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(ten) most played songs from (fifty) most played artists:

Rise Against
Survive
Tip the Scales
Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Whereabouts Unknown
Heaven Knows
Hairline Fracture
Under the Knife
Ready to Fall
The Approaching Curve
Kotov Syndrome

Social Distortion
Reach for the Sky
Cold Feelings
Don't Drag Me Down
Winners and Losers
I Wasn't Born to Follow
Ball and Chain
Crown of Thorns
When the Angels Sing
Highway 101
A Place in My Heart

Alexisonfire
Sharks and Danger
Accidents
Boiled Frogs
We Are the Sound
Get Fighted
Crisis
Thrones
Mailbox Arson
This Could Be Anywhere in the World
Waterwings (And Other Poolside Fashion Faux Pas)

My Chemical Romance
Headfirst for Halos
Early Sunsets Over Monroeville
I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
The Only Hope for Me is You
Disenchanted
My Way Home Is Through You
The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You
You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison
SING
Famous Last Words

Story Of The Year
Take Me Back
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AC/DC
Aerosmith
Aiden
Airbourne
Alexisonfire
All That Remains
All Time Low x2
Anti-Flag
Anvil
Arch Enemy
Architects x2
Arsonists Get All The Girls
As I Lay Dying
Atreyu
August Burns Red
Avenged Sevenfold x3
The Awnser
AWOLNATION
Basshunter
Billy Idol
Blackhole
Black Tide x2
Black Stone Cherry
The Blackout x2
Blink 182
Bloodsimple
Bring Me the Horizon x3
Buckcherry
Bullet For My Valentine x3
Busted
Cannibal Corpse
Cavalera Conspiracy
The Chariot
Child Abuse
Children of Bodom x3
Christian Kane
CKY
Cypress Hill
The Damned Things
The Darkness
A Day To Remember
Dead Swans
Dear Superstar
Def Leppard
The Devil Wears Prada
Dillinger Escape Plan
DIR EN GREY
Down x2
Dream Theatre
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Duff McKagan’s Loaded
Emmure
Escape the Fate x2
Every Time I Die
Evile
Faith No More
Five Finger Death Punch
Flyleaf
FM
Four Year Strong
Framing Hanley
Francesqa x2
Get Fucking Dead
The Ghost of a Thousand x2
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So I decided to document what CDs and records I have. I've always bought CDs, but as of November a significant amount of them got destroyed in an accident so I more or less started again, and decided to get a turntable and start collecting records too! :D

CD

A Day To Remember - For Those Who Have Heart - The nifty bonus DVD version.
A Day To Remember - Homesick
Agraceful - The Great I Am - I can't with good concious recommend anyone to buy this album, it's just horrible. A Prophecy: In Reviere and The Great I Am are both passable songs, but the rest of the album just keepings talking about someone being okay and being fine or whatever, and goes way over the top with the whole Christian thing.
Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire - Digipack with knife fight art and bonus video.
Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire - UK with heart skull art.
Alexisonfire - Boiled Frogs - Promo CD and video.
Alexisonfire - Boiled Frogs - Stickered Promo CD.
Alexisonfire - Born And Raised - 2 Track Cardsleeve Promo CD with a radio edit.
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Fri 10 Jun – Download Festival 2011

After leaving at about 08:45 on Wednesday, I got to the site at about 11:30. After queuing for a few hours to get in, I ended up setting up the blue campsite. Spent the afternoon getting the rest of my stuff from the car and laying around, before heading out in the evening with a few drinks for a wander. Ended up getting through a litre of vodka and hanging out with different groups of random strangers all night - it was a decent night, although I lost my hoody at some point.

Didn't get to sleep until about 05:00 though, and was woken by the oven-like heat in my tent at 08:00. Felt terrible all morning. Went out to see some friends in the afternoon (they're at uni about half an hour away from the festival site), which I really wasn't up for at the time because I was so tired, but since I'd bailed on them a few times before I felt I ought to go this time. Not like I had anything better to do anyway. …

Slowcoaster 6 times
Left Spine Down 3 times
Nine Inch Nails 2 times
Econoline Crush 2 times
Bif Naked 2 times
Hanzel und Gretyl 2 times
16Volt 1 time
Chemlab 1 time
Assemblage 23 1 time
Melt 1 time
Rammstein 1 time
Combichrist 1 time
Post Death Soundtrack 1 time
Nekromantix 1 time
Nightwish 1 time
Psykkle 1 time
The Crystal Method 1 time
Mindless Self Indulgence 1 time
Queens of the Stone Age 1 time
Death From Above 1979 1 time
Linkin Park 1 time
Hail The Villain 1 time
CKY 1 time
Madina Lake 1 time
Placebo 1 time
Trans-Siberian Orchestra 1 time
My Chemical Romance 1 time
HIM 1 time
The Trews 1 time

2012: On The Impossible Past by The Menzingers
2011: Heart Beats Pacific by Banner Pilot
2010: Chamberlain Waits by The Menzingers
2009: Collapser by Banner Pilot
2008: Appeal To Reason by Rise Against (Only because it was such a shitty year for music and they are my favorite band.
2007: This Sinking Ship by Smoke or Fire
2006: Tie between Unicornography by The Falcon and Oh! Calcutta!. Sorry
Rise Against, but those two albums are masterpieces.
2005: I guess I have to say Searching For a Former Clairty by Against Me! because Cocktails & Dreams by The Lawrence Arms is just a compilation.
2004: Siren Song of the Counter Culture by Rise Against
2003: Revolutions Per Minute by Rise Against
2002: Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild by CKY
2001: Tie between Apathy and Exhaustion by The Lawrence Arms and The Unraveling by Rise Against
2000: Pump Up the Valuum by NOFX

1. Karnivool - Sound Awake
I debated including this album because strictly speaking, this album was released in 2009. However, it wasn't released in the US until 2010 and I can't deny that this is probably the best album I've heard in all of the last two years.

2. Coheed & Cambria - The Year of the Black Rainbow
Tremendous album is probably my favorite of Co&Ca's since In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3.

3. Pure Reason Revolution - Hammer and Anvil
PRR have embraced the sound from last year's Amor Vincit Omnia and continue to create an inspiring fusion of progressive, electronica, and pop.

4.Liz Phair - Funstyle
This fun, funny album marks a return to the days when Liz made music just for herself.

5. Brandon Boyd - The Wild Trapeeze
A pleasant suprise from the lead singer of Incubus. I hadn't expected he would shine as not only the sole writer of the album's music, but also as the primary performer on most of the album's instruments. …