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Been away from Last FM for far too long. I've been busy forming and running a forum/website for gamers called www.prestigegamerz.com. It's for anyone whos into playing video games, especially Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty: WaW. Now the site is finished and has over 700 members, I can spend more time on Last FM. FTW!

Oasis
The Beatles
Coldplay
Noel Gallagher
Liam Gallagher

Take the top 10 overall artists, and ask for each of them the following questions:

1: First song heard from them
2: Favorite song
3: Favorite album
4: Seen live?
5: Favorite cover art

1. Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run
Jungleland
Born To Run
Yes
Born To Run

2. Pearl Jam
Even Flow
Black
Vs.
Yes
No Code


3. The Hold Steady
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
First Night
Separation Sunday
Yes
Boys And Girls In America


4. Bad Religion
Los Angeles Is Burning
Let Them Eat War
Stranger Than Fiction
Yes
The Empire Strikes First


5. Allison Iraheta
Alone
Alone
Doesn't have one yet
Not yet
Doesn't have one yet


6. The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby
A Day In The Life
Abbey Road
No
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band


7. Elliott Smith
Needle In The Hay
Son of Sam
Figure 8
No
Figure 8


8. Pink Floyd
Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2
Astronomy Domine
The Wall
No
Dark Side Of The Moon


9. Stars
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Set Yourself On Fire
Not yet
Set Yourself On Fire


10. Bright Eyes
When The President Talks To God
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)
Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
Seen Conor, but not as Bright Eyes (MVB)
Digital Ash In A Digital Urn

Post your Last.fm overall top 20 artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, and your current favorite.

Keep in mind, current favorite =/= all time favorite

1. Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run
Jungleland
Zero And Blind Terry

2. Pearl Jam
Even Flow
Black
Breakerfall


3. The Hold Steady
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
First Night
The Swish


4. Bad Religion
Los Angeles Is Burning
Struck A Nerve
American Jesus


5. Allison Iraheta
Alone
Alone
Someone To Watch Over Me


6. The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby
A Day In The Life
Blackbird


7. Elliott Smith
Needle In The Hay
Needle In The Hay
Waltz #2


8. Pink Floyd
Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2
Comfortably Numb
The Gold It's In The...


9. Stars
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Set Yourself On Fire


10. Bright Eyes
When The President Talks To God
At The Bottom of Everything
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)


11. The Flaming Lips
The W.A.N.D
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Watching The Planets


12. Weezer
Hash Pipe
Say it Ain't So
If You're Wondering If I Want You To (I Want You To)


13. The Decemberists
16 Military Wives
The Crane Wife 3
The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid


14. Nine Inch Nails
Head Like A Hole
Starfuckers, Inc.
Hurt


15. TV on the Radio
Dreams
The Wrong Way
The Wrong Way


16. Marilyn Manson
The Dope Show
Sweet Dreams
Heart Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand)


17. X
Los Angeles
Hungry Wolf
The Stage


18. Frank Zappa
Zomby Woof
Peaches en Regalia
Cosmik Debris

19. Green Day
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

20. Neil Young
Rockin' In The Free World
The Needle And The Damage Done
Down By The River

1. What's your favorite song by 15?
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

2. How did you get into 20?
Green Day - Heard them when I was much younger and liked them since.

3. Who is your favorite member in 1?
Bruce Springsteen - Kind of obvious lol

4. What’s your favorite lyric bit by 29?
Lifter Puller - "Love is like a battle of the bands, crank up your amps man." - Lifter Puller vs. The End Of The Evening

5. Have you ever seen 22 live?
Neutral Milk Hotel - No.

6. What's your favorite album from 10?
Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground

7. Do you own any merchandise from 3?
The Hold Steady - No, but I should.

8. What is a good memory you have of 7?
Elliott Smith - The first time I saw the scene in The Royal Tenenbaums that uses Needle In The Hay.

