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1000: The Beatles - For No One
2000: The Beatles - Girl
3000: Amy Winehouse - Rehab
4000: Tomorrow - Auntie Mary's Dress Shop
5000: Art van Damme - Just In Time
6000: Spirogyra - Sing It Simple
7000: Tangerine Dream - Cool at the heart
8000: Joe Cocker - The Man in Me
9000: Lloyd Price - Personality
10000: Cesar Perez Portillo De La Luz - Son Al Son
11000: Vaya Con Dios - Forever Blue
12000: Александр Вертинский - Безноженька
13000: Иван Купала - Виноград
14000: Billie Holiday - It`s Easy To Remember
15000: Наталия Капустина - Из Сафо
16000: Moby - Beautiful
17000: Chinawoman - I'll Be Your Woman
18000: Kari Kuuva - Tango Pelargonia
19000: Morelenbaum2 & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Improvisação (ao Vivo)
20000: Amon Düül II - Manana
21000: Peter Gabriel - With This Love, Choir
22000: Muddy Waters - C.C. Woman
23000: Аквариум - Туман над Янцзы
24000: Adiemus - Vocalise
25000: Tic Tac Toe - Ist Der Ruf Erst Ruiniert...
26000: John Fogerty - Lookin' out my back door
27000: Андрей Макаревич - Дружба
28000: Elster Silberflug - Der betrogene Freier - Oi Ricciulina
29000: Senmuth - SamAdhAnam
30000: Robert Plant - Why
31000: The Beatles - For You Blue
32000: Vayo - Ausencia
33000: Квітка Цісик - Ой заграли музики
34000: Руслана - Ой, заграй ми, музиченьку
35000: Mónica Naranjo - Europa
36000: Souad Massi - Tell Me Why
37000: Nina Simone - Sinnerman
38000: Duke Ellington - I'm Beginning To See The Light
39000: Hipster Daddy-O And The Handgrenades - A Girl Named Mona, A Guy Named Joe
40000: Choralschola Der Wiener Hofburgkapelle - Pascha Nostrum (Communio)
41000: 綾戸智絵 - The Feeling Of Love
42000: Lee Press-On and the Nails - I Prefer a Coffin
43000: Dark Ages - Rats
44000: Аквариум - Движение в сторону весны
45000: The Ventures - Why Do You Mind
46000: 蔡琴 - 在那遥远的地方
47000: Asin - Balita

gotcha by anniversary tracks grabber

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48000: הפרויקט של עידן רייכל - רוב השעות
49000: Mariana Sadovska - Zrodylysia Terky Za Horamy
50000: Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Sandlwana (A Mountain)
51000: Diana Navarro - Letanía
52000: Carmen - Lonely House
53000: Кому Вниз - Неба зорі
54000: Кому Вниз - Микита Швачка
55000: Khadja Nin - M'barik Fall
56000: Mercedes Sosa - Deja la vida volar (con Pedro Aznar)
57000: Djivan Gasparyan - Lamentum (Feat. Avedis String Orchestra)
58000: Samite - Sala Endongo
59000: Πέγκυ Ζήνα - Εφυγες
60000: Гайдамаки - Вітер віє
61000: 蔡琴 - 青青湖畔
62000: Ніна Матвієнко - Чарівна скрипка

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gotcha by my own hands :)

My recommendations are

Adiemus Aes Dana Andreas Vollenweider Anugama Asura Balligomingo Beautiful World Bernward Koch Blue Stone Cell Celtic Spirit Chorus of Tribes Chris Spheeris Corciolli Cusco Dagda David Arkenstone Deuter Diane Arkenstone Essence Gandalf Ginkgo Garden Govi Gregorian H.U.V.A. Network Ishq Jens Gad Jon & Vangelis Kamal Lesiëm Lisa Lynne Llewellyn Magna Canta Mars Lasar Mehdi Nicholas Gunn Oliver Shanti Oliver Shanti & Friends Patrick O'Hearn Paul Schwartz Prem Joshua Ryan Farish Sleepthief Suzanne Ciani Synaesthesia Sync24 Terry Oldfield Waterbone Wise Hand Yanni

Welcome,

Another Hypelist, another five songs.
( Happy listening. )

1. Polarkreis 18 - Allein Allein
The first hit of a new German group. It's adictive, I swear.
2. Mew - Special
A special song by a special band. That's it.
3. Adiemus - Adiemus
A beauty of a song by one of the best chancels of the world. Realy.
4. The Fratellis - Whistle For The Choir
A happy song and one of my favorits of The Fratellis.
5. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Best Fleetwood Mac song around!

