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Post your top twenty bands/artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, and your current favorite.

1. Tori Amos
First: Bells for Her
Fell in love with: Winter
Current fav: Me and a Gun

2. Ayumi Hamasaki
First: Because Of You
Fell in love with: Because Of You
Current fav: Mirrorcle World

3. Takanashi Yasuharu
First: Not sure. I heard him first while watching "Jigoku Shoujo"
Fell in love with: Jigoku Rock
Current fav: Suimen no Tsuki

4. Taniuchi Hideki
First: Same as above. The difference is, it was "Death Note".
Fell in love with: L's Theme B
Current fav: Mello 2

5. Anna Ternheim
First: Girl Laying Down
Fell in love with: Little Lies
Current fav: A French Love (Naked Version)

6. Fiona Apple
First: Extraordinary Machine
Fell in love with: Get Him Back
Current fav: Limp

7. Kenji Kawai
First: main theme
Fell in love with: main theme
Current fav: main theme

8. Emilie Autumn
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Adios amigos (Marit Bergman)

Professional Killer (KMFDM)
A bunch of f***ing commies but at least this track is good.

Polyester Bride (Liz Phair)

Cheek to Cheek (Sahara Hotnights)
"Sahara Hotnights" or "Swedish Hotchicks"?

Hypocrite (Lush)
Sale Of The Century (Sleeper)
Connection (Elastica)
Britpop was good once

Chinese Burn (Curve)
Toni Halliday... enough said.

Heresy (Nine Inch Nails)

Access (DJ Misjah and DJ Tim)
The best of NRG

Injected With a Poison
Praga Khan
Are you listening to me?

Bug Powder Dust
Bomb The Bass

Girl Laying Down
Anna Ternheim

No Good (Start The Dance)
The Prodigy
Before they went all slow the Prodigy was a good simple rave outfit.

Are You All Ready?
Tony De Vit
The king of NRG. Saw him live in NZ.

Binary Finary 1998 (Matt Darey remix)
Paul van Dyk
One the best trance tracks ever.

Higher State of Consciousness
Josh Wink

There's a local culture festival where they have exhibitions, theatre performances and concerts. And every Saturday for four weeks, there are concerts by alternative artists in a small club, especially opened for this festival.

And yesterday Swedish artists Anna Ternheim and The Tiny played a concert in this club. The latter opened the evening and performed some nice, quirky folk songs from their current album – singer Ellekari on piano and tambourine and her two band members alternately on bass, cello and mini-organ. She also talked a little to the audience, introducing a song which she wrote for her mother „who was a hippie“. „Well, look at me“, she added, joking: „no, I am really posh“. ;) After their encore, Anna Ternheim came on stage, dressed in black pants which were too short, with braces/suspenders, black boots, a white shirt with rolled-up sleeves and shell-rimmed glasses. ;) She opened with „Better be“, followed by songs like „I Say No“…

Nicked from Grobanites. :) Template for your top 20 artists:

First song you heard:
Favourite song:
Favourite album:
Accuracy:

I'm skipping the 'favourite album' bit, because I don't sort artists albums separately - I listen to "all or nothing".

1. Vanessa Carlton
First song I heard: A Thousand Miles
Favourite song: Paradise
Accuracy: Totally accurate. I'm practically obsessed, which may or may not be healthy. But she's got a beautiful voice, wonderful musical skills in general - and coupled with lyrics that sometimes are so spot-on that you wonder how she accessed your head, you've got an instant winner. :D

2. Keane
First song I heard: Everybody's Changing
Favourite song: Nothing In My Way
Accuracy: 100% - they've just totally hit home with me - lyrically, musically and... everythingally. Hehe. Under The Iron Sea was not the disappointment I was afraid it was going to be - and they were definitely due a new release by then.

3. Jack Johnson
First song I heard: Better Together
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Todays selection:

Take This Life (3rd day)
Insistor
Planet Caravan
Thomeegrand
Little Birds
Oh Bondage Up Yours!
Modern Love
Girl Laying Down

I had totally forgotten how good UCP's cover of Planet Caravan is, very fitting to how sleepy I was at the bus at 6 o'clock this morning... Other than that, In Flames keeps their spot on the playlist. For every day I am becoming more convinced that Come Clarity is one of the true classic albums from 2006.