9. Is there a member of the same age as you in 2?
Pearl Jam - No.

10. When did you first get into 8?
Pink Floyd - 6th grade, heard The Wall and never looked back

11. Who likes 4 along with you?
Bad Religion - My brother

12. Which song did you first hear from 16?
TV on the Radio - Dreams

13. What song made you fall in love with 5?
Allison Iraheta - Her cover of Alone by Heart.

14. Which song do you not like by 18?
X - I was never that into Devil Doll.

15. Why do you like 14's songs?
The Decemberists - They're deliciously indie.

16. Where did you first hear 6?
The Beatles - Probably when I was very young.

17. How long was 19 a singer before you liked them?
Frank Zappa - I started liking him way after he had died, so I guess since the 60s.

18. Does 13 have a song that gives you a bad memory?
Hair - No.

19. When did you get into 17?
Marilyn Manson - Sometime during middle school.

20. How long have you been into 9?
Stars - A little over a year.

21. If 11 had a concert 300 miles away, would you drive there to see them?
The Flaming Lips - Oh hell yeah.

22. How many CDs do you own of 12?
Weezer - Two or three I think.

23. Does 21 have a song that makes you cry?
Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done is pretty damn emotional.

24. Does 27 have a song that makes you happy?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Phenomena

25. Does 23 have a song that makes you smile?
R.E.M - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

26. What's the last song you've listened to from 28?
Stone Temple Pilots - I think it was their cover of David Bowie's "Andy Warhol."

27. Is there a song by 32 that you've listened to more than 30 times?
Switchfoot - No, but Awakening's got 23, which is close.

28. What is a song from 50 that you've only listened to once?
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Mark David Chapman

29. Is there a song you are sick of hearing by 24?
The Smiths - Nope, they have amazing replay value.

30. What song got you into 40?
Arcade Fire - Probably Antichrist Television Blues.

31. What is your favorite single by 25?
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

32. If 49 hated you, what would you do?
Karen O and the Kids - It's funny, because I actually know her, and she doesn't.

33. What would you say if 42 or one of the members from 42 asked you out?
System of a Down - That's an odd question.

34. Would you care if 41 had a boyfriend/girlfriend?
The Doors - Well one of them is dead, and I'm sure the rest are married.

35. Who has the best voice in 46?
The Who - Roger Daltrey

36. Do you think 26 is/are good looking?
The Gaslight Anthem - They're pretty cool looking.

37. How many times have you listened to your favorite song by 36?
Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart, 28 plays.

38. How many CDs do you own of 30?
The Velvet Underground - One.

39. Is there a song from 38 that makes you mad?
The Replacements - Nope.

40. Which member from 31 do you want to see go solo? If 31 is only one artist, what would you do if they joined a group?
The Pixies - Frank went solo, and Kim joined the Breeders so...yeah.

41. What does your favorite song from 48 remind you of?
Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (I've Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway), New York.

42. Did you hate 43 at first?
Simon and Garfunkel - Actually I did.

43. Does your best friend also listen to 33?
Heatmiser - lol I think I'm the only one who listens to 33.

44. Do you think your parents would like 37?
Regina Spektor - They do.

45. Does 47 have a song that makes you want to dance?
The National - Most of their songs are pretty dark and down, so not really.

46. Have you ever seen 34 in person?
The Killers - Yeah, Coachella 2009.

47. Do you like 44's name?
Material Issue - Yeah, it's a cool name.

48. Is there someone in 45 that you want to go out with?
Arctic Monkeys - lmfao, no.

49. Do you know anyone that hates 39?
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Nope.

50. Have you ever danced to a song from 35?
The Frogs - Nope.

It's Bjork's Birthday! Party Time!


Over the course of my life, there’s been only a few artists that really have affected me personally with their powerful and timeless music. I generally enjoy diverse music, including the likes of Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Muse, Klaxons, Goldfrapp, Coldplay, Metallica, Arcade Fire, múm, Kings of Leon and even a few of The Beatles songs. But of all the music I’ve listened to, Björk has been the most influential on my life.