If you want one or more of these songs, ask me and you'll get it.

Any more questions? Ask me.
See you next week for more music and another Hypelist!
Jochen

You have to love the form-filling aspects of these things: a brilliant way to eat up time while listening!

1. How did you get into 29? (Johnny Cash)
Mum and Dad. Blame them. ^^

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Harry Gregson-Williams)
The Battle - it's part of the soundtrack to Narnia, and showed up out of the blue in my library. I quite like it.

3. How many albums by 13 do you own? (Frank Sinatra)
None, unfortunately.

4. What is your favourite song by 15? (Lenny Kravitz)
Fly Away, most definitely. :) I remember listening to this song when I was little, dreaming of having wings and soaring through the air...

5. What is your favourite song by 5? (Hans Zimmer)
That's not easy! The man has written the scores for so many films... But I'd say Honour Him, I think. It's got so much power behind it, such an amazing sense of weight and strength.

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (John Mellencamp)
Cherry Bomb! This is another song that takes me back to being a little girl.

7. What is your favourite song by 10? (Joe Purdy)
Waiting On Something Good - it was the first I heard, and I fell in love with it.

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Medwyn Goodall)
Hmmm... Finding last.fm?

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Cusco)
Oh yes: Montezuma. It's beautiful, and (noticing a pattern here?) it reminds me of a late-night slideshow with Dad and my little sister, way back when I was tiny...

10. How many times have you seen 25 live? (Georges Bizet)
This man died in 1875, a bit before my time. ^^

11. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (The Black Seeds)
Now that's hard: the Black Seeds are a Kiwi institution. Perhaps Fire?

12. What is your favourite album by 11? (Adiemus)
Ah. Adiemus II: Cantata Mundi.

13. Who is a favourite member of 1? (Runrig)
I am unsure. They're pretty good together!

14. Have you ever seen 14 live? (James Horner)
Unless you count watching The Mask of Zorro multiple times, never.

15. What is a good memory involving 27? (Magna Canta)
Introducing them to my sister. :)

16. What is your favourite song by 16? Korpiklaani
Pellonpekko: actually, it's the only one I like. xD

17. What is your favourite album by 18? (Bruce Springsteen)
Born in the USA. Always loved it.

18. What is your favourite song by 21? (Mark Knopfler)
A tie between Boom Like That & Our Shangri-La. The common thread in my Dad, who plays this repeatedly on every road trip. :)

19. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Katie Melua)
Something I didn't like! Thankfully, I now appreciate her a bit more.

20. What is your favourite album by 2? (Clint Black)
You're going to hit me, but Greatest Hits - because of my mum. It's one of the albums she puts on while doing dishes: I've heard it for years, and it's almost like a piece of home. (Note that I'm currently on my OE, and thus suffering from frequent attacks of sentimentality.)

21. What is you favourite song by 3? (Francis Cabrel)
Two-way tie between Le Reste du temps & Elle Dort, with Bonne Nouvelle & Gardien De Nuit very close behind. *grins* He'll forever be associated of the apartment near Falcognana, lavender, Rome and tomato sandwiches: Francis Cabrel is heaven.

22. What is you favourite song by 8? (Jesse Cook)
Ahh! Too hard, damnit. *frustrated look* Maybe Tempest, Baghdad Gipsy, or On Walks The Night? Anything that man touches turns to magic: it's impossible to go wrong.

23. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Eva Cassidy)
I was all set to write 'never' (seeing as I've attended almost nothing), but actually... I think once.

