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Omega_Switch's Listism, Pt. 3: Top 30 of the 2000s

6 Tem 2009, 18:52 yazan Omega_Switch22B

Yet again I've decided to waste my time- and maybe even yours- with another list of my favorite albums. This time, I've compiled a list of my 30 favorite albums from each year of the 2000s. Recommendations are greatly appreciated.

2009 so far

1. Isis- Wavering Radiant
2. Fen- The Malediction Fields
3. Wolves in the Throne Room- Black Cascade
4. maudlin of the Well- Part the Second
5. The Field- Yesterday and Today
6. Dereleech- Servant of Entropy
7. Blut aus Nord- Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
8. Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
9. Grizzly Bear- Veckatimest
10. Steve Roach- Dynamic Stillness
11. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.- Lord of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir
12. Telefon Tel Aviv- Immolate Yourself
13. Drudkh- Microcosmos
14. Tim Hecker- An Imaginary Country
15. Funebrarum- The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
16. disappearer- The Clearing
17. Squarepusher- Numbers Lucent EP
18. The Prophecy- Into the Light
19. Mono- Hymn to the Immortal Wind
20. Pelican- Ephemeral EP
21. Boxcutter- Arecibo Message
22. Wolves in the Throne Room- Malevolent Grain EP
23. Phillip Wilkerson- Constant 23
24. Mountains- Choral
25. Great Lake Swimmers- Lost Channels
26. Cobalt- Gin
27. Amorphis- Skyforger
28. Absu- Absu
29. Devin Townsend- Ki
30. Fleshgod Apocalypse- Oracles

2008

1. Jóhann Jóhannsson- Fordlândia
2. Sun Kil Moon- April
3. ColdWorld- Melancholie²
4. Dereleech- Downstream
5. Deepspace- The Glittering Domain
6. Agalloch- The White EP
7. Esoteric- The Maniacal Vale
8. Have a Nice Life- Deathconsciousness
9. Nadja- The Bungled & the Botched
10. M83- Saturdays = Youth
11. Darkspace- Dark Space III
12. Deerhunter- Microcastle / Weird Era Continued
13. Genghis Tron- Board Up the House
14. Ihsahn- angL
15. Virgin Black- Requiem - Fortissimo
16. This Will Destroy You- This Will Destroy You
17. All India Radio- These Winter Dreams
18. Deathspell Omega- Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon
19. Steve Roach- Landmass
20. Aeveron- Existential Dead End
21. Portishead- Third
22. Moonsorrow- Tulimyrsky EP
23. Flying Lotus- Los Angeles
24. I Shalt Become- Requiem
25. Lifelover- Konkurs
26. Atmosphere- When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
27. Leviathan- Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
28. Manual- Confluence
29. Ólafur Arnalds- Variations of Static EP
30. Enslaved- Vertebrae

2007

1. Wolves in the Throne Room- Two Hunters
2. Eluvium- Copia
3. Walknut- Graveforests and Their Shadows
4. Primordial- To The Nameless Dead
5. Lunar Aurora- Andacht
6. Blonde Redhead- 23
7. dälek- Abandoned Language
8. Deepspace- The Barometric Sea
9. The Marcia Blaine School for Girls- Halfway Into the Woods
10. Nadja- Thaumogenesis
11. Stars of the Lid- And Their Refinement of the Decline
12. Burial- Untrue
13. Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd- Before the Day Breaks
14. Drudkh- Estrangement
15. Alcest- Souvenirs d'un autre monde
16. Amon Tobin- Foley Room
17. Radiohead- In Rainbows
18. Moonsorrow- V: Hävitetty
19. Boxcutter- Glyphic
20. Krohm- The Haunting Presence
21. Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
22. Electric Wizard- Witchcult Today
23. El-P- I'll Sleep When You're Dead
24. Rosetta- Wake/Lift
25. Legiac- Means Feaner
26. Nine Inch Nails- Year Zero
27. Dungen- Tio Bitar
28. The Angelic Process- Weighing Souls With Sand
29. Darkestrah- Epos
30. Christ.- Blue Shift Emissions

2006

1. Warning- Watching From a Distance
2. Wolves in the Throne Room- Diadem of 12 Stars
3. Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain
4. Drudkh- Blood In Our Wells
5. Jesu- Silver EP
6. AFX- Chosen Lords
7. Tool- 10,000 Days
8. Mono- You Are There
9. Jóhann Jóhannsson- IBM 1401, A User's Manual
10. Nachtmystium- Instinct: Decay
11. God Is an Astronaut- A Moment of Stillness
12. Amesoeurs- Ruines humaines EP
13. Yndi Halda- Enjoy Eternal Bliss
14. Ahab- The Call of the Wretched Sea
15. Mahogany- Connectivity!
16. Insomnium- Above the Weeping World
17. Cult of Luna- Somewhere Along the Highway
18. Steve Roach- Storm Surge: Live at NEARfest
19. Geïst- Kainsmal
20. Robin Guthrie- Everlasting
21. Tenhi- Maaäet
22. The Knife- Silent Shout
23. Katharsis- VVorldVVithoutEnd
24. The Roots- Game Theory
25. Amon Amarth- With Oden on Our Side
26. Above & Beyond- Tri-State
27. Enslaved- Ruun
28. The Black Angels- Passover
29. Deftones- Saturday Night Wrist
30. Mastodon- Blood Mountain

