According to Last.fm, my most played artists are:1 Claude Debussy 769 2 Glenn Gould 736 3 Igor Stravinsky 458 4 The Beach Boys 447 5 Harry Nilsson 433 6 Robert Schumann 429 7 Randy Newman 397 8 Steve Reich 368 9 Eva Quartet 326 10 Fleetwood Mac 312 11 Olivier Messiaen 305 12 Emmylou Harris 304 13 Maurice Ravel 301 14 Deerhoof 288 15 Cardiacs 277 16 György Ligeti 270 17 Bob Drake 268 18 Pom Pom 257 19 Judee Sill 249 20 Erik Satie 241 20 Paul McCartney 241
...and I don't understand how Erik Satie is here. I like his music, and I listen to it sometimes, but would hardly call him one of my favorite artists. As far as classical composers go, I'd much sooner consider Bach, Prokofiev or Shostakovich. And among all music, there are tons of artists I'd pick first. He's taking someone else's valuable spot!!
― Dominique, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:13 (fifteen years ago)
[/i]17 Bob Drake 268[/i]
goddamn I need to get on this ASAP [/derail]
My answer would probably be something like Of Montreal, although I still like them
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:18 (fifteen years ago)
1. Neon Indian (lol this must've been on repeat by accident some day or something)2. John Lennon (specifically the song "Crippled Inside")3. Richard Hawley4. The Band5. Alex Chilton6. Badfinger7. The Bee Gees8. John Cale9. Little Richard10. Bo Diddley11. George Jones12. Ghostface Killah13. Hall & Oates14. Peter Schilling15. Raekwon16. XTC17. Broadcast18. Cat Stevens19. Charlie Feathers20. Dion
this list is kinda laughable/not reflective at all in a lot of ways (Cat Stevens?!) - fuck you iTunes playcount!
― mark roflr (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:34 (fifteen years ago)
I will post as soon as I figure out how to neatly export or c/p last.fm charts
― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)
1 The Smiths 5522 Spacemen 3 3823 Pavement 3164 Blur 2795 Kraftwerk 2706 The Dandy Warhols 2157 Massive Attack 2047 Pixies 2047 Aphex Twin 20410 Radiohead 19611 ADULT. 18412 Joy Division 18313 Björk 17514 Optimo 16915 The Brian Jonestown Massacre 15015 808 State 15017 LCD Soundsystem 14718 M.I.A. 14319 Primal Scream 13820 Spiritualized 131
Well, I mean, I love all of these, but least favorite is probably ADULT. since the entirety of those plays are from a phase 4 years ago where I more or less listened to Resuscitation on repeat for a few months. It's the only album of theirs I really like (but boy do I really like it!). All those others I could accurately refer to as "one of my favorite bands"
― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:55 (fifteen years ago)
1 Nurse With Wound 4752 Tom Waits 4323 The Mountain Goats 3834 Klaatu 3395 The Cure 3206 mclusky 3117 Foetus 3068 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 2989 Firewater 28710 Beck 28011 Beastie Boys 24512 The Residents 22813 Eels 22614 Swans 22515 Sparks 21616 The Suburbs 20817 Modest Mouse 19917 Elvis Costello 19917 Ulver 19920 Aphex Twin 183
if were talking how i feel about their current incarnations, its a 3 way tie between beasties/beck/modest mouse. if its career spanning, then the beasties
― RAYBAN L01US J@gg3r (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)
Stevie D, you look like a fella who might enjoy the new 90's poll
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)
1 New Order 3602 The Fall 3103 Minutemen 2444 Steinski 1885 Aphex Twin 1846 Boards of Canada 1497 Wire 1398 The Hold Steady 1349 Hüsker Dü 13010 Black Sabbath 12710 The Jesus Lizard 12710 Kraftwerk 12713 Neu! 12113 The Juan Maclean 12115 Brian Eno 11616 Raekwon 11517 Zomby 11117 Smog 11119 Earth 11020 Nas 109
Probably Zomby as least fave, but I love that album.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:00 (fifteen years ago)
