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I love songs with odd time signatures. There's just something about them that appeals to me. Genesis' Apocalypse in 9/8 is a fantastic example, but I was also just listening to Age Pryor's The Condition, which also has an odd time signature, which I just realized. Explains why I like the song so much. There are so many great song examples; those are just two. What are your favorite examples of odd time signatures?

I was watching the Fat Freddy's Drop DVD tonight for the first time since I'd heard Age Pryor playing with the Octopus and the Jazz Firefly and realized that the fantastic guitarist guesting with them in Germany was none other than the Jazz Firefly himself, Justin Clarke!

I was blown away listening to Justin's guitar work when he played with Age Pryor on Radio NZ and I've become a fan of his work as a result. So far, I'm limited to the four songs he has on his MySpaz (TM e!!en) profile, but I love what I've heard and his playing with Fat Freddy's Drop was just as incredible. Definitely someone I'll be listening to more of in the future.

49 - NZ
35 - America
6 - UK
3 - Canada
2 - Austria
2 - Australia
1 - France
1 - Scotland
1 - Iceland

1Calexico - America
2The White Stripes - America
3The Phoenix Foundation - New Zealand
4The Decemberists - America
5The Dears - Canada
6Elliott Smith - America
7The Flaming Lips - America
8Faith No More - America
9The Accelerants - New Zealand
10The Arcade Fire - Canada
11Dimmer - New Zealand
12Neutral Milk Hotel - America
13Flash Harry - New Zealand
14Grandaddy - America
15The Mint Chicks - New Zealand
16Cassette - New Zealand
17SJD - New Zealand
18Cat Power - America
19Fang - New Zealand
20Bright Eyes - America
21Pavement - America
22Tapes N Tapes - America
23Fat Freddy's Drop - New Zealand
24The Raconteurs - America
25REM - America
26Ghostplane - New Zealand
27The Breeders - America
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Fate ... or something like it.

Actually, it's hardly fate that an Age Pryor song was my 5,000th song listened to here, when you consider how often I do listen to him. I hadn't listened to him as much in the past few weeks, but I started again yesterday. Perfect timing, without realizing it! My 5,000th track was [track]Eyes Rarely Meet[/track], which goes well with the Nick Drake I've been listening to in the past few days.

Go through your top 10 artists and add up the total number of listeners. Then compute the average and divide the average by the number of Radiohead fans (Radiohead is the artist with the most listeners). That is your "mainstream percentage".

My mainstream ranking is 3%, which isn't surprising, since half my top ten doesn't even have triple digits when it comes to listeners, and one only has three listeners. That said, they're all freakin' brilliant and deserve to be mainstream!

Flight Of The Conchords 1484
Age Pryor 66
Fly My Pretties 245
Tess & Adrian 3
The Phoenix Foundation 594
The Video Kid 54
Flash Harry 71
The Black Seeds 574
Module* 71
Tom Waits 84,982

Total: 88,144
Average: 8,814
Radiohead listeners: 316,082
Percentage: .027886 (3%)

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Take your top 8 neighbours, and list their top three artists, then show whereabouts those artists are on your charts.
(How randomly fun is that?)

#1 indigo_jones
1. Flight Of The Conchords (1)
2. Age Pryor (22)
3. Fly My Pretties (3)

#2 Sherry
1. James Blunt (6)
2. Flight Of The Conchords (1)
3. Keane (30)

#3 conchordgirl
1. Flight Of The Conchords (1)
2. Shakira (91)
3. Yann Tiersen (not of my list)

#4 bucjo
1. Snow Patrol (11)
2. Dishwalla (not on my list)
3. Muse (not on my list)

#5 tvongaza
1. Fly My Pretties (3)
2. Thievery Corporation (not on my list)
3. Feist (not on my list)

#6 CarlosTheTackle
1. Sarah McLachlan (not on my list, but I do listen on my stereo)
2. Howard Shore (not on my list)
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (not on my list)

#7 LucyFur
1. Bright Eyes (not on my list)
2. Pearl Jam (not on my list)
3. The Phoenix Foundation (4)

#8 scopic
1. Broken Social Scene (135)
2. Death Cab For Cutie (135)
3. Feist (not on my list)

A blatant theft, of course.

List your last.fm Top 15 Artists.
Open up iTunes and sort each artist by play count.
List your top 3 songs per artist.

Flight of the Conchords
Angels
K.I.S.S.I.N.G Parts A&B
Bus Driver's Song

Age Pryor
Eyes Rarely Meet
Curious Boy
All Is Good

Fly My Pretties
Oh Fair Moonlight
All That Can Be
King of You All

Tess and Adrian
Dixon St.
Positive Tension
Pretty Things
(tie) Singing in My Soul

The Phoenix Foundation
Let Me Die a Woman
Going Fishing
Nest Egg

The Video Kid
Crime Scene
CCTV
Let Her Go

The Black Seeds
Fire
Bring You Up
Dance Dance

Flash Harry
Come On Man
Morning Rush
Alright

Module
Better Than Something
What It Seems (Interlude)
I Neva Dared

Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
No Crying No More
It's Over

Tom Waits
In the Colosseum
Romeo Is Bleeding
Blue Valentines

Niccolo' Fabi
E' non E'
Il Negozio di Antiquariato
Vento D'Estate

Stars
Set Yourself on Fire
Ageless Beauty
Calendar Girl
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1. What are you listening to right now?
Better Now by De Phazz

2. What song makes you sad?
Kind of hard to think of right now, with a boppy little number playing in my ears.

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Most rap these days? That atrocious My Humps song?

4. Your all time favorite band?
Band or musician in general? All-time favorite individual artist is Age Pryor. Band? I don't know. I really liked Morphine.

5. Your newly discovered band is?
De Phazz

6. Best female voice?
I'm particularly fond of Poe.

7. Best male voice?
Morten Harkett, from a-ha, has a truly beautiful voice.

8. Music type you find yourself listening to most?
Too impossible to narrow down. I go by mood.

9. What do you listen to hype you up?
L'ombelico del Mondo - Jovanotti

10. What do you listen to when you want to calm down?
Rhian Sheehan

11. Last gig/concert you went to?
The Phoenix Foundation

12. Band you find yourself listening to the most right now?
Iron & Wine and Samuel Flynn Scott
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