2005

1. Steve Roach- New Life Dreaming
2. Boards of Canada- The Campfire Headphase
3. Jesu- Jesu
4. Boris- Pink
5. Oöphoi- Hymns to a Silent Sky
6. Rosetta- The Galilean Satellites
7. !T.O.O.H.!- Řád a Trest
8. Earth- Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method
9. Darkspace- Dark Space II
10. Venetian Snares- Rossz csillag alatt született
11. Lurker of Chalice- Lurker of Chalice
12. Sigur Rós- Takk...
13. Robert Rich- Echo of Small Things
14. Deathspell Omega- Kénôse EP
15. Meshuggah- Catch 33
16. Akercocke- Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
17. Kraftwerk- Minimum-Maximum
18. Gojira- From Mars to Sirius
19. Ulver- Blood Inside
20. Draconian- Arcane Rain Fell
21. Candlemass- Candlemass
22. CunninLynguist- A Piece of Strange
23. Biosphere- Dropsonde
24. dälek- Absence
25. William Basinski- Melancholia
26. Kriegsmaschine- Altered States of Divinity
27. Autechre- Untitled
28. Nadja- Truth Becomes Death
29. 65daysofstatic- One Time for All Time
30. Opeth- Ghost Reveries

2004

1. Drudkh- Autumn Aurora
2. Squarepusher- Ultravisitor
3. Enslaved- Isa
4. Deathspell Omega- Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
5. Wintersun- Wintersun
6. Lunar Aurora- Elixir of Sorrow
7. Isis- Panopticon
8. Augury- Concealed
9. Meshuggah- I EP
10. Deinonychus- Insomnia
11. Proem- Socially Inept
12. Helios- Unomia
13. Sear Bliss- Glory and Perdition
14. Madvillain- Madvilliany
15. Iron & Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days
16. Leviathan- Tentacles of Whorror
17. Jonn Serrie- The Stargazer's Journey
18. Orphaned Land- Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven
19. Cult of Luna- Salvation
20. Robert Rich- Calling Down the Sky
21. The Flashbulb- Red Extensions of Me
22. Loscil- First Narrows
23. Vàli- Forlatt
24. Jesu- Heart Ache EP
25. Velvet Cacoon- Genevieve
26. The Dead Texan- The Dead Texan
27. Rotting Christ- Sanctus Diavolos
28. Aura Noir- The Merciless
29. Arcade Fire- Funeral
30. Fennesz- Venice

2003

1. Steve Roach- Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
2. Drudkh- Forgotten Legends
3. Enslaved- Below the Lights
4. Boris- Feedbacker
5. Sun Kil Moon- Ghosts of the Great Highway
6. Explosions in the Sky- The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
7. Gridlock- Formless
8. Autechre- Draft 7.30
9. Prefuse 73- One Word Extinguisher
10. Opeth- Damnation
11. Blut aus Nord- The Work Which Transforms God
12. Hala Strana- Fielding
13. Forgotten Tomb- Springtime Depression
14. Ulver- A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP
15. The Gathering- Souvenirs
16. Kid606- Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You
17. Ulrich Schnauss- A Strangely Isolated Place
18. Steve Roach- Texture Maps: The Lost Pieces Vol. 3
19. Alias- Muted
20. Falkenbach- Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty
21. System 7- Live Transmissions
22. M83- Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
23. William Basinski- The Disintegration Loops IV
24. Pan•American- The River Made No Sound
25. Virus- Carheart
26. The Angelic Process- Coma Waering
27. Madlib- Shades of Blue
28. Devin Townsend- Accelerated Evolution
29. Edge of Sanity- Crimson II
30. Solefald- In Harmonia Universali

2002

1. Agalloch- The Mantle
2. Boards of Canada- Geogaddi
3. Isis- Oceanic
4. Sigur Rós- ( )
5. Opeth- Deliverance
6. Arcturus- The Sham Mirrors
7. Nine Inch Nails- And All That Could Have Been/Still EP
8. Shining- III - Angst - Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie
9. The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
10. múm- Finally We Are No One
11. Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
12. El-P- Fantastic Damage
13. Nile- In Their Darkened Shrines
14. Empyrium- Weiland
15. In Gowan Ring- Hazel Steps Through a Weathered Home
16. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
17. Biosphere- Shenzhou
18. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead- Source Tags & Codes
19. Six Organs of Admittance- Dark Noontide
20. Judas Iscariot- To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding
21. Murcof- Martes
22. Immortal- Sons of Northern Darkness
23. Dark Tranquillity- Damage Done
24. Steve Roach- Streams & Currents
25. Diary of Dreams- Freak Perfume
26. !T.O.O.H.!- Pod vládou biče
27. Beck- Sea Change
28. dredg- El Cielo
29. Lustmord- Zeotrope
30. Jóhann Jóhannsson- Englabörn

