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I'd be very curious to see a histogram showing which times have the most/least songs written about them.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and speculate that 4:20 is at the top of the list. At least among times that don't end in :00 or :30.
Surprisingly it's number 3. Beat by 5:00 and 3:33. I have no idea what the significance of those are. I mean I guess 5:00 is the traditional start of evening, but no idea what's special about 3:33.
If your track is already three-and-a-half-ish minutes long maybe the mastering engineer says "okay let's add a couple seconds at the end to make it exactly 3:33 for fun"
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    56 3:33
    55 5:00
    53 4:20

    1 6:31
    1 8:41
    1 9:49
From:

    curl "https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/assets/songs.csv" | awk -F ',' '{print $1}'|uniq -c|sort -n
BTW if you want the full histogram use this:

    curl "https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/assets/songs.csv" | awk -F ',' '{print $1}'|uniq -c|sort -n |awk '{printf("%5s: %s\n", $2, sprintf("%0" $1 "s", ""));}'
Are there any holes in this coverage? Any of the 1440 minutes of the day that don't have their own song?
Be waiting all day for 5:15
Can’t wait for 12:51 (The Strokes)
What about "Sunrise" by Pulp
Is there a way to see what songs it has for a specific time?
My first thought here is: Damn, there is -so much- content out there. Not necessarily art or culture, just ... content.

Looking forward to, say, a TV show where every line of dialogue is the title of another TV show (you could actually produce this reasonably easily with AI, and it would be, I suppose, a neat publicity stunt; but I hope to God I haven't given anyone an idea).

There's been more good entertainment out there for anyone to meaningfully get through in their lives for a long while now.

Feels kinda sad knowing that I'll likely never come across what would be my favourite song/movie/TV show. At least there's always something new to discover though.

It's close, but 3:33, 5:00, and 4:20 are the most popular. Every time is represented, but 6:31AM, 8:41AM, and 9:49AM have only one song.

Entire list: https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/assets/songs.csv

How would one compile such a list?
Do api calls to something like Apple Music or Spotify with “HH:mm” as the search string. Scrape the results. Do some more filtering on the results.
The list seems to be slapping PM and AM together. So you could get a song about 10:02 PM at 10:02 AM, and probably the reverse.

Seems strange they would not use a 24 hour clock to associate the songs, and the songs not specifically being about before or after noon could be associated with both.

Indeed, it would feel weird to play 2 Minutes to Midnight two minutes before noon.

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Ones I can predict based on my music knowledge:

2112 by Rush (interpreted in this case as a timestamp rather than a year)

25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago (get 2 whole mins for this one)

2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden

"Five O'Clock World" by The Vogues
"9 to 5" by Dolly Parton? (You could make it work as 9:25 and/or 4:51)
> 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago (get 2 whole mins for this one)

Three, if you misinterpret it as I did..

3:35 3:34 3:54

Listened for a while, but they are not saying it. The titles are cool but it's not fun listening to it if they don't say it.
That might be a bit harder to sync up, but would probably be worth it, especially if it showed the lyrics on screen. Plus this is using spotify's song previews to get the audio, which may not be the part of the song you want.

I especially want this to be a thing, because it took me far too long to remember that the song "queeblo - Whopper and a Forty" wasn't called "5:45", that's just the time mentioned in the hook.

10:15 on a Saturday night from the cure. And the tap drips drips drips
I once built a little clock display which displayed "A LITTLE AFTER THREE" and similar messages. I wanted to do it with an e-ink display so it would run for a year or so on battery, but settled for a plug-in version.

The idea came from an old New Yorker cartoon.

The light/dark mode toggle (I think that's what it is) does nothing for me
My first thought was that Danger would be everywhere, and I was right.
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Hoping for 'UK' with 'Rendezvous 6:02'.
My clock would simply play "Nine While Nine" by the Sisters of Mercy all day for 12 hours.