I'm so close to playing out Waking Ashland, Snow Patrol and The Hush Sound – at least for awhile.

I've been listening to way too much Sufjan Stevens, Rocky Votolato and Regina Spektor. I don't think I could ever really play them out (or at least if that threatens to happen, I put on Enjoy Your Rabbit), but I'd like a little variety.

Maybe it's a restlessness due to the fact that I've been relentlessly pursuing similar artists and such so that I won't get bored of any particular song/s since I'd have so many alternatives.…

I've been spending a bit of time recently looking up music videos and performances of new artists I've found on YouTube. I mean, what better way is there to find out if you want to see an artist in concert than glimpsing one of their performances? Anyway, the process is pretty time-consuming. It can be tedious though, tabbing back and forth in Firefox between Last.fm to check out which artists/tracks you want to look up, and YouTube to actually search for and view the different videos to find a good one.

So, while talking with my friend Walter about somehow…

Ok, it's about time for another one. So many more good bands.. sigh.

Step 1: Put your playlist on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

NOTE: There are repeating artists so some can be used more than once… a lot more than once ;) It's random.

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Wordbank:
All Time Low x2
Boys Like Girls
Cartel
Copeland
Ellegarden
Iron and Wine
John Mayer
Kristin…

Courtesy of most mainstream radio stations, the airwaves over the Christmas season are filled with bubbly, often terrible pop (and other genres', but frequently pop) renditions of Christmas songs. How about we do everyone a service this year and make our own Christmas mix of better sounding, non-mainstream Christmas covers and remixes?

Emo/indie covers are preferred, but covers from any genre are welcome. My favorite would have to be:

1. O Come O Come Emmanuel

I just stumbled across them while looking through asdaysfade_x's music, and they're just.. wow. I've always had a sore spot for strings, and mixed with some familiar melodies, The Section Quartet's music blows my mind.

So far I have their Dashboard Confessional, Fall Out Boy, John Mayer and Taking Back Sunday tribute albums, and they're all gold. Soon to be gotten are… Coheed & Cambria, Coldplay, Evanescence, Garbage, Good Charlotte, Linkin Park, Metallica, Panic! At the Disco, Simple Plan, and Yellowcard. Maybe I'll pick up the R.E.M.…

And here I am, a few weeks later with a subscription and a bevy of new artists that I'm flat out loving. I've been heading over to my neighbors and checking out any unheard of artists in their top 20, pretty much, and wow – such great taste.

I'm usually one of those people that falls in love with a specific artist for some period of time and puts his favorite tracks of theirs on repeat. Soooo, finding say 20 new artists and being able to put their entire CD's on shuffle/repeat is completely new to me. But I'm loving…

… but do you really?

I like to think I listen to and have been exposed to a wide variety of musical genres, but hell, I'm up for a little validation. A thought: I have lots of songs that I don't listen to, but that I keep available in case I'm ever in the mood for them. I wonder if that'll affect the results.. eh well, game on.

(idea *lifted* from WhiteJasmine @ http://www.last.fm/user/WhiteJasmine/journal/2006/11/10/264242/ :p)

Put an 'x' next to artists who you have songs by, even if it's only one.
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Hard Rock

Nickelback
[ ] Disturbed
[ ]…

List your top 5 current neighbors on last.fm and go to each of their pages. Write down which artists are their top 3 and compare them to how high they rank on your own list.

(stolen from alexxxxxxx :p)

1) Minofeternity
first: Saves the Day (113th with 32 plays)
second: Jimmy Eat World (97th with 38 plays)
third: Thrice (289th with 8 plays)
rating: 166/500 you're my #1 neighbor? but.. so little.. in common… gah! awful!

2) allejard
first: blink-182 (43rd with 73 plays)
second: New Found Glory (47 with 68 plays)
third: Yellowcard (71st with 47 plays)
rating: 53/500…

Step 1: Put your playlist on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarassing.
Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

NOTE: There are repeating artists so some can be used more than once… a lot more than once ;) It's random.

(Thanks to HardRocker488 for the idea!)

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1. When the revenant came down

2. All the girls in the bathroom talkin' Sadie Hawkins Dance

3. I wish I were a bird…

After having revisited Audioscrobbler/Last.fm recently, for the first time since around June, I've come across so many insanely good bands. For the last few months, my musical preference has been stagnating over bands like Da Vinci's Notebook and Tally Hall, and musicals such as Last 5 Years, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Wicked, and Urinetown… but goddamn, I feel like I've hit the mother load.

Previously, my musical tastes (in the indie/emo scene, anyway) aligned with bands like Taking Back Sunday, Straylight Run, Flogging Molly, The Rocket Summer, Yellowcard, Motion City Soundtrack, The Academy Is...,…