1. What are you listening to right now?
Flathead - The Fratellis

2. What song makes you sad?
Muchas... yo creo que depende de lo que esté pasando. Pero por ejemplo Whistle for the Choir de The Fratellis o Happy Ending de Mika son algunas.

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Emmm... todo lo emo... Eso de Paramore que es una imitación barata de No Doubt me fastidia.

4. Your all time favorite band?
No sé... es que esas preguntas están complicadas. Yo pongo a mis tres gurús: U2, Pearl Jam y Soda Stereo

5. Your newly discovered band is?
The Last Shadow Puppets

6. Best female voice?
Otra difícil, porque Gwen Stefani tiene estilo, pero su voz no es única. Digamos que me gusta mucho, ahora Katy Perry, pero igual está Amy Winehouse

7. Best male voice?
Siempre dire: Michael Hutchence de INXS

8. Music type you find yourself listening to most?
Pues... dicen que Indie, pero yo pienso que simplemente me gusta y ya.

9. What do you listen to hype you up?
Kinky. Es imposible resistirse a mover el cuerpo.

10. What do you listen to to calm down?
Tango siempre será lo mejor: Bajofondo Tango Club o Gotan Project

11. Last gig/concert you went to?
Superlitio@Eje Bar

12. Band you find yourself listening to the most right now?
The Last Shadow Puppets, White Rabbits y Babasónicos

13. Most hated band?
Paramore! Tokio Hotel! Estos idiotas de MTV... se me fue el nombre... en fin, todo lo emo!

14. Song that makes you think?
I Kissed a Girl de Katy Perry. En una época solía ser Spin the Black Circle de Pearl Jam

15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do?
Babasónicos. Están absolutamente subestimados.

16. Coolest music video?
Esa es otra pregunta imposible de responder. Recomiendo de lo nuevo que sale ahora Whoo! Alright - Yeah... Uh Huh de The Rapture o American Boy de Estelle con Kanye West.

17. Music video with the most babe watch?
Siempre pensaré que el video más sensual será el de Electrical Storm de U2, pero seguramente habrán más...

18. What "do you play/would you play" in the bedroom to spice things up?
Tango! Siempre funciona... Aunque Sexy Boy de Air no es mala idea

19. Can you play a musical instrument?
Ya quisiera! Me dijeron que servia para pianista... pero lo dudo

20. Ever been in a mosh pit?
?????

21. Are you in a band?
No

22. If yes, what kind of music does your band play?
....

23. Ever dated a musician?
Sí! Lo mejor del mundo...

24. If yes, what kind of music did he/she/they play/instrument/band?
El que se me viene a la cabeza, toca teclasdos y acordeón :P

25. Do you wish yourself that you were a musician?
Sí

26. Best chick band you know of?
El 'chick' por excelecia es David Bowie, pero a mi Gwen Stefani me parece absolutamente 'chick'

27. Best guy band you know of?
Para cambiar la tonada Depeche Mode. No me imagino a una chica por ahí...

28. Last song that you heard on the radio/cd...etc...?
En CD, tiene que ser Mexican Radio de Kinky... Tengo el Reina de Lujo!

29. What do you think of Classical music?
Que soy una absoluta ignorante frente al tema. Y debería darme verguenza.

30. What do you think of Country music?
Somos hijos de ella. Después de Walk the Line, amo a Johnny Cash.

31. What do you think of Death metal?
Ya lo intenté, no va. Punto.

32. Last BIG band that you saw live?
Tiene que ser el concierto de la gira Me Veras Volver de Soda Stereo. Eso no quiere decir nada, pues pienso que ver a Depeche Mode en vivo debe ser la locura

33. Are you a groupie?
No. Se dice Band Aid!

34. Do you listen to music in foreign languages?
Pues... partamos que el inglés es un idioma extranjero. Ahora le voy al francés.

35. What famous musician do you find sexy?
Brandon Flowers de The Killers es uno de ellos.

36. Worst concert moment?
Sé que he tenido, pero gracias a Dios no me acuerdo

37. Funny Concert moment?
Gracioso?.... Déjenme pensarlo

38. Sad Concert moment?
Fue en el de Soda Stereo....

39. Best local act you can think of?
Me gusta Sidestepper o Superlitio, pero nada superará a el Bloque de Busqueda

40. If you were a musical instrument what would you be?
Bajo

41. Do you listen to the radio?
Sí... En las mañanas oigo las mentiras que nos quieren vender

42. Do you watch music TV?
Sí. I love VH1

43. Do you follow the music charts, like the top 40?
No. No creo en eso

44. Have you met any famous musicians?
SI! :D

45. Are any of your friends/family etc musicians?
Pues... creo que solo el novio de una amiga

46. Song that best describes your feelings right now?
La que suena: Shadowplay de The Killers

47. Song that describes your life?
No sé por qué pensé en esta, pero pienso que Relax, Take It Easy de Mika no pasará de moda en mi vida.

48. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to?
No sé... U2?

49. Does a musician’s physical attractiveness play a role in the music that you listen to?
No... pero no puedo negar que si resulta que está bueno, eso le da un plus

50. What famous musician do you want to marry?
No me quiero casar! Me conformo con una noche loca con Brandon Flowers!

51. Favourite movie sound track?
Por ahora, le voy a The Dark Knight. Pero no se olviden de Star Wars y Trainspotting.

52. Any musician pet hates?
????

53. What do your parents listen to?
Mi papá le gustaba mucho el jazz... B.B. King o Earl Klugh. Mi mamá si no sé... es raro, pero ella no le molesta lo que oigo.

54. What are you listening to right NOW?
Weekend Wars de MGMT, pero ya lo voy a cambiar.

55. Do you wear band T-shirts, hoodies, etc.?
Sí. De Soda Stereo

56. What do you think of people who do?
Cada quien es libre de ver qué se pone y qué representa.

57. What music sub-culture do you feel like you belong to?
No... eso es complicado, uno es y ya.

58. What song is stuck in your head right now?
I Kissed a Girl de Katy Perry

59. Do you sing in the shower?
A veces... tengo que estar muy contenta

60. If so, what? If not, why not?
Pues eso, estoy contenta!

61. Would you rather marry a musician or be one yourself?
Me encantaría vivir con un músico, con todos los problemas que eso trae

62. What is in your walkman/discman right now?
Siempre habrá Kinky y Babasónicos... ahora, The Rapture y White Rabbits

63. How important is your partners taste in music to you?
Mucho. Demasiado.

64. Hanson moves in next door to you, do you go introduce yourself, or do you arrange to beat them up?
Kill....Kill

65. Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll, you dig?
No. Con sexo y rock es suficiente.

66. Do you cook to music?
Para todo en la vida.

67. Do you sing in the toilet?
No! Qué es eso ala!

gente, Gotan Project é TÃO legal! escutem, escutem!

(se quiserem outra dica, comecem por La Revancha Del Tango -- por ora meu preferido)

Wiem, że wypisywanie line-upu marzeń nie ma większego sensu, ale czymże byłoby życie bez marzeń ;P
Choć nauczona doświadczeniem tegorocznym dochodzę do wniosku, że wypowiadanie na głos open'erowych życzeń przynosi efekt - często i gęsto mówiłyśmy, że chcemy Interpol i Roisin. Stało się.
Do dzieła zatem.

Zacznijmy od World Stage.
Reprezentacja polska: Kapela Ze Wsi Warszawa albo Village Kollektiv. Albo Yerba Mater. Obojętnie. A najlepiej wszystkie trzy, zwłaszcza, że w dwóch pierwszych składy ściśle się zazębiają. Poprosimy również zespół Sofa jako delegację soul/r'n'b
Bałkany: Fanfare Ciocărlia, Kustirucą i jego No Smoking Orchestra też nie pogardzę, ale to akurat jest wysoce nieprawdopodobne.
Zaległości: Beirut! Nie odpuścimy.
Mrzonki absolutne: Clann Zú. Obawiam się, że nic nie jest w stanie zmusić panów z zespołu do ponownego zejścia się.
Jak co roku : Masala Soundsystem
Nada się również : Andrew Bird albo Sufjan Stevens. I może Joanna Newsom, ale po niej to się nie spodziewajmy show w stylu DeVotchKi.
I... gwiazda wieczoru... Panjabi MC! :D


Namiot.
The Dresden Dolls, absolutnie! Dokładnie jako odpowiednik CocoRosie (wiem, wiem, ta muzyka bardzo się od siebie różni, ale stopień wariactwa ma ten sam)
Z Gotan Project mam problem, teoretycznie nadaje się również na World, ale Tent daje chyba jednak bardziej kameralną atmosferę.
Peaches, cobyśmy zobaczyli i usłyszeli prawdziwe erosong show, a nie taką chałę, jaką w tym roku wyprodukowała Marysia P.
Jazzu chcemy również, zatem Koop i Skalpel.
Na jakiś trip-hop też musi się znaleźć miejsce pod namiotem. Bonobo, Télépopmusik
Elektronika obowiązkowa - Matthew Herbert i Gus Gus. I Barbara Morgenstern, pasuje idealnie.
Po polsku - młodzi Waglewscy w dowolnej konfiguracji. Może być sam Fisz, może być Tworzywo Sztuczne itd. Do tego Pink Freud, Dr.No.

