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Monthly Top Tracks

May-2007
Tokio Hotel : Durch den Monsun (17 plays)
Jun-2007
Mylène Farmer : Dans Les Rues De Londres (7 plays)
Jul-2007
Tokio Hotel : Der letzte Tag (12 plays)
Aug-2007
Isgaard : Earth Song (10 plays)
Sep-2007
Lacuna Coil : Falling Again (7 plays)
Oct-2007
Nightwish : Astral Romance (14 plays)
Nov-2007
Isgaard : Man on the Moon (11 plays)
Dec-2007
Savage Garden : Break Me Shake Me (29 plays)
Jan-2008
Savage Garden : Break Me Shake Me (14 plays)
Feb-2008
Schiller : Dream of You (26 plays)
Mar-2008
Daft Punk : Aerodynamic (20 plays)
Apr-2008
Era : Hymne (21 plays)
May-2008
Serj Tankian : The Unthinking Majority (51 plays)
Jun-2008
Lacuna Coil : Our Truth (14 plays)
Jul-2008
Serj Tankian : Saving Us (28 plays)
Aug-2008
Mylène Farmer : C'Est Dans L'Air (26 plays)
Sep-2008
System of a Down : Forest (33 plays)
Oct-2008
Mylène Farmer : Vertige (20 plays)
Jan-2009
30 Seconds to Mars : The Fantasy (8 plays)
Feb-2009
Guano Apes : Open Your Eyes (14 plays)
Mar-2009
The Prodigy : Omen (24 plays)
Apr-2009
Breaking Benjamin : So Cold (18 plays)
May-2009
Crossfade : Cold (18 plays)
Jun-2009
ATB : Let U Go (13 plays)
Jul-2009
Coldplay : Viva La Vida (5 plays)
Sep-2009
Nightwish : Escapist (6 plays)
Oct-2009
Scooter : We Are the Greatest (14 plays)
Nov-2009
Neuroticfish : I Don't Need the City (7 plays)
Dec-2009
Chorus of Tribes : Marakesh (4 plays)

1. How did you get into 29? (Disco Ensemble)
-my friend's older siblings used to listen to it, and it kinda caught me along :D.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Hollywood Undead)
-No. 5

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Paramore)
-Everybody live like it’s the last day you will ever see
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now?

4. How did you get into 49? (Watchout! Theres Ghosts)
-Hmm, dunno.. They were in my recommendations or something and I thought their name was kinda interesting.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (Bloc Party)
-None :'/

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Tegan and Sara)
-Underwater or Are You Ten Years Ago

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Blackfield)
-Guess they all are..

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Kings of Leon)
-Jaiks.. uhmmm.. well, I love listening to Manhattan when it's dark outside and I'm driving in a bus and all the city lights are on <3

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Robert Pattinson)
-Let Me Sign or To Roam

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Billy Talent)
-YES! Even more now that I know they are coming to Finland AND I GOT THE TICKET TO THEIR SHOW!

11. What is the worst song by 40? (Lady GaGa)
-Brown Eyes and all that shit..

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Enter Shikari)
-Johnny Sniper RAAAAAWWWWWR that shit's goooooooood

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Kevin Rudolf)
-Summer, driving to the beach, listening to it, LOUD


14. What is your favorite song by 38? (Happoradio)
-Puhu Äänellä Jonka Kuulen and Olette kauniita

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Rytmihäiriö)
-Yes, they all make me very giggly.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (A Skylit Drive)
-Oh, I don't know.. No?

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Britney Spears)
-Oh no! Do you really, honestly, think that I would remember?

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (James Blunt)
-He's a genious, so, there's just so many.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (My Chemical Romance)
-There is no favourite one, they are all great at what they do and I respect them all equally. Gerard is the cutest though :D.

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (Breathe Carolina)
-YEAH, them all!

