1. What's your favorite song by 14?
Lykke Li: I'd go with I'm Good, I'm Gone (preferably the Black Kids remix)

2. How did you get into 20?
The Arcade Fire : press (and especially "La Blogothèque" and the radio show "C'est Lenoir")

3. Who is your favorite member in 8?
Beck: Beck...

4. Whats your favorite lyric bit by 29?
Kate Nash or Adam Green:
"Jessica, Jessica Simpson, you've got it all wrong."
5. Have you ever seen 22 live?
Beach House : no
Peggy Lee : no
MGMT : No but soon (12th November, 2008)

6. What's your favorite album from 10?
Pulp: it used to be "Different Class" but it is now "This Is Hardcore" for sure

7. Do you own any merchandise from 3?
Vampire Weekend: no

8. What is a good memory you have of 7?
Brisa Roché: The frenetic listening of the first album (not seen in Lastfm).

9. Is there a member of the same age as you in 2?
Benjamin Biolay: no

10. When did you first get into 1?
Coconut Records: in April, 2008

11. Who likes 4 along with you?
The Beatles: pretty much everybody

12. Which song did you first hear from 15?
Billie Holiday: I don't know

13. What song made you fall in love with 5?
The Fiery Furnaces: "I'm Waiting To Know You"

14. Which song do you not like by 18?
Spoon: for instance "My Mathematical Mind" from "Gimme Fiction", which I did not like.

15. Why do you like 14's songs?
Lykke Li: the poppy side

16. Where did you first hear 6?
Seabear: I don't remember

17. How long was 19 a singer before you liked them?
Thomas Fersen: 6 years (between its first album "le bal des oiseaux" (1993) and "Qu4tre" (1999))

18. Does 13 have a song that gives you a bad memory?
Misophone: no

19. When did you get into 17?
Amy Winehouse: like everyone else, at the end of 2007

20. How long have you been into 11?
Babyshambles: a few months around the concert I saw in January 2008 (I've been much more and longer into The Libertines)

21. If 9 had a concert 300 miles away, would you drive there to see them?
Midlake: no (but mainly because I don't have a car).

22. How many CDs do you own of 12?
Black Kids: one.

23. Does 21 have a song that makes you cry?
Herman Düne: no, I don't cry.

24. Does 27 have a song that makes you happy?
The Pipettes: all the songs.

25. Does 23 have a song that makes you smile?
Beach House: no, except when "Gila" happens to play
Peggy Lee: "Doodlin' Song"
MGMT: not really

26. What's the last song you've listened to from 28?
The Pipettes: "Really That Bad"
She & Him: "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?"

27. Is there a song by 32 that you've listened to more than 30 times?
According to Lastfm, none, but as I also listen to CDs:
Electrelane: no
Arcade Fire: many (at least all the songs from "Funeral")
The Shins: maybe "Sleeping Lessons" and a few songs from "Chutes Too Narrow"
The Libertines: all the songs from "The Libertines"

28. What is a song from 50 that you've only listened to once?
The Coral: I don't know, probably some songs from the albums I did not listen much (like The Invisible Invasion or Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker
The National: idem with Alligator

29. Is there a song you are sick of hearing by 24?
Beach House, Peggy Lee or MGMT: maybe Future Reflections

30. What song got you into 40?
David Bowie: Starman
Scarlett Johansson: Falling Down

31. What is your favorite single by 25?
The Clash: London Calling

32. If 49 hated you, what would you do?
of Montreal: nothing, I don't have many chances to bump into them

33. What would you say if 42 or one of the members from 42 asked you out?
Sébastien Tellier: no thank you, I'm married (and I don't bearded guys).
Alela Diane: no thank you, I'm married (and I don't want to be depressed)

34. Would you care if 41 had a boyfriend/girlfriend?
David Bowie: be my guest.
Scarlett Johansson: I do care.

35. Who has the best voice in 46?
Loney Dear or Julien Doré?: maybe Julien Doré

36. Do you think 26 is/are good looking?
Daphné: she's ok

37. How many times have you listened to your favorite song by 36?
Radiohead: according to Lastfm, 5 times for Videotape but I'm sure I listened hundreds of times to "Paranoid Android" in my young days.