1 The Cure 1,0642 The Knife 7103 Diplo/Santogold 6904 Depeche Mode 6015 Yeah Yeah Yeahs 5346 Nine Inch Nails 4447 Boards of Canada 4078 Bat for Lashes 3969 King's Chapel Choir 37710 Siouxsie and the Banshees 36311 The Prodigy 35412 Kenna 29213 Massive Attack 28814 Modeselektor 28715 Fever Ray 28316 The Mountain Goats 25617 Santigold 25318 Portishead 24219 Moderat 23920 M.I.A. 237
so massive lol because my least favorite is the group I actually sing with (King's Chapel Choir); assuming that doesn't count, my next entry is a Kleiber recording of "Ernani" that I played to death attempting to memorize it, which also ranks as a least-favorite
once you remove the entries that are only there because I was trying to learn some music, I think my answer is probably Modeselektor
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)
1 Lil' Wayne 1,2242 Gucci Mane 7173 The-Dream 5924 Los Campesinos! 5605 Bloc Party 5356 Clipse 5187 Spoon 4818 The Beatles 4579 Girl Talk 41810 DJ Drama & Lil Wayne 40911 Kanye West 39612 Hot Chip 38213 The Fiery Furnaces 37714 Jay-Z 37615 Wolf Parade 36916 Tokyo Police Club 36817 Vampire Weekend 35518 Phoenix 34319 Be Your Own Pet 31220 No Age 304
definitely fiery furnaces -- they got a good number of albums tho
― waka flocka pedia (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)
argh i was scrollin' down your list and saw fiery furnaces and thought 'i hope he doesn't say fiery furnaces' ;_;
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)
haha -- in reality i haven't listened to tokyo police club in probably three years but i'm not as interested in the mystique of the furnaces like i was when i was a youg'n -- i still think 'blueberry boat' is killer tho
― waka flocka pedia (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)
xp bbb - If you drop The Knife at King's Evensong I'll be there in a second.
Em...
1 Arthur Russell 6512 Animal Collective 4633 The Beach Boys 3404 Michel Polnareff 2965 Eels 2796 Neil Young 2407 Paavoharju 2338 Burial 2209 Les Rita Mitsouko 2199 Marissa Nadler 21911 Girl Talk 20112 Paul White 18813 Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou 17914 Serge Gainsbourg 17615 Kelley Polar 16916 Malajube 16817 Onra 16718 Jackson and His Computer Band 16519 Sam Cooke 16020 Tindersticks 15920 Jonquil 159
Most of it is pretty representative. I don't like Eels or J+HCB as much as their ranking suggests. Onra and Paul White are there because they put 30 60-second tracks on an album. Suprised not to see Dilla there for the same reason (he's down at 30).
― seandalai, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)
j0rdan i am not as obsessed by them as i once was but yeah BB is mad killer. i am also a huge fan of bitter tea and widow city but BB is the one that'll last
― stoke for the shawcross (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)
i like bitter tea a lot, but to me it's like 50% all time d-_-b and 50% these fukkin ruminants
― waka flocka pedia (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)
I would attribute it to the short length of his compositions
― T-R-A-P-S-T-R (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)
Roxy Music 501XTC 460Coil 384Randy Newman 346Kate Bush 345Peter Gabriel 324David Bowie 306Harry Nilsson 296The Residents 290Stevie Wonder 265M.I.A. 265The Beatles 258The Police 253Wall of Voodoo 250Siouxsie and the Banshees 242Nellie McKay 241Cardiacs 234Pet Shop Boys 232Prince & The Revolution 221Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 201
I like all these guys...hard to pick a least favorite. I will say Roxy Music was a holdover from when I had a 20 gig hard drive & only a few albums on my compy, mostly by Roxy Music. I'll still put on their stuff, tho. Prince wld be a lot higher if it wasn't split between Prince and '& the Revolution.'
