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Ok, so a significant part of the draw to Last.fm has always been the recommendations.

You listen to a bunch of tracks that you like and through the magic of databases, algorithms, and other listeners with similar tastes; you're presented with artist recommendations courtesy of the machine.

Their used to be a sweet feature subset of the recommendation engine that allowed groups and other users to send you recommendations to which you could also mix in to your musical discovery journey.

Unfortunately with the most recent 'overhaul' of the site, group recommendations went away completely and personal recommendations went to pot. Instead of being displayed on a singular page and allowed to populate a radio stream of unbroken recommendations, they now appear in your inbox where you have to sample them one-at-a-time.

Not nearly as fun nor conducive to the discovery listening process. :-(

I'd previously found a tool (I'll stick a link in here later) that would scrape some of your top artists data and present you a cloud of recommended artists -- it worked as good or better than the machine recommendations mentioned above.

As good as artists recommendations are however, I've always hoped for a track recommendation system... and now there is!

My understanding is that your top tracks are compiled, the most similar tracks to these, which you have not previously scrobbled, are extrapolated and then weighted on how many times they appear as a similar track to one of your top tracks. You're then presented with a list and a Last.fm friendly bb code you can copy-paste. One day hopefully there will be the ability to quickly dump the list in to a playlist or mass tag the result set in order to effortlessly begin the listening discovery process.

Until such time we'll just have to dump them somewhere here, such as a journal and either sample independantly, or use the resulting links to compile a tag set or playlist ourselves.

They say that one day in the future, the machines will do all the work for us, instead of us doing all the work for the machines...

IIRC, the first list is from feeding in my top 50 tracks, and the second list (which should be more accurate) is from feeding in my top 200. I decided to save both for sake of comparison. I expect a lot of duplicates, which should be strongly recommended, but am also interested in the uniques.

The author of this tool, kurtrips also presents a 'Random Song Statistics' generator, that will reveal how many unique tracks represent the total of all your listened tracks, and present as well an SRI or 'Song Repetition Index' representing how many times you listen to a track, when averaged over all the tracks to which you have listened.

In fact, you need to run the Random Song Statistics tool on that site before you can benefit from running the Song Recommendation Tool.

More information can be found here: Random Song Statistics And Song Recommendation Tool

Recommended Songs (sorted by most recommended songs)

Lady Folly : Ilya (Score = 114.66)
Inside My Mind (Blue Skies) : Groove Armada (Score = 93.58)
Dieu Reconnaitra Les Siens : DJ Cam (Score = 86.25)
Ramblin' Man : Lemon Jelly (Score = 85.65)
La Luna : Robert Rich & Steve Roach (Score = 84.87)
The Dream Is Always the Same : Tangerine Dream (Score = 83.91)
SOS : Asura (Score = 83.85)
1/1 : Brian Eno (Score = 82.95)
Yo-Yo (Abbey Road Version) : Amorphous Androgynous (Score = 82.46)
Tristesse Globale : Röyksopp (Score = 82.3)
Soluble Ducks : Animals on Wheels (Score = 81.54)
Lunar Orbit Four - Back Side Of The Moon : The Orb (Score = 81.39)
The Rhythm Resonator : Kilvo (Score = 81.39)
Self transforming experience : Solar Fields (Score = 81.24)
Velius : Helios (Score = 81.2)
Novio : Moby (Score = 81.19)
Understars : Brian Eno (Score = 81.11)
The Claddagh of Sera Kirby : Flim (Score = 81.07)
Noun : Pan•American (Score = 80.73)
Out Of Nothing : O Yuki Conjugate (Score = 80.71)
Heliopolis : Banco de Gaia (Score = 79.86)
Nummer 6 : Porn Sword Tobacco (Score = 79.83)
MOS 6581 (Album Version) : Carbon Based Lifeforms (Score = 79.68)
Waveform (Ambient Jungle mix) : The Irresistible Force (Score = 79.67)
Black Lamb & Grey Falcon : Biosphere (Score = 79.53)
Green Reflections : Biosphere (Score = 79.45)
Nummer 14 : Porn Sword Tobacco (Score = 79.2)
Mobility Cookie Redirection : SK123 (Score = 78.99)
Big Teeth Man : Metricks (Score = 78.95)
Night Bus : Burial (Score = 78.81)
Everyone in the World Is Doing Something Without Me : The Future Sound of London (Score = 78.77)
Blue Haze : Ishq (Score = 78.57)
Butterfly : Piana (Score = 78.5)
Beat of Desire : Steve Roach (Score = 78.37)
Isometric unit construction : Domotic (Score = 78.16)
Snowflake 8 : Yagya (Score = 78.15)
Lucky Saddle : FFWD (Score = 77.97)
Sensitive Data : Chris Korda (Score = 77.89)
Mullholland : Stars of the Lid (Score = 77.88)
Poem - Aztec hotel : Harold Budd (Score = 77.86)
Remember My Name : Bliss (Score = 77.8)
The Sea is in the Boat : The Boats (Score = 77.77)
Yara 06 : Marsen Jules (Score = 77.75)
Winston : Naked 9 (Score = 77.58)
Dark Eyed Sister : Harold Budd/Brian Eno (Score = 77.53)
Chinook : Loscil (Score = 77.46)
Reliant : Planet Bliss (Score = 77.44)
Ultrasound : Transient (Score = 77.41)
Chamber of Synthi Dreams : Pete Namlook (Score = 77.38)
Subharmonic Passage : Pete Namlook (Score = 77.38)
Fractal Liason : System 7 (Score = 77.32)
Nea 3 : Solar Fields (Score = 77.29)
Ruido : Murcof (Score = 77.26)
Lazy Sunday Funerals 01 : Marsen Jules (Score = 77.16)
A Swimming Pool Down the Railway Track : Colleen (Score = 77.12)
A Year in a Minute : Fennesz (Score = 77.1)
Samsara : Helios (Score = 77.1)
Pictures at an Exhibition : Tangerine Dream (Score = 77.02)
Through You : Seefeel (Score = 77.02)
Disk 0 : Atom Heart (Score = 77)
Track 01 : Atom Heart (Score = 77)
Kincajou (Duck! Asteroid) : Banco de Gaia (Score = 76.98)
015 + - 06 - 8.01 : Fennesz (Score = 76.91)
smell memory traktor remix : MUM (Score = 76.9)
Cloud Cover : O Yuki Conjugate (Score = 76.89)
In Moll 5 : Markus Guentner (Score = 76.86)
Shark : Juno Reactor (Score = 76.84)
Kojan : Omnimotion (Score = 76.81)
How Vacantly You Stare at Me : Harold Budd (Score = 76.75)
Speedleam (empathy mix) : The Higher Intelligence Agency (Score = 76.72)
Halcyon : Loscil (Score = 76.7)
Yu : Ishq (Score = 76.7)
Long Life : Bliss (Score = 76.68)
d|p 4 : William Basinski (Score = 76.66)
Wing : Pan•American (Score = 76.65)
District : Patrick Pulsinger (Score = 76.55)
der wuestenplanet : Markus Guentner (Score = 76.46)
DSP Terminal : Tetsu Inoue (Score = 76.44)
Untitled 9 : Sutekh (Score = 76.29)
from star to seed : Rena Jones (Score = 76.23)
Undercurrent : Rena Jones (Score = 76.23)
The Deep (original mix) : Global Communication (Score = 76.18)
Bubbaluba : Renegade Soundwave (Score = 76.18)
Starethrough : Seefeel (Score = 76.08)
Falling, Flying, Dreaming : Steve Roach (Score = 75.99)
Holy Dance : Tetsu Inoue (Score = 75.96)
The Biosphere : Global Communication (Score = 75.95)
One Night and It's Gone : Colleen (Score = 75.85)
Mmin : Bad Loop (Score = 75.79)
Reverendrum [Tunnel Mix by Nylon Union] : Abuse (Score = 75.74)
Selinite : The Higher Intelligence Agency (Score = 75.73)
Track3a(2waynice) : Keith Fullerton Whitman (Score = 75.65)
Here : Manual (Score = 75.55)
Amongst the Ruins : Delerium (Score = 75.5)
Snowflake 10 : Yagya (Score = 75.47)
Transmit Liberation : Single Cell Orchestra (Score = 75.46)
Kika : EZ3kiel (Score = 75.39)
Flight 2127 : Single Cell Orchestra (Score = 75.33)
Lifeforms (Path 5) : The Future Sound of London (Score = 75.31)
Sketch : Julien Neto (Score = 75.18)