2001

1. maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map (Also: Bath)
2. Aphex Twin- Drukqs
3. Tool- Lateralus
4. Opeth- Blackwater Park
5. Björk- Vespertine
6. Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein
7. Autechre- Confield
8. Ulrich Schnauss- Far Away Trains Passing By
9. Devin Townsend- Terria
10. Emperor- Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
11. Aesop Rock- Labor Days
12. Tim Hecker- Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
13. J-Live- The Best Part
14. My Dying Bride- The Dreadful Hours
15. Daft Punk- Discovery
16. Pete Namlook- Silence V
17. Absu- Tara
18. Plaid- Double Figure
19. Evoken- Quietus
20. Cult of Luna- Cult of Luna
21. Dolorian- Dolorian
22. Gorguts- From Wisdom to Hate
23. Neurosis- A Sun That Never Sets
24. DJ Tiësto- Magik, vol. 7: Live in Los Angeles
25. Liquid Morphine- GrijsGebied
26. Squarepusher- Go Plastic
27. Sigh- Imaginary Sonicscape
28. The Shins- Oh, Inverted World
29. André Estermann- Balloon
30. Therion- Secret of the Runes

2000

1. Weakling- Dead as Dreams
2. Radiohead- Kid A
3. Boards of Canada- In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country EP
4. Boris- Flood
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
6. Lykathea Aflame- Elvenefris
7. DJ Tiësto- Magik, vol. 6: Live in Amsterdam
8. Harold Budd- The Room
9. Robert Rich- Humidity
10. Ulver- Perdition City
11. Jedi Mind Tricks- Violent by Design
12. The Gathering- If_Then_Else
13. Aesop Rock- Float
14. Reflection Eternal- Train of Thought
15. Sol Invictus- Trieste
16. Gas- Pop
17. Shape of Despair- Shades of...
18. Garden of Shadows- Oracle Moon
19. Deltron 3030- Deltron 3030
20. A Silver Mt. Zion- He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms...
21. Hypocrisy- Into the Abyss
22. Primordial- Spirit the Earth Aflame
23. Bloodbath- Breeding Death EP
24. Amon Tobin- Supermodified
25. Immolation- Close to a World Below
26. A Perfect Circle- Mer de Noms
27. Morbid Angel- Gateways to Annihilation
28. Deftones- White Pony
29. Modest Mouse- The Moon & Antarctica
30. Behemoth- Thelema.6

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top albums AGAIN

6 Tem 2009, 06:13 yazan KillingMachinee

KillingMachinee's top albums (overall)
1. Cynic - Focus (96)
2. Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost (83)
3. The Faceless - Planetary Duality (79)
4. Meshuggah - Catch Thirty-Three (77)
5. Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within - Version 3.33 (77)
6. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (75)
7. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient (72)
8. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (71)
9. Rotten Sound - Cycles (70)
10. Mastodon - Leviathan (58)
11. Devin Townsend - Terria (55)
12. Strapping Young Lad - City (49)
13. Kakka-hätä 77 - Totaalinen Kakkahätä (47)
14. Entombed - Wolverine Blues (43)
15. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh (43)
16. Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs (41)
17. Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation (39)
18. Röyksopp - Melody A.M. (38)
19. Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti (38)
20. Death - Human (37)
21. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (36)
22. Mastodon - Crack The Skye (35)
23. Rotten Sound - Exit (34)
24. Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing (34)
25. Meshuggah - Nothing (33)
26. Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible (32)
27. Martyr - Feeding The Abscess (32)
28. Obscura - Cosmogenesis (31)
29. Orange Goblin - The Big Black (31)
30. Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying (31)
31. Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? (30)
32. Cynic - Traced In Air (30)
33. Django Reinhardt - The Best of Django Reinhardt [Capitol/Blue Note] (30)
34. Death - Scream Bloody Gore (30)
35. Rytmihäiriö - Sarvet, Sorkat, Salatieteet (30)
36. The Faceless - Planetary Dulaity (29)
37. Isis - Wavering Radiant (28)
38. Necrophagist - Epitaph (28)
39. Death - Individual Thought Patterns (28)
40. Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia (27)
41. Sleep - Holy Mountain (27)
42. Meshuggah - Chaosphere (25)
43. Arsis - We Are The Nightmare (25)
44. Karl Sanders - Saurian Meditation (24)
45. Daft Punk - Discovery (22)
46. Martyr - Warp Zone (22)
47. Cattle Decapitation - Humanure (21)
48. Death - Leprosy (21)
49. Martyr - Hopeless Hopes (21)
50. Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction (21)

^{Top albums generator}

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Lala

5 Tem 2009, 14:16 yazan nofar791

What are the eight tracks recently added to your library?

1. Hadouken!–That Boy That Girl
2. I Was a Cub Scout – Pink Squares
3. Infected Mushroom – Becoming Insane
4. Jack Peñate – Got My Favourite
5. James Brown – I Feel Good
6. James Morrison – Undiscovered
7. Jamie T– Alicia Quays
8. Jet– Eleanor

What four artists is Last.fm currently recommending to you?

