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You might have noticed some changes in my fav bands list. I recently discovered some pretty great -AWESOME!- bands. I already advised Eowyn and I told you I still love Angtoria. Now I would like to add Manzana and Fireflight to that list. Especially Fireflight. I really love their -I believe most recent- album Unbreakable. It's filled with wise lessons and deep meanings. It'll give you hope when needed. And it rocks like Hell! You should really check it out. They are similar to Superchick, one of my all time fav bands, and I could say they're even better. They rock even more.
You should check Manzana's album Nothing As Whole As A Broken Heart as well. Call and Falling to pieces are so very approved.

Got some tips as well? Let me know. I'lld be glad to discover even more great music. Got an opinion about this text? I beg you to comment. Got some insults? Get the hell out of here.

Yes I have some things to do but I don't want to, so I'm writing another meme-like blog XD


1. How did you get into 29? Evanescence
From the theatrical trailer of Daredevil xD I listened to Bring Me To Life in the radio too, but never paid it much attention until I knew Going Under. That was when I decided to listen to them.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Kari Rueslâtten
Don't really remember ^^U

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33? Stream of Passion
Out in the Real World without any doubt.

4. What is your favorite album by 49? Emma Shapplin
I like both of her albums almost the same!! I should say Carmine Meo because my most favourite song, Cuor Senza Sangue is from it =P

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Visions of Atlantis
None at the moment

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Dead Can Dance
In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Elvenking
A Poem for the Firmament u_u

8. What is your favorite album by 15? Ayreon
Mostly The Dream Sequencer. Most of my personal favourites are there.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Enya
The Memory of Trees

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? Sirenia
Euphoria *_*

11. What is your favorite album by 40? The Cranberries
Mmmhh Bury The Hatchet I think =)

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Tristania
Pale Enchantress <3

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Hans Zimmer
The beautiful Gladiator Soundtrack makes me think about my high school years =)

14. What is your favorite song by 38? Alestorm
Captain Morgan's Revenge :D

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? WANDS
AWAKE

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? Loreena McKennitt
None ;_____; she MUST come to Mexico dammmmn ¬¬

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? Leaves' Eyes
Into Your Light, I think

18. What is your favorite album by 11? Theatre of Tragedy
Aêgis is very near perfection.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? Blind Guardian
I should say Hansi Kürsch because I met him and spoke with him a little haha, but I love all members, and of course Thomen even if he's not in the band anymore. They make a GREAT team.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Emilie Autumn
No U_U

21. What is a good memory involving 27? Haggard
One of my first symphonic bands!! :D brings back good old memories n_n

22. What is your favorite song by 16? The 3rd and the Mortal
Why So Lonely *_*

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Stratovarius
Black Diamond

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Tori Amos
Little Earthquakes!!! *_*

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Dimmu Borgir
Eradication Instincts Defined

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? Nightwish
Come Cover Me

27. What is your favorite album by 3? Within Temptation
Mother Earth forever and ever <3

28. What is you favorite song by 2? Sarah Brightman
Deliver Me

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Abney Park
All the Myths Are True

30. What is your favorite song by 8? Era
Enae Volare Mezzo

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Draconian
No one =/

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Kalafina
serenato

33. What is your favorite album by 12? Xandria
Kill the Sun *_*

34. What is the worst song by 45? Epica
I should choose Cry for the Moon because in my opinion it's one of their most OVERRATED songs and I think they've made lots of better songs!! And it's not bad. But I'm sick of that haha

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Mark Mancina
Diva omfgs!!!! It was instant love!! (and the thing that made me decide to watch Blood+ xDD)

36. What is your favorite album by 48? Tiamat
Skeleton Skeletron :D

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? Angtoria
None.