Główna.
Zespoły polskie, na rozgrzewkę : Pogodno. Nie lubię tego paskudztwa o jakże konceptualnej nazwie Kombajn Do Zbierania Kur Po Wioskach, ale muszę przyznać, że się nada. Choć Hurt też nie jest złym pomysłem.
Najchętniej Róisín Murphy, ale nie ma co na to liczyć.
Zatem Björk, jeśli łaska.
Z gatunku korzenie trip-hopu - Portishead, DJ Shadow, Tricky, Lamb, UNKLE, Air. Nie pogardzę nikim, wybieraj, AlterArcie!
Elektronicznie : Ladytron. Myślę, że godnie zajmą miejsce Goldfrapp.
Jako młodzi, niepokorni indie-rockowi idole indie-pedałów w szaliczkach nadadzą się Arctic Monkeys. Nie, nie chcę Radiohead!
Kontynuując indie i okolice, tudzież singerów-songwriterów - poproszę Becka i Feist. I Yeah Yeah Yeahs, bardzo chciałabym zobaczyć Karen O. w akcji.
Brit : Travis najchętniej, ewentualnie Coldplay. Na Blur obawiam się, że nie mam co liczyć.
Ooo, PJ Harvey, bezwzględnie.
A, jeszcze jakiś soul/r'n'b. Alicia Keys albo Mary J. Blige i wszyscy zadowoleni. Albo Kelis, mry.
I coś rapującego. Mhm. Hm. W tej materii czuję się zagubiona, przyznaję. Ale OutKast przyjmę z aprobatą.
Uderzenie ekstremalne - The Prodigy :D

Zestawienie o najwyższym współczynniku prawdopodobieństwa. Choć oczywiście nie obyło się bez kilku, z różnych względów, całkowicie niemożliwych.

Teraz nie pozostaje mi nic innego jak podrzucić tę listę na wycieraczkę AlterArtu i cierpliwie czekać.

Do zobaczenia na Open'erze 2009 :)

I know I'm going to get flamed on this :/. Feel free to give your own opinions on my views, but please don't start throwing around remarks about my mum or my upbringing. I was brought up in a family that revolved very much around law and all that, FYI.

Personally, I don't think piracy should be taken as seriously as it is right now (ie. picking one out of a million who download music off the internet [very likely a 13 year old who just downloaded LimeWire the week before] and suing them and threatening to sue more). Yes, piracy causes a loss in the revenue/profit of record labels and musicians, and it might discourage musicians from creating more music. But then again, think of it this way - though people may steal your music, they enjoy it. In the end, are you making music for the sake of music, or only for making money? Like NOFX, they do it for The Cause. Haha. Me, I would see piracy as a mean of gaining fans, not as a mean of losing money. If a fan really liked your music, which they downloaded, I think they would absolutely go out and buy your CD. They would also go to your shows when you're on tour. Would you hate your fans if they downloaded your music? Would you discourage your fans from listening to the tracks on your new CD which they downloaded? In the end, it's your music they appreciate, and not the fact that they stole an album off the interwebs.

If I were an artist, I would be absolutely flattered that someone saw my music as worth stealing.

I got to know all of my favorite bands through the internet, and inadvertently, piracy. Yeah. All those bands that you see on my Top Artists chart. Though I may have pirated their music, through listening to and enjoying their music, I have went out to the record store to buy their album(s).

Like what Thaoo said (read comment below), though you can pirate albums to sample music, you don't absolutely have to. If you chose not to pirate music, you can sample music for free on the internet instead, via sites like YouTube, Imeem and Last.fm (though sometimes/most of the time they're uploaded illegally onto said sites anyway :P). I have to agree that you don't have to pirate music to sample music from the internet, but sometimes, through piracy, you can get more material to listen to before you make up your mind about the band.

Come on. Would a 14 year old ever buy a Ramones/The Clash/NOFX/Metric CD, had she not found out about them and how their music was like? I don't think it's possible for someone to read about some obscure band on the internet and then immediately go out, and go out of their way to order an album of theirs, which may or may not be easily accessible (via the local record store).

