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So here's how you do it:
- Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
- Put it on shuffle
- Press play
- For every question, type the song that's playing
- When you go to a new question, press the next button
- No cheating!

Opening Credits
Parkway Drive - Carrion

Waking Up
Richard Ashcroft - God in the Numbers

First Day At School
The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Falling In Love
The Smiths - Shoplifters Of The World Unite

Losing Virginity
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood

Fight Song
Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack

Breaking Up
Mogwai - Stupid Fuck Gets Chased By the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend

Prom
Protest the Hero - Sequoia Throne

Life
Amusement Parks on Fire - Out of the Angeles

Mental Breakdown
Robbie Williams - The Trouble With Me

Driving
Breaking Benjamin - Polyamorous

Depression
Oasis - Slide Away

Partying
Doom Unit - Killing Time

Happy dance
Arab Strap - Fucking Little Bastards

Betrayal
Queen - Under Pressure

Regretting
The Enemy - Aggro

Long night alone
Billy Talent - Devil on My Shoulder

Flashback
Mudvayne - Forget to Remember

Getting Back Together
Keane - Is It Any Wonder

Wedding
Franz Ferdinand - Well That Was Easy

Birth of Child
Working for a Nuclear Free City - England

Final Battle
Lamb of God - Vigil

Death Scene
Akercocke - Intractable

Funeral Song
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name

End Credits
Killswitch Engage - Reject Yourself

Owned:

Air - Moon Safari
Air - The Virgin Suicides
The Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
Arab Strap - The Red Thread
Atlas Sound - Logos
Barzin - Barzin
Barzin - My Life in Rooms
Beach House - Beach House
Beach House - Devotion
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Revolver
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Beirut - Lon Gisland EP
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace
The Black Heart Procession - Six
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Bram Stadhouders - The Ship Comes
Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Catherine Wheel - Chrome
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
Club 8 - Club 8
Club 8 - Nouvelle
Club 8 - Spring Came, Rain Fell
Coastal - Halfway to You
Cocteau Twins - Four-Calendar Café
Cocteau Twins - Milk & Kisses
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig Ep
Cocteau Twins - Lullabies EP
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Con Dolore - Sailor's Warning
Con Dolore - This Sad Movie
Copeland - In Motion
The Cure - Faith
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Cure - Disintegration
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive
Daydream Nation - Bella Vendetta
Daydream Nation - Daydream Nation
The Daysleepers - Drowned In a Sea of Sound
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
Delays - You See Colours
Delays - Everything's The Rush
dEUS - Vantage Point
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Doves - Lost Souls
Doves - Lost Sides
Doves - Some Cities
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
Embrace - Out of Nothing
Embrace - Fireworks
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Feeder - Polythene
Feeder - Swim
Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon
Feeder - Echo Park
Feeder - Comfort in Sound
Feeder - Pushing the Senses
Feeder - Silent Cry
Feist - The Reminder
Fiel Garvie - Caught Laughing
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
For Against - Coalesced
For Against - Shade Side Sunny Side
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Garbage - Garbage
The High Violets - To Where You Are
The Horrors - Primary Colours
The House of Love - The House of Love
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
Idlewild - Make Another World
Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol - Antics
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Devision - Unknown Pleasures
Kill Hannah - For Never & Ever
Kill Hannah - Until There's Nothing Left Of Us
Lifehouse - Stanley Climbfall
The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed
Lorna - Writing Down Things To Say
Lush - Split
Lush - Spooky
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
The Magic Numbers - Those the broken
Magic Bullets - a Child but in life yet a DOCTOR in love
The Meeting Places - Numbered Days
The Meeting Places - Find Yourself Along the Way
Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
Mojave 3 - Out of Tune
Mojave 3 - Excuses For Travellers
Mojave 3 - Spoon & Rafter
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
Muse - Sing for absolution EP
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Nada Surf - Let Go
Nada Surf - Lucky
Neil Halstead - Sleeping On Roads
Nirvana - Incesticide
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Noah and the Whale - The First Days Of Spring
Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
Oceansize - Home & Minor EP
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than The Stars EP
Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Where Here
Placebo - Placebo
Placebo - Black Market Music
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Placebo - Meds
Placebo - Battle For The Sun
Placebo - Once More With Feeling
Pulp - Different Class
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
Ride - Nowhere
Ride - Birdman EP
Ride - Leave them all behind EP
Ride - Twisterella EP
Saybia - Eyes On The Highway
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Should - Feed Like Fishes
Sigur Rós - ( )
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Hvarf - Heim
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Slowdive - Just For A Day
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Slowdive - Catch the Breeze
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Slowdive - Pygmalion Outtakes
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God
The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
The Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Soul Whirling Somewhere - Please Sennd Help
Starrfadu - A Narrow Road to Silence
Starrfadu - And Yes... Our Thoughts Were Elsewhere
Starsailor - Love Is Here
Starsailor - Silence Is Easy
Starsailor - All The Plans
The Stone Roses - Turns Into Stone
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Suede - Coming Up
The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
Syd Barret - The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barret - Barret
Tegan and Sara - The Con
The Thrills - Teenager
Thirteen Senses - Contact
Tim Christensen - Honeyburst
Travis - The Invisible Band
Travis - The Man Who
Travis - 12 Memories
The Upper Room - Other People's Problems
U2 - No Line On The Horizon
U2 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground - The Best Of The Velvet Underground
The Verve - Urban Hymns
The Vines - Winning Days