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Recommended Songs (sorted by most recommended songs)

Lady Folly : Ilya (Score = 178.04)
Inside My Mind (Blue Skies) : Groove Armada (Score = 160.08)
pure : Sal Boca (Score = 156.63)
Ramblin' Man : Lemon Jelly (Score = 153.65)
Angel : Massive Attack (Score = 134.6)
Message in a Bottle : Saint Etienne (Score = 132.53)
Deep Love (Nitin Sawhney remix) : Mandalay (Score = 130.92)
Going Under : Rockers Hi-Fi (Score = 130.73)
La condition pour aimer : Autour de Lucie (Score = 130.69)
Either Way : Etro Anime (Score = 130.53)
Overdue : Bitter:Sweet (Score = 129.65)
Associates : Simpletun (Score = 127.78)
Tripping on a Trip : Felix da Housecat (Score = 126.88)
Venus : Funki Porcini (Score = 126.54)
Heaven : Bitter:Sweet (Score = 125.09)
The Big Sea : Funki Porcini (Score = 124.92)
Underground Vibes : DJ Cam (Score = 124.9)
Diablo : Etro Anime (Score = 124.61)
Let Me Sleep : Laika (Score = 124.58)
Enough : Alif Tree (Score = 124.58)
Abandoned : Cling (Score = 124.07)
Bittersweet : Atomica (Score = 123.89)
Lifeboat : Lovage (Score = 122.72)
Shock Corridor : Saint Etienne (Score = 121.1)
Keep on Moving : Audio Bullys (Score = 121.1)
No Feedback : Khoiba (Score = 120.76)
Worry : Atomica (Score = 119.86)
Laisse le temps : Olive (Score = 119.3)
Bad Things : Tricky (Score = 119.09)
Alicia Blue / Flow : Material (Score = 118.99)
Seven Souls (Tim Simenon Mix) : Material (Score = 118.99)
Ghetto Youth : Tricky (Score = 118.8)
Intro : DJ Krush (Score = 118.49)
Sweet : Lamb (Score = 117.99)
Spooky Rhodes : Laika (Score = 117.52)
Glory Box : Portishead (Score = 117.23)
07. Piano Playa Hata : Wagon Christ (Score = 116.02)
Downhill Racer (Kenny Dope Remix) : Everything but the Girl (Score = 115.82)
Scratch Yer Head (Squarepusher mix) : DJ Food (Score = 115.36)
Another Membrane : MUM (Score = 115.02)
Blue Movie : Sneaker Pimps (Score = 114.93)
Candy Mckenzie : Death in Vegas (Score = 113.37)
Beautiful (7 Canny Mix) : Mandalay (Score = 113.22)
La contradiction : Autour de Lucie (Score = 112.59)
Little Hitler : Everything but the Girl (Score = 112.07)
Shorty's Judgement : The Herbaliser (Score = 111.85)
Beautiful World : Archive (Score = 110.26)
UNKLE (main title theme) : UNKLE (Score = 109.73)
Softly : Lamb (Score = 109.49)
This Love : Sarah Brightman (Score = 109.47)
Women Lose Weight (feat. Slick Rick) : Morcheeba (Score = 109.3)
Love Dub : Waldeck (Score = 108.4)
Spirits Fall : Pressure Drop (Score = 108.32)
Sheared Box : Portishead (Score = 106.91)
A Well Deserved Break : Morcheeba (Score = 106.38)
Dieu Reconnaitra Les Siens : DJ Cam (Score = 106.35)
Safe From Harm (Perfecto Mix) : Massive Attack (Score = 105.43)
Attica's Puma States Remix : Sneaker Pimps (Score = 104.62)
what are you to me : UNKLE (Score = 103.82)
Lunar Orbit Four - Back Side Of The Moon : The Orb (Score = 98.58)
Perfect : Supreme Beings of Leisure (Score = 96.97)
Battersea : Hooverphonic (Score = 96.82)
Novio : Moby (Score = 96.07)
Sister Curare : Kid Loco (Score = 94.81)
Tristesse Globale : Röyksopp (Score = 94.01)
Double Drums (DJ DSL mix) : Peace Orchestra (Score = 93.94)
Everyone in the World Is Doing Something Without Me : The Future Sound of London (Score = 93.77)
Soluble Ducks : Animals on Wheels (Score = 93.03)
Remember My Name : Bliss (Score = 92.81)
La Luna : Robert Rich & Steve Roach (Score = 92.6)
SOS : Asura (Score = 91.61)
1/1 : Brian Eno (Score = 90.9)
Lifeforms (Path 5) : The Future Sound of London (Score = 90.8)
Not So Blue : Quantic (Score = 90.46)
Ain't Got Nothin' : Supreme Beings of Leisure (Score = 89.62)
The Rhythm Resonator : Kilvo (Score = 89.22)
Reliant : Planet Bliss (Score = 89.17)
Guimar : Aim (Score = 88.82)
Understars : Brian Eno (Score = 88.64)
MOS 6581 (Album Version) : Carbon Based Lifeforms (Score = 88.56)
Yu : Ishq (Score = 88.35)
The Dream Is Always the Same : Tangerine Dream (Score = 88.08)
Heliopolis : Banco de Gaia (Score = 87.49)
Yo-Yo (Abbey Road Version) : Amorphous Androgynous (Score = 86.71)
Night Bus : Burial (Score = 86.48)
Blue Haze : Ishq (Score = 86.2)
The Sea is in the Boat : The Boats (Score = 85.6)
Lucky Saddle : FFWD (Score = 85.56)
Dark Eyed Sister : Harold Budd/Brian Eno (Score = 85.27)
Pure Synthetic : Planet Bliss (Score = 85.17)
The Claddagh of Sera Kirby : Flim (Score = 85.16)
Ultrasound : Transient (Score = 84.9)
Ruido : Murcof (Score = 84.88)
smell memory traktor remix : MUM (Score = 84.53)
Moon : Sia (Score = 84.47)
Hide and Seek : Kruder & Dorfmeister (Score = 84.44)
d|p 4 : William Basinski (Score = 84.38)
Out Of Nothing : O Yuki Conjugate (Score = 84.24)
Kojan : Omnimotion (Score = 84.18)
der wuestenplanet : Markus Guentner (Score = 83.95)



I'm pleased to notice that the vast majority of these recommendations are streamable!

Now off to build a tag set to have a proper listen. :-)

Zawsze chciałam zrobić coś takiego :D Wrzuciłam coś pomiędzy 500 a 1000 piosenek...

01. Jak się dziś czujesz?
Afro Celt Sound System - Eireann
An gcuirfea fios orm (Would you search me out)
Am mbeadh aithne gat orm (Would you recognize me)
M’uisci, croi gach crann (My waters, the heart of every tree)
An gcuirfea fios orm (Would you look for me)
Hmm... co? Nie wiem co o tym myśleć ^^;


02. Czy zajdziesz daleko w życiu?
Varius Manx - Pocałuj noc
Cholera wie...

03. Jak widzą Cię przyjaciele?
Siedem - O smokach
Jesteś jak ten, co szuka wszędzie smoków,
niejeden z nich usypiał na kolanach twych
To chyba niezbyt dobrze...

04. Czy wyjdziesz za mąż?
Grzegorz Turnau - Kto wie, czyli piosenka o chęci
xD

05. Jaka piosenka może być motywem przewodnim Twojego najlepszego przyjaciela?
Reamonn - Alright
Jeśli te słowa są do mnie to może być ;P

06. Jaka jest historia Twojego życia?
The Cranberries - Desperate Andy
Cooooo??? XD Tekst mnie rozwalił...

07. Jaka jest Twoja szkoła średnia?
Modest Mouse - Horn Intro
XD
Nie, dobra, teraz bardziej na serio (albo i nie)
Elektryczne Gitary - Balon
Idealnie, kuźwa :P

08. Jak możesz uczynić postępy w życiu?
Reamonn - Strong
Jakoś... nic mi to nie mówi

09. Jaka jest najlepsza cecha Twoich przyjaciół?
Pogodno - Pani w Obuwniczym
Pure WTF.

10. Co kupujesz w ten weekend?
Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
... co? To bardziej by pasowało do 39 pytania... Srsly.

