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False Charts

Jul 5 2007, 14h31 por indigo_jones

My charts this week -- and future weeks if I can't get some program to work -- are not going to really reflect my listening habits. I use my iPods a lot, but I've been having trouble with the Yamipod program more and more over the recent weeks, and for the past few days, I've had almost no luck with the program at all. My nano hasn't worked at all with it for a month or more, and now I can't get the program to work with my video iPod. I try to force Yamipod to send the tracks, but I can't even get that screen to show up; the program stops responding. In the past, if I shut it down and then tried a bit later, the tracks would send on their own when I started Yamipod up again, but that's no longer working either.

I tried to install iScrobbler once, but I didn't understand what I had to do to get it to work. I was also a bit confused about which program could or could not be running at the time.

Recently, I saw with the recent Last.fm upgrade that there was supposed to be a way to scrobble your Pod through Last.fm, but so far, I haven't had any luck there, either. I'm particularly thrown by the syncing, since how am I supposed to sync my 2GB nano? I'm not thrilled about syncing my 30GB pod, either, since I have stuff on my computer that I don't necessarily want on my iPod.

Anyone have any suggestions or step by step help for getting something -- anything! -- to work? I'm using a Windows PC, not a Mac.

Meanwhile, I've been listening to Age Pryor, Beirut, Brazilian Girls, David Garza, Fly My Pretties, and Ola Podrida (among others) on my Pod, but they haven't been scrobbled.

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Odd Time Signatures

Abr 6 2007, 8h28 por indigo_jones

I love songs with odd time signatures. There's just something about them that appeals to me. Genesis' Apocalypse in 9/8 is a fantastic example, but I was also just listening to Age Pryor's The Condition, which also has an odd time signature, which I just realized. Explains why I like the song so much. There are so many great song examples; those are just two. What are your favorite examples of odd time signatures?

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The Jazz Firefly

Fev 16 2007, 5h10 por indigo_jones

I was watching the Fat Freddy's Drop DVD tonight for the first time since I'd heard Age Pryor playing with the Octopus and the Jazz Firefly and realized that the fantastic guitarist guesting with them in Germany was none other than the Jazz Firefly himself, Justin Clarke!

I was blown away listening to Justin's guitar work when he played with Age Pryor on Radio NZ and I've become a fan of his work as a result. So far, I'm limited to the four songs he has on his MySpaz (TM e!!en) profile, but I love what I've heard and his playing with Fat Freddy's Drop was just as incredible. Definitely someone I'll be listening to more of in the future.

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Top 100 artists - geographically

Set 4 2006, 5h08 por jesstherese

49 - NZ
35 - America
6 - UK
3 - Canada
2 - Austria
2 - Australia
1 - France
1 - Scotland
1 - Iceland

