• False Charts

    2007年 7月 5日, 14:31 作者:indigo_jones

    My charts this week -- and future weeks if I can't get some program to work -- are not going to really reflect my listening habits. I use my iPods a lot, but I've been having trouble with the Yamipod program more and more over the recent weeks, and for the past few days, I've had almost no luck with the program at all. My nano hasn't worked at all with it for a month or more, and now I can't get the program to work with my video iPod. I try to force Yamipod to send the tracks, but I can't even get that screen to show up; the program stops responding. In the past, if I shut it down and then tried a bit later, the tracks would send on their own when I started Yamipod up again, but that's no longer working either.

    I tried to install iScrobbler once, but I didn't understand what I had to do to get it to work. I was also a bit confused about which program could or could not be running at the time.

    Recently, I saw with the recent Last. …
  • Odd Time Signatures

    2007年 4月 6日, 8:28 作者:indigo_jones

    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?
  • The Jazz Firefly

    2007年 2月 16日, 5:10 作者:indigo_jones

    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.
  • Top 100 artists - geographically

    2006年 9月 4日, 5:08 作者:jesstherese

    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
  • 5000 Songs

    2006年 8月 25日, 13:29 作者:indigo_jones

    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.
  • Mainstream Percentage

    2006年 7月 29日, 19:25 作者:indigo_jones

    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%)

  • A meme...stolen from Jessie

    2006年 7月 27日, 3:40 作者:aerice

    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)
  • Top 15 Thingy

    2006年 7月 19日, 21:53 作者:indigo_jones

    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
  • 51 Ways to Procrastinate

    2006年 7月 17日, 14:31 作者:indigo_jones

    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
  • Age Appropriate

    2006年 3月 3日, 21:56 作者:indigo_jones

    Woot! I've moved to the top of the list of top Age Pryor fans! Not that it's been hard. I can't resist listening to City Chorus at least a few times a day. Imagine if they tracked the Tess and Adrian stuff, as well as the Fly My Pretties songs as Age listings.