I got an mp3-player for christmas. I'm a bit conservative sometimes and was planning on holding on to my cd-walkman and using the mp3-player for running. Heh. Good luck running with your converses in snow slush, Lillieanne, great plan. Anyway, I thought I'd try out this thing anyway when I recently had an 80's period. And by that I don't mean I was listening to Felt, McCarthy or Josef K, nope, it was strictly Alphaville, Duran Duran, The Human League, Kajagoogoo, Bronski Beat and ABC. And so on. (Yes, I'm flattering myself by not mentioning John Waite, Mr Mister and Belinda Carlisle.) Don't know what happened really. I made a mix cd with 80's music for me and my flatmate to listen to while cleaning the apartment and before we knew it we were listening to nothing but hits of the 80's. Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, it's been a while since I've listened to electronica…
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First try
Mar 26 2006, 21:36 di josefine_k_haig
Hoh, never knew there were so many people listening to good music out there. Or, well, in theory I knew, just haven't seen it with my own eyes before.
I got an mp3-player for christmas. I'm a bit conservative sometimes and was planning on holding on to my cd-walkman and using the mp3-player for running. Heh. Good luck running with your converses in snow slush, Lillieanne, great plan. Anyway, I thought I'd try out this thing anyway when I recently had an 80's period. And by that I don't mean I was listening to Felt, McCarthy or Josef K, nope, it was strictly Alphaville, Duran Duran, The Human League, Kajagoogoo, Bronski Beat and ABC. And so on. (Yes, I'm flattering myself by not mentioning John Waite, Mr Mister and Belinda Carlisle.) Don't know what happened really. I made a mix cd with 80's music for me and my flatmate to listen to while cleaning the apartment and before we knew it we were listening to nothing but hits of the 80's. Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, it's been a while since I've listened to electronica… -
A BIG WEEKEND OUT
Feb 1 2006, 9:46 di PinothyJ
Let us just start from the very beginning of my weekend. We arrived at Jupiter's Casino around 1 and after driving around for a while and then walking around for a while we finally found out where we were supposed to go. we then went to check in which was a humongous, mammoth of a task taking about 10-15 minutes or so (that is not including the queue we had to wait for). So then we finally get our card-keys for the rooms 1142 and 1143 and we make our way to the elevator. We went up and down the elevators a couple of times before we realised we had to put our card-key into a little slot before it would let us press the button of our floor.
So, open the doors they do to level eleven and off to find our room we went. This exercise was fairly straight forward which was defiantly a change from everything else that has happened so far. the rooms were nice and we had rather impressive views as well. my mother and I went down stairs (well elevators) to pick up the tickets to the nights… -
Blast from the past
Gen 27 2006, 2:12 di spi
Yesterday last.fm radio played a bunch of songs that trigger memories from specific points in time. In fall of 2001 I was in my freshman year of college and listening to Echo Image's debut CD COMPUPHONIC. The track Passion Comes is off that album.
Information Society's What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy) is from one of the first CDs I ever bought.
Leiahdorus' Indigent was also an album from my freshman year. I remember singing it on my way to class.
A few other songs from long ago that were also fitting included
New Order's Every Little Counts and Alphaville's Forever Young
Overall I am really impressed with the songs last.fm is adding to the radio database. Echo Image and Leiahdorus are not bands I ever expected to hear on last.fm -
A-Z
Gen 26 2006, 10:24 di fernbom
8kHz Mono
2 Unlimited
Alphaville
a-ha
Beatles
Blunda
Covenant
Cardigans
Depeche Mode
Duran Duran
Erasure
Elegant Machinery
Front 242
Faithless
Guns n’ Roses
Gyllene Tider
Howard Jones
Human League
Imperiet
Iron Maiden
Jean-Michel Jarre
Johnny Cash
Kraftwerk
Knife
Le Sport
Ladytron
Metallica
Madonna
New Order
Nitzer Ebb
OMD
Oasis
Pet Shop Boys
Page
Quit Your Dayjob
Queen
R.E.M.
Rational Youth
S.P.O.C.K
Sista mannen på jorden
Thåström
Tyskarna Från Lund
Ultravox
U2
Visage
VNV Nation
Welle:Erdball
West End Girls
XTC
Xzibit
Yazoo
Yello
Zombie Nation
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My music history
Gen 24 2006, 17:04 di fernbom
I was born in 1973. My first memories of music is The Boppers which was played in kindergarten in 1979. Later I've also remembered hearing
Popcorn in a cartoon the same year. In the very early 1980s I heard Swedish bands like Freestyle and Gyllene Tider, but it wasn't until 1983, when I was allowed to watch Melodifestivalen, where they decide the Swedish entry for Eurovision Song Contest, that I really became interested in music. I liked Carola! Everyone in did... That summer my aunt recorded Carola's first LP to a music cassette for me. She also recorded Magnus Uggla's latest album, which I also liked.
