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chrisashley's top albums
1. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (302) 2. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (272) 3. Tujiko Noriko - Trust (270) 4. The Tuss - Rushup Edge (269) 5. Susumu Yokota - Sakura (258) 6. Amon Tobin - Permutation (236) 7. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (187) 8. Ilkae - Pistachio Island (182) 9. Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do (178) 10. Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (167) 11. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy (166) 12. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (163) 13. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... (161) 14. Lemon Jelly - '64-'95 (153) 15. Roots Manuva - Slime and Reason (145) 16. Ólöf Arnalds - Við Og Við (143) 17. múm - Loksins erum vid engin (138) 18. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn (134) 19. Rex the Dog - The Rex The Dog Show (132) 20. Susumu Yokota - Magic Thread (122) 21. Squarepusher - Ultravisitor (114) 22. Tujiko Noriko - Solo (114) 23. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things (110) 24. múm - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy (102) 25. Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko - 28 (101) 26. Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By (enhanced version) (101) 27. DJ Shadow - The Private Press [Special Package] Disc 1 (99) 28. Various Artists - Supermodified (98) 29. Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself (98) 30. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (95) 31. The Future Sound of London - Accelerator (93) 32. The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms Disc 1 (93) 33. Ólöf Arnalds - Við og við. (91) 34. múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is Ok (87) 35. Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir (WARPCDD161) (87) 36. Aphex Twin - Drukqs (disc 2) (86) 37. Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place (86) 38. The Roots - Game Theory (85) 39. Efterklang - Parades (85) 40. Susumu Yokota & Rothko - Distant Sounds of Summer (84) 41. Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk (82) 42. Aphex Twin - Drukqs (disc 1) (79) 43. Groove Armada - The Best Of (78) 44. The Cardigans - Gran Turismo (75) 45. Ladytron - Witching Hour (74) 46. Plaid - Not for Threes (74) 47. Tujiko Noriko - Shojo Toshi + (73) 48. Fischerspooner - Odyssey (72) 49. Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me (72)

#10 - October '06
No Prize In Sight



it's not looking good...

01 The Dears - Find Our Way To Freedom
02 The Longcut - Holy Funk
03 Mew - White Lips Kissed
04 French Kicks - One More Time
05 Snowden - Filler Is Wasted
06 Amusement Parks on Fire - Smokescreen
07 Dirty on Purpose - Light Pollution
08 Headlights - Put Us Back Together Right
09 Guther - Many Frames Per Moment
10 Headlights - Owl Eyes
11 The Double - Idiocy
12 Dirty on Purpose - Mind Blindness
13 Voxtrot - Fast Asleep
14 Cursive - Hymns for the Heathen
15 Asobi Seksu - Red Sea



#9 - September '06
Full Circle



here comes the cold again, moody instrumentals and minimal vocals

01 Color Filter - Silent Way
02 Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko - Nolicom
03 Nathan Fake - Fell
04 erast - TV Show
05 The Radio Dept - It's Personal
06 Daedelus - Patent Pending
07 Planningtorock - Changes
08 Xiu Xiu - Save Me Save Me
09 Venetian Snares - Cancel
10 erast - Kitchen Sonatine, Dramatic Meal
11 Aus - Roof
12 Anne Laplantine - untitled 09
13 Plumbline - 66 W12
14 erast - Influtusa



#8 - January '05
Blood All Over the Place



shoegazer(ish) goodness

01 Radio dept. - Liebling
02 Swirlies - San Cristabal de las Casas
03 Boyracer - Michael
04 Lush - Blackout
05 Swirlies - Jeremy Parker
06 My Bloody Valentine - Honey Power
07 Asobi Seksu - Walk On the Moon
08 Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger
09 Rocketship - I Love You Like The Way That I Used To Do
10 Pia Fraus - Moon Like A Pearl
11 Rocketship - PRETTY Saro
12 Pia Fraus - Bibano
13 Rocketship - Honey I Need You
14 My Bloody Valentine - Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)
15 Radio dept. - The City Limit
16 Guitar - Feel Flows Free
17 My Bloody Valentine - Touched
18 Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin
19 Sweet Trip - To All The Dancers Of The World, A Round Form Of Fantasy



#7 - September '04
Hisssss



lo-fi goodness

01 The Sea and Cake - Interiors [Broadcast Remix]
02 Steward - He Dispenses With Timid Afterthought
03 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Toby, Take A Bow
04 Swirlies - Boys, Protect Yourselves from Aliens
05 Michiko Kusaki (aka Anne Laplantine) - Tonight in the Streets
06 Toulouse - Into Adventure
07 the cannanes with steward - The Dissenters Have Risen
08 Optiganally Yours - Stop Touching Me
09 Takako Minekawa with Dymaxion - A report on an investigation
10 Pad Attacks - Circulation
11 Olivia Tremor Control - The Gravity Car
12 Takako Minekawa with Dymaxion - Maxi On!
13 Broadcast - Microtronics 04
14 Young Marble Giants - Eating Noddemix
15 Olivia Tremor Control - I Have Been Floated
16 Momus - Summer Holiday 1999
17 Kahimi Karie - Pygmalism [Optigonally Yours remix]
18 Olivia Tremor Control - Grass Canons
19 The Waves - Shrug It Off
20 Stereo Total - Die Krise
21 Micromars - Mobile
22 Stereolab - The Groop Play Chord X
23 add n to [x] - Machine is Bored With Love
24 Broadcast - Hawk