1 Calexico - America
2 The White Stripes - America
3 The Phoenix Foundation - New Zealand
4 The Decemberists - America
5 The Dears - Canada
6 Elliott Smith - America
7 The Flaming Lips - America
8 Faith No More - America
9 The Accelerants - New Zealand
10 The Arcade Fire - Canada
11 Dimmer - New Zealand
12 Neutral Milk Hotel - America
13 Flash Harry - New Zealand
14 Grandaddy - America
15 The Mint Chicks - New Zealand
16 Cassette - New Zealand
17 SJD - New Zealand
18 Cat Power - America
19 Fang - New Zealand
20 Bright Eyes - America
21 Pavement - America
22 Tapes N Tapes - America
23 Fat Freddy's Drop - New Zealand
24 The Raconteurs - America
25 REM - America
26 Ghostplane - New Zealand
27 The Breeders - America
28 David Kilgour - New Zealand
29 Jet Jaguar - New Zealand
30 Tosca - Austria?
31 Hot Swiss Mistress - New Zealand
32 Trinity Roots - New Zealand
33 The Go! Team - UK
34 Interpol - America
35 Conray - New Zealand
36 Beth Orton - ~~America~~ UK
37 Dinosaur Jr - America
38 The Bads - New Zealand
39 Anika Moa - New Zealand
40 Deja Voodoo - New Zealand
41 Death Cab for Cutie - America
42 Bic Runga - New Zealand
43 Cornerstone Roots - New Zealand
44 Guy - New Zealand
45 Samuel Flynn Scott - New Zealand
46 Soundgarden - America
47 The Strokes - America
48 Gotan Project - France
49 Zuvuya - New Zealand
50 Age Pryor - New Zealand
51 Jean-Paul Sartre Experience - New Zealand
52 Che Fu - New Zealand
53 Belle & Sebastian - Scotland
54 DJ Shadow - America
55 Betchadupa - New Zealand
56 Kora - New Zealand
57 Sigur Ros - Iceland
58 The Fanatics - New Zealand
59 Guided by Voices - America
60 Sleater-Kinney - America
61 Hallelujah Picassos - New Zealand
62 Sofa Surfers - Austria
63 Luke Buda - New Zealand
64 Handsome Boy Modeling School - America
65 Beck - America
66 Dutch Dub - America
67 Sola Rosa - New Zealand
68 Iggy Pop - America
69 Peaches - Canada
70 Disasteradio - New Zealand
71 Coco solid - New Zealand
72 Songs: Ohia - America
73 Golden Axe - New Zealand
74 The Black Seeds - New Zealand
75 Superette - New Zealand
76 Voom - New Zealand
77 The Beatles - UK
78 Head Like a Hole - New Zealand
79 Pine - New Zealand
80 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - America
81 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - America
82 Eskimo Joe - Australia
83 Coldcut - UK
84 Paselode - New Zealand
85 Basement Jaxx - UK
86 The Bats - New Zealand
87 Le Tigre - America
88 Die! Die! Die! - New Zealand
89 The Devastations - Australia
90 Shocking Pinks - New Zealand
91 Over The Atlantic - New Zealand
92 The Mars Volta - America
93 Iron & Wine - America
94 Phelps & Munro - New Zealand
95 The Inkling - New Zealand
96 Chris Knox and the Nothing - New Zealand
97 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - America
98 Baxter Dury - UK
99 Lambchop - America
100 Cortina - New Zealand

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5000 Songs

Ago 25 2006, 13h29 por indigo_jones

Fate ... or something like it.

Actually, it's hardly fate that an Age Pryor song was my 5,000th song listened to here, when you consider how often I do listen to him. I hadn't listened to him as much in the past few weeks, but I started again yesterday. Perfect timing, without realizing it! My 5,000th track was [track]Eyes Rarely Meet[/track], which goes well with the Nick Drake I've been listening to in the past few days.

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Mainstream Percentage

Jul 29 2006, 19h25 por indigo_jones

Go through your top 10 artists and add up the total number of listeners. Then compute the average and divide the average by the number of Radiohead fans (Radiohead is the artist with the most listeners). That is your "mainstream percentage".

My mainstream ranking is 3%, which isn't surprising, since half my top ten doesn't even have triple digits when it comes to listeners, and one only has three listeners. That said, they're all freakin' brilliant and deserve to be mainstream!

Flight of the Conchords 1484
Age Pryor 66
Fly My Pretties 245
Tess & Adrian 3
The Phoenix Foundation 594
The Video Kid 54
Flash Harry 71
The Black Seeds 574
Module* 71
Tom Waits 84,982

Total: 88,144
Average: 8,814
Radiohead listeners: 316,082
Percentage: .027886 (3%)

*Module is actually listed as having 155 listeners, but that's for two different Modules. One is Russian, I think. My Module is from NZ. So I gave him 71, to tie with Flash Harry, and roughly half of what was listed for both Modules. It's not like those extra 70+ listeners is going to skew the results much higher. heh.

