I seem to get my new music in spurts with the rest of my disposable income going towards video games. I had hardly purchased any music until June and over the past three months I've picked up:

How To Destroy Angels - How To Destroy Angels
Was super excited about this and stayed up till 2am to get the free download. Sadly it doesn't seem like it has seen physical release here in Canada. Which is a shame as I paid good money for a physical copy of The Slip. I really believe in what Trent is doing and…

The stages of last.fm use as I have experienced them thus far.

1) OMG this site is sooooo neat. The idea of keeping track of what you listen to is exciting and the site has information on very artist you can think of

2) Why do i have so many scrobbles by Unknown Artist? Arcade Fire? I thought it was The Arcade Fire. You realize that your music collection is a mess. Bad tags for artists and songs all over the place. You have a lot of work to do.

3) Last.fm is the authority on music. You…

Sophia - something

I'm jealous (You're jealous)
And possessive (And possessive)
Neurotic
Insecure
And obsessive (Insecure and obsessive)

I ain't much
What's half of nothing?
I never felt like I was something (But you're something)
And I know that I ain't easy (You ain't easy)
When you're only trying to please me (I'm only trying to please you)
And I know that I ain't easy (You ain't easy)
But I love you

Oh I love you

And that's gotta mean something
Yeah that's gotta mean something
When nothing means anything
When nothing means anything

Doesn't anything mean something?

Sometimes I…

Matthew Good - 99% Of Us is Failure

I know that it's bad
That it's the kind that they can't operate on
And I know it's real slow, honey
Painful and real slow
Styrofoam coffee cups
And bagged drugs that never work enough
And I know its real slow, honey
Painful and real slow

When we were young
And hit like hammers
I'd write the nails in your hands
But when 99% of us is failure
There's no going back

And I know its real slow, honey
Painful and real slow

Blackbird come the break of dawn
The TV's on,…

Artists:
Not surprisingly my top two artists for 2009 are my top two overall artists. Since neither Nine Inch Nails or Skinny Puppy released new material this year it's somewhat impressive that they still came out on top. Especially since much of the rest of my artist chart for 2009 consists of artists that I either discovered this year or released new material. In the case of NIN it just shows how much a fan I am of Trent's work as NIN has been a constant on my weekly charts for pretty much the whole year. Examining the six month…

Matthew Good - Empty's Theme Park from his most recent album Vancouver

Used to steal real estate signs
Cookie keep them in her basement
Used to stay up all night
Chemistry set a replacement
Ya, I've seen that door
And I've walked through it both ways before

I live just around here
I sleep just around here
I wake up every day
Where my feet hit the floor in exactly the same place

Tell me will I love?
Tell me will it be enough?
Or tell me will I stay
With my feet in exactly the same place?

Hold me…

I just saw the new Rammstein video and I haven't had a WTF moment that strong in a long long time. Basically it's a music video featuring porn with full nudity and penis/vagina penetration. Obviously the band members had their faces digitally put over those of the male porn actors they employed for the video since their all in their forties, several of them are married, and a couple have kids. One thing is for sure it certainly left an impression after the first viewing. I'm going to assume that it won't be receiving any play on many (or maybe…

Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing

Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide.
I'll take it by your side.
Such imagination seems to help the feeling slide.
I'll take it by your side.
Instant correlation sucks and breeds a pack of lies.
I'll take it by your side.
Oversaturation curls the skin and tans the hide.
I'll take it by your side.

tick - tock
tick - tick - tick - tick - tick - tock

I'm unclean, a libertine
And every time you vent your spleen,
I seem to lose the power of speech,
Your slipping slowly from…

Recently bough some music from amazon that just showed up this morning. At the moment I'm listening to Placebo - Black Market Music. Not too sure what to make of it this first listen but it's OK at least. I'm very fond of Without You I'm Nothing and at the moment I'm of the opinion that Black Market Music isn't as good. I'm assuming it will grow on me with time and repeated listening though. That said I'm listening to Blue American as I write this and it has the same depressive quality as many of the tracks from…

I've been a Marilyn Manson fan since I was sixteen and have enjoyed his music greatly over the years for a variety of reasons and in a variety of moods. However back in 2003 he released The Golden Age of Grotesque which was, in my opinion, absolutely terrible. I can't be the only one that thought so because many critics think of it as his weakest album to date. While catchy The Golden Age of Grotesque lacked the lyrical depth that could be found in his previous releases. Instead we were mostly left with what read like terrible teenage high…