24. What is the worst song by 12? (David Arkenstone)
Couldn't tell you. Seeing as they're instrumental, no doubt the unremarkable ones (if there are any) just float on by.

25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (The Fray)
Something nameless on the radio, background noise at first: I only started to like these guys after spending a week in Wales, working with some of the most fantastic people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. They would all sing along to Over My Head (Cable Car) while we drove, and ever since... Well, I love it.

26. What is you favourite album by 7? (Lesiëm)
Auracle, by pure chance: I was only introduced to these guys by last.fm, and I think that's the one that's played most. :)

27. What is your favourite song by 24? (Tom Petty)
*embarrassed shrug* Ummm... On listening, Won't Back Down. Anything that makes you smile and sing along has to be a hit.

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (Sarah McLachlan)
I'd say Building A Mystery, because it connects with all the gorgeously disparate parts of human nature and reminds me how interesting each of us can be.

29. What is your favourite album by 4? (Gordon Lightfoot)
If I had to pick one singer to listen to for the rest of my life, Gordon Lightfoot would be it. He's like all the best bits of childhood to me: love, security and peace. *laughs* I could write on and on... but, in answer to the question, Waiting For You.

30. How many albums do you own by 20? (Amos Lee)
Not a one. I'd like to fix that, but for now...

Or: Why I Ever Thought Music Never Got Better Than MCR, I’ll Never Know.

Since I last wrote anything here I finished my first semester at university with four painful exams, and the marks for three of them have been posted online. I passed two, which wasn’t a massive shock, but passing the third paper was something I hadn’t set myself up for. So I’m quite happy about it (it was, nonetheless, a scraping through of a pass, but I’m still happy – no summer school for me yet).

The previous two weeks of inter-semester break have been great, relatively non-stressful. I’ve been working at the university library every day so it doesn’t feel much like a holiday other than the lack of homework. Of course, the really good part about this break is I get a chance to catch up on all the last.fm band pages I’ve been bookmarking over the semester and finally check them out. Last.fm has been so great for me in this way. I actually really want to subscribe, but I don’t have my own credit card (I’m not gonna get one either, that’s just, how do you say... “financial suicide”) and I’m not up with the play on any of those other online accounts where you have to hand over bank details and whatnot.

Seeing as I’ve migrated to last.fm from the land of the musically ignorant, you’ll probably find yourself already familiar with the artists below. But give me a break, I’m new to this, I liked MCR for chrissake (don’t even try to figure out how I justified it).
Anyhow, what I thought I’d do is, start from the night I finished exams when I first gave The Mars Volta a listen, and everything I’ve heard for the first time since then worthy of mentioning will follow in general best to worst order (ranging from +++ for very good to --- for very poor).

+++ Ladytron

Definitely the best thing I’ve heard over the last couple weeks. I love last.fm because I would never have checked them out otherwise, but I hate that I didn’t already like them before two weeks ago. So how I first heard them was (and this is the same way I “discovered” Delays) I was pretty much channel surfing and I got to C4, a NZ music channel, halfway through the Ghosts music video. Unless a band catches my attention in the first five seconds or so I keep going. Ladytron got my attention immediately (as you can imagine, Valentine by Delays would’ve had that effect on a channel surfer also). I love that despite the whole cliché of indifference as a style, this band pulls it off PERFECTLY while still being incredibly interesting. The only way I can really describe them is fucking cool. They aren’t overly revolutionary in terms of what I’m listening to seeing as they’re in that electronic dance-y area (they’re cited as electropop and electroclash, not really overly accurate descriptions to me – they’re self-described “electronica with a fist” which is much better) where you’d probably find the likes of Peaches and Goldfrapp’s Supernature or Black Cherry, but Ladytron has an edge which Goldfrapp and even Peaches lack. I think it’s the Bulgaria thing. Get this – they have two vocalists, one is from Scotland, the other is from Bulgaria. Makes for very cool, edgy, and really just sexy vocals. Some of the lyrics are in Bulgarian also. And, well, I have a thing for Eastern Europe that I’ve never been able to explain. The other thing about the content of their lyrics – they’re often rather ambiguous. Now this may sound shallow, but I’ve always liked that with pop art or postmodern art I can usually find something I like about it both before and after analysing it at any length. In other words, I’m attracted by the weird, the hyper real, and the unexplained. Ladytron elegantly hits the nail on the head in this sense. On a shallow level, the music is catchy as hell, edgy and sexy. On a deeper level their lyrics really have something to say but what that is exactly depends on personal interpretation, as dance music often does, if it even has a meaning other than “let’s dance” to begin with. All in all its the perfect accompaniment to a new adult’s wannabe lifestyle – not quite fully free from the restraints of childhood and the authority it lacks, but striving for such a freedom, an edge, a sense of individuality, something that I’m betting I won’t find in the realms of music anyway. Ladytron is not the most profound of music, but it doesn’t need to be, and, as I’ll get into soon, I’m realising that’s not always what I want music to be for me anyway. A song to try out for anyone interested is Commodore Rock.

