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Which bands/artist do you own the most albums by?
*counting from memory* four Alanis Morissette ... five Queen ... five Håkan Hellström ... six Rufus Wainwright ... Yeah, Rufus it is.

What was the last song you listened to?
Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne

What's in your CD player right now?
My CD player is on the other side of the sea, so nothing. Latest album I bought and uploaded to my laptop was Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You.

What's your favorite local band/group?
The Lloyd, I guess.

What was the last show you attended?
Peace & Love 2009! Go Borlänge! ;)

What's the most musically involved you have ever been?
I sing. Choirs, mostly. I've had singing lessons, and a few piano lessons. Oh, and cello lessons, waaaay back. I have a standing invitation to sing the solo of "O Holy Night" on midnight mass in my home church and when I was a kid, I used to write little songs to amuse myself. I still make up nonsensical improvs when I'm out walking without my walkman ... I think that's about it.

What show are you looking forward to?
Rufus Wainwright and Family, "A Not So Silent Night" in Royal Albert Hall in December.

What is your favorite band shirt?
For looks and comfort - my David Bowie - Aladdin Sane T-shirt.
For treasured memories - my Bruce Springsteen - Magic Tour T-shirt.

What musician would you like to hang out with for a day?
Oh, dear. Rufus maybe. Or The Boss. Or Leonard Cohen. Too Hard!

Who is one musician or group you wish would make a comeback?
So many people I listen to are dead! :( Can I wish people back from the grave? Cause that'd be Jeff Buckley then.

Who is one band/artist you've never seen live but always wanted to?
Used to be The Boss. Now that I've seen him, I don't know. I'll go for Jeff Buckley again. Or Antony and the Johnsons, among the living.

Name 5 of your favorite songs of all time?
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Thunder Road
Håkan Hellström - Nu Kan Du Få Mig Så Lätt
Lars Winnerbäck - Nästan perfekt
Simon & Garfunkel - America
The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses

Name 4 flawless albums:
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Live 1975-85 (Display Box)
Håkan Hellström - Känn Ingen Sorg För Mig Göteborg
Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars
Queen - A Kind of Magic

How many music related videos/DVDs do you own?
3 (1 Stones concert DVD, Elvis, The Boat That Rocked - I think the music is a huge part of that, ok? Can't think of any more right now.)

How many concerts/shows have you been to in total?
6 (counting Peace & Love as one) that I've decided to go to myself and not just followed my parents or my school to. Or sung at. (Counting all those as well it would be more than I can even guess).

What was your last musical "phase" before you wisened up?
The Buffy phase? :P Listened to - or bought without listening! - a lot of music simply because it had been on the show. I don't regret it though. It widened my musical horizons quite dramtically, introducing me to dozens of bands and singers from The Who and Cream to Sarah McLachlan and Alison Krauss.

What's your "guilty pleasure" that you hate to admit to liking?
Right now: Boyzone - Love You Anyway
Generally everything that I find myself liking that's very nineties (like boybands! :P) or hiphop (like Eminem) or just plain mainstream. Though I guess Håkan is pretty mainstream by now. But I love him anyway (haha).

Who is your favorite musician?
Oh, don't make me! Bruce ... or Håkan ... or Bruce ... or Håkan ... aaargh!

