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1999;

1 Tom Waits - Mule Variations
2 Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
3 Tindersticks - Simple Pleasure
4 Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
5 Johnny Dowd - Pictures From Life's Other Side
6 dEUS - The Ideal Crash
7 Le Tigre - Le Tigre
8 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
9 Zita Swoon - I Paint Pictures on a Wedding Dress
10 Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
11 Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
12 David Gray - White Ladder
13 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
14 Shack - H.M.S. Fable
15 Beth Orton - Central Reservation

1998;

1 Manu Chao - Clandestino
2 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3 Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4 Kruder & Dorfmeister - K & D Sessions
5 Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
6 Rae & Christian - Northern Sulphuric Soul
7 OutKast - Aquemini
8 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
9 Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision
10 PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
11 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
12 Jarboe - Anhedoniac
13 Madonna - Ray of Light
14 The Daktaris - Soul Explosion
15 Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

1997;

1 Radiohead - OK Computer
2 Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
3 Portishead - Portishead
4 Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
5 Howie B - Turn The Dark Off
6 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
7 Morphine - Like Swimming
8 Björk - Homogenic
9 The Verve - Urban Hymns
10 U2 - Pop
11 The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
12 Daft Punk - Homework
13 David Holmes - Let's Get Killed
14 KRS-One - I Got Next
15 Elliott Smith - Either/Or

1996;

1 16 Horsepower - Sackloth 'N Ashes
2 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
3 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
4 Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
5 Tool - Aenima
6 LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression, Level I
7 Los Lobos - Colossal Head
8 dEUS - In a Bar, Under the Sea
9 Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
10 Porno for Pyros - Good God's Urge
11 Patti Smith - Gone Again
12 Girls Against Boys - House of GVSB
13 Björk - Telegram
14 R.L. Burnside - A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey
15 Lee "Scratch" Perry - Who Put the Voodoo 'pon Reggae

1995;

1 Tricky - Maxinquay
2 Leftfield - Leftism
3 PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
4 Tindersticks - Tindersticks II
5 Long Fin Killie - Houdini
6 Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight
7 Radiohead - The Bends
8 Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
9 Mobb Deep - The Infamous
10 Björk - Post
11 The Tragically Hip - Day for Night
12 Autechre - Tri Repetae
13 The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
14 Swans - The Great Annihilator
15 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

1994;

1 Portishead - Dummy
2 Massive Attack - Protection
3 Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu
4 Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
5 The God Machine - One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying
6 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
7 Bark Psychosis - Hex
8 The Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
9 Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
10 dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
11 Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
12 Soundgarden - Superunknown
13 Nas - Illmatic
14 Spearhead - Home
15 Laurie Anderson - Bright Red

1993;

1 Björk - Debut
2 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
3 Guru - Jazzmatazz Volume I
4 Swell - 41
5 Nirvana - In Utero
6 Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
7 Tool - Undertow
8 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
9 The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
10 Morphine - Good
11 Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
12 Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion
13 The God Machine - Scenes From The Second Storey
14 Me'Shell NdegéOcello - Plantation Lullabies
15 Junkhouse - Strays

1992;

1 R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
2 Gang Starr - Daily Operation
3 Faith No More - Angel Dust
4 Los Lobos - Kiko
5 Red Devils - King King
6 Blind Melon - Blind Melon
7 Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
8 Alice in Chains - Dirt
9 Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
10 Dr. Dre - The Chronic
11 Sonic Youth - Dirty
12 Tom Waits - Bone Machine
13 The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
14 Ministry - Psalm 69
15 Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun

1991;

1 Massive Attack - Blue Lines
2 Nirvana - Nevermind
3 U2 - Achtung Baby
4 Pearl Jam - Ten
5 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik
6 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
7 Metallica - Metallica
8 Urban Dance Squad - Life 'n Perspective of a Genuine Crossover
9 Primal Scream - Screamadelica
10 N.W.A - Niggaz For Life
11 MC Solaar - Qui Seme Le Vent Récolte Le Tempo
12 Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
13 The KLF - The White Room
14 Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
15 Israel Vibration - Forever