Wanted:

Airiel - The Battle Of Sealand
The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be on Time
The Appleseed Cast - Two Conversations
Adorable - Against Perfection
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Carissa's Wierd - Songs about Leaving
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Club 8 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
Club 8 - Strangely Beautiful
City & Colour - Sometimes
Cranes - Forever
The Daysleepers - Hide Your Eyes EP
The Daysleepers - The Soft Attack
Eisley - Room Noises
Eisley - Combinations
Edward Shearmur - K-Pax: Original Motion Picture
Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
Explosions in the Sky - The Rescue
Fosca - The Painted Side Of The Rocket
Hammock - Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo
Idaho - Hearts of Palm
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
The Mary Onettes - The Mary Onettes
The Mary Onettes - Islands
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
Sway - The Millia Pink and Green EP
Sway - winter heart ep

Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.01a: 200 to 181
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.01b: 180 to 161
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.02a: 160 to 141
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.02b: 140 to 121
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.03a: 120 to 101
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.03b: 100 to 81
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.04a: 80 to 61

60
Radiohead
Planet Telex
The Bends
1995

The first moment, perhaps, where we realised Radiohead were not your average rock band, or indie-grunge wannabees. This, one of the first singles from The Bends (as a double A-side with High And Dry), had a swirling fog of electronic effects sweeping around the track from the start, and the strange, reverbed piano stabbing through the bass-heavy rock made for a distinctive track. God knows what Thom Yorke was on about for this song, but it is still a fantastic song and a pointer towards the experimentation and plaudits that were to come...

59
Arab Strap
The First Big Weekend
The Week Never Starts Round Here
1996

The first work I ever heard of this band (thanks to John Peel, obviously), back in my late teens this lengthy tale of a heavy weekend out on the lash with your mates before you have any real responsibilities in life, not surprisingly, rang true to me in a big way. The backing is lo-fi and cheap as hell, but frankly, like all Arab Strap songs, it's all about the beautifully observed lyrics and situations by Aidan Moffatt, of which this is by far the best he ever wrote. Also of note: the balloons unleashed during this live version (at their last show) are amusingly incongruous!

58
earthtone9
Withered
Lo-Def(inition) Discord
1998

A fiercely independent and, frankly, a bit odd, this band were. In fact, perhaps a little too out-there at times for the metal mainstream. Success, other than favourable reviews, eluded them, sadly, as a result, but their back catalogue still stands up well. The odd song titles and flat-out refusal to print lyrics/explain backgrounds to songs would have made them stand out enough, but their mash-up of influences - hardcore, progressive metal, thrash, sometimes all at once - frequently made them sound unique. This track is here above the others simply as it's the first I heard - while their best material was on their last album in 2000, this track was more than enough of a standout to get me hooked - bone-dry riffs and raw production, along with Karl Middleton's unusual vocals, not to mention the chorus that leaps out at you and throws it's hands around your throat until you pay attention...

57
Prong
Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
Cleansing
1994

A track that possesses an extraordinary groove (thanks to the ultra-clean production, the ultra-tight drumming and Paul Raven's bassline), this was, perhaps what is really meant by the odd "groove metal" term. Like the rest of this album, basically it is thrash metal with industrial textures, rather than really being industrial metal. But fuck quibbling about genres, this track rules. Obviously the instantly-recognisable, anthemic chorus helps, but how could we forget the chugging riff, either? Having influenced fucktons of bands since, Tommy Victor never really got the respect he deserved, either...

56
The Boo Radleys
Lazarus
Lazarus
1992

The song that first got the Boos widespread attention, this was an epic track that really did defy attempts to categorize it, merging 60s-esque rock/pop, jazz, soul, shoegaze…and was a truly brilliant, inventive song - a world away from the throwaway pop of Wake Up! Boo that made them pop stars for a fleeting moment. Criminally it was hacked down for it's appearance on Giant Steps, and even further for the single edit, so here's the full, majestic six minute version from Glasto in the nineties.

55
Soundgarden
Outshined
Badmotorfinger
1991

While Superunknown made them rock megastars, Badmotorfinger was their breakthrough, and it was thanks to singles like this. The grinding verses give way to the burst of light that is Chris Cornell's soaring chorus, and did the band ever get better than this? I think not.

