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I've been on last.fm for a year and 4 days. Coincidentally, my last.fm birthday was also the day of release for Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment & Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster. So, yay me.
I do a lot of the music surveys that go around out of boredom and never post them. So, here's a survey of my music taste for my own personal use.

1) Britney Spears: 1,196 plays
2) Death Cab for Cutie: 1,103 plays
3) Lady Gaga: 959 plays
4) Coldplay: 905 plays
5) Placebo: 851 plays
6) 3OH!3: 815 plays
7) Franz Ferdinand: 801 plays
8) Breathe Carolina: 790 plays
9) Imogen Heap: 757 plays
10) The Strokes: 735 plays
11) Meg & Dia: 708 plays
12) Snow Patrol: 707 plays
13) Fall Out Boy: 654 plays
14) Kelly Clarkson 568 plays
15) Hellogoodbye: 553 plays
16) Chiodos: 547 plays
17) Keane: 521 plays
18) Linkin Park: 518 plays
19) Crystal Castles: 512 plays
20) Mazzy Star: 493 plays
21) Lily Allen: 468 plays
22) Green Day: 447 plays
23) A Fine Frenzy: 436 plays
24) Paramore: 411 plays
25) Cobra Starship: 394 plays
26) Owl City: 388 plays
27) Cute Is What We Aim For: 368 plays
28) Lights: 352 plays
29) The Postal Service: 351 plays
30) Jason Mraz: 345 plays
31) blink-182: 337 plays
32) Dance Gavin Dance: 336 plays
33) Armin van Buuren: 335 plays
34) Muse: 332 plays
35) Say Anything: 327 plays
36) The All-American Rejects: 307 plays
37) PlayRadioPlay!: 300 plays
38) Katy Perry: 291 plays
39) nevershoutnever!: 287 plays
40) Mika: 276 plays
41) Little Boots: 274 plays
42) Jack Off Jill: 264 plays
43) Norwegian Recycling: 260 plays
43) Watchout! There's Ghosts: 260 plays
45) Kate Nash: 258 plays
46) Shiny Toy Guns: 245 plays
47) Kerli: 244 plays
48) The Killers: 243 plays
49) Radiohead: 238 plays
50) Rilo Kiley: 215 plays


1. How did you get into 29? (The Postal Service)
I heard Such Great Heights on the radio, fell completely in love and bought Give Up.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Green Day)
Holiday, on MTV. My 10 year old self was like, omg, rock music.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33? (Armin van Buuren)
It's more trance. There aren't any lyrics sung by guest vocalists that really pop out at me. :P

4. What is your favorite album by 49? (Radiohead)
In Rainbows.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (Fall Out Boy)
I bought Infinity On High in 2007. Then, I bought Folie à Deux online, along with From Under The Cork Tree and Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Rilo Kiley)
Portions For Foxes. It was the first on More Adventurous that really popped out to me.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (nevershoutnever!)
Not really. Even his sad love pleas sound happy.

8. What is your favorite album by 15? (Hellogoodbye)
Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!, since it's the only one they've released.
They're working on a new one, though. I can't wait.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Placebo)
Haemoglobin.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (3OH!3)
No, not really. There's joy in listening to music, but nothing that stands out.

11. What is your favorite album by 40? (Mika)
The Boy Who Knew Too Much
I especially love the duet with Imogen Heap <3

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (The Strokes)
Between Love & Hate.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Jason Mraz)
I went to Sonic last week and heard Make It Mine, which made absolutely no impact on US charts. It made me happy.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (Katy Perry)
Simple. It's such a cute song.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Crystal Castles)
Courtship Dating makes me think of better times. Black Panther also has a beat that sounds very happy to me, so it makes me feel rejuvenated when I listen to it.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? (Cobra Starship)
I was really close to going to a show in St. Petersburg? once, but the plans fell through. This was before their popularity exploded too. ):

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (A Fine Frenzy)
Almost Lover, on vh1. Such a lovely song.

