Diario

Top artists by total length of all songs I have of them (excluding Various Artists)

1. Hope of the States - 15.16.59, a clear winner
2. Akira the Don - 14.21.30, brought up by the fact i just downloaded two more mixtapes (I have 7 or 8 now I think)
3. Radiohead - 14.14.14
4. Porcupine Tree - 13.27.23
5. Nine Inch Nails - 12.57.31
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 11.50.27, interesting that i barely listen to any of it now (For 3 years my avatar for this account was the One Hot Minute girl).
7. Manic Street Preachers - 11.41.5
8. Joy Division - 9.2.9
9. Sneaker Pimps - 8.13.54, excluding IAMX as it's still not enough to put them ahead of MSP
10. The Libertines - 7.57.1
11. Sigur Rós - 7.49.29
12. New Order - 7.20.14, combining with JD puts them an hour in front of HOTS...
13. UNKLE - 7.4.28
14. Muse - 6.44.22
15. The National - 6.31.58
16. Bloc Party - 6.11.40, at 4m the closest pair with fellow middling indie types...
17. The Cooper Temple Clause - 6.7.39
18. Sufjan Stevens - 5.56.59
19. Stereolab - 5.33.34
20. Amon Tobin - 5.28.48

Mirrors arcadiandream more. I guess I don't shuffle as often as I used to.

NOW
whatwillburn's top albums
1. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (114) 2. PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her (104) 3. Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold (100) 4. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (95) 5. Mansun - Six (93) 6. The Boxer Rebellion - Exits (81) 7. Radiohead - In Rainbows (81) 8. Damien Rice - O (80) 9. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (79) 10. Bloc Party - Intimacy (77) 11. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (76) 12. Sneaker Pimps - Splinter (68) 13. Tricky - Maxinquaye (68) 14. 27 - Holding On For Brighter Days (64) 15. Burial - Untrue (62) 16. The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through And Leave (60) 17. YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO - Ignoto (60) 18. Portishead - Third (59) 19. PJ Harvey - White Chalk (59) 20. Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP (58) 21. Turin Brakes - Ether Song (58) 22. Daft Punk - Discovery (57) 23. Weezer - Pinkerton (56) 24. Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport (52) 25. The Cooper Temple Clause - Make This Your Own (52) 26. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill (51) 27. The Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose (51) 28. Joanna Newsom - Ys (51) 29. Muse - Showbiz (49) 30. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (47) 31. Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times (47) 32. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (47) 33. Elle Milano - Acres Of Dead Space Cadets (47) 34. PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (45) 35. Interpol - Our Love to Admire (45) 36. Sigur Rós - Hlemmur (44) 37. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? (44) 38. Saul Williams - Saul Williams (43) 39. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender (43) 40. Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land (41) 41. The Shortwave Set - The Debt Collection (41) 42. Saul Williams - Amethyst Rock Star (40) 43. Troubles - First (39) 44. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (39) 45. British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power (39) 46. Weezer - Maladroit (37) 47. Turin Brakes - Dark On Fire (37) 48. Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman (36) 49. Liars - Drum's Not Dead (36) 50. Au Revoir Simone - The Bird Of Music (35)

THEN
arcadiandream's top albums
1. Sneaker Pimps - Splinter (230) 2. Hope of the States - Left (211) 3. IAMX - Kiss + Swallow (189) 4. Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy (177) 5. The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through And Leave (153) 6. Battle - Break The Banks (152) 7. The National - Alligator (145) 8. Mansun - Six (141) 9. Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport (135) 10. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (134) 11. Cage - Hell's Winter (132) 12. Editors - The Back Room (129) 13. Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X (127) 14. Saul Williams - Saul Williams (126) 15. The Cooper Temple Clause - Make This Your Own (123) 16. Thom Yorke - The Eraser (122) 17. The Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up The Fire, And Let The Flames Break Loose (121) 18. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth (117) 19. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (113) 20. Muse - Absolution (112) 21. Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (112) 22. Brand New - Deja Entendu (107) 23. Sigur Rós - Takk... (103) 24. The National - The National (101) 25. Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger (96) 26. Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me (90) 27. Interpol - Antics (89) 28. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust (85) 29. Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise (85) 30. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief. (The Gloaming.) (84) 31. Ludes - The Dark Art Of Happiness (83) 32. Radiohead - Kid A (83) 33. The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (81) 34. Snow Patrol - Songs For Polarbears (81) 35. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (79) 36. Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times (77) 37. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (75) 38. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth (75) 39. Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon (74) 40. mclusky - The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not On Fire (74) 41. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (73) 42. Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk (73) 43. The Libertines - The Libertines (71) 44. She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge (71) 45. Head Automatica - Decadence (67) 46. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (67) 47. Biffy Clyro - Puzzle (64) 48. The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia (64) 49. Giant Drag - Hearts And Unicorns (64)

(From ferngesteuert)

1. [artist[Porcupine Tree
I was looking at Oceansize and Aerogramme on last.fm, two bands I'd both heard great things about and not been able to find records for. Putting those two in to the radio at some point ended up with Porcupine Tree. I think it played me 'Signify' but I may be mistaken. but I researched what albums I ought to listen to most and ended up grabbing In Absentia from OiNK's Pink Palace. I remember being slightly scared by the cover. It sat on my hard-drive for a while, and when I eventually listened to it I was blown away. Love followed and the other two bands were forgotten about... for now ;)

2) Weezer
Slow burn this, Blue was one of the first albums I bought and Say It Ain't So was the one I'd heard first before that - from BBC Radio 6music or a localish station called The Storm. I remember liking what I heard of Make Believe, which came out not long after I got it. But my real obsession with them only started when Red came out a few months ago. Strange, hm?

3) Radiohead
GAWD... most people say Creep, right? And that's not far off... My first song was The Bends afaik... or it could have been 2+2=5 or Go to Sleep. Either the radio or my mother's CD collection is to blame.

4) Nine Inch Nails
Easier, the first song I heard was Starsuckers, Inc. as I heard it on the radio when I was younger (we're talking about 12) and tried downloading it from somewhere. Unfortunately I only found the real song Starfuckers, Inc. - and this being when I still went to church, it put me off them a bit. Later on came the Hand that Feeds, when I'd had a few years to get over it, but my real obsession came after watching SE7EN for the first time in a dark room and that fantastic remix of Closer over the titles.

5) The National
From the website of Emerald Wizard Radio, which I found looking for Libertines lyrics. This was the site of a German/Egyptian who obviously had access to all the best promos and put together amazing playlists on a weekly basis. No longer around. My interest was confirmed when I read an excellent writeup in MOJO magazine. They've been pretty consistently enjoyable since then (late 2004) and along with Radiohead and HOTS they're the only ones who can say that.

6) Sneaker Pimps
I think I must have heard 6 Underground on the radio when I was really young because when I listened to it later I found I could still remember most of the words. But I only really started listening to them after my first and only drugs experience - their album Splinter is the sound of a come-down, up to about track 10 when you can look back on what happened...

7) PJ Harvey
A long term awareness bloomed into love actually listening to her when I bought White Chalk after seeing some of her live performances for it on TV, notably The Devil. Having said that I had heard Death Is Not the End a couple of years ago but I don't think it counts as I thought it was Kylie Minogue... oops

8) The Cooper Temple Clause
Relentlessly egged on by the forwardirektion: forum I picked up the leak of Make This Your Own & heard Homo Sapiens first because it was in the wrong order. I really wish I'd heard Blind Pilots a few years earlier though.

9) 65daysofstatic
Similar to the above, but it was Retreat! Retreat! that I heard first. Incredible live band.

