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I'm a true Listener. I scrobbel with Itunes and my Ipod Nano.

My Top 30 Artists 2009:

1. Placebo - 2,840 Plays
2. dredg - 2,369 Plays
3. Manic Street Preachers - 1,294 Plays
4. Die Toten Hosen - 1,140 Plays
5. Red Lights Flash - 912 Plays
6. Eddie Vedder - 780 Plays
7. The Boxer Rebellion - 761 Plays
8. The Cooper Temple Clause - 689 Plays
9. Blackmail - 639 Plays
10. The Gaslight Anthem - 598 Plays
11. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - 589 Plays
12. Led Zeppelin - 573 Plays
13. Kings of Leon - 557 Plays
14. Deftones - 496 Plays
15. QOTSA - 477 Plays
16. Billy Talent - 458 Plays
17. Arctic Monkeys - 453 Plays
18. Interpol - 436 Plays
19. Pearl Jam - 426 Plays
20. Them Crooked Vultures - 415 Plays
21. Coldplay - 399 Plays
22. Glasvegas - 389 Plays
23. State of Riot - 384 Plays
24. Metallica - 368 Plays
25. Radiohead - 327 Plays
26. Iron & Wine - 315 Plays
27. Portishead - 308 Plays
28. Bloc Party - 304 Plays
29. Rammstein - 284 Plays
30. Depeche Mode - 283 Plays

Total Top 30 Scrobbles: 20263
Average per Day listening to Tracks from my top 30 Artists: 55

My Top 10 Albums of 2009:

1. Placebo - Battle For The Sun - 1,438 Plays
2. dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion - 1,345
3. Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild - 780 Plays
4. Red Lights Flash - For Your Safety - 735 Plays
5. Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers - 670 Plays
6. The Cooper Temple Clause - Kick Up The Fire And Let The Flames Break Loose - 532 Plays
7. The Gaslight Anthem - The 59' Sound - 463 Plays
8. The Boxer Rebellion - Union - 422 Plays
9. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures - 378 Plays
10. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug - 386 Plays

My Top 10 Tracks 2009:

1. Red Lights Flash - Cities Burn - 162 Plays
2. Placebo - Devil In The Details - 159 Plays
3. Placebo - Battle For The Sun - 158 Plays
4. Placebo - The Never-Ending Why - 153 Plays
5. The Cooper Temple Clause - The Same Mistakes - 134 Plays
6. Placebo - Julien - 126 Plays
7. Placebo - Speaking In Tongues - 124 Plays
7. dredg - Saviour - 124 Plays
9. The Velvet Underground - Some Kinda Love - 118 Plays
10. Depeche Mode - Wrong - 118 Plays

My new found Artists 2009:

1. Them Crooked Vultures
2. Expatriate
3. Iron & Wine
4. Editors
5. Scumbucket

Young Artist Attack 2009:

State of Riot - First Case Scenario
Pack of Wolves - Intimacy Is A Serious Danger
100%cotton - Break the Silence

Links:
State of Riot
Adrenaline Forever

Video:

So, guess what. I'm selling a TON of my CDs on Ebay. Go crazy!:

CD Bundles

I'm selling them in bundles like so...:

6 CD Bundle: folk and indie singer/songwriters
Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Josh Rouse and more


9 CD Bundle: emo punk rock- Get Up Kids, Saves the Day
Dashboard Confessional, Pedro the Lion, Vagrant Recrds


6 CD Bundle: brit pop and brit rock Albums
Bloc Party, British Sea Power, The Cure and more


9 CD Bundle: alternative grunge 90s Rock
Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Soul Coughing


6 CD Bundle: Female Singer/Songwriters
Aimee Mann, Leona Naess, Tiff Merritt, Natalie Merchant


6 CD Bundle: indie rock
Interpol, The Strokes, ...Trail of Dead and more


7 CD Bundle: GREATEST Rock Artists of All Time
Bob Dylan, The Kinks, Lou Reed, The Smiths, David Byrne


8 CD-DVD Bundle: Rock and pop
Dave Matthews Band, blink-182, The Samples, Dane Cook


5 CD Bundle: Punk Indie Albums - The Clash...
At The Drive In, Blood Brothers, Pretty Girls Make Graves


6 CD Bundle: Punk Indie Emo Albums -- Alkaline Trio...
Less Than Jake, Hey Mercedes, Eastern Youth


7 CD Bundle: Indie / Pop - Cat Power, Grandaddy,
Phantom Planet, Mazzy Star, Uncle Tupelo, Asobi Seksu


8 CD Bundle: Indie/Electro- Four Tet, NERD, La Roux
Dizzee Rascal, Cibo Mato, Major Laze[artist]r, [artist]Fatboy, Massive Attack


6 Rap / Hip Hop CD Bundle
Jay-Z, OutKast, The Roots, Jurassic 5, Limp Bizkit

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.

