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There wasn't one best new track, there were three! All from the featured album by Vitalic, 'Flashmob.' I'm guessing it's not inspired by Larry Niven but even so, it's my fave electronic record of 2009 (so far!). It's dancey, demented, dissonant deliciousness. The track 'Flashmob' itself sounds like Louis and Bebe Barron discovered the funk in a Krell basement somewhere, humping some fat Idmonsters. It's such a good album, a perfect antidote to the reams of generic electrodancewhatnot out there.



The best old track is kind of a cheat. Because it's new. The recording is, the song is old. Well, I think it is... The track is 'Three's A Crowd' by The Dorktones. It's off an album by them that you can listen to here. As far as I can make out, this is a covers CD. Certainly, it's got classics like 'Girl That I Knew Somewhere' and 'Girl Don't Tell Me' on it. But I've googled the lyrics to 'Three's A Crowd' and got nowt. Nuffink. I know I know it but where from?? Can anyone elucidate? Whatever, it's a wonderful old... er new or old track!

This is what you heard:

This Mortal Coil - 16 Days
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
Blacks - 5,4,3,2,1
U-God - Stomp Da Roach
The Bloody Beetroots - Awesome
The Elephants - Take it!
Nebula - Giant
Gift Of Gab - Escape 2 Mars
The Answering Machine - Obviously Cold
In Defence - Don't Call Me A Moshist
Vitalic - Flashmob
Cormega - Make It Clear (Prod. By DJ Premier)
Redshape - Globe
Mesmer - The Exorcist
Komeda - It's Alright, Baby
Joker And Ginz - ReUp
Fugazi - Bad Mouth
Swollen Members - Red Dragon
Dananananaykroyd - Pink Sabbath
Vitalic - Terminateur Benelux
The Holly Springs Disaster - I D.A.R.E. David Bowie To Drive Drunk
People Under the Stairs - DQMOT
Pavement - At and T
Converge - Cutter
Art vs. Science - Parlez Vous Francais?
The Dorktones - Three's A Crowd
Alphabetix - Bounce
We Came As Romans - Intentions
Dead Man's Bones - Pa Pa Power
Sound of Stereo - Heads Up! (the Bloody Beetroots Remix)
My Bloody Valentine - Sueisfine
Speak Easy (Avatar and Bleek) - Rumblefish Ft. Qba Libre
Benny Page & Zero G - pan pipes
Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me
Saves the Day - Shoulder To The Wheel
Weezer - mykel and carli
Jern Eye (Lunar Heights) - So and So Ft. Guilty Simpson
War from a Harlots Mouth - No High Five For C.oward
Kraftwerk - Schaufensterpuppen (Edit)
Middle Distance Runner - The Fury
Matt & Kim - Daylight
Sene and Blu - Cloudclimbers
Pinch - attack of the giant killer robot spiders!
Four Letter Lie - Daymaker
Your Twenties - Caught Wheel
Boys Noize - Jeffer
anti-pop consortium - Shine
Tigers That Talked - Black Heart, Blue Eyes
Austrian Death Machine - Come On, Do It, Do It, Come On, Come On, Kill Me, Do It Now
Keely Smith - What Is This Thing Called Love?
The Lucksmiths - Camera-Shy
Four Letter Lie - Daymaker
Blitzen Trapper - Gold for Bread
Vitalic - One Above One
Bound By Honor - Word Play
Princeton - Shout It Out
Burning Hearts - I Walked Among The Trees
Wienzeile - nur ein gruss
Throwdown - RaiseYourFist
Yeti Lane - Lonesome George
Grandaddy - Now It's On
Jon Hopkins - Insides
Portishead - Strangers
Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy
Wave Machines - I Go I Go I Go

The first collection of songs published by me :)

In this list I have chosen for each band, the best song ... ranked from 1 to 20 per hierarchy.

1.- Luminous Orange - Utatane No Hibi (L'ecume des Jours)
2.- Mew - No Shadow Kick
3.- Silversun Pickups - Kissing Families
4.- The Shins - Fighting in a Sack
5.- The Strokes - Reptilia
6.- Empire of the Sun - We Are The People
7.- A Second of June - June the Third
8.- Starlight Mints - Power Bleed
9.- Headlights - Love Song For Buddy
10.- Porter - Al fin me darás un Reno
11.- Flake Music - deluca
12.- My Bloody Valentine - Soon
13.- Rumskib - Dreampoppers Tribute
14.- Ride - Seagull
15.- Cocteau Twins - The Itchy Glowbo Blow
16.- Red Sparowes - The Soundless Dawn Came Alive As Cities Began to Mark the Horizon
17.- The Storm - Friendly Advice
18.- Apparatjik - Ferreting
19.- The Thrills - The Irish Keep Gate-crashing
20.- Alkaline Trio - Smoke