18. What is your favorite album by 11? (Meg & Dia)
It's hard to pit their last two albums against each other, but I do like here, here and here[/album] better.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Britney Spears)
I LOVE BRITNEY!<3
Ahaha she doesn't really have a band.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? (Kelly Clarkson)
Ah-no.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Cute Is What We Aim For)
One of the last loooong convos I had with Derek involved talking him into listening to Rotation.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Chiodos)
Expired In Goreville

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Kerli)
Walking On Air.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (Linkin Park)
Meteora, I suppose. I'm not that into them anymore, and haven't listened to their music in a long time now.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Lily Allen)
22 (Acoustic). Much better than the album version.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Owl City)
Probably Cave In. I got Maybe I'm Dreaming and Ocean Eyes at once, so I can't really remember.
I can tell you it wasn't Fireflies, though! >.>

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (Lady GaGa)
The Fame, doin' it for the fame, coz we wanna live the life of the rich and faamous.
Not saying The Fame Monster is horrible though. I love all of her music.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Death Cab for Cutie)
Oh my unicorns. It is seriously so, so hard to choose a favorite song by them. Geniuses, all of them in that band. I guess I'll say Talking Bird (Demo), though.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Dance Gavin Dance)
And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman. Oh, Jonny.

30. What is your favorite song by 8? (Breathe Carolina)
[track artist=Tripped and Fell in Portland[/track], though it's really hard to say I dislike any of their songs.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Keane)
GOOSE EGG.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Watchout! There's Ghosts)
[track artist=Watchout! There's Ghosts]Remember Me, Oh God, for Good[/track]. It's the perfect love song for that genre.

33. What is you favorite album by 12? (Snow Patrol)
Final Straw, by far. They've never made music that good again since, though I don't mind A Hundred Million Suns.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Kate Nash)
Oh, her? But I love all of her songssss! ):
Well, [track artist=Kate Nash]Birds[/track] is the closest to "sucky" that I would describe a song by her as.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Muse)
[track artist=Muse]Supermassive Black Hole[/track], probably. DON'T THINK BADLY OF ME. I listened to Muse before the whole Twilight movie explosion.
...though I was browsing Stephanie Meyer's playlist when I discovered she listened to Muse.
OH, SHUT UP.

36. What is your favorite album by 48? (The Killers)
Hot Fuss is the only one I've listened to all of the way through, and it's pretty nice.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Jack Off Jill)
Very funny. I could barely add when they broke up.

38. What is your favorite song by 36? (The All-American Rejects)
[track artist=The All-American Rejects]Fallin' Apart[/track].

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Lights)
[track artist=Lights]Ice[/track], probably.

40. What is your favorite album by 7? (Franz Ferdinand)
I'm feeling Tonight lately. Especially [track artist=Franz Ferdinand]What She Came For[/track] and [track artist=Franz Ferdinand]Dream Again[/track], along with their remixes on Blood.

41. Is there a song by 41 that makes you happy? (Little Boots)
[track artist=Little Boots]Remedy[/track] is really uplifting. [track artist=Little Boots]Not Now[/track] also has a really pounding beat that gets me going.

42. What is your favorite album by 31? (blink-182)
Haven't really listened to any of their albums in full. I'm waiting for the new one to really dive in.
Most of the songs that I like on their Greatest Hits come from blink-182, though.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Paramore)
I hate this question. [track artist=Paramore]Where the Lines Overlap[/track]?

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Shiny Toy Guns)
Ooh, this kid at a party had We Are Pilots. He was really cool.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Say Anything)
[track artist=Say Anything]Crush'd[/track] is cute.
[track artist=Say Anything]Alive with the Glory of Love[/track] reins supreme, though.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (Imogen Heap)
[track artist=Imogen Heap]Earth[/track] is really nice. [track artist=Imogen Heap]Loose Ends[/track] puts a smile on my face, too.
All of her music makes me happy. Not in the music-is-joyful way, either. Listening to it makes me feel happy.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Coldplay)
Tough tie between A Rush Of Blood To The Head and X&Y.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (PlayRadioPlay)
Dan Hunter's the only one there, eh?
OMG NEW ALBUMS IN JANUARY 2010 OMGGGGGG AAAAAAAAAH FANGIRL SCREAM OVER 50 SONGS AAAAAAAAAH
His music makes me so happy! (:

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Watchout! There's Ghosts)
[track artist=Watchout! There's Ghosts]I'll Take Famous Murders for 500[/track]? I listen to albums in their tracklist order. :P

50. How many albums do you own by 20? (Mazzy Star)
Two. She Hangs Brightly and So Tonight That I Might See

I'll do another in 6 months. Yay(:
I spent like, 2 hours doing this. Ah, the joys of not going shopping on Black Friday, instead listening to Christmas music and Michael Jackson specials on TV Guide Network.
Some of the track BBcode isn't showing up in the preview, and it's making me nervous. Lol. Yay.

