My iPod by the Numbers

16 = number of complete box sets on it

18 = complete albums by one artist (not a box set) (Joni Mitchell)

3 = number of complete albums by Men without Hats

2 = number of songs by these artists
Andrea True Connection
Blue Swede
The Archies
B.T. Express
China Crisis
David Frizell & Shelley West
Dead Milkmen
Die Prinzen
Disco Tex & the Sex-o-Lettes
Dynamix II
EBN-OZN
The Knack
Len
Patti Page
Patsy Montana
Pretty Poison
Sweet
Ta Mara & the Seen
Thomas Dolby
The Turtles
Ultravox
Young Rascals
Zeca Pagodinho

2 also equals the number of versions of songs like
I Don't Know How to Love Him
You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record)
Take on Me
Come on Eileen
Stairway to Heaven
Something in The Way
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
...and others

1 = number of Disney film soundtracks

1 = number of Michelangelo Antonioni film soundtracks

4 = songs called "Heart & Soul," & none are remakes of the others. (T'Pau, The Cleftones, Joy Division, and The Monkees)

1 = number of Edwin Starr songs (& it ain't War, neither!)

1 = Number of Ethel Merman Disco Albums

1 second = shortest track (a Simpsons soundbite)

46: 50 = longest track ("Gondwana" by Miles Davis)


1098-1179 - dates of Hildegard von Bingen, whose works are the oldest on my iPod to which a certain composer can be attributed.