1. Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Pulp - Love Is Blind
3. Suede - My Insatiable One
4. The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
5. Beastie Boys - Groove Holmes
6. Manic Street Preachers - Little Baby Nothing
7. Pulp - Death II
8. Suede - The Drowners
9. Faith No More - Easy
10. James - Seven
11. Suede - Metal Mickey
12. Leftfield - Release the Pressure
13. INXS - Beautiful Girl
14. George Michael - Too Funky
15. Stereo MC's - Connected
16. Peter Gabriel - Steam
17. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
18. Eric Clapton - Layla
19. Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass
20. Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name

There is a couple of songs that make feel like...

Cyndi Lauper - True Colors

Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is

George Michael - Careless Whisper

Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune

Wyspy Dobrej Nadziei - We śnie

Eurythmics - Miracle of Love

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

Czerwony Tulipan - Ja tone

Przejście - Niepogoda

Poets of the Fall - Sleep

Patrick Swayze - She's like the dream

Wyspy Dobrej Nadziei - Cózem winien

Depeche Mode - Precious

Ennio Morricone - Gabriel's Oboe

Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever

Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai

United States [22]:
30 Seconds to Mars (9)
Aiden (32)
Andy McKee (45)
Blaqk Audio (40)
Brand New (10)
Coheed and Cambria (7)
Cute Is What We Aim For (18)
Death Cab for Cutie (3)
The Faint (21)
From First to Last (23)
Lifehouse (36)
Linkin Park (15)
Madina Lake (27)
Mindless Self Indulgence (1)
My Chemical Romance (47)
Porcelain and the Tramps (31)
Prince (44)
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (21)
Tenacious D (41)
Thomas Newman (28)
Type O Negative (13)
We The Kings (48)

United Kingdom [16]:
Coldplay (29)
Cradle of Filth (26)
David Gray (43)
DragonForce (19)
Enter Shikari (4)
Fightstar (34)
Fleetwood Mac (5)
Funeral for a Friend (14)
George Michael (12)
Goldfrapp (33)
Iron Maiden (24)
Pink Floyd (2)
Placebo (6)
The Police (39)
Richard O'Brien (38)
The Smiths (8)

Germany [4]:
Enigma (30)
Hans Zimmer (48)
Rammstein (11)
Tangerine Dream (19)

Canada [2]:
The Birthday Massacre (34)
Michael Bublé (50)

Italy [2]:
Dope Stars Inc. (41)
Lacuna Coil (36)

Ireland [1]:
Damien Rice (16)

Finland [1]:
Poets of the Fall (17)

Sweden [1]:
ABBA (25)

Greece [1]:
Vangelis (45)

Norway [1]:
Combichrist (50)

sometimes at night i think too much about life and love and music and stuff.

- Queen -

DJ Yellow
Sade
James Holden
George Michael
Precious
Long Nights
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
Indigo lights
My Mistakes Were Made For You
Raindrops on my window
Some Polyphony
The Devil
smiley faces
Music When the Lights Go Out
Koop Island Blues
Roxanne
Life's What You Make It
Make Love
Lucky Girl
Music Matters
Hide and Seek
Forever More
If I Ever Feel Better
Moan
Never Win
Despair In the Departure Lounge
Far Away
And So Lay The Land
Remedios
Hold My Hand
After Laughter Comes Tears
Running Up That Hill
Passione
Alsatian
Frozen
Walking Wounded
Live With Me
In the City
Quiet

Spotify is a lovely little thing. Set and ready to go before you can say "by your leave". Registration is brainless. There's even a widget if you're a Windows user - http://code.google.com/p/scrobblify/ - so you can scrobble your Spotilicious tunes. I hardly engaged a single brain cell and I was good to go.

I like the design. Very intuitive and requires hardly any thought. Which is exactly what you need because you don't want to be distracted from browsing as you follow your nose and hunches. You do have to do a bit of drilling to find stuff, and unless you know what you're looking for or you have a good memory, there aren't many prompts or reminders.