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This note to let you know about the Mr. Somnambula (experimental electronic music).
You can have a listen to his music here :
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http://www.last.fm/music/Mr.+Somnambula
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Discography + download (direct links) - in blog

new

(2009) Mr. Somnambula - DEMOS ~ self release/compilation [electronic, ambient techno, darkwave, dark ambient]
total tracks length: 00:17:42
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Influences:
Slowdive, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Piano Magic, Type O Negative, Lycia, Sonic Youth, Bethany Curve, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Lush, The Smiths, Curve, And Also the Trees, The Frozen Autumn, Burial, Asylum Party, Hood, Bowery Electric, Nadja, My Bloody Valentine, The Chameleons, Global Communication, Blind Mr. Jones, dälek, Seefeel, The Gathering, Tears for Fears, SPK, Aphex Twin, Akira Yamaoka, Porcupine Tree, Death in June, Sigur Rós, Sol Seppy, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, Talk Talk, Winston Tong, Boards of Canada, Autechre, Björk, The Legendary Pink Dots, Radiohead, The Prodigy, Merzbow, etc.
shoegaze, dream pop, post-rock, post-punk, alternative rock, experimental, lo-fi, ethereal, gothic / doom / progressive / metal / drone, psychedelic rock, gothic rock, neoclassical, neofolk, darkwave, new wave, coldwave trip-hop, synthpop, dubstep, industrial, underground hip-hop, idm, chicago / acid house, (dark) ambient, avant-garde

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I'm bored...

First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 7 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 7 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 140 represents an extremely varied one.

1 - The Birthday Massacre
2 - Tegan and Sara
3 - Paramore
4 - Thrushes
5 - Emilie Autumn
6 - Jack Off Jill
7 - The White Stripes
8 - Silversun Pickups
9 - The Raveonettes
10 - Pavement
11 - The Dead Weather
12 - Alizée
13 - Nine Inch Nails
14 - Tool
15 - Protest the Hero
16 - Sonic Youth
17 - Otep
18 - Le Tigre
19 - Black Moth Super Rainbow
20 - Scarling.

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1) The Birthday Massacre
- Helalyn Flowers
- I:Scintilla
-Ayria
- Angelspit
- Dope Stars Inc.
(5)

2) Tegan and Sara
- Tegan Quin
- An Horse
- Rachael Cantu
- Uh Huh Her
- Northern State
- The Cliks
- Tender Forever
(7)

3) Paramore
- Hey Monday
- VersaEmerge
- Boys Like Girls
- Automatic Loveletter
- Flyleaf
- All Time Low
- Fake Number
(7)

4) Thrushes
- Air Formation
- Airiel
- Highspire
- Rumskib
- Tears Run Rings
- Skywave
- The Daysleepers
(7)

5) Emilie Autumn
- Hannah Fury
- Rasputina
(2)

6) Jack Off Jill
- My Ruin
- QueenAdreena
- Daisy Chainsaw
- Switchblade Symphony
(4)

7) The White Stripes
- The Raconteurs
- Jack White
- The Black Keys
- The Greenhornes
- The Kills
- The Hives
(6)

8) Silversun Pickups
- Autolux
- The Airborne Toxic Event
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Cage the Elephant
- Mew
- Metric
- Band of Horses
(7)

9) The Raveonettes
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- The Duke Spirit
- Psyched Up Janis
- A Place to Bury Strangers
- The Warlocks
(6)

10) Pavement
- Stephen Malkmus
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
- Silver Jews
- Built to Spill
- Sebadoh
- Guided by Voices
- Preston School of Industry
(7)

11) The Dead Weather
- The Horrors
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Dan Auerbach
- Kasabian
(4)

12) Alizée
- Mylène Farmer
- Lorie
- Najoua Belyzel
- Jenifer
- Natasha St-Pier
- In-Grid
- Zazie
(7)

13) Nine Inch Nails
- Modwheelmood
- Trent Reznor
- Marilyn Manson
- Tweaker
- Black Light Burns
- Halo33
- Puscifer
(7)

14) Tool
- A Perfect Circle
- Peach
- Rishloo
- ASHES dIVIDE
- Riverside
- Porcupine Tree
(6)

15) Protest the Hero
- The Human Abstract
- Between the Buried and Me
- SikTh
- The Fall of Troy
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- The Number Twelve Looks Like You
- August Burns Red
(7)