+ The Mars Volta

In my desperation to check out some more creative and possibly abstract music I headed towards the murky waters of progressive rock, not knowing at all what to expect but figuring The Mars Volta to be an easy kick off point for a relatively ignorant newcomer such as myself, and deciding I’d go from there. While I haven’t really had the chance to check out The Mars Volta in any depth, I explored their debut album and found, much to my delight, that I had been missing something good for a long time now. Thanks again to last.fm. I’ve later been informed that De-Loused in the Comatorium is their most accessible of albums, so probably a good thing I started there.

I drew an instant comparison to Incubus. A drugged up, futuristic, pretty-much-fucked-in-the-head-in-a-good-way kind of Incubus. I think it was the similarity in sound to Brandon Boyd’s vocals that did it. Cedric Bixler Zavala just sounds like he’s inhaled helium beforehand. I also saw some small connections with some punk music I’ve heard. But of course, The Mars Volta brings an element of creativity to their sound that only a brain accommodated by really big frizzy hair could provide. I kind of figured this is what getting high would feel like translated into music. If getting drunk is anything to go by, anyway. The lyrics are again not the most explicit, but I wasn’t really focusing on the lyrics to be honest, I usually don’t to begin with anyway.

In the end, I really enjoyed the melding of genres into one that gives this band such a distinct sound. The jazz influences are also to be found within. I especially liked the suggestion of hard/heavy rock without the music fully embracing a heavy metal or hard rock feel. It seemed much more intelligent to me. As I’ll also discuss later, track length can sometimes go horribly wrong, but this band also has the epic thing down. And what’s a thirteen minute track to the trained ear anyways?

Song I recommend: Roulette Dares (The Haunt of), Drunkship of Lanterns.

+ Rilo Kiley

This band is one of the newer discoveries so I don’t have so much to say as of yet. Basically, this band allows me to indulge in my once thriving pop sympathies without having to actually endure the crap that is being put out in the pop music industry these days (Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake anyone??). Some very charming and soulful vocals from Jenny Lewis grace some rather poppy and perhaps even slightly predictable lyrics, but this is more than made up for by the seemingly folk influenced instrumentation. This music puts me in a very good mood, which is something other new music has been miserably failing at over the last week or so. The new album, Under The Blacklight, is pop at its best with that indie twinge that will save your shame for another day. I especially recommend the song Silver Lining. They may seem very typical at first, but I found that every song brings to it something that catches me off guard every time.

? of Montreal

This one I’m not sure of. Certainly at first they annoyed me to no end. But I really dug my heels in because seemingly everyone was going nuts for them and I needed to at least make an attempt. One thing I will say about this band is they are, if nothing else, very original. What I’m trying to figure out is to what extent does this affect the quality of the music being produced, that is, are they trying too hard to be unpredictable, random, or weird that their music suffers as a result? The lead singer, Kevin Barnes, is exceedingly fruity, too much for his own good, and his voice isn’t the most aesthetic. But the band as a whole did surprise me with some well developed ideas on their album Hissing Fauna, which I wasn’t expecting throughout the randomness. The Past is a Grotesque Animal is definitely the best example of this, and is definitely my favourite of Montreal song so far. But I’m predicting I’m not done with this band just yet.