38. How many CDs do you own of 30?
Kate Nash: 0
Adam Green: 2

39. Is there a song from 38 that makes you mad?
La Maison Tellier and Keren Ann: no

40. Which member from 31 do you want to see go solo? If 31 is only one artist, what would you do if they joined a group?
Electrelane, The Shins, Arcade Fire and The Libertines work(ed) perfectly as groups and I don't think solo experiences would be better (proved true for The Libertines).

41. What does your favorite song from 48 remind you of?
Dominique A: Music Hall reminds me of the concert I saw last year, which was really amazing and made that I love this song.

42. Did you hate 43 at first?
Sébastien Tellier and Alela Diane: curiously, for both artists, yes.

43. Does your best friend also listen to 33?
Electrelane, The Shins, Arcade Fire and The Libertines : no

44. Do you think your parents would like 37?
Radiohead: no

45. Does 47 have a song that makes you want to dance?
Loney Dear or Julien Doré: no

46. Have you ever seen 34 in person?
Electrelane: no
The Shins: no
Arcade Fire: yes
The Libertines: partly (Pete Doherty and the bassist)

47. Do you like 44's name?
Pixies: definitely
Noah and the Whale: yes (maybe a bit pretentious)

48. Is there someone in 45 that you want to go out with?
Same as above: no

49. Do you know anyone that hates 39?
Keren Ann: several

50. Have you ever danced to a song from 35?
Grandaddy: no but only because my friends don't really like pop music

Thanks to AvalineH who gave me the idea of this Quizz: I found it funny at first and pretty annoying in the end...

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On the 5th November 2005 Sarah Blasko was the RAGE guest programmer so I’m going to list it in this journal on last.fm. Sarah Blasko is my favourite female singer, along with PJ Harvey and Beth Gibbons, but Sarah is the only one who has guest programmed RAGE. I did a journal about Nick Cave (check my older journals for that) and he’s my favourite male singer along with Bob Dylan and Tom Waits but they haven’t done RAGE either. I’m going to do a journal about when Dirty Three were RAGE guest programmers, which is my favourite band. The Drones and Portishead are other favourite bands but once again neither have guest programmed RAGE. If some how I’ve missed these bands and they have done RAGE please let me know.

I’m going to link all the songs Sarah Blasko picked that night for easy to find. Maybe you should look the videos up on youtube if you wanted to see them because RAGE is a TV show if you don’t know. If you live overseas or on another planet, RAGE is an Aussie late night TV show that bands or artists pick their favourite songs and show video clips for the songs. They talk about some but don’t really say any thing more than “I love this song” type of thing. I do have Sarah’s night on video tape if I can find it and plug in the video player, see what she has to say. I do remember she invited someone from her band in to talk about his favourite band which I think is the R.E.M. song but that is from memory.

Anyway here is the list below -
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights
Interpol - Evil
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
The Sleepy Jackson - Sunkids
Wilco - Shot in the Arm
Cat Power - He War
PJ Harvey - A Place Called Home
Kelis - Caught Out There
Missy Elliott - Work It
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Babybird - Bad Old Man
Tricky - Poems
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Underground Lovers - Losin' It
The Smiths - Ask
R.E.M. - South Central Rain
Smudge - Hot Potato
Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
Badly Drawn Boy - Silent Sigh
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Breathless
Sounds Like Sunset - Each Time You Smile
Youth Group - Skeleton Jar
dEUS - Instant Street
The Muppets - Rainbow Connection
Joanna Newsom - Sprout & The Bean
Björk - Pagan Poetry
Sparklehorse - Sunshine
Heligoland - Lo Scavo
Scud Mountain Boys - Penthouse In The Woods
Dave Graney 'N' the Coral Snakes - Rock 'N' Roll Is Where I Hide
Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
INXS - Original Sin
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Sonic Youth - Sunday
Frente! - Ordinary Angels
Wheat - Don't I Hold You
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Holly Throsby - We're Good People But Why Don't We Show It?
The Shins - New Slang

