'First, make a list of your overall top-20 artists. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, add up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.'
'First, make a list of your overall top-20 artists. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, add up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.'
01- The Beatles – 1
02- Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
03- Queen – Greatest Hits
04- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
05- Coldplay – Parachutes
06- Colbie Caillat – Coco
07- Cat Stevens – Mona Bone Jakon
08- The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
09- Jason Mraz – We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
10- Cat Stevens – The Best of Cat Stevens
11- Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
12- Coldplay – X & Y
13- Les Cowboys Fringants – Break Syndical
14- James Morrison – Songs For You, Truths For Me
15- Les Cowboys Fringants – Motel Capri
16- Corneille – The Birth of Cornelius
17- Tracy Chapman – New Beginning
18- James Morrison – Undiscovered
19- Bob Dylan – Planet Waves
20- Corneille – Parce qu'on vient de loin
21- Justin Nozuka – Holly
22- Amos Lee – Amos Lee
23- Amy Winehouse – Back to Black (Deluxe Edition)
24- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
25- John Barry – Out of Africa
26- Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman
27- Avril Lavigne – Let Go
28- Five for Fighting – America Town
29- Avril Lavigne – Under My Skin
30- Rascal Flatts – Me and My Gang
31- Billy Talent – Billy Talent
32- Mes Aïeux – En famille
33- We The Kings – We The Kings
34- Newton Faulkner – Hand Built By Robots
35- Paramore – RIOT!
36- Billy Talent – Billy Talent II
37- Amos Lee – Supply And Demand
38- Les Cowboys Fringants – La Grand-Messe
39- Johnny Clegg – Best of Live
40- Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
41- Mika – Life In Cartoon Motion
42- The Beatles – Rubber Soul
43- John Frusciante – Shadows Collide With People
44- John Frusciante – To Record Only Water For Ten Days
45- Iggy Pop – Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop
46- Robbie Williams – Escapology
47- Kaïn – Nulle Part Ailleurs
48- Green Day – Dookie
49- The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
50- The Beatles – Revolver
TOP 50 SONGS
01- Coldplay – Viva la Vida
02- Coldplay – Violet Hill
03- Elvis Presley – All Shook Up
04- Chris Brown – With You
05- Coldplay – Lost? (acoustic)
06- Robbie Williams – Come Undone
07- Cocoon – I Don't Give A Shit
08- Cocoon – Hey Ya
09- Coldplay – Life in Technicolor
10- The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower
11- Manfred Mann's Earth Band – Blinded by the Light
12- America – Sister Golden Hair
13- Bob Dylan – Blowin' in the Wind
14- Eagle-Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
15- Johann Pachelbel – Canon in D Major
16- Alphabeat – 10.000 Nights Of Thunder
17- Cat Stevens – Maybe You're Right
18- The Beach Boys – Good Vibration
19- Coldplay – Yellow
20- Jason Mraz – Butterfly
21- José González – Teardrop (live)
22- Queen – Don't Stop Me Now
23- Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
24- Joan Baez – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
25- Coldplay – Don't Panic
26- Manfred Mann's Earth Band – For You
27- Minor Majority – What I Deserve
28- Queen – I Want to Break Free
29- The Beach Boys – Wouldn't It Be Nice
30- Colbie Caillat – The Little Things
31- The Beatles – In My Life
32- The Beatles – Here, There and Everywhere
33- Jean-Jacques Goldman – Tout était dit
34- Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
35- Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
36- Queen – We Are the Champions
37- Yusuf Islam – Heaven/Where True Love Goes
38- James Morrison – The Only Night
39- Sara Bareilles – Love Song
40- James Morrison – You Give Me Something
41- Bob Dylan – Times They Are A-Changing
42- Jefferson Airplane – Somebody to Love
43- Coldplay – Strawberry Swing
44- Cat Stevens – Lady d'Arbanville
45- The Beach Boys – God Only Knows
46- Bob Dylan – Wedding Song
47- Jason Mraz – Lucky (featuring Colbie Caillat)
48- Queen – We Will Rock You
49- Coldplay – Shiver
50- Los Lonely Boys – Heaven
Seit meinem letzten Blogeintrag wurde viel gesagt, gesungen und gescrobblet. Währendessen zog das Jahr 2008 in einem unglaublichen Tempo vorbei. Nun befinden wir uns wieder in dieser Zeit der Rückblicke und Best-of’s und da möchte ich es nicht lassen, auch meine persönlichen Highlights auf Last.fm zu verewigen (wenn man das im Web so sagen kann).
