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Vote for your favourite LP cover from 2009 over at;

http://www.artvinyl.com/en/nominate/nominations.html

You can see the images over there - didn't want to go through and grab them all for here - but here's the list;

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Baroness - Blue Record
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Clark - Growl's Garden
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Fanfarlo Resevoir
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Horrors - Primary Colours
Iron And Wine - Around the well
Kelpe - Microscope Contents
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns
sunno))) - Monoliths And Dimensions
Teeth Of The Sea - Orphaned By The Ocean
The xx - xx
Various Artists - New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets
Volcano Choir - Unmap
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Atlas Sound - Logos
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Florence & The Machine - Lungs
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Jamie T - Chaka Demus
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Jay Z - The Blueprint 3
La Roux - La Roux
Massive Attack - Splitting The Atom
Muse -- The Resistance
Skunk Anansie - Smashes Trashes
The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
The Hours - See the Light
The Mars Volta - Octahedron
The Prodigy -- Invaders Must Die
The Rakes - Klang
Thee Vicars - Back on the Streets
Weezer - Raditude
White Lies - To Lose My Life
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs

[Coluna do Caligari publicada no Melancholic Gothic Zine #16]


Dando prosseguimento a breve apresentação do darkwave ethereal, hoje vou citar alguns exemplos de bandas com sonoridade mais dream pop/shoegaze.

Vinda de Portsmouth, sul da Inglaterra, Cranes foi formada na metade da década de 80, mas ganhou destaque mesmo na década de 90. Sua música é bastnte peculiar, sendo considerada uma mistura de shoegaze, dream pop e gothic rock, mas o que marca mesmo é o peculiar vocal de Alison Shaw com uma sonoridade infantil até. A banda já gravou 14 álbuns, dos quais recomendo La Tragédie d'Oreste et Électre(1996), Population 4(1997) e Future Songs(2001).

Do estado de Ohio, EUA, temos o duo de trip-hop, darkwave, Hungry Lucy. Formada em 1998 depois de uma coletânea de tributo ao Depeche Mode, tem esse nome graças a Lucy Ryan, mulher morta em 1792, que segundo um médium que a incorporava, dizia estar sempre com fome. Gravou 6 álbuns com destaque para o duplo Glö(2003), com um disco somente de remixes.

Bel Canto, formada originalmente como um trio em 1985 na Noruega, tornou-se um duo a partir de 1989. Tem grande influência de Cocteau Twins e faz um som misturando elementos da música eletrônica, dark ambient e neoclássico, resultando num som pop e sofisticado graças ao amplo uso de instrumentos e aparelhagem eletrônica. Já gravou 6 discos e apesar do último ter saido em 2002, ainda continua na ativa. Justamente seu último trabalho, Dorothy's Victory(2002), pra mim, é o que recomendo a todos, por sintetizar toda sonoridade do projeto.

Outro excelente duo é o Love Spirals Downwards, formado em 1991 pelo casal Ryan Lum e Suzanne Perry. Com uma sonoridade dream pop/shoegaze, gravou 5 albuns pelo selo Projekt, e apesar de nunca ter publicamente se separado, Ryan Lum, iniciou outro projeto em 1999 sob o nome abreviado de Lovespirals. Eu destaco o album Flux, de 1998.

Autumn's Grey Solace é mais uma bom projeto de darkwave ethereal e shoegaze vindo dos EUA; dessa vez da Flórida. Também do selo Projekt, gravaram seu primeiro trabalho em 2002, tendo já lançado até hoje 5 albuns. Segundo seu site oficial, eles estão atualmente gravando seu sexto álbum de estúdio. O album Over the Ocean de 2005 pra mim, é seu melhor trabalho.

Lycia foi formada em 1988 no estado do Arizona, EUA. O ponto forte da banda é o vocal sussurrante de Mike VanPortfleet, trazendo uma atmosfera obscura mas não triste à música da banda. Gravou 11 albuns até 2003, além de Vane(1995) gravado em 1995 sob o nome de Bleak, projeto paralelo de Mike VanPortfleet e David Galas.