#6 - July '04
As Seen On TV



music video vcd + extras

01 Jaan Pehechaan Ho from the movie Gumnaam
02 Beauty Kit - Breast Augmentation
03 Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
04 Beauty Kit - Liposuction
05 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin (live)
06 Beauty Kit - Nose Job
07 Interpol - Obstacle
08 Happy Tree Friends - Nuttin But A Tooth
09 Les Savy Fav - We’ll Make A Lover Of You
10 Gumby - Lost And Found
11 My Bloody Valentine - Soon
12 Jem intro
13 Stereolab - Miss Modular
14 Barbarella title sequence
15 Pizzicato Five - La Regle De Jeu
16 Neon Genesis Evangelion 62 Seconds
17 Capsule - Plastic Girl (feat. EeL)
18 Spongebob - Rock Bottom



#5 - May '04
I Still Get Rocks Off



let's rock!!!

01 Bloc Party - This Is Not A Competition
02 Oxford Collapse - If It Dies In Peoria Then Who The Hell Cares?
03 The Walkmen - The Rat
04 Bloc Party - The Answer
05 Interpol - Say Hello To Angels
06 Bloc Party - The Marshalls Are Dead
07 Yo La Tengo - Styles Of The Times
08 Broken Social Scene - Almost Crimes [Radio Kills Remix]
09 Radio dept. - I Don't Need Love I've Got My Band
10 Boyracer - A Friend For Life
11 Boyracer - Temper
12 Boyracer - He Gets Me So Hard
13 Boyracer - Superhip
14 At The Drive In - Honest to a Fault
15 Dillinger Four - Noble Stabbings
16 Pretty Girls Make Graves - Speakers Push the Air
17 Bangs - I Want More
18 Jane Jensen & The Dolls - Blo-Job Barbie
19 Pretty Girls Make Graves - If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone
20 Placebo - Second Sight
21 Dramarama - Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)
22 Frank Black - Los Angeles
23 Deerhoof - Rat Attack
24 Deerhoof - Get Along with Little Doggies
25 Jason Forrest - Why I Love ELO
26 Yukari Rotten - C.L.I.J.S.T.E.R.S. [Te Killed The Drums & Stick Version]



#4 - April '04
Emergency



songs about disaster (based around adult. and their predecessors)

01 The Human League - Introducing
02 Ectomorph - The Haunting [Are You Dirty Now? Adult. remix]
03 K Rock - The Hard Edge Of The Industry [Adult. Hard Mix]
04 ADULT. - Run Run Crying
05 Kitbuilders - Tell Me
06 Phoenecia - Odd Job Discrimination [Adult. Compurythm version]
07 The Faint - Agenda Suicide [Adult. remix]
08 Tamion 12 Inch - Thin Boys Murdered
09 Der Kunstliche Dilettant - Tunnel Of The 80's
10 Crash Course in Science - Factory Forehead
11 D-Stop - Traitment Du Choc
12 Clan of Xymox - Call It Weird
13 The Normal - Warm Leatherette
14 Pink Industry - Time For Change
15 Crash Course in Science - Cardboard Lamb
16 Snowy Red - Don't Lose Control
17 Visage - Frequency 7 [Dance Mix]
18 Drinking Electricity - Twilight Zone
19 Soft Cell - The Girl With The Patent Leather Face
20 XeX - Cops



#3 - March '04
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore



smiths/morrissey, brit pop and such...

01 The Smiths - Rusholme Ruffians
02 The Impossible Five - Zero Zero
03 The Dears - This Is A Broadcast
04 The Smiths - Panic
05 The Divine Comedy - Your Daddy's Car
06 Eggstone - She's Perfect
07 The Dears - Where The World Begins & Ends
08 The Clientele - Reflections After Jane
09 Glasstown - Living And Forgetting
10 The Dears - Heartless Romantic
11 Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit
12 Eggstone - Good Morning
13 The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
14 Morrissey - Tomorrow
15 London Suede - So Young
16 Morrissey - Jack The Ripper



#2 - February '04
World -1



fast japanese video game sounding music for fast late night drives down the highway

