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Name your top 10 most played artists on Last.fm:

1 Lucero
2 Death Cab for Cutie
3 CocoRosie
4 The Blood Brothers
5 ben gibbard and andrew kenny
6 Matt Pond PA
7 The Thermals
8 Songs: Ohia
9 Hefner
10 The Mountain Goats

Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
New Hampshire

What is your favourite album of 2?
the rarities and outtakes album

What is your favourite lyric that 5 has sung?
haha, it's too much, you can't ask me to pick!

How many times have you seen 4 live?
once

What is your favourite song by 7?
No Culture Icons, duh

What is a good memory you have involving the music of 10?
awww back in the day when Raissa and I shaved our heads and flew all the way to Boston by ourselves and saw someone sing it at YSJC... listening to Kjell sing, cons.

Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad?
not really

What is your favourite lyric that 2 has sung?
see above.

What is your favourite song by 9?
"The Hymn For the Things We Didn't Do"

How did you get into 3?
the song "by your side"

What was the first song you heard by 1?
erm, something off the self-titled, probably Little Silver Heart

What is your favourite song by 4?
Spit Shine Your Black Clouds off the new album or Prick Class off This Adultery

How many times have you seen 9 live?
None

What is a good memory you have involving 2?
Seeing them live

Is there a song of 8 that makes you sad?
not really....

What is your favourite album of 5?
um, the only one

What is your favourite lyric that 4 has sung?
rapunzels rotting in their skin cooking coffins!

What is your favourite song of 10?
No Children or Woke Up New

How many times have you seen 8 live?
none

What is your favourite album of 1?
The Attic Tapes, followed by the s/t

What is a great memory you have considering 9?
haha, me, alone, listening to it? does that count?

What was the first song you heard by 8?
I've Been Riding With the Ghost

What is your favourite cover by 2?
Bad Reputation or the Bjork cover

[ except from Elise Nordling's blog - Inside San Francisco at rightround.com ]

You might remember I mentioned in June that my friend Pat Spurgeon from Rogue Wave has kidney failure. He's been astonishingly brave about the whole thing. He toured with the band while on dialysis, and at the end of September, the band finished the tour and returned home. Shortly afterwards, Pat found out that his potential donor had failed the final match test, meaning that he has to start the testing process all over again with another donor. Thankfully, he's got a lot of amazingly generous and loving friends who have offered to donate.

But of course, being a musician doesn't pay very well, and getting a transplant is expensive.

So, on September 30th, Rogue Wave held a benefit show for Pat in San Francisco at the Independent. They got an all-star lineup of bands to play...

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Revelant bands: Rogue Wave, Benjamin Gibbard & Andrew Kenny, Death Cab for Cutie, Nada Surf, John Vanderslice, The Moore Brothers, Winechuggers

We are entering a marvelous new world. We are being boldly innovated by new technology that allows us to do things we would have never dreamt of in a million years. We are able to talk to a man from China, while we are in New York; we couldn't do this 10 years ago. We are able to arrange a social event just by a few clicks of the mouse. We are in a new era: The Information Era. Everything is getting faster and more efficient. It seems, though, that one part of our old lives, is still exactly the same: Music. Perhaps it's just out of nostalgia, but music, despite the periodical change of form, has remained the same structurally for a thousand years now.

Music is being left behind. Music hasn't become any more efficient. Music hasn't advanced at all in The Information Era. While communication is much easier and faster, music remains boldly uninnovative. Who is it that is keeping music from taking any big steps in style? Nostalgia is the reason. We are afraid to add certain features to music that haven't been there before. We are afraid to add a 'Chat' feature to our song files. We are afraid to experiment with a 'Reload' button on song files. We are afraid to even try customized colors for each song. There are so many brilliant ideas in other areas of life, except for music. Music is the one area of life where it's acceptable to be bland and unoriginal. I think it's time we change this.