1. Bromheads Jacket
2. Cajun Dance Party
3. The Paddingtons
4. Harrisons

Have you listened/heard of any of them before?
All of them,but I don't have enough plays. ><

Last loved track?
Asobi Seksu – Familiar Light

Last five recently listened tracks?

1. Herman Düne– On a Saturday
2. Hello Saferide – If I Don't Write This Song, Someone I Love Will Die
3. Hard-Fi – Suburban Knights
4. Hair – Acquarius
5. Hadouken! – That Boy That Girl

Last song you added to your playlist?
Kill Paradise - candy land wedding

Last person you left a shout to?
snuus

Last person who left you a shout?
snuus XD

Most frequently used tag?
alternative

Closest event?
Maybe Kaiser Chiefs

How long have you been a member?

In my first account i was since April 2006.
In this account since 2 Oct 2008

How many overall plays do you have?

15869

How many loved tracks?

1,139

What are your top 10 overall artists?

1. Animal Collective
2. The Killers
3. Justice
4. Belle and Sebastian
5. The Kooks
6. MGMT
7. Daft Punk
8. TV on the Radio
9. Patrick Wolf
10. The View

Top 10 artists in the last seven days?

1. Kaiser Chiefs
2. Jet
3. The Mae Shi
4. Kate Nash
5. Klaxons
6. Jamie T
7. Jack Peñate
8. Mobius Band
9. Vampire Weekend
10. Bibio

What are your top 10 overall most played songs?

1. Animal Collective – Fireworks
2. The Killers – Human
3. Animal Collective – Leaf House
4. TV on the Radio – Family Tree
5. MGMT – Time to Pretend
6. Belle and Sebastian – Seymour
7. M.I.A. – Paper Planes
8. Justice – Valentine
9. Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness
10. The Killers – This Is Your Life

What are your top 10 most played songs in the last seven days?

1. The Mae Shi – R U Professional
2. Chris Cornell– Billie Jean
3. Jeremy Jay – LOVE
4. Illinois – She's So Funny
5. Ben Lee – Kids
6. David Cook – Billie Jean
7. Jack Peñate – Tonight's Today
8. Miss Li – I Heard Of A Girl
9. Nickel Creek – I Want You Back
10. The Walkmen - Donde Esta La Playa

What bands do you find you most have in common with people?

lots

What bands do you find you have least in common with people?

lots

What was the last band recommended by Last.fm that you really got into?

I don't remember ><

Are you a member of any groups?

Quite a few.

Now playing?

Hard-Fi - Television

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Favorite Song(s) by my Top 15 Artists

3 Tem 2009, 18:08 yazan hablamosnico

Since I never write anything really music related (or at all) here, I decided I would. So I'm looking at my top 15 artists according to total listens on my profile page. Let's go. (And I may actually be undeceive or pick multiple for some artists, heh.)

1. Warren Zevon - This is a hard one. But up top are definitely Desperados Under the Eaves, Jeannie Needs a Shooter, Raspberry Beret (better than the original), Poor Poor Pitiful Me, and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, to name just a few—I like all his stuff! (You wonder why he's my top played?)

2. They Might Be Giants - Another hard one (there will be a lot of these). I'll say Ana Ng, Climbing the Walls, Birdhouse in Your Soul, New York City, Take Out The Trash, Snail Shell, Sleeping in the Flowers, etc. There are waaaay too many. All of they're stuff is good. Definitely my favorite band of all time.

3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Let me start off with saying that I hate people who just label this band as 'Jimi Hendrix.' He did do stuff on his own as well as his Band of Gypsys project. The Gypsys were fairly short-lived, so I can understand mis-tagging on those, but the Experience was such an influential band with 3 studio albums I don't see why so many people shun the Redding and Mitchell. *sigh* Oh well... This one is difficult too; All Along The Watch Tower, Burning of the Midnight Lamp, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Voodoo Chile, Purple Haze, Manic Depression, arg, so many more, but this is supposed to be a favorite song...

4. Rage Against the Machine - I'd love too see these guys in concert... But Guerrilla Radio and Calm Like a Bomb are my favorite hands-down.

5. DragonForce - Never listen to them anymore, but Black Winter Night was tops.

6. Iron Maiden - Best metal out there. 2 Minutes to Midnight, The Trooper, The Prisoner, and Run to the Hills kick ass.

7. R.E.M. - Nightswimming by far. But I like all of their stuff.

8. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin', Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn), Blowin' in the Wind, Hurricane, among others.

9. HammerFall - Don't listen to them at all anymore. Meh. Hearts on Fire and Genocide were catchy.

10. Nirvana - Lithium, duh.

11. Daft Punk - One More Time, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Human After All, and Digital Love.

12. Gorillaz - Rock the House, Double Bass, Demon Days, Dare, and Dirty Harry (Schtung Chinese New Year Remix).

13. The Beatles - Octopus's Garden, It's All Too Much, Norwegian Wood, and With a Little Help From My Friends

14. XTC - Senses Working Overtime, Grass, and Dear God

15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fortune Faded by a long shot.