jettoninjin's top albums (overall)
1. 浜崎あゆみ - NEXT LEVEL (1451) 2. 浜崎あゆみ - (miss)understood (1335) 3. 浜崎あゆみ - MY STORY (1055) 4. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals (1042) 5. 浜崎あゆみ - Secret (957) 6. X-Ray Dog - Night Hounds (922) 7. Garbage - Bleed Like Me (840) 8. Nine Inch Nails - Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D (658) 9. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (622) 10. 浜崎あゆみ - GUILTY (592) 11. Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (580) 12. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth (547) 13. Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself (533) 14. Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque (467) 15. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (463) 16. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (459) 17. Gorillaz - Demon Days (407) 18. 浜崎あゆみ - A BALLADS (393) 19. 浜崎あゆみ - I am... (377) 20. Tori Amos - American Doll Posse (374) 21. Kerli - Love Is Dead (358) 22. 浜崎あゆみ - RAINBOW (350) 23. GO!GO!7188 - 竜舌蘭 (279) 24. 浜崎あゆみ - ayu trance 2009 (276) 25. Gorillaz - D-Sides (260) 26. Queen Adreena - Taxidermy (256) 27. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (255) 28. Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead (251) 29. GO!GO!7188 - 鬣 (251) 30. Alanis Morissette - Flavors of Entanglement (245) 31. Tegan and Sara - This Business of Art (238) 32. Saul Williams - Saul Williams (228) 33. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (227) 34. hide - HIDE YOUR FACE (218) 35. 浜崎あゆみ - Memorial address (217) 36. Portishead - Third (212) 37. Bruce Springsteen - Magic (208) 38. 浜崎あゆみ - Duty (201) 39. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (201) 40. Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low (200) 41. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (disc 1: Left) (200) 42. X-Ray Dog - Alpha Dog (194) 43. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry (194) 44. George Carlin - Complaints And Grievances (186) 45. 浜崎あゆみ - MY STORY Classical (186) 46. Tiësto - Parade of the Athletes (183) 47. Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin (181) 48. Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar (180) 49. Do As Infinity - Do The B-Side (178) 50. 浜崎あゆみ - Rule / Sparkle (178)

Here is what I have. I will update as necessary....

3rd Strike - Lost Angel
40 Below Summer - Invitation To The Dance
40 Below Summer - The Mourning After
6gig - Tincan Experiment

Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Agalloch - The Mantle
Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 1 Soundtrack
Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2 Soundtrack
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
American Head Charge - The War Of Art
Anathema - Eternity
ANew Revolution - Rise
Apartment 26 - Hallucinating
Apartment 26 - Music For The Massive
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
As Dead As Dreams - As Dead As Dreams
At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
Atreyu - Lead Sails, Paper Anchor

Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie
The Berzerker - Dissimulate
Bethlehem - Mein Weg
Big Dumb Face - Duke Lion Fights The Terror
The Blank Theory - Beyond The Calm Of The Corridor
The Blank Theory - Catalyst
Boiler Room - Can't Breathe
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
The Buzzhorn - Disconnected

Carcass - Heartwork
Carcass - Necrotism
Carcass - Swansong
Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness
Carcass - Wake Up And Smell The Carcass
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
Cerberus - Dispute The Truth
Chevelle - This Type Of Thinking Could Do Us In
Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
CKY - Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild
Cold - 13 Ways To Bleed On Stage
Cold - Cold
Collective Soul - Collective Soul
Collective Soul - Disciplined Breakdown
Collective Soul - Dosage
Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations & Things Left Unsaid
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast
Cradle of Filth - Dusk And Her Embrace
Cradle of Filth - Lovecraft And Witch Hearts
Cradle of Filth - Midian
Cradle of Filth - The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh
Cradle of Filth - Vempire
Crazytown - Darkhorse
Crazytown - The Gift Of Game
Crossbreed - KE101
Crossbreed - New Slave Nation
Crossbreed - Synthetic Division
The Cure - Bloodflowers
Cyclefly - Generation Sap

Darkane - Demonic Art
Darkane - Layers Of Lies
Darwins Waiting Room - Orphan
Dave Navarro - Trust No One
The Deadlights - The Deadlights
Deadsy - Commencement
Deadsy - Phantasmagore
Deftones - White Pony
Deicide - Legion
DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND - Ziltoid The Omniscient
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Dishwalla - Pet Your Friends
Dope - Felons And Revolutionaries
Dope - No Regrets
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
Draconian - The Burning Halo
Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
DragPipe - Music For The Last Day Of Your Life
Dust For Life - Dust For Life
Dust to Dust - Dust To Dust

Econoline Crush - Affliction
Econoline Crush - Brand New History
Econoline Crush - The Devil You Know
Econoline Crush - Purge
Eighteen Visions - Eighteen Visions
Element Eighty - Element Eighty
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Endo - Evolve
Endo - Songs For The Restless
Entombed - Clandestine
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Erase the Grey - 27 Days
Evanescence - Anywhere But Home