54
Heavy Water Factory
Delusions
Author of Pain
1997

A perhaps little-known industrial band from Detroit, I first stumbled across this band in an article in Alternative Press in the late-90s, and swiftly picked up their first album Author of Pain (it took a while longer before I could get hold of the special edition, the remix album or the second album, all of which I obtained in the end). An unusual artist, really - a fair amount of the album was at the chill-out end of industrial, with the odd flare-up into dancefloor rage, most of the vocals done by guest vocalists...this track, however, was a little different. Jesse McClear himself did the vocals for this track, which is slower-paced but built around a dense meshing of samples and beats, with a ghostly female vocal weaving through it. It's sublime, much as the rest of the album is (Good luck in trying to find a legit copy now, though, seeing as the labels that released it in the US and Europe both went bust many years ago now...).

53
Rage Against the Machine
Freedom
Rage Against the Machine
1992

The final, climactic track on Rage's incendiary debut, this was the most nakedly political track on an album stuffed with politics. "Anger is a gift" goes the repeatedly whispered refrain, and they ain't wrong. An explosion of sheer fury and injustice, this song did a lot to reignite the cause of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian activist jailed for the murder of two FBI agents in the seventies whose conviction has been repeatedly called into question since. It's also possibly the best Rage ever got musically, too.

52
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors
You Can Never Tell
Turning Into Small
1997

Shoegaze, but not as we know it. For starters, this lot were from New Jersey, and while the album I picked up (this one) bore a passing resemblance to My Bloody Valentine in their drenching of just about everything in effects and reverb, they used far more in the way of electronics, from what I can tell. The first track, You Can Never Tell is a glorious three minutes or so of dreamy vocals and guitars that ebb and flow across your ears, and twelve years since I first heard it, I've still never worked out a single word of the lyrics. Perhaps this all-but impenetrable sound and image (the liner notes told me nothing) was one of the things that had me so intrigued. I was also more than a bit surprised to find one of the band is nowadays part of dälek.

51
Das Ich
Destillat (remixed by VNV Nation)
Re_Laborat
1999

Plainly and simply one of the greatest dancefloor remixes I've ever heard, VNV Nation turned what was a so-so single into a track teeming with life (and an absolutely slamming beat) such that this version has now completely eclipsed the original - oh, and ten years on it's still packing the dancefloor.

50
Numb
Critical Mass
Blood Meridian
1997

It is rare that sheer, seething rage can come across in an instrumental track, but Numb manage that here. A track of otherworldly samples, grinding, metallic samples and dark, dark ambience simply explodes into brutally heavy and dark drum'n'bass to spectacular effect. It needs to be listened to very loudly indeed, though, to fully appreciate it.

49
One Dove
Fallen
Morning Dove White
1993

This dreamy, blissed-out track was the opening track from the band's only album, produced by Andrew Weatherall, and boy, it showed. The whole album is imbued with a kind-of comedown feel, in a similar way to the much-more lauded Screamadelica, but what that album didn't have was Dot Allison's sultry vocals. This first track almost sounds as if she recorded when sleepy (and her voclas are recorded in such a way that it sounds like she is singing to you and you only), but the whole track just sounds unbelievably sexy. The band fell apart after this album, and for me Allison's solo work has never come close to this.

48
Type O Negative
Love You to Death
October Rust
1996

While Black No.1 may get the popular plaudits, for me it was always the opener from October Rust that was the Drab Four's truly brilliant moment. An aching gothic ode to lust and desire, their trademark black humour was set aside for once for a deadly-serious track, the stately piano intro and Pete Steele's deep, deep vocals setting the stall nicely - even if, let's be honest, the lyrics gave away a little too much information, eh? :)

47
Refused
New Noise
The Shape Of Punk To Come: A Chimerical Bombination In 12 Bursts
1998

It's never ceased to amaze me that this track seemed to take a while to catch on. Brutal, angry, political hardcore that was somehow wildly accessible, despite being also experimental like much of the album it came from (by this point Refused were unafraid to introduce electronic and acoustic interludes). The fact that it was lauded by just about every other punk or metal band subsequently may have added to it's appeal - a true word-of-mouth hit, perhaps. Whether that was the case or not, this remains an utterly awesome track that even canned crowd noise on the final mosh-down can't detract from.

46
The Young Gods
Kissing The Sun
Only Heaven
1996

The first Young Gods album I bought, indeed, the first TYG material I bought at all was the single for this. A mix of elegant, swirling ambient, and brutal industrial metal, and at points both at once, only this band could ever have carried this off. A unique band who remain endlessly listenable, even after twenty years-plus, and they've still not made a bad album yet, either.

45
Gavin Friday
Little Black Dress
Shag Tobacco
1995

Of his solo material (as opposed to his work with The Virgin Prunes), all most people will remember is the admittedly sublime Angel from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack, however the album that this came from had a couple of other cracking tracks (actually, much of the album is worth a listen if you can track it down nowadays). And this is one of them: a wonderfully sleazy, lounge-rock drawl about a girl and her dress.

44
:wumpscut:
Soylent Green
Music for a Slaughtering Tribe
1993

It's sad, really, that it was all downhill for wumpscut from the very start. This was the first single, and the opening track for his debut album, and it is still an extraordinary track. Pounding, thumping industrial beats with the lyrics and samples all derived from the titular film/story, and the result is frankly a bulletproof track. Shame much of the rest of his career was never as good - particularly in this post-millenial decade, where Rudy R's work descended into dreadful parody.

43
Clock DVA
The Hacker
Buried Dreams
1990

This just about squeaks into this list - the album it comes from dates from the 90s - just - so as far as I'm concerned it counts. And this track is perhaps at the cusp of "old-school" industrial meeting 90s industrial - a startling upgrade of the Clock DVA sound with a crisp 90s sheen (even if the graphical work on the video looks dated), the brooding bassline and growled vocals married to the stabbing keyboards. The extended version is even better.

42
Alice in Chains
Man in the Box
Facelift
1990

The grunge legend's big breakthrough, it certainly didn’t sound a lot like anything else at the time. The lumbering pace of the intro and verses (with Layne Staley's vocals floating across the top), don't initially seem to add up to most, but it's when the soaring chorus kicks in that you suddenly click. It is something special (and was extraordinary live last week, too).

41
Mogwai
Mogwai Fear Satan
Young Team
1997

One of the two titanic tracks that are the lynchpins of Mogwai's debut album, this is the hurricane of three chords, feedback and added flute that closes the album and stands alone as a contender for the finest post-rock track ever written (and, let's be honest, it's probably heavier than many metal bands were at the time, too). The band have made a few attempts to better this (Christmas Steps and My Father My King certainly spring to mind), but really, it's best left alone. In addition, this track has to be heard live to be believed (one of the loudest and most intense ten or fifteen minutes of live music I've ever seen).

Tuesday: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.05: 40 to 1

top 10

1.Destroyer
2.Carissa's Wierd
3.The Mountain Goats
4.Silver Jews
5.Animal Collective
6.Pavement
7.The Rosebuds
8.Arab Strap
9.Liars
10.Broadcast


NO.1

• How many times have you listened to number 1?
985

• Is this your favorite band?
yeah

• What got you into number 1?
just heard a lot of positive comments

• Why the hell have you listened to them so much?
i just revisit his stuff so much because there are so many awesome moments and lyrics in his songs, even though i usually have no fucking idea what he's talking about

• Favorite song(s) of number 1:
rubies, notorious lightning, school and the girls who go there, painter in your pocket, bay of pigs...for now

• Something you think you’d thoroughly enjoy doing with the band?
partying

• Favorite memory of the artist?
n/a

NO.2

• How many times have you listened to number 2?
651

• What got you into them?
just checked them out
• What makes you like them so much?
just so wonderfully melancholy
• Favorite song(s):
so you wanna be a superhero, low budget slow motion soundtrack song for the leaving scene, brooke daniels' tiny broken fingers, die, sofisticated fuck princess please leave me alone
• Favorite memory of artist?
listening to phantom fireworks again and again

NO.3
• How many times have you listened to number 3?
642

• Would you pay $30 to see them in concert?
YES
• Favorite song(s):
game shows touch our lives, palmcorder yajna, this year, riches and wonders, the best ever death metal band in denton

NO.4

• How many times have you listened to four?
527
• Would you go fishing with them?
only if dave berman provides the bait
• Any particular emotions run through you when you listen?
i just think that berman is the coolest dude ever
• Favorite song(s):
random rules, the frontier index, the wild kindness, punks in the beerlight, people

NO.5

• How many times have you listened to five?
444
• What’s so intriguing about them?
they don't mean to seem like they care about material things, like a social status
• Could you imagine them in a circus?
it would certainly make the circus more tolerable
• Favorite song(s):
did you see the words, for reverend green, banshee beat, kids on holiday, brothersport

NO.6

• How many times for six?
398
• How many 3's in a <3 would you give them and why?
who cares
• Favorite song(s):
shady lane, gold soundz, grounded, here, cut your hair

NO.7

• How many times for 7?
388

• I hear 7 is a magical number, is this band magical?
yes

• Favorite song(s):
boxcar, leaves do fall, life like, cemetery lawn, night of the furies

NO.8

• How many times for eight?
332
• How long have you liked this artist?
since 2008

• Favorite song(s):
the shy retirer, confessions of a big brother, dream sequence, one day after school, stink

NO.9 & 10

• Poor nine and ten, how many times you listened to them?
325 and 304.

• Why have them as number nine and ten, where is the love?
both desperately need to release new shit

• How long have you liked them?
liars: since 2008, broadcast: 2006-ish

• What are the poor artists from 11-20?