1990;

1 Happy Mondays - Pills'n Thrills And Bellyaches
2 Depeche Mode - Violator
3 George Michael - Listen without prejudice vol. I
4 Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
5 Youssou N'Dour - Set
6 Sonic Youth - Goo
7 Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
8 Deee-Lite - World Clique
9 Ride - Nowhere
10 The Shamen - En-Tact
11 Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Without Judgement
12 A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
13 Pixies - Bossanova
14 They Might Be Giants - Flood
15 Alice in Chains - Facelift

See also;
Best Albums of The Late Fifties
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y26bt_best_albums_of_the_late_fifties_%281956-1959%29

Best Albums of The Sixties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y23k7_best_albums_of_the_sixties_%281960-1969%29

Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29

Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29

Best Albums of The Noughties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29

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1 Trainspotting (1996)
Includes; Iggy Pop, Underworld and Primal Scream
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2 Pulp Fiction (1994)
Includes; Urge Overkill, Kool & The Gang and Dick Dale
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3 Basquiat (1995)
Includes; The Pogues, Them and Tom Waits
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4 The Harder They Come (1973)
Includes; Jimmy Cliff, Toots and The Maytals and The Slickers
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5 Broken Flowers (2005)
Includes; The Tennors, Mulatu Astatke and The Brian Jonestown Massacre
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6 The Crow (1994)
Includes; The Cure, Nine Inch Nails and Rollins Band
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7 Stop Making Sense (1985)
Includes; Talking Heads
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8 Superfly (1972)
Includes; Curtis Mayfield
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9 The Godfather (1972)
Includes; Nino Rota
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10 The Hours (2002)
Includes; Philip Glass
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11 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Includes; George Baker Selection, Joe Tex and Sandy Rogers
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12 Purple Rain (1984)
Includes; Prince & The Revolution
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13 Coffy (1973)
Includes; Roy Ayers
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14 24 Hour Party People (2003)
Includes; Joy Division, Happy Mondays and New Order
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15 Babel - Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (2006)
Includes; Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian and Nortec Collective
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16 Kids (1996)
Includes; The Folk Implosion, Daniel Johnston and Slint
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17 The Graduate (1968)
Includes; Simon & Garfunkel
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18 Paris, Texas (1989)
Includes; Ry Cooder
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19 Lost Highway (1997)
Includes; Angelo Badalamenti, Barry Adamson and Rammstein
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20 Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain (2001)
Includes; Yann Tiersen
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21 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Includes; A.R. Rahman and M.I.A.
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22 American Beauty (1997)
Includes; Thomas Newman, Elliott Smith and Peggy Lee
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23 The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
Includes; Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
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24 Judgment Night (1994)
Includes; Sonic Youth, Faith No More and House of Pain
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25 Jackie Brown (1997)
Includes; Bobby Womack, Bill Withers and Johnny Cash
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26 Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
Includes; Ennio Morricone
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27 Garden State (2004)
Includes; The Shins, Iron & Wine and Frou Frou
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28 Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Includes; Philip Glass
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29 The Doom Generation (1995)
Includes; Love and Rockets, Meat Beat Manifesto and Jesus & Mary Chain
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30 Shaft (1971)
Includes; Isaac Hayes
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31 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Includes; Alison Krauss, Harry McClintock and Soggy Bottom Boys
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32 Goodfellas (1990)
Includes; The Harptones, Tony Bennett and Cream
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33 Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)
Includes; Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson and Yvonne Elliman
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34 The Pink Panther (1964)
Includes; Henry Mancini
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35 Easy Rider (1969)
Includes; Steppenwolf, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Roger McGuinn
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36 Music From Mission: Impossible (1967)
Inludes; Lalo Schifrin______________________________________________________________
37 Saturday Night Fever (1978)
Includes; Bee Gees, Tavares and Yvonne Elliman
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38 Donnie Darko (2002)
Includes; INXS, Duran Duran and Oingo Boingo
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39 Snatch (2001)
Includes; Massive Attack, The Stranglers and Maceo & The Macks
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40 The Ladykillers (2004)
Includes; Soul Stirrers, Nappy Roots and Bill Landford & the Landfordaires
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41 The Lost Boys (1987)
Includes; Gerard McMann, Echo & The Bunnymen and Roger Daltrey
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42 Malcolm X (1992)
Includes; Arrested Development, Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton
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43 Pi (1998)
Includes; Autechre, David Holmes and Banco de Gaia
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44 The Last Waltz (1968)
Includes; The Band, Muddy Waters and Neil Young
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45 Forrest Gump (1994)
Includes; Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Scott McKenzie
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46 Do the Right Thing (1988)
Includes; Public Enemy, Steel Pulse and Al Jarreau
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47 Lola rennt (1998)
Includes; Tykwer, Klimek & Heil
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48 Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Includes; Harry Nilsson, John Barry and Elephant's Memory
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49 Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Includes; David Bowie, Charles Bernstein and Zarah Leander
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50 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999)
Includes; Junior Murvin, James Brown and Stone Roses
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Step One: List your top twenty five most scrobbled artists and the total number of listeners for each.

