1. What's your favorite song by 15?
Orange Juice
I Can't Help Myself

2. How did you get into 20?
Young Marble Giants
Here, in post-punk tag.

3. Who is your favorite member in 1?
Franz Ferdinand
A&B, the 2 men. <33

4. What's your favorite lyric bit by 29?
Razorlight
I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got.

5. Have you ever seen 22 live?
Scissor Sisters
No.

6. What's your favorite album from 10?
The Kills
No Wow

7. Do you own any merchandise from 3?
Keane
Their albums

8. What is a good memory you have of 7?
Kaiser Chiefs
First time I heard them.

9. Is there a member of the same age as you in 2?
Arctic Monkeys
They're 2 or 3 years less than me. XD

10. When did you first get into 8?
The Last Shadow Puppets
5 months ago.

11. Who likes 4 along with you?
Coldplay
Lots of people in the forum that I was registred.

12. Which song did you first hear from 16?
Josef K
Heart Of Song

13. What song made you fall in love with 5?
Muse
Starlight

14. Which song do you not like by 18?
CSS
Meeting Paris Hilton, no comments. ¬¬

15. Why do you like 14's songs?
Interpol
Because they have a touch of post-punk old school.

16. Where did you first hear 6?
Sons and Daughters
Here. =)

17. How long was 19 a singer before you liked them?
Travis
I don't know

18. Does 13 have a song that gives you a bad memory?
Snow Patrol
None.

19. When did you get into 17?
Bloc Party
In 2007

20. How long have you been into 9?
The Hives
6 years ago

21. If 11 had a concert 300 miles away, would you drive there to see them?
Joy Division
Sure I could, but Ian is dead. XDD

22. How many CDs do you own of 12?
Garbage
2: Garbage and Version 2.0

23. Does 21 have a song that makes you cry?
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Head Up High, almost.

24. Does 27 have a song that makes you happy?
Maroon 5
If I Never See Your Face Again (In original and their duet version with Rihanna).

25. Does 23 have a song that makes you smile?
The Killers
Could be Somebody Told Me

26. What's the last song you've listened to from 28?
The Ting Tings
Shut Up And Let Me Go

27. Is there a song by 32 that you've listened to more than 30 times?
Klaxons
Yes. Golden Skans

28. What is a song from 50 that you've only listened to once?
Duran Duran
Yes, various.

29. Is there a song you are sick of hearing by 24?
Amy Winehouse
No.

30. What song got you into 40?
All Saints
Never Ever

31. What is your favorite single by 25?
Air
Sexy Boy

32. If 49 hated you, what would you do?
MGMT
What can I do? Only say them: "F***in' bastards"

33. What would you say if 42 or one of the members from 42 asked you out?
British Sea Power
So many things...

34. Would you care if 41 had a boyfriend/girlfriend?
Placebo
I don't care. Each one with his/her life...

35. Who has the best voice in 46?
Suede
Brett Anderson, of course.

36. Do you think 26 is/are good looking?
The Go! Team
Ehm... I don't know. XD

37. How many times have you listened to your favorite song by 36?
LCD Soundsystem
Disco Infiltrator, 31 times.

38. How many CDs do you own of 30?
Radiohead
Only 1, In Rainbows

39. Is there a song from 38 that makes you mad?
Pulp
Not really, but This Is Hardcore makes me feel... depressed.

40. Which member from 31 do you want to see go solo? If 31 is only one artist, what would you do if they joined a group?
Belle and Sebastian
Isobel became solo. And Stuart... will be... the next?

41. What does your favorite song from 48 remind you of?
New Order
Many things...

42. Did you hate 43 at first?
The Bravery
No. Before I heard them, I didn't know about their exsistence. XD

43. Does your best friend also listen to 33?
The Cribs
I don't know.

44. Do you think your parents would like 37?
The Pussycat Dolls
No.

45. Does 47 have a song that makes you want to dance?
Oasis
Could be The Importance Of Being Idle

46. Have you ever seen 34 in person?
The Strokes
No, sadly. =(

47. Do you like 44's name?
The Arcade Fire
Yes.

48. Is there someone in 45 that you want to go out with?
Hot Chip
I think... no.

49. Do you know anyone that hates 39?
New Young Pony Club
No.

50. Have you ever danced to a song from 35?
Blur
Yes. Girls And Boys. ^_^

Músicas do meu top 15 em: Primeira, Favorita e a ultima que eu ouvi, abreviação "Última".