Before I had ever listened to Björk’s music, I thought she was just another strange female artist you occasionally hear in the media. But then one day I heard Hyperballad and that amazing music video that went with it, and I was hooked ever since. I then took the plunge, taking a risk on an unfamiliar artist, listening to more and more of her music and getting more and more hooked with each song. I then discovered that not only is she an ageless beauty, and so unique in personality, her entire life is consumed by music. And I’ve been consumed by her music ever since!



As Bjork celebrates her birthday today, I thought it’d be appropriate to list her top 100 songs of her glorious career thus far. Happy Birthday Bjork! and here's hoping to another 20 years of musical excellence. Of course this list is just my personal opinion, and some people rank songs more than others, but nonetheless:

100.Catacea
99. Miðvikudags
98. Show Me Forgiveness
97.Nattura
96. Ruby Baby
95. Öll Birtan
94. Sweet Intuition
93. Violently Happy
92. Karvel
91. My Juvenile


90.Submarine
89. Where Is the Line
88.Frosti
87. Pleasure Is All Mine
86. Verandi
85. Sidasta Eg
84. My Spine
83. Vertebrae By Vertebrae
82. Aeroplane
81. Cover Me
80. Vokuro


79. Nature Is Ancient
78. In the Musicals
77. Oxygen
76. Ambergris March
75. Foot Soldier
74. Pneumonia
73. Komid
72. Hope
71. Mouths Cradle
70. Ancestors


69. Headphones
68. The Anchor Song
67. There's More To Life Than This
66. Gloomy Sunday
65. It's Oh So Quiet
64. Cvalda
63. Sweet Sweet Intuition
62. An Echo, a Stain
61. I See Who You Are
60. Sod Off


59. Declare Independence
58. Sun in My Mouth
57. Scatterheart
56. I Go Humble
55. Like Someone In Love
54. Dull Flame of Desire
53. You've Been Flirting Again
52. Come To Me
51. Scary
50. Charlene


49. Amphibian
48. Cocoon
47. Enjoy
46. One Day
45. Immature
44. Pluto
43. Triumph of a Heart
42. So Broken
41. I've Seen It All
40. Alarm Call


39. Oceania
38. Innocence
37. 5 Years
36. Heirloom
35. Mother Heroic
34. Human Behaviour
33. Army Of Me
32. Earth Intruders
31. Undo
30. Isobel


29. Hidden Place
28. New World
27. Crying
26. It's Not Up to You
25. The Modern Things
24. All Neon Like
23. Possibly Maybe
22. Domestica
21. Big Time Sensuality
20. Play Dead
19. Generous Palmstroke


18. Storm
Off her Drawing Restraint 9 soundtrack, this is probably one of the most terrifying and haunting songs you’ll hear. I think this sums it up: "Björk's lone vocal soars in the chorus like the booming siren of a blue whale who suddenly realized she was the last of her species."

17.I Remember You
An unlikely choice, seeming as it is a Bjork cover. But this is a slow moving, touching love song that hits a nerve. “When my life is through, and the angels ask me to recall, the thrill of them all, I shall tell them… I remember you.”


16. Wanderlust
Off her most recent album, this is definitely one of her best efforts off it. Heavy Beats with some elctronic sounds combined with Bjork’s great vocals works well.


15. I Miss You
A slightly more hip-hop type song, but Bjork pulls it off again with a catchy tune and odd lyrics. “I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet.”


14.It's in Our Hands
“It’s in our hands, it always was”. Great track.


13. Hunter
A brilliant use of hard drumming beats makes this song completely, and is a slight change from her other music in tempo. “I thought that I could organise freedom, how scandinavian of me.”


12. Venus As A Boy
With a quirky xylophone beat and lush strings, mixed with Bjork’s playful lyrics this song is one of her most catchiest and upbeat songs .