16) Sonic Youth
- Thurston Moore
- Ciccone Youth
- Lee Ranaldo
- Free Kitten
- My Bloody Valentine
- Dinosaur Jr.
- Yo La Tengo
(7)

17) Otep
- Kittie
- Eths
- Exilia
- The Agonist
- Mudvayne
- Straight Line Stitch
(6)

18) Le Tigre
- Bikini Kill
- Sleater-Kinney
- Bratmobile
- Julie Ruin
- Peaches
- Lesbians on Ecstasy
- The Gossip
(7)

19) Black Moth Super Rainbow
- Tobacco
- The Octopus Project & Black Moth Super Rainbow
- The Octopus Project
- Black Moth Super Rainbow + The Octopus Project
- satanstompingcaterpillars
- Animal Collective
- Panda Bear
(7)

20) Scarling.
- theSTART
- Die So Fluid
(2)

118/140

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This month's ten tracks you should hear:

And So I Watch You From Afar
If it ain't broke, break it
And So I Watch You From Afar

One of the unexpected star turns of Damnation the other week, yet another instrumental "post-metal" band, but not one that sound like everyone else. For starters, they rock like bastards, they have an ability to make lengthy songs - and a lengthy album - consistently interesting, and their marvellously deranged song titles suggest that there is a sense of humour in there somewhere, too. Anyway, this song. A lengthy, muscular build-up breaks to a single, insistent guitar riff, before it all kicks off again with an impressive guitar solo at the heart of it all, and then doing it all again, in an even better way. Just for once, can the mainstream music press focus on a truly great band/album like this rather than those wannabe-baggy fuckwits in Kasabian?

[:SITD:]
Rot V1.0
Rot

I've felt in the past that while good at what they do, [:SITD:] have in recent years become a bit one-paced, and indeed the last album wasn't half as good as it could have been. I've still not had the chance to listen to all of the new album yet, but this track leapt out as a perfect example of what they can do. Finally, they've upped the BPM somewhat, and this pounding track is their best track probably since their debut album got us interested in the first place. The change in choice of those doing the mastering - it's X-Fusion this time - also appears to have made a big difference - this sounds massive, and certainly club-bound. Maybe a few changes and tweaks were all they needed after all.

The Twilight Sad
I Became A Prostitute
Forget The Night Ahead

I've noted before that it took me a while to discover this band, but now I've caught up I've picked up the new album pretty quickly. It's a bit special, too. Broadly, it's more of the same - shoegazey rock with a gut-wrenching emotional core that allows the band to transcend what would otherwise be a torrent of accusations that they are yet another My Bloody Valentine clone. Really, they aren't, and they aren't really like anyone else much, either. A little bit special, a little bit precious, one of eleven more songs to make you reflect, think, and every now and then shed a tear in sympathy with the heartbreak displayed here.

Assemblage 23
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Compass

I make absolutely no apologies for including two of the bands here for the second month on the trot. There is a good reason, of course: both artists in question have album tracks even better than the preludes I enthused about last month. The new A23 album keeps up the quality we've come to expect - this is top quality melodic electro-EBM-industrial with a songcraft second-to-none - but like previous albums, there is one song that simply stands head, shoulders and probably a bit more over everything else. Collapse is that song here. Lyrically a little darker and more pessimistic than usual, it retains Tom Shear's seemingly unique ability nowadays to shift through the gears to a chorus that sends shivers down the spine. It's bouncy, quick-paced beats are going to be great for dancefloors, too.

Sunna
Spider
TWO MINUTE TERROR

I said last month that "if the rest of the album is of this quality, I'm all ears". The good news is that it really is all of this quality, even the cover of ASHES TO ASHES. There's a lot more power and drive than on the debut album, in my view, less ballads and more uptempo stuff. This is the opening track, opening with bubbling, churning electronics before a simply monstrous drum loop stomps over everything and fills the speakers: and even more amazingly, it keeps building, keeps getting more complex and louder, and never once loses it's grip. It's spectacularly good - ok, I've no idea what the vocals are going on about, but then they ain't really the focus here. Welcome back folks, and this time, please don't leave the next album so long. And when are the live shows coming?

W.A.S.T.E.
Marked For Extinction
A Silent Mantra Of Rage

W.A.S.T.E.'s long-awaited (and long-delayed, it seems) return has been worth the wait, although things aren't quite the same as before. Not that this is a bad thing - on first listen, many tracks are more rooted in pure industrial noise, and only a few tracks rush headlong into rhythmic noise. Either way, this is brutal stuff and will be guaranteed to have some people running away quickly. It'll just have me turning it up, though. This track is probably the most dancefloor, er, friendly: five-minutes of unrelenting industrial beats and distorted, uncomfortable vocal samples. A full review will follow in the coming weeks.