15º Sonic Youth
P: Kool Thing
F: Total Trash
U: Starpower

14º Rage Against the Machine
P: Killing in The Name
F: Know Your Enemy
U: Without a Face

13º Kraftwerk
P: Pocket Calculator
F: The Telephone Call
U: Geiger Counter

12º System of a Down
P: Chop Suey (Obviously.)
F: Darts
U: Darts

11º Arctic Monkeys
P: When The Sun Goes Down
F: Still Take You Home
U: The Bad Thing

10º Radiohead
P: Creep
F: Lucky/My Iron Lung
U: Reckoner

9º The Who
P: The Seeker
F: Young Man Blues
U: Pinball Wizard

8º Creedence Clearwater Revival
P: Have You Ever See The Rain
F: Proud Mary
U: Fortunate Son

7º The Velvet Underground
P: Heroin
F: The Gift
U: Sunday Morning

6º Led Zeppelin
P: Stairway to Heaven
F:The Wanton Song
U: Communication Breakdown

5º The Clash
P: London Calling
F: Rock the Casbah
U: Clampdown

4º Red Hot Chili Peppers
P: Otherside
F: The Greeting Song
U: The Bicycle Song

3º The Doors
P: Break On Through (To the Other Side)
F: Not to Touch the Earth
U: No Me Moleste Mosquito

2º Ramones
P: Beat on the Brat
F: Strength To Endure
U: Go Lil' Camaro Go

1º Pink Floyd
P: Another Brick in the Wall (Parts I, II & III)
F: Remember a Day/Interstellar Overdrive
U: Any Colour You Like

Fim.

Many thanks to one and all who have subscribed to our fan club - and thanks, above all, to Ian for setting it up (at his own behest, I hasten to add). Please make sure you return the favour by checking out Varialus.

So, you've heard our music, you've joined the group, perhaps you've chatted with us on our personal profile - now it's time to tell you a bit more about The Home Guard.

Though we tend to refer to ourselves as a band, we actually number just two: Dan the writer and Chris (me, but I'll keep it in the third-person) the producer. We've known each other since primary school and have been messing around with musical instruments, microphones and cassette recorders since long before A Head of Steam (our debut album) was even considered.

Dan takes care of all the vocals in our material, plus the electric guitar, flutes, saxophone and percussion. Chris, meanwhile, provides the bass guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, organ and synths. That said, our first album contains a couple of Dan's basslines, while a handful of lead guitar solos were played by Chris.

Our sound seems to be defined by a sort of quirkiness that we only really noticed in hindsight. The root of this seems to be that Dan likes the "what was that?" quirk of the likes of Jethro Tull and Van der Graaf Generator, while Chris is more into the silliness and over-the-top quirkiness of Queen and Madness. It may just be that our secret is the two different types of quirky for the price of one!

For the record, other major influences are David Bowie, Blur, Elvis Costello, Oasis, Sparks, and, of course, The Beatles. Meanwhile, we've been told by others that we sound like The Kinks, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand - and we're not going to complain about that (though of cousre such comparisons flatter us)!

In a future journal I'll go into the development of A Head of Steam. In the meantime, Last.fm can be a confusing place, so to clearly differentiate:
The Home Guard Artist Page: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Home+Guard
Chris of The Home Guard's Personal Page: http://www.last.fm/user/TheHomeGuard
The Home Guard Fan Club: http://www.last.fm/group/The+Home+Guard+FANCLUB%21%21

We'd be eternally grateful if you were to share any of the above with your friends. If you have the time, here are some other places you can find us:
www.thehomeguard.info (Official Site)
www.myspace.com/thehomeguardinfo
www.reverbnation.com/thehomeguard
http://cdbaby.com/cd/homeguard

Feel free to stop by at any of the above and leave your thoughts and opinions - we'd love to hear from you, and it helps make the place look lived-in. What's your favourite song off the album? What do you like about our music? What don't you like about our music? Are you looking forward to our new album? Want to ask us something? Anyone and everyone welcome!

