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Jan Johansson: Jazz på svenska. My mom has this record on vinyl, and I remember her putting it on and I would dance to it. I guess I might have been around 5 years old. I used to call it "veskemusikken" ("the purse music"), because of the cover.

1. How did you get into 29? (2Pac)
Was looking for some good Norwegian hiphop, but didn't find any, so I bought Until The End Of Time instead.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Angra)
Rebirth

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33? (Bruce Dickinson)
Probably Acoustic Song
"We live and die like all the rest
Every summer has its sunset every year
Love and hope put to the test
Every grain of comfort holds the seed of fear"

4. What is your favorite album by 49? (Echoes)
Their only album. Nature | Existence

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (Nightingale)
Exactly 0

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Dark Tranquillity)
Lost To Apathy

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Bruce Springsteen)
Not really. Shenandoah maybe

8. What is your favorite album by 15? (Opeth)
Damnation

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Amaseffer)
Birth Of Deliverance

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Neal Morse)
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Recently I hit '1300' artists in my library, so I thought I'd make a list of them all for posterity! Of course, I already removed one of those artists frmo my library during this process (it was my music, but under the wrong name...) and there are others I can probably get rid of immediately. But I want to take care in doing so.

Anyway, without further ado...this is the result of coming on up 5 years of scrobbling here at Last.fm, and away from it (on iPod). There have been times when I wasn't able to scrobble, so a lot of data wasn't recorded then. But other than those times, this is what we have...

A
* A Camp (7s)
* A Perfect Circle (210s)
* A Streetlight Song (1)
* Abbe May (88s)
* Abbe May and the Rockin' Pneumonia (5s)
* Abra Moore (7s)
* Ace of Base (2s)
* AC/DC (64s)
* Adam Cohen (2s)
* Adele (2s)
* Aerosmith (8s)
* Afghan Whigs (1)
* AFI (29s)
* Aimee Allen (22s)
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1. Bruno Spoerri - Glückskugel - The Race (2:20)
2. Pinky & Killers - Koi no Kisetsu (3:20)
3. Igor Wakhevitch - In The Nagual's Time (Flash I) (0:32)
4. Kiyoshi Izumi - Stem ID (4:59)
5. Square People - Young Youth (2:53)
6. Jan Johansson - Brudmarsch efter Larshöga Jonke (2:03)
7. Pierre's Pfantasy Club - Summertime (Is Get Busy Time) (Instumental Mix) (5:12)
8. Asuna - Courtyard In Junier Highschool (2:31)
9. Serge Blenner - métropole agile (5:18)
10. Jr. and His Soulettes - Waw-Wah Rock (2:33)
11. Hugh Le Caine - Organ Eperiment with Pitch Control (1956) (2:20)
12. Bullion - Long Promised (2:46)
13. Bruce Haack - Punching Bag (1:27)
14. Lootpack - Crate Diggin' (2:54)
15. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Sunshower (4:07)
16. P-Model - Cyborg (3:32)
17. Nino Nardini - Tropicola (2:39)
18. Mort Garson - Ode to an Afican Violet (3:58)
19. Cool House - we've got the power (fast eddie's mix) (5:10)
20. Steve Thomsen - Cat Dream (2:30)
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Usually I'm not very up to date with each year's actual music: I use to listen to new things when I feel like doing it, not when it is released, but since I follow certain music blogs full of quality material and great recommendations I'm starting to feel like I'm following new releases better than ever. In order to keep organized my new discoveries and to share them with whoever drops by my profile I'll try to keep this list updated and full of information. Any suggestion will be appreciated!

Already listened

Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Astra - The Weirding
Baroness - Blue Record
Beardfish - Destined Solitaire
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Bison B.C - Quiet Earth
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Desidia - Desidia
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Gavin Harrison & 05Ric - Drop
Glorior Belli - Meet Us At the Southern Sign
Hiems - Worship Or Die
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Jan Johansson har följt mig genom hela min uppväxt, och jag är nu inne i min kanske hundrade jazz på svenska/ryska-period.

Det är niz.

Jan Johansson
Jazz På Ryska
Jazz på svenska

I must admit I had a hard time imagining the usefulness of the wipe function for clearing all your scrobbled tracks. That is, up until my tracks played started approaching 30.000 and suddenly the music that I'm listening to right now isn't even reflected in my profile. It's hard when you have a threshold of 150 listens just for an artist to make it into the top 50.

So, in the interest of accuracy, I've decided to wipe it all and start with a clean slate. Music preferences echange all the time, and I'm saving my top 50 to a text document for future reference. Just to chronicle the whole thing, I'll post it here as well:

The top 50 artists played between the 26th of November 2005 and the 24th of January 2008 are, in order:

Bohren & der Club of Gore
Low
Hawksley Workman
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Elliott Smith
16 Horsepower
Tindersticks
The Black Heart Procession
Tom Waits
Pinetop Seven
Johnny Cash
Clara Rockmore
Codeine
Byla
Under Byen
Woven Hand
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(с) 2005 ACT, vocal jazz Viktoria Tolstoy - My Swedish Heart


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