My latest desktop computer arrived in late 2007, at which point I transitioned all of my music off of my laptop. 2 iPods, 3 iPhones, and an iPad later, that computer is still my main repository of music, with iTunes updating its stats every time I listen to something.
Having already gone through cassette tapes and CDs, and digital music, it’s time to roll everything up with the Top 200 albums whose songs I’ve listened to as of September 2014, according to iTunes. Today we start at the bottom of the list and begin our journey with the 10 albums tied for 197th with 21 listens.
#198: Great White – …Twice Shy
iTunes stats: 21 plays
The fourth album from Great White makes this list on the backs of one song, which was the band’s biggest hit.
#197: Weezer – Maladriot
iTunes stats: 21 plays
Weezer’s fourth offering, released in 2002, had 2 songs make up their total.
#197: Various Artists – The Beavis and Butt-head Experience
iTunes stats: 21 plays
Cashing in on the cultural phenomenon that was Beavis and Butt-head, this compilation makes this list thanks to the animated duo’s cover, with Cher, of I Got You Babe.
#197: Various Artists – Billboard Top Hits: 1987
iTunes stats: 21 plays
This compliation album of the top pop hits of 1987 by bands that were willing to be included on a random compilation album places on this list thanks to 4 different tracks, from U2, Belinda Carlisle, Chris de Burgh, and Crowded House.
#197: Various Artists – 8 Mile (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
iTunes stats: 21 plays
The soundtrack to Eminem’s first (and, to date, only) movie rode his smash hit Lose Yourself to this spot.
#197: Billy Idol – Billy Idol: Greatest Hits
iTunes stats: 21 plays
2 tracks from Billy Idol’s career make up this total for his Greatest Hits album.
#197: Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – Are A Drag
iTunes stats: 21 plays
In 1999, the punk rock supergroup released an album of movie song covers, one of which, the Muppets’ Rainbow Connection, places them on this list.
#197: Weird Al Yankovic – Straight Outta Lynwood
iTunes stats: 21 plays
Weird Al returned in 2006 with his 12th album, which places here thanks to White & Nerdy, his parody of Chamillionaire’s hit Ridin’.
#197: Boyz II Men – Boyz II Men: Legacy – The Greatest Hits Collection
iTunes stats: 21 plays
The Philadelphia-based R&B group put their greatest hits collection on this list thanks to the radio edit of their hit It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday and their cover of In The Still Of The Night (I’ll Remember).
#197: Liz Phair – Whip-Smart
iTunes stats: 21 plays
The second release from indie-darling Liz Phair makes up it’s total from three tracks.