Inspired by DukeOfDoughnuts' journal entry, I made my own mainstream count:

Take your top 25 artists, and find out how many listeners they have.

1. The Beatles - 1,497,411
2. Åge Aleksandersen - 4,274
3. Johnny Cash - 860,712
4. Shakira - 475,594
5. Millencolin - 248,552
6. Simon & Garfunkel - 732,524
6. Turbonegro - 152,957
8. Foo Fighters - 1,192,512
9. Green Day - 1,227,556
9. Bo Kaspers Orkester - 43,847
11. Manu Chao - 414,001
11. Jokke & Valentinerne - 7,373
13. Luis Miguel - 63,236
14. Orishas - 113,723
14. NRK P2 - 1,025
16. Alanis Morissette - 720,737
17. The Kinks - 606,916
17. Metallica - 1,124,238
19. Jokke & Valentinerne med Tourettes - 1,652
20. AC/DC - 849,248
21. Kaizers Orchestra - 55,732
21. Klovner i Kamp - 6,006
23. Arctic Monkeys - 915,809
23. Jamie Cullum - 320,469
25. Bruce Springsteen - 598,705

Total Listeners: 12,234,809
Divide by 25: 409,392.36
Divide by the number of Radiohead listeners: 0.30529474
Multiply by 100: 30.529474% ≈ 30.53% mainstream

Episode Six: Post War Years, Gillan Edgar + CMU:DJs
Plus the infamous CMU Pop Quiz – do you know your pop?
229, Great Portland Street, London, Tuesday 14 October 2008, 7pm-11pm
Last.fm event page

THE BASICS:
o The CMU Social is the monthly networking and showcase night for readers of the CMU Daily, the UK music business’ biggest and most popular daily news service.
o On Tuesday 14 Oct the sixth episode of the CMU Social will feature performances from two of CMU’s favourite new artists of the moment, Post War Years, who ended a successful tour with White Lies with a sold out show at the ICA, and Gillan Edgar, a great new artist from Manchester who recently supported Pete Doherty.
o As well as the music, the CMU Social is a real opportunity for music business people to meet, network and generally socialise – or prove their pop trivia knowledge with the CMU Pop Quiz (past winners include Sunday Best, Something In Construction and Olswangs/Glastonbury).
o On top of that, there’s a happy hour and well-priced food available from 7pm to 8pm
o Entry is free to CMU Daily readers, who just need to email the names of themselves and their guests to social@cmumusicnetwork.co.uk. Tickets will also be available on the door for £5.

CMU ON THE SOCIAL:
For nearly ten years CMU has been reporting on and writing about and bigging up all kinds of great new music. Among the artists to get some of their earliest coverage in CMU over the years include Stereophonics, Eminem, Snow Patrol, The Dandy Warhols, Delays, The Streets, Franz Ferdinand, Scissor Sisters, McFly, Kasabian, The Killers and Arctic Monkeys to mention just a few. To mark its tenth year, CMU launched its own monthly night meaning we can now not only talk about but also showcase the new bands we’re most exciting about – and just three months in we’ve had some storming sets from bands and artists like Infadels, A.Human, Maths Class, Vessels, The Deer Tracks, Sportsday Megaphone, RestLessList, Big Strides and The Penny Black Remedy. And this month, we’ll add two more brilliant bands to that list.

CMU ON POST WAR YEARS:
Post War Years have been causing quite a stir this year, thanks to shows with the likes of MGMT, Tom Vek and Does It Offend You, Yeah? They have also just completed a UK tour with White Lies, which ended with a sold out show at the ICA. Their single, The Black Morning, received airplay on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6music and Xfm earlier this year, as well as picking up glowing reviews from the likes of The Times, Fader and Artrocker. Their live performances are whirlwind of racing synths, samplers, and vocal harmonies and band members switching instruments and their sound sits somewhere between Joy Division and Talking Heads. We can’t wait.
www.myspace.com/thempostwaryears