Yeah, most of those were more than one, but hey, it's fun.

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50 questions about my top 50 3.7.2009

3 Tem 2009, 17:38 yazan tonyhi

This journal section looked so empty so I decided to do this and put it here.

1. How did you get into 29? (Rihanna)
Too many hits

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (David Bowie)
Hard to say but Lady Stardust was the first I downloaded

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Green Day)
Probably some lyric from American Idiot or Wake Me When September Ends

4. How did you get into 49? (Linkin Park)
Too many hits

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (Radiohead)
One, In Rainbows

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Robbie Williams)
Angels

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Mika)
Nope, happy artist - happy songs

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Bob Dylan)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (ABBA)
So many great songs from them but right now my favourite is The Name of the Game

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Queen)
Killer Queen

11. What is the worst song by 40? (The Mamas & The Papas)
I don't know all their songs so I can't say

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Bee Gees)
How Deep Is Your Love

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Led Zeppelin)
None

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (M.I.A.)
Paper Planes of course

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (The Rolling Songs)
She's a Rainbow

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
No

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Michael Jackson)
Hard to say but Billie Jean was the first I downloaded

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (Kylie Minogue)
That French part in Your Disco Needs You

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (The Beatles)
George Harrison or Paul McCartney. I can't decide!

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (The Killers)
Read My Mind

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Keane)
No good or bad memories

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Duffy)
Rockferry

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (The Chemical Brothers)
Hey Boy Hey Girl

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (U2)
I don't actually have any full albums by U2 so I can't say

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Britney Spears)
Me Against the Music

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Sugababes)
Round Round

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (Madonna)
Confessions on a Dance Floor

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Coldplay)
I can't say one so I say many: Clocks, Viva la Vida, Life in Technicolor ii, Speed of Sound, The Scientist

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Simon & Garfunkel)
Mrs. Robinson

30. What is your favorite song by 8? (Arctic Monkeys)
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (The Clash)
Oh, I'm too young

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (The Kinks)
You Really Got Me

33. How did you get into 12? (Muse)
When I heard Supermassive Black Hole for the first time

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Daft Punk)
Too Long because it's too long :D

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Gwen Stefani)
If we don't count No Doubt's songs then the first one is What You Waiting For?

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? (Beyoncé)
If we don't count Destiny's Child's songs then the first one is Crazy in Love

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Scissor Sisters)
Never

38. What is your favorite song by 36? (John Lennon)
If we don't count Beatles' songs then probably Imagine

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Pink Floyd)
Another Brick in the Wall part 2

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (Elvis Presley)
Any greatest hits collection from him

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (The Who)
No because all songs remind about CSI's

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Justin Timberlake)
FutureSex/LoveSounds

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Disney)
Prince Ali from aladdin

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Björk)
When I listened All Is Full of Love in the middle of the Norwegian mountains. Great moment.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Kanye West)
Diamonds from Sierra Leone is very good

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (Bob Marley & The Wailers)
Three Little Birds

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (The Beach Boys)
Pet Sounds

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Anthony Kiedis, the singer

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Nirvana)
Probably Smells Like Teen Spirit

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (Nelly Furtado)
All Good Things (Come to an End) - like this journal entry!

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How mainstream are you?

28 Haz 2009, 22:10 yazan caiocymro

STEP ONE: List your top 20 artists and find the number of listeners for each of them.

1. La Roux (88,177 listeners)
2. Michael Jackson (1,160,452 listeners)
3. Daft Punk (1,265,462 listeners)
4. Ladyhawke (223,716 listeners)
5. Super Furry Animals (234,905 listeners)
6. Little Boots (112,168 listeners)
7. Rammstein (910,583 listeners)
8. White Lies (180,279 listeners)
9. Radiohead (2,163,376 listeners)
10. Nelly Furtado (1,126,606 listeners)
11. Kings of Leon (1,034,953 listeners)
12. Prince (691,206 listeners)
13. Eminem (1,028,684 listeners)
14. Calvin Harris (293,992 listeners)
15. David Guetta (424,294 listeners)
16. Basement Jaxx (605,195 listeners)
17. The Prodigy (973,613 listeners)
18. M.I.A. (600,333 listeners)
19. Röyksopp (882,446 listeners)
20. The Kooks (993,106 listeners)

STEP TWO: Calculate the total listeners.
14,993,546

STEP THREE: Find the average of this total by dividing by 20.
749677.3

STEP FOUR: Divide this figure by the total number of Coldplay (or whoever has the most) listeners.
Coldplay: 2,315,432 listeners
Average: 0.3237742676096729

STEP FIVE: Finally, multiply this by 100 and round off to get your mainstream percentage.
MAINSTREAM PERCENTAGE: 32%

Oh. Thought it would've been higher lol.

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My Top 10 Songs... ever!