Faktion - Faktion
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Filter - The Amalgamut
Fingertight - In The Name Of Progress
Finntroll - Nattfodd
Five Foot Thick - Blood Puddle
Flaw - Endangered Species
Flaw - Through The Eyes
Flybanger - Headtrip To Nowhere
From Zero - My So Called Life
From Zero - One Nation Under
Fuel - Something Like Human
Full Devil Jacket - Full Devil Jacket

Garbage - Version 2.0
Genuflect - The End Of The World
Genuflect - The Shadow Side
Ghost Machine - Ghost Machine
Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God
Godhead - 2000 Years Of Human Error
God Dethroned - The Toxic Touch
God Lives Underwater - Empty
God Lives Underwater - God Lives Underwater
God Lives Underwater - Life In The So Called Space Age
God Lives Underwater - Up Off The Floor
Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
Goo Goo Dolls - Gutterflower
Goo Goo Dolls - Superstar Car Wash
Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival
Good Charlotte - The Young And The Hopeless
Grade 8 - Grade 8
Grade 8 - Resurrection
Graveworm - As The Angels Reach The Beauty/Eternal Winds
Graveworm - Engraved In Black
Graveworm - Scourge Of Malice
Graveworm - When Daylight's Gone/Underneath The Crescent Moon
Gravity Kills - Gravity Kills
Gravity Kills - Perversion
Gravity Kills - Superstarved

Headstrong - Headstrong
Hed P.E. - Broke
Henry Rollins - Get In The Van
Hotwire - The Routine
Hypocrisy - 10 Years Of Chaos And Confusion
Hypocrisy - Abducted
Hypocrisy - The Arrival
Hypocrisy - Catch 22
Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter
Hypocrisy - The Fourth Dimension
Hypocrisy - Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy - Virus

In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape

Jack Frost - Gloom Rock Asylum

Kamelot - The Black Halo

Lacrimas Profundere - Filthy Notes For Frozen Hearts
leisureworld - Double Wide, Double High
Lifer - Lifer
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit - Results May Vary
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Liquid Gang - Sunshine
Lo-Pro - Lo-Pro
Lustmord - Heresy

Machine Head - The Burning Red
Machines of Loving Grace - Concentration
Machines of Loving Grace - Machines Of Loving Grace
Magna-Fi - Burn Out The Stars
Manmade God - Manmade God
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson - The High End Of Low
Marilyn Manson - Holywood
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson - Portrait Of An American Family
Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children
Massacre - From Beyond
Mayhem - Grand Declaration Of War
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
Megadeth - Risk
Megadeth - The World Needs A Hero
Method 51 - Method 51
Methods of Mayhem - Methods Of Mayhem
Mitch Hedberg - Do You Believe In Gosh
Mnemic - The Audio Injected Soul
Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Monster Magnet - Superjudge
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
Motograter - Motograter
Mudvayne - L.D. 50
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
My Dying Bride - 34.788% Complete
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun
My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings
My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
My Dying Bride - The Voice Of The Wretched

Nathan P. Holly - The Dreamer
Nathan P. Holly - The Suffering
Neurotica - Neurotica
Nickelback - Dark Horse
Nickelback - Silver Side Up
Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
No One - No One
Nothingface - Skeletons
Nothingface - Violence
Novembers Doom - Into Nights Requiem Infernal
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
Nullset - Nullset

The Offspring - Americana
The Offspring - Ixnay On The Hombre
The Offspring - Smash
The Offspring - Splinter
Oleander - Joyride
OneSideZero - Is This Room Getting Smaller
Orgy - Candyass
Orgy - Vapor Transmission
Otep - Sevas Tra
Otep - Smash The Control Machine
Ours - Distorted Lullabies
Outspoken - Bitter Shovel