I guess the one on here I'm most lukewarm abt is The Beatles...I think they got so high from trying to figure out if the remasters actually sounded all that different. (Actually, at that time, I was getting off a medication & the v v v weird side effect was music did not sound like 'music,' just a bunch of jangling sounds that never coalesced into sound. Beatles = most familiar music to me, probably, and I was just sitting around waiting for it to make sense again.)
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:26 (fifteen years ago)
good idea for a thread!
1. Steely Dan 11532. Autechre 8283. John Fahey 6854. Harvey Milk 6695. Circle 6246. Notorious B.I.G. 5947. Fleetwood Mac 5708. 2Pac 5059. Koenjihyakkei 49710. Neurosis 47311. Meshuggah 42912. Converge 42713. Misfits 41514. Ruins 41215. Three 6 Mafia 40616. Iron Maiden 40317. New Order 40018. Harmonia 39019. Sir Richard Bishop 38920. UGK 377
probably converge or sir richard bishop. though (obv.) I like them both a bunch.
funny because I could easily swap out the next five for stuff in my top 20 if I were compiling a more personal ranking:
21. Keith Fullerton Whitman 36322. Judas Priest 36023. Led Zeppelin 35124. Thin Lizzy 34925. Depeche Mode 346
― original bgm, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:32 (fifteen years ago)
also, I've probably listened to sabbath more than anything over the last year (besides steely dan) but I just haven't gotten around to ripping most of their stuff.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)
1 Grouper 1702 Alog 1413 Broadcast and The Focus Group 1384 Mordant Music 1265 Zelienople 1246 The Sight Below 1227 Autistic Daughters 1188 Björk 1158 David Sylvian 11510 Brian Eno 11211 The Legendary Pink Dots 10812 Stars of the Lid 10613 Fennesz 10313 Disco Inferno 10313 Alva Noto 10313 David Bowie 10317 Erik Satie 10217 Red House Painters 10219 Popol Vuh 9920 Animal Collective 98
Holy balls, It's the Erik Satie effect. This is only my six-month list, but I've got Erik in about the same position. One of the CDs of his that I have has got 44 tracks on it, play that a couple of times and there you go. OTOH the other Satie CD I have (42 Vexations) has just one track, so maybe that evens things out a bit.
Broadcast & the Focus Group has more plays than I feel it deserves, but that was my falling asleep music for a couple of weeks.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:43 (fifteen years ago)
ruins are def. the band benefiting most from the satie effect on my list. I have their live album from 2000 on my ipod and the short improv tracks always come up on shuffle.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:51 (fifteen years ago)
xp didn't falling asleep to that Broadcast record totally freak your mind?
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)
I keep forgetting about the last.fm normaliser:
http://www.normalisr.com/?user=djperry1973&chart=artist
1. The Cure2. The Knife 3. Depeche Mode4. Nine Inch Nails5. Carlos Kleiber6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 7. The Prodigy 8. Boards of Canada9. Massive Attack 10. Bat for Lashes11. Siouxsie and the Banshees12. Fever Ray13. Modeselektor14. Kenna 15. Underworld16. New Order17. Moderat 18. Portishead 19. Basement Jaxx20. Pet Shop Boys
lol, THERE'S that Kleiber recording I mentioned!
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)
1 Bob Dylan 9632 The Beatles 9003 Elvis Presley 8174 Neil Young 6625 The Rolling Stones 4846 The Cure 4497 R.E.M.4188 Steely Dan 4009 Depeche Mode 36210 The Jesus and Mary Chain 36011 The Byrds 34812 Roxy Music 34313 New Order 33714 David Bowie 30915 Fleetwood Mac 29016 Kanye West 28117 Dolly Parton 22718 Al Green 22619 Big Star 21819 Merle Haggard 218
Of these, I guess the Cure is my least favorite. I'm embarked on an OCD "project" of listening to everything I have on this laptop (170+ gigs) and that includes every Cure album through Wild Mood Swings, including all the 2-disk editions presently available plus Join The Dots. It was good but I'm not really that much of a fan; I just wanted to see if I'd missed something along the way that would conjure an obsession the way they have for some friends of mine. It didn't (I love the first two albums a lot, though; and dug Blue Sunshine more than other mid-period Cure).
