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So we've hit 10000 tracks! Let's analyze my musical tastes at this oh so important marker in the road we call last.fm:

Guided by Voices - 405

Modest Mouse - 379

The Olivia Tremor Control - 289

Pavement - 241

The Microphones - 234

Neutral Milk Hotel - 227

The Decemberists - 203

The Mountain Goats - 160

Elliott Smith - 156

Belle and Sebastian - 155

Comments:
Man I'm awesome, only took me a little over 5 months to get to 10000. Pats on the back for me.

Predictions:
Decemberists, Elliott Smith, and Belle and Sebastian have all kinda faded on me recently so I don't expect them to be there for 20000. Or maybe I'll just wipe everything and just listen to Will Smith. I haven't decided yet.

Stars and sons by Broken Social Sceneis one of the greatest songs to be released in the past couple of years. But my ipod doesn't think so. It likes to cut the song out right when it gets to the clapping part. God, that clapping part makes the song.

Another thing about ipods that gets on my nerve: after every song there's a slight pause. This completely ruins Neutral Milk Hotel's and the aforementioned Broken Social Scene's albums because of the songs that flow into each other are interrupted by that heart-stopping split second of silence. It makes me want to smash my ipod on the pavement. Despite this, I see cds dying out within the next 10-15 years.

Hooray for technology!

Why don't more people listen to jazz? It's a damn shame. Underappreciated genre. Everyone should try to at least listen to one album a week. I do and I think it makes my life happier, maybe? I don't know...

Anyways, my favorite is John Coltrane. He always seems to get the job done.

*sigh*

In other news, Guided by Voices have been creeping in on Modest Mouse and I think might dethrone them soon. This is a momentous occasion which can only be celebrated by mass consumption of alcohol. Subsequently, there will be many a drunken GBV sing-a-longs. Very fitting I'd say. Stay tuned for more updates regarding GBV and alcohol consumption.

What you do is post the first line of the first 15 songs that appear on your music player when it's on random mode, no matter how embarrassing, and play the "guess the song" game. Then you post your top 10 artists so people see it.

1. Called to see if your back was still aligned
2. So faithful, so few, so pardon and done
3. Not in a kiss, cross our eyes, cease to exist
4. If the clothes make the man, then the moth makes the holes (good call sleepeasy)
5. Yes, the rhythm the rebel without a pause, I'm lowerin my level
6. What will happen in the morning when the world it gets so crowded that you don't look out the window in the morning?
7. It's safe to say that's there's trouble ahead, well it's good to know that it's comin
8. Congratulations, stop, wish I could be there, stop
9. Halloween in New York, on the way home from London
10. Hey we created a revelation, a-listen to me, I'll tell ya I'm about to run
11. Of war and peace, the truth just twists it's curfew gall it glides
12. Frequently called numbers, snoring when you slumber
13. I didn't know you were there until you said hello.
14. I stole from my mother to hock her tv.
15. Oh get me away from here I'm dyin', play me a song to set me free

Modest Mouse
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Microphones
The Decemberists
The Olivia Tremor Control
Guided by Voices
The Mountain Goats
Pavement
Belle and Sebastian
Sufjan Stevens

Name your top 10 most played bands on Last.fm:

1. Modest Mouse
2. Neutral Milk Hotel
3. The Decemberists
4. The Olivia Tremor Control
5. Guided by Voices
6. The Microphones
7. Pavement
8. Belle and Sebastian
9. Sufjan Stevens
10. The Mountain Goats


Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
"I Want Wind to Blow"

What is your favorite album by 2?
In The Aeroplane Over the Sea

What is your favorite lyric that 5 has sung?
"I am a scientist, I seek to understand me."

How many times have you seen 4 live?
none

What is your favorite song by 7?
So many, "Cut Your Hair" probably

What is a good memory you have involving 10?
Driving home listening to Tallahassee at night

Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad?
"Grace Cathedral Hill", "Red Right Ankle", "Everything I Try to Do..."

What is your favorite lyric that 2 has sung?
Again so many, here's one:
"And the first one tore a picture of a dead and hanging man. Who was kissing foreign fishes that flew right out from his hands."

What is your favorite song by 9?
Jacksonville

How did you get in to 3?
Saw the video for 16 military wives on trio or something.

What was the first song you heard by 1?
Gravity rides everything.

What is your favorite song by 4?
"I Have Been Floated"

How many time have you seen 9 live?
none

What is a good memory you have involving 2?
Adventures in pies car while singing In the Aeroplane, Good times

Is there a song by 8 that makes you sad?
None really, B&S always cheer me up.

What is your favorite album of 5?
Bee Thousand

What is your favorite lyric that 3 has sung?
"And we are vagabonds, we travel without seatbelts on, we live this close to death."

What is your favorite song by 1?
That's a tough one, probably "Bankrupt on Selling".

What is your favorite song by 10?
"See America Right" or "Blues in Dallas"

How many times have you seen 8 live?
none, i wish i could see them with np but it's not happening.

What is your favorite album by 1?
The Lonesome Crowded West.

What is a good memory you have involving 9?
I don't know.

What was the first song you heard by 8?
"Stars of Track and Field"

What is your favorite cover by 2?
"I Love How You Love Me"

How much do I love the internets? Well it hath given me the new Calexico album, which is just the greatest thing as of 2006. Also! Islands, which is undiscribable by words and possibly those little picture-y fonts all the kids are using. Those crazy kids.

Merry Chrimmis folks.

I did one of these too.

Total tracks: 2283

Sort by Title:
1st: 'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk
Last: Zurich is Stained - Pavement

Sort by Time:
1st: Orange Twin Field Works Vol 1 - Jeff Mangum
Last: The Sky is a Harpsichord Canvas - Olivia Tremor Control

Sort by Album:
1st: Oceanside - Decemberists
Last: Dondante - My Morning Jacket

Top 10 Played:
Red Right Ankle - Decemberists
High atop the Silver Branches - Elf Power
King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Two-Headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Glow Pt 2 - The Microphones
Headless Horseman - The Microphones
Instrumental - The Microphones
The Gleam Pt 2 - The Microphones
I Want to be Cold - The Microphones
Instrumental - The Microphones

Shuffle:
It Was There That I Saw You - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Naomi - Neutral Milk Hotel
Blue Arrangements - Silver Jews
Swimmers - Broken Social Scene
Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk

Search:
sex - 3
love - 41
you - 139
death - 6
hate - 0
wish - 4

Since everyone else has one why not I??

10. Broken Social Scene - S/T

9. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

8. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire

7. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree

6. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - S/T

5. Akron/Family - S/T

4. Animal Collective - Feels

3. Andrew Bird - And the Mysterious Production of Eggs

2. The Decemberists - Picaresque

1. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

WEeeeEEEEEE!!