Hi. Thanks to friends and family who took the music survey. If you just came here for the Spotify playlist, here it is. Put it on shuffle and discover some songs you didn’t know you liked. Usually I write a summary of the survey favorites, but this year I’ll keep it focused on my own …
Every year I ask my friends and family to tell me about their favorite music from the last 12-18 months (see results from 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009. I had a friend tell me: “I want to take the survey but I don’t know any new songs!” No, friend! The point of this …
Thanks to everyone who participated in the the 2015 music survey. As always, I ask my friends and family to tell me about their favorite songs, albums, and artists of the year, and they always come through with great stuff. Many songs I’ve heard before, so I give them a second listen. And of course, …
What’s the statute of limitations on when you can post your favorite music, books, or movies from a given year? I know we’re a month into 2015, but good music is good music. Although maybe that’s not true, because last week I read a Marc Ronson quote that was something like: “the only thing you …
Better late than never. Here are the results of the 2013 Music Survey. I changed scoring this year to include negative points for any mentions for “Least Favorite Song” and a small positive bump for any “Guilty Pleasure” selections. If you can’t see the embedded box above, the top song for 2013 is “Royals,” by …
Here’s what I’m listening to these days, along with a few exceptions: 1. Songs I feel are safe for my children to listen to. The definition of “safe” varies based on the parents and the kids. For me, “safe” means (for the most part) that I wouldn’t mind if my elementary-school daughter sang the lyrics. One …
Thank you to everyone who filled in this year’s survey. I always enjoy getting new recommendations, and I look forward to listening to each and every song listed by you. Here are my favorite songs and albums of the year. Previous Music Survey Results: 2010 2011 In previous years, I listed songs in order of …
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NOTE: On Friday, I’ll release the results of the 2012 Music Survey. Today, here are my favorites of the year. This has been an eventful year for me and my family. In retrospect, it seems like we experienced 4 big events: I got a job in California, we had a baby, I defended my dissertation, …
As I mentioned previously, I put together an album each year of my UC Davis friends’ favorite songs. Here’s last year’s album, as well as this year’s survey results and my 30 favorite songs of 2011. And here are the rules for this mix, copied from last year: Refresher: the FC12 Music Project started when …
Here are the results of my annual music survey. I received 28 responses and about 115 unique songs. Then I added my 30 favorite songs of 2011. The songs with the most mentions are at the top; “Pumped Up Kicks” was the most popular song of 2011, and Adele was clearly the most popular artist, …
I compiled a list of my 30 favorite songs of 2011, not so you can see how cultured I am and how awesome my taste is, because the answer to both is “not very.” I made this list for the same reason I ask for your favorites at the end of each year: networking is …
Thank you to everyone who filled out the 2010 music survey–77 people in total, over 200 different songs. If you scroll all the way to the bottom, you will see a list of every song that was chosen by more than one person. If you would like a list of the 121 songs chosen by …
Thank you to everyone who took the music survey over the last week. You listed 136 song entries and 121 unique songs. Here is a list of the 12 songs that were picked by more than one person: Beyonce – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling Dave …
(If you don’t read the entire thing, here’s my question to you: what songs are on your list for a 2009 mixtape? Please leave your answers in the comments.) Way back in the stone age (1995), my brother used to make me sit next to the stereo with the tape deck on record/pause, just waiting …
I don’t want to scare anyone, but computers are taking over the world. It frightens me to say this, but pretty soon all music will be written by computers. Yes, even something so sonically beautiful as the natural human interpretations of love, sorrow, joy, and mating preferences are now entering the realm of machines. The …