Of the eight albums on the Home page, undoubtedly the best was Anna Ternheim's Leaving on a mayday. Is it in Last.fm? Not half. Not only is it here, but there are deluxe versions with bonus tracks too. +1 to Her Ladyship Last.fm.

I remembered there was an album I wanted a while back that wasn't here, The Imagined Village - The Imagined Village (although maybe I couldn't find it because of bad tagging. grrr). I checked Spotify first. A few tracks, all well and good. I checked Last.fm and nearly jumped out of my skin. Not only was the whole album here, but also full tracks. I don't know yet if they're 3 x full play then back to preview, or if they're the old gold on-demand, I'll find out the hard way I expect. Doesn't matter, it's here, that's what counts. Another +1 to Last.fm.

I checked a few more and pretty much found if it wasn't in Last.fm, it wasn't in Spotify either. For example, Monkey: Journey To The West, Kate Rusby, Dehli9. Admittedly, Anna Ternheim's album in Last.fm is preview only, which is where Spotify picks up where Last.fm is forced to leave because Spotify has full tracks. It is very sad that Last.fm can't do what her lesser competitors can, but by using them together, you can achieve a happy medium. So it was, I was able to listen to Anna Ternheim's new album whilst doing something else without having to rush back and click on the next track. I still had that anxiety of listening out for the end but hopefully, I should be able to relax again soon.

So there's the chink in the armour. The threat to Her Ladyship's title. On-demand continuous play. Something Last.fm used to have but was cruelly taken away by idiots trying to control us.

However, Spotify's library is limited and falls completely flat when it comes to obscure unknowns, eg Repi Multimedia. That's the kind of fun madness you'd only find in Last.fm.

Creating playlists couldn't be simpler. The whole thing is a copycat iTunes so if you know what you're doing there, you won't be required to tackle any learning curves in Spotify.

I didn't like Spotify's radios. I'm just really fussy about things like that.

Click on a big name artist, eg Björk or George Michael and you are given a brief artist biography below which are the top five songs. Below that, in chronological order, are their (incomplete) discographies. Everything is organised for you and couldn't be simpler.

I remember when Bjork was fully streamable in Last.fm. Not any more, sadly. Good old George has been very generous and pretty much given Last.fm everything, but then he would, wouldn't he? One word: Sony. Or should I say Fony. I rated him for that. But I digress...

Coldplay, Radiohead and Last.fm is leagues ahead still. May as well stop there.

As an adjunct to Last.fm, I can see myself using Spotify, which is saying something because I haven't bothered with other copycats or ladies in waiting. I do listen to new releases in MySpace but I'd prefer to scrobble those plays to my Last.fm Profile if possible, and I can now, if those new releases appear in Spotify. Although, I must add, my Last.fm Client kept crashing.

I saw a blog somewhere today, can't find it again now, which said internet downloading has decreased dramatically since the appearance of sites such as Spotify. If bloggers are already noting it, Nielsen's will no doubt do us some stats and tables and make it official some time soon. I was lucky enough to have been given an invitation to Spotify (thank you akrde). I wouldn't have paid the £10 otherwise and I don't recommend that anyone else does either, not just yet anyway, whilst their library is so understocked. I must say, I've been watching Pirate Bay and I notice there are fewer and fewer new releases appearing on there now. It used to be jam-packed with music, now it's mainly rubbish and people complaining they're fakes. I find this about-turn extremely interesting. Spotify, like Last.fm and MySpace, is completely legal. Last.fm were right from the start: free the music.

CBS take note. Stop faffing about creating rivals within your own media portfolio and sort this out. You're meant to keep me here, not drive me away.