38. What is your favorite song by 36? Helium Vola
Selig

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Alberto Cortez
Pobre mi Patrón xDDD

40. What is your favorite album by 7? Edguy
Hellfire Club. In my opinion their fuckin very best album!!! :') I actually loved the album before being a fan of the band!! XD

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Dark Sanctuary
Mmmh none o_O its a very depressive band xD

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Aesma Daeva
Dawn of the New Athens

43. What is your favorite song by 24? The Gathering
In Motion #1 is THE song =)

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? Orphaned Land
Mmmh I don't think so xD

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Ophelia's Dream
Ladonna Wosh <3

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Autumn
Skydancer *_*

47. What is your favorite album by 4? Lacuna Coil
Comalies forever *_*

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? Gregorian
I don't know XDDD

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? Forever Slave
Don't really remember

50. How many albums do you own by 20? After Forever
None =/

Nightwish : Amaranth, While Your Lips Are Still Red, Wish I Had An Angel

Coronatus : Beauty In Black

Epica : Cry for the Moon, Quietus

Lunatica : Song for You, Two Dreamers

van Canto : Speed Of Light

Elis : Der letzte Tag

Angtoria : God Has a Plan for Us All

Leaves' Eyes : Take The Devil In Me, Ocean's Way

Amberian Dawn : River Of Tuoni

Delain : The Gathering, April Rain

Edenbridge : Shine

Haggard : La Terra Sancta, Upon Fallen Autumn Leaves

Lacuna Coil : Closer, Our Truth

Sonata Arctica : Don't Say a Word

Emilie Autumn : Gothic Lolita

Blackmore's Night : Locked Within The Crystal Ball, Under a Violet Moon

Tarja : The Seer, I Walk Alone

To/Die/For : In the Heat of the Night

Within Temptation : Our Solemn Hour, What Have You Done

Lyriel : Wild Birds, Surrender in Dance

Original title: "Two viruses for the price of a bacterial infection"

Second title: "Funny Nightwish pictures >>> my opinions on music"

Well, these don't take long to read :-P

I wrote most of this a couple of days ago.

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LEO_ and Sanguine_Sky and Euphoria_Nemo did this before.

Made-up questions first!

Most anticipated albums:
1. Tarja - What Lies Beneath (2010)
1. Nightwish Album VII (2011)
1. Delain - Album III (2010? 2011?)
2. The Birthday Massacre - Album IV (2010)
2. Within Temptation Album V (2010)
3. Liv Kristine - Skintight (2010)
3. Leaves' Eyes Album IV (an album of new ballads) (2010)
3. Elis - Catharsis (2009)
3. Revamp - debut album (2010)
3. Kamelot - album... um... nine? (2010) Wow, I didn't realize they'd been around that long. O_o
3. Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was (2010)
4. Anette Olzon - solo album (2010)
4. Evanescence - Album IV (2010)
4. We Are the Fallen - debut album (2010) (I was going to vote for Carly but forgot so maybe I'll buy her band's album :-P)
5. Xandria - Album IV (2010)
6. Tristania - Album VI (2010)

Best shoutboxes:
1. Nightwish

All the other shoutboxes are pretty boring right now :(

The crowning achievement of humanity in music:
Ghost Love Score

The loveliest, most wonderful song of all time:
Shared space-time continuously Twilight Sun and The Holy Bond

Bands that get undeserved hate:
Pretty much any band that plays heavy pop music and gets lambasted for not being metal, like Lunatica and Delain, to a lesser extent Within Temptation, etc. You can't equate the worth of music with its adherence to the boundaries of a genre.

Singers who get undeserved hate:
Just about every female clean vocalist who isn't the ideal classical soprano like Vibeke or Floor. Liv: "Ethereal vocals are weak!" Tarja: "Technically flawed and therefore overrated!" Anette and Charlotte: "Pop/rock/JAZZ?!? vocals in OUR MUSIC? NEVAAAARRRR!"

Favoritest albumses of all times:
1. Leaves' Eyes - Njord

2. Nightwish - End of An Era
3. Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga
3. Harry Gregson-Williams - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3. Martin Kiszko - The Ocellus Suite: Music from Alien Empire (Have loved this for ten years now! :D)
4. Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
5. Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight
5. Project 86 - Songs to Burn Your Bridges By
5. Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound (My first exposure to dark and rich music, 2005. "It'll be a day like this one when the world caves in....")

