The Presidents of the United States of AmericaSince moving to Japan 4 months ago, it seems like my listening habits have drastically changed...
Here's the readout of my top 10 most listened to artists over the last 3 months of my time in Japan (in order of most scrobbled tracks to least):
1 - Weezer - 744
2 - Tenacious D - 144
3 - Coldplay - 122
4 - Radiohead - 119
5 - Phoenix - 102
6 - Beck - 88
7 - Justice - 74
8 - Air - 73
9 - Daft Punk - 55
10 - The Presidents of the United States of America - 50
Seems very different than what I was listening to the rest of the year:
1 - Yoko Kanno - 545
2 - Radiohead - 403
4 - Coldplay - 303
3 - James Taylor - 355
5 - Beastie Boys - 299
6 - Daft Punk - 243
7 - Air - 198
8 - Justice - 187
9 - Beck - 185
10 - Weezer - 108
I wonder if this could be a musical graph of my brain of when it's functioning in Japan vs. how it has been functioning in the USA ?
... that's a good idea, actually, ok, let's try making into a graph made out of Pocky™ :
The chocolate represents the sweet, sweet life in Japan that I have built on the foundation of a hearty wheat-flavored year of preparation to move abroad. Yummy! Oooh, this is making me hungry. Time for dinner. I think I'll make Japanese Croquettes!
Oh right, but how about Graph Analysis first?
Looks like my 2009 Weezer, Tenacious D and Phoenix Pocky™ sticks consist entirely of Japanese chocolate! Those bands are all pretty darn fun to listen to as they radiate their strange and adventurous sound. That goes for Weezer especially. Their albums have always seemed so refreshingly polarizing! If those are the positive bands, then Phoenix, Radiohead and Coldplay are the flip side of it all. These three bands feature music with passionate yet stressed out emotionally confused motifs, melodies and lyrics. They add an extra layer to what has been going on in my brain these last few months.
So if we go back before all that, the solid launch-pad of a wheat stick that I lived on before flying to Japan looks like it consisted of Radiohead, Yoko Kanno and Coldplay (plus a stellar Justice/Daft Punk Combo). So it looks like I had high highs with the need to dance it all out. Though again, it looks like there were even rougher lows to come back down to. You can see the downswings with some heavy Coldplay and Radiohead usage. Yoko Kanno a big force in there too. She's always my top artist, kind of like my balancing force between everything... who is conspicuously absent from my Japanese chocolate.
So if you look carefully, there is a lot of Japanese chocolate focused on only a few strange, fun and polarizing things... and lots of USA wheat spread evenly between fun, awesome, inspiring, stressed out and confusing.
Here's the readout of my top 10 most listened to artists over the last 3 months of my time in Japan (in order of most scrobbled tracks to least):
1 - Weezer - 744
2 - Tenacious D - 144
3 - Coldplay - 122
4 - Radiohead - 119
5 - Phoenix - 102
6 - Beck - 88
7 - Justice - 74
8 - Air - 73
9 - Daft Punk - 55
10 - The Presidents of the United States of America - 50
Seems very different than what I was listening to the rest of the year:
1 - Yoko Kanno - 545
2 - Radiohead - 403
4 - Coldplay - 303
3 - James Taylor - 355
5 - Beastie Boys - 299
6 - Daft Punk - 243
7 - Air - 198
8 - Justice - 187
9 - Beck - 185
10 - Weezer - 108
I wonder if this could be a musical graph of my brain of when it's functioning in Japan vs. how it has been functioning in the USA ?
... that's a good idea, actually, ok, let's try making into a graph made out of Pocky™ :
The chocolate represents the sweet, sweet life in Japan that I have built on the foundation of a hearty wheat-flavored year of preparation to move abroad. Yummy! Oooh, this is making me hungry. Time for dinner. I think I'll make Japanese Croquettes!
Oh right, but how about Graph Analysis first?
Looks like my 2009 Weezer, Tenacious D and Phoenix Pocky™ sticks consist entirely of Japanese chocolate! Those bands are all pretty darn fun to listen to as they radiate their strange and adventurous sound. That goes for Weezer especially. Their albums have always seemed so refreshingly polarizing! If those are the positive bands, then Phoenix, Radiohead and Coldplay are the flip side of it all. These three bands feature music with passionate yet stressed out emotionally confused motifs, melodies and lyrics. They add an extra layer to what has been going on in my brain these last few months.
So if we go back before all that, the solid launch-pad of a wheat stick that I lived on before flying to Japan looks like it consisted of Radiohead, Yoko Kanno and Coldplay (plus a stellar Justice/Daft Punk Combo). So it looks like I had high highs with the need to dance it all out. Though again, it looks like there were even rougher lows to come back down to. You can see the downswings with some heavy Coldplay and Radiohead usage. Yoko Kanno a big force in there too. She's always my top artist, kind of like my balancing force between everything... who is conspicuously absent from my Japanese chocolate.
So if you look carefully, there is a lot of Japanese chocolate focused on only a few strange, fun and polarizing things... and lots of USA wheat spread evenly between fun, awesome, inspiring, stressed out and confusing.
