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001)Wolfmother - California Queen
002)The Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.
003)Incubus - Megalomaniac
004)Metric - Gold Guns Girls
005)The Kooks - See the World
006)The Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon
007)Tricky - # da woman
008)dEUS - Suds & Soda
009)Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
010)Nada Surf - Stalemate

011)The Strokes - Juicebox
012)Bombay Bicycle Club - Magnet
013)Placebo - The Bitter End
014)Muse - Plug In Baby
015)We Are Scientists - The Great Escape
016)Death From Above - Romantic Rights
017)The Faint - Agenda Suicide
018)The Rakes - Terror
019)Ramones - Blitzkrieg Pop
020)Body Count - Body Count's in the House

021)Urban Dance Squad - Fast Lane
022)Junkie XL - Dealing With the Roster
023)The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
024)ILS - 6 Space (Next Level)
025)Go Back To The Zoo - Electric
026)Test Icicles - Circle Triangle Square
027)Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot
028)The Von Bondies - Going Down
029)Wolfmother - Woman
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1. How did you get into 29?
Randy Newman: About 10 years ago he released his album Bad Love. A DJ on the radio (and yes, this was daytime radio on one of the most popular stations in the Netherlands!) really liked it and was promoting it quite a bit. I think I bought his compilation Lonely At The Top shortly afterwards. I liked it and bought Bad Love a little while later and it grew slowly from there. Randy has written some amazing songs.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Voicst: Everyday I Work on the Road was the first one I consciously heard and that had me pay more attention to their music. This was around the release of their album A Tale Of Two Devils. A few weeks later I saw them in concert and I was sold. But the very first song I've ever heard of them has to be another song, as I saw them opening for Bettie Serveert a few years earlier. But I can't remember any specifics/songs of that concert.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33?
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Last.fm Music Quiz


Take your 10 overall top artists on Last.fm...

#1Arctic Monkeys
#2Muse
#3Radiohead
#4Placebo
#5Coldplay
#6dEUS
#7Jack Johnson
#8Green Day
#9U2
#10Absynthe Minded

...and answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by #6?
That was probably 'Suds & Soda'

What is your favorite album of #2?
Origin of Symmetry.

What is your favorite lyric that #5 has sung?
High up above, or down below...........
(from Fix You)

How many times have you seen #4 live?
Once, @ Werchter '09

What is your favorite song by #7?
Taylor

What is a good memory you have involving the music of #10?
Seeing them live @ Pukkelpop.

Is there a song of #3 that makes you sad?
Not really sad, but rather a bit emotional. And that's for sure 'Street Spirit'

What is your favorite lyric that #2 has sung?
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart,
I want to recognise your beaty without the mask,
I want to exercice the demons from your past,
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Now this was a fun theme! This month's theme in the Monthly Mixtape Group was "shopping list". I had to remove some of my initial choices because they were already used in other people's mixes (dEUS - Suds & Soda and BC Camplight - Blood and Peanut Butter). Still, an interesting shopping list remains.