After that, my second least favorite would be Depeche Mode, for whom the same OCD explanation of that play count applies...though I found a lot more to love in their stuff than I'd expected to. But compared to the others on my list, they're still a lesser love.
― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:55 (fifteen years ago)
Sisters of Mercy or Bauhaus
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)
(just ftr, The Glove s better than other mid-period Cure)
― Bunsen burner, bubbles, IT'S ALIVE! whaaaaa-? (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:58 (fifteen years ago)
yeah even the second disk was chock full of goodies (re. the Glove)
― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:00 (fifteen years ago)
Sadly not, once I've dozed off, nothing seems to infiltrate my brain. I do try and keep listening right up to the cusp of sleep, wish I could prolong that weird half-asleep state for longer tbh.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)
mighty white and kind of ridiculous, probably mahavishnu orchestra or microphones
1. Circulatory System2. Vincent Gallo3. Microphones4. Elliot Smith5. Royal Trux6. Tom Waits7. Django Reinhardt8. Harry Nilsson9. Deerhoof10. The Kinks11. Big Star12. Gun Club13. Caetano Veloso14. Steely Dan15. Faust16. John Fahey17. Pere Ubu18. Serge Gainsbourg19. John Lennon20. Mahavishnu Orchestra
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)
some expected stuff jumps way up when normalized:3. Morton Feldman +345. Keith Fullerton Whitman +1611. Terry Riley +33
pretty weird that lastfm don't roll something like this into their own site.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:30 (fifteen years ago)
laughably low play count per week because most (all?) of her albums are just one track per disc:
http://www.last.fm/music/Eliane+Radigue
― original bgm, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)
1 The-Dream 6872 Erykah Badu 6813 Stevie Wonder 6214 Lil' Wayne 4625 Prince 4536 DJ Quik & Kurupt 4347 The Juan Maclean 4158 Electrik Red 3819 The Foreign Exchange 37910 Me'Shell NdegéOcello 35411 OutKast 33712 Ghostface Killah 32713 Jay-Z 31214 Maxwell 29015 Pill 27616 Solange 26017 Calle 13 25018 Gucci Mane 24319 T.I. 23420 Big K.R.I.T. 233
Of these, Solange, Pill, and Big K.R.I.T. don't quite feel like they've earned their spots (hell, neither of the latter two even have a commercially released album). I think Pill has released the least high-quality material of the three, so I'll pick him.
― cloaca darkness (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 08:28 (fifteen years ago)
1. Olivier Messiaen 2. Radiohead 3. Dmitri Shostakovich 4. Morton Feldman 5. Joanna Newsom 6. Alice Coltrane 7. Alfred Schnittke 8. Tori Amos 9. Piano Magic 10. Sofia Gubaidulina 11. Thom Yorke 12. Autechre 13. Cocteau Twins 14. Diamanda Galás 15. Talk Talk 16. This Heat 17. Björk 18. Claude Debussy 19. PJ Harvey 20. Jonny Greenwood
I love all of these people but I suppose Tori is the most embarrassing, considering she was substituted by an evil, musically awful botoxed twin after her first four albums. Also, Joanna Newsom exclusively means Ys. The rest, I will def. stand for.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 08:40 (fifteen years ago)
1 Nurse With Wound2 The Fall3 Wire4 Kate Bush5 Severed Heads6 Coil7 Disco Inferno8 Uton9 Section 2510 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark11 The Fauves12 Seaworthy13 Bernard Parmegiani13 Genesis15 Roy Orbison16 Faust17 Men's Recovery Project18 This Heat18 Windy & Carl20 People Like Us Of the top, Uton is there because I have a sleep mix of about 500+ tracks that I put on shuffle to sleep to occasionally, and there are about four CDs worth of relatively short songs that come up.
Don't know why Genesis are so high, and The Fauves are up there since electricsound and I listened to a large portion of their back catalogue while driving interstate.
