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Today I'm celebrating 4 years of scrobbling... Since then I had almost 80000 plays and a lot of new bands were discovered with this stupendous site.

I can't imagine my life without my charts. Thanks to all Last.fm staff!!

Cyne - Water for Mars
Considering I live in these guys hometown, I'm actually pretty depressed I've never heard of them. Regardless, this is a consistently great hip-hop album coupling soulful beats and some serious threats behind the mic.

"This Year"



Maxwell - Black Summers' Night
I'm not really a huge fan of modern R & B, but this seems to be hitting the spot. Unique instrumentation with a some wonderful jazz flourishes. It also doesn't hurt that the dude's voice is butter smooth.

"Bad Habits"


The Day Laborers - The Learning Process
This is party rap at it's best. The production seems like a homage to hip-hop of yesteryear and the lyricist have swagger for days.

"Can't Stop this War"

Top 20 from 3 Years ago:

1. Pink Floyd
2. Dream Theater
3. Ayreon
4. Riverside
5. Tool
6. A Perfect Circle
7. Symphony X
8. Shadow Gallery
9. Queensrÿche
10. Van Halen
11. Limp Bizkit
12. Sonata Arctica
13. Iced Earth
14. Stratovarius
15. Porcupine Tree
16. Linkin Park
17. Camel
18. Tenacious D
19. Children of Bodom
20. Glass Hammer

Top 20 NOW:

1. Pink Floyd =
2. Dream Theater =
3. Riverside Up 1
4. Tool Up 1
5. Ayreon Down 2
6. Camel Up 11
7. Anathema New
8. Led Zeppelin New
9. Porcupine Tree Up 6
10. Tenacious D Up 8
11. Linkin Park Up 5
12. Juno Reactor New
13. Kingston Wall New
14. Opeth New
15. The Cure New
16. Shadow Gallery Down 8
17. Van Halen Down 7
18. Metallica New
19. Iced Earth Down 6
20. Sonata Arctica Down 8

So what do you ppl think, improved in 3 years or not? :)
let me know what you think
grtz

Hi, on 08.07.09 i hit 100 scrobbles of Country House by Blur . It is a really catchy song and is famed for being one of the songs in the battle of the bands in 1995 between Blur and Oasis . It was the first single from the album The Great Escape and was released on the same day as Roll With It by Oasis from their secound album (whats the story) Morning Glory?. Country House got to #1 in the UK charts but Oasis went on to bigger and better things as they ended up being more popular.

Any comments , just ad 'em......

Rob

Track: II. Lento E Largo - Tranquillissimo (10:15) (full track)
Artist: Henryk Górecki
Album: GORECKI: Symphony No. 3 / Three Olden Style Pieces
Tags: contemporary classical, minimalism, melancholic, mournful, my gang rotw
Video: Click the pic...

YouTube - static image of tree

After a month of tears and mayhem, I didn't want to write another journal full of sadness, I wanted to take a time out. However, today is the day of Michael Jackson's memorial. It will be an unprecedented global event, due to begin in about 90 minutes, as I write.



I have thought of little else all day, as I imagine has everyone else. Music doesn't sound right. I still need a time out yet I also need to mark the day somehow. The only track that comes close to being appropriate is this, the second movement from Henryk Górecki's Third Symphony.

From Wikipedia:
Until 1992, Górecki was viewed as a remote and fiery figure known only to a few connoisseurs, primarily as one of a number of composers responsible for sparking a postwar renaissance in Polish music. In 1992, 15 years after it was composed, a recording of his Third Symphony, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs—recorded with soprano Dawn Upshaw and released to commemorate the memory of Poles lost during the Holocaust—became a worldwide commercial and critical success, selling more than a million copies and vastly exceeding the typical lifetime sales of a recording of symphonic music by a 20th-century composer. As surprised as anyone at its popularity, Górecki said, "Perhaps people find something they need in this piece of music […] somehow I hit the right note, something they were missing. Something somewhere had been lost to them. I feel that I instinctively knew what they needed." This popular success did not generate wide interest in Górecki's other works, and he has since pointedly resisted the temptation to repeat earlier success, or compose for commercial reward. Source
Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Polish: Symfonia pieśni żałosnych), is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. The work is indicative of the transition between Górecki's dissonant earlier manner and his more tonal later style.

A solo soprano sings a different Polish text in each of the three movements. The first is a 15th-century Polish lament of Mary, mother of Jesus, the second a message written on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World War II, and the third a Silesian folk song of mother searching for son killed in the Silesian uprisings.[1] The first and third movements are written from the perspective of a parent who has lost a child, and the second movement from that of a child separated from a parent. The dominant themes of the symphony are motherhood and separation through war. Source



I remember when this album suddenly became a hit in the early 1990s. It was everywhere, on every radio, from cafés and boutiques to corner shops where you grabbed your milk. It even made the charts, peaking at number 6 in the UK album charts and appearing on Top of The Pops. It was a surprise because there is so much sadness in the music, but overriding that is the incredible beauty.

For me, it works on many levels. The emotion tugs at my heart whilst the ideas and themes, the melodies and gorgeous voice of Dawn Upshaw are meditative and contemplative, inspiring my mind to wander or just be still.

Whilst I wait for the Michael Jackson's memorial to begin, it's the stillness that I crave.

On another level, I feel guilty for taking this time out to recharge my batteries and regroup whilst our friends overseas, especially in Iran, are deprived of the luxury. But I am no good to anyone if I am exhausted, and just because I'm tired, it doesn't mean I'm tired of being supportive.

Today is an unusual day. Today, the entire world will unite and remember one man. And thanks to social media, we will be able to communicate with each other in real-time as we attend his memorial together. We have had many historic days this decade but I think today's is the most incredible.

And now it's time...



Babs <sub>My Gang

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