Da wären also (nach langem hin und her) meine Lieblings...
7. Okkervil River – The Stand Ins (Erreicht den Vorgänger nicht ganz. Doch es sind ja auch “nur” die Stand ins)
...Konzerte von 2008
1. The Flaming Lips / 7. August @ Haldern Pop Festival, Haldern (Ein unvergesslicher LSD-Trip der alles schlägt)
2. The Mountain Goats / 15. September @ ULU, London (Wenn John nach London fliegt muss ich das auch)
3. Radiohead & Bat for Lashes / 17. und 18. Juni @ Civica Arena, Milano (Wer hätte das gedacht?!)
4. Tom Waits / 25. Juli @ Le Grand Rex, Paris (Eigentlich hab ich ihm den ersten Platz versprochen. Sorry Tom!)
5. The National / 9. August @ Haldern Pop Festival, Rees-Haldern (Auch wenn's auf den ersten Blick nicht so aussieht: Keine andere Band hat mich im 2008 derart bewegt wie The National)
6. Okkervil River / 7. November @ The Academy, Dublin (Das bisher beste Konzert, dass ich von ihnen erleben durfte)
6. Sophie Hunger & Young Gods / 20. Dezember @ fri-son, Fribourg (Ein grandioser Abschluss des Konzertjahres)
6. Hot Chip / 5. Juni @ E-Halle, Basel (Die extravaganteste Party des Jahres)
6. Herman Düne / 5. Dezember @ fri-son, Fribourg (Das wärmt die Seele im Winter)
7. Moby / 4.Juli @ Rock Werchter, Werchter (Mein Konzert-Highlight des diesjährigen Rock Werchter)
7. Bang Gang / 25. Oktober @ fri-son, Fribourg (Ich, allein im Fri-son, bezaubert)
7. Minor Majority / 26. April @ Bad Bonn, Düdingen (Einfach schöne Musik im Wohnzimmer des guten Geschmacks)
7. Sigur Rós / 5. Juli @ Rock Werchter, Werchter (Noch heute ärgere ich mich, dass ich soweit hinten war)
Es waren weder, „Change“ noch „Crisis“ die für mich im Vordergrund standen. Das Jahr 2008 bot eine Vielzahl an unvergesslichen Musikerlebnissen und diese kaschierten mir die meisten Flecken.
6. What is your favorite song by 28? (Snow Patrol) You Could Be Happy. I wake up to that song in the morning. It is so beautiful.
7. Is there a song by 12 that makes you sad? (Matchbox Twenty)
Hehe...a lot of them make me sad now because I spent soooooooo much time in my younger years being OBSESSED with this band. But legitimately, probably Hang. I don't cry much to music, but this is a sad one.
8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Kings of Leon)
Right now it is Use Somebody. But I don't know if I could say that is my favorite. The new album is really good, but I also haven't listened to Aha Shake Heartbreak in a while. And THAT is my favorite album.
13. What is a good memory you have involving 29? (Rilo Kiley)
Ummm....that's one I listen to alone. So....that. Going a whole trip from college to home listening to just them.
15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (The Wallflowers)
I love the Wallflowers. If You Never Got Sick definitely makes me happy. And incidentally, Closer To You also does, even though that's more of a creepy one.
19. What is your favorite song by 1? (Ryan Adams)
That is a violently difficult question. There are so many that I am deeply attached to. I will usually say Come Pick Me Up because that's the song that got me into Ryan, but there are a lot of his songs that break my heart.
20. Have you ever seen 14 live? (The Used)
No...not really my kind of concert.
21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Ray LaMontagne)
Talking to my friend about how you say his name. He slaughtered it.
23. What is the first song you ever heard by 4? (Counting Crows)
I'd have to guess that it was Long December, but that was seriously like 15 years ago, so I can't be sure.
26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (M. Ward) Carolina
27. What is your favorite album by 3? (The Weepies)
That's tough. I'd say it's Say I Am You, but I have listened to Hideaway an incredible number of times. It's fantastic.