O ethereal abrange diversos estilos e essas seis bandas são um pequeno exemplo dessa riqueza de sonoridade. Existe um certo preconceito até de quem acha que Ethereal é um som triste, melancólico, sombrio. Há diversas nuances, recomendo procurar um pouco. Um bom começo é pesquisar pelas bandas do selo Projekt que vai, certamente, surpreender você.

Por Dr. Caligari

Какое же все-таки унылое говно первый сольник Dave Gahan и какой шедевр второй! Прямо как сопутствующие тому времени альбомы Depeche Mode - Exciter и Playing The Angel. Судя по последнему альбому DM третий альбом Дэйва (если таковой будет) станет опять УГ...

Here are some more stats: Top 20 artists for each year I've been a last.fm member (not calendar years - those stats can be found in earlier journal entries). The first year doesn't have any statistics before February because these stats have been calculated on the basis of weekly charts (@ http://troublewithdreams.com/scrobbler/) which didn't exist before that.

1st Year (Feb 13 2005 - Nov 7 2005)

1. Depeche Mode (666)
2. Nine Inch Nails (625)
3. Icon of Coil (606)
4. Covenant (521)
5. The Legendary Pink Dots (411)
6. Deine Lakaien (402)
7. CMX (359)
8. Death in June (340)
9. Assemblage 23 (316)
10. KMFDM (296)
11. Combichrist (295)
12. Current 93 (266)
13. Siouxsie and the Banshees (266)
14. Mew (251)
15. :wumpscut: (249)
16. VNV Nation (236)
17. Diary of Dreams (234)
18. Front Line Assembly (210)
19. Rammstein (209)
20. System of a Down (200)

2nd Year (Nov 8 2005 - Nov 5 2006)

1. Swans (1267)
2. Current 93 (847)
3. Covenant (612)
4. Depeche Mode (601)
5. Death in June (498)
6. The Legendary Pink Dots (438)
7. Project Pitchfork (399)
8. Icon of Coil (270)
9. Coil (247)
10. KMFDM (244)
11. Mesh (224)
12. Front Line Assembly (218)
13. Nine Inch Nails (208)
14. Einstürzende Neubauten (204)
15. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio (193)
16. Pet Shop Boys (190)
17. The Angels of Light (184)
18. CMX (183)
19. VAST (176)
20. Heijala (174)

3rd Year (Nov 6 2006 - Nov 4 2007)

1. Swans (1124)
2. Coil (775)
3. Nine Inch Nails (626)
4. Current 93 (496)
5. Depeche Mode (407)
6. The Angels of Light (312)
7. Black Sun Productions (307)
8. CMX (306)
9. The Legendary Pink Dots (300)
10. Woven Hand (260)
11. Coph Nia (251)
12. The Dresden Dolls (248)
13. Covenant (234)
14. Death in June (213)
15. Lustmord (213)
16. Front Line Assembly (199)
17. Sol Invictus (186)
18. KMFDM (180)
19. 16 Horsepower (170)
20. Antony and the Johnsons (166)

4th Year (Nov 5 2007 - Nov 2 2008)

1. Sleep Chamber (577)
2. The Tiger Lillies (440)
3. Coil (323)
4. Swans (317)
5. The Doors (296)
6. The Legendary Pink Dots (261)
7. Nine Inch Nails (245)
8. Einstürzende Neubauten (226)
9. Naevus (217)
10. Current 93 (205)
11. In Slaughter Natives (185)
12. Eleanoora Rosenholm (183)
13. Karjalan Sissit (182)
14. Death in June (167)
15. Sieben (158)
16. Kirlian Camera (149)
17. Ladytron (146)
18. Throbbing Gristle (146)
19. :wumpscut: (141)
20. Dead Can Dance (140)

5th Year (Nov 3 2008 - Nov 9 2009)

1. Depeche Mode (474)
2. The Legendary Pink Dots (294)
3. Swans (292)
4. Sleep Chamber (273)
5. Militia (247)
6. Crash Worship (224)
7. Coil (208)
8. Einstürzende Neubauten (203)
9. KMFDM (200)
10. The Tiger Lillies (190)
11. Die Form (183)
12. Dernière Volonté (182)
13. Vuk (161)
14. Current 93 (159)
15. Nine Inch Nails (154)
16. Foetus (140)
17. Test Dept. (134)
18. The Young Gods (131)
19. Coph Nia (129)
20. Esplendor Geométrico (127)

