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1. How did you get into 29?
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
i saw their music video for "Grandfather" on Fuse.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Reggie and the Full Effect
Get Well Soon

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Born of Osiris
just one, The New Reign

4. What is your favorite song by 5?
Atmosphere
like, everyone. but mostly "Your Glass House" and "Shoes"

5. What is your favorite song by 15?
A Day to Remember
crap, i dont like ADTR that much, but id have to go with "If It Means A Lot To You"

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Suicide Silence
no. but i like their song "Lifted"

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Dr. Acula
"Piano Lessons Can Be Murder"

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Team Sleep
i love team sleep, but when i was really into them i was going though some shit, so all i have is bad memories involving them :/

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
iwrestledabearonce
heck yes, "Taste Like Kevin Bacon"
makes me wanna dance and throwdown at the same time. haha

10. How many times have you seen 26 live?
The Editors
sadly, i have never been to one of their shows :(

11. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
blink-182
like the fuck i know, ive been into blink since the 2nd grade. but if my memory serves me well, id have to say "Reebok Commercial"

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
Incubus
Make Yourself

13. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Deftones
omfg, all of them. no joke. god bless Chi <3

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Minus the Bear
NO! i was supposed to Nov 20 2009 @ Mr.Smalls in Pittsburgh. :/

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
The Strokes
driving to work, with coffee and a cigarette

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
Foo Fighters
"Everlong" <3

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
The Fall of Troy
Manipulator

18. What is your favorite song by 21?
M.I.A.
i dont have a 21, but two 20's. but my favorite song by M.I.A. would have to be "$20"

19. What is the first song you ever heard by 25?
Eyedea and Abilities
im not sure because i first heard them live at an Atmosphere show

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
August Burns Red
Messengers

21. What is you favorite song by 3?
Emmure
"The Key To Keeping The Show Fresh Is... I'm Dead"

22. What is you favorite song by 8?
Brand New
"Seventy Times 7" and "Handcuffs"

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Bring Me the Horizon
never.

24. What is the worst song by 12?
War From a Harlots Mouth
none of them :)

25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Aesop Rock
"None Shall Pass"

26. What is you favorite album by 7?
Interpol
#1: Antics
#2: Our Love To Admire
#3: Turn On The Bright Lights

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
Norma Jean
"Face: Face"

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Arsonists Get All The Girls
YES! "Mantipede" and "So You Think You Know About The Game Of Life"

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Ligeia
Bad News

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
M.I.A.
just one, Kala

NME published a list of the top 100 albums of the start of this century along with a top 100 tracks one and now instead of just reading it, I decided to also do some thing with it.
My problem with NME lists is, that they're pretty narrow minded with their focus on mostly british and US music. But since this was the first list I came across, I'll use this one, starting with the places 100 till 51.


The top 100 greatest albums of the decade
http://www.nme.com/list/albums-of-the-decade/158049

100 MGMT Oracular Spectacular *
(2007)
I like(d) some songs of it?

99 The Maccabees Colour It In
(2007)
who?

98 Gorillaz Demon Days
(2005)
I love DARE, I didn't listen to the album though.

97 Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun *
(1999)
should be much much higher up this list!

96 Shellac Excellent Italian Greyhound
(2007)
nope

95 Björk Vespertine *
(2001)
not my favourite Björk album

94 Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Horse Of The Dog
(2002)
I know they exist, but I really can't remember them anymore

93 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
(2005)
wasn't really that much interested

92 The Sleepy Jackson Lovers
(2003)
Sleepy Jackson argh!! Reminds me of a great birthday actually, but muscially...nope!

91 Les Savy Fav Let’s Stay Friends
(2007)
I know the name...

90 Gallows Orchestra Of Wolves
(2006)
another case of I know the name, but never gave them a dedicated listen

89 Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight
(2003)
who?!

88 Bonnie Prince Billy The Letting Go
(2006)
I tried it, but no.

87 Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
(2003)
doesn't ring a bell

86 The Twilight Sad Forget The Night Ahead
(2009)
nope

85 Roots Manuva Run Come Save Me
(2001)
not exactly my cup of tea

84 Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch *
(2004)
I gave it a chance, it didn't work

83 Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim
(2008)
nope

82 mclusky Mclusky Do Dallas
(2005)
I know they exist and that's it.