CMU ON GILLAN EDGAR:
Hailing from Manchester, Gillan is getting noticed in all the right places at the moment, including the CMU office, where it was quickly decided that he’s exactly the kind of guy we want playing for us. His music recalls The Beatles, Ryan Adams and Elliott Smith with great lyrics and hooks so large they probably shouldn’t be allowed. He recently supported Pete Doherty in London, where he went down a storm, and we expect the same when he plays for us.
www.myspace.com/gillanedgar

CMU SOCIAL LISTINGS:
CMU Social – Post War Years (live), Gillan Edgar (live) + CMU:DJs
Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, 229, Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PN. 7pm–11pm.
Tickets £5, free for CMU Daily readers who register to social@cmumusicnetwork.co.uk
www.cmusocial.co.uk - www.cmumusicnetwork.co.uk - www.leylinepromotions.com - www.229thevenue.co.uk

The next CMU Social will take place at 229 on Tuesday 11 Nov. For more information check www.cmusocial.co.uk

Sat 4 Oct – Data.select.party, Colour, Canterbury, Butterflies On Strings, Cold Hearts

Chances are, if you are either old enough to buy alcohol, have a job, or are Stephen Libretto, it’s been a long time since you’ve been to a local gig full straggly unsigned bands who are unsigned for a reason and if there is any justice in the world will remain that way forever. However, due to the death of music and capitalism coinciding rather nicely at this time (so I hear), you too may find yourself in clubs that are little more than prefabs with stages that could at best host a small scale nativity play. Here is a quick little guide to the typical kinds of acts that will appear on an average night, as well as other general observations. If you think that good music can only be found in glittering metropolises, then let me prove you right.

Band Type #1 – ‘Ego before tunes’
One day, they’re going to be massive. In their heads, they already are. Tonight, here at this Charity Gig For The Deaf in a church hall in Staines playing to kids in lostprophets shirts who are too busy downing Red Bull with Strongbow and texting people to even look at the stage, history will be made. They may be first on the bill, but they will own the night. ‘DANCE! FUCKING DANCE! IF YOU WANT TO GET ON FUCKING STAGE, GET ON FUCKING STAGE!’ screams the singer, who has whipped off his shirt to reveal the tattoos he had done the week they had their first rehearsal. No one dances. No one gets on stage. A few people take the piss out of the guitarist and bassist jumping and jerking around – the guitarist and bassist think they are rocking out. ‘WHY DON’T YOU FUCKING DANCE?’ screams the singer at a group of fourteen year olds who are trying to discuss how Kaytee is now ‘all Juno’ after drunkenly getting off with Dann at Klarissa’s party over half term even though Kaytee was meant to be lesbian with Jessi to make her history teacher jealous, or at least they would be discussing all this were it not for the infernal racket. There is a danger that the singer may try crowdsurfing – if he does, it will be like Moses trying to dive headfirst into the Red Sea...but if he ends up in casualty it may knock some of the delusions of universal adoration out of him. By the last song, the band is so desperate that they send the mates who were standing at the corners of the stage , drinking lager and making snide jokes about their musical friends throughout the ‘set’ into the middle to start a riot. The crowd don’t feel like rioting yet, and move so quickly to the sides that the five or so cronies find themselves chasing each other inside the edge of a large circle like a strange version of duck duck goose. After the bassist and guitarist throw their instruments off like they once saw at the end of a music video, knowing they have proved themselves to be true rock rebels, the singer repeats the bands name and myspace link for the 25th time and thanks everyone for paying fucking attention. The sound guy has to drag him off. Ungrateful kids, they decide afterwards in the car park. One day when they’re famous and playing somewhere that appears on a Tube Map, those fucking emos will realise how great they really are.