11. Najwierniejszy opis Twoich dziadków?
Blenders - Ciągnik
XD

12. Jak Ci się układa w życiu?
Reamonn - Promised Land
Jakoś tak dziwnie...?

13. Jaką piosenkę zaśpiewają na Twoim pogrzebie?
Andrea Corr - Take Me I'm Yours
...
Ja nie chcę umierać O.o

14. Jak Cię postrzega świat?
Grzegorz Turnau - Jakieś inne słowa
Gdybym spotkał ciebie znowu pierwszy raz
Ale w innym sadzie, w innym lesie
Może by inaczej zaszumiał nam las

15. Czy będziesz miał szczęśliwe życie?
Peter Gabriel - Shaking the Tree
... tak brzmi jakby tak :P

16. Co przyjaciele tak naprawdę o Tobie sądzą?
Frou Frou - Hear Me Out
I'm a slow motion accident
Lost in coffee rings and fingerprints
I don't wanna feel anything but I do
And it all comes back to you
?

17. Czy ludzie za Twoimi plecami Cię pożądają?
Autamata - Little Green Men
To ma mniej sensu niż Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

18. Jak mogę się uszczęśliwić?
Nightwish - Last of the Wilds
?

19. Co powinieneś zrobić z życiem?
Lamb - What Sound
To chyba znaczy, że powinnam się zakochać. Ah.

20. Czy będziesz miał dzieci?
Clannad - World of Difference
...
Nie wiadomo :P

21. Do jakiej piosenki zrobiłbyś striptiz?
Anna Maria Jopek - Zanim zasnę
Ja pierdzielę, to byłby bardzo nudny striptiz XD (striptiz przed snem, lol)

22. Gdyby nieznajomy zaoferował Ci cukierek, co byś zrobił?
The Cranberries - Will you remember
Zapytałabym go, czy mnie zapamięta XD i czy zapamięta to, jak oferował mi cukierka XD Bo ja nie zapamiętam... ;D
Will you remember the future we planned?
(...)
I won't remember the things that we swore
I will just love you in vain
Kurde, co to za cukierek był???

23. Co Twoja mama o Tobie myśli?
Mandalay - Not Seventeen
O kurde O.o
You're not seventeen
To be missing him like
You do
Knowing him like
You do
(...)
I'm not innocent
And I know that I could

24. Jaki jest Twój najmroczniejszy sekret?
Bloc Party - Helicopter
Bastard child of guilt and shame
Bury your head in the sand
I'm thinking six, six, six
I'm thinking six
Lololol :D

25. Jaki jest motyw przewodni Twojego śmiertelnego wroga?
The Loners - Lucky Boy
WTF? O.o

26. Jaka jest Twoja osobowość?
Nightwish - Nemo
Without an honest heart as compass
Winamp, you fail'd
For hope I'd give my everything
To już lepiej...

27. Kim jestem?
Pogodno - Uśmiech się (radio edit)
Zomg:
Więc nie bój się deszczu,
bo ja jestem deszczem
co pada na twoje włosy
i na twoje ręce
Wniosek: jestem deszczem! :D

28. Co zagra na moim weselu?
Elektryczne Gitary - Pani spojrzy na mnie
OMGLOOOOOL :D:D:D
moja pani rób co zechcesz
policz kartki rachuj kości
z tobą lekcje są najlepsze
to lekcje miłości

29. Przy czym lubisz tańczyć?
I'm From Barcelona - The Painter
Nigdy do tego nie tańczyłam... ale sądzę, że się nadaje ^^

30. Gdzie wezmę ślub?
Elektryczne Gitary - Co ty tutaj robisz
Lol - nie powinnam brać ślubu

31. Kim jest osoba, z którą spędzę resztę życia?
I'm From Barcelona - This Boy
Sam tytuł jeszcze by miał jakiś sens... ale tekst już nie XD

32. Czego się boję?
Ida Maria - Louie
I know I'm always drunk as drunk as can be
But I wonder, Louie, have you got room for me
Que???

33. Co dzisiaj na kolację?
Secret Garden - Lotus
Dziś na kolację lotosy. Zaczepiście. Nie macie nic jadalnego?

34. Czy ktoś chce mnie zabić?
The Cranberries - Intermission
Akurat jak miałam się dowiedzieć to zrobili przerwę...

35. Jak umrę?
Within Temptation - Final Destination
It’s waiting, always trying
I feel the hands of fate, they’re suffocating
Tell me what’s the reason
Is it all inside my head
Can’t take it no more!

All around me I see danger
And it’s closing in on me
Every second I can hear it, breathing
I can’t stand the fear inside me
Cause it’s leading me astray
And it will be my ending

Dostanę zawału ze strachu. Czy coś.

36. Jak będą mnie pamiętać?
The Cranberries - The Rebels
Seems like yesterday we were 16
We were the rebels of the rebel scene

37. Co będę robić za kilka lat?
Modest Mouse - The View
Huh?

38. Co powinienem zrobić zamiast użerać się z tym quizem?
Raffi - Bananaphone
XD
Tak naprawdę to powinnam robić lekcje...

39. Moje preferencje seksualne?
Planet Funk - Inside All The People
Boys are shaking girls are rotating
Make my real life melt into the floor
Tekst mnie nie obchodzi... All the people! :P

40. Co ludzie myślą kiedy widzą mnie pierwszy raz?
The Cranberries - Such a Shame
I think you're awful
I think you're horrible
...
Dzięki~!

41. O czym teraz marzę?
Elektryczne Gitary - Głowy L. do obrazu Salvadore Dali
Szuflady z bioder, trawa spod pachy,
Sflaczały zegar suszy się na oknie,
Jajko smażone zwisa nad pustynią,
Pianino cieknie, podłoga moknie
To brzmi... jak mój umysł...

42. Czy mam tajemniczego adoratora?
Carrantuohill - Dziwnie tak
??? To akurat nie ma sensu...

43. Jaki jest zły nawyk którego muszę się pozbyć?
Nerwowe Wakacje - Ola boi sie spać
I tylko nie chce się więcej bać
że kiedy śpi to traci bezcenny czas

44. Jaki typ kobiety lubię?
Clannad - Second Nature
You know the heart is there
It hides from the outside
And it shines from within
?