81 Field Music Field Music
(2005)
nope

80 Danger Mouse The Grey Album
(2004)
I know it exists, but I never checked it out, because I grew tired of bastard pop like 2 minutes after it turned up.

79 Kings of Leon Youth And Young Manhood *
(2003)
the best was yet to come, but it was a good start

78 Belle & Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant *
(2000)
I lub B&S, so there's no way I can be objective about this. :D

77 Isobel Campbell Ballad Of The Broken Seas
(2006)
didn't check it out despite B&S love. wooops!

76 Capdown Civil Disobedients
(2000)
who?

75 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow *
(2003)
me likey who says I!

74 Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
(2006)
nope

73 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People
(2002)
BSS are one of these bands I actually like (been to a concert even), but don't know much of their music.

72 M.I.A. Kala
(2007)
I love Paper Planes

71 Brian Wilson Smile
(2004)
No Beach Boys nutter so I didn't give it a shot

70 Glasvegas Glasvegas
(2008)
I know them, but didn't sit down to listen to them

69 Biffy Clyro Puzzle
(2008)
uhm.... no!

68 The Horrors Primary Colours
(2009)
too tired of listening to NME's band of the moment, sorry if I'm missing something?!

67 Botch We Are The Romans
(1999)
Never heard of them.

66 Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling
(2008)
Don't know the album

65 Muse Black Holes And Revelations *
(2006)
the thing with muse is, that first I don't like their new album and then I end up loving it. Same story here.

64 The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters
(2003)
I know the name

63 Godspeed You Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
(2000)
No big fan of Godspeed

62 Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
(2000)
whatever you dooooooo don't tell anyone!

61 The National Alligator *
(2005)
I love the album and their concert with it was one of the best I've ever been to.

60 Green Day American Idiot
(2004)
haha no. Dookie will stay the only Green Day album I own (though my sister stole it!)

59 The Hold Steady Boys And Girls In America
(2006)
don't know them

58 Liars Drum's Not Dead
(2006)
I gave up on them before this one came out, so nope.

57 OutKast Stankonia
(2000)
so fresh and so cleeeean!

56 My Morning Jacket Z
(2005)
so not my cup of tea

55 Hard-Fi Stars Of CCTV
(2005)
I'm working for the cash machine! not so keen on the rest

54 The Golden Virgins Songs Of Praise *
(2004)
Wow, I'm really surprised to see them on this list! I think they got kicked off their label after this album and split up in 2006. I guess they just weren't stylish enough for 2004. :(
It got great songs about unrequited love and needs to be known much more broadly!
<3 Staying Sober

53 Jamie T Panic Prevention
(2007)
nope

52 Rufus Wainwright Poses *
(2001)
I still can't decide if I like or dislike Mr Wainwright, but I like this album...

51 The Good, The Bad and the Queen The Good, The Bad And The Queen
(2007)
Not a big Damon Albarn fan, so I didn't give it a shot.

bassline / uk funky / breakbeat / dubstep

Illectricity promo party @ KSET

4 This Sweet Love (Drums Of Death Remix) James Yuill
5 Just Be Mowgli
6 Hot City Bass Hot City
7 UMF - SUPRA1 Remix Blackfinger
8 Party All Knight-True Pseudo Remix Eli Smith
9 Boom Riddim - Sharkslayer Remix Rico Tubbs
10 Make The Party Schenk Mini K HP
11 Run L-VIS 1990
12 Pon de floor' feat. Vybz Kartel Major Lazer
13 Bird Flu (Diplo Remix) M.I.A.
14 Hey ! (Foamo Remix) Diplo & Laidback Luke
15 Sound Of Kuduro (Riot's Richter scale rmx) Buraka Som Sistema
16 Jump Bounce Wayne P
17 Moombah (Afrojack mix) Silvio Ecomo / Chuckie
18 Gotta Have It (MJ's Funky dubb) MJ Cole feat Digga
19 Quadruplets a little BIT FUNKY
20 On A Roll Machines Don't Care
21 Growls Garden Clark
22 Timber Coldcut
23 Big K Alpha Rhythm
24 Headcharge (Ribs & IG88 remix) Backdraft
25 War (Blatta & Inesha Go To Luanda Remix) Rampage
26 3Klane (L-VIS 1990 Dubble Step Edit) Joker, Jakes
27 Sirens Hard House Banton
28 I_Want_You_(Bok Bok_remix) Dre Skull
29 Whoop! Whoop! Dub Frequency
30 Mars - Exclusive Herve Re-Fix Fake Blood
31 AO Feat. Serocee - Zed Bias rmx MJ Cole
32 Bird Flu (Diplo Remix) M.I.A.
33 Aidy's Girl is a Computer Darkstar
34 Rise Up (DJ Pinch Remix) Henry & Louis
35 Police feat. Mikey Murka - Disrupt Remix Mahanee
36 Wind It Up Mark Pritchard, Om'mas Keith
37 Blue Mantra Search & Destroy
38 My Own World Synkro
39 Sweat Untold
40 Debbit Marcus Intalex
41 Wet Look Joy Orbison
42 Reminissin' (Geiomix) Geiom
43 Blinded By The Lights (Nero Remix) The Streets
44 In for the Kill [Skream's Let's Get Ravey Mix] La Roux