26 Haz 2009, 14:27 yazan Kieran0411

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/voting/

There's no way i would ever casually attempt to choose my 10 favourite songs, or even try to justify that any 10 are better than the next 10 - apart from a couple of true outstanding constant favourites, i've never given it much thought.

I decided the easiest way to separate the top 10 from the rest in my head, would be to choose songs that are specifically important to me, had some sort of deep resonance with me or were responsible in some way for a shift in the way i was thinking about music/life in general at the time, and hopefully also fulfilling the criteria that it could be widely considered a true classic tune.

In no particular order, other than a loose chronological timeline...

1. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads (from the album: Speaking in Tongues - 1983)

This is currently my most favourite song ever, and from one of my favourite bands. A fun and happy, yet heartwrenching song about love. Simple, yet complex and quirky in melody & lyrics. The greatest pop songs are always deceivingly simple. This song is perfection on many levels, and it will stay with me until i die. It took the #1 position from...

2. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division (from the album: Love Will Tear Us Apart EP - 1980)

...If you asked me which artist best encapsulates the sound and feel of the 80s, i would say The Cure. If you asked me what song, it's this. Not that anyone would ask me. It's undeniably 80s, but it transcends time. Easily one of the greatest songs ever made, a song that has been in my subconscious since i was a child, festering, waiting for me to finally realise its greatness.

3. Marquee Moon - Television (from the album: Marquee Moon - 1977)

So Television's Marquee Moon album was a classic way before i ever heard it, and i'd already made many inroads into my musical preferences when i first heard it. But this album, and the title track straight away went up the top of my favourites in my head. Marquee Moon is a perfect song from a perfect album, unmeasurably influential, and arguably the highlight album and song of punk's golden year, 1977. At the risk of sounding clichéd, at 10+ minutes this song actually takes you on a journey. The final guitar part in the last solo, nine minutes in, sounds like you're flying.

4. Roads - Portishead (from the album: Dummy - 1994)

Don't know what to say about this, other than Portishead are a band that i was totally obsessed with when i was in my late teens. This is my favourite song of theirs, a favourite of mine full-stop. Listening to the live version shows the true ethereal beauty and untapped emotional power this song has... such a travesty that the world doesn't know this song and hold it in the same esteem i do. And i wouldn't even know it if it weren't for...

5. Teardrop - Massive Attack (from the album: Mezzanine - 1998)

Another true classic. A song i instantly fell in love with, and totally changed my mind about what music i thought i liked. This is the song more than any other that is responsible for giving me my open mind towards different types of music...

6. Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine (from the album: Rage Against the Machine - 1992)

I was 12 when this song came out, and i had the censored version of it on a "Hits of '92" compilation cd - i loved it without realising the proper version existed, and when i finally did hear the "Fuck You, I Won't Do What You Tell Me" ending... it planted a mind-seed that would incubate over the years and it subconsciously opened up doors of future acceptance to other darker, harder genres, especially metal. It's one of the most powerful songs ever, and getting heavily into Rage Against The Machine in your formative years does things to your thoughts.

7. Today - The Smashing Pumpkins (from the album: Siamese Dream - 1993)

The Smashing Pumpkins - trying to sum up why i love them is hard, choosing one song is fucking hard. SP were like the first rock band where i was old enough to consciously love them, their music, not just a song i heard on the radio or whatever, realising they were part of a musical genre relative to the decade, and that i was living through this time that i knew would replay in my head as my soundtrack to my life in the future.

I knew immediately they would have a place here - but which song. I can't seem to think back to the one song that made me love them, it just feels like they've always been there.

I've chosen Today, it's probably not my favourite anymore, but it's one of the obvious choices. I think this may have been the song, the song that someone said to me "Today is the best song" and realising how good it is, how good they are, how much i loved them and this type of music, and music for me was never just a song on the radio that i liked anymore, it was now a big part of my life.

8. Da Funk - Daft Punk (from the album: Homework - 1996)

It's funny cause i never listen to Daft Punk anymore - even though lately there has been a widespread resurgence in their popularity and a general realisation of their influence on any kind of electronic music today - but i when i heard this song and saw the filmclip simultaneously for the first time back when it came out, i just fell in love with it. I didn't just love the song, i tried to base my life on it somehow, trying to personify the song by living life extra funky in a futuristic, but strange style, similar to that of a life size talking man-dog that roams city streets at night, a secret alter ego. Apart from the fact that the album is a classic and didn't leave my car stereo much for a year after, it formed a solid foundation for my love of electronic music.

9. They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) - Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (from the album: Mecca and the Soul Brother - 1992)

I can't have a top ten without having a rap tune in here, rap took up a large portion of my listening preference in my teenage years. It's easy to pick the contenders - but choosing just one was quite hard. The best rap group ever and my favourite rap group, the timeless A Tribe Called Quest, also released what i consider the quintessential rap album, Midnight Marauders. What The Cure is to the 1980s, ATCQ is to the golden era of rap. But choosing one of their songs over all others is like splitting hairs.