45. Jaki typ mężczyzny lubię?
Apocalyptica - Bittersweet
Poprzestańmy na tytule. Może być.

46. Czy będę dobrym partnerem dla swojej drugiej połówki?
Jewelia - TTT (Travelling Through Time)
I'm gonna fail my mission
Nie?

47. Co robić by przyjemność z czerpania seksu była jak największa?
Elektryczne Gitary - Piosenka dla działacza
Ty działasz bez przerwy
Bez chwili wytchnienia
Od lat jest tak samo
I nic się nie zmienia
Ty działasz za dużo
Nie przeginać i urozmaicić?

48. Zapowiedź na jutro...
Moya Brennan - Falling
? Nie wiem...





Dziwnie to wyszło - raz lepiej, raz gorzej...

Score 4,200 - 4,000

This is the section of the 'My Personal Best Albums Ever'-journal where I discuss the albums with a score between 4,200 and 4,000. You'll find some information about these albums, including my personal highlights. I'll try to eventually review every album in this list. I hope you will enjoy reading this all, but first I'll give you some links to the other parts of this journal.

The main article: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights
Score 7,000 - 5,751: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (1)
Score 5,750 - 5,001: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (2)
Score 5,000 - 4,701: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (3)
Score 4,700 - 4,401: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (4)
Score 4,400 - 4,201: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (5)


Reviews & Highlights


DJ Krush - Krush (1994)
Score: 4,193; Length: 47:51; 14 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: On the Dubble

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
Score: 4,178; Length: 58:49; 12 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Politik, The Scientist, Clocks

The Cinematic Orchestra - Motion (1999)
Score: 4,149; Length: 51:11; 7 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Channel 1 Suite

Four Tet - Dialogue (1999)
Score: 4,144; Length: 1:04:30; 12 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Fume

Archive - Londinium (1996)
Score: 4,141; Length: 1:00:31; 13 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Londinium, Nothing Else

The Cranberries - No Need to Argue (1994)
Score: 4,123; Length: 50:35; 13 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Zombie, Empty

Dusted - When We Were Young (2000)
Score: 4,110; Length: 1:05:12; tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: If You Go Down to the Woods, Always Remember To Respect Your Mother (Part 2)

The Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day (2002)
Score: 4,097; Length: 1:08:51; 9 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Evolution, Everyday

Moby - Play: The B-Sides (2000)
Score: 4,094; Length: 1:00:34; 11 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Sunday, Spirit, Flying Over The Dateline

Orbital - In Sides CD1 (1996)
Score: 4,058; Length: 1:12:01; 8 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: The Girl With the Sun in Her Head, P.E.T.R.O.L., The Box (Part 2)

Kruder & Dorfmeister - Conversions: A K&D Selection (1996)
Score: 4,050; Length: 1:03:31; 10 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: One & Only, Speechless (Drum & Bass)

The Cinematic Orchestra - Man With a Movie Camera (2003)
Score: 4,045; Length: 1:00:55; 17 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Evolution (Versao Portuense)

SlowHill - Fennika (2005)
Score: 4,030; Length: 42:18; 10 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Come Back as a Butterfly

Mandalay - Empathy (1998)
Score: 4,018; Length: 50:18; 11 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Insensible, Beautiful, All My Sins

N*E*R*D - In Search Of... (2001)
Score: 4,011; Length: 1:01:35; 13 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Lapdance, Brain, Provider, Rock Star - Poser

Photek - Modus Operandi (1997)
Score: 4,006; Length: 1:16:04; 11 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: Ni Ten Ichi Ryu

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles (2008)
Score: 4,003; Length: 57:27; 12 tracks
This will be the place for the review.
Highlights: The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Thou Shalt Always Kill
Links to the other parts of this journal

The main article: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights
Score 7,000 - 5,751: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (1)
Score 5,750 - 5,001: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (2)
Score 5,000 - 4,701: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (3)
Score 4,700 - 4,401: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (4)
Score 4,400 - 4,201: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (5)

The main article

This is the section of the 'My Personal Best Albums Ever'-journal where the entire list of best albums is presented. At first, all the reviews and highlights were included in this main article too. It made the journal a little bit oversized though, so I decided to split the journal up in parts. Before I begin this journal, I'll give you the links to the other parts of the journal.

Score 7,000 - 5,751: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (1)
Score 5,750 - 5,001: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (2)
Score 5,000 - 4,701: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (3)
Score 4,700 - 4,401: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (4)
Score 4,400 - 4,201: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (5)
Score 4,200 - 4,000: My Personal Best Albums Ever + Reviews & Highlights (6)


Introduction and Explanation

Thanks for reading this journal! I've put a lot of work into making this journal, so it's really nice to see when people enjoy reading it. Before you begin to read though, I think I have some things to explain.

First of all, this is just my personal view of the best albums that exist. I explicitly do not say that these áre indeed the best albums around (I don't know how to say that objectively anyway), it's just my personal taste. And ofcourse, there probably are a lot of albums that deserve to be in this list, but I just haven't heard them yet.

When writing this journal, it was meant to be read by people with kind of the same taste of music as I have. I happen to listen to a mixture of downtempo, drum and bass, idm, trip-hop, ambient, breakbeat & jazz. When you do happen to have the same taste, you will see a lot of albums you enjoy yourself also, but probably there are some artists and albums you've never heard of. Well, check them out, because there's a big chance you will like them too! I think a lot of people on last.fm are constantly busy looking for new good listening material. I figured out that by letting you all know what my personal favourite albums are it would be the easiest way to let you know what music you would be 'missing'. So enjoy the list, I hope you will find some new future alltime favourites. And when you do, please tell me, I'd really like to know!