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

1 Katatonia
2 Opeth
3 In Flames
4 Sentenced
5 Amorphis
6 Evergrey
7 Fields of the Nephilim
8 Depeche Mode
9 Poisonblack
10Metallica


Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
More Than Ever

What is your favourite album of 2?
Damnation (that's so not tr00 :evil:)

What is your favourite lyric that 4 has sung?
Quite a few, but probably Sun Won't Shine

With her love she feeds the fire in my heart
And in her eyes, oh the birth of stars

The sun won't shine on me without your love
...don't you know
The cold wind kills the flame in my heart
...by its blow

Simple but great :)

How many times have you seen 5 live?
Once and only once. *cry* come back soon?

What is your favorite song by 7?
That's impossible to pick; all of Elizium is perfection, perfectly polished, pure greatness - and that in turn, is all favorite.

What is a good memory you have involving the music of 10?
Intro to teh metal world by my brother at the tender age of 7. Thank you. \m/

Is there a song of 3 that makes you sad?
A couple. Didn't think I was going to reveal that now, did you?

What is your favorite lyric that 2 has sung?
I can't pick a favorite Opeth lyric.
I lied.
I guess I can.

There's innocence torn from its maker
Stillborn the trust in you
This failure has made the creator
So would you tell him what to do

What is your favorite song by 9?
The Darkest Lie, I think.

How did you get in to 3?
Accidentally. Actually, no. I hated them at first. They grew on me. Now I can't get rid off them :D

What was the first song you heard by 1?
Teargas, I believe.

What is your favorite song by 4?
Hmph. Tough choice. It'll have to be Cross My Heart And Hope To Die.

How many times have you seen 9 live?
I haven't. They won't come here. I'll have to go to them. Grr.

What is a good memory you have involving 2?
Mike's helluva guy. So many wonderful memories @ their concerts, bless them :))

Is there a song of 8 that makes you sad?
In Your Room. For a lot of reasons. And it's a masterpiece.

What is your favorite album of 5?
Elegy

What is your favorite lyric that 3 has sung?
Hell if I know. :)

What is your favorite song of 1?
That won't happen. Can't choose. No.

What is your favorite song of 10?
One

How many times have you seen 8 live?
Twice. Would have been 3x, but Dave got sick :S

What is your favorite album of 1?
Viva Emptiness

What is a great memory you have considering 9?
Can't say I've got one. Ville's a nut, I love his antics. :)

What was the first song you heard by 8?
Policy Of Truth way back when ^^

What is your favorite cover by 2?
Hmph, Opeth does great covers; probably Would? although I'm fond of Soldier of Fortune

This was in my profile, but it's too long.

the_red_shoes's top albums (overall)
1. Neko Case - Blacklisted (125) 2. Suzanne Vega - Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega (93) 3. Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back (79) 4. Depeche Mode - The Sound Of The Universe (70) 5. David Bowie - Best Of Bowie (69) 6. Radiohead - In Rainbows (69) 7. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (68) 8. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (67) 9. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP (65) 10. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer (65) 11. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (63) 12. Joy Division - Permanent (62) 13. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust (62) 14. Joan Osborne - Relish (61) 15. Hole - Live Through This (60) 16. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (57) 17. Janet Baker, Raimund Herincx, Etc.; Anthony Lewis: English Chamber Orchestra - Purcell: Dido & Aeneas (56) 18. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (56) 19. Buddy Holly - Down The Line: Rarities (56) 20. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk (55)

cheekeemunkee's top albums (7 days)
1. Bad Religion - The Process of Belief (14) 2. Pearl Jam - Yield (12) 3. Midnight Oil - Earth and Sun and Moon (12) 4. Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion (11) 5. Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws (11) 6. Steve Earle - Jerusalem (11) 7. INXS - X (11) 8. illScarlett - All Day With It (10) 9. R.E.M. - Out of Time (9) 10. Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk (7)