9. Linkin Park (1,412,388)
25. The Smashing Pumpkins (1,329,678)
7. Fall Out Boy (1,064,738)
21. The Chemical Brothers (1,061,558)
3. Queens of the Stone Age (1,027,727)
4. Incubus (1,252,850)
8. The Prodigy (967,268)
18. Fiona Apple (669,819)
22. Yann Tiersen (548,355)
2. Smash Mouth (427,428)
15. Eve 6 (327,934)
16. Saliva (327,243)
14. Filter (258,886)
13. Matchbook Romance (257,586)
5. Michael Andrews (212,307)
11. David Holmes (153,681)
19. Olive (141,388)
6. A Guy Called Gerald (81,747)
10. The Blanks (8,371)
12. Skybox (4,044)
23. Little Compass (255)
1. Andrew Pants (108)
20. Ember Coast (91)
17. Runaway Diamonds (90)
24. Supafloss (80)

Step Two: Calculate the average (Total divided by 25).

Average: 461,425

Step Three: Divide this figure by the total number of listeners for the top scrobbled artist on Last.fm.

Top artist: Coldplay (2,325,449)
Mainstream Percentage: 19.84%

This is obviously due to the pathetically small listener numbers for those no-name bands I love so much. Again, this would be more accurate using my Last Week top bands, as that's more reflective of my actual listening habits.

First, make a list of your overall top 25 artists. Then, for each of these artists, add the 3 most similar artists to your list. Delete all instances of bands that come up more than once, add up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A low score represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a max 100 represents an extremely varied one.

1. Andrew Pants
-Rob Paravonian
-Henry Phillips
-Marble H. Johnson
2. Smash Mouth
-Sugar Ray
-Everclear
-Eve 6 (Duplicate)
3. Queens of the Stone Age
-Desert Sessions
-Eagles of Death Metal
-Kyuss
4. Incubus
-Audioslave
-Foo Fighters
-311
5. Michael Andrews
-Gerard Bauer & Mike Bauer
-Quito Colayco & Tony Hertz
-Steve Baker & Carmen Dave
6. A Guy Called Gerald
-808 State
-Goldie
-Photek
7. Fall Out Boy
-Panic at the Disco
-Cobra Starship
-The Academy Is...
8. The Prodigy (Duplicate)
-The Chemical Brothers (Duplicate)
-Maxim
-Pendulum
9. Linkin Park
-Jay-Z and Linkin Park
-Fort Minor
-Chester Bennington
10. The Blanks
-Scrubs
-Dr. Kelso
-Lazlo Bane
11. David Holmes
-The Motherhood
-Puccio Roelens
-Dynastie Crisis
12. Skybox
-Jukebox the Ghost
-Via Audio
-This Is Me Smiling
13. Matchbook Romance
-Armor for Sleep
-Hidden in Plain View
-Senses Fail
14. Filter
-Army of Anyone
-Stabbing Westward
-Black Light Burns
15. Eve 6 (Duplicate)
-Stroke 9
-Everclear
-Lit
16. Saliva
-Drowning Pool
-Crossfade
-Seether
17. Runaway Diamonds
-Taxidermy Recital
-Wallofus
-The Beasts Of Eden
18. Fiona Apple
-Tori Amos
-Rachael Yamagata
-Regina Spektor
19. Olive
-Airlock
-Mandalay
-Supreme Beings of
20. Ember Coast
-Batter the Drag
-The Beating
-Fifteen Minutes Fast
21. The Chemical Brothers (Duplicate)
-Fatboy Slim
-The Prodigy (Duplicate)
-The Crystal Method
22. Yann Tiersen
-Claire Pichet
-Yann Tiersen & Shannon
-Yann Tiersen & Natacha
23. Little Compass
-Stadium
-Little Yellow Box
-The Record Time
24. Supafloss
-Todd Barry
-Brak
-The Mike Hosty Trio
25. The Smashing Pumpkins
-Zwan
-Billy Corgan
-Auf der Maur

