

Does that help?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Oh, also:
Bahcevanci (O Ya!)
Army (Dream Song)
Ugros (Springtime)
Go! Move! Shift! (The Movin' On Song)
HouseHusband's Lament (Rockin' the Cradle)

Bite Me (hard)

[bendix.livejournal.com]

Climb On (A Back That's Strong)

I have half of these on my own iTunes. And interestingly, only the above two additions in my own set.
Theses are mine:

Try (just a little bit harder)
I am weary (let me rest)
Lullabye (goodnight my angel)
This must be the place (Naive Melody)
Blue moon (song for elvis)

plus the Dar ones, of course.

ones that other people haven't got yet

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Epilogue (still know nothing about me)
Get It On (bang a gong)
I Ran (so far away?)
I Want You (she's so heavy)
It Ain't What You Do (it's the way that you do it)
(She's) Sexy + 17
The Actress Hasn't Learned The Lines (you'd like to hear)
(sittin' on?) The Dock of the Bay

[foggyb.livejournal.com]

Between Here and Now (Planxty Melissa)...Einstein's Little Homonculus

Re: ones that other people haven't got yet

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Fuldu's version of the subtitle of Epilogue was correct. But you're right on the Flock of Seagulls, and the Da Vinci's Notebook (I believe that Otis Redding's version had the same parenthetical). And I'm surprised you knew "It Ain't What You Do"--it's a song I didn't know until I heard it on Leighjen's compilation album that has it.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Wow, someone up on their ELH! And who can remember the word "Planxty"! Double kudos.

Re: ones that other people haven't got yet

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Doubt not my command of obscure 80s music! I could even have handled tracks like "Can'tcha Say", "Don't Know What You Got", "Rock! Rock!", "Heavy Metal", "You're A Good Man Albert Brown", "Rock In America", "Hotel Detective", "Undone", and "Sucker M.C.'s".

[foggyb.livejournal.com]

I'm not that up on it, but I picked up "Don't Ask" at CD Spins on a $2 or less buying spree. (My favorite pickup is Ruth Ruth's Laughing Gallery...although the lyrics are little disturbing.)

Planxty is a great word...

[cazique.livejournal.com]

miami 2017 (Seen the lights go out on broadway)
lullabye (goodnight my angel)
they dance alone (cueca solo)
i want you (she's so heavy) (?)

[fuldu.livejournal.com]

So I'm concluding this is a search along the lines of ' AND (

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I know MY Spandau Ballet! "Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)".

-- Trip