In 1984 I watched Melodifestivalen again and Herreys won. They even won Eurovision Song Contest! Later that year I became more interested in pop music, bands like Alphaville and Men Without Hats, but I also liked Twisted Sister when they were played in the tv show Bagen. The end of 1984 was fantastic with hits like Forever Young, The Wild Boys,
Sex Crime (1984), The Riddle,
Kao Bang,
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Great Cover Songs Part 1
Gen 22 2006, 16:38 di waterboij
I recently discovered Tori Amos cover on Bruce Springsteens song Thunder Road. It is a really brilliant song and it made me think of how many great covers there are:
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall (Oasis)
Matt Pond PA - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)
Youth Group - Forever Young (Alphaville)
Tegan & Sara - Dancin In The Dark (Bruce Springsteens)
Johnny Cash - Desperado (The Eagles)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Bethany Joy Lenz & Tyler Hilton - When The Stars Go Blue (Ryan Adams)
Stay tuned for some more good covers next time -
A to Z is SOOOO lame
Gen 18 2006, 17:51 di Amighty
I mean, sometimes people have a plan, or they give some details and stuff, but they are reallynot very revealing.
A:
HIP-HOP: Above the Law These guys don't get enuf "props". Slightly more whimsical than N.W.A., but were just as influential to the whole gangsta thang.
Roots Reggae: Abyssinians good stuff
Rocksteady: Alton Ellis check out "It's A Shame" on "Darker Than Blue: Soul from Jamdown". Altho any of his records are great. Lots of great covers of old pop and soul.
new reggae: Aggrolites don't know much about these guys, but I had no idea they were new - and that's a compliment.
Soul Diva: Ann Peebles her voice pierces my heart. Check "I Can't Stand The Rain"
alternative/indie rock: Afghan Whigs "When We Two PArted" is like the saddest song ever.
new arrival: Art Brut don't listen to these guys as much as i did last year, but their songs are funny AND catchy. … -
itunes quiz
Dic 28 2005, 5:27 di dibson13
Open iTunes/iPod (or whatever) to answer the following. As of 12/28/05.
Total number of tracks:
3382
Sort by song title:
-First Song: 'Till I Collapse - Eminem
-Last Song: Zoom - Commodores
-Shortest Song: Intro - 50 Cent
-Longest Song: Two Step - Dave Matthews Band
Sort by album:
-First Song: Hello - Oasis ((What's The Story) Morning Glory)
-Last Song: Kingdom Come - Coldplay (X&Y)
Top 10 Most Played Songs:
1) You're Beautiful - James Blunt (34)
2) Forever Young - Alphaville (25)
3) Sugar We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy (22)
4) Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off - Panic! at the Disco (22)
5) I'm So Fly - Lloyd Banks (21)
6) The Ghost Of You - My Chemical Romance (21)
7) Soul Suckers - Amos Lee (20)
8) Wisemen - James Blunt (19)
9) In The Deep - Bird York (17)
10) Redemption Song (ft. Joe Strummer) - Johnny Cash (17)
First five songs that comes up on Shuffle:
1) Yesterday Never Tomorrows - The Stills
2) State of Mind - Raul Midón
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my blood runs cold / my memory has just been sold
Dic 27 2005, 20:36 di iitu
Aha! I've finally got my Best Songs of the 80's collection, and boy has it been played over Christmas. Great stuff. And some horrible stuff but that's what you'd expect. Does not include everything I hoped for, though.
Most played so far:
a-ha: Take On Me
Alphaville: Forever Young
Crowded House: Don't Dream It's Over
Missing:
Talking Heads:
Psycho Killer, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?
Kim Wilde: Kids in America
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Covers, what Passion!!
Dic 4 2005, 12:17 di Orgueil
Well, I have a real passion for covers. Or, I have to say, I have a real passion ONLY for the good covers.
You know, that songs that are the same of ever and sounds like new, that songs that gives you a lot of emotions, like the original one but in a different way... drive me crazy!XD A good cover could make me happy for hours or days, and I could never stop to list at it. At the same time, a bad cover (and the world is full of this kinda of thing, sob... ç_ç) could make me angry and sad. Anyway, one of my hobbies it's to collect the covers of the songs I love!XDDD
Like the beautiful "Love Song" by The Cure redone by Jack Off Jill in a punkish style, or by Tori Amos (Tori Amos cover are the best ever, I think!), or my new love, "The House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals, that I found irresistible in Sinead O'Connor and Muse version. Oh, and I love so much "The Passanger" redone by Siouxsie and the Banshees (but the Lou Reed version is fantastic the same!)
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Alphaville