That's only 6 duplicates! I scored 94% varied! I think these bands really don't represent what I listened to all the time, though, just what's been in my library longest. Maybe I'll do it again with my "Last Week" bands.

01. How did you get into #31?
Batter the Drag - This is one of many Flying Blanket Studios artists Kate and I adore. This one she had to convince me of, though. It wasn't instant love.

02. What was the first song you ever heard by #22?
Yann Tiersen Whatever is the first song in Amelie, such a beautiful movie, and what amazing music. The whole CD makes you feel warm and fuzzy while driving.

03. What's your favorite lyric by #41?
The Minibosses Not only do they not sing, but they're really not a great love of mine. They're just one of the first CDs I added, so their longevity helps their numbers.

04. What is your favorite album by #49?
The Huskies only have the one album, The Good Fight

05. How many albums by #13 do you own?
Matchbook Romance - Voices is the only one that I own. I haven't heard any of their other stuff, but I should, since I love Voices so much.

06. What is your favorite song by #50?
MC Frontalot has so many good ones... Braggadocio, Floating Bridge, Yellow Lasers... but my favorite will always be Crime Spree, the original version with the unauthorized samples.

07. Is there a song by #4 that makes you sad?
Incubus (my favorite band, despite their ranking) has a couple of mournful songs, but the ones that get me most are Pardon Me (they mention being 23, so now that I'm older it stings), Wish You Were Here (any time Kate's out of town), and Nowhere Fast (reminds me of missed opportunities from my college days)

08. What is your least favorite song by #15?
Eve 6 Actually, most of their stuff is kinda mediocre. Jesus Nitelite is particularly lame, as you can tell by the title.

09. What is your favorite song by #5?
Michael Andrews - Slipping Away incorporates both the beauty and the creepy parts from Donnie Darko in one track.

10. Is there a song by #6 that makes you happy?
A Guy Called Gerald is kinda downtempo... not really cheery, not really sad either.

11. What is your favorite album by #40?
Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots is the only one of theirs I've heard. I don't have multiple albums from a lot of people.

12. What is your favorite song by #10?
The Blanks Again, longevity helps their numbers, but they have some pretty good songs. It's a close race between Happy Halloween and Commandos (Attack!), both of which use the same clever gimmick.

13. What is a good memory you have involving #33?
My Chemical Romance When I wasn't ostracized by as many people as I thought I would be for liking them.

14. What is your favorite song by #37?
Staind Both It's Been Awhile and Outside are high school radio classics.

15. Is there a song by #19 that makes you happy?
Olive is again downtempo, though to a lesser extent. Do a lot of people get happy from their music?

16. How many times have you seen #24 live?
Supafloss I don't like live music, though on rare occasions I can be dragged to little shows. I dunno if I could handle a whole evening of Supafloss, though.