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A meme...stolen from Jessie

Jul 27 2006, 3h40 por aerice

Take your top 8 neighbours, and list their top three artists, then show whereabouts those artists are on your charts.
(How randomly fun is that?)

#1 indigo_jones
1. Flight of the Conchords (1)
2. Age Pryor (22)
3. Fly My Pretties (3)

#2 Sherry
1. James Blunt (6)
2. Flight of the Conchords (1)
3. Keane (30)

#3 conchordgirl
1. Flight of the Conchords (1)
2. Shakira (91)
3. Yann Tiersen (not of my list)

#4 bucjo
1. Snow Patrol (11)
2. Dishwalla (not on my list)
3. Muse (not on my list)

#5 tvongaza
1. Fly My Pretties (3)
2. Thievery Corporation (not on my list)
3. Feist (not on my list)

#6 CarlosTheTackle
1. Sarah McLachlan (not on my list, but I do listen on my stereo)
2. Howard Shore (not on my list)
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (not on my list)

#7 LucyFur
1. Bright Eyes (not on my list)
2. Pearl Jam (not on my list)
3. The Phoenix Foundation (4)

#8 scopic
1. Broken Social Scene (135)
2. Death Cab for Cutie (135)
3. Feist (not on my list)

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Top 15 Thingy

Jul 19 2006, 21h53 por indigo_jones

A blatant theft, of course.

List your last.fm Top 15 Artists.
Open up iTunes and sort each artist by play count.
List your top 3 songs per artist.

Flight of the Conchords
Angels
K.I.S.S.I.N.G Parts A&B
Bus Driver's Song

Age Pryor
Eyes Rarely Meet
Curious Boy
All Is Good

Fly My Pretties
Oh Fair Moonlight
All That Can Be
King of You All

Tess and Adrian
Dixon St.
Positive Tension
Pretty Things
(tie) Singing in My Soul

The Phoenix Foundation
Let Me Die a Woman
Going Fishing
Nest Egg

The Video Kid
Crime Scene
CCTV
Let Her Go

The Black Seeds
Fire
Bring You Up
Dance Dance

Flash Harry
Come On Man
Morning Rush
Alright

Module
Better Than Something
What It Seems (Interlude)
I Neva Dared

Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
No Crying No More
It's Over

Tom Waits
In the Colosseum
Romeo Is Bleeding
Blue Valentines

Niccolo' Fabi
E' non E'
Il Negozio di Antiquariato
Vento D'Estate

Stars
Set Yourself on Fire
Ageless Beauty
Calendar Girl

Pixies
Alison
All Over the World
Blown Away

Morcheeba
Blindfold
Big Calm
Diggin' A Watery Grave

Not necessarily representative of my favorite tracks by these artist. More a matter of starting a CD and not always getting to finish it.

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51 Ways to Procrastinate

Jul 17 2006, 14h31 por indigo_jones

1. What are you listening to right now?
Better Now by De Phazz

2. What song makes you sad?
Kind of hard to think of right now, with a boppy little number playing in my ears.

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Most rap these days? That atrocious My Humps song?

4. Your all time favorite band?
Band or musician in general? All-time favorite individual artist is Age Pryor. Band? I don't know. I really liked Morphine.

5. Your newly discovered band is?
De Phazz

6. Best female voice?
I'm particularly fond of Poe.

7. Best male voice?
Morten Harkett, from a-ha, has a truly beautiful voice.

8. Music type you find yourself listening to most?
Too impossible to narrow down. I go by mood.

9. What do you listen to hype you up?
L'ombelico del Mondo - Jovanotti

10. What do you listen to when you want to calm down?
Rhian Sheehan

11. Last gig/concert you went to?
The Phoenix Foundation

12. Band you find yourself listening to the most right now?
Iron & Wine and Samuel Flynn Scott

13. Most hated band?
Black Eye Peas just really annoy me.

14. Song that makes you think?
Leave It All Behind - Age Pryor

15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do?
All those Welly bands/musos I listen to all the time. If everyone else liked them, maybe I'd get to see them perform more often and not have to wait weeks for CDs to arrive from NZ.

