~~Jan 20.
(@50.400 scrb)

New Belle and Sebastian album. Opening song nobody's empire sounds good on first listen.

New Sean McCann album: Ten Impressions for Piano and Strings

New Merdaratha album: As The Dark Clouds Swept Away We Could See The Sunset /drone metal ambient

Concenrating on these albums which are already in my library:

by Tangerine Dream:
Exit (@35 scrb)
Tangram (@34 scrb)
Cyclone (@12 scrb)

At Mount Zoomer (Wolf Parade) (@40 scrb)
Suede (Suede) (@55 scrb)
Red (King Crimson) (@56 scrb)
The Real Thing (Faith No More) (@66 scrb)
Red Letter Year (Ani DiFranco) (@91 scrb)
If The…

June 2013: 44,717 total plays

Top 5 artists of the last month:

1. Ani DiFranco (42)
2. My Dying Bride (29)
3. Biosphere (27)
4. Tangerine Dream (25)
5. Mercury Rev (23)

10 most played albums in the last 3 months:

1. Genesis – Selling England By The Pound (27)
1. Tangerine Dream – The Virgin Years: 1977-1983 (27)
3. Ani DiFranco – Red Letter Year (26)
4. Destroyer – This Night (25)
5. Kangding Ray – Stabil (24)
5. Jacaszek – Glimmer (24)
5. Foals – Holy Fire (24)
8. The Luyas – Animator (23)
8. The National…

__ Ani Difranco has just released her new album, which side are you on?

__Monoloke: ghosts

*Sometimes I find using the following 10-point-scale helpful in expressing my view of the quality of an album and/or how much I like it:

1….2….2+….3-….(3)….3+….4….4+….5….5+

1: "Abysmal. A waste of sounds."

2: "Terrible. A waste of instruments."

2+: "Terrible, but there are some good moments/ideas"

3-: "Amateurish. Lacks some elemental things which are found even in an average album"

3: "Average and doesn't challenge anything (for me). Nothing outstanding at all (in my opinion). A perfect exemplar of its period."

3+: "Yeah, alright, fine. I'd feel better in life if this represented the average, but somehow the 'actual' average is…

Oregon Budapeşte konseri

Pzt 21 Eyl – Oregon

Dört dörtlüktü - başka nasıl olabilirdi ki zaten. Towner - McCandless - Moore standart üçlüsüne davulcu / perküsyoncu Mark Walker eşlik ediyor (sanırım yeni bir şey de değil bu, birkaç senedir/albümdür beraber gibiler, bilemeyeceğim). Walker hariç hepsi bembeyaz saçlı adamlar, üçü de artık bastona ihtiyaç duyacakmış gibi bir postüre sahip; Moore ve McCandless sadece deri ve kemikler, Towner ise enden devleşmiş - bu kadarını beklemiyordum. Ama n'oluyor: Enstrümanlarını aldıklarında aynen 70'lerdeki enerjilerinde olduklarını görüyorsun. Moore'un parmakları gücünü koruyor: gümbür gümbür kontrbas, tam doğru anda insanın tüylerini diken eden kalın vibratolar… Towner hızlı,…

Şöyle bir şey yapalım isterim dostlar: 2000'den bu yana çıkartılmış bağımsız (anladın sen) işlerden (albüm) 5 ilâ 10 tanesini yazalım - en beğendiklerimizden seçmeye alışalım bunları tabii; ama diğer yandan kısmen "az bilindik" olduklarını düşündüklerimizi analım ki şey olsun… eee… güzel olsun. Yani şöyle söyleyeyim: sonuçta 20-30 albümlük bir liste çıksın ortaya, bunları oylayalım, eğlence olsun.

Kişisel maksadım, 2000'lerin indicilerini daha iyi tanımak. Ama mesele "bana bir şey önerin" muhabbetinden biraz öteye gitsin istediğimden böyle bir çareye başvurdum.

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Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths

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A list of some classical albums that are probably masterpieces in their own genres, a list of some artists that I guess I should listen to . . . but somehow, for some reason, I haven't familiarized myself with yet.

I let you get surprised at my having not listened to them ever - well, after all, life is just strange!

:::Radiohead
I've listened only a few tracks by the group. Yeah, I know, there is nothing like OK Computer, yeah yeah, I know…

:::Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

:::Can
I'm a first wave ('70's)…

I think there's no overall chart listing/ranking the artists by the respective number of plays, so I start making it. (There's no particular reason in selecting the artists to check. Your suggesting a particular artist to be included in the list is encouraged.)

So, here we go:

1. The Beatles – 136,393,576 plays
2. Radiohead – 135,089,773
3. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – 88,244,105
4. Coldplay – 87,308,176
5. Metallica – 75,188,248
6. Pink Floyd – 73,405,916
7. Nirvana – 53,261,045
8. U2 – 42,140,307
9. Bob Dylan – 41,602,906
10. Queen – 40,945,328
11. Madonna – 31,736,755
12. Britney…

Although I consider myself a real fan of Aphex Twin, I did not hesitate to put off listening to Drukqs since its release. Well, perhaps some of you can guess what lies beneath the delay: I just waited for the "right time" - I just wanted to start listening to it just as I would feel a genuine need of some new stuff by RDJ. Of course it wouldn't be "new" in real time; but that was more about my subjective experience with his music - i.e. it would be my own first experience with the album that should…