Katatonia
The Longest Year
Night Is The New Day

The lead singer of Opeth, Mikael Åkerfeldt, has been vocal in recent weeks about how brilliant this album is, and now it's out and I have it, he wasn't kidding. Katatonia have simply continued what they have done so well for the past few albums - that is, pitch-dark, brooding gothic/doom metal. The bit that sets them apart from their peers, though, is vocalist Jonas Renkse. It's his clean, melodic vocals, coupled with his lyrics that always have that hint of malice and simmering fury, but never are inaccessible. Instead these are almost dark-pop songs at their heart. In short, this album is bloody glorious, and Katatonia are the primary reason I'm going to the Paradise Lost gig tomorrow.

Fuck Buttons
The Lisbon Maru
Tarot Sport

I knew next to nothing about this band until I stumbled across the video for single Surf Solar of late, and they are rather different to what I had expected. They are rather irritatingly described as "noise" in the music press (note: the term "noise" in music I understand to be much harsher and louder than this - in fact, see W.A.S.T.E. above - it is not a bunch of indie-kids playing with electronics), when in reality they are much more, listenable. Andrew Weatherall's production hand here has resulted in a sun-drenched, lazy sound that allows each of the seven songs here to unwind in their own sweet time - five of the songs are around nine minutes long or more. Remarkably, it's never boring, either. This track has a nagging, incessant martial beat that underpins it but never dominates, but keeps driving things on while all kinds of things sweep in and out of the speakers. To me, it's perhaps the kind of sonic effect you'd get going deep into the sea, as schools of fish sweep past you, and you head back towards the sun-drenched surface. It's a bit good, this.

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Trouble
Through The Devil Softly

The return of Hope Sandoval after a long absence between albums is most welcome, and even after all these years her songs and voice remain as sensual as ever. And on this track more than any other on the album, the ghost of Mazzy Star looms very large indeed. So if you know Mazzy Star, you know what to expect - slow and sparse instrumentation, and Sandoval's rich voice dominates the song as it should (and not to mention that this song can only be described as sexy as hell). So, anyway, about that reported Mazzy Star reunion...

XP8
Want It
Want It EP

After the quantum leap that was The Art Of Revenge, I have been looking forward to what this band did next. This is the lead single from the forthcoming album, featuring Daniel Graves of Aesthetic Perfection, and it's pretty good. Dominated by a twisting electro-beat, the filthy-minded lyrics suggest all manner of bad things, and is a much more effective take on this subject than the previous album's Cracked.

* Rome - Flowers From Exile

* Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden & World of Sleepers

* Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I

* Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark, Vol. 2

* WHY? - Oaklandazulasylum & Alopecia

* cLOUDDEAD - Ten

* Little Dragon - Machine Dreams

* Slint - Spiderland

* Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why & Velocity : Design : Comfort

* Cocteau Twins - Treasure & Heaven or Las Vegas

* Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun & The Serpent's Egg

* Lifelover - Erotik & Pulver

* Empyrium - Songs Of Misty Moors And Fields

* Isis - Wavering Radiant & Oceanic

* Verdunkeln - Einblick in den Qualenfall

* Anoice - Remmings

* God Is an Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright

* dredg - El Cielo

* Moving Mountains - Pneuma

* Novembre - Materia

* Lullatone - Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous

* Dornenreich - Hexenwind

* Ef - I Am Responsible & Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death!

* Frank Zappa - We're Only in It for the Money

* Bela Bartok - Hungarian folk music lover...

* Air - Talkie Walkie

* Jesu - Heartache

* Naphini - Get Your Pretense On

* Sunn O))) - White1 & Monoliths & Dimensions

* Burial - Untrue

* Kauan - Lumikuuro

* A Lily - Wake:Sleep

* Slowdive - Just For A Day & Souvlaki

* Autumn's Grey Solace - Over the Ocean

* My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

* Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

* Dmitri Shostakovich - OMG I LOVE YOU <3

* Sergei Prokofiev - I love you too :(

* M8L8TH - By The Wing Of Black

*Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre Monde

*School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms

*Have a Nice Life - Deathconciousness

*Death - Symbolic

*Gris - Il était une forêt...

*The Daysleepers - The Soft Attack EP

*Tenhi - Väre & Maaäet


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1.How did you get into 29? (Vampire Weekend)
Heard 'A-Punk' on Pitchfork I believe.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Fleet Foxes)
Pretty sure it was 'Mykonos.'