11. The Decemberists
12. Black Lips
13. PJ Harvey
14. M. Ward
15. Sunset Rubdown
16. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
17. Frog Eyes
18. The Magnetic Fields
19. The Durutti Column
20. Unwound

Woo, 30,000 listens recorded! I found it entirely appropriate that my 30,000th song was Amor Veneris by Arab Strap since that is my overall most listened to song of the past 4 years at 116 listens. I find that kind of funny because although I do love this song I probably would never think of it as my favorite song and certainly Arab Strap wouldn't even be in the running for my favorite band.

I guess it just goes to show that I don't really listen to enough music anymore because all my overall lists are dominated by things I listened to incessantly back in 2005. I think it's because I liked Audioscrobbler better although I can't remember why now.

1. Kent
- Provinssi 00, Ankkarock 00, Pakkahuone/Tampere 02, Ruisrock 02, Caribia/Turku 02, Jäähalli/Vaasa 02, Provinssi 03, Kulttuuritalo/Helsinki 07, Ruisrock 08.

2. The National
- Ruisrock 08

3. Tori Amos
- Provinssi 07

4. Interpol
- Ruisrock 08 (pettymys)

5. Calexico
- Ruisrock 09

6. Nine Inch Nails
- Provinssi 05, Ankkarock 07.

7. Bright Eyes
- En oo nähnyt.

8. The Smashing Pumpkins
- Hartwall Areena/Helsinki 00. 08-jäähallikeikalle oli lippu, mutta norovirus tuhosi suunnitelmat.

9. The Arcade Fire
- Cirkus/Tukholma 07

10. Scandinavian Music Group
- En ole tainnut nähdä missään, koskaan. Samoilla festareilla ollaan toki oltu, mutta kiinnostuin bändistä vasta pari vuotta sitten. Seuraavalle klubikeikalle melkein vois mennä.

11. Zbigniew Preisner
- Eipä taida tämä elokuvasäveltäjä keikkaa heittää.

12. Mogwai
- Tavastia/Helsinki 06

13. The Ark
- Pop Kalaset/Tammisaari 01, Provinssi 02, Makasiinit/Helsinki 02, Tavastia/Helsinki 02, Amarillo/Vaasa 03, Tavastia/Helsinki 03, Ankkarock 03, Klubi/Tampere 05, Klubi/Turku 05, Ruisrock 05, Ankkarock 07.

14. Damien Rice
- Cirkus/Tukholma 07

15. Katatonia
- En oo nähnyt. Joskus oli Tavastian-keikalle lippu, mutta junarahoja ei ollut.

16. Sigur Rós
- Södra Teatern/Tukholma 02, China Teatern/Tukholma 03, Kulttuuritalo/Helsinki 05.

17. The Black Heart Procession
- En oo nähnyt.

18. Mark Lanegan
- En

19. PJ Harvey
- En

20. Explosions in the Sky
- En oo tätäkään nähnyt, mutta voisin kyllä maksaa aika paljon että näkisin.

21. Death Cab for Cutie
- En oo, samat sanat kuin edelliseen.

21. Radiohead
- Globen/Tukholma 01

23. Coldplay
- En oo nähnyt. Mahdollisuus esittäytyi, mutta 70 puntaa oli vähän turhan paljon rahaa.

23. Belle and Sebastian
- Jälleen yksi, jonne oli lippu, mutta paatteihin ei ollut rahaa. Kaverit sai myytyä lipun pilkkahintaan.

25. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
- Tämähän oli Tavastiallakin keväällä vai viime vuoden puolellako se oli. Ei livenä niin paljoa kiinnostanut.

26. Magnetic Fields
- Jooei

27. Queens of the Stone Age
- Provinssi 03

27. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- En vielä!

29. Tindersticks
- En tätäkään. Suuri halu kyllä.

30. Rufus Wainwright
- Kulttuuritalo/Helsinki 08 (pettymys)

31. Blonde Redhead
- Ei kiinnosta livenä kauheesti.

32. Manic Street Preachers
- Provinssi 01, Vanha/Helsinki 02, Ruisrock 03.

33. The Flaming Lips
- Ruisrock 07

34. Goldfrapp
- En

35. David & the Citizens
- En. Olivat tulossa ensimmäiselle Suomen-kiertueelleen ja myös Turkuun, mutta just ennen kuin liput tuli myyntiin (vai ehtikö ne tulla jo?) bändi hajosi. Kiitti. Enpä odottanutkaan sitä keikkaa kuin viisi vuotta.

36. Boards of Canada
- E.

37. Ed Harcourt
- Olis ollu kiva taannoin Tavastialla, mut ei.

38. Patrick Wolf
- En vielä, mut ylihuomenna joo!

39. The Decemberists
- E.

40. Arab Strap
- Hajonneet on ne jo kauan ennenko kuulinkaan niistä.

41. Clint Mansell
- Keikkailematon hänkin.

42. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- Provinssi 09

43. Magenta Skycode
- Turussa asuvana hävettävän vähän: Dynamo/Turku 06, Klubi/Turku 09.

44. Thin Lizzy
- Phil Lynott kuoli jo jonkin aikaa sitten, eikä säälittävät lämmittelyt kiinnosta.

45. Mew
- Pakkahuone/Tampere 02, Vanha/Helsinki 02, Tavastia/Helsinki 03, Ruisrock 03, Tavastia/Helsinki 03 (toisen kerran), Kulttuuritalo/Helsinki 06.