Kleiner Nachtrag:
Letzten Monat war ich beim Konzert von Minor Majority im Headcrash. Sie haben ihr Versprechen ein langes Set zu spielen gehalten und viel spielfreude gezeigt. Als Vorband haben Racoon für gute Stimmung gesorgt, welche mir bis dahin noch nicht bekannt waren.
This was a Christian youth festival that I kinda was dragged into. I was not Christian at the point, and I was sure as hell not Christian after ^^. Rudi Myntevik played pretty standard worship music.. PIT was some kind of a rap crew or something which I only spotted in the basement. Overall not a good "first-concert" experience.
Before the first day, I had moved some random bands over to my cell phone. One of them was Despised Icon. Their first grindy album. Since we had nothing else to do, I played the track and I was amazed. Had never heard bree vocals before. We called it "tea can" vocals and was laughing the whole night.
When entering the doors for the Myntevik-concert, we were kinda squeezed. The guards actually had to counter-squeeze. Believe it or not. During the Saturday I also visited Mefisto, a now closed metal CD store. I bought my very first album: The Red Chord - Clients. I was laughing at the lyrics the whole night.
So this was my very first "real" concert. A local gamer tipped me about this on IRC. I went with steriliuz and -JannE-.. None of us had even heard about L54, so we didn't really know what we were going to. I had no idea the volume would be this high, so I didn't have any ear plugs (and I had never actually used ear plugs before either). My ears were broken after the night. I had checked out the bands before I went, and hadn't really heard any good words about Pain of Elohim, but I was amazed by them live.
Pain of Elohim moshing:
During Imprint I discovered one thing: moshing is not for me. Also, there were extremely many long-haired headbangers in the room now. Kinda surreal for the concert-noob I was.
Here the whole front row fell to the right (lul):
At this point we had 8 layers of "dotts" in our ears, but as we were walking slowly up the stairs to catch Lowdown, we heard it build up for a breakdown. And the moment we entered the room, there was this beautiful "pling" breakdown. There were extremely many headbangers in the room now, and also a semi-professional light show o.0.
Lowdown:
Still, after 2 years, I have never seen L54 looking so good as it looked this day. On the way home we, the kids we were, practiced death metal vocals on the whole way home. We had to walk, because we didn't know how to take the bus.
(Added at a later point from a journal I discovered I had written)
"PoE was much better than I thought they would be. Their vocalist had very nice screams and jumped around as a real vocalist. The bassist did not know how to headbang, but he played good. Their songs were good as well. Beautiful bass in the drums!
Imprint was the best headbangers tonight, they had powerful guitars and vocals. Really nice gear as well. Many riffs were made for headbanging, and everyone shook their heads in rhythm. It looked and sounded awesome. It started to get really crowded in the front, and there were some nice mosh rings.
When I came up after the break, I came in the middle of a song during one of the best breakdowns I've ever heard. The light-man turned on his funky white and bright lights to make the riffs even more powerful. You could hear that they were inspired by Korn and American metalcore. More and more people came as Lowdown played and I could not see that much (the bright lights flashed my eyes all the time), but I could hear... and it pleased my ears.."
After the concert at L54 we were pretty amused by the whole local concerts thing, and found this hardcore show. I had never been to Metropolis before - didn't even know where it was. I remember more or less nothing about this concert now (November 2009).. but me and Eirik wrote a little blog post on our blog about the show, so I'm referring to this.
Cold Front had no bassist, and the whole band was pretty tame. Unbreakable was standard hardcore and had to give up because of problems with the vocals.. We liked When Sin Fails, double vocals and nice breakdowns. And the surprise of the evening, Arise of Judgement had a girl on vocals! "Everybody" was singing along in pure hardcore spirit and we had a good time.
The poster:
Arise of Judgement:
When Sin Fails:
When Sin Fails with Matsi on guitar, who we would later see in Pain of Elohim:
(Added at a later point from a journal I discovered I had written):
Cold Front:
Cold Front was the first band to enter tha stage.. They had no bassist, but two guitars, and they sucked at headbanging, maybe because their songs also sucked. The vocalist, Erik(?), was talented though.. [nov-2009: wow very rude of me. I actually liked the vocalists other band, "On Own Terms" later]
Unbreakable:
This was just a piece of crap. The vocalist was hoarse, and they could only play two songs.. I don't remember much of them.. But no one cried when they said that "this was their last song". [nov-2009: also very rude of me.. but this was probably even more true... sorry :)]
When sin Fails:
Really, really good double-vocal hardcore band. Neat breakdowns as well.