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Say Anything)
So now I'm forging ahead past all the plutocrats who sold me out/go sob in your bed/if life is twice as pretty once you're dead then send me a card/I'm still the optimist though it is hard.

4. How did you get into 49? (Explosions in the Sky)
Recommended by a college friend with good music taste.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (M83)
Saturdays = Youth on vinyl.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Boards of Canada)
An Eagle in Your Mind is pretty chill.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Burial)
Untrue makes me nostalgic sometimes.

8. What is your favorite album by 15? (Animal Collective)
Merriweather Post Pavilion easily.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (The Clash)
London Calling.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (TV on the Radio)
Wolf Like Me makes me shred my vocal chords and go wild each time I hear it.

11. What is the worst song by 40? (Neutral Milk Hotel)
I honestly don't think they have it in them to write poorly.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Arcade Fire)
Really tough question but I'd have to say Rebellion (Lies).

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (The Strokes)
Listening to them with various people that I never see anymore.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (Aphex Twin)
I'd have to say Cock/Ver10

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (of Montreal)
Most of their songs are built for happiness, but in particular Gronlandic Edit.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (Interpol)
Untitled makes me feel a bit sad sometimes, mostly because I relate to it in a strange way.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (The Gaslight Anthem)
First heard of them from reading absolutepunk.net. Couldn't stand all the hype that was surrounding them on that site so I stayed away for a while. This was a mistake. One day I broke down and listened to The '59 Sound. Great decision.

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (Morrissey)
So many great ones from the master of the mope. "America, it brought you the hamburger/Well America, you know where you can shove your hamburger/and don't you wonder why in Estonia they say/hey you big fat pig, you fat pig, you fat pig" always makes me laugh.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (The Beatles)
John Lennon was the greatest Beatle. There is no doubt in my mind to this fact. He wrote the greatest songs, had the best voice, and was the leader of the most wonderful movements. I can understand arguments for McCartney and will entertain thoughts on Harrison. Ringo was Ringo.

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (John Lennon)
Most of Lennon's songs make me happy. In particular though, Give Peace a Chance for its obvious message and Oh Yoko! for its cute utter genius hilarity.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (My Bloody Valentine)
Discovering the genre of shoegaze thanks to Loveless and realizing that I'd never find a better album in the genre.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Bloc Party)
Like Eating Glass.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (The Killers)
Smile Like You Mean It, and I still think of that song in the context of that time and think of the people I was with whenever I hear it. Because of this, I'm not a big fan of it.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (Air)
Moon Safari is their masterpiece.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Fleet Foxes)
Mykonos and White Winter Hymnal tie for it.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Kanye West)
Gold Digger, and I fucking hated it. This changed one day.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (Radiohead)
Wonderful question. OK Computer dominates of course, but they all offer something amazing to music.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Brand New)
Tough question, most of them have been my favorite at some time or another. Right at the moment I would have to say Sowing Season (Yeah)

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Super Furry Animals)
I want to say Juxtapozed With U. Can't be certain though.

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Led Zeppelin)
Lately I've been really, really enjoying the sounds of D'yer Mak'er

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (The Smiths)
Never, since they broke up before I was born and Morrissey would apparently rather eat his testicles than reunite them.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Notorious B.I.G.)
Juicy makes me happy on multiple levels.

33. How did you get into 12? (Iron & Wine)
He was playing in a music store one night and I asked who it was because I really enjoyed it.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Lily Allen)
Chinese is kind of awkward I guess.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Death From Above 1979)
Blood on Our Hands after watching the music video.

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? (Imogen Heap)
Like most people, the first song I heard from her was Hide and Seek. Her voice enchants.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Jay-Z)
Never.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (Joy Division)
Love Will Tear Us Apart

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Daft Punk)
One More Time when I was a youngster riding in the car on the radio. Back then I couldn't appreciate it for what it was.

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (Modest Mouse)
The Moon and Antarctica is one of the best albums of the '90s.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (The Streets)
Turn the Page is pretty epic.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Weezer)
Easy question, the Blue Album

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Bon Iver)
Flume is perfect for chilly nights and long winters.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Arctic Monkeys)
Dancing wildly to I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Death Cab for Cutie)
A Movie Script Ending always brings me back.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (Franz Ferdinand)
All of them.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Thrice)
Vheissu is their strongest, but all of them are great.

48. Who is your favorite member of 37? (Sigur Rós)
They're not really a band that I identify members of. Their music does the talking.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (The White Stripes)
Seven Nation Army

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (Grizzly Bear)
So hard to choose. Um, Ready, Able