Band type #2 – ‘Wackiness before competency’
They’re like so random. They have written in tipex pen all over their instruments and wear the weirdest things TopShop has to offer. They hang kids armbands over the microphones and a stuffed monkey dressed in a bikini and batmanmask from Build-a-Bear. They start off with a rock version of the Spongebob Squarepants theme tune and get the first moshers of the night. They throw lemons into the crowd, forgetting the crowd will throw them back. While they are tuning their Chad Valley keyboards in between songs, they have a Korean kid duct-taped to an armchair wearing a motorcycle helmet who has to talk about a random subject, usually a technical term they learnt in economics class, until they start playing again. They sing about eating electro-quiche at electro-picnics. (I have seen all of these, but unfortunately not all with the same band). They would be terrific fun, but no one cares. There is something that gets lost between the stage and crowd. It might be the fact that the guitarist spends more time on the water pistol then the instrument. It might be the fact that no one reads the seven word band name they have blutacked to the wall behind them. It might even be the fact that they can’t remember half the words to the Flight of the Conchords song they’re singing. It could just generally be the fact that they just aren’t very good. They are a novelty which provides welcome relief from the wannabes and wankers that make up so much of the evening, but only for the first thrity seconds, and after their full 20 minutes the joke is well and truly over. The band members rejoin the crowd for the other bands, and are among the most energetic dancers, getting anyone else to jump and sing along. Now that’s where we like them.

Band type #3 – ‘Sisters before image’
Here’s a band that looks hopeful. They don’t make a fuss, they set up their instruments as painstakingly as they can manage on a sound system that is probably older then the supervising adults. They are dressed in scruffy jeans and thoroughly tumble-dried Led Zeppelin shirts. They mutter their name into the microphone before starting into some instrumental music. They are probably the most musically competent band of the night, and probably all play uncool woodwind instruments at school, but here for a few minutes they are going to be the underappreciated talent of the night. But oh dear. Turns out those few minutes of delicate guitar noise were just warming up, and here onstage bobs a girl with a wide grin, bright pink and black clothes with angular stripes and one of her dad’s ties, plus a hat that has some feathers and a condom tied in it. She is giggly from vodka, and talking excitedly to some gaggle of boys offstage. The band start up again, and she starts singing, a screech that neither singstar’s electronic note recognition or the emo lover’s desire for tuneless out-of-key whining could merit. Several band members give each other a ‘here she comes, ruining our image’ glance whenever she shouts something like ‘SHAKE IT!’ about three times a song before doing some moronic little dance that she thinks is cute. For one or two of the songs she thumps a little pink glitter plastic tambourine without realising that she’s meant to do it in rhythm. The drummer is smashing his sticks twice as hard to compensate, probably to vent his frustration. There is no reason for this girl to be onstage, but the best guess is she is either the girlfriend or little sister of one of the band member’s onstage. She is a pop star, SHAKING IT while ¾ of the band make death eyes at the back of her neck. Female members of the ‘Wackiness before Competency’ are making jokes about her. Male members of the ‘Ego before tunes’ band are thinking whether they’d have her as a groupie or take her along in the tourbus...when they have a tourbus. After one last SHAKE IT! The girl throws the condom out of her hat and skips offstage to find more vodka. The guys in the band realise there is no more time for real music and get offstage, muttering to each other. One day, one of them will trip her up off the stage, or find a better singer, but until then she and her odd knee socks and her screeching will have to destroy all image of their competency. Even Yoko Ono never had to play pink glitter plastic tambourine to break up The Beatles.

Band type #4 – ‘familiarity before memorability’
By now the audience are getting restless, particularly if this is an under 18s night. They came here to jump about, shout about and if possible to start a drunken mosh riot. All they’ve done is stare apathetically at the stage, with a few people pogoing for about ten seconds at the front during a few songs before realising how stupid they look. Most people are still texting, or have gone to the car park to smoke (if you’ve not been to one of these gigs since the smoking ban, it means you can now smell the other people – which isn’t a joy - but you get to play ‘Guess the Stain’ with the ceiling as well as the walls and floor now), or even better a few members of the rebellious elite have locked themselves in the disabled toilet for either rolling spliffs or a sneaky fumble. But YES! Here are a group of people who stumble onstage who play Smells like Teen Spirit, and everyone finally gets to take out their anxieties on anyone else in pushing distance. People are on the floor. People lose their shoes. People lose their shirts. Blood may be drawn. Next song? Well, to give you a clue, it means forty teenagers get to regress back to the playground and delight themselves by shouting ‘GAY BAR! GAY BAR!’ at the top of their voices while the mosh pit turns into a whirly washing machine. Next song? ‘I can play this on guitar’ go about fifteen guys to no one in particular, and everyone has a slightly out of tune and out of time groan of ‘and aaaafter aaaaalll, yer my wonderwall’. Next song? Well, its a bunch of adolescents who vaguely like music, and everyone bobs up and down to Teenage Kicks. Next song? Something fun. You can’t really complain about these types of bands, they give the audience what they want – none of us are expecting to find the defining band of our generation playing an early gig here – but they serve to prove an interesting point. Not a single one of the songs played that get the crowd going was recorded before anyone left primary school, many of them not before we were even born. I think we’re missing out on something here.