46. Sparklehorse
- En :(

47. Weeping Willows
- Ruisrock 02, Klubi/Turku 04

48. Faith No More
- Ruisrock 09

49. Smog
- En

50. Mercury Rev
- Berns/Tukholma 05, Tavastia/Helsinki 06

Covers Mix




14 Covers


1. Calexico - Dance of Death (John Fahey)
2. Bat for Lashes - A Forest (The Cure)
3. Momus - Don't Leave (Jacques Brel)
4. Gene - The Ship Song (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds)
5. Marsheaux - New Life (Depeche Mode)
6. Crooked Fingers - Mansion On The Hill (Bruce Springsteen)
7. Ride - Sight Of You (Pale Saints)
8. Dave Gahan - A Song For Europe (Roxy Music)
9. Joe Henry & Madonna - Guilty By Association (Vic Chesnutt)
10. Joel Gibb - That’s Us/Wild Combination (Arthur Russell)
11. Justin Townes Earle - Can't Hardly Wait (The Replacements)
12. M. Ward - Story Of An Artist (Daniel Johnston)
13. Iron & Wine - Love Vigilantes (New Order)
14. Ulrich Schnauss - It's Raining Today (Scott Walker)


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http://www.divshare.com/folder/611073-419



The Original 14


1. John Fahey - Dance of Death
2. The Cure - A Forest
3. Jacques Brel - Ne Me Quitte Pas
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
5. Depeche Mode - New Life
6. Bruce Springsteen - Mansion On the Hill
7. Pale Saints - Sight of You
8. Roxy Music - A Song For Europe
9. Vic Chesnutt - Guilty By Association
10. Arthur Russell - That's Us/Wild Combination
11. The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait
12. Daniel Johnston - Story Of An Artist
13. New Order - Love Vigilantes
14. Scott Walker - It's Raining Today

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Halloween Mix





One Halloween Night ...


1. Silver Jews - Candy Jail
2. Cut Copy - Visions
3. Arab Strap - Haunt Me
4. Boards of Canada - The Devil Is In The Details
5. Apoptygma Berzerk - Paranoia
6. Cabaret Voltaire - If the Shadows Could March?
7. Jeniferever - A Ghost In The Corner Of Your Eye
8. Amon Düül II - Three-Eyed Overdrive
9. Pnau - Bloodlust
10. Barry Adamson - Crackula Has Risen From The Grave
11. Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
12. Coil - Panic
13. Frank Zappa - Zomby Woof
14. The Residents - Dead Man
15. Brian Eno - Spirits Drifting


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http://www.divshare.com/folder/611113-979

Adele
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/12/2009

African Head Charge
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1994

Mose Allison
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/09/2005


Antony and the Johnsons
Carré, Amsterdam 06/22/2009

Apparat
Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo 11/25/2007

Arab Strap
Vredenburg, Utrecht 10/08/1999


Gnarls Barkley
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/13/2008

Beastie Boys
Statenhal, Den Haag 02/10/1995


Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Vredenburg, Utrecht 03/13/2007


Andrew Bird
Helling, Utrecht 05/23/2007
Paradiso, Amsterdam 05/07/2009

Björk
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/25/1994

The Black Angels
Helling, Utrecht 08/19/2009


Blind Melon
Ahoy, Rotterdam 11/11/1993
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1994

Blur
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/26/1994
Dour Festival, Dour 07/09/1994

Body Count/Ice-T
Belfort Festival, Belfort 07/08/1995

Dennis Brown
Tivoli, Utrecht 12/09/1994

Solomon Burke
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/09/2005


Burning Spear
Paradiso, Amsterdam 06/15/2007


David Byrne
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/08/1997
Pepsi Stage, Amsterdam 05/03/2004

Terry Callier
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/29/1998
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/08/2005


Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/29/1998
Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam 11/23/2004
World Forum Theater, Den Haag 09/19/2006

Chatham County Line
Ekko, Utrecht 08/29/2009


George Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic
Tivoli, Utrecht 07/12/2002
Tivoli, Utrecht 07/13/2004
Paradiso, Amsterdam 09/03/2008

Cold War Kids
Melkweg, Amsterdam 05/05/2007

Bootsy Collins
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/11/2008

Consilidated
Dour Festival, Dour 07/09/1994

Robert Cray Band
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/08/2005


Jamie Cullum
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/09/2005
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/12/2009

