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Ideas of Home - The Wild
The Animal Song - Totally Michael
You and Only You - The Softies
Henry - Finally Punk
A Picnic - Cub
More Than Just a Headache - Canine Sugar
Workers - Hop Along, Queen Ansleis
Richmond International - Alabaster Skeleton
Memory - Keith John Adams
I Miss You - Your Heart Breaks
Words - They Shoot Horses Don't They?
Tea Time - Quintron and Miss Pussycat
The Girl's Distracted - Saturday Looks Good to Me
Transvestite Me - Roy "Chicky" Arad
Real Mean - RVIVR
Modern Love - City Center
In The Service Of The Wilderness - Dustin and the Furniture
Great Summer - What the Kids Want
Water Song 2 - The Mountain Goats
Blame Fashion - Jordan O' Jordan
Bed & Breakfast - Bitesize
All the Girls - Basil the Mouse
In Love - Scout Niblett
Take It Easy - Homescience
Quality Crayon Wax O.K. - Essential Logic
Little Dagger - Smackdab
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wawaoooo ssummerrrr. played a live recording of Peter Pants from VAJAMMIN' FEST at the end of the show.

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I Mock You With My Monkey Pants - Bunnygrunt
At Last We Are Truely Free - the lonesome executive
Martian Man - Essential Logic
Crowned Miss Fire Prevention - The Heavy Blinkers
Tides or Swells - Kickball
An Introduction - Dirt Dress
Another Place - Laura Watling
Floating Down Stream - Iji
Suspended from Class - Camera Obscura
Endless Summer - glass cake
Wishing Well - Glo-Worm
All the Best Things - Six Cents and Natalie
The Pony Song - Au Revoir Simone
Lemonade - Formerly Known as Oedipusaurus Rex
Secret Letters - Erin Tobey
The City - The Impossible Buildings
Shine On - Kitty Craft
When Your Heart Breaks (Into Many Little Pieces) - Ant
Sand Canyon - Little Wings
Misdirected - Major Matt Mason USA
5k - Matt and Kim
Snow Country - Lullatone
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the holidays are stupid, but popkids make way too many songs about them to ignore it. so these are songs of or relating to christmas. i wish there was more hanukah pop. blarg.

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Santa, Please Bring Me A Surfboard - Kung Fu Monkeys
Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening - married in berdichev!
Christmas Doll - Dame Darcy & Dennis Driscoll
Snow Like This - The Softies
Christmas on Acid - Joey Kendall
Christmas Accordion - Mount Righteous
Mr. Mistletoe - The Magnetic Fields
Heavy Snow - Julie Doiron
Secret Santa (You Could Be The One) - Six Cents and Natalie
Traveling Salesman's Young Wife Home Alone On Christmas In Montpelier, VT - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
White Christmas - Kincaid.
Christmas - Acid House Kings
Fallen Snow - Au Revoir Simone
California Christmas - Shumai
Santa Comes - 202-427-0633
Hello Christmas - Liz Isenberg
Snowman - The Grade Grubbers
Blue Christmas - Saturday Looks Good to Me
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Today is my one-year anniversary of being a Last.fm user!!! I was interested in using it back in 2005, but, alas, I did not have high speed then, and I put off getting an account until I did so (which was not until November of 2007), and in just one year of utilizing this fine site, I...
+ scrobbled 23,000+ tracks by 1,400+ artists; first track was Gang of Four - Not Great Men, I believe from choosing tag radio for The Fall or Television. I decided to put my songs on shuffle and see which one came up for the midnight posting and the track was was...Can - Halleluhwah
+ added 73 friends (4 that I had known personally beforehand, and many of which I have gotten to explore their music taste and general coolness through Shoutbox communication)
+ uploaded my instrumental music in March and continued to add more tracks throughout the months (Marilyn Roxie), including a protest song against the Last.fm layout change in July
+ started a group (Rimmel), gained leadership of a few pre-existing ones: (basically, i just wanted my own group. …

I've been working on this playlist since around 2005 or so, using many of these songs in Halloween mixes at my house, for friends, at my former school, events, etc., etc., and often on shuffle at various times of the year. I'm sure there is still a lot missing here, so suggesting artists, albums, and tracks that are Halloween-suitable (or just good for spookiness, haunting introspection and/or dark-ish party music in general) is very much welcome. Even if they're from artists that I have on here, because, in all probability, I've missed some glaringly obvious ones. What's more, if you're a subscriber you can play all the streamable ones I've listed from my Halloween tag-station here: http://www.last.fm/listen/usertags/mooglefan/halloween

Legend: # = my additions, ** = others' suggestions

Here's the list of Halloween tracks, LAST EDITED: 10/31/2008
Where Fools Go - 12 Rounds
Hell's Bells - AC/DC
That Voodoo! - Adam and The Ants
Vampires - Adam Ant
Dark Messages - Air
Ghost Song - Air
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When people think about punk rock, it generally seems to be that the instrumental emphasis is on guitar / bass / drum bands. Sax seems to be the exception. But there are plenty of punk bands that incorporate sax. It's not played in a wimpy Kenny G. sort of way. It's raucous, screeching, and the emotions it invokes are more on the rage end of the scale.

Maybe the genesis of it is the sax of Steve Mackay on The Stooges album Fun House. He also later played with Violent Femmes.

Lora Logic is probably the best known punk saxophonist. She got her start with X Ray Spex, then had her own band Essential Logic. She also played with The Red Krayola on the album Kangaroo? among other releases.

Now from the somewhat familiar into the obscure. Oil Tasters were a sax / bass / drums trio from Wisconsin. That's right, no guitar. With sarcastic vocals declaiming "You Can Do That In Your Room" they certainly were in your face. Henry Rollins had plans to re-release their record on his…

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

97/100


The 97 related artists for my profile are AFX, Afrirampo, Aimee Mann, Air, All, Amon Düül II, Antischism, Ash Ra Tempel, Assorted Jelly Beans, Au Pairs, Autechre, Beck, Black Flag (2), Boards of Canada, Boredoms, Broadcast, Can, Capitalist Casualties, Charles Bronson, Claude Debussy, Coldplay, Crass, Das Oath, Dead Boys, Dead Kennedys, Deerhoof, Descendents, Do Make Say Think, Dropdead (2), Drunk Injuns, Essential Logic, Fiona Apple, Flux of Pink Indians, Four Tet, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Fuck on the Beach…