Given the location where I live, how often would I come into contact with musical acts of such nature? Seriously. Had I not dug through the interwebs for pirated music, I would have never come to know of NOFX, AN CAFE, The Ramones, The Clash, and Sex Pistols, some of my most favorite bands. Without pirating music, I wouldn't have been able to get to know I wouldn't have been able to know bands that I've only been able to come across recently, such as BT, Brokencyde, Gotan Project, Circo, The Cinematic Orchestra and The Blue Seeds. And bands that I've never heard of, like Pantera (a metal band... actually, I think I've read a bit about them in Kerrang! many moons ago, but that was it), Sunn O))) (a metal band) and Ryoji Ikeda (ultra-minimalism artist). Come on.

Okay, I admit, I have seen traces of the musical cultures/scenes/fanbases that I happily consider myself a part of. I have seen a guy on the local TV channel wear a The Clash T-shirt. And, recently, in the lift of a local mall, I saw a woman with a Ramones T-shirt. I also spot J-Rockers in packs with their visual kei attire once every now and then (heck, I even know shops where I can get J-Rock attire). But that is about it. Do you honestly think that I will buy an album after seeing a guy/girl wearing a T-shirt of an obscure band that I don't know of? Really.

I'm not trying to encourage or promote piracy here, but I just think it shouldn't be viewed as seriously as it is right now.

Further reading:
I think it's also important to take note of how bands and the music industry have responded to piracy and downloading music.

Two famous bands, both grammy-nominated and awarded, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have chosen to take an ambitious approach to releasing their music. Radiohead self-released their album in rainbows as a digital download, letting their customers choose their own price. They also released it as a physical copy through their label, at a set price. NIN, on the other hand, released their album The Slip digitally on their website, for free. They released the album through their own self-created label, also offering it as a physical copy for a set price. There is no catch. It's a quality record, not just some throwaway. It's free. The album is there, available in a handful of file formats, even, and the only thing you need to offer is your e-mail address so they can send you the download link. As quoted from their site, they "encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc."

This clearly shows that it is time for record companies to reconsider their stance on music downloading - in this day and age, no matter how much or how little, almost everyone with an internet connection downloads media of some sort. I really respect Radiohead and NIN for taking such an ambitious approach in releasing their music. They're truly creating music for the sake of music (and their fans :P), and not for the sake of earning revenue.

Download The Slip here (along with the first part of Ghosts I-IV, also free): http://www.nin.com ;)

Are you up to the challenge? Well, to get some readers to this particular journal entry, I'm going to just throw out some random awesome artists, and some random comments about them. Even though that could be construed as something spamm-ish, technically it isn't. Because I am making commentary about them, which is really no different than 99.999999% of journals on last.fm.

So, here goes...

So I just noticed that they often use songs in commercials that I was all geeked about 2 years ago. Three examples---
Lupe Fiasco's "Daydreamin'"
Gotan Project's "Epoch"
and...
um...
that Fatboy Slim song.

The funny thing is, I was far behind some of my friends on last.fm.

Just heard a Nicole Atkins song. I had to add her to my my scarebears currently checking them out tag on the strength of one song.

Ditto for Quiet Village.

I really wish I understood what's so cool about Lacuna Coil, because as good as they are, it's really hard to articulate why. Uniqueness, I guess. And talent. Amid the mass of gothic music, they do stand out, which is as difficult as being dead and decomposing, but somehow still relentlessly beautiful. I suppose like the autopsy photos of Marilyn Monroe? Okay, that's stretching it a bit, they're not nearly that extreme.

Okay, I frightened myself a little that time.

Ditto for Nightwish. Except that the analogy might actually fit them. Maybe that's why I can't always listen to a whole song of them, like looking at those Monroe photos for longer than a few moments.

Heard Bat For Lashes. Had to add her to my scarebears currently checking them out.

Fiona Apple, still love her madly. See her live if you can. Also, another artist to see live is The Detroit Cobras.

Okay, so now to the actual reason for this bloggy thingie.

There's a new tag called virally yours. Why this name? Because it's viral, and it's my gift to you, to do with what you want, as in "yours truly." It's contagious, in a good way. It's about artists that are unknown (at least on last.fm) who don't deserve to stay that way. Only one rule. An artist has to have less than 6,000 plays to be added. Okay, as they say, rules are meant to be broken, I just ask that you be reasonable about that one. Please?

When I listen to the global tag, I'll tag an artist who plays, that I like, with less than 6,000 plays, unless I feel compelled to add them anyway even though they have more plays.

