It's the 8th of September which means that it's time to write my yearly journal. It feels a bit strange to write here on last.fm - a website which I barely visit any more. This place used to be very active some years ago but it seems like I'm not the only one doesn't visit it regularly. The site appears to be less popular and slowly dying. Last.fm is becoming less relevant and is today probably mainly used to store data about listening habits. The music streaming market segment is dominated by other companies who are doing a better job…

Another year has passed since my last blog post. Time flies by quickly and it feels like I was writing my last blog post last week. I’m sitting here trying to remember what music that I have listened to, that I had not heard of last year. One of the artist that comes to mind is Orchestra Baobab which is a 70’s band from Senegal. I have no idea what they are singing about but they got a quite cool sound which is very hard to describe. It's nothing like the relaxed music by Ali Farka Touré or Toumani Diabaté…

It's Saturday, September 8th, 2012. A date that I just noticed that coincided with my join date here at last.fm and I then remembered that I always write a journal to summarize the past year's statistics.

I will this year's journal short, mainly because that I haven't been around here much the past few months. My music taste have stagnated too now when I think about it. I've been listening to artist like Roy Harper and Django Reinhardt instead of searching for new music.

I some research to refresh my mind and noticed that I've been listening to new (for…

Five years is a long time when you think about it, but it sure doesn’t feel like that long. Normally my yearly journals are a disguised way to feature and save the past year's statistics for the future. This year I’m cutting that part short and I’ll instead mainly talk about what my membership here at last.fm has meant to me musically. But first some statistics: I have scrobbled 106,190 tracks over the past five years. This is 16,137 scrobbled tracks more than last year. It’s also roughly a 1000 more than last year's numbers but that’s understandable considering that…

It's now the time of the year when I write a new journal where I go through and try to analyse what have happened (musically) in my life over the last twelve months. To go straight to the point, there haven't happened that much musically this year. There were some new bands as predicted but not only Them Crooked Vultures like my latest journal mentioned and my charts didn't stagnate as predicted either. Well, at least not if you look beyond the top 50 artists on my charts…

I travelled to Austria the same week as I wrote last year's…

I can't believe how quick time passes by. It has now been three years since I joined last.fm on a (sunny? I can't remember any more) September day soon after I had moved to my new student apartment. I remember that I had red about this place in an article in the local Metro newspaper which I by chance picked up at the train station. I thought last.fm sounded interesting and decided to join some days later. I guess I'll write this years journal about the same things as usual: To see how my listening habits have changed during the…

…when talking about my music taste that is.

Today it is two years since I joined last.fm and where these years have gone is a question that I can’t answer since it feels like it was yesterday it all happend. Almost precisely one year ago I was writing a journal similar to this where I described how my music taste had changed over the year. This journal will head in the same direction and is going to reflect my thoughts about the year that has passed.

This year I feel that my taste have changed and have become more broader…

The day that was the final destination for my account here at last.fm has arrived. The purpose when I signed up for this one year ago was to find out how much music one listens to in one year and by which artists. Looking back in time, or one year to be exact and see what taste I had then and the amount of music I listened to compared to know has been an interesting study. Here follows a review of how my taste in music has changed and what I think about the charts so far. But first a…

It took some time but I think I made it with style with Tangerine or to be more exact the version they played 1975-05-25, which is known as the last Earl's Court show.

This must be one of my favorite Led Zeppelin tunes. Luckily, Jimmy decided to record this old Yardbirds song with Led Zeppelin, Tangerine is much better than the original.