Just underneath this introduction you will see my album ranking. Each album has his own score. The score is calculated this way: In my iTunes I rate each song I listen to. When I don't like the song I will rate it with just one star. I've designed my playlists in a way that songs with one star will never be played again when I listen to my music on shuffle. Songs with two stars get a playcount of 1, songs with three stars get a playcount of 2, songs with four stars get a playcount of 4 and five star songs get a playcount of 7. So when I listen to shuffle, a *****-song will come along 7 times as much as a **-song. I decided to rate my albums using this playcount system.

When an album with just two tracks for example has one ***-rated song of 1:24 and one *****-rated song of 3:20, his score will be calculated like this; it has a song of 84 seconds with playcount 2 and a song of 200 seconds with playcount 7, so it had an average playcount of (84*2+200*7)/(84+200)=1568/284=5,521. So it's score will be 5,521. All albums are ranked using this system. The consequense is that 7 is the maximum score (just *****-tracks). I've decided to put all the albums on the list which have a minimum score of 4. So theoreticly an album with just ****-tracks will júst make the list.

At the bottom of this list I've added a seperate section for every album. It will eventually include the release date, the length, the number of tracks, a personal review and the highlights of the album (which are the tracks I rate with five stars). It might take a while for me to add a review for every album in this list, so for now this journal is a journal with 'work in progress'-signs. But still this journal might already be a good source of new music for you, so don't let this 'work in progress' prevent you from discovering some new quality music!

Now there's only a little thing left to say: If you enjoy what you're reading, if you've found some good music with help of this list, if you think some albums are missing in this list or if you think some albums don't deserve to be in this list --> post it! Especially when you think something is missing in this list I'm all ears, because I'm always on the hunt for good new music (well, at least new for me I mean).

Enjoy!


My Personal Best Albums Ever

001) Score: 6,762 Bonobo - One Offs... Remixes & B-Sides
002) Score: 6,748 Amon Tobin - Permutation
003) Score: 6,737 Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
004) Score: 6,716 Amon Tobin - Foley Room
005) Score: 6,657 Bonobo - Dial 'M' for Monkey
006) Score: 6,655 Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where
007) Score: 6,547 Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory
008) Score: 6,367 Bonobo - Animal Magic
009) Score: 6,309 Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
010) Score: 6,294 Wisp & Denizen - Quest for Excalipur!
011) Score: 6,285 Wisp - About Things That Never Were CD1
012) Score: 6,264 Amon Tobin - Bricolage
013) Score: 6,208 Four Tet - Rounds
014) Score: 6,122 Amon Tobin - Supermodified
015) Score: 6,051 Cujo - Adventures in Foam (2CD)
016) Score: 5,997 Portishead - Dummy
017) Score: 5,879 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
018) Score: 5,850 Peace Orchestra - Peace Orchestra
019) Score: 5,847 remus - The 5th Season
020) Score: 5,784 Amen Andrews - Volume 01, Volume 02, Volume 03, Volume 04 & Volume 05
021) Score: 5,782 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
022) Score: 5,698 St. Germain - Tourist
023) Score: 5,663 Massive Attack - 100th Window
024) Score: 5,656 Wisp - In a Blue Face
025) Score: 5,649 The Flashbulb - Réunion
026) Score: 5,612 Yonderboi - Shallow and Profound
027) Score: 5,611 Saltillo - Ganglion
028) Score: 5,539 Four Tet - Pause
029) Score: 5,530 Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions™ (2CD)
030) Score: 5,498 Aphex Twin - Drukqs (2CD)
031) Score: 5,404 Amon Tobin - The B-Sides (Bootleg) (2CD)
032) Score: 5,288 Radiohead - In Rainbows CD1
033) Score: 5,231 Chris Clark - Empty the Bones of You
034) Score: 5,228 Wolfgang Frisch - The Hundred