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Name your top 10 most played bands on Last.fm:

1. Placebo
2. Radiohead
3. George Michael
4. Coldplay
5. Rammstein
6. Myslovitz
7. Tori Amos
8. Depeche Mode
9. Subsonica
10. nine inch nails


Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

-- what was the first song you ever heard by 6?
Długość dźwięku samotności

-- what is your favourite album of 2?
Hail to the Thief

-- what is your favourite lyric that 5 has sung?
Sex ist ein Schlacht, Liebe ist Krieg

-- how many times have you seen 4 live?
I haven't.

-- what is your favourite song by 7?
Mr. Zebra

-- what is a good memory you have considering the music of 10?
umm, like, good sex?

-- is there a song of 3 that makes you sad?
many... e.g. You Have Been Loved

-- what is your favourite lyric that 2 has sung?
And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love lives
On lollipops and crisps

-- what is your favourite song by 9?
Colpo di pistola

-- how did you get in to 3?
I won an 'Older' cassette when I was 8...

-- what was the first song you heard by 1?
The Bitter End, probably.

-- what is your favourite song by 4?
Warning Sign

-- how many time have you seen 9 live?
none.

-- what is a good memory you have concerning 2?
my ex bf, still a good memory in some way.

-- is there a song of 8 that makes you sad?
many...... I Am You

-- what is your favourite album of 5?
Herzeleid

-- what is your favourite lyric that 3 has sung?
And I will not accept this as a part of my life I will not live in fear of what may be

-- what is your favourite song of 1?
Leni

-- what is your favourite song of 10?
Sin

-- how many times have you seen 8 live?
I haven't, I will see them for the first time next year.

-- what is your favourite album of 1?
love all of them.

-- what is a great memory you have considering 9?
mmm, don't have one.

-- what was the first song you heard by 8?
Enjoy the Silence, obviously.