victorvienna's top albums (overall)
1. Brendan James - The Day Is Brave (1307) 2. The Swell Season - The Swell Season (1055) 3. Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces (811) 4. Josh Kelley - Special Company (789) 5. Jack Johnson - On And On (770) 6. Jack Johnson - Sleep Through The Static (763) 7. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams (725) 8. Duffy - Rockferry (704) 9. Lykke Li - Youth Novels (702) 10. Kings of Convenience - Quiet Is The New Loud (634) 11. Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street (628) 12. [unknown] - Songs We Sing (625) 13. Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales (612) 14. Travis - The Boy With No Name (602) 15. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (559) 16. Damien Rice - O (543) 17. Yelle - Pop-up (525) 18. M.I.A. - Kala (524) 19. Damien Rice - 9 (517) 20. Britney Spears - Circus (515) 21. Thomas Newman - Wall-E (OST) (506) 22. Sara Bareilles - Little Voice (503) 23. The Frames - The Cost (498) 24. Cheyenne Kimball - The Day Has Come (492) 25. Moby - Hotel (491) 26. David Gray - White Ladder (485) 27. M.I.A. - Arular (479) 28. Damien Rice - Live from the Union Chapel (461) 29. Travis - Singles (439) 30. Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat (430) 31. Britney Spears - Blackout (428) 32. Glen Hansard - Once [Bonus DVD] Disc 1 (426) 33. Chris Garneau - El Radio (405) 34. Bitter:Sweet - The Mating Game (383) 35. Damien Rice - B-Sides [Bonus Track] (382) 36. Jack Johnson - Curious George: Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies (370) 37. Brooke Hogan - Undiscovered (365) 38. Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew (358) 39. Jem - Finally Woken (341) 40. Original Broadway Cast - Avenue Q (340) 41. Cocoon - My Friends All Died In A Plane Crash (301) 42. Feist - The Reminder (288) 43. Alexz Johnson - Instant Star (288) 44. Erlend Øye - Unrest (287) 45. Milla - The Divine Comedy (286) 46. Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things (274) 47. Glen Hansard/Markéta Irglová - Once [Bonus DVD] Disc 1 (269) 48. Kings of Convenience - Versus (260) 49. Damien Rice - Lives (254) 50. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (248)

My 60 Favourite Records of the 2000s are:

Air – The Virgin Suicides [Original Motion Picture Score] (2000)
PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
Queens of the Stone Age – Rated (2000)
Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
Radiohead – Amnesiac (2001)
Low – Things We Lost in the Fire (2001)
Millionaire – Outside the Simian Flock (2001)
The Shins – Oh, Inverted World (2001)
The Strokes – Is This It (2001)
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World (2001)
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (2001)
Zita Swoon – Life = A Sexy Sanctuary (2001)
2 Many DJ's – As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2 (2002)
Beck – Sea Change (2002)
Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow (2002)
Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
The Chemical Brothers – Come With Us (2002)
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Hörse of the dög (2002)
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
Milwaukee Wildmen – Psychosomatic (2002)
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (2002)
Stuurbaard Bakkebaard – Chuck (2002)
Supergrass – Life on Other Planets (2002)
Tom Waits – Alice (2002)
Tom Waits – Blood Money (2002)
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
Blur – Think Tank (2003)
Calexico – Feast of Wire (2003)
Radiohead – Hail To The Thief (2003)
The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
Tindersticks – Waiting for the Moon (2003)
Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South (2004)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
Kings of Convenience – Riot On An Empty Street (2004)
Tom Waits – Real Gone (2004)
Antony & The Johnsons –I Am a Bird Now (2005)
The Arcade Fire – Funeral (2005*)
Iron & Wine and Calexico – In the Reins (2005)
dEUS – Pocket Revolution (2005)
Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (2005)
My Morning Jacket – Z (2005)
Ian Siegal – Meat & Potatoes (2005)
Sufjan Stevens – Come Feel The Illinoise! (2005)
Belle & Sebastian – The Life Persuit (2006)
The Knife – Silent Shout (2006)
Mastodon – Blood Mountain (2006)
The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2007)
LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver (2007)
M.I.A. – Kala (2007)
The National – Boxer (2007)
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
Feist – The Reminder (2007)
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008^)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008)
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008)
Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair (2008)
TV on the Radio – Dear Science (2008)
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic (2009)

*) 2004 in Canada & U.S.
^) 2007 in U.S.

I've made a lot of decadelists, like most musicnerds. Top 10 follows in december! Yeah!

1. How did you get into 31?
Belle and Sebastian
It was one of those curious experiments.


2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Coldplay
Speed of Sound.


3. What's your favorite lyric by 29?
PJ Harvey
Lyrics to Rid of Me.


4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Rage Against the Machine
Battle of Los Angeles.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
M.I.A.
Arular and Kala.


6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Kaiser Chiefs
Everything Is Average Nowadays.


7. Is there a song by 4 that makes you sad?
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
No. I love all their songs and they make me happy.

8. What is your favorite song by 15?
Beck
The New Pollution.


9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Pixies
Where Is My Mind?


10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
My Bloody Valentine
Blown A Wish.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?
Monsters of Folk
Their only one.


12. What is your favorite song by 10?
Joy Division
Transmission.


13. What is a good memory you have involving 33?
The La's
Dancing to There She Goes.


14. What is your favorite song by 37?
Oasis
Hey Now!


15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
The Stone Roses
Yes; Elephant Stone.


16. How many times have you seen 24 live?
MGMT
Zero.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Rich.


18. What is your favorite album by 11?
Blur
Parklife.


19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Radiohead
Thom Yorke.


20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Björk
No.

21. What is a good memory involving 45?
Pearl Jam
Last year, I used their song Jeremy as an example in a project I was doing in English.


22. What is your favorite song by 16?
The Vaselines
Molly's Lips.


23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
Buddy Holly
That'll Be The Day


24. What is your favorite album by 21?
Pavement
Slanted & Enchanted.


25. What is your favorite song by 18?
Elvis Costello
Blame It on Cain.


26. What is the first song you ever heard by 38?
Phoenix
1901.


27. What is your favorite lyric by 3?
Nirvana
I just like it when he sings "Nature is a whore" for some reason.


28. What is you favorite song by 2?
Elliott Smith
Say Yes.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
The Cure
Just Like Heaven.


31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Muse
Zero.


32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Elastica
Stutter.


33. What is your favorite album by 12?
Franz Ferdinand
You Could Have It So Much Better.


34. What is the worst song by 46?
The Lemonheads
I can't say because I don't know.


35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
The Smashing Pumpkins
1979.


36. What is your favorite album by 42?
Band Of Skulls
Their only one.


37. How many times have you seen 39 live?
R.E.M.
Zero.


38. What is your favorite album by 36?
Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde.


39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Arctic Monkeys
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor.


40. What is your favorite album by 7?
Sonic Youth
Dirty.

M.I.A. Boyz (2007)

from the album Kala

It goes: "how many how many boyz are crazy? how many start a war?"

I've had a particular fondness of gorillas recently, so I have a gorilla avatar I think is pretty good, but doesn't seem to quite hit it somehow. So, whoever offers/suggests the best gorilla avatar within a week wins! All ideas are definitely appreciated. This journal is also a good place to discuss favorite animals etc.

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