The Cult
Goffertpark, Nijmegen 06/05/1993


The Cure
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/25/1995

D.A.A.U.
Tivoli, Utrecht 01/27/1996
Crossing Border, Den Haag 10/17/1998

De La Soul
Parkpop, Den Haag 06/29/2003

Dengue Fever
De Beschaving, Utrecht 08/30/2008

Delphic
Kitsuné Maison Party, London 10/31/2009


dEUS
Dour Festival, Dour 07/09/1994
Tivoli, Utrecht 10/07/1994
Paradiso, Amsterdam 02/23/1995
Torhout Werchter, Werchter 07/01/1995
Belfort Festival, Belfort 07/08/1995
Crossing Border, Den Haag 09/11/1996
Tivoli, Utrecht 10/11/1996

Alela Diane
Helling, Utrecht 04/12/2008
Paradiso, Amsterdam 04/08/2009
Helling, Utrecht 07/14/2009


Dr. John
Paradiso, Amsterdam 07/25/2007

Candy Dulfer
Beachpop, Renesse 06/28/1993
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/10/2005 with Sheila E.

De Dijk
Beachpop, Renesse 06/28/1993

Johnny Dowd
Tivoli, Utrecht 02/01/2001

Eek-A-Mouse
Tivoli, Utrecht 12/01/1997

Faith No More
De Kuip, Rotterdam 06/23/1992

Fanfare Ciocarlia
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/15/2007

Fat Freddy's Drop
Paradiso, Amsterdam 11/26/2009


Ibrahim Ferrer
North Sea jazz, Den Haag 07/08/2005

Fever Ray
Paradiso, Amsterdam 12/03/2009

Fink
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/11/2008

Forguette Mi Note
Dour Festival, Dour 07/09/1994

Fun-Da-Mental
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/27/1997

G. Love and Special Sauce
Metropolis at Zuiderpark, Rotterdam 07/10/1994

Peter Gabriel
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/26/1994

Girls Against Boys
Hotel Arena, Amsterdam 10/29/1994

Gomez
Tivoli, Utrecht 07/04/2002

Gotcha!
Beachpop, Renesse 06/28/1993
Bevrijdingspop, Haarlem 05/05/1996


Al Green
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/08/2005

Guns N' Roses
De Kuip, Rotterdam 06/23/1992
Goffertpark, Nijmegen 06/05/1993

Buddy Guy
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/13/2008

Hallo Venray
Tivoli, Utrecht 12/17/1993

Herbie Hancock and The Headhunters
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/29/1998


Roy Hargrove
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/12/2008

PJ Harvey
Torhout Werchter, Werchter 07/01/1995
Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam 06/10/2004

Kristin Hersh
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/27/1998

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/26/1994

Gregory Isaacs
Tivoli, Utrecht 12/09/1994

Joe Jackson
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/13/2008

Jose James
Tivoli, Utrecht 05/08/2008


Jamiroquai
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1995

Molly Johnson
Paradiso, Amsterdam 10/18/2009

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/12/2008

Junkhouse
Knoninginnenach Spui, Den Haag 04/28/1995
Paard, Den Haag 04/28/1995
Gigant, Apeldoorn 04/29/1995

Jurassic 5
Metropolis, Rotterdam 07/04/1999


Kaizers Orchestra
De Beschaving, Utrecht 08/30/2008

Kelis
Gelredome, Arnhem 08/01/2001

Alicia Keys
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/13/2008

Killing Joke
Paradiso, Amsterdam 05/18/1996

King Sunny Ade
Parkpop, Den Haag 08/21/1994

Kiss My Jazz
Patronaat, Haarlem 04/27/1996

Kosheen
Crossing Border, Amsterdam 11/21/2000

Lenny Kravitz
Ahoy, Rotterdam 11/15/1991
Ahoy, Rotterdam 11/11/1993
Westerpark, Amsterdam 07/04/2009

Kyuss
Tivoli, Utrecht 02/09/1995

The Levellers
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1994

Lightning Dust
Helling, Utrecht 11/27/2009

Live
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1995


Los Lobos
Paradiso, Amsterdam 09/21/1999

Luciano
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/29/1997


Massive Attack
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/27/1997
Vredenburg, Utrecht 06/03/1998
Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam 04/28/2003
Westerpark, Amsterdam 07/03/2008

Marcus Miller
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/11/2008

Moondog Jr.
Tivoli, Utrecht 01/27/1996

Van Morrison
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/29/1997

Morphine
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/25/1995
Crossing Border, Den Haag 09/11/1996


Róisin Murphy
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/10/2005
Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam 11/21/2008

Me'shell N'degéocello
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/25/1994


Youssou N'Dour
Glatonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/29/1997
Parkpop, Den Haag 06/29/2003
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/13/2008

Nits
Helling, Utrecht 11/22/2009

Nneka
De Beschaving, Utrecht 08/30/2008

Oasis
Paradiso, Amsterdam 11/25/1994

The Offspring
Metropolis at Zuiderpark, Rotterdam 07/10/1994

Orbital
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/25/1994

Ozric Tentacles
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/28/1998


Page & Plant
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/25/1995
Belfort Festival, Belfort 07/08/1995