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Family Force 5)
-It sounds a bit stupid to say there's no particular memories involving them, but it's true, and I'm not a liar.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (3OH!3)
-I Can't Do It Alone or Starstrukk

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Bring Me the Horizon)
-Tell Slater Not To Wash His Dick

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (Eminem)
-All great, so... you pick.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (The Filthy Youth)
-Boy Don't Smoke <3

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Across the Universe)
-Girl, the first one that comes in the movie.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (Escape the Fate)
-The new one.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Metro Station)
-After the Fall at the moment

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Coldplay)
-Can't remember!!

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Jonas Brothers)
-Hahaha, embarrassing?? Well, Lovebug, When You Look Me In The Eyes or I Wanna Be Like You

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Muse)
-I haven't :(

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (The Medic Droid)
-Fer Sure <3 :'D

33. How did you get into 12? (From First to Last)
-I was surfing on the net and I ran into Note to Self and I was in love.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Alesana)
-Dunno, haven't even heard them all.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Drop Dead, Gorgeous)
-Naaah, me no remember.

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? (Fintelligens)
-Such hard questions!!

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Protest the Hero)
-0

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (Kanye West)
-Homecoming

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Miley Cyrus)
-Some Hannah Montana -song :DD

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (Olavi Uusivirta)
-They are both great.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (PMMP)
-Pariterapiaa, Mummola and Matoja for example.


42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Katy Perry)
-She has just one, right?

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Jason Mraz)
Dynamo Of Volition


44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Avenged Sevenfold)
-A friend.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (I Set My Friends On Fire)
-hhahaha, they're all good!

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (The Used)
-Hmmm, happy? No.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Cheek)
-You can't really put them into any order...

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Papa Roach)
-The only one I know by name is Shaddix, so.. :D

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Green Day)
-I don't remember, I was so little back then :D.

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (Nirvana)
-The Man Who Sold The World and Hairspray Queen

So I have an awful amount of games that I haven't played/finished and I need some people to say "this sucks" or "best game ever, play it next" about them. Score them like 10/10 if you have played them and have some opinions. Information about game length would be awesome too since short + sweet games will be moved up the que 'til I've finished some of the list.

And you don't have to comment on all games, just some you have opinions about.

Games:

PSX:
Valkyrie Profile

PS2:
Persona 4
SMT: Digital Devil Saga
SMT: Digital Devil Saga 2
SMT: Nocturne
Valkyrie Profile 2: Simeria
Okami
Radiata Stories
Suikoden V
Final Fantasy XII (first FF game I haven't even finished)
Rogue Galaxy
GTA: San Andreas (Played it pretty far, but the flight missions killed my will to finish it)
Suikoden Tactics (didn't really like this one)
Xenosaga 2
Magna Carta: Tears of Blood

PS3:
GTA 4
Metal Gear Solid 4: GotP
Fallout 3
Dead Space
Valkyria Chronicles*
Assassin's Creed*
Resident Evil 5*

*I don't actually own the last three games but I'm buying them cheap from a friend.

Music I will consider listening to while playing: Radiohead, Muse, Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lady GaGa, Metallica, Slipknot, Miles Davis, Burzum, Arcade Fire, Interpol, Animal Collective and Franz Ferdinand.

1 Katy Perry – Hot N Cold
2 Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
3 The All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell
4 Michael Jackson – Thriller
5 Beyoncé – Sweet Dreams
6 Katy Perry – I Kissed A Girl
7 Britney Spears – Circus
8 Katy Perry – Thinking Of You
9 Katy Perry – Waking Up In Vegas
10 Coldplay – Viva La Vida
11 Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
12 Lady GaGa – Poker Face
13 Lady GaGa – Just Dance
14 Beyoncé – If I Were A Boy
15 Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)
16 P!nk – Sober
17 Eminem – Lose Yourself
18 Beyoncé – Halo
19 Michael Jackson – You Rock My World
20 Britney Spears – Womanizer
21 Paramore – Decode
22 P!nk – Please Don't Leave Me
23 P!nk – So What
24 Jason Mraz – I'm Yours
25 Katy Perry – Fingerprints
26 Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
27 T.I. – Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna)
28 MGMT – Electric Feel
29 Michael Jackson – Remember the Time
30 Nirvana – In Bloom