Papa Roach - Infest
Pitchshifter - Deviant
Pitchshifter - PSI
Pitchshifter - www.pitchshifter.com
P.O.D. - Satellite
Powerman 5000 - Tonight The Stars Revolt
Powerman 5000 - Transform
Pressure 4-5 - Burning The Process
Prick - Prick
Project .44 - The System Doesn't Work
Project 86 - And The Rest Will Follow
Project 86 - Drawing Black Lines
Project 86 - Rival Factions
Project 86 - Songs To Burn Your Bridges By
Project 86 - Truthless Heroes
Psycore - I'm Not One Of Us
Psycore - Your Problem
Pulse Ultra - Headspace

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles
Rammstein - Mutter
Reach 454 - Reach 454
Reveille - Bleed The Sky
Reveille - Laced
The Revolution Smile - Above The Noise

Satyricon - The Age Of Nero
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
Satyricon - Volcano
Shape of Despair - Shades Of
Shifty - Happy Love Sick
Shroud of Bereavement - Alone Beside Her
Silverchair - Freak Show
Silverchair - Neon Ballroom
Simon Says - Jump Start
Sinisstar - Future Shock
Skepticism - Aes
Skepticism - Ethere
Skepticism - Farmakon
Skepticism - Lead And Aether
Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
Skrape - New Killer America
Skrape - Up The Dose
Slaves on Dope - Inches From The Mainline
Slaves on Dope - Metafour
Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Slipknot - Iowa
Sloth - Dead Generation
Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang
Soulmotor - Soulmotor
Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
Speak No Evil - Welcome To The Downside
SR-71 - Now You See Inside
SR-71 - Tomorrow
Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
Stabbing Westward - Stabbing Westward
Stabbing Westward - Ungod
Stabbing Westward - Wither, Blister, Burn & Peel
Stepa - Stepa
Stereomud - Perfect Self
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music
Strapping Young Lad - City
Sum 41 - Chuck
Sunn O))) - Black One
Systematic - Somewhere In Between

Taproot - Blue-Sky Research
Taproot - Gift
Thumb - Exposure
Tommy Lee - Never A Dull Moment
Tool - Aenima
TRUSTcompany - The Lonely Position Of Neutral
TRUSTcompany - True Parallels
Twisted Method - Escape From Cape Coma
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Type O Negative - Dead Again
Type O Negative - The Least Worst Of
Type O Negative - October Rust
Type O Negative - The Origin Of The Feces
Type O Negative - World Coming Down

Ultraspank - Progress
Ultraspank - Ultraspank
The Union Underground - An Education In Rebellion
Unloco - Becoming I
Unloco - Healing

V Shape Mind - Cul-De-Sac
Various Artists - The X-Files Soundtrack
Videodrone - Videodrone
Vision of Disorder - From Bliss To Devastation

Weird Al Yankovic - Running With Scissors
Wired All Wrong - Break Out The Battle Tapes

Year of the Rabbit - Year Of The Rabbit

Zonaria - The Cancer Empire

Maybe I should had done this sooner instead of waiting for the exact day of Halloween... Oh well, I've been inspired to do this today!

These are basically song that fall under at least one of the following criteria:
- Sound eerie or as dark as the belly of a dragon on a post-hangover Sunday morning.
- Depicts murderous anger.
- Invoke your soul to be part of dark rituals (and try to exorcise them in one of these song)

Needles to say, some of them can get downright terrifying. To be fair, I only included one track per artist and gave them a somewhat logical order.

Mogwai - Christmas Steps
The Besnard Lakes - You've Got to Want to Be a Star
Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - The Owl
Joy Division - Heart and Soul
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
The Cure - Hanging Garden
The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher
The Twilight Sad - The Neighbours Can't Breathe
The Horrors - Jack The Ripper
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
Tool - Die Eier von Satan
Black Sabbath - Children Of The Grave
Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen
The Big Sleep - Slow Race
Metallica - Enter Sandman
The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
The Doors - Riders on the Storm
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
The Phantom Band - Burial Sounds
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Dead Man's Bones - Lose Your Soul
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Low - Murderer
Alanis Morissette - Uninvited
Bat for Lashes - The Wizard
To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - You Guys Talk, We'll Spill Our Guts
Xiu Xiu - Brian the Vampire
M83 - *


I borrowed some picks off the official iMeem playlist. I tried to put together a setlist with all my pick but it was impossible to find them all in the same place. So, these are your options to listen:

> iMeem Playlist
Does not include: Tool, The Big Sleep, Dead Man's Bones or Xiu Xiu

> YouTube Playlist
Does not include: To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie or The Besnard Lakes

Now if you excuse, I'll go wish for a day when all music shall roam free...