Di., 8. Dez. – Julian Plenti, I'm In You

Wäre Köln heute abend von einer großen Flutwelle verschluckt worden, die amerikanische Indieszene hätte viele ihrer großen Namen verloren. In verschiedenen Clubs der schönsten Stadt Deutschlands spielten nämlich Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, Mark Lanegan und Julian Plenti, der als Paul Banks Frontmann von Interpol ist. Im Fall des jüngsten der Liste war es allerdings kein Club, sondern eine Kirche, in der das Konzert stattfand, obwohl auch Julian sich da offenbar nicht ganz sicher war ("it's nice to be at this ... venue again!").

Daß die Konkurrenz der neuen super Supergroup Them Crooked Vultures (im ausverkauften Palladium) und der Soulsavers mit Mark Lanegan im Gebäude 9 so groß sein würde, daß die KulturKirche nicht voll sein würde, hatte ich vollkommen unterschätzt. Aber vielleicht ist das Soloprojekt unseres Manns bei Interpol auch einfach nicht bekannt genug, um genügend Leute zu finden, die den sehr happigen Eintrittspreis dafür bezahlen würden. Wir jedenfalls waren wegen des erwarteten Ansturms früh da und hatten viel Zeit für Spekulationen. Dabei waren wir uns bei ein paar Sachen absolut sicher: Paul-Julian würde kurz spielen, maximal 45 Minuten, definitiv nichts von Interpol und aus Eitelkeit auch nichts von fremden Künstlern spielen. Wir kennen doch schließlich unsere Pappenheimer.

Vor der noch sehr leeren Kirche begannen zunächst aber andere New Yorker. I'm In You hieß die fünfköpfige Band, die Julian Plenti supporten durfte. Die Band besteht aus zwei abwechselnd singenden Gitarristen, einer Geigerin, einem Bassisten und einem Schlagzeuger. Unsere Assoziationen, wem die Musik der Amerikaner glich, waren unterschiedlich. Ich hörte Pavement, die Pixies und die Talking Heads raus, wir waren uns aber darüber einig, daß sie nicht originell und schnell langweilig waren.

Aber I'm In You waren pünktlich. Sie begannen um acht und räumten nach vierzig Minuten die Bühne.

Julian Plenti dagegen ließ uns ein paar Minuten warten. Auch das war zu erwarten. Ein divenhafter Ex-Supermodel-Freund (oder Supermodel-Exfreund?) macht das eben so. Nachdem der Gemeindepfarrer Thomas Diederichs ihn angekündigt hatte, kamen irgendwann Julian mit Schlagzeuger, Bassist, zweitem Gitarristen und Cellisten auf die Bühne. Der Sänger trug eine große Brille und einen Kapuzenpulli, wenig divenhaft schon einmal.

Es begann ohne den großen Trumpf seiner Musik, seine überragende, immer etwas nörgelnd klingende Stimme. Stattdessen wurde ein Cover gespielt, das Julian Plenti später als Stück des verstorbenen J Dilla benannte. Erst danach kam seine eigene Musik, Stücke vom Album Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper.

Fortsetzung und Setlist hier!

After months of deliberation, here it is folks, what you've all been waiting for, my top 100 albums of the 00's! If the tenties (that's what i'm calling the next decade) are anywhere near as good as this one was then we're in for a good un'!

The first 75 are from numbers 100-26 and are sorted alphabetically ( I couldn't be bothered putting them all in order.)

Animal Collective - Feels
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Annie - Anniemal
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock And Roll
At the Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Bat for Lashes - Fur And Gold
Battles - Mirrored
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Björk - Volta
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
The Bronx - The Bronx II
The Bug - London Zoo
Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Daft Punk- Discovery
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Finch - Say Hello to Sunshine
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Future of the Left - Curses
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
Holy Fuck - LP
Hot Chip - The Warning
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd’s Dog
Islands - Return to the Sea
Justice - †
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Liars - Liars
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
M.I.A. - Kala
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas
Modeselektor - Hello Mom!
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
The National - Boxer
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Portishead - Third
The Postal Service - Give Up
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Radiohead - Amnesiac
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Sigur Rós - ( )
The Strokes - Is This It?
The Thermals - The Body The Blood and The Machine
The Tough Alliance - New Chance
Trentemøller - The Last Resort
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

...and the top 25 are:

25. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven


24. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House


23. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica


22. Burial - Untrue


21. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R


20. Björk - Vespertine


19. Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!


18. Radiohead - In Rainbows


17. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump


16. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois


15. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People


14. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?


13. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief



12. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam


11. The National - Alligator


TOP 10

10. Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun



9. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender



8. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain



7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion



6. Arcade Fire - Funeral



5. Panda Bear - Person Pitch



4. The Knife - Silent Shout



3. Joanna Newsom - Ys



2. Liars - Drum's Not Dead



1. Radiohead - Kid A

Modest Mouse
Interpol
Fleet Foxes
From First to Last
Vampire Weekend
Scary Kids Scaring Kids? (i know they're breaking up but they said something about a new album)

if you like 49 of these 50 songs of the 2000's, maybe we can be friends…


1. The Strokes - Hard to Explain


2. MGMT - Time to Pretend


3. Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm


4. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)


5. Daft Punk - One More Time
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-0s0pRleg&feature=fvst[/youtube]

6. The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJVYH7CEkB8&feature=fvst[/youtube]

7. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army


8. Klaxons - Golden Skans
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiq_0vEDAbE&feature=fvst[/youtube]

9. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out


10. Interpol - Evil


11. The Killers - Mr. Brightside


12. The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now


13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night


14. Radiohead - Idioteque
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnsfzlxs-KY&feature=related[/youtube]

15. Kings of Leon - California Waiting


16. Justice vs Simian - We are your friends


17. Bloc Party - Banquet


18. Gossip - Standing In The Way of Control


19. Muse - Starlight


20. Phoenix - Too Young
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIOL5SSjWdw&feature=fvst[/youtube]

21. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights


22. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me


23. Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning


24. Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl?


25. The Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way


26. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor


27. Doves - There Goes The Fear
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZgBKVBduQg&feature=fvst[/youtube]

28. The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar


29. Kasabian - Club Foot


30. Queens of the Stone Age - Go With The Flow


31. Foo Fighters - Best Of You


32. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby


33. Blur - Out Of Time


34. Razorlight - Golden Touch


35. Maxïmo Park - Graffiti


36. The Hives - Hate Say I Told You So


37. The Vines - Get Free
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B2OAfc52jY&feature=fvst[/youtube]

38. Editors - Munich


39. Modest Mouse - Float On


40. The Coral - Dreaming of You


41. The Futureheads - Hounds of Love


42. The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FME3pMY2NHw&feature=fvst[/youtube]

43. Groove Armada - Superstylin'


44. The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next To Me
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8YRx47oylM&feature=fvst[/youtube]

45. Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough


46. The Walkmen - The Rat


47. Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)


48. Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle


49. Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks


50. Hot Hot Heat - Bandages

First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
1 Metric
2 The Kills
3 Be Your Own Pet
4 Interpol
5 Arcade Fire
6 Florence + The Machine

Madonna
7 Kylie Minogue
8 Janet Jackson
9 Cher
10 Lady GaGa
11 Britney Spears
12 Dannii Minogue

Le Tigre
13 Bikini Kill
14 Sleater-Kinney
15 Bratmobile
16 Julie Ruin
17 Lesbians On Ecstacy
18 Peaches

Moby
19 Voodoo Child
20 Faithless
21 Fatboy Slim
22 The Chemical Brothers
23 Massive Attack

Portishead
24 Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
Massive Attack
25 Tricky
26 Hooverphonic
27 Lamb
28 Morcheeba

Deerhoof
29 The Curtains
30 The Fiery Furnaces
31 Marnie Stern
32 OOIOO
33 Ponytail
34 Boredoms

Interpol
35 Julian Plenti
36 Editors
37 I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
38 The National
39 She Wants Revenge
40 stellastarr*

The White Stripes
41 The Raconteurs
42 Jack White
43 The Dead Weather
44 The Black Keys
45 The Kills
46 The Greenhornes

Soldout
47 Superlux
48 Sharko
49 Sexy Sushi
50 Hollywood Porn Stars
51 Terry Poison
Lesbians on Ecstasy

Fatboy Slim
52 Deeds Plus Thoughts
53 Psychedeliasmith
54 The Chemical Brothers
55 Beats International
56 Mighty Dub Katz
57 Christopher Just

Ladytron
58 Client
59 Fischerspooner
60 Vive la Fête
61 The Knife
62 Miss Kittin
63 Miss Kittin & The Hacker

Black Eyed Peas
64 Fergie
65 The Pussycat Dolls
66 Ciara
67 will.i.am
68 Flo Rida
Lady GaGa

Radiohead
69 Thom Yorke
70 Jonny Greenwood
71 Muse
72 Placebo
73 Coldplay
Interpol

Lily Allen
74 Kate Nash
75 Katy Perry
Lady GaGa
76 The Ting Tings
77 Girls Aloud
78 Mika

Daft Punk
79 Thomas Bangalter
80 Justice
81 Le Knight Club
82 Stardust
83 Digitalism
84 Boys Noize

Thievery Corporation
85 Thunderball
86 Indian Vibes
87 The 13th Sign
88 Da Lata
89 Tosca
90 Nightmares on Wax

Bloc Party
91 Foals
92 Editors
93 Pin Me Down
94 The Maccabees
95 The Cribs
96 Maxïmo Park

Massive Attack
Tricky
97 Portishead
Lamb
98 UNKLE
Morcheeba
Hooverphonic

Air
99 Air and Alessandro Baricco
100 Zero 7
101 Darkel
102 Röyksopp
103 Télépopmusik
104 Goldfrapp
105 Thievery Corporation

Sleater-Kinney
106 Heavens to Betsy
107 Cadallaca
108 Excuse 17
Bikini Kill
Bratmobile
109 Team Dresch


My score is 109

This took way long to add the numbers and tags. Excel helped but ahh!