Arise of Judgement:
Double-vocals here as well. One of each gender.. The girl, Ida(?), was talented, and I enjoyed listening to her nice and powerful screams. The bassist was c00l and the drummer had weird facial expressions [nov-2009: more usual than I knew at the time]. The audience knew the lyrics and everyone was singing.. Best band of the show!
UKM - Ungdommens kulturmønstring.. A competition for youth. Tickets were 150NOK for two days, and I'm pretty sure the reason we went was When Sin Fails and Pain of Elohim.. This was the finals for my county, and the concert was split in three different concerts, but I only think I went on 2 of them.. I was disappointed in When Sin Fails, as they only had one vocalist this day (see the video). Also, I don't think I liked Perfect Crime very much at the time, but in 2008 I would love them. Malin Winther was btw a girl from my school, and 2 years later she is now far into the Norwegian X-factor competition with Shackles.
At this time, the hardcore scene in Stavanger was actually pretty okay. They booked these big names (including Justice, which I did not catch), and made it last a whole day (for 120 NOK). Review from a journal I wrote the day after:
"I met up in my Dimmu Borgir hoodie as usual, and I was ready for some beautiful music.. but..:
It started with Alert The Audience.. well, what could you expect from a newly started band? To tell the truth, this sucked.. I did not like the vocals.. [nov-2009: I would later like this type of vocals]
Second band was Unbreakable, they were much better this time.. but I can't say it made me headbang :p
I'm not sure about the order of the bands, but what the hell:
xArise of Judgementx was good, as usual. Br00tal vocals! Not much to say about that..
On own terms: This would've been much better if the audience (including me) would have been more willing. But they were good, nothing negative about them..
Common Cause was teh shit.. bad vocals.. (I'm not even sure if it was Common Cause, but what the heck :p)
Real Heroes Die... This was REALLY good! Beautiful breakdowns, beautiful riffs and br00tal sound=d Really headbangable=p
Verse.. These American guys was what I expected, melodic hardcore.. it's not really my style, but they were great on stage.
Justice: I left the building before they played :( I had a train to catch.. I had looked forward to this band, after what I've heard on myspace..
conclusion: It was worth the money
Quote one of the American bands I'm gonna be that annoying guy again, and say "please move forward towards the stage""
After listening to these guys on Spotify and Lydverket, I fell in love. Found a free demo thingie online, which I loved even more. First up was Frøken Fryd, which were playing pretty tight tonight. Their new song had a few dissonant parts which I liked. I think it's time to move on from the girly pop rock...... don't care about what the record companies or the manager wants.. Anyway, Kråkesølv. Surprisingly young, from the very awesome city of Bodø. Playing beautiful indie pop and post-rock. Fits perfectly with my favorite artist at the moment, Cymbals Eat Guitars. They were joking about their mistakes and generally having a good time. I absolutely loved it and I'm sad I didn't get to buy a CD.. They're also playing tomorrow at Martinique, if I'm lucky I can see them there after my own concert. Perfect concert.
We (Hamu(e)mon) had a band practice earlier on the day, when we got a call from Iris about out our sound check time.. We suddenly realized we had to flee from Eirik's house, to catch the train. Which we did, by 1-2 minutes.. but there was no train at that time, as this was a Saturday... so we had to wait another 30 minutes, but luckily the sound checks were a little delayed.
The first band, Steinbitt, could only play one song (I believe it was a cover), which was pretty bad. We didn't know that they only were playing 1 song, so I did not have time to warm up, thus making me tired in the arms after only 1 song -> making me play sloppy. I don't believe it was terrible though, but not my/our best concert. This was our last concert ever, but we didn't make any fuzz about it.
I don't remember much from Battle of Jericho. I left before Arlie Mucks played. I did not go to the Kråkesølv concert at Martinique as I planned :(. anders_sn did, and he got a t-shirt + a signed CD :(.
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Album collection
Syntax: Date bought:Artist - Album(place bought)
Jag önskar:
att jag hade kunnat ta med lastfm med ut i min iPod. Till joggingspåret eller på cykelturen. Hade inte det vart nåt, va?
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