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Se Chico Buarque aparecesse fazendo rock seria estranho. Mas ninguém se surpreenderia se Radiohead viesse com um álbum voz e violão.

Acontece que Radiohead é um tipo de banda que pode se reinventar a qualquer momento sem causar estranheza e/ou preconceito/resistência.

Há bandas/artistas que não têm problema algum não sairem de um estilo ou padrão, como Sonic Youth. Mas acho muito bom quando bandas te surpreendem, no sentido mais literal da palavra, a cada álbum.

Nesse jeito, eu citaria: R.E.M., Beck, The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie,The Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters e muitas outras. The Beatles, pô.

A expectativa de ter um papel em branco é sempre presente a cada álbum a ser lançado dessas bandas (claro, no caso das que ainda existem).

I don't know if I should be surprised or not by the fact that the albums I most anticipated turned out to be the ones I liked the most, but I kind of am. I hope this is not because I'm growing older and less open minded, but because the established artists actually created the best music. Anyways, my favorite albums of 2011:


Album of the Year: Feist - Metals

Radiohead - The King of Limbs

The Roots - Undun

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome


I'll update when I find out more about which of my favorite music of 2011 was actually released in 2011.


Favorite discoveries of 2011 (not released in 2011):

Jonathan Richman
Gonzales
Talk Talk
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Onra
MF Doom


Releases I look especially forward to in 2012:

OutKast
Regina Spektor
The Knife
The xx
Look out for March 6th: Bowerbirds and Andrew Bird


Ignore this part:

My 2011 scrobbling statistics (Because I like statistic):

Top Artists

Radiohead - 220
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Top 10 (or so) Albums for the Year 2011

With another year coming to a close, it is time to sit back and refelct on what has happened. We saw "occupy" take on a new meaning as the proletariat class attempted to right the wrongs committed by an unregulated financial monster. We witnessed Google strive to become the next behemoth of social media, aspiring to do to Facebook what it had done to Myspace and Friendster. We marked the death of a visionary, only to see his legend live on with the unveiling of a disappointment to most, the iPhone 4S, not 5. And in music, you watched the rise of both talented (Adele) and talentless (Rebecca Black) singers, to successes no longer thought possible in the music industry, thanks to both viral videos and an ever more discerning ear from the public. Again it is time for me to attempt to sift through the masses of shit, and deliver the golden kernels of joy that I thought delivered something unique in a year laden with letdowns. …

January

6th?.Christina Aguilera's first single from her upcoming album. it's said that it's going to be called Love Your Body and that it's gonna be sort of Can't Hold Us Down (feat. Lil' Kim). We'll see. Although songs like Not Myself Tonight that prove to not to be a so bad single after all of a less than average but still enjoyable album (consider this after the masterpiece that Back To Basics is to my eyes) like Bionic was, I'll try to not to judge the book by its cover again.It seems that we have to wait 3 weeks more according to Internet sources that ricardonocera knows.

February

7th.Paul McCartney.Kisses On The Bottom7th.Van Halen.Unknown title at the moment

Non-confirmed release dates

1.Aerosmith. Unknown title at the moment. A totally fuckin' make-it-or-break-it situation, just like in 1987. Got to say, that like any fan would do I was sort of pissed of at the high school girls like fight between the Toxic Twins and Steven's appareance in that cheap program like American Idol is. …

Last Saturday, I discussed the issues with the current similar artist formula...especially Metallica being top 10 in similarity with The Offspring (like what?).

Well, since then, I put my programming skills to work and well, I built a little program to test to see it would work with other artists. Results were noticed on several bands/artists as their similar artists over went a make over. However, it did lead to new problems as I tried testing it out super-mainstream acts including our favorite band...Radiohead.


Rage Against the Machine showed up as a similar artist.


...well, apparently. Radiohead's top 250 similar artists currently are all over the place in random genres. A bigger batch of similar artists would be needed to get the best results, but the question is...is my new formula better. I'm going to show you some examples of artists top 25 similar artists...before, and after. You guys make the decision.


Oh, you don't remember the formula? Very well...time for a quick summary
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Most listened to:

Artists

Overall for the year
Crystal Castles
Gorillaz
Coldplay
The Naked And Famous
Foster The People
The Killers
Beck
Sex Bob-Omb
Sufjan Stevens
Hans Zimmer

2011 Artists
Gorillaz
Coldplay
The Naked And Famous
Foster The People
Sufjan Stevens
The Joy Formidable
Big Talk
Daft Punk
M83
Yellowcard

Tracks

Overall for the year
Crystal Castles – Celestica
Crystal Castles – Courtship Dating
Crystal Castles – Suffocation
Crystal Castles – Not in Love (feat. Robert Smith)
Sex Bob-Omb – We Are Sex Bob-Omb
Sex Bob-Omb – Threshold
Crystal Castles – Baptism
Crystal Castles – Through The Hosiery
Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
Metric – Black Sheep

2011 Tracks
Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
The Naked And Famous – Young Blood
Foster The People – Houdini
Foster The People – Warrant
Foster The People – Miss You
The Naked And Famous – Punching In A Dream
Gorillaz – Amarillo
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(taken from http://www.last.fm/user/oozabooman/journal/2008/09/17/263zks_shuffle_meme_anniversary)

Put your music player on shuffle
Post the first 40 songs that come up. You can repeat artists if you want. If you have any repeats, skip to the next track.

SONGS:

01. Echo Sam
02. Circle, Square, Triangle
03. I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)
04. Going, Going, Gone
05. Les Sucettes
06. Ocean Of Noise
07. New York
08. Mazes
09. Komakino
10. Shattered
11. Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold
12. First Date Kid
13. Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
14. Sunday Morning
15. Dynomite
16. Bodywork
17. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
18. Tell Me How
19. Outcome
20. Play Crack the Sky
21. Baby Britain
22. I Felt Like Smashing my Head Through a Clear Glass Window
23. Fly The Fly
24. John The Fisherman
25. This Will Be Our Year
26. Isolation
27. Knives Out
28. Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind
29. Thursday Night
30. Blood On His Lips
31. Mr. Brownstone
32. Tracy Jacks
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