Band Type #5 – 'Modesty before daydreaming'
If there is ever such a thing, these will probably be the headliner, or at least the second best band there. They may even be semi-professional, or signed to a record label run by their best mate from a suburban bedroom. They may even have a younger sibling in a tshirt with the band name on it. People will have turned up to see them – they may have actually hailed from a different town (myself and a few friends once went to an unsigned evening in Islington with a local band, on their bus. The band used to be called Dr. 8Ball, but changed it to Too Late Lucy because they wanted a three syllable name. It was rubbish, so we left the gig early and ran riot in various late night fast food places until catching the band’s bus back home, where the most hedonistic thing was the drummer trying to find another girl who would have a lesbian kiss with a willing volunteer for the sake of a youtube video). But this band will do fine. They will pull off enough songs for at least some shouting and jumping, or at least some deserved applause. They will have maybe one tune you can remember after the song’s finished (Colour’s Over The Moon is still in my head two days after seeing them, a very rare feat) and a nod to modern influences – Arctic Monkeys without the lyrics, Bloc Party without the beat and current ‘wankness’ , new rave without too much rave. The five pound entrance fee somehow all feels worth it. These bands will be of varying quality, of course, some will only capture the mood for one chorus or so, some may actually gain a small local fanbase and appear again at some place or another. They know they’re never going to go far, so are grateful for everyone who hasn’t gone home already, everyone who looks at the stage, everyone who applauds. They’re the best we can hope for, in some provincial cardboard box hall while kids in too much eyeliner are trying to steal your coat from the tombola-ticket ‘cloakroom’ and while real bands are somewhere down the train tracks, far far away. They’ll have to do for now.

General notes
Age will vary at these type of things – in general, the higher the mean age of everyone in the room, the better the music will be. If there are audience members who can legally get served without needing ID, then there will probably be at least one nice, sensible band that have acoustic guitars and beards. If there are many audience members that can legally get served but need to prove it then you can expect at least one acceptable indie band, who may even one day appear as opening for some other tiny band that only four people on myspace care about. If no one looks over GCSE age then expect none of the band’s to be over that age either. Oh, and if you are at a year 7 disco that has live music, then I’m very sorry to say that when I was wasting nights there (usually dancing with some pudgy Asian kid I’d never met and didn’t even like, if I got lucky) they played nothing but very poor Green Day covers, and I doubt they’ve improved since then.
Fashion...wear whatever. I went to such an evening at one of High Wycombe’s glamorous venues, The Irish Club (where there was a classic type #1, one mild type #2 and a handful of fair to middling type #5s) - the Irish Club being one of the trendiest gig places, if you read that with a straight face. There is of course The White Horse, home of exotic dancers during a lot of the week, voted one of the worst pubs in the country and mentioned by Snow Patrol as a career low point, but you’re more likely to survive a night at the Irish Club. The dress code seemed to be based on anorexic lumberjacks, lots of skinny jeans and tight almost-grungy shirts. Ladies, for hair and makeup, try looking like Robert Smith might if he showed some toddlers a picture of Heath Ledger as the Joker and told them to be his stylist. Band shirts are always popular, as are skinny jeans. If you plan on going anywhere near anyone who may start bouncing or fighting, wear shoes that are going to stay on (I once wore mini-shorts and dolly shoes to one such evening, for once. Got people’s feet imprinted on my skin). If you want to look all cool and indie, just go in the ugliest stuff you can find – granny cardigans, floral dresses, Victorian shoes...I miss the days when it was just the losers that had no dress sense. If you want to look less like a moron, then anything vaguely normal will do.