12/11/2008 - Tahiti 80 : Le Splendide, Lille
22/10/2008 - Micah P. Hinson : Caf&Diskaire, Lille
14/08/2008 - Rock En France, Arras (Gojira, Within Temptation, Metallica)
06/07/2008 - Main Square Festival, Arras (Vampire Weekend, The Wombats, The Dø, Sigur Rós, Radiohead)
11/06/2008 - Feist : Aula Magna, Lisboa
04/06/2008 - Rage Against the Machine : Bercy, Paris
29/04/2008 - José González : Aula Magna, Lisboa
05/03/2008 - The Mars Volta : L'Olympia, Paris
28/11/2007 - David Fonseca : Fnac do Chiado, Lisboa
06/11/2007 - Rufus Wainwright : Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisboa
30/10/2007 - Imbert Imbert, Cocoon, GOMM, Sharko : Bataclan, Paris
30/09/2007 - The Police : Stade de France, Paris
27/09/2007 - Incubus : Zenith, Paris
14/06/2007 - Michel Polnareff, Bob Sinclar, Nelly Furtado, Laura Pausini, Tokyo Hotel : Champ de Mars, Paris
29/06/2007 - Phoenix, Air, Etienne de Crécy, Alex Gopher : Château de Versailles, Versailles
22/06/2007 - George Michael : Stade de France, Paris
16/06/2007 - The Rolling Stones : Stade de France, Paris
15/05/2007 - Chris Cornell : Showcase, Paris
09/05/2007 - Queens of the Stone Age : L'Elysée Montmatre, Paris
05/05/2007 - Fight Burst : Le Fléau, Douai
24/04/2007 - The John Butler Trio : La Grand Rex, Paris
08/04/2007 - Deftones : Trabendo, Paris
03/04/2007 - Malibu Stacy : Boule Noire, Paris
05/03/2007 - Incubus : Pavilhão Atlantico, Lisbon
04/03/2007 - Michel Polnareff : Bercy, Paris
19/01/2007 - Sean Lennon : Fnac St-Lazare, Paris
28/11/2006 - Noel Gallagher & Gem Archer (Oasis) : Le Cabaret Sauvage, Paris
09/10/2006 - George Michael : Bercy, Paris
03/07/2006 - TMN Summer Sessions, Lisbon (G. Love, Sean Paul, Burning Spear, ...)
08/06/2006 - Red Hot Chili Peppers : Bercy, Paris
23/05/2006 - Broken Social Scene : Café de la Danse, Paris
24/04/2006 - Phoenix : Trabendo, Paris
13/02/2006 - KoЯn : Canal+, Pleine-St-Denis
14/11/2005 - Bloc Party : Zenith, Paris
16/10/2005 - The John Butler Trio : La Cigale, Paris
10/10/2005 - Jamiroquai : Man Ray, Paris
22/09/2005 - Syd Matters : Divan Du Monde, Paris
12/09/2005 - Dionysos : Canal+, Pleine-St-Denis
07/07/2005 - Charmers : Jardines Del Valle, Sevilla
30/06/2005 - Los Andabluses & The Lucille's Horns : Jardines Del Valle, Sevilla
29/06/2005 - Neorama : Jardines Del Valle, Sevilla
13/06/2005 - Alter Bridge : Trabendo, Paris
01/06/2005 - Jamiroquai : La Cigale, Paris
24/05/2005 - Sinsemilia : Olympia, Paris
15/05/2005 - Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love, Jack Johnson : La Cigale, Paris
24/04/2005 - The John Butler Trio, Jude, Tété : Bataclan, Paris
07/04/2005 - System of a Down : Trabendo, Paris
18/03/2005 - Alter Bridge : Boule Noire, Paris
15/03/2005 - The Mars Volta : Elysée Montmartre, Paris
24/02/2005 - Mudvayne : Boule Noire, Paris
08/02/2005 - G. Love : Divan Du Monde, Paris
14/12/2004 - Sinsemilia : Elysée Montmartre, Paris
26/11/2004 - Festival Recall I-Mode, Elysée Montmartre, Paris
01/11/2004 - Maroon 5 : La Cigale, Paris
06/10/2004 - Anastacia : Zenith, Paris
23/09/2004 - Nosfell : Guinguette Pirate, Paris
28/08/2004 - Rock En Seine, St-Cloud (Muse, Radio 4, Auf der Maur, Nosfell, Buck 65, ...)
03/07/2004 - Placebo : Grand'Place d'Arras, Arras
04/06/2004 - Sinclair : Zenith, Paris
27/05/2004 - Incubus : Zenith, Paris
06/02/2004 - Keziah Jones : Virgin Megastore des Champs-Elysées, Paris
25/10/2003 - Jane's Addiction : Elysée Montmartre, Paris
10/09/2003 - Muse : Trabendo, Paris
30/07/2003 - Jamiroquai : Presqu'île du Gaou, Six-Fours-Les-Plages
28/07/2003 - Nice Jazz Festival, Nice (Jamiroquai)
07/07/2002 - Seat Beach Rock Festival, Ostende (Jamiroquai, No Doubt, ...)
06/07/2002 - Seat Beach Rock Festival, Ostende (Muse, ...)
23/10/2001 - Jamiroquai : Bercy, Paris

1. What's your favorite song by 14?
Saliva - Never Gonna Change

2. How did you get into 20?
Vanessa Carlton - The first time I heard "A Thousand Miles" on the raido.

3. Who is your favorite member in 8?
Avril Lavigne - Uh....

4. Whats your favorite lyric bit by 29?
Rain -
Let me be the one to hold you tight
Be the one you wait for every night

5. Have you ever seen 22 live?
Poets of the Fall - Nope but I'd love to.

6. What's your favorite album from 10?
Carolina Liar - Coming to Terms

7. Do you own any merchandise from 3?
The Veronicas - Nope

8. What is a good memory you have of 7?
Ingrid Michaelson - Mm listening to "Keep Breathing" on repeat.

9. Is there a member of the same age as you in 2?
Shiny Toy Guns - Nah.

10. When did you first get into 1?
The Used - Well I first listened to them a few years ago but I didn't really get into them until a few months ago.