035) Score: 5,180 Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
036) Score: 5,164 Koop - Sons Of Koop
037) Score: 5,162 Portishead - Portishead
038) Score: 5,152 Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
039) Score: 5,076 Wisp - Honor Beats
040) Score: 5,071 Deftones - White Pony
041) Score: 4,998 Tipper - Surrounded
042) Score: 4,957 Jega - Spectrum
043) Score: 4,944 Chris Clark - Clarence Park
044) Score: 4,940 Wisp - Building Dragons
045) Score: 4,925 LTJ Bukem - Producer 01
046) Score: 4,898 Pilote - Kingfood
047) Score: 4,895 Faithless - Reverence
048) Score: 4,890 Elsiane - Hybrid
049) Score: 4,888 Various Artists (Humanworkshop) - 1
050) Score: 4,875 Clark - Turning Dragon
051) Score: 4,874 Thom Yorke - The Eraser
052) Score: 4,835 Frank Riggio - Noise Thinking
053) Score: 4,815 Gorillaz - Gorillaz
054) Score: 4,812 The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
055) Score: 4,805 The Cinematic Orchestra - Les Ailes Pourpres
056) Score: 4,795 Amon Tobin - The Mixes (Bootleg) (2CD)
057) Score: 4,775 Red Snapper - Our Aim is to Satisfy Red Snapper
058) Score: 4,770 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
059) Score: 4,733 Various Artists (Shadow Records) - Joint Ventures
060) Score: 4,724 DJ Cam - Mad Blunted Jazz CD1
061) Score: 4,701 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Mutations
062) Score: 4,696 Underworld - 1992-2002 (2CD)
063) Score: 4,682 Clark - Body Riddle
064) Score: 4,671 Coldplay - Parachutes
065) Score: 4,651 Pilote - Doitnowman
066) Score: 4,626 Sureshot - Underground Symphony
067) Score: 4,610 Blockhead - Music By Cavelight
068) Score: 4,604 Radiohead - Kid A
069) Score: 4,597 Plug - Drum 'n' Bass for Papa CD1
070) Score: 4,585 Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ-Kicks
071) Score: 4,571 The Cinematic Orchestra - Remixes 98-2000
072) Score: 4,559 Björk - Homogenic
073) Score: 4,553 Red Snapper - Making Bones
074) Score: 4,549 Faithless - Outrospective
075) Score: 4,546 Amon Tobin - Verbal Remixes & Collaborations
076) Score: 4,505 Red Snapper - A Pale Blue Dot
077) Score: 4,467 Moby - Play
078) Score: 4,467 Moby - 18
079) Score: 4,446 Blackfilm - Blackfilm
080) Score: 4,440 Pest - Necessary Measures
081) Score: 4,432 Emancipator - Soon it Will be Cold Enough
082) Score: 4,419 PFM - Producer 02
083) Score: 4,403 Red Snapper - Red Snapper
084) Score: 4,384 Davide Swarup - Music For Hang
085) Score: 4,378 Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
086) Score: 4,376 Calyx & Teebee - Anatomy
087) Score: 4,361 Radiohead - OK Computer
088) Score: 4,316 Gigi D'Agostino - Tecno Fes Vol. 2
089) Score: 4,308 Venetian Snares - My Downfall (Original Soundtrack)
090) Score: 4,277 Dido - No Angel
091) Score: 4,276 Alanis Morissette - MTV Unplugged
092) Score: 4,273 Distance - Repercussions CD2: Chestplate
093) Score: 4,266 Clint Mansell - The Fountain OST
094) Score: 4,258 Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
095) Score: 4,226 Room Eleven - Six White Russians And A Pink Pussycat (2CD)
096) Score: 4,225 Alphawezen - L' Après: Midi d'Un Microphone
097) Score: 4,225 Teebee - The Legacy CD1
098) Score: 4,208 Frank Riggio - Anamorphose
099) Score: 4,206 Syl Kougaï - La fille verte
100) Score: 4,193 DJ Krush - Krush
101) Score: 4,178 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
102) Score: 4,149 The Cinematic Orchestra - Motion
103) Score: 4,144 Four Tet - Dialogue
104) Score: 4,141 Archive - Londinium
105) Score: 4,123 The Cranberries - No Need to Argue
106) Score: 4,110 Dusted - When We Were Young
107) Score: 4,097 The Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day
108) Score: 4,094 Moby - Play: The B-Sides
109) Score: 4,058 Orbital - In Sides CD1
110) Score: 4,050 Kruder & Dorfmeister - Conversions: A K&D Selection
111) Score: 4,045 The Cinematic Orchestra - Man With a Movie Camera
112) Score: 4,030 SlowHill - Fennika
113) Score: 4,018 Mandalay - Empathy
114) Score: 4,011 N*E*R*D - In Search Of...
115) Score: 4,006 Photek - Modus Operandi
116) Score: 4,003 Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles

Reviews & Highlights

If you follow the links below, you will find my personal opinion about the albums mentioned above, including a little review and the highlights of the album.



Score 7,000 - 5,751:





Score 5,750 - 5,001:





Score 5,000 - 4,701:





Score 4,700 - 4,401:





Score 4,400 - 4,201:






Score 4,200 - 4,000:

Vector (Si Begg Remix) - Hexstatics
Royale Sound (Ramadanman Refix) - Howie B v Casino Royale
8o8o8 - Westernsynthetics
Sophie Asks Why - Aeriae
Bromide - Noodles99
Mirror Lantern - Wax Stag
Laughing At Trees - Telafonica
Hold On - Holy Ghost
A Profit On Greediness - Animosity & Drumcorps
Play - Amen Andrews
Fire Rolla - Monk Fly
Cold Grey - Of Salt At Night
Looking The Wrong Way - Orisha
All My Sins - Mandalay
Life In A Snowdome - Sonic Animation
Seven Miles (Aaron Martin Remix) - Saddleback
Forest Fire - Seekae
4pm - Oblong
Tort - Keiran
Chela - Silver Apples
Chiens Annex - Severed Heads
Gutter Music - Starkey
Electric Feel (Aeroplane Remix) - MGMT

Solero_J's top albums
1. Nikakoi - Shentimental (200) 2. öyksopp - The Understanding (115) 3. Invisible Ballet - Escaping Light (104) 4. Khoiba - Nice Traps (103) 5. Halou - Wholeness & Separation (102) 6. Deadly Avenger - Deep Red (95) 7. De/Vision - 6 Feet Underground (92) 8. Mandalay - Solace (92) 9. De/Vision - Devolution (90) 10. Apparat - Multifunktionsebene (86) 11. Frozen Plasma - Artificial (84) 12. Kaskade - It's You, It's Me (80) 13. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (78) 14. Christian Kleine - Real Ghosts (76) 15. Kemopetrol - Slowed Down (74) 16. Cesium:137 - Intelligent Design (70) 17. Mind.In.A.Box - Lost Alone (67) 18. Lenny Kravitz - Lenny (65) 19. Opiate - Objects for an ideal home (65) 20. 9 Lazy 9 - Electric Lazyland (60) 21. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (60) 22. In Strict Confidence - Exile Paradise (59)
top albums script

1. How did you get into 29? Paul van Dyk

As a youngster, around 15/16, I discovered Dj Tiesto. A good friend of mine at the time recommended Another Way by Paul van Dyk - I thought it was brilliant!

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Tori Amos

Cornflake Girl ... or was it Caught a Lite Sneeze?

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33? Kim Wilde

God... I don't think she really has any worthwhile lyrics, just catchy tunes that are very easy to sing along to! However, if I have to choose something...