Oh, and if you plan on socialising, do it before the bands start. It may sound obvious but you can’t talk when the music is on, but people still try. You could go outside, but unless you’re hand is stamped you may find they won’t let you back in...such a high security thing, this. You could go to the toilets, but you will probably have to either step over whoever’s collapsed on the floor, or say to some scary little children that no you don’t have any marker pen. There is a bonus to local gigs, and that is bumping into people you know. And so I have found myself talking to a very drunk anorexic lumberjack style boy covered in lipgloss and lager who I hadn’t seen since I was in year 6, who was adamant that I had played violin on Arcade Fire’s Power Out before falling over and nearly impaling himself on a chair.

That’s about all. Don’t get me wrong, unsigned and local gigs can provide a lot of fun, and original music...but you better hope the Talent Show gods are on your side before you go...
LostprophetsSpongebob SquarepantsSpongebob Squarepants Theme SongFlight of the ConchordsLed ZeppelinYoko OnoThe BeatlesSmells Like Teen SpiritGay BarWonderwallTeenage KicksToo Late LucyDr. 8BallOver The MoonArctic MonkeysBloc PartyGreen DaySnow PatrolRobert SmithNeighborhood #3 (Power Out)Arcade FireindierockJuno - Music From The Motion Picture emoinstrumentalnew rave

Heute vor einer Woche vor 3 Jahren hab ich meinen last.fm-Account erstellt. Da ich damals wohl gerade viel Mando Diao gehört hab, hab ich als erstes in die Mando-Diao-Radiostation reingehört, wo mir unter anderem Blumfeld und The White Stripes empfohlen wurden. Seitdem hab ich fast 33.000 weiter Titel über last.fm gehört, also immerhin knapp 30 Lieder pro Tag. Die Idee von last.fm ist eigentlich, über seine Nachbarn und die lastfm-Empfehlungen neue Musik kennenzulernen, also mal sehen, wie gut das in den letzten Jahren geklappt hat.

Die Band, die seit etwas über 60 Wochen meine Charts anführt, ist Millencolin, die ich aber schon seit der Schule kenne und die zu den ersten Bands gehört, die ich damals über meine Mitschüler kennen gelernt hab. Einer von ihnen hatte immer die Textzeile "So many things that we start almost tear us apart, eventually" aus Otis gesungen (ob er nur die so toll fand, oder nicht mehr konnte, weiß ich nicht) und ich kann mich noch erinnern, wie ich mit meinem besten Freund darüber diskutiert hatte, ob wir NOFX (heute Platz 11) oder Millencolin besser finden, ich glau ich war damals für Millencolin wegen der Stimme des Sängers, von den Texten hatte ich herzlich wenig verstanden, aber man hat dafür immer geglaubt, so ungefähr zu wissen, worum es geht.

The Kooks (Platz 2) kannte ich auch aus Blogs oder MTV, bin aber erst richtig darauf aufmerksam geworden, als ich sie bei jemand im Auto gehört hab (ist auch einer meiner lastfm-Freunde, wer errät, wers war, bekommt einen Keks), entweder Ooh La oder She moves in her own Way. Ebenfalls in diversen Blogs (Spreeblick o.ä.) hab ich von Maxïmo Park (Platz 3), Gnarls Barkley (Platz 5) und den Arctic Monkeys (Platz 6) erfahren. Die Red Hot Chili Peppers (Platz 4) kannte ich, seit dem Californication in meinem Freundeskreis umhergegangen ist, wobei die meisten der Plays bei lastfm wohl von Stadium Arcadium stammen, das ich mir Ende des letzten Jahres zugelegt hab, als mir langweilig war und ich das dringende Bedürfnis hatte, mit mal wieder eine CD zu kaufen.

Hätte ich meinen lastfm-Account schon länger und außerdem schon früher einen MP3-Player, mit dem man scrobbeln kann, dann würden The Libertines (Platz 7) viel weiter oben stehen. Auf einer der Weihnachtsparties meiner Stufe von einem Freund empfohlen hab ich lange Zeit nichts anders als Up the Bracket gehört, Time for Heroes und Death on the Stairs gehören immer noch zu meinen Lieblingsliedern.