Maceo Parker
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/10/2005
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/15/2007

Pere Ubu
Tivoli, Utrecht 11/28/1998
Helling, Utrecht 10/01/2009


Lee "Scratch" Perry
Tivoli, Utrecht 05/22/2008

Pete Philly & Perquisite
De Beschaving, Utrecht 08/30/2008

Phosphorescent
Paradiso, Amsterdam 05/07/2009

Pink Floyd
De Kuip, Rotterdam 09/05/1994

A Place to Bury Strangers
Helling, Utrecht 08/19/2009

Iggy Pop
Finsbury Park, London 06/23/1996


Portishead
Vredenburg, Utrecht 02/13/1998
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/27/1998

Primal Scream
Metropolis at Zuiderpark, Rotterdam 07/10/1994


Prince
De Kuip, Rotterdam 08/18/1988
De Kuip, Rotterdam 06/02/1990
Thialf, Heerenveen 08/05/1990
Ahoy, Rotterdam 07/05/1992
Brabanthallen, Den Bosch 08/09/1993

The Prodigy
Metropolis at Zuiderpark, Rotterdam 07/10/1994
Glatonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/23/1995

Public Enemy
Belfort Festival, Belfort 07/08/1995

Pulp
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/26/1994

Q-Tip
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/12/2009


Radiohead
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/26/1994
Paradiso, Amsterdam 12/04/1995
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/28/1997

Rage Against the Machine
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1994

Rahzel
Crossing Border, Den Haag 11/22/1997


Red Snapper
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/25/1995
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/27/1997
North Sea Jazz, den Haag 07/11/1997

R.E.M.
Torhout Werchter, Werchter 07/01/1995


Rollins Band
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1994
Dour Festival, Dour 07/09/1994

Mark Ronson
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/13/2008

Nitin Sawhney
Paradiso, Amsterdam 06/04/2005

The Scene
Torhout Werchter, Werchter 06/30/1995
Patronaat, Haarlem 04/20/1996


Jill Scott
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/11/2008

Seal
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/12/2009

Senser
Glatonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/23/1995


Sex Pistols
Finsbury Park, London 06/23/1996

Ian Siegal
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/08/2005

Paul Simon
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/12/2008

Mariee Sioux
Helling, Utrecht 04/12/2008

Six Organs of Admittance
Helling, Utrecht 11/27/2009


16 Horsepower
Crossing Border, Den Haag 09/11/1996
Crossing Border, Den Haag 10/17/1998

Skunk Anansie
Finsbury Park, London 06/23/1996

Sly & The Family Stone
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/15/2007


Patti Smith
Paradiso, Amsterdam 08/18/2005

Snoop Dogg
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/15/2007


Sonic Youth
Vredenburg, Utrecht 04/17/1996

Soul Asylum
Goffertpark, Nijmegen 06/05/1993

Soul Coughing
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1995
North Sea Jazz, den Haag 07/11/1997

Soundgarden
De Kuip, Rotterdam 06/23/1992
Vredenburg, Utrecht 04/09/1994


Spearhead/Michael Franti
Glatonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/23/1995
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/27/1997
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/09/2004

Spin Doctors
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1994

Angie Stone
North Sea Jazz, Den Haag 07/09/2004
Paradiso, Amsterdam 08/15/2006

Swell
Tivoli, Utrecht 06/07/1994

Third World
Bevrijdingspop, Haarlem 05/05/1996

13 (feat. Lester Butler)
Crossing Border, Den Haag 11/22/1997

3-11
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1995


Tindersticks
Crossing Border, Den Haag 10/07/1999
Vredenburg, Utrecht 10/08/1999
Crossing Border, Amsterdam 11/21/2000
Oosterpoort, Groningen 03/24/2002
Vredenburg, Utrecht 05/01/2008


Tool
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1994
Dour Festival, Dour 07/09/1994

Toots And The Maytels
De Helling, Utrecht 06/24/2004

The Tragically Hip
Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum 05/07/1997

Transglobal Underground
Dunya Festival, Rotterdam 05/31/2009

Tricky
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/25/1995

Urban Dance Squad
Statenhal, Den Haag 02/10/1995
Tivoli, Utrecht 12/22/1996


U2
Stadion Strahov, Prague 08/14/1997
Gelredome, Arnhem 08/01/2001

Herman van Veen
Luxor, Rotterdam 03/14/2009

Steve Winwood
North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam 07/12/2009

Zion Train
Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury 06/24/1995

Zita Swoon
Crossing Border, Den Haag 10/17/1998
Paard, Den Haag 12/19/1998

Zuco 103
Wilhelminapark, Utrecht 05/25/2008
Dunya Festival, Rotterdam 05/31/2009