1 Shakira
2 Jason Mraz
3 Avril Lavigne
4 Beyoncé
5 James Morrison
6 The Fray
7 Amy Winehouse
8 Maroon 5
9 David Archuleta
10 Franz Ferdinand
11 Death Cab for Cutie
12 The Killers
13 Nickelback
14 Duffy
15 Christina Aguilera
16 Kaiser Chiefs
17 John Mayer
18 Snow Patrol
19 Engenheiros do Hawaii
20 Jet
21 Katy Perry
22 Britney Spears
23 Alanis Morissette
24 Coldplay
25 Nenhum de Nós

How did you get into 11?
Soundtrack of one movie.

What is your favorite song by 7?
You Know I'm No Good.

What is a good memory you have involving 20?
It make me think about how happy I was at the High School.

Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad?
I Will be. Sometimes I almost cry hearing that.

What is your favorite song by 19?
Piano Bar.

How did you get into 22?
Everyone hears her.

What was the first song you heard by 21?
I kissed a girl.

What is your favorite song by 4?
Broken-hearted girl, I guess.


How many times have you seen 10 live?
None. :S

What is a good memory you have involving 13?
I can't remember.

Is there a song by 23 that makes you sad?
You learn, makes me think a lot 'bout life, and everytime I think about life i got sad..

What is your favorite album by 15?
Keeps Getting Better.

What is your favorite lyric that 9 have sung?
"I can see it in your eyes
You feel the same about us as I
There is no way, the truth can't be disguised
You're still in love with me,
You ain't never really out of love with me
Your eyes don't lie."

What is your favorite song by 16?
Ruby.

What is your favorite lyric that 5 have sung?
"So won't you save,
save yourself
by leaving me now
For someone else
if I'm crying out
don't listen to it
It's only in my heart"

What is your favorite album by 12?
Day and Age.

What is a good memory you have involving 25?
Their Concert, was amazing.

What is your favorite album by 24?
XY

How did you get into 17?
'Cause there was friends of mine that like him a lot, and they made me hear him.

Did somebody of your friends like number 8?
My Date ♥.

What is your favorite song by 14?
Oh Boy.

Did somebody of your friends like number 2?
Everyone who will go with me in his concert.

What is your favorite lyric that 1 have sung?
"Broke my heart
On the road
Spent the weekend
Sewing the pieces back on
[...]
'Cause I'm a gypsy
Are you coming with me?
I might steal your clothes
And wear them if they fit me
I never made agreements
Just like a gypsy
And I won't back down
'Cause life's already hurt me
And I won't cry
I'm too young to die
If you're gonna quit me."

1. How did you get into 29?
Édith Piaf - I don’t remember. I guess attention to her music was called when I started listening to Jeff Buckley, the fact that he was a fan of hers made me curious. But I’ve always loved La foule ...even before I even knew it was her song. :)

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
No Doubt - probably Just A Girl

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Jeff Buckley - well, he’s only got one studio album, but I’ve got most of his releases. Grace, Grace (Legacy Edition), Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk, Mystery White Boy, Live At Sin-é (Legacy Edition).

4. What is your favorite song by 5?
Kings of Leon - that’s a toughie… a toss-up between The Bucket because it’s just so catchy and Taper Jean Girl because this is THE best song when you see them live.

5. What is your favorite song by 15?
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - To Russia My Homeland I don’t know why, I’m a lyrics person, and I am known for my hatred of ambient or instrumental songs, but I LOVE that song…

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Muse - they’re all good, I guess. I don’t think there’s one particular song that I can say “makes me happy.”