11. Who likes 4 along with you?
倖田來未 - Other fans? But I know a few friends liked JUICY. Good times. XD

12. Which song did you first hear from 15?
Wham! - "Wake Me Up When You Go-G", probably.

13. What song made you fall in love with 5?
George Michael - "Careless Whisper"

14. Which song do you not like by 18?
Sarah Fimm - Eh I care for alot of them

15. Why do you like 14's songs?
Saliva - They are rock and I can sing with them. :P

16. Where did you first hear 6?
The Killers - I looked up their song "Mr. Brightside" on youtube to see if I liked them.

17. How long was 19 a singer before you liked them?
Porcelain and the Tramps - She hasn't even released any albums or eps yet so yea dunno.

18. Does 13 have a song that gives you a bad memory?
Fall Out Boy - Haha nopes.

19. When did you get into 17?
Thriving Ivory - A few months ago after hearing "Angels on the Moon".

20. How long have you been into 11?
安室奈美恵 - Since around February.

21. If 9 had a concert 300 miles away, would you drive there to see them?
John Mayer - Considering I can't drive that'd be a no.

22. How many CDs do you own of 12?
Jack's Mannequin - Just one, "Everything in Transit"

23. Does 21 have a song that makes you cry?
浜崎あゆみ - Nah.

24. Does 27 have a song that makes you happy?
Deftones - Not really except maybe "Pink Maggit"

25. Does 23 have a song that makes you smile?
Miz - Yups a few!

26. What's the last song you've listened to from 28?
Three Days Grace - "Never Too Late" since I heard it on the radio tonight.

27. Is there a song by 32 that you've listened to more than 30 times?
蔡依林 - Nuh uh.

28. What is a song from 50 that you've only listened to once?
Sarah Brightman - "Harem"

29. Is there a song you are sick of hearing by 24?
Taking Back Sunday - Nope.

30. What song got you into 40?
Avenged Sevenfold - "A Little Piece of Heaven"

31. What is your favorite single by 25?
Nelly Furtado - Say It Right

32. If 49 hated you, what would you do?
melody. - I'd probably never know so who cares.

33. What would you say if 42 or one of the members from 42 asked you out?
Josh Groban - LOL... but okay why not.

34. Would you care if 41 had a boyfriend/girlfriend?
K®î§†iN - OMG LOLOLOL. Lemme ask myself. *asks* That's a no.

35. Who has the best voice in 46?
Hinder - I'm taking a shot in the dark but um the singer?

36. Do you think 26 is/are good looking?
Death Cab for Cutie - Um not really.

37. How many times have you listened to your favorite song by 36?
The Spill Canvas - A helluva lot.

38. How many CDs do you own of 30?
宇多田ヒカル - None yet.

39. Is there a song from 38 that makes you mad?
Jem - Nope.

40. Which member from 31 do you want to see go solo? If 31 is only one artist, what would you do if they joined a group?
The Click Five - Um idk.

41. What does your favorite song from 48 remind you of?
Fiona Apple - Of myself oddly enough.

42. Did you hate 43 at first?
Dashboard Confessional - Not that I remember.

43. Does your best friend also listen to 33?
Rihanna - Don't think so.

44. Do you think your parents would like 37?
Kate Ryan - My Mom might.

45. Does 47 have a song that makes you want to dance?
David Cook - Haha no.

46. Have you ever seen 34 in person?
Coldplay - Nope.

47. Do you like 44's name?
Ultraviolet Sound - It's pretty awesomesauce.

48. Is there someone in 45 that you want to go out with?
Cobra Starship - I wouldn't say no to Gabe.

49. Do you know anyone that hates 39?
Jordin Sparks - Not personally.

50. Have you ever danced to a song from 35?
Tori Amos - Lol no.