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The list (only one album per artist):

Ladytron - Witching Hour
Depeche Mode - Violator
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Orbital - Orbital 2
Leftfield - Leftism
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Biosphere - Substrata
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
Daft Punk - Discovery
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
Syntax - Meccano Mind
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
The Prodigy - Music For the Jilted Generation
Apoptygma Berzerk - Welcome to Earth
New Order - Technique
The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
The Hundred in the Hands - The Hundred in the Hands
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Vangelis - Blade Runner
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Fluke - Risotto
Adam F - Colours
Sasha - Airdrawndagger
Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure
Alpinestars - White Noise
Death in Vegas - Scorpio Rising
Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - English Electric

The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

David Bowie - Young Americans

Suede - Bloodsports

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

David Bowie - Lodger

Brian Eno - Before and After Science

I confess: I'm obsessed with music and everything there is to know about it. I won't ever pretend to know everything about it, but I do have an insatiable hunger for music knowledge: from whole musical movements to trivial facts about my favorite bands; I love it all!

On my quest for music knowledge I came across this great three-hour-long documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI5TnF7o5tw

I want to start of by saying that the title is a bit misleading. You might think this is only the story about Kraftwerk and maybe two or three other bands that were influenced by Kraftwerk. But it isn't! It's a comprehensive look at the German music scene of the late sixties (referred to as the "krautrock" scene).

It starts of by looking at the early Krautrock bands like Amon Düül II, Can, Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream; followed by a closer look at their influences like Pierre Schaeffer, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Louis And Bebe Barron - who wrote the first entirely…

2012... Dziwny to był rok, zaś wszelkie znaki na niebie i ziemi zwiastowały nadchodzące zagrożenia. Rok był odbierany dwojako: jako ten, który przyniósł sukcesy mniejsze (studia historyczne) i większe (względnie dobrze zdana matura), a także olbrzymie (wydanie debiutanckiej powieści "Z tajnych akt KOD-u"), ale również porażki (które zazwyczaj zbywano milczeniem). Był to rok licznych odkryć (muzycznych), wielkich emocji (liczne, w porównaniu z latami wcześniejszymi, kinowe seanse; "Spec Ops: The Line" w Boże Narodzenie; mecz Polska-Czechy) oraz zmian (przesunięcie daty końca świata na rok 2060, dokonany za przyzwoleniem śp. Isaaca Newtona). Dzięki nieznanym mocom nadprzyrodzonym, został on jednak zakończony w sposób należyty i pobożny - z terminatorem T-1000 pod ręką. Przeżyliśmy koniec świata. "Diablo III" zostało wydane. Otrzymaliśmy +100 do szczęścia i achievement wart 500 GS. Żyjemy.

Odtworzeń w 2012: 19236

Najczęściej odtwarzani artyści:
1. Iron Maiden - 1692 odtworzenia
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Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive

Tame Impala - Lonerism

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - History of Modern

Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets

David Bowie - Low

The Shortwave Set - The Debt Collection

Air - Le Voyage dans la Lune

Here it is - a mega list of the best albums from the 1980's. I have used a ratings system to compile this list. All of the 24k tracks on my ipod are rated 1-5 stars. I have listened to 400-500 albums from the eighties(a lot of these albums several times) so it's easy for me to compile a list like this. There are no compilations or greatest hits on this list. No mini albums or EP's either, an album must have at least seven tracks to feature. In my opinion, there is only one album that I have ever heard that is perfection and every single track on it gets 5 stars. That album is at number one on my list. If you have never heard "Script of the Bridge" then please check it out. You won't be disappointed!

200 The Cult - Love (1985)
199 The Damned - Anything (1986)
198 Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)
197 Immaculate Fools - Hearts Of Fortune (1985)
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Since some events are deleted over the time here on last.fm , I decided to list all events I've visited in this post too.

Last Update: 24 MAY 13 || Total: 324

2o13 – 12
MAY 22 – Leipzig, UT Connewitz
Master Musicians of Bukkake, Kerretta, Abrakadabra

MAY 2o – Leipzig, Volkspalast (Kuppelhalle) // XXII. Wave-Gotik-Treffen
★★★★★ (for Ulver)
Ulver w/ Stüba philharmonie, Predominance, Contrastate
MAY 2o – Leipzig, Volkspalast (Kantine) // XXII. Wave-Gotik-Treffen
Arktau Eos, Reformed Faction
MAY 2o – Leipzig, Kohlrabizirkus // XXII. Wave-Gotik-Treffen
Alexander Paul Blake's Aeternaeum, Negurǎ Bunget

MAY 19 – Leipzig, Volkspalast (Kuppelhalle) // XXII. Wave-Gotik-Treffen
★★★★★+
Esben and the Witch
MAY 19 – Leipzig, Volkspalast (Kantine) // XXII. Wave-Gotik-Treffen
Karin Park
MAY 19 – Leipzig, Kohlrabizirkus // XXII. Wave-Gotik-Treffen
Kosheen, Namnambulu, Desireless

MAY 18 – Leipzig, AGRA // XXII. Wave-Gotik-Treffen
★★★★★+ + (for Velvet Acid Christ)
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Fri 12 Oct – Ultravox Brilliant Tour 2012

Ultravox played the 013 at Tilburg on 12 October 2012. For someone living halfway between Alkmaar and Amsterdam to drive to Tilburg on a Friday night is asking for troubles. There are traffic jams along the route and although the Garmin told me, when leaving, it would take one hour and thirty-five minutes, just after driving a couple of kilometers the time went up to over 2.5 hours. In the end we arrived in time and were at the venue just a couple of minutes before the start of the concert.

Then it turned out that being on the guest list does not mean that you can straight walk in. No, I needed to queue up in front of the pay box. Meanwhile a guy was desperate trying to sell some extra tickets. Since the starting time was coming closer in the end he wanted to give them for free to anyone who wanted to have them. Nobody reacted so he tore them apart and walked into the venue. By the time I was checked and finally was able to enter the hall Ultravox had already finished two songs. …