Still, it's relatively early day for my scrobbling, errors will get borne out eventually.
― Slacker Bilk (S-), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 09:14 (fifteen years ago)
1 Super Furry Animals 2,6702 Phoenix 2,2543 J.J. Cale 1,9784 The National 1,8305 Diefenbach 1,7756 Sufjan Stevens 1,1627 Hot Chip 1,0108 King Creosote 9279 Cut Copy 91610 Jens Lekman 89911 Blitzen Trapper 89512 Junior Boys 85113 Air 81314 Arctic Monkeys 72915 Brendan Benson 64316 We Are Scientists 63916 Peter Bjorn and John 63918 Mungolian Jet Set 63219 The Earlies 62520 Devendra Banhart 610
Probably Diefenbach from that list. Haven't listened to them or Devendra Banhart for a good few years.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 11:40 (fifteen years ago)
And doesn't that normaliser thing just give bias towards artists with longer tracks. Looking at my "normalised" list, it's no surprise to see the big climbers are the likes of Lindström, Studio, Stars of the Lid and Kaito - all of who regularly clock in tracks at 12+ minutes
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 11:44 (fifteen years ago)
1 Aphex Twin2 AFX3 Lindstrøm & Christabelle4 Shimura Curves5 Broadcast and The Focus Group6 Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas7 Flying Lotus8 Erkin Koray8 Lindstrøm10 New Order11 Laurie Spiegel12 Goldfrapp13 Stereolab14 Memory Tapes15 Electric Bubblegum Arkestra16 Annie16 Little Boots18 Ellen Allien19 Ursula Bogner20 Phantogram
Ha ha I dunno who those Electric Bubblegum Arkestra people are or why they placed so high. Or Shimura Curves, get that out of there!
Of the real bands, erm, well, I love all of them. It's pretty skewed list though by the people who have multiple projects (Aphex/AFX and Lindstrom being the worst offenders there.) I'd probably drop one of them. In fact, drop AFX as that isn't even my favourite RDJ solo project, it's just the one that I have the most material.
― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 11:58 (fifteen years ago)
1 Play Caetano Veloso 5872 Play João Gilberto 5223 Play Steely Dan 5204 Play Miles Davis 5175 Play Ornette Coleman 4856 Play Ricardo Villalobos 4197 Play Metallica 4058 Play Boredoms 3569 Play Animal Collective 34410 Play Lil' Wayne 34011 Play Ludwig van Beethoven 33412 Play Fleetwood Mac 33313 Play The Beatles 26714 Play Charlie Parker 25815 Play Talking Heads 24916 Play Weather Report 24317 Play Can 23318 Play Joy Division 21519 Play Aphex Twin 20720 Play Skream 203
pretty sure that just c&p'd horribly. Skream would be my least favourite, though Beatles is probably the least representative (i have a lot of plays through falling asleep with their discography playing).
― DJ Get Up Kids (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 12:05 (fifteen years ago)
1 Mariah Carey 9892 Gucci Mane 9123 Tori Amos 8954 Ciara 8605 The-Dream 7556 Rihanna 7547 Electrik Red 6418 Cassie 6289 Beyoncé 62510 Lil' Wayne 60811 Taylor Swift 59312 T.I. 57113 Erykah Badu 55214 Aaliyah 53015 Britney Spears 52916 Madonna 51717 Sade 50318 Teedra Moses 44219 Jay-Z 42720 Junior Boys 408
huh, i love them all. tori amos, madonna and jay-z are all kinda embarrassing in their current incarnations, but at the same time probably among the very best if you look at the good bits of their careers. might be either gucci mane or rihanna - the former is here because of the sheer volume of stuff he's released over the past couple of years, while i'm definitely a fan i never feel like i'm as enthusiastic as jordan and deej. rihanna's released a ton of classic material (again, her prolific nature helps her last.fm-wise) but i don't feel the same ~connexion~ to her that i do to teedra, ciara or cassie...