Well that is it. What happens next is RAGE plays all of Sarah video clips and that night it was followed by all of Kate Bush’s video clips too. If anyone knows what Sarah is up to now please let me know. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

01 Neil Young – Sugar Mountain
02 Joni Mitchell – The Circle Game
03 Patrick Wolf – Pumpkin Soup
04 The Cure – Doing the Unstuck
05 The Telescopes – Forever Now
06 Sigur Rós – Hoppipolla
07 Holy Fuck – Lovely Allen
08 Holy Fuck – The Pulse
09 Delia Derbyshire – Happy Birthday
10 Johnny Cash – Before My Time
11 M83 – Teen Angst
12 Ride – Decay
13 The Creatures – I Was Me
14 Radiohead – A Reminder
15 Nico – These Days
16 Pulp – What Do You Say
17 Low – Heartbeat
18 The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

"You have to get it out somewere befor your mind explode. You now, it's always great to atleast write things down, so you can stop carrying around all those thoughts in your head." That's what many say. And to me that's just a big cliché. Who says that all your soon-to-be-exploding thoughts will dissappear, only by writing them down or by telling them to another? They will still be there, sticked to your mind, and they will still make you as confused as before. So what's the point? Well maybe it's as sad as this; You just want to talk och write (or whatever for that matter) about whats in yor head, because you need to get this things acknowledged, and by that you only feel good for the moment. Seems very pointless to me, but I'm shore that I will, despite this, continue to write about my mind, because thats how it goes, we love to do things that are pointless.

Mile End - Pulp

So another milestone reached, I'm not at 25k for two and a half years, which is rubbish really, but I went through a long period with no internet, so can't be helped. Anyway, as ever when I reach a landmark, I'm going to have a look at my top artists, and see how my listening habits have changed in the last 5,000 listens.

The 25k track was Pulp - Common People. which is not a bad one at all.

My Top 10 at the moment:

1) The White Stripes - Still happily atop my top artists, exactly where they were 5,000 listens ago. That was a time of great Stripes listening to, with Icky Thump just out, so naturally it has slowed down of late. Still one of my favourites, and I'm happy to have them as number one.

2) The Beatles - Climbed up from third on account of the fact that they are forever listenable. I always see them being in my top five, I just don't imagine a time where i'll go a long period without them

3) The Strokes - So the former leaders fall continues, down one place from the 20k and two down from the 10k,. The current top 3 have been my top 3 really since i joined here though, so a bot of consistancy. Maybe if they weren't so damn lazy they could reclaim top spot!

4)Bob Dylan - Up from sixth 5,000 listens ago, and indeed, my most listened to artist over that period. at the 10k he was just about in my top 20, but i've really grown to appriciate him, and now he is rightly up with my favourites.

5)Radiohead - Down one from 4th, despite In Rainbows, Radiohead are another band who I am not that surprised to see here, but another i really got into while scrobbling I think.

6)The Clash - Just down the one place as well, though I haven't really listened to them in ages. They are a band I tend to listen to endlessly and then not very much at all for ages.

7)Regina Spektor - Up one place, I love Regina. See has a great many great songs, and I've given her a bit of a rest recently, but she'll always be around my top ten I think.

8)Primal Scream - Again, not really listened to them much recently, they had loads of listens last time around, and are down a place. I do think they're a really good band, good to see an experimental type of band. Not overwhelmed with thier new stuff yet though.

9) The Lemonheads have dived into my top 10. One of those bands camped between 15 and 20, they shot up after a phase of really enjoying them. I think they are a tremendously underrated band. Looking forward to the next album as well.

10) Beck - Just clinging onto the Top 10 from the onslaught of the Long Blondes. He is himself down one place, but he'll always be around here, I often want to put his records on.