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Rufus Wainwright - AH! I can’t pick just one! OK, In My Arms (:

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Bob Dylan - I don’t think I can say I have a good memory about him as an artist or his music... I have a bad memory about a live Bob Dylan show, but that’s not really the question. :x

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Glasvegas - YES. As with Radiohead, a song that’s supposed to invoke depression, or in this case sadness/disillusionment/disappointment, has the complete opposite effect on me: “It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry”

10. How many times have you seen 26 live?
Rise Against - zero. And I don't think I would. Let's just say it's never been a priority.

11. What is the first song you heard by 23?
Bright Eyes - I’m a late bloomer, “Another Travelin’ Song”

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
Interpol - Antics, hands down.

13. Who is your favorite member of 1?
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Robert Levon Been.

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Queen - no.

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
Green Day - don’t recall any… no, wait, I liked Green Day, but the first time I heard 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, I was hooked. That song Going to Pasalacqua really struck a chord.

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
Dead Man’s Bones - “My Body’s A Zombie For You” and "Young & Tragic" ..oh and "Name In Stone" and "Flowers Grow Out of My Grave" as well...yes, I know that's more than one, but I can't help most of their songs are so good..and sound like they're from the 50s.. (:

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
Radiohead - OK Computer

18. What is your favorite song by 21?
The Beatles - "Hello, Goodbye" and "Hey Jude"

19. What is the first song you heard by 25?
Weezer - probably Buddy Holly, I don’t remember

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

21. What is your favorite song by 3?
Pearl Jam - Given to Fly

22. What is your favorite song by 8?
Regina Spektor - it changes pretty much every month :x right now it’s “The Calculation,” right before her new album came out, it had been “Buildings,” and before that it was “Braille” for the LONGEST time..

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
She & Him - none

24. What is the worst song by 12?
Alanis Morissette - any song of hers after 2002.

25. What was the first song you heard by 28?
Johnny Cash - no idea. Probably one of his most famous ones I Walk The Line or Ring Of Fire

26. What is your favorite album by 7?
Feist - The Reminder, I guess. It’s the album where I skip less amount of songs than the others.

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
Martha Wainwright - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Incubus - Talk Shows On Mute and Oil And Water, again, those songs are not really meant to make people happy, but somehow they do the trick for me.

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Fiona Apple - When The Pawn…

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
Eddie Vedder - his one solo album, Into the Wild.

I'm something of a discophile. I don't collect LP's, but for a 23 year old, I am awfully stuck to the old format of compact disc albums, not at all embracing the digital era. But of course, bringing all my CD's across the sea wasn't really an option. So I downloaded all the music I own onto my laptop. With all that music so easy to reach, I find myself listening to albums that have been left to collect dust for years.
When I began to plan this blog entry, I meant it to be about Cornelis Vreeswijk, whom I'm coming back to after years of thinking him a bit too crude. Now though, I will simply recommend that you listen to his Bellman interpretations (Sjuttonde balladen särskilt) and leave that subject. Because what I want to tell you about now, is the first CD I ever owned. It has been abandoned and forgotten, for years and years, but never given away. It was given to me way back in, most likely, 1997, by my grandmother. I had wished for a CD with classical music. It seems very strange to me today, since I eventually turned out a rock girl, but such was my wish; before I discovered my first idols ABBA and The Beatles, long before Bruce Springsteen and Alanis Morissette, what feels like a lifetime before Håkan Hellström and Rufus Wainwright, I unwrapped a collection of classical music and played it on my parents' stereo - since I didn't have one of my own.
And listening to it today, I find myself recognizing every tune, every stroke of the violins, every key pressed on the pianos. Mozart, Shubert, Samuel Barber and Alessandro Marcello; all these composers' works, that I obviously must have listened to time and time again all those years ago when I was someone else, stir the same emotions in me now as they did then; as powerful as any modern pop or rock record ever has. I usually give ABBA the credit for being the start of my long, loving relationship with music, or the times when I would hear my mother play songs by Cornelis or LALLA HANSON on the guitar. ("Jag tog upp ett munspel ur min tomma, slitna ficka, och jag blåste trött när Anna sjöng en blues" is perhaps the first single line of lyric that I fell utterly in love with. It was stuck in my head for years before I found a recording of the song. I still think of my mum playing guitar when I hear it, even though I haven't seen her play since I was a child.)
But sitting here typing this, with soft piano music by Erik Satie sounding in my headset, I send a grateful thought to my dear late grandma, without whom I might have never had an appreciation for the sheer beauty of music - not confined to three minute hitsongs, however great, or just as melodies to clever, heart wrenching lyrics, or even as songs to sing together in choir, at campfires or with mum in the living room - but music in and of itself.
Så, tack för CD:n, mormor. Jag gillar den verkligen.