11. Harm of Will
A soft and touching song which relies on Bjork’s magnificent vocals and nice choir in the background.

10. Pagan Poetry
A sort of Japanese sounding song with it’s intro and parts throughout the song, but mixes with some great electronic beats to make a elegant and beautiful song. “On the surface, simplicity. But the darkest part of me is Pagan Poetry."


9. Desired Constellation
A song that you usually listen to alone, at night, or star-gazing. A moving melody background sound that was apparently made from voice loops making a bell type sound which suits the mood perfectly. It can’t be repeated, which makes this a great song along with fantastic lyrics. “With a palm full of stars - I throw them like dice, repeatedly…until the desired constellation appears...”


8. Bachelorette
A raw, powerful song featuring violins and pounding beats mixed with Bjork’s soaring vocals is a true treat to the ears.


7. Who Is It
A song that is beat-boxed (I didn’t even know the beats in this song were non-computer until I re-listened to it) entirely with no instruments sounds bad right? Wrong. A great song, and great lyrics. Possibly one of the strangest and cute music videos ever made which accompanies this song, which shows Bjork in a bell suit (yes you heard right) dancing with bell kids.


6. Aurora
“Goddess sparkle.” A heartfelt song that showcases Bjork’s sweet vocals but also has great help from a fantastic choir, and combined is match made in heaven.


5. Unison
Such a powerful song. An AMAZING use of Bjork’s vocals, as the song builds to it’s amazing climax along with the help of a beautiful choir.


4. All Is Full of Love
The top 5 are very, very hard. This song is purely amazing and touching at the same time, with it’s electronic melody and use of instruments combined with great lyrics makes it an elegant yet beautiful song.


3. Unravel
A song that has to be heard to be believed. “My heart comes undone, slowly unravels, in a ball of yarn”.Thom Yorke says it’s the most beautiful song he’s ever heard, and I’m not one to disagree! Strange sounding organs works brilliantly, the song is just another Bjork classic.


2. Hyperballad
A strong but twisted song about love that’s not easily explained. It’s about waking up early in the morning, being destructive, throwing small things off a mountain, and imagining what her body would feel like slamming against rocks at the bottom of the cliff, asking “And when I land will my eyes be closed or open?”, and then finally returning to her lover's arms in the morning as if nothing’s happened.


1. Jóga
Perhaps the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard. It’s a gorgeous song which not only showcases Bjork’s vocals but just how good music can be in Bjork’s hands. A masterpiece.


So there you have it. My opinion on her best 100 songs from an amazing artist. Feel free to agree or disagree with me, or even add your own list of her favourite songs.


Note: I didn't use any The Sugarcubes songs. I highly recommend Birthday if you want to hear Bjork's vocals soar to unimaginable heights.









-Bjork performing Oceania at the 2004 Olympics.

• Name your top 15 artists.
• Come up with a set list for them to make your perfect gig
• The first 8 artists get a 5 song set list
• The next 4 artists get a 8 song set list
• The 3rd and 2nd artist get a 10 song set list
• The top artist gets a 12 song set list with a 3 song encore.


TV on the Radio

Young Liars
The Wrong Way
Dancing Choose
Wolf Like Me
Dry Drunk Emperor

Nine Inch Nails

The Perfect Drug
March of The Pigs
The Wretched
Hurt
Something I Can Never Have

The Decemberists

The Hazards of Love 1
O Valencia!
16 Military Wives
The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid
Valarie Plame

Weezer

My Name Is Jonas
Say It Ain't So
Pork And Beans
El Scorcho
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived

The Flaming Lips

Fight Test
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots pt.1
Race For The Prize
Watching the Planets

Bright Eyes

The Calender Hung Itself
Method Acting
Four Winds
Soul Singer in a Session Bad
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)

Stars

Set Yourself On Fire
Take Me To The Riot
Sleep Tonight
A Thread Cut With A Carving Knife
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

Pink Floyd

Dogs
Astronomy Domine
Us And Them
When The Tigers Broke Free
Brain Damage/Eclipse