So far, the tag is all over the place, Japanese rock, Mideastern music, African music, reggae, blues, country, electronica and American indie rock, and I hope it never gets full of any one kind of music. Here's who's on it as of today---
Kaïssa
Ghost of the Russian Empire
Sufi Music Ensemble
Nancy White
Insect Surfers
Mohammad Reza Shajarian
asusen project
Primrose
Bagas Degol
Jesse Pessoa
Alla Rakha, Pulgat Raghu
Marco Brasil / Dombar and Donizete
Montana Skies
Marcy Levy Band (a.k.a Marcella Detroit of Shakespeare's Sister, who looks frighteningly like my ex-girlfriend.)
Gideon Freudmann
Oztara
Hamza Shakkur & Ensemble al-Kindi
Abaji
Pochill
Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman / M.A Sundareswaran / E.M Subramaniam / Mattanur Sankaran Kutty / Porur Unnikrishnan / Srirangam S Kannan / N.Hariharan
El Hadj N'Diaye
Mansour Seck
Majid Bekkas
V.G. Jog
Mississippi Jook Band
Soliman Gamil
Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain
Kadda Cherif Hadria – Madanitche
Rootz Underground
Roberto Dalla Vecchia
The Honkeys
All Day Sucker
The Limes
Joel Smith
Taxpayer

Or you can just wait around to be spoon-fed the artists you're supposed to like.

Up to you.

Beirut era quase a trilha sonora oficial das aulas de dança do Édi. Por um tempo Novalima também foi.

Aliás, ouvi dizer que Novalima também andou meio trilha das aulas da Lu. Mas, na época em que eu estava na turma, o que comandava lá era Gotan Project.

Saudade das aulas de dança. De ver o Édi dançando e de ouvir a Lu explicando a anatomia do corpo. Do Édi todo organizado com os CDs dele e da Lu fazendo a maior confusão com os dela.

USA (20)
Jeff Buckley
Jimi Hendrix
System of a Down
Rage Against the Machine
Cold War Kids
The White Stripes
Tim Buckley
Queens of the Stone Age
The Mars Volta
Nirvana
Loudermilk
The Flaming Lips
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Killers
The Doors
Weezer
Suicidal Tendencies
Sonic Youth
Primus

UK (14)
Muse
Oasis
Pink Floyd
Kasabian
The Beatles
Radiohead
Arctic Monkeys
The Rolling Stones
Ocean Colour Scene
Fiction Plane
Glasvegas
Klaxons
Damien Rice
The Who

Argentina (4)
Soda Stereo
Gustavo Cerati
Andrés Calamaro
Fito Páez

Spain (4)
Camarón de la Isla
Gabriel Moreno
Estrella Morente
Jarabe de Palo

Belgium (2)
Millionaire
Creature With The Atom Brain

Chile (1)
Los Bunkers

Mexico (1)
Los Dynamite

Brazil (1)
CCS

France (1)
Gotan Project

Australia (1)
Wolfmother

Quería hacer un meme... entonces, me encuentro esto:
Make a list with your Top 50 artists that shows where they come from.

Bien... vamos a mirar

USA: 18
The Killers
VHS or Beta
Gwen Stefani
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
!!!
Blondie
Miss Angie
The Rapture
Television
dc Talk
Kevin Max
The Velvet Underground
Tait
Maroon 5
Jefferson Airplane
Kanye West
Cibo Matto

Inglaterra: 12
Amy Winehouse
Goldfrapp
Mika
Joy Division
Duran Duran
Jamiroquai
David Bowie
Radiohead
Hot Chip
Depeche Mode
New Order
Arctic Monkeys

América Latina: 13

Argentina: 5
Soda Stereo
Babasónicos
Bajofondo Tango Club
Gustavo Cerati
Astor Piazzolla

México: 4
Kinky
Fobia
Nortec Collective
Los Concorde

Brasil: 2
Thievery Corporation
BossaCucaNova

Colombia: 1
Sidestepper

Uruguay: 1
Jorge Drexler

Europa: 6

España: 2
Alejandro Sanz
Ojos de Brujo

Alemania: 2
Kraftwerk
Liquido

Irlanda: 1
U2

Francia: 1
Gotan Project

Otros
Australia: 1
INXS

Conclusión: la influencia norteamericana es muy vasta... pero yo no creí que escuchara tanto artista inglés!
Increíble que solo haya un artista colombiano, pero es que Sidestepper vale la pena. Y creí que iban a haber algo más de mexicanos...
Raro todo esto