Least favoritest albums of all time:
I don't know, if I hate the music I don't listen to the entire album if I can help it. However, one of my flatmates played Vampire Weekend all the time this past spring. I HATE THAT MUSIC. Well, I kinda like some of it though.

Favoritest EP/Single of all time:
1. Andy Hunter - Life
2. Leaves' Eyes - My Destiny
3. Project 86 - The Kane Mutiny EP

Favoritest discoveries on Last.fm:
The vast majority of everything I listen to :-P From past 12 months chart:
1. Leaves' Eyes
1. Nightwish
2. Delain
2. Becoming the Archetype
2. Within Temptation
3. Theatre of Tragedy
3. The Birthday Massacre (Well, I saw that they existed on here and then tryingtofly recommended them, so....)

Least favoritest discoveries on Last.fm:
Um... Angtoria :-P

Favoritest female singers:
1. Tarja
1. Liv
2. Charlotte
2. Nell (Theatre of Tragedy)
2. Anette
2. Amulyn (Although I've only heard her on ONE SONG :-P)
2. Silje (The Gathering, Octavia Sperati)
3. Okay fine, I still like Sharon :-P

See also my 2008 journal, Top Female Vocalists and Why

Favoritest male singers:
...Who has time for male singers? <_<

Harsh:
Jason Wisdom (Becoming the Archetype)
Um... Anders Jacobsson (Draconian)
Umm.... and Morten Veland (Tristania, Sirenia)

Clean:
Marco Hietala
Roy Khan
Andrew Schwab (Project 86)
Jon Foreman (Switchfoot)

Best music videos:
1. Delain - April Rain
2. Tarja - Die Alive
3. Within Temptation - Utopia
23 Favorite Music Videos

Strangest band names:
Black Moth Super Rainbow and their amazing song titles, like Vietcaterpillar ^_^
And The Devil Wears Prada, what's up with that?

I suppose I may have once thought "The Birthday Massacre" and "Leaves' Eyes" were strange names, but not any more. :-P

Ummmm... and Morten Veland's new project, Mortemia.



I hope they become (more) famous:
bloodline severed (The band Amulyn sang with on one song. The hardest bits of Design Your Universe sound like Bloodline Severed to me. :-P)
And this guy.

Kamelot Liv Kristine

Best pairup:



TWO

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Get your overall top 10 artists from Last.fm, and find their three tracks you've scrobbled the most. Then note where they come in that artist's tracks chart. The lower the track in the list, the weirder you are... or something to that effect.
^re-worded because that's what I do.

Leaves' Eyes
Twilight Sun is #35
The Holy Bond is #21
The Dream is #31

I've never liked the Leaves' Eyes top 15 much. At least now the top two tracks don't have ten times as many plays as anything else, that was ANNOYING. :-P I'm pretty sure they still get played a lot more than the others on Last.fm tag radio, though, just because they've been playable longer than anything else and picked up more attention in that time, leading to blah blah blah blah who really cares how Last.fm radio works any way.



Nightwish
Nemo is #1
The Heart Asks Pleasure First is #343 this week and something like #1,020 for the past six months.

Ghost Love Score is #14

Howard Shore
The White Tree is #18
The Houses of Healing is #126 (But I'm scrobbling it as Liv Tyler - Arwen's Song :-P)
Isengard Unleashed is #56

Project 86
A Shadow on Me is #38
Lucretia My Reflection is #95 (Favoritest cover ever, by the way)
The Spy Hunter is #16

Within Temptation
Jillian (I'd Give My Heart) is #24
Memories is #3
Running Up That Hill is #33

Hans Zimmer
Red Warrior is #49
Run Free is #138 (I rented Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron because of this track :-P)
Drink Up Me Hearties is #7

ApologetiX
Corinthians is #2
Smooth Grandmama is #8
Here I Go (Against All I've Known) is not on the weekly chart, #138 for the past six months
^These are, respectively, parodies of Linkin Park, Alien Ant Farm/Michael Jackson, and Whitesnake

Switchfoot
Lonely Nation is #21
We Are One Tonight is #20
Awakening is #11

Theatre of Tragedy
Storm is #10
Envision is #52
Ashes and Dreams is #33

"Forever Is the World" is my favorite of their songs, it's just not up there on my chart yet. If you haven't heard it yet:



Relient K
Forgiven is #31
Fallen Man is #159 :D
More Than Useless is #19

14- Haggard


A fantastic epic band with a full orchestra :)

Listen to : La Terra Sancta and The Sleeping Child

13- Edenbridge



Sabine has a magnificent voice !

Listen to : Paramount and Shine

12- Sonata Arctica



The only band I love without female vocals :)

Listen to : Don't Say a Word, Broken and The Misery

11- Within Temptation



Very good band too

Listen to : What Have You Done, Angels and Memories

10 - Angtoria



Sarah has a very unique voice !

Listen to: God Has a Plan for Us All and Do You See Me Now ?

9 - Tarja



With or without Nightwish, Tarja stays an excellent singer !

Listen to : I Walk Alone, Die Alive and old Nightwish songs.

8- Delain



Two Albums with many guest artists, and a superb duet between Charlotte and Nightwish's Marco Hietala !

Listen to : April Rain and The Gathering

7- van Canto



Unique and Marvelous ! No instruments, only drums !

Listen to: Speed Of Light, Fear Of The Dark and Battery

6- Indica



5 Finnish girls who sing in Finnish ! Very Sweet !

Listen to: Pahinta tänään and Pyromaani

5- Coronatus



Two different vocalists ! Two magnificent voices !

Listen to: In Silence, Beauty In Black, Mein Herz and Cast My Spell

4- Epica



Best female voice in the world, and the most beautiful singer too ^^

Listen to: Mother of Light, Blank Infinity, Quietus, Never Enough and Cry for the Moon

3- Lunatica



Many many beautiful songs. Enjoy !

Listen to: Song for You, Two Dreamers, Fable of Dreams and Emocean

2- Leaves' Eyes



My second best band ever. Liv Kristine has a unique voice.

Listen to: Through Our Veins, Take The Devil In Me, Northbound, Skraelings, Return to Life and My Destiny

1- Nightwish



Simply, my favorite band.
Listen to all their albums ! They are all fantastic !

Begin with: Ghost Love Score, Amaranth and While Your Lips Are Still Red

Æmbermoon [symphonic metal]

Angtoria [symphonic metal]

[avoid the debris] [gothic metal/industrial metal]

Corvo [gothic metal/industrial]

Crimson Tears [symphonic metal]

Enter Twilight [symphonic metal]

Erwin Gutawa [symphonic rock]

Kynesis [gothic metal]

Last Embrace [gothic rock]

Luna Aeterna [gothic metal]

Offertorium [symphonic metal]

Sexbeat [batcave/gothic rock]

Stormgarde [symphonic metal]

Temujin [gothic metal]

Venus Diablo [gothic metal]

First of all, I have to say I don't consider myself a "metalist" (or whatever). I don't listen to strictly of-that-kind-of-genre bands and my favourite colour is NOT black ( xD ), to be precise, it's white. I don't wear only black clothes to pretend something or to tell everybody WHO I AM ACTING LIKE. I like (almost) all colours and funny T-shirts with crazy pictures. xD I DON'T dye my hair black to be black from head to heels. I actually DO dye my hair black, but only because I like it and I begane with it before listening to any "metal" (* see the note below) anyway... I don't say people who are wearing only black are bad / strange / odd / idiots. I only say I don't do it because myself, I find it odd and I would die withou colours (and I really mean it. If you saw my school books or things I study, you would understand... I need colours really everywhere!)

The first "metal" song I've ever heard (let's say it like this...) was Ice Queen by Within Temptation, which is, imo, the best known (and most overplayed) song by WT. To be honest, I didn't like it at all. But it wasn't because of the music and / or Sharon, it was because of the song itself. I actually remember myself having problems with Ice Queen until the concert on 17th January 2008 in Prague where IQ was the last song and I was totally blown away. Maybe a "concert euphory", who knows. Since then I like IQ, BUT I almost stopped listening to WT. Anyway, back to the beginning...

I heard IQ, don't really know when, but it was at least a year before I fell in love with WT. I believe I remember the exact date as it was on 12th or 13th February 2007 and it was Jillian. It's quite long ago but I still do consider this song one of the most beautiful WT've ever done. It's very fascinating and very... high *can't resist and has to play Jillian right now* It was on Youtube and (I really don't understand why) it was together with the Bring Me To Life video by Evanescence. I liked EV very much that time, but I don't say EV is (some kind of) metal, because you people here might want to kill me. BUT I have to say I came to "metal" from pop THROUGH Evanescence and you can say whatever crap you want...

Jillian was totally awesome. Then I tried some other stuff from The Silent Force. I believe it was See Who I Am, Pale, Stand My Ground, It's the Fear and maybe some others I'm not sure about. WT were my most favourite band since then which ended with the concert in January 2008.

My WT-loving period overlaps the beginning of my NW-loving times. The first song I've heard by Nightwish was Amaranth. It was "recommended" to me by my friend, midrose. I was blown away again. You can tell me Amaranth is poppy song. I can ask you to kiss my... DRUM! xD I loved Amaranth and then Nemo if I remember right but this was only autumn 2007. I was listening to many other songs. I remember loving She Is My Sin that winter and also Planet Hell and End Of All Hope (for unknown reason).

(One evening I was bored and as I am a member of NW official forum, I made a small research in discussion about "the songs you don't like by NW". The most POPULAR ones - means the ones almost nobody mentioned - were End of All Hope and Planet Hell - unknown reason again.)

I couldn't bear e.g. The Pharaoh Sails to Orion or The Poet and the Pendulum (and even Dead Boy's Poem or Two for Tragedy that happen to be my favourities now). I have to say that my ears weren't used to such vocals that are in The Pharaoh. I honestly HATED it.

The real "ice breaking" (as I would call it speaking Czech) came very early after the WT concert. It was 21st January 2008. (Yeah, I always remember the dates as I love to celebrate things like: "OMG, look, I have Nightwish anniversary today!") and the song of my destiny was Creek Mary’s Blood, to be precise the End of an Era performance. I only thank to Tarja that I didn’t understand something she sings in the lyric! I went somewhere to find about about the lyric and whether I’m mad or just deaf and I saw the EoaE video. Guess what happend – I WAS BLOWN AWAY! xD The live version somehow kicked me into loving Nightwish. It was the first time I told myself Tuomas Holopainen IS a damn genious! (And also the first time I realized he’s handsome xD and somehow totally adorable!) Till today, I’m not really sure if I LIKE CMB. I don’t really know. It’s just the song that made me to love all of Nightwishes and Tuomases but – Do I really LOVE it that much?! The answer is surprisingly NO. I don’t really know what I feel, but CMB IS a very special song and not only for me. It has the spirit of Indians and John Two-Hawkes and the beautiful poem in the end. I wasn’t able to realize WHY this particular Indian language until I saw „Dances with Wolves“ this summer. I found the language kinda fascinating but yet sounding a bit „all-the-same“.

So I had WT and NW that time but – is this enough?! The answer is again NO, but it was really hard for me to find other female fronted metal bands, which I was searching for. If I remember right, the others were Lacuna Coil and the album Karmacode and Leaves‘ Eyes with all their albums that we know so far, but mainly with Elegy, because this song is (again) awesome and high :P Then there were guys from After Forever. I didn’t like AF that much. I didn’t know their After Forever which made me to love them later.

In summer of 2008 I came on Last.fm for the first time. It helped me a lot with searching for another bands like those five. I believe I got to know with Angtoria, Delain, Krypteria, Imperia (that I didn’t like that time), Sirenia and maybe some others I can’t realize. Most of the other bands I „met“ in summer/autumn 2008 on various blogs and forums. I remember I was blown away by Katra and HB.
Here the metal history ends, because as I have more and more bands (almost every day or what) I’m losing in it...

BUT! if you look at my charts, you really CANNOT even THINK of me as of a metalist. Who’s on the overall artists 2nd place? Kelly Clarkson! And what about the others? Sugababes, The Bird and the Bee and The Ditty Bops. I’m not ashamed for this and I have a simple explanation: it’s summer. Summer’s really NOT a time for listening to very much metal, I don’t exactly know why, but I feel more comfortable with happy songs by The Bird and the Bee when it’s hot outside. Of course that sometimes I listen to NW or something but definitely not so often as during the other seasons. Also it might be because I have so much free time. I’m online all day long and I listen to something for about 14 hours per day (if I’m not reading, watching something...). If I was listening to the (more or less) same genre all day, I’d surely go mad! I really know what to do with my free time on holiday. xD I can finally WRITE which is my most beloved hobby of all. I got used to listening more to pop like Kelly or The Bird and the Bee and I get much more inspiration from it (though I consider „metal“ and Tuomas‘ lyrics that nobody undersnads VERY INSPIRATIVE). I bet this is fault of „Grey’s Anatomy“. I used to like it very much and I met e.g. The Bird and the Bee on its soundtrack. I stopped watching it due the lack of time during school-year and also it got kinda „stramge and overplayed“ as every series sooner or later gets. Series and sitcoms, oh yes, I love to watch this xD. Absurd and really odd stuff like „The Nanny“ will always make me laugh even when I saw the whole thing for about 4 times. I simply love this kind of fun. To me it’s „pop fun“. As I love to write this „pop fun“ the best, it’s hard not to listen to the music doing it... I also mustn’t forget FROM WHERE I came to listening to metal – from listening the radio! From listening pop and r&b ALL DAY LONG.

I really think I have done a long journey so far. xD But still Kelly stays in my charts (because she has a wonderful voice and say whatever you want, the new CD totally kicks my summer-mooded ass!) The journey hasn’t ended yet. Still I mostly do listen only to female fronted bands. I like to sing along with them and with male vocals it is not so easy. Maybe I just like the „girlie“ sound, who knows. The true is that I’ve been recetly „slowly starting“ with exploring also male fronted bands. I simply cannot resist Lovex because whatever my waiting-for-soprano ears say, songs like Take a Shot or Ordinary Day do – What with me? Yeah, blow me away xD.

I’m sure that (if you really made it and read through all this) you are blown away as well (and probably not very positively). Always, when I start writing something short, it ends up like being three-Word-pages long (because my internet suddenly died and I necessarily HAD TO finish writing this). I’m glad you cannot hear me speaking. It’s impossible to stop me xD but still I prefer writing (and writing in English). I hate when people write most of their journals in their language, I can’t read them then :( (But of course, when they don’t wanna write them in English – or possibly can’t, I cannot be angry with them) I can go through some French (with difficulties) and Spanish (which is really surprising since I study it for only one year, but maybe it’s thanks to seven years of French before...). I love to practise – writing and speaking about the things you like is the best way though I understand I can’t be perfect after (only) seven years of studying it (only) at school.

Anyway, now I really wanna thank you for (maybe) reading (maybe) whole my musical history. I’m really ashamed for the lenght xD and for the mistakes I’ve made (as I suppose).

* I write metal like "metal", because many people don't consider this metal a METAL and "female fronted metal" - as I heard - is no genre. So how the f... shall I talk about the music I like, then? I don't really know...