- Spoon

In a word, boring. I heard only good things of this band until I actually heard their music. I refuse in this case, however, to stand in the way of personal taste.

- Sufjan Stevens

A couple of good moments but the instrumentation sounded pretty tacky to me. And I have a major issue with the promotion of religion in music, which is definitely, if not blatantly, occurring here. I have nothing against religion, but please, keep it to yourself or at least don’t push it on me. Another case where I was expecting more based on shoutbox comments.

- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

I am generally not a patient man. Insanely long track lengths which are then separated into movements - be it a nod to classical music, be it a comment on song length playing too major a role in defining a song – I quite simply couldn’t grasp the concept. A lot of their music works more in the context of “soundtrack” than actual song (The soundtrack for 28 Days Later perhaps..? lol). Now I’ve always wanted to take a look at post-rock, because Sigur Ròs are as far as I’ve gone in the past and that’s just kinda pathetic, but I have to be honest here: this to me sounded completely devoid of passion, and didn’t really seem to satisfy my idea of what I saw post rock as being. I’ll use the album F♯A♯∞ as my example. The cover art is very striking and I can’t help but think that Trent Reznor saw it before he picked his cover for Year Zero. The content of the album deals largely with end of the world/apocalyptic themes and knowing this before listening, I guess set me up with certain expectations, ultimately to be disappointed. I’d imagined the apocalypse to have some kind of central point or climax, something otherworldly about it, something larger than life. I still feel as though Sigur Ròs were much more successful at achieving this on Untitled #8 on ( ), which I’m not sure was even a song made to directly deal with apocalyptic themes. Although the album has three tracks (clocking in at 16, 29, and 18 minutes respectively by the way), allowing for a simple structure and obvious point of climax, it remains largely ambient throughout, with a couple of promising twists. I also noticed that the album was largely successful at keeping the authenticity factor high until one point on the album where the vocals are much more clear than other points, the “Where Are You Going” movement. I found this very tacky, even so much as to detract from the overall tone of the album. One fleeting moment of genius occurs on the vinyl edition where the band finds real success in their dismissal of song length as definitive in song structure – a locked groove on the disc gives the final track’s final movement an infinite running time (thus the “infinity” symbol of the album name). Finally, it’s obviously a very dark album and doesn’t exactly leave you feeling upbeat. This I was expecting, but I was also expecting a sense of satisfaction, a sense of more than a song but a musical experience. On these points Godspeed You! Black Emperor failed to deliver. I walked away feeling down on myself, unfulfilled and cranky.

-- A Silver Mt. Zion, or, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band

Firstly I have to point out something that really, no really, gets on my nerves. Bands need to stick with one name if that is the name they have become widely known by. To change your name makes you look shallow because you felt that such a change was necessary and affected your music in some way (Panic! At the Disco or Panic at the Disco, why does it matter??), and in this case silly, because their current name (unless I’m mistaken, their second renaming) is rather laughable. What’s with the extra “E” in “Thee”? The Tra-La-La band???? Seriously. You sound full of yourself. You really do sound pretentious. This band surprised me. Their shoutbox made them sound like gods. Their photos are actually really cool. I was expecting something brilliant, and, knowing their GY!BE roots, I was now prepared for something that required patience. I was happy that members of GY!BE felt the need to break away and do something that wasn’t so rigid because that was one of GY!BE’s major flaws that I picked up on. But I listened to three A Silver Mt. Zion albums and noticed the emphasis on repetition not to be matched by GY!BE. This band also placed greater emphasis on vocals, and it’s a good thing too, for those were the highlights for me. Efrim Menuck’s lone vocals are jarring and desperate and urgent, and tone-wise are perfect for this band. With more band members finding increasing vocal confidence on later albums they form somewhat of a choral sound which had real potential at times, in particular on my favourite track (really the only one I could say I “enjoyed”) – God Bless Our Dead Marines. This band is not so indulgent on track length, but the effect seems to be the same and I found myself bored. As far as I heard this band were also more depressing than GY!BE and this was only emphasized by my already formed opinions of them. Taking on a less ambient and more chamber-like sound than its parent, I saw many tracks as being thoroughly death-march in tone and style. Not exactly the most satisfying of musics. I needed some kind of closure. This band was not able to give it to me. Again, I felt depressed and very weary about the state of the world (a feeling I knew I could listen to In Rainbows to achieve but minus the whole feeling like shit part, because Radiohead can lift my spirits somewhat when they need to). Basically I reckon you need to be in exactly the right mood, and be a certain kind of person to be able to successfully tackle this band and experience what they’re really trying to communicate. This is definitely not for everyone.