Why must our music listening be so monotonous? It is truly incredible how counter-productivity spreads. Music may have been very innovative at one point in time, but then beethoven got popular through ripping off of another well-known composer and from then it was like The Dominos. That is a very depressing thing to think about, but you must realize: "With every tragedy, there are millions of theories on how it could have gone right." Even if all of those theories are wrong, and music is, by nature, anti-creative, at least we're thinking about it. Even if we're wrong, we need to try to add more to the technology of listening to music. Because, I'll be honest: There is no reason for you not to get exactly what you want in life.

These are all the albums i currently own, I'll update it from time to time. Mybe later i'll try to link them all...when i have the time

Madonna
Worlds apart
One Time for All Time
The Fall of Math
The Slow Wonder
In a Safe Place
All-Time Quarterback
From Our Living Room To Yours
Know By Heart
Promise of Love
Set Free
Updates
Feels
Folkloric Feel
Peregrine
Two Conversations
In Case We Die
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am Thats What Im Not
Tourist
Atlas Strategic - Rapture, Ye Minions!
Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
Be Your Own Pet
The White Album
Guero
Odelay
Sea Change
Benjamin Gibbard & Andrew Kenny - Home Volume 5
Post
blink-182
Silent Alarm
The Bravery
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, Its Morning
Broken Social Scene
E.P. to Be You and Me
You Forgot It in People
Keep It Like a Secret
There's Nothing Wrong With Love
You in Reverse
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Cloud Room
The Ugly Organ
Plans
Something About Airplanes
The Photo Album
Transatlanticism
We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
5 Songs
Castaways and Cutouts
Her Majesty the Decemberists
Picaresque
Hate
Universal Audio
Read Music/Speak Spanish
Notorious Lightning and Other Works
Nino Rojo
Change
Emergency & I
Treble & Tremble
The Back Room
Bitter Honey
Electric President
The Black Magic Show
Figure 8
A Song Is a City
How Strange, Innocence
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
Blueberry Boat
Spry From Bitter Anise Folds
Film School
Flake Music - When You Land Here, Its Time To Return
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Folded Palm
Mouthfuls
The Futureheads
On A Wire
Thunder, Lightning, Strike
From The Cliffs
Appetite For Destruction
Our Endless Numbered Days
Return to the Sea
In Between Dreams
Jacoba - Easy Listening For Foreigners
Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Jimi Hendrix - The Singles Album
[Stay in the Shade [EP]
Veneer
Kasabian
Hopes and Fears
Hot Fuss
Quiet Is The New Loud
Riot On An Empty Street
The Worst You Can Do Is Harm
When I Pretend to Fall
Several Arrows Later
mclusky Do Dallas
Live It Out
Bem-Vinda Vontade
Highly Refined Pirates
Menos El Oso
They Make Beer Commercials Like This
This is What I Know About Being Gigantic
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
The Fruit That Ate Itself
The Lonesome Crowded West
The Moon and Antarctica
Mr. Beast
Underwater Cinematographer
The Sunset Tree
Z
High/Low
Let Go
The Weight Is a Gift
Alligator
On Avery Island
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Electric Version
Twin Cinema
Nivarna - Nivara
The Sunlandic Twins
Black Sheep Boy
Come, I'm a Lion
Slanted & Enchanted
Achilles Heel
Winners Never Quit
Blue Screen Life
Summer in Abaddon
Give Up
Broken Boy Soldiers
The Bends
Live In Hyde Park
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
By The Way
Greatest Hits
More Adventurous
Discosadness
Ferocious Mopes
Numbers & Mumbles
Chutes Too Narrow
Oh, Inverted World
Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
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Takk...
Small Sins
Final Straw
Nice and Nicely Done
Gimme Fiction
Set Yourself on Fire
Young for Eternity
Illinois
Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Sunset Rubdown - Snakes Got A Leg
Sunset Rubdown
Songbook: The Singles Vol 1
Shake the Sheets
Tenacious D
The Brave and the Bold
A Colores
Dream Signals in Full Circles
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Sharpen Your Teeth
UnWho Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Bows + Arrows
We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
The Weakerthans - Left And Leaving
Seamonsters
Weezer - Make Beleive
Hope And Adams
Per Second, Per Second, Per Second... Every Second
A Ghost Is Born
Where The Humans Eat
Apologies to the Queen Mary
Wolf Parade EP
Show Your Bones
Prisoners Of Love