Interested:

Thom Yorke
Owen
Bowerbirds
American Analog Set
Dear and the Headlights
Blind Pilot
Deerhunter
Margot and the Nuclear So & So's
Andrew Bird
Bat for Lashes
Paper Rival
Minus the Bear
Death Cab for Cutie
Neutral Milk Hotel
Cursive
Foreign Born
Silversun Pickups
Underoath
Lydia
The Postal Service

...tengo una cantidad vasta de DC4C y The Postal Service pero sólo los álbumes viejos. Debo fijar todos "lack thereof's."

**End note to self.

lithiumzzz's top albums (overall)
1. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (219) 2. Dashboard Confessional - The Shade of Poison Trees (170) 3. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs (163) 4. Blue Scholars - Blue Scholars (158) 5. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (137) 6. The Postal Service - Give Up (133) 7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (133) 8. Anberlin - Cities (129) 9. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (129) 10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits (123) 11. Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album (122) 12. Metro Station - Metro Station (119) 13. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell (116) 14. Asobi Seksu - Citrus (110) 15. Regina Spektor - Far (108) 16. Common Market - Common Market (106) 17. Daphne Loves Derby - On the Strength of All Convinced (102) 18. Owl City - Maybe I'm Dreaming (102) 19. Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire (99) 20. Daphne Loves Derby - Good Night, Witness Light (97) 21. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (95) 22. Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP (95) 23. Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit (92) 24. Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs (91) 25. Dropkick Murphys - Blackout (88) 26. Coldplay - Prospekt's March (86) 27. Muse - Absolution (85) 28. The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed (83) 29. Death Cab for Cutie - Forbidden Love EP (82) 30. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (80) 31. Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes (79) 32. Passion Pit - Manners (79) 33. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (78) 34. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (78) 35. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (72) 36. Ben Folds - Way to Normal (72) 37. The Subways - All or Nothing (71) 38. Incubus - Light Grenades (70) 39. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (69) 40. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (68) 41. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (67) 42. Beck - Modern Guilt (66) 43. Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate (66) 44. Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger (64) 45. Big Japan - Music For Dummies (63) 46. Billy Talent - Billy Talent II (62) 47. Owl City - Of June (62) 48. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (61) 49. Mae - The Everglow (60) 50. Muse - Dead Star/In Your World (59)

lithiumzzz's top albums (overall)
1. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (219) 2. Dashboard Confessional - The Shade of Poison Trees (170) 3. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs (163) 4. Blue Scholars - Blue Scholars (158) 5. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (137) 6. The Postal Service - Give Up (133) 7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (133) 8. Anberlin - Cities (129) 9. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (129) 10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits (123) 11. Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album (122) 12. Metro Station - Metro Station (119) 13. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell (116) 14. Asobi Seksu - Citrus (110) 15. Regina Spektor - Far (108) 16. Common Market - Common Market (106) 17. Daphne Loves Derby - On the Strength of All Convinced (102) 18. Owl City - Maybe I'm Dreaming (102) 19. Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire (99) 20. Daphne Loves Derby - Good Night, Witness Light (97) 21. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (95) 22. Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP (95) 23. Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit (92) 24. Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs (91) 25. Dropkick Murphys - Blackout (88) 26. Coldplay - Prospekt's March (86) 27. Muse - Absolution (85) 28. The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed (83) 29. Death Cab for Cutie - Forbidden Love EP (82) 30. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (80) 31. Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes (79) 32. Passion Pit - Manners (79) 33. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (78) 34. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (78) 35. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (72) 36. Ben Folds - Way to Normal (72) 37. The Subways - All or Nothing (71) 38. Incubus - Light Grenades (70) 39. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (69) 40. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (68) 41. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (67) 42. Beck - Modern Guilt (66) 43. Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate (66) 44. Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger (64) 45. Big Japan - Music For Dummies (63) 46. Billy Talent - Billy Talent II (62) 47. Owl City - Of June (62) 48. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (61) 49. Mae - The Everglow (60) 50. Muse - Dead Star/In Your World (59)

continuing this series. the top 93 | part 1 | part 2

Artists thinking about going to when they show up in my neighbourhood:
1. Sufjan Stevens
2. Foo Fighters
3. Editors
4. The Postal Service
5. Snow Patrol
6. White Lies
7. Stone Sour
8. Mogwai
9. Kaiser Chiefs
10. Incubus
11. Nonpoint

It wouldn't feel like punishment to see these artists live again:
1. Death Cab for Cutie
2. Crystal Castles
3. Bloc Party
4. Foals
5. Arctic Monkeys
6. Chris Cornell

Any suggestions?

Jimmy Tamborello, Why Won't You Love Me?

Dntel
The Postal Service
Figurine
James Figurine
Strictly Ballroom
Headspace
Dumb Luck