16. Coolest music video?
I don't watch anymore (are they even on anymore), but I love Jovanotti's video for L'ombelico del Mondo, since it's filmed in the Palazzo Te'.

17. What do you play/would you play in the bedroom to spice things up?
I was listening to Alright by Flash Harry yesterday and that got me in the mood.

18. What song makes you yearning/longing/something of that sort?
Musically, Bachelorette by Bjork.

19. Ever been in a mosh pit?
Yes

20. Are you in a band?
nope.

21. Ever dated a musician?
More than my share.

22. Do you wish yourself that you were a musician?
I used to play piano. I'd like to be able to play guitar for my own amusement.

23. Best chick band you know of?
Go-Gos.

24. Last song that you heard on the radio/cd...etc...?
Roy's Choice by De Phazz (I'm listening to the CD right now)

25. What do you think of classical music?
Enjoy it, but don't really search it out that often.

26. What do you think of country music?
I don't care for current popular country, but I like some of the early stuff from the '50s.

27. What do you think of Death metal?
Silly costumes. And Nordic Death Metal bands that do ballads -- like I Heart MySpaz. ;)

28. Last BIG band that you saw live?
Stadium big? I think Prince was the last one. I don't usually go to big shows like that.

29. Are you a groupie?
No

30. Do you listen to music in foreign languages?
Yes, mainly Italian.

31. What famous musician would you invite to dinner?
Tom Waits

32. Worst concert moment?
Getting rammed into by the singer of a band who decided to run into the "crowd". My way was blocked so I couldn't move out of the way and he slammed into me. I ended up with a bruised rib.

33. Funny concert moment?
The guy in front of us at the Bob Dylan show I went to in High School. We had nosebleed seats, so the guy in front of us who was rocking out in his seat was easier to see.

34. Sad concert moment?
Can't think of any.

35. Best local act you can think of?
Not up on the local scene anymore. But back in the day, Geezer Lake was pretty damn good.

36. If you were a musical instrument what would you be?
Heh. The person I got this from said the ukulele. And no, they're not from NZ.

37. Do you listen to the radio?
Almost never, and only satellite radio when I do.

38. Do you watch music TV?
No.

39. Do you follow the music charts, like the top 40?
Pshhh. No.

40. Have you met any famous musicians?
Gregg Allman is a family friend. When I was in college, I met a couple of guys from Living Color, and the singer for Ned's Atomic Dustbin. I've met Chick Corea, and I've met the guys in The Phoenix Foundation.

41. Are any of your friends/family/etc. musicians?
Yes.

42. Song that best describes your feelings right now?
What's that song that goes, "Slow and low, that is the tempo"? That's kind of how I'm feeling right now. Mellow.

43. Song that describes your life?
The hell? I don't know.

44. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to?
no

45. Does a musician’s physical attractiveness play a role in the music?
No

46. What famous musician do you want to marry?
I think I'm too old for that question.

47. Favourite movie soundtrack?
Hairspray (the movie, not the musical)

48. What do your parents listen to?
Classical, Celtic

49. What are you listening to right NOW?
Still De Phazz (Love's Labour's Lost)

50. Do you wear band etc T-shirts?
I have a Flaming Lips shirt and an Afghan Whigs shirt that I wear to sleep in on occassion. Otherwise, no.

51. What do you think of people who do?
No opinion.

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Age Appropriate

Mar 3 2006, 21h56 por indigo_jones

Woot! I've moved to the top of the list of top Age Pryor fans! Not that it's been hard. I can't resist listening to City Chorus at least a few times a day. Imagine if they tracked the Tess and Adrian stuff, as well as the Fly My Pretties songs as Age listings.

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