17. What is the first song you heard by #23?
Little Compass is a Flying Blanket Studios artist that Kate has always loved, and through constant repetition of Risky Business she got me to love that one song. Having the whole album for a while now, I've slowly warmed up to the rest of their stuff too.

18. What is your favorite album by #11?
David Holmes - Ocean's Thirteen Again, the only album I've heard, and I wouldn't call it a favorite.

19. Who is your favorite member of #1?
Andrew Pants is a one man genius all on his own. So Andrew Pants is my favorite member of Andrew Pants.

20. How many times have you seen #14 live?
Filter I can't picture a scenario that would get me to a Filter concert.

21. What is a good memory you have involving #45?
Blaqk Audio I recently made a friend who is a fan, but she ended up not being my roommate. So it's not a happy memory after all.

22. What is your favorite song by #16?
Saliva The one song they're most famous for: Alive

23. What is the first song you heard by #47?
t.A.T.u. Who knows? Whichever of their massively overplayed radio hits I heard first.

24. What is your favorite album by #3?
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf See? Even my #3 I only have one album of.

25. What is your favorite song by #18?
Fiona Apple Oh man. Her whole When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King... album is near perfection. On the Bound, Limp, Paper Bag, A Mistake, Fast as You Can, Get Gone...

26. What is the first song you heard by #38?
Clearlake I had and loved Widescreen for about a year before I bothered to look up the rest of their music, and the way I'm addicted to it, Clearlake will be a lot higher than #38 soon.

27. What is your favourite lyric that #21 has sung?
The Chemical Brothers This quiz keeps choosing particularly wordless artists. I think my favorite vocal sample of theirs is on Under the Influence

28. What is your favourite song by #2?
Smash Mouth Who owes a LOT of listens to their longevity in my library, has a beautiful rarely heard song: Waste.

29. What is the first song you heard by #32?
Shirley Walker Of course, the amazingly perfect Batman: The Animated Series Theme

30. What is your favorite song by #8?
The Prodigy Probably Smack My Bitch Up thanks to it's awesome use in Charlie's Angels.

31. How many times have you seen #17 live?
Runaway Diamonds Never, but I would actually go to see them live. Not that I'd be able to stop Kate from taking me even if I didn't want to.

32. Is there a song by #44 that makes you happy?
ohGr Just about the angriest music in my library, so no.

33. What is your favorite album by #12?
Skybox - Arco Iris Again, their only album that I know of. It is pretty great, though.

34. What is the worst song by #29?
Apartment 26 Wow, they're pretty much a two hit wonder for me. They've got a particularly crap song, Evils, meant to be an interlude I think.

35. What was the first song you heard by #34?
Dear and the Headlights Something Kate played for me over and over, probably. That girl has a good ear, though. I love these guys now.

36. What is your favorite album by #42?
AFI Finaly someone I can actually answer thsi question for. DECEMBERUNDERGROUND

37. How many times have you seen #39 live?
Tinfed I'd be surprised if they ever did a show within 500 miles of me during the short time they played music.

38. What is your favorite album by #36?
Grant Kirkhope does video game music, so he doesn't get albums.

39. What is the first song you heard by #28?
Bôa - Duvet The theme for Lain caught my attention far more than the anime ever did.

40. What is your favorite album by #7?
Fall Out Boy None in particular. Each has a few good songs, each has a few disappointments.

Total number of tracks: 1,075

Sort by song title:
-First Song: Nightwish - 10th Man Down
-Last Song: David Holmes Zippo's

Sort by time:
-Shortest Song: (0:04) The Blanks - By Mennen (G Major)
-Longest Song: (19:46) Filter - Miss Blue (it's a stupid 'hidden track')

Sort by album:
-First Song: 100 Hits Dance Anthems - Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall [Cabin Crew Star To Fall Mix]
-Last Song: You Dig/Pimp That Bitch - Dirty Commodity - You Dig

Search ...
"sex", how many songs come up? 4 (0.3%)
"love", how many songs come up? 38 (3.5%)
"you", how many songs come up? 106 (9.9%)
"death", how many songs come up? 3 (0.2%)
"hate", how many songs come up? 6 (0.6%) (although 4 instances are the word "phosphate")
"wish" how many songs come up? 8 (0.7%)
"monkey", how many songs come up? 2 (0.2%) (I think I could try harder and improve this number)

Track: Cold Out There (full track)
Artist: Jon Hopkins
Album: Opalescent (2005)
Tags: genius, ambient, electronic, instrumental, chiller cabinet, the arctic circle, my gang rotw
Video: Click the pic...