11-20

The Long Blondes I listened to absolutely Loads in the last year and a half, so its not a surprise to se ethem in 11. They'll be in the top 10 sooner rather than later. Blur have fallen a couple of places to 12th, but i do like all thier stuff, so they aren't gonna drop too far, T. Rex are a great band to have on, so no surprise they're 13th, The Libertines have really slowed up in my listening, the messy break up has cost them really, maybe time for a rediscovery. 15th is the massively underrated Kinks, Similarly undervalued Supergrass sit in 16th, The Verve who I keep expecting to climb but never really do - maybe its the limited amount of matieral they have sre in 17th. Maybe Fourth will see them climb at last.. Nirvana I haven't listened to in ages and are continuing thier decent down my chart, The Moldy Peaches and Ryan Adams are just holding Prince out of the top 20. I'd expect the latter to be higher had I not listened to him loads when i had no internet. He'll keep climbing.

1.How did you get into 29? (Indy & Wich)
From a flatmate in Prague.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Bat For Lashes)
What's a Girl To Do?

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Scott Walker)
Quick give us your lips
Give us your thighs
Give us your sad and devouring eyes
Cascading tears for every heartbeat
Tonight we'll sleep with The Girls From the Streets

4. How did you get into 49? (The Rolling Stones)
I've been aware of them for as long as I can remember, but the first time I really 'got' them would be listening to Gimme Shelter at about 5am in a Brighton university dorm in 2000.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (The Divine Comedy)
Five. I think I was out of the country for the last two.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Fat Truckers)
Anorexic Robot

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Dave Clarke)
In Short, no. Blue On Blue is a little intense, but it wouldn't make me sad.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Serge Gainsbourg)
La Javanaise

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (The Cabin Fever)
I know you, you know me

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Soft Machine)
Slightly All the Time

11. What is the worst song by 40? (David Devant & His Spirit Wife)
I like most of what they recorded. There are a few b-sides that aren't really up to scratch, perhaps Slip It To Me # (live)

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Kevin Ayers)
Has to be Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Mr. Oizo)
I found the CD in a Levne Knihy shop for about 30p and listened to it a lot the next six months or so, but unusually there are no specific memories attached to the music.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (Selfish Cunt)
Britain Is Shit

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Can)
Bring Me Coffee or Tea produces a wry, but genuine smile.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (The Jam)
No, however all of Paul Weller's solo work makes me sad for a different reason.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (John Barry)
I expect I heard some of his James Bond stuff when I was very young indeed, but the fist time I was aware of him individually would be with the music from Midnight Cowboy

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band)
"One red bean stuck in the bottom of uh tin bowl
Hot coffee from uh krimpt up can
Me 'n my girl named Bimbo Limbo Spam" - The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Pulp)
Jarvis Cocker probably, but I'd like to put a word in for Russell Senior too.

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (Oneida)
I used to enjoy walking around Zhuhai while listening to Sheets of Easter

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Add N to (X))
Playing Fyuz in a little nightclub in Southampton.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Kraftwerk)
I'll always love Ruckzuck

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Hammock)
Before the Celebration, on a bus in Thailand.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (The Herbaliser)
Remedies, because it's the only one I know properly.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Cassetteboy)
Has to be Fly Me to New York (Featuring DJ Rubbish) for very wrong and very funny wrong funnies.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Jefferson Airplane)
Hard to say as I imagine I heard them when I was fairly young. Something like White Rabbit most likely.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (The Fall
This Nation's Saving Grace is the slightly obvious choice, but Slates is a mini-album of equal quality.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (David Bowie)
Very, very hard to say. Something like Space Oddity, Queen Bitch, Station to Station or even A New Career in a New Town

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Jacques Dutronc)
Et moi, et moi, et moi

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Denim)
Middle of the Road

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Del Shannon)
Since he died when I was 10 I never got to see him. Shame.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Gail Force 3)
WLTM still makes me laugh on what must be the 50th play.

33. How did you get into 12? (DJ Shadow)
The local Indie DJ used to play Organ Donor all the time.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (The Incredible String Band)
There are no really bad ISB tracks, 50% are great, 50% are interminable hippy strumming, and therefore merely skippable.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Gang of Four)
I heard At Home He's a Tourist in about 1998 as my stepdad had the single.