Problem is, much like Love Will Tear Us Apart is my quintesssential song for the 80s, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth's "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y)" is straight up, condensed, concentrated hip-hop in a can, arguably the greatest rap song ever.

ATCQ holds a greater place in my musical taste, but i'd say They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y) trumps any song ATCQ put out, only marginally though. If the lyrics of 'Electric Relaxation' weren't all about sex, i may have chosen it over T.R.O.Y.

10. Fade Into You - Mazzy Star (from the album: So Tonight That I Might See - 1993)

This has for a very long time, been such a sad song to hear for certain reasons that i could only bear to hear it every now & then. However over the last year it has become much more personal in a happier way, and has cemented its place with me, i think it took this list to realise it though. To kinda quote the lyrics: i think its its strange i never knew.

Just missed out...

11. A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
12. A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour
13. Gillian Welch - Revelator
14. Metallica - One
15. Joan as Police Woman - Eternal Flame

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FUNK BOMB mixed by Marik

26 Haz 2009, 10:24 yazan Dj_marik

Artist.....: v/a mixed by Marik
Title......: F-Bomb
MySpace.: www.myspace.com/marikua
Year......: 2009
Genre....: breakfunk, broken beat, house
Quality...: 256 Kbps 44 KHz
Time......: 01:20:23
Size.......: 149,3 MB

Tracklist:
1.Krafty Kuts - A Krafty Symphony
2.Sonny J - Handsfree (If You Hold My Hand) (J Star Remix)
3.Smooveand Turrell- I Can't Give You Up (A-Skillz Remix)
4.John Ohms - Breathe & Stop
5.Kid Sister - Get Fresh
6.DJ Twister - Blackstreet VS Cameo - No Diggity (Word!)
7.Spank Rock - Backyard Betty (Two Fingers Boot)
8.A-Skillz& BeardyMan - Got The Rhythm
9.Retro Kidz- New Era
10.BadboE - Dynamite (All Good Funk Alliance Remix)
11.da wiesel - Cool Hot Grits
12.Calvin Harris - Colours
13.All Good Funk Alliance - Slingshot Boogie (Featurecast Remix)
14.Nickodemus - N'Dini
15.Sammy Bananas - Ooh Bop
16.Sammy Bananas - Ladies
17.Tittsworth - Here She Comes (DJ Day Remix)
18.James Brown - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (DJ Eli re-dit)
19.Stylophonic - Baby-Beat-Box (Crookers Remix)
20.Dragonette - Fixin to Thrill (Don Diablo Remix)
21.Beat Assassins vs. Ludacris - Stand Up
22.Fort Knox Five feat Mustafa Akbar & Shunda K- Funk 4 Peace (Deekline & Ed Solo Remix)
23.BadboE - What You Wanna Do (Funkanomics Remix)
24.Manmade feat Penny - Supersonic
25.Cassius - 1999 (Long Mix)
26.Don Diablo & Example vs Daft Punk- Aerodynamic Hooligans (Don Diablo Mashup)

Prelisten & Download: http://fairtilizer.com/track/41945

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My Top 50 - Vol. 2

24 Haz 2009, 17:05 yazan Juddu

I wanted to make a new one, to see how things have changed.
http://www.last.fm/user/Juddu/journal/2008/11/01/296e0r_my_top_50_albums - Old top50

Juddu's top albums (overall)
1. M.I.A. - Kala (789)
2. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (741)
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral (734)
4. Sigur Rós - Takk... (678)
5. Portishead - Third (666)
6. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (636)
7. Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise! (614)
8. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (564)
9. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (549)
10. Nelly Furtado - Folklore (544)
11. Lamb - Fear of Fours (538)
12. Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk (534)
13. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun (534)
14. Portishead - Dummy (527)
15. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (505)
16. M.I.A. - Arular (504)
17. Radiohead - Kid A (490)
18. Massive Attack - 100th Window (488)
19. Tricky - Maxinquaye (477)
20. Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself (476)
21. Lamb - What Sound (465)
22. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now (456)
23. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block (451)
24. Portishead - Portishead (449)
25. Björk - Vespertine (434)
26. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (428)
27. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (426)
28. Garbage - Version 2.0 (413)
29. Daft Punk - Discovery (409)
30. Radiohead - OK Computer (407)
31. The Crash - Wildlife (406)
32. Björk - Homogenic (402)
33. The Crash - Melodrama (402)
34. The White Stripes - Icky Thump (401)
35. Björk - Post (397)
36. Muse - Absolution (395)
37. Scandinavian Music Group - Hölmö rakkaus ylpeä sydän (393)
38. Massive Attack - Blue Lines (393)
39. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play (390)
40. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (389)
41. Muse - Origin of Symmetry (386)
42. Lamb - Lamb (377)
43. Garbage - Garbage (377)
44. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... (372)
45. Gorillaz - Gorillaz (371)
46. Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (371)
47. Dido - No Angel (370)
48. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (369)
49. Moving Mountains - Pneuma (366)
50. Radiohead - In Rainbows (364)

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American Idol and the new Music Business

22 Haz 2009, 17:04 yazan AlanSteward

This is the second installment of my blog "where have all the rock stars gone"

I had a lot of positive responses to my blog so I decided to put some more thoughts to paper. In this episode, I want to explore the new realities in the music business like the american idol, America Got Talent, Britain got Talent, etc. etc.

