Brad bade me to do this …

Open iTunes to answer the following:

Total number of tracks: 2,951 at the moment.

Sort by song title:

• First Song: ” ‘Round Midnight”, The Thelonious Monk Quartet, 1963-03-05: Stockholm, SWE
• Last Song: “Zoo Station”, U2, Achtung Baby

Sort by time:

• Shortest Song: “One Last ‘Woo-Hoo!’ for the Pullman”, 0:06, Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
• Longest Song: “Less Than You Think”, 15:04, Wilco, A Ghost Is Born. [I excluded concert bootlegs, podcasts, and songs with hidden tracks at the very end from this one. This just ends with the YHF signal for several minutes. Hooah.]

Sort by album:

• First Song: “Rain”, Patty Griffin, 1000 Kisses
• Last Song: “My God Has Come to Save Me”, Waterdeep Worship, You Are so Good to Me

Top 10 Most Played Songs:

1. “Rich Young Ruler”, 447 plays, Derek Webb, Mockingbird
2. “Mockingbird”, 437 plays, ibid.
3. “A New Law”, 431 plays, ibid.
4. “My Enemies Are Men Like Me”, 419 plays, ibid.
5. “In God We Trust”, 416 plays, ibid.
6. “Love Is Not Against the Law”, 397 plays, ibid.
7. “A King and a Kingdom”, 396 plays, ibid.
8. “I Hate Everything But You”, 384 plays, ibid.
9. “The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us”, 380 plays, Sufjan Stevens, Illinois.
10. “Decatur, Or Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!”, 373 plays, Sufjan Stevens, ibid.

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle:

1. “Last One Gone”, David Wilcox, Into the Mystery
2. “Sweet Adeline”, Elliott Smith, 1999-04-13: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
3. “Every Day”, Jill Phillips, Jill Phillips
4. “Wished For Song”, Kate York, EP
5. “Whiskey Bottle (live acoustic)”, Uncle Tupelo, No Depression

That was for the whole library, not with my wicked-smaht iTunes Smart Playlists.

Search for:
“sex”, how many songs come up?: Two.
“love”, how many songs come up?: 127 [!].
“you”, how many songs come up?: 259 [!].
“death”, how many songs come up?: Two.
“hate”, how many songs come up?: Five, three because of the presence of “whatever” in a title.
“wish” how many songs come up?: