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I'm actually a little more open-minded than this. I use last.fm to find new rock music, so that's all that shows up here, but I also listen to a lot of soundtracks and Broadway musicals, and some Celtic music (love tin whistle and uilleann pipes!).

How did that happen?

I meant to take notice of my 20,000th track, maybe pick out a favorite song for the occasion (like I made sure that my 10,000th track was God of Wine by Third Eye Blind), but it slipped by while I wasn't looking.

If I had been paying close enough attention I probably would have made my 20,000th track Falling Away With You by Muse.

It gets on my nerves that my playlist won't ever play certain tracks. It's been an issue for months (ever since they introduced on-demand listening, I think) and it's been brought up repeatedly in the support forum, but there's been no word on what the problem is or if it's being addressed. Annoying.

I really need to hear more Midlake, but my playlist won't play them anymore. Not one track. :(

1. Still crazy about GoodBooks (I don't want to link it because pretty soon their artist page would be filled up with my journal entries :P). I expect they'll be in my top ten within a week or two.

2. I broke one of my rules this week and downloaded several songs from iTunes without having heard the whole track first, based only on the 30 second previews. Such a risk! So unlike me!

Or maybe not such a risk, because they were from the new Shearwater album, which isn't streamable yet. How could I go wrong with Shearwater?…

I ordered Control by GoodBooks. Love it. :)

Favorite songs:
Passchendaele (still my favorite)
The Illness
Turn It Back
Beautiful to Watch
Leni

Yeah, pretty much the whole album. I especially like Violent Man Lovesong. It's so calm and smooth and deliberate; it really paints a character for me.

And as the sirens sing
I think it's fair to say you're hurting
But I'm hurting too

Kind of gives me the heebie-jeebies actually.

I have a picture of you
Within a frame of gold leaf
But the glass is gone
I threw it to the floor
That time…

I'm really put out about the loss of Arctic Monkeys, The Last Shadow Puppets, Okkervil River, and The Cribs.

I just started listening to all of them in the last few days or weeks and want to hear more of them. I might even want to pay cashy money for them.

But it's hard to know what tracks to buy if I can't listen to them.

I buy the equivalent of an album a week from the songs I preview on my last.fm playlist. You've lost sales this week, Warner Bros..

I usually average about one band a week that I get particularly intrigued with. Especially when it's someone I haven't ever heard of or seen on anyone's top artists list.

Last week it was Colours Run. They're unsigned with one EP on iTunes and a bunch of free downloads here. Not all of their songs stick with me, some of them seem kind of generic. But many of them I absolutely love. My favorites (the demo tags are included so they link to the free downloads):

Tethers (Doghouse Demo)
Goodnight (demo)
On My Side (Doghouse Demo)
Beautiful Waste Of…

It always surprises me how many people have never heard of Little Man Tate. I don't remember which radio station I was listening to when Sexy in Latin came on, but boy, did it catch my attention.

I usually have a radio station on when I'm working on the computer, and a lot of the time what I'm listening to doesn't really sink in. "Sexy in Latin" might have just passed me by as another of many catchy tunes if it weren't for the lyrics, which were just naughty enough to interrupt what I was doing and make me…

I might just start posting a few journal entries here. I've been enjoying a lot of music lately, and really have nowhere to talk about it because frankly, Nobody Cares. So perhaps this would be a good place to ramble on about it where it won't bother any of my friends and relatives.

Just in case anyone should accidentally happen to read any of it I should point out that while I greatly enjoy music, I don't actually know anything about it. I played flute in the marching band, took a few piano lessons, and stayed as ignorant as I…