So, there you have it, a summary of where I’ve been musically over the last couple of weeks. To really complete this I thought I’d include the music I’m already familiar with that has accompanied me these holidays and that helped me get through the times over the last couple weeks when I just needed music, not something to actually think about. Music I’m used to and music I’m especially used to loving:

Sonic Youth
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Dust Brothers
Death From Above 1979
Strawpeople
Adiemus

All of these artists come highly recommended from me, although I doubt you need any introducing to them.

Plus two bands I will be checking out in the near future:

Calexico
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Finally, thanks for reading; I think this has been a bit long so you really are patient. And don’t hesitate to comment if you disagree with anything I’ve said or even just to make a general statement. Cheers.

List the first 40 songs that come up on shuffle and answer the questions.

1. One Way or Another - Blondie
2. A Winter's Tale - Queen
3. She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
4. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
5. Waiting for the Day - Erasure
6. Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
7. Rough Sex - Lords of Acid
8. Tie Your Mother Down - Queen
9. Let's Go Crazy - Prince
10. Numb - Pet Shop Boys
11. Possession - Sarah McLachlan
12. Take Your Mama - Scissor Sisters
13. Cold Day in July - Dixie Chicks
14. Flamboyant (Scissor Sisters remix) - Pet Shop Boys
15. Come to My Window - Melissa Etheridge
16. Just Good Friends - Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder
17. Oh L'amour - Erasure
18. Rocket Man - Elton John
19. Something - The Beatles
20. When I Think of You - Janet Jackson
21. Never Gonna Get It - En Vogue
22. Love Song - The Cure
23. Ordinary World - Duran Duran
24. Mamma Mia - ABBA
25. The Beautiful Ones - Prince
26. Me and You - Camouflage
27. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
28. Wake Up - Alanis Morissette
29. Adiemus - Adiemus
30. I Can't Feel You - Camouflage
31. China Girl - David Bowie
32. The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
33. Your Woman - White Town
34. Erlkönig - Franz Schubert
35. Bück Dich - Rammstein
36. DARE - Gorillaz
37. Everything for Free - K's Choice
38. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
39. Like A Virgin - Madonna
40. Human - The Human League

1. Which song do you prefer, #1 or #40?
I like them both, but I like 40 more I think

2. Have you ever listened to #12 continuously on repeat?
Possibly - I know when I first got that CD I listened to the whole thing continuously

3. What album is #26 from?
Sensor

4. What do you think about the artist who did #15?
She's pretty cool, I'm not a huge fan but I like the songs I know

5. Is #19 one of your favorite songs?
I looove that song but I'm not sure if I'd count it as a favorite or not. I have like a zillion favorite songs

6. Who does #38 remind you of?
My friend Roni 'cause she got me into that song

7. Does #20 have better lyrics or music?
I've never paid close attention to the lyrics, sooo I'll say music

8. Do any of your friends like #3?
I dunno, but they should!

9. Is #33 from a movie soundtrack?
That'd be a pretty weird movie

10. Is #18 overplayed on the radio?
On some of the classic rock stations, yes

11. What does #21 remind you of?
4th grade, when En Vogue was actually popular XD

12. Which song do you prefer, #5 or #22?
Definitely 22

13. What album is #17 from?
Wonderland

14. When did you first hear #39?
I dunno, when I was 10 or 11 I guess, 'cause that's when I got into 80s music (when it actually was the 80s I just heard my parents' music)