These reality shows are starting to replace the A&R departments at the record labels altogether. American Idol has this system down pat: Get tens of thousands to audition, get them nationwide (worldwide) exposure, all while making money doing it. Quite frankly, from a business standpoint, it total genius.

The american idol contestants' performances are available for sale on iTunes the day they appeared on TV. The TV performances give the contestants more exposure that any radio airplay ever could without having to send your label guys to drop CDs (and a cheque) to the radio stations all over the country.

For the rest, the promotion machine fuels itself. Entertainment Tonight discusses the performances, magazines are lining up for interviews, Oprah, Larry King, CNN...the list goes on and on. And you didn't have to spend one penny on publicists, magazine ads, sending review copies etc. etc.

Sounds like a win win situation for the record labels and A.I. producers. But there is a downside to this new way of doing business. First of all, the entire A.I. phenom is based on vocalists only, no opportunities for bands, musicians and so on. No opportunities for jazz artists or any other artist that doesn't fit into the A.I. formula. They tried it, "Americas Greatest rock Band" etc. and it didn't work. The formula only works for one dimensional pretty boy/pretty girl easy to sell young pop singers.

While this is going on, the rest of us has to try to do it the old fashioned way, which is now made harder then ever because of the 'instant pop star' phenomenon. No record label will accept a demo anymore, you better have a finished product ready to press and sell if you want to be heard by any label. And better yet, it will help if you already have a half a million fans as well, otherwise, your chances are slim to none.

While this is going on, the back catalogues still bring in the remainder of the millions that the record labels need. Three Daft Punk songs from ten years ago have been in the iTunes Top Ten electronic charts for the past 8 weeks. Louis Armstrong is #1 in Jazz for ten weeks running on iTunes. It seem the choice given to us is either buy the 'instant pop stars' like Kris Allen and Adam Lambert or buy what you know was good when people still made music. Now I am not saying these guys are not good, they are excellent vocalists but then, there's so much more to music than singing ability.

And even at A.I., the back catalogue recycling machine is at work, quickly pairing up Kiss, Lionel Ritchie and other recycylable artists with the new instant stars for the final show. And once again, that result is instantly for sale on iTunes the same day.

In the meantime the smaller labels are the ones taking all the chances to bring new artists to the music scene and they have to face the massive impact of the majors struggling to hang on to their billions. I discovered these amazing facts on the web at www.impalasite.org (Impala is an organization formed to represent independent music and labels) that demonstrate where this business is heading:

The music sector consists of thousands of independents and 4 multinationals – “the majors”. The independents are the innovators and early adopters, discovering new talent and producing 80% of all new releases.

The collective market share of the independents is nearly 20%. Previously this was 40%.

The biggest independent now has only 1.5% of the market. Previously this was 7%. The biggest major has over 40%.

The combined market share of the majors is more than 80%, climbing to a massive 95% for hits and radio.

So, as you can see, even the independent labels are being pushed out by the multi nationals, all to the detriment of music in general.

So, is there a silver lining in all of this? I think there is because in general, people still want to hear good music, something new, something that excites them and doesn't sound like a mass produced disposable item.

The key is in the niche markets, markets that are so small that the majors really can't pay any attention to. That is where the opportunities for new artists lie. There are hundreds of genres within electronic dance and all of these genres have their loyal fans and you can carve out a space in many of these genres without having to worry to Lady GaGa or Beyonce will give you much competition (same goes for CBS and Universal)

One example is chill out music, my genre. Within the past years I was able to establish a name as one of the top acts in chillout and world fusion without any major label or A.I. help (or interference for that matter). I have fans all over thge world and my records also sell all over the planet, just enough to make a good living. But as small as that niche may seem to be, the 'majors' have come to realize that chillout is a popular thing and I see iTunes and Amazon being flooded with "ibiza chillout" "Best of Chillout" and "Classic Chillout" compilations filled with the label's back catalog, titles that didn't quite make it and just about everything else. When you look at some of the "Classic Chillout" titles you see the same Enigma and Enya songs recycled once again to squeeze a little more money out of their titles and to avoid having to promote a new artist.

I feel that collaboration between these niche artists (and believe me, there are thousands of niches not just in electronica) is the way to go if we want to survive this new reality. Be on each other's albums and compilations, tour with similar artists in your genre to have a successful road show featuring the best of your genre whether it's acoustic rock, latin jazz, ethnic fusion or drum and bass. We have to think in terms of selling and packaging our music so it becomes a force. The blue hair people, the one hit wonders, the A.I. instant superstars will be here to stay for a long time, we'll have to accept that. But all this other wonderful music that's out there has an audience, it can reach people if we "think outside the label"

Alan Steward, Producer, Recording Artist
Album: Licensed to Chill

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