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? (Fanfare Ciocărlia)
Asfalt Tango

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Echo & the Bunnymen)
I think I remember being underwhelmed by them at the Phoenix Festival one time. I'm not really that much of a fan.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (The Beatles)
The Word is pretty much a perfect song.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Joanna Newsom)
Sprout And The Bean, on an NME compilation.

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (The Yummy Fur)
Kinky Cinema has been one of my favourite albums since it was released, and now you can download the whole thing on Last fm. So do that.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (The Mighty Boosh)
Tundra Rap

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (John Cooper Clarke)
All I've got is World of Mouth: Very Best of John Cooper Clarke, which makes me want to get his real albums.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Dizzee Rascal)
Sittin' Here

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Roots Manuva)
Listening to Ninja Tune compilations in a hostel in Dali earlier this year.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Brian Eno)
I honestly think that The Big Ship could be one of the greatest bits of music ever recorded.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (David Sedaris)
Six To Eight Black Men








47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Robert Wyatt)
Rock Bottom is just astonishing.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Manu Chao)
Manu Chao. Obviously.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (LCD Soundsystem)
Losing My Edge

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (HALCALI)
ギリギリ・サーフライダー, also known as Girigiri Surf Rider

Nearly all of them in Glasgow.

Frightened Rabbit - T in the Park - Captain's Rest - Connect - The Arches
Pavement - Barrowlands
Camera Obscura - QMU - T in the Park - ABC - Indian Summer - Mono - Connect
Belle and Sebastian - Arches - Barrowlands - Usher Hall - SECC - ABC - Botanic Gardens - Glastonbury - Royal Concert Hall - Castlemilk Community Centre
The Twilight Sad - King Tuts - ABC - Mono
Radiohead - Glasgow Green x 2 - Virgin Festival - Blackpool Empress Ballroom - Glastonbury - Aberdeen Exhibition Centre - Meadowbank Stadium
King Creosote - ABC - Arches - Mono
The White Stripes - Glastonbury - SECC - Academy x 2
David Bowie - SECC
The Velvet Underground-----
Okkervil River - Nice N Sleazy - Oran Mor
Stephen Malkmus - King Tuts - Liquid Room - QMU - Oran Mor - Connect,
Malcolm Middleton - Mono - Classic Grand
The Delgados - Royal Concert Hall
Neil Young -----
Herman Düne - Mono - King Tuts
Lou Reed - Playhouse
The Shins - Barrowlands
The Raconteurs - ABC - Academy - Corn Exchange - T in the Park
Grandaddy - QMU - T in the Park
Sons and Daughters - ABC - Connect - T in the Park - Grand Old Opry - QMU
Sebadoh - The Classic Grand
Lou Barlow - CCA - King Tuts - Nice n Sleazy x 2
Mercury Rev - Barrowlands - Connect
The Clash -----
Nick Drake -----
Idlewild - Liquid Rooms - Byblos - Indian Summer - King Tuts - Nice n Sleazy
The Decemberists -----
Emma Pollock - Stereo - The Goat - ABC - Indian Summer
Voxtrot - The Admiral
Zoey Van Goey - Barfly - King Tuts - Stereo - Brel
Neutral Milk Hotel -----
Interpol - T in the Park
The Beatles ----- (Paul McCartney - Glastonbury & Anfield)
The Strokes - Academy - T in the Park
The Mountain Goats -----
Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan - ABC x 2
Kings of Leon - Glastonbury - SECC - T in the Park
The Doors -----
Tapes 'n Tapes - Nice n Sleazy - Liquid Room - Indian Summer - Stereo
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Barrowlands - T in the Park - Indian Summer
James Yorkston and The Athletes - Classic Grand - The Goat - ABC - Arches
Primal Scream - Barrowlands - Academy - T in the Park - QMU - ABC2 - Connect - Glastonbury
Jarvis - ABC - Connect - Picture House
Scott Walker -----
Pulp - Glasgow Green
Pixies - T in the Park
The Kinks -----
Loney, Dear - Indian Summer
Cold War Kids - QMU - T in the Park