01 Polysics - wake up, polysics!
02 Hi-Posi - jenny is in a bad mood
03 Polysics - new wave jacket [reform]
04 Hi-Posi - i don't want it
05 Mac Donald Duck Eclair - many many sweets
06 Hi-Posi - proof of the biggest love
07 Micro Mach Machine - sonic-wave vader
08 Citrus - wispy, no mercy
09 Mac Donald Duck Eclair - count to 3
10 Pandart Sasanooha - q & and a
11 Sonic Coaster Pop - sunny side up!
12 Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - a day in the radio [micro mach machine remix]
13 Sonic Coaster Pop - s!o!c!o!p!o!g!o!g!o!
14 Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - with ramming down lively tune
15 EeL - wonderful ability
16 Mac Donald Duck Eclair - mac teenage riot
17 EeL - question of love
18 Usagi-Changs - catherine and robert
19 automatic supper & rabb2 - (crazy) love beam
20 Usagi-Changs - well this is a quiz! answer in one minute!
21 Sonic Coaster Pop - attraction pop [happy space mix]



#1 - January '04
I Keep A Smile On My Face For Anyone Looking



moody winter tunes

01 Dntel - Anywhere Anyone
02 Broadcast - Illumination
03 Lali Puna - Scary World Theory
04 Ms. John Soda - By Twos
05 Broadcast - Before We Begin
06 Lap Wing - Little Thing
07 Daedelus - Minor Detour
08 Kahimi Karie -Tornado (Inside)
09 Chris Clark - Slow Spines
10 Shiina Ringo - Ich Liebe Dich Op5 No3
11 Takako Minekawa - Destron
12 Yo La Tengo - Saturday
13 Lali Puna - Together In Electric Dreams
14 Broadcast - Until Then
15 Stereolab - Suggestion Diabolique
16 Doopees - Dr. Domestic's Physical Effect #2 - Electronic Colored Tone and Strings

I normally don't participate in these trends that go around here, but this one seemed fun enough. Basically you just post some lyrics and people guess what artist/band and song they're from. Don't use a search engine because that is CHEATING. I'm also adding connections to the #1 "similar artist" for every answer and also my top 5 artists. A couple of the "similar artists" I haven't even heard of though.

1. "The reason for the story is to give away your last chance"
Hint: This is from the first CD release (not vinyl, though) by an electronic dance music sublabel.
Found by basscad: Matthew Dear - Dog Days

2. "Don't memorize the leaves, they're colored to deceive"
Hint: It's from an EP released by Warp.

3. "We can be invisible, there wouldn't be an indication"
Hint: This track is by an electro artist who usually doesn't have vocals.

4. "You're so beautiful, you came back to me"
Hint: The artist is Japanese.

5. "You have to bend your sound and make love to metal"
Hint: This song was released by a netlabel in 2006.

6. "I respect a man who uses cardboard"

7. "Don't have a PC, or MTV, or HIV, or an SUV, or any CD by Master P"
Hint: White guy rapping, I think. It sounds like it at least.

8. "I'm a caveman, your modern ways frighten and confuse me"
Found by decklin: El-P - Deep Space 9mm

9. "A bassline is subbing under a fat-faced, acned moon"
Hint: The artist once released a split album (under a differerent name) with a Chain Reaction artist.
Found by Retrovertigo: The Bug - Night Steppa

10. "You used to play my favorite tracks, those basslines and synthetic claps"

11. "This airship is a piece of shit"
Hint: This is from a 2005 album that was a bit of a departure from the label's usual style.

12. "Japanese girls masturbate for my dial tone"
Hint: This track was co-produced by an artist who has released on ~scape.

13. "Don't pull the roots, they are nourishing"
Hint: It's from an EP by an artist or band in my top 10.

14. "Welcome to futurama, where the cyborgs will shoot your mama"
Found by weston24: Non Phixion - Futurama

15. "By pressing down a special key, it plays a little melody"
Found by decklin: Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator

16. "Your hand in my trousers, I wish it would be true"
Hint: The artist name contains the name of a country's capital city.

17. "Probably still be speakin' in rhymes as a old fart"
Found by tom_dissonance/weston24: MF Doom - One Beer

18. "Floating over the city like a Goodyear blimp"
Hint: It's a line from a song by a hip-hop duo.

19. "Your life's colors, black and light black"

20. "It's just that the world ain't enough, and it never was for the two of us"
Hint: This song is from what is, in my opinion, one of the best house records ever.
Found by klaashermans: Luomo - Tessio

If anyone bothers to reply with a correct answer I'll eventually add the solutions in hidden white text. I might give hints after a while too.

Connections: Animal Collective, Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Blackalicious, Boy vs. Bacteria, Break 3000, Cannibal Ox, Depeche Mode, DJ /rupture, Eglantine Gouzy, Farmers Manual, Fluxion, Ill Bill, Labtekwon, Lowfish, Madvillain, MRI, Ovuca, Polygamy Boys, Ricardo Villalobos, Squarepusher, Stereolab, Venetian Snares vs. Stunt Rock, Yo La Tengo