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With my first full calender year under my Last.FM belt I have decided to post my Top 10 Artist and Songs.

Top 10 Artist

10. Rivers Cuomo
112 Plays

Around the end of last year the lead singer of Weezer Rivers Cuomo released an album of some of his home recordings. It wasn't the greatest album, but it was good background music while I played WoW. And thats why Rivers Cuomo comes in at number 10.

9. Dane Cook
114 Plays

I'm a little ashamed of this one, but I find Dane Cook funny. I think around March of the past year I decided that I was going to listen to all of his albums from start to finish on my computer. As we all know comedy albums have a lot of really short tracks. That is the reason why Dane Cook comes in at number 9.

8. Faces
115 Plays

One of my favorite bands of all time. A lot of people give me grief about this because of Rod Stewart is the lead singer, but this is blues rock at its purest. Stewart has a the prefect blues voice and Ron Woods's guitar is gritty. Last Christmas my parents gave me the complete box set and I have listened the hell out of it.

7. Nine Inch Nails
119 Plays

In 2008 one man did more to please his fans than any other artist, and that was Trent Reznor. First releasing an album of instrumental track with the first 10 tracks available for free, only to follow it up with another free album with more traditional NIN tracks.

6. Scott Johnson
122 Plays

Good old Scott Johnson coming in at number 6. This man is the creator of many of my favorite podcast. I was unaware that you could turn podcast off from scrobbling, but I didn't discover this until around the end of the year so Scott was able to grabs enough scrobbles to come in at number 6.

5. Chris Cornell
131 Plays

From Soundgarden to Audioslave I love Chris Cornell's music. The majority of these scrobbles come from his Unplugged performance in Sweden. Unlike the majority of people I am looking forward to hearing his new album produced by Timberland coming out in 2009.

4. The White Stripes
137 Plays

Good old Jack White comes in at Number 4. Although the White Stripes did not release an album this past I did begin to check out a lot of their b-sides. And did they have a lot of B-Sides.

3. The Beatles
194 Plays

A timeless classic comes in at number 3. Personally I can never get enough of The Beatles, and I highly expect that they will return to my 2009 list.

2. Led Zeppelin
197 Plays

Just like The Beatles at number 3 Led Zeppelin has the exact same place in my heart.

1. Tenacious D
203 Plays

Tenacious D is a surprise to me. I never knew how much I listened to the D. But considering 1/4 of their plays are my number 1 song it isn't that big of a surprise.

Top 10 Tracks

10. I Got Mine
25 Plays

The first track off The Black Keys 2008 album, I Got Mine was the perfect start to a great modern blues rock album.

9.Discipline
27 Plays

The rumors of a new NIN album began to swirl when Reznor released this track. Personally this isn't my favorite track of this album. That honor belongs to Echoplex, but Discipline is still a great song.

8. Deliver Us From Evil
28 Plays

Another band releasing an album in 2008, Bullet For My Valentine's Scream Aim Fire was overall a disappointment, but it did have some bright spots and one of those was Deliver Us From Evil.

7. I've Got a Feeling
29 Plays

I feel guilty that I didn't know what is now my favorite Beatles track until this year. I discovered I've got a Feeling from Tesla's covers album Reel to Reel. But I can honestly say my life is better now for discovering this song.

6. Inside the Fire
30 Plays

Another lead single for an album released in 2008, Disturbed's Inside the Fire comes in at number 6.

5. Addicted
31 Plays

In the first half of 2008 this was probably my favorite track of the year, but Saving Abel's Addicted quickly got old for me. Whenever it comes on the radio I will still listen to it, but it has fallen off my regular listening.

4. Hell Yeah
33 Plays

Unlike Addicted Rev Theory's Hell Yeah still remains to be my favorite new track of 2008. The weekend I discovered it a buddy of mine and me listened to it 16 times.

3. The Day That Never Comes
34 Plays

In 2008 Metallica returned to form with Death Magnetic. When the lead track came out I would listen to it on my walk to and then from class every day for a month. And that is why it comes in at number 3.

2. It's Not My Time
36 Plays

This past summer I work with two teenagers who really didn't like my type of music, but we did have one common track we liked and it was 3 Doors Down's It's Not My Time.

1. Tribute

What can I say it's the greatest and best song in the world.

Kronos Quartet, Howl, U.S.A.
EUA, 1996
Disquera: Nonesuch Records
Género: Música académica / avant garde

Muchos de los discos del cuarteto Kronos se han dedicado a interpretar la obra de los compositores más destacados en el ámbito de la música académica de los últimos años del siglo XX y principios del XXI. Es el caso de Howl, U.S.A., en el que este fabuloso ensemble estadounidense aborda la musicalización inspirada por uno de los poemas más importantes de la historia literaria contemporánea: “Aullido” de Allen Ginsberg.

La propuesta musical es una obra para narrador y cuarteto de cuerdas, de Lee Hyla, un compositor neoexpresionista oriundo de Boston. Transita en los arcos de Kronos, por debajo de la lectura del poema en la voz del mismísimo Ginsberg. Tres grandes, pues, en una obra. Detrás de la rasposa voz del máximo poeta beat, se extiende la camerata, neurótica, subrayando las palabras: “He visto a las mejores mentes de mi generación destruidas por la locura, muriendo de hambre, histéricas, desnudas, arrastrándose por los barrios de negros al amanecer, en busca de la iracunda dosis, hipsters cabeza de ángel ardiendo por la ancestral conexión celeste con el dínamo estrellado en la máquinaria de la noche...”

Un tesoro discográfico, un documento de la historia contemporánea, nunca tan oportuno como hoy, cuando los vientos del cambio dicen soplar por esas tierras del norte, engañando al mundo con falsas esperanzas de suavizar la violencia del imperio. Para completar el cuadro, este cuadro de una bandera estadounidense gris y deshilachada, el disco incluye también la “Suite de la Guerra Fría”, de Scott Johnson; la suite “Barstow” de Harry Partch, y la suite “Sing Sing: J. Edgar Hoover” de Michael Daugherty.