Irgendwann Ende 2003 oder Anfang 2004, als ich meinen späteren Mitbewohner besucht hatte, hat dieser mit den Worten "ich hab da ein Lied, das wird dir gefallen" Köpfer von Rantanplan (Platz 8) eingelegt und Unbekanntes Pferd abgespielt. Meine Reaktion war damals die gleiche wie bei fast allen, denen ich oder Freunde von mir seitdem das Lied vorgespielt hab, erst Verwunderung über das komische Lied, und dann ist es als Ohrwurm nie mehr weggegangen.

Die Ärzte kenn ich auch nicht von lastfm sondern von WDR Hit Clip, als die 95 den Schunder Song gespielt haben, und ich im zarten Alter von 11 diesen blonden Typen da mit der aufgemalten Zahnlücke so witzig fand und mir daraufhin von einem Freund das Album auf Kassette hab überspielen lassen. Den Sinn von Banane sollte ich erst viel später verstehen, damals war es für mich nur ein komisches Lied ohne Sinn.

Blumentopf (Platz 10) hatte damals Flo aus meiner Klasse zu Weihnachten geschenkt bekommen, um genau zu sein Großes Kino, und weiterverteilt, später war ein Blumentopfkonzert in Bochum mein erstes Konzert (abgesehen vom Ringfest in Köln).

The Go! Team (Platz 12) hab ich zufällig von einem Freund bekommen, der das Album Thunder Lightning Strike eigentlich für jemand anders hochgeladen hatte (ich habs mir ja nachher auch, ebenso wie Proof of Youth gekauft ;)).

Woher ich Metallica (Platz 13) kenne, kann ich jetzt nicht mehr sagen, aber die Mad Caddies (Platz 14) hab als selbst zusammengestellte Best-Of-Compilation von einem Freund zum 21. Geburtstag bekommen.

Last but not least hab ich von At the Drive-In (Platz 15) mal in einem Forum was gelesen und dann angefangen zu hören. Insgesamt kenne ich also keine meiner Lieblingsbands (bzw. laut last.fm meistgehörten Bands) von last.fm, was auch daran liegt, dass ich es interessanter finde, mit lastfm so eine Art Musiktagebuch zu haben, bei dem man noch nach Jahren sehen kann, was man wann wie oft gehört hat (dazu im nächsten Eintrag mehr).

Zu den Bands, die es nicht in meine Top 15 geschafft haben, die ich aber gefühlt öfter gehört hab, oder die im letzten Jahr weiter oben standen, gehören

Two Gallants (unbedingt hören)
Hot Hot Heat
Gogol Bordello
Rise Against
Flogging Molly
und No Fun At All.

1000th track: My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
2000th track: Muse - Gallery
3000th track: My Chemical Romance - Dead!
4000th track: Alexisonfire - Rough Hands
5000th track: Arctic Monkeys - You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights...
6000th track: Muse - Knights of Cydonia
7000th track: Muse - Invincible
8000th track: Mind Kampf (uk) - Głodny
9000th track: Muse - Feeling Good
10000th track: Muse - Megalomania
11000th track: Clint Mansell - Finish It
12000th track: Muse - Ruled by Secrecy
13000th track: Enter Shikari - Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour...
14000th track: Muse - Blackout
15000th track: Enter Shikari - Jonny Sniper
16000th track: Muse - Plug In Baby
17000th track: Enter Shikari - Adieu
18000th track: The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
19000th track: Muse - Unintended
20000th track: Jonas Brothers - When You Look Me In The Eyes
21000th track: Hopes Die Last - Spark Of Life
22000th track: Flyleaf - Cassie
23000th track: Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisco
24000th track: Panic! At the Disco - Camisado
25000th track: Panic! At the Disco - Behind The Sea
26000th track: My American Heart - Runaway
27000th track: Enter Shikari - Interlude 2
28000th track: SR-71 - Right Now
29000th track: Panic! At the Disco - I Have Friends In Holy Spaces
30000th track: The Kooks - Seaside
31000th track: Dope - You Spin Me Right Round
32000th track: Blink-182 - Give Me One Good Reason
33000th track: Plain White T's – You And Me
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you! took! my breath! awaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! yesterday
..and if you die, i wanna die with you.
będzie drugi rok? albo ekstremalnie trzynasty?