15. When did you first hear #7?
Probably when I was 12 or 13, on this old "alternative 80s" radio show I used to listen to

16. What album is #8 from?
A Day at the Races

17. Do any of your friends like #14?
Nah prolly not. My friends do not appreciate PSB like I do

18. What color does #4 remind you of?
I dunno, black? NIN reminds me of my goth phase, haha

19. Have you ever blasted #11 on your stereo?
Not that I can recall

20. What genre is #37?
Alternative rock

21. Can you play #13 on any instrument?
If I spent some time tinkering around at the piano I could prolly work out the melody

22. What is your favorite lyric from #30?
I don't really pay attention to the lyrics to that song

23. What is your favorite lyric from #23?
"Here beside the news of holy war and holy need, ours is just a little sorrowed talk"

24. Would you recommend #24 to your friends?
Hahaha my friends all know that song. Most of them have seen Priscilla Queen of the Desert

25. Is #2 a good song to dance to?
I guess if you dance like... ballet or something

26. Do you ever hear #16 on the radio?
I'd lol hard if I ever heard that on the radio

27. Is #32 more of a nighttime or daytime song?
Day - pretty much all Motown is daytime music to me

28. Does #36 have any special meaning to you?
It brings back a few memories, but not ones I'd call "special"

29. Do any of your friends like #31?
Yeah a few of 'em do

30. Is #25 a fast or slow song?
Slow

31. Is #35 a happy or sad song?
I suppose that depends on your attitude towards buttsex

32. What is one of your favorite lyrics from #9?
"Let's look for the purple banana till they put us in the truck." Possibly the best lyric ever written about bananas

33. Is #34 better to listen to alone or with friends?
Alone - my friends do not understand German and I'd end up trying to translate it for them, and they'd be like, DUDE I DO NOT CARE

34. When did you first hear #27?
Prolly when I was in middle school

35. Name 3 other songs by the artist who did #29?
Amate Adea, Cantus Inaequalis, In Caelum Fero

36. Do you know all the words to #6?
I think so

37. Does #28 have better lyrics or music?
Lyrics

38. What album is #10 from?
Fundamental



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El chillout o música new age es un estilo que escucho de vez en cuando, me resulta interesante, y lo mismo vale "pa' un roto que pa' un descosío", quiero decir, que cabe de casi todo.
Según la wikipedia, chillout es esto
El caso es que lo que me llama la atención es lo que hay en mis discos de chillout: lo mismo cabe un remix del canon de Pachenbel, que Jean-Michel Jarre, que una canción con marimbas de la Polinesia, que la banda sonora de Gladiator... Curioso.
¿Que qué escucho de chillout? Pues por lo general hay un montón de gente rara en los discos que no los conoce ni su madre. De gente conocida me quedo con los de siempre: Enigma, Enya, Adiemus, Mike Oldfield, Morcheeba, Groove Armada o Loreena McKennitt.
Por cierto, el mejor disco de chillout que tengo lo compré en Irlanda y es súperextraño.
Ahora mismo estoy escuchando música chill en la emisora de la cosa ésta(chillout). Sólo tiene una cosa mala: lo es un tema cañero que te sube la adrenalina como al instante te pone algo soporífero..

Os preguntaréis qué es la música berska. Es, sencillamente, ese tipo de música que suena siempre monótono, todo igual y que sólo consigue levantarte dolor de cabeza en tiendas del tipo Berska, Manjo, Strafalarius o Kinkie, entre otras (no pienso hacerles publicidad, lógicamente). El caso es que esa música también la ponen en muchos bares y discotecas de moda, canciones del tipo:
Por supuesto, no es un tipo de música que me guste. Es más, gracias al único chico de nuestra clase, mis compañeras acuñaron el término "música berska" para referirse a este tipo de música, de la que nuestro compañero es un auténtico fan y que a nosotras nos aburre completamente, y más cuando nos obliga a escucharlas cuando hacemos fiesta :(