Elliott Smith

LA
Flowers For Charlie
Between The Bars
Needle in The Hay
Antonio Carlos Jobim (Heatmiser)
In The Lost And Found (Honky Bach)
Son Of Sam
Waltz #2

The Beatles

Come Together
I Saw Her Standing There
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Strawberry Fields Forever
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Dear Prudence
Blackbird
A Day In The Life

Allison Iraheta

Friday I'll Be Over U
Don't Speak
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Just Like You
Someone To Watch Over Me
Don't Waste The Pretty
Alone
I Can't Make You Love Me

Bad Religion

Sinister Rouge
We're Only Gonna Die
Atomic Garden
A Streetkid Named Desire
American Jesus
Let Them Eat War
Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever
Fields of Mars

The Hold Steady

Stuck Between Stations
One For The Cutters
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Stevie Nix
You Gotta Dance With Who You Came To The Dance With
Cattle And The Creeping Things
Constructive Summer
Banging Camp
How A Resurrection Really Feels
First Night

Pearl Jam

Wash
Deep
Insignificance
Jeremy
Off He Goes
Breath
Present Tense
Rats
Leash
Indifference

Bruce Springsteen

Thundercrack
Born To Run
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
Spirit In The Night
She's The One
The E Street Shuffle
It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
4th Of July, Asbury Park
Brilliant Disguise
New York City Serenade
Incident On 57th Street
Zero And Blind Terry
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Backstreets/Sad Eyes
The Angel
Jungleland

tazza_15's top albums (overall)
1. Radiohead - OK Computer (711) 2. Radiohead - The Bends (582) 3. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (534) 4. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (454) 5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (427) 6. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (404) 7. The Killers - Day & Age (392) 8. The Beatles - Revolver (367) 9. Passion Pit - Manners (359) 10. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (326) 11. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug (319) 12. Radiohead - In Rainbows (318) 13. Muse - Absolution (316) 14. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (315) 15. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (314) 16. Coldplay - Parachutes (307) 17. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (303) 18. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (297) 19. Radiohead - Kid A (293) 20. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times (289)

Сегодня был обнародован новый/новое, зовите как хотите, EP очень аскетичного ансамбля Animal Collective. Событие это громкое, если учитывать тот факт, что последний альбом их вышел 20 января этого года. Он же, собственно, являет собой в какой-то мере лучше творение этого года (а то и вовсе всей их карьеры). И соответственно этим EP музыканты хотят (а может и не хотят вовсе; мотивы этих особ весьма туманны) закрепить за собой статус; напомнить о себе, многим maybe забывшим, в виду скорострельного выхода муз.новинок в 2009ом году. 5 треков, из которых известен заранее был “Bleeding”, вышедший лайвом на сингле “Brother Sport” (только живьем он сыгран был в два раза длиннее, нежели в студийной версии).
Что же изображено на обложке? Карлик курящий трубку? Или он дудит в рог? А вокруг - туман или поверхность некой планеты? Вот так туманно и нечетко, как изображена обложка, сыграна и музыка здесь. Едва касаясь струн/клавиш/кнопок. Лишь в нескольких местах музыка коррелирует с последним альбомом, остальное же больше подходит под содержание далеко прошлых альбомов. То есть она, конечно, добра, как она добра на Merriweather Post Pavilion, но загадочна, как она была загадочна на прошлых альбомах. Стали петь чаще раздельно, чем вместе - после Merriweather Post Pavilion нелегко привыкнуть. Где-то слышны отголоски мелодий аж Sting‘а, где-то The Beatles (как ни банально), когда вокальную партию на себя брал Harrison. А в "What Would I Want? Sky" задействован семпл аж из Grateful Dead. Где-то оттуда, где-то отсюда, по капельке, а точнее по крупинке/щепотке, ибо здесь музыка не льется как на Merriweather Post Pavilion, она сыпется. Как песочные часы. И как песочные часы их хочется переворачивать раз за разом.