My shopping list:
1. The Avett Bothers - A Gift for Melody Anne
2. Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes - Custard Pie
3. Ben Lee - Apple Candy
4. Claudia Koreck - Chocolat
5. Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Boots Like These
6. Jacques Brel - La Bière
7. Katzenjammer - Tea With Cinnamon
8. Johnny Cash - Crystal Chandeliers and Burgundy
9. Soulwax - Starfish And Coffee
10. The Strokes - Juicebox
11. Matt Costa - Whiskey & Wine
12. Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk
13. Kelis - Milkshake
14. L'Armée Des 12 - Gin & jus
15. Maarten van Roozendaal - Mayonaise
16. Jeffrey Foucault - Storm Windows (John Prine cover)
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I don't know the band that was supporting and they didn't say their names but it was okay. I remember they said being Australian and coming all the way from Sidney (just to support a relatively known band, I like that), cool I guess. Anyway after a half hour they stopped playing and after a break Tom Barman and his crew came on stage. They picked up their stuff and started one hell of a show. When She Comes Down was a good opener and it set the mood for tonight with its smooth verses (Su..icide... Suicide soul!) and loud chorus. After that they completely overwhelmed the crowd and just started a funky jam called Everybody's Weird. But the crowd only started getting really into it with Fell Off The Floor, Man (You gotta be your own dog and gotta go sniffing on your own turf!). Slow was nice and definitely better than the first time I saw it at Werchter, they improved it a lot with just adding a few details and making that chorus louder. (Or maybe it was just the concert hall instead of the open air, lol)
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Jak mozna vite nebo nevite, piseme s Keithem knizku Hornby je curak. Jeste premyslim o podtitulu "Ja jsem totiz Freud". Bude to neco mezi Bukowskim, Dickem, Sartrem, Marquezem a -kupodivu ano- Hornbym. Marquez bude v anotaci uveden jen jako lakadlo na intelektualy, ve skutecnosti s tim nic spolecneho nema. Nicmene. Proces je to narocny a dlouhy a vznika spousta odpadu. Nize (rozumej zcela dole) je veden link na prave takovy odpad, pac mi bylo lito tyhle b-strany uplne rusit. Proc to linkuju sem? Tyka se to muziky. Vsechno, co delam, se ji nejak tyka. A taky nekterjch z vas, budete slavny. Ani tak to sem ale nedam cely, to je jak... chodit na porady v tricku Torche. Nebo Haram, checht. (Nebo opila nebo s kocovinou.)

Protoze jsem se nicmene rozhodla to se spriznenymi akcemi prohypertextovat, budu neco z toho citovat a doplnovat odkazy na skutecne relevantni texty (a text o dEUS pripsat). Ten odkaz dole doporucuji vyhradne lidem, co cetli Vsechny moje lasky... to jsou totiz takovy vsechny moje lasky. …

Les Eurocks 2008 en morceaux :

Nous arrivons pendant la La Bande Originale, puis un tour mal placé pour Cat Power et nous nous mettons en place pour Massive Attack. [Inertia Creeps] dEUS finira de nous achever avec son Suds & Soda. Direction le milieu du concert de Ben Harper, mais Diamonds On the Inside nous laisse de marbre. The Gossip avec Standing in the Way of Control en fait tout autant. Crevés que nous étions, nous rentrons.

Le samedi demarre pas mal avec Camille sous le soleil de l'après-midi [Gospel With No Lord]. On va se placer pour le rock'n'roll de Phoebe Killdeer and the Short Straws que l'on délaissera apres son Paranoia car cette musique ne passe pas super bien avec le soleil qui tape. Direction en avance pour The Dø, qui nous offre The Bridge Is Broken en version mémorable ! Apres un quart d'heure de Grinderman bien ennuyant…

dEUS... mhh... si puo' dire che siano una colonna portante della musica degli anni 90, Suds & Soda e' un brano che e' rimasto oramai impresso nelle nostre teste.
ma arriviamo al dunque: gia' con Pocket Revolution molti avevano storto il naso e decretavano la fine dei dEUS, tant'e' che Tom Barman fece un' altro gruppo di cui non ricordo il nome.
poi ho ricordi un po' confusi, una parte della mia testa mi dice che vidi i dEUS dal vivo dopo il periodo Pocket Revolution, un'altra parte mi dice che invece vidi l'altro gruppo di cui non ricordo il nome ma che comunque fecero i pezzi vecchi dei dEUS e... figata! i classiconi da ascoltare e saltare in mezzo alla gente come anni e anni prima (quel concerto con dEUS e Pavement insiemte sul palco del velvet - dove poi i dEUS suonarono nemmeno mezzora per colpa di un ampli che faceva le bizze - per poi oltre un'ora di Pavement prima dello scioglimento), e insomma, un signor concerto da zittire tutte le malelingue. …