Stuff I liked this year including older stuff I got into etc etc

01. Coldplay - Life in Technicolour II
02. Crystal Castles - Untrust Us
03. You Love Her Coz She's Dead – Blood Lust
04. Bat for Lashes - Daniel
05. Laura Marling - Night Terror
06. Air - Sexy Boy
07. Bon Iver- Skinny Love
08. Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
09. The Beatles – From Me to You
10.of Montreal - Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider

diamondgrrl's top albums (3 months) 1. Rosi Golan - The Drifter and The Gypsy (78) 2. Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol. 1-2 (56) 3. Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow (54) 4. Itzhak Perlman - Cinema Serenade (51) 5. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (49) 6. Coldplay - Parachutes (46) 7. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (44) 8. Coldplay - X&Y (41) 9. Howie Day - Sound The Alarm (41) 10. A Fine Frenzy - Bomb In A Birdcage (41) 11. Damien Rice - O (40) 12. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (40) 13. John Mayer - Battle Studies (39) 14. John Mayer - Where The Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles (38) 15. Howie Day - Stop All The World Now (34) 16. A Fine Frenzy - One Cell In The Sea (34) 17. Keith Urban - Defying Gravity (33) 18. Kenny Chesney - The Road and the Radio (33) 19. Huey Lewis & The News - Four Chords & Several Years Ago (32) 20. Peter Gabriel - So (31) 21. Barbra Streisand - A Star Is Born (30) 22. The Rescues - Crazy Ever After (29) 23. Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing (28) 24. Hootie & the Blowfish - Fairweather Johnson (28) 25. Joe Purdy - Julie Blue (28)

Since moving to Japan 4 months ago, it seems like my listening habits have drastically changed...

Here's the readout of my top 10 most listened to artists over the last 3 months of my time in Japan (in order of most scrobbled tracks to least):

1 - Weezer - 744
2 - Tenacious D - 144
3 - Coldplay - 122
4 - Radiohead - 119
5 - Phoenix - 102
6 - Beck - 88
7 - Justice - 74
8 - Air - 73
9 - Daft Punk - 55
10 - The Presidents of the United States of America - 50


Seems very different than what I was listening to the rest of the year:

1 - Yoko Kanno - 545
2 - Radiohead - 403
4 - Coldplay - 303
3 - James Taylor - 355
5 - Beastie Boys - 299
6 - Daft Punk - 243
7 - Air - 198
8 - Justice - 187
9 - Beck - 185
10 - Weezer - 108

I wonder if this could be a musical graph of my brain of when it's functioning in Japan vs. how it has been functioning in the USA ?

... that's a good idea, actually, ok, let's try making into a graph made out of Pocky™ :



The chocolate represents the sweet, sweet life in Japan that I have built on the foundation of a hearty wheat-flavored year of preparation to move abroad. Yummy! Oooh, this is making me hungry. Time for dinner. I think I'll make Japanese Croquettes!

Oh right, but how about Graph Analysis first?

Looks like my 2009 Weezer, Tenacious D and Phoenix Pocky™ sticks consist entirely of Japanese chocolate! Those bands are all pretty darn fun to listen to as they radiate their strange and adventurous sound. That goes for Weezer especially. Their albums have always seemed so refreshingly polarizing! If those are the positive bands, then Phoenix, Radiohead and Coldplay are the flip side of it all. These three bands feature music with passionate yet stressed out emotionally confused motifs, melodies and lyrics. They add an extra layer to what has been going on in my brain these last few months.

So if we go back before all that, the solid launch-pad of a wheat stick that I lived on before flying to Japan looks like it consisted of Radiohead, Yoko Kanno and Coldplay (plus a stellar Justice/Daft Punk Combo). So it looks like I had high highs with the need to dance it all out. Though again, it looks like there were even rougher lows to come back down to. You can see the downswings with some heavy Coldplay and Radiohead usage. Yoko Kanno a big force in there too. She's always my top artist, kind of like my balancing force between everything... who is conspicuously absent from my Japanese chocolate.

So if you look carefully, there is a lot of Japanese chocolate focused on only a few strange, fun and polarizing things... and lots of USA wheat spread evenly between fun, awesome, inspiring, stressed out and confusing.