"(You) snap your fingers and somebody runs, you don't care how they feel just as long as they come, got your head in your stars now you've come this far.. just who do you think you are?"

From Who Do You Think You Are?

4. What is your favorite album by 49? The Presets

Apocalypso

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Gackt

Three:
Crescent
DIABOLOS
Mars

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Cymbals

Tough one, all of their songs are brilliant! I'll go with 午前８時の脱走計画 because it ALWAYS makes me smile.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Yanokami

Night Train Home - it appropriately enough reminds me of driving home by myself after an evening that didn't go quite how I'd hoped.

8. What is your favorite album by 15? 椎名林檎

Shouso Strip

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Rei Harakami

Dessert - I have quite a few of Harakami's albums, and this track from Unrest is, I feel, his finest piece of musical composition.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? 浜崎あゆみ

There are so many! Let's go with Trauma (JamX & De Leon's DuMonde dub / vocal mix) from Ayu-Trance II ... reminds me of the old days!

11. What is your favorite album by 40? 倖田來未

grow into one ... but only because it has 1000 no Kotoba on it

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Lamb

Hearts and Flowers

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? 이수영

Her songs are all so depressing, I don't think I have any "good/happy" memories attached!

14. What is your favorite song by 38? トルネード竜巻

恋にことば - it was my first ever tornado tatsumaki song :)

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? m-flo

Life is Beautiful ~DOUBLE ver.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? 中島美嘉

Ha! I would give my right arm to see her live!!!! :-(

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? Ferry Corsten

Hard to say, that would have been a very very long time ago...

18. What is your favorite album by 11? Röyksopp

Melody A.M.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? 宇多田ヒカル

Pretty sure that she's a one-woman show...

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? 王菲

No, but again, I'd give my right arm. Faye is ridiculously incredible.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? BoA

When Alex lived with me for a short time, we used to listen to BoA quite a bit.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? 坂本真綾

Man this quiz is hard... I'll go with ねこといぬ however it should be noted that you could get the most horrible song ever recorded and she would make a beautiful version of it.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Humming Urban Stereo

Luv Sauce

24. What is your favorite album by 18? antennasia

Phased - because it has Mamma, Mamma on it ...

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Tommy heavenly6

Hehehe I would have to say Swear as it was the first Th6 song I ever heard! Although I was a huge fan of Tf6 prior to that

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? Snow Patrol

Chasing Cars - of course

27. What is your favorite album by 3? Paris Match

typeIII

28. What is you favorite song by 22? Tori Amos

I can't answer this... I really can't - the list of my favourite Tori Amos songs would span pages and pages.

But for fun let's go with something obscure and say Beauty Queen / Horses

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? The Album Leaf

The Outer Banks

30. What is you favorite song by 8? cuetracks

Sunset ~Don't Make Me Cry~

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? UA

None, but if I ever did have the privilege I would be blown away for sure.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? 東京事変

現実を笑う without a doubt... "... I sing my songs as if I were a perstitute" LOL cracks me up EVERY time

33. What is you favorite album by 12? Clazziquai Project

flower

Alex's voice makes me melt, and that is exceptionally true in that song.

34. What is the worst song by 45? Madonna

Like a Prayer - but only because it has been played to death and then some!

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Marilyn Manson

The Beautiful People

36. What is you favorite album by 48? Cube::Hard

Sadly he doesn't have any albums that I am aware of. However I'll say RFUGrey001 because it has Micro N2 on it

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? ACO

Why do these "have you ever seen live" questions always seem to fall on really obscure Japanese artists? No, I've never seen ACO but I'm sure she would be amazing.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? Sigur Rós

Svefn-g-Englar

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Cut Copy

Lights and Music

40. What is your favorite album by 7? 安室奈美恵

STYLE

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Mandalay

Nope, all of her songs make me feel quite melancholy.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Fayray

Hourglass

43. What is your favorite song by 24? Björk

Almost impossible to choose. At the moment I am particularly addicted to Oceania but it goes in cycles...

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? Jamie Cullum

Driving with a certain person in the car with me, holding hands and talking about random everyday things...

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Kylie Minogue

[put your] Hand on Your Heart [and tell me... it's all over... I won't believe it 'til you]

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? OLIVIA

Not that I can really think of, she has some amazing songs but it's not really "happy" music

47. What is your favorite album by 4? 柴田淳

ひとり without a doubt. ひとり歩き is my favourite Shibajun song by far.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? Yahel

He's a one-man show!

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? Placebo

Every You Every Me

50. How many albums do you own by 20? Astral Projection

Two - Ten and Trust In Trance

Discoveries in May 2008.
Artists whose albums became a part of my music collection marked with bold text. The rest I've yet to fully check out.

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VOCALS
* Afterlife
Tags: downtempo, chillout, lounge

* Airlock
Tags: trip-hop, electronica, female vocalists

* Claire Voyant
Tags: darkwave, ethereal, gothic

* Endless Blue
Tags: trip-hop, female vocalists, ethereal

* Hector Zazou
Tags: ambient, downtempo, electronica

* Lunascape
Tags: trip-hop, female vocalists, electronica

* Lunik
Tags: female vocalists, trip-hop

* Mandalay
Tags: trip-hop, electronica, downtempo

* Moya Brennan
Tags: celtic, irish, female vocalists

* Nicola Hitchcock
Tags: trip-hop, female vocalists, downtempo

* Olive
Tags: trip-hop, electronica

* Orbient
Tags: ambient, electronica, experimental

* Portishead
Tags: trip-hop, female vocalists, electronica

* The Silk Demise
Tags: trip-hop, downtempo, electronica

* Stellamara
Tags: ambient, ethereal

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INSTRUMENTAL / AMBIENT
* Bola
Tags: electronica, idm, experimental

* Cardamar
Tags: electronica, chillout, ambient