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 12:13 (fifteen years ago)
I haven't actually turned my audioroffler on in a couple years but here is mine, normalized. So sad to see Bob Drake fall way out of his rightful place due to the normalization as I listen to him on my ipod all the time. My least favorite of these is probably a tie between Hank Williams (past breakup music) and Sugar Plant (past sleepytime music). The rest is almost completely indicative of my tastes.1. Boredoms 2. Esplendor Geométrico 3. Suicide 4. A Frames 5. Fleetwood Mac 6. Burt Bacharach 7. The Knife 8. Junior Boys 9. John Cale 10. Mort Garson 11. Belong 12. Tetuzi Akiyama 13. Made In Mexico 14. Hank Williams 15. Sugar Plant 16. Butthole Surfers 17. Gary Numan 18. Electric Light Orchestra 19. LCD Soundsystem 20. Amon Düül II
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 12:15 (fifteen years ago)
Guided by Voices 253Disclose 197The Clean 184Ildjarn 147The Cure 137Blank Dogs 135The Byrds 133Howlin' Wolf 120The Jesus and Mary Chain 117Wire 114T. Rex 112New Order 104Gorky's Zygotic Mynci 103Sebadoh 97Los Crudos 89
GBV are only the top artist because they've released so many songs - I was going through their albums looking for the good ones, not because I'm much of a fan.
But they're probably the 2nd least favourite because the honour goes to Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - I was trying to work out what this one song they played when I saw them back in '97 was called and had to listen to several albums before I found it. Of course now I've forgotten what song it was again.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 12:46 (fifteen years ago)
Without normalisr:
1. Nikaidoh Kazumi2. The Focus Group3. The Butterflies of Love4. The Chemistry Experiment5. Doddodo6. Yellow Magic Orchestra7. The Go-Betweens8. Art Bears9. wolfram wire10. Ensemble Pittoresque11. The Fugs11. Tujiko Noriko11. Paavoharju14. The Plastic People Of The Universe15. Axemen16. Team Brick17. Slapp Happy17. Jandek19. Carambolage19. (Ed.) Morgan Fisher 19. Je Suis Animal
As well as having to discount my own band (because we are awesome, obviously), this list suffers highly from the short song effect (further confirmed by the Conet Project being just outside the top 20), but I do love the Focus Group so have no problems with them being right up near the top. The mysterious (Ed.) Morgan Fisher, however, is what all the songs on the Miniatures album were tagged as before I changed them, so I would have to say that was my least favourite of these, even though I love most of the songs on it.
With normalisr:
1. Yellow Magic Orchestra2. The Chemistry Experiment3. The Butterflies of Love4. The Go-Betweens5. Tujiko Noriko6. Doddodo 7. This Heat 8. The Focus Group9. Ensemble Pittoresque10. Art Bears 11. Jandek12. The Plastic People Of The Universe13. OOIOO14. The Fugs 15. Matmos 16. Paavoharju 17. HALCALI18. Slapp Happy19. Je suis Animal20. Comet Gain
It's probably going to be Halcali here, as even though they are quite absurdly joyful, I could probably live without them in a way that I couldn't do with most of the rest of these guys. There are only so many times that you're in the mood for manufactured Japanese teen hip-hop. Those times are great, mind you.
Also, I think something went wrong with Nikaidoh Kazumi going missing from the normalised list - her songs are not that short. The name does get corrected in last.fm to be a Japanese font, so it might have borked the normalisr.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 12:49 (fifteen years ago)
Plus, Colonel Poo, Gorky's are brilliant. Pah.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, wtf? Let's duff him up! (ps Awesome list e.mily!)
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 12:54 (fifteen years ago)
e.mily, emil.y
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 12:55 (fifteen years ago)
to quote lil wayne
Haha, I'm not sure if Gorky's fans are really going to be able to duff anyone up.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 12:59 (fifteen years ago)
Oh shit yeah! *runs away*
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 13:02 (fifteen years ago)
If that is your least favorite, how good is your best???
― Earth Dye (u s steel), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 14:42 (fifteen years ago)