10) Joanna Newsom
She popped up on so many best-albums-ever lists at forwardirektion: that it was inevitable that I'd listen eventually, but the first song I heard was This Side of the Blue on the Orange 'New York Blackout' ad.

11) Eliott Smith
I have almost no idea how why or when I started listening to him. Probably due to hype or possibly a recommendation here. The first song was Angeles

12) Bat for Lashes
Picked up the album after lots of good reviews and fairly conventionally listened to Horse and I first :)

13) Wilco
The first song I heard was Jesus, Etc.. Bookends nicely, this one, as it was a recommendation from the lead singer of the next one.

14) Hope of the States
Former favourite band after hearing The Red, The White, The Black, The Blue all over the airwaves.

15) Mansun
Another bookend, because it was another direct recommendation from Mr Herlihy, though like (6) I could remember the words to Wide Open Space.

16) The Boxer Rebellion
I got into them through Last.fm's similar artists for (8) recently and hot damn, I picked Watermelon to start with, which is incredible.

17) The Flashbulb
I got his latest album through the Vanity House feature on what.cd after he put it up. Lots of small tracks - I've only listened to it twice. 1st would be Prelude

18) British Sea Power
Slow burner, got into them after spying them in some Rough Trade liner notes. The first song was the epic EP version of Remember Me.

19) Sigur Rós
One of those bands for whom "success" follows ad placement; like Coldplay's Clocks in 2002, Hoppípolla was all over BBC and C4 placements in 2005.

20) Youthmovies
Toured frequently with (14) and (9) and a cutely good band that instil joy into the hearts of their listeners especially with songs like Ores or The Naughtiest Girl Is A Monitor.

(Album evaluation still on-going.)

ala CBee and nehemiah553

1. RHCP: By the Way
2. Strokes: Room on Fire
3. Libertines: Up the Bracket
4. OST: The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
5. Massive Attack: Protection
6. Monty Python: The Final Rip Off
7. Lemon Jelly: lemonjelly.ky
8. Head Automatica: Decadence
9. National: Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
10. Snow Patrol: Songs For Polarbears

These are 10 of my formative albums that I once heard all the time and now skip rather than spin. (HOTS: Lost Riots has been discounted as I've recently started again)
My job is to listen to them all and find out whether they still sound any good.
I'll let you know how I get on.

Narrow Stairs
Death Cab for Cutie

Wilco
A Ghost is Born
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Well, I think so anyway.
I think it's the bass on "I Will Possess Your Heart" that does it.

little meme thing. Lastfm playcounts vs tracks in library. Probably not representative at all yet.

1. Porcupine Tree: 2.937
2. Sneaker Pimps: 2.952
3. PJ Harvey: 5.385
4. Saul Williams: 5.822
5. Radiohead: 1.009
6. The Cooper Temple Clause: 2.743
7. The National: 1.876
8. Nine Inch Nails: 1.062
9. IAMX: 4.703
9. Muse: 1.245
10. YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO: 2.652

Real order:
1. Saul Williams
2. PJ Harvey
3. IAMX
4. Sneaker Pimps
5. Porcupine Tree
6. The Cooper Temple Clause *no change*
7. Yourcodenameis:milo
8. The National
9. Muse *no change*
10. Nine Inch Nails
11. Radiohead

Well I wasn't expecting Saul to be tops - but i've no need to be, he's ace. As for artists NOT represented here, I have 151 million Will Oldham tracks under various guises but never listen to them at all. I think it's more comfortable knowing they'll be there if I need them. As for PT, that doesn't reflect the millions of stuff I've downloaded or the album I bought today, so that'll continue to rise, rise, rise over the coming weeks.

Lots of different COLOURS
blacks and LEMONS
which are actually limes.

http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+CSS+Color+Changer

It's good to get listening to the last.fm radio again - everytime I switch it on, especially as a subscriber, it sounds better than it did the last time. I can remember early on, in 2005, having to skip almost everything then giving up while the buffer broke. But now it's all wonderful.