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I have heard two outstanding new innovative electronic albums in the last few days - Thom Yorke's friends Moderat - Moderat and Jon Hopkins - Insides, both released in May and both equally as ingenious. The only reason I've chosen Jon Hopkins is because I also want to tell you about the latest news from The Arctic Circle and the Chiller Cabinet.

The track I recommend this week is one I have heard many times on The Chiller Cabinet, a late night radio show of "ambience, movies, & minimalism", currently on ChillDAB. The track is available here in Last.fm and I have it tagged for the group radio, which is based entirely on official tracklists I have managed to get hold of. To date, it has been my favourite Jon Hopkins track, although having heard the new album, I have some thinking to do. Also, we are enjoying a mini-heatwave here in London which apparently ends overnight tonight. So this is our weather forecast for the coming week! (Well maybe not quite...).



Ben Eshmade, producer of the Chiller Cabinet, has been very busy working on related projects, from free lunchtime concerts - Daylight Music - to free to download weekly podcasts - Arctic Circle Radio. Daylight Music also gets its own podcast called The Hut, which you can see in the same link. Week 2 was announced earlier today, so you haven't missed too much yet. See this journal from Chill DAB who introduce the shows. There are tracklists available for both podcasts and I plan to tag them all up for new tag radios, coming soon.



Insides, might just trounce Moderat's eponymous 'debut' (which was delayed by about seven years) by the tiniest smidge for its depth, variety, range and vision. Encompassing every sound between rural folkiness and breakbeat/jazz percussion, stopping for the tenderest of whispers along the way, the music is as beautiful as it is clever. From Hopkins' MySpace:
At long last, a mere 5 years since Contact Note, my new album Insides is out. It was recorded at Cafe Music Studios in London, by me, on the piano, and the laptop. It also features the following amazing guest instumentalists: Leo Abrahams on the guitar and hurdy-gurdy, Emma Smith on the violin, Davide Rossi on the electric violin, Vince Sipprell on the viola, Lee Muddy Baker on the drums, King Creosote on the humming, and Lisa Lindley-Jones on the additional vocals. Remixes of Light Through the Veins were provided by David Holmes and Ewan Pearson. Mastering was performed by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering. The record has been released by Double Six / domino records and the awesome artwork has been designed by Man Vs Magnet.

The bulk of the recording was done in the first half of 2008, and was finally completed last August. However, some tracks were conceived as early as 2005, with a few more being written in 2006. Then 2007 was too busy and only left me time to write Vessel in the September. Finally I managed to set aside a concentrated bit of time between February and June 2008 and turned it into what it is now.

Small Memory was the last to be completed, taking less than one day. In contrast, Light Through the Veins, from its origin as a simple nine-note idea in late 2006, eventually took over three weeks to finish, and ended up containing about 800 sounds, layered over 128 tracks.
Of course, as any Coldplay fan will know, Light Through the Veins was sampled in Viva la Vida.

The video was very welcome today as temperatures reached 28C in my living room. Not sure I'll feel the same once the north winds start blowing again. It features penguins, which will no doubt please Ben Eshmade immensely.



Babs _{My Gang}

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Admin - Stats as of today:

Last.fm listeners of this track - 6,285
No. of plays scrobbled in Last.fm - 24,592
Position in Last 7 Days: 14 / 200
Position in Last 6 Months: 3 / 3,164

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Date Added: 30 January 2008
Views: 27,040, Ratings: 56, Comments: 51, Favourited: 190 times

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