Death!

Over at Slacktivist Fred Clarke posts an alphabetical selection of tracks taken off his ipod every Friday. He invites the reader to compare their own itunes list, which I often do, even though my music collection bears almost no relation to his. Yesterday he did 'De...'. See his list here. Now look at an excerpt of mine:

• De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - Mayhem
• Dead Cats, Dead Rats - The Doors
• Dead Friends (Around the Corner) - Einsturzende Neubauten (three versions!)
• Dead Gardens - Nightwish
• Dead Goon - Mr. Bungle
• Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground - The White Stripes
• Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails covering Joy Division
• Dead Star (live) - Muse
• Deaf as a Bat - The Jesus Lizard
• Deanna - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Death - Skinny Puppy
• Death Dealer's Descent - Underworld Soundtrack
• Death in the Family - Sparta
• Death is not the End - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Death King - Converge
• The Death of Passion - Nevermore
• Death Whispered a Lullaby - Opeth
• Deathblow - Deftones
• Debase (Soft Palate) - Aphex Twin remixing Mike Flowers Pops
• Deceit - Suffocation

That's only half of my 'De...'s, the rest are not really interesting except to note that I have a lot of German songs ('Der ...'). That's 15 songs out of 4362 with titles that begin with the words 'Dead' or 'Death'. The search function tells me that I have 18 songs containing the word 'Dead' and 23 containing 'Death'.

Slightly worried about what this says about me, I tried 'Love' and got 77 matches. Phew! My music collection isn't as morbid as I feared!

'Sex' returns only 8 matches, including three versions of 'Robot Sex' by Mike Patton. 'Fuck' returns 13, including five versions of 'Starfuckers Inc.'.

Lastly, 'Life' returns 19 songs, but that includes 'In Death - Is Life' by Meshuggah. Not sure if that should count!