Thu 22 Oct – NEEDTOBREATHE, Serena Ryder, The Alternate Routes

Karma was on my side tonight.
Throughout the past week I have managed to get friends and co-workers into shows I was working for San Francisco's Live 105 (KITS) like the San Francisco debut of The Temper Trap, Brand New w/ Manchester Orchestra in San Jose, Treasure Island Music Festival & Weezer's secret Myspace show, now tonight, as I finally prepared to hand over my $15 for Needtobreathe's first show in San Francisco in over 3 years, the man in line in front of me just happened to have a +1 he wasn't going to use.
I got myself an unexpected free show, and it was a good one.

The Alternate Routes took the stage promptly at 8 o'clock to a half-empty room. With only 3 of the 5 members present, I wasn't sure what kind of set we were going to get, especially after opening with an acoustic version of "Aftermath" from their old album "Good and Reckless and True".
They plugged things in and turned things up and busted out some new songs and some old jams, set list:
Aftermath (Acoustic)
Rainbow Speaker
Toe The Line
The Future's Nothing New
On and On We Whisper
Asked You Twice

Lead singer Tim Warren got the crowd involved rather easily and the band managed to have the room filled up by the end of their set. They left to one of the louder ovations I've heard for an opening band in the past few months.

Next up was Atlantic Records singer/songwriter Serena Ryder who only continued the night of fantastic voices.
A singer who can easily appeal to fans of Alanis Morissette, Michelle Branch, Toby Lightman, Vedera, and other female fronted bands, she won the crowd over quickly with an accapella song called "Melancholy Blue" followed by some songs from her upcoming album, "Is It Ok?" and a snippet of rapping into TLC's "Waterfalls".
Serena has a great voice on her, and had people lining up to get her CDs for whatever price they were willing to pay, seriously, just put money in a bucket and get a CD. Not bad.

Next up was the night's headliner, NEEDTOBREATHE.
Making their first trip back to San Fran since a show 3 years ago at the same venue where they were direct support for the now defunct October Fall. Frontman Bear Rinehart acknowledged their absence over the past few years and mentioned a few times that it was nice to be playing a show at Cafe Du Nord, "to more than 17 people."
I went into the show without being completely sold on the new album, "The Outsiders", so I was hoping we'd get a fair mix of old & new stuff, what we got, however, wasn't surprising. The new tracks did dominate the set, with some of "The Heat" sprinkled in.
Set List:
The Outsiders
Streets Of Gold
More Time
Sweet Talk
Stones Under Rushing Water (W/ Serena Ryder)
Prisoner
Girl Named Tennessee
(A rockin track that I was not familiar with)
Lay 'em Down
I Won't Turn Back (Bo on vocals)
Washed By The Water
Let Us Love
Something Beautiful (unplugged)
Shine On (unplugged)

The new songs they played were the ones I've already grown to love, and they were all a lot of fun to hear live for the first time.
Bear said it was the first time they played "Shine On" in about a year, so it was nice to get at least 1 track from "Daylight", I thought an encore might include some more old tracks, but they didn't come back out after the unplugged set.

Overall, a great group of acts and a damn fine show.
Props to the fans who were so supportive of the openers, I got tired of hearing "YOU SUCK!" & "WEEZER!" at last night's show. They also managed to stay quiet during the final 2 songs of the set where the band wasn't even using a microphone.

Hopefully Needtobreathe makes their way back to San Francisco in less than 3 years and brings along the same type of quality acts that won over the crowd at this show.