Favorite albums from this decade 2000-2009
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Give Up
Transatlanticism
Get Ready
Original Pirate Material
Boxer
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Young Machines
Aerial
Riot On an Empty Street

Most listened to albums from this decade 2000-2009
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Aerial
The Young Machines
Give Up
She Wants Revenge
Narrow Stairs
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Riot on an Empty Street
The Life Pursuit
With Teeth
Sky Blue Sky

You know how to play: Put your iPod/MP3 player/CD changer/music program on random and put down the first 10 songs that play. No cheating to make yourself look cooler!! Post your list on your journal…

1. Walking In My Shoes, Depeche Mode
2. I Can Hear You, They Might Be Giants
3. Let Me Be the First To Know, Howard Jones
4. Purple People, Tori Amos
5. Slipping Away, Nine Inch Nails
6. Electra Made Me Blind, Everclear
7. Yes Yes Y'All, Will Smith
8. Waiting For the Moon to Rise, Belle & Sebastian
9. Wednesday, Tori Amos
10. The…

I recently picked up a nice, new, high paying job. The best part is, I didn't apply for it. I also didn't interview for it. It just sort of happened. Some recruiter found my website by putting together the right combination of search terms on Google, and boom, my professional website popped up on the top of the list. He called me, and said that he might have a job for me. This isn't a new thing to me, and I hadn't had any luck with recruiters before, so I pretty much blew him off. In fact, I even told…

If you could combine Talking Heads, U2, and New Order into one supergroup, you could only hope that the result would sound like this. Perhaps CYHaSY is a top secret Brian Eno project. All I can say is, wow.

Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah

Argh. I haven't been here much in the past month, and there is a horrible reason. My laptop, ipod, and thus all of my music, were stolen last month. I have my music backed up on Cds and on a file server. Unfortunately, I can't get to the file server without a computer, and I've seemingly forgotton how to use Cds. They're so 90's, with their skipping potential and their insistance on playing an entire album. I don't have the patience to listen to the same artist for more than 20 minutes these days. So, for the first couple of…

1. What are you listening to right now?
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 - Flag Day

2. What song makes you sad?
"I Grieve" by Peter Gabriel. It reminds me of how I felt when my grandfather died.

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Hmm, where do I start? Turn on pop radio, I'm bound to be annoyed.

4. Your all time favorite band?
Based on my music collection, I'd have to say R.E.M. I have EVERYTHING by them.

5. Your newly discovered band is?
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah. Okay, so I'm…

The Life Pursuit

One word: fabulous.

This may be the only album I'll listen to for the next few weeks.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Gizmodgery
Us

It seems that as usual, the executives in the record industry have their heads up their asses. So far in fact, that they can't identify a great song or album even if they were sitting on top of the Marshall stack blaring the guitar solo out of it. There are countless examples of this. Just to name a few examples, I'll start with Peter Gabriel. When Peter Gabriel submitted his 1992 "Us" album to Geffen, the album was rejected on grounds that Geffen could not hear a single and that listeners did not want an…

Recently, I was listening to a podcast of Morning Sedition, the now soon to be defunct morning show on Air America radio. In this particular broadcast, the host, Marc Meron, was talking about his iPod. Specifically, he mentioned that he believes that the iPod is more than a mere music player, but more of an endorphin releasing machine. He noted that he loaded a few hundred of his favorite songs onto his iPod, and used it at the gym daily. The combination of his workout set to the beat of only his favorite songs left him on such a high…

Due to having writers block at the moment (I just finished a 16 page thesis and a 3 page essay about myself for my grad school application, so give me a break!) I decided to fill out one of these cheesy music surveys…

1. Of all the bands/artists in your cd/record collection, which one do you own the most albums by?
R.E.M. I have EVERYTHING.

2. What was the last song you listened to?
John, I Love You by Sinead O'Conner (on my iPod)

3. What's in your record/CD player right now?
I have an iPod and a Powerbook, so…