2009年 Oct 25日 Sunday, 9:43
Original title: "Two viruses for the price of a bacterial infection"
Second title: "Funny Nightwish pictures >>> my opinions on music"
Well, these don't take long to read :-P
I wrote most of this a couple of days ago.
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LEO_ and Sanguine_Sky and Euphoria_Nemo did this before.
Made-up questions first!
Most anticipated albums:
1. Tarja - What Lies Beneath (2010)
1. Nightwish Album VII (2011)
1. Delain - Album III (2010? 2011?)
2. The Birthday Massacre - Album IV (2010)
2. Within Temptation Album V (2010)
3. Liv Kristine - Skintight (2010)
3. Leaves' Eyes Album IV (an album of new ballads) (2010)
3. Elis - Catharsis (2009)
3. ReVamp - debut album (2010)
3. Kamelot - album… um… nine? (2010) Wow, I didn't realize they'd been around that long. O_o
3. Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was (2010)
4. Anette Olzon - solo album (2010)
4. Evanescence - Album IV (2010)
4. We Are The Fallen - debut album (2010) (I was going to vote for Carly but forgot so maybe I'll buy her band's album :-P)
5. Xandria - Album IV (2010)
6. Tristania - Album VI (2010)
Best shoutboxes:
1. Nightwish
All the other shoutboxes are pretty boring right now :(
The crowning achievement of humanity in music:
Ghost Love Score
The loveliest, most wonderful song of all time:
Shared space-time continuously Twilight Sun and The Holy Bond
Bands that get undeserved hate:
Pretty much any band that plays heavy pop music and gets lambasted for not being metal, like Lunatica and Delain, to a lesser extent Within Temptation, etc. You can't equate the worth of music with its adherence to the boundaries of a genre.
Singers who get undeserved hate:
Just about every female clean vocalist who isn't the ideal classical soprano like Vibeke or Floor. Liv: "Ethereal vocals are weak!" Tarja: "Technically flawed and therefore overrated!" Anette and Charlotte: "Pop/rock/JAZZ?!? vocals in OUR MUSIC? NEVAAAARRRR!" http://www.simglobal.net/simcity/andro/emotext/rollseyes.gif
Favoritest albumses of all times:
1. Leaves' Eyes - Njord
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9936/nightwishtarjatuomascop.jpg
2. Nightwish - End of an Era
3. Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga
3. Harry Gregson-Williams - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3. Martin Kiszko - The Ocellus Suite: Music from Alien Empire (Have loved this for ten years now! :D)
4. Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
5. Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight
5. Project 86 - Songs to Burn Your Bridges By
5. Switchfoot - Nothing is Sound (My first exposure to dark and rich music, 2005. "It'll be a day like this one when the world caves in….")
Least favoritest albums of all time:
I don't know, if I hate the music I don't listen to the entire album if I can help it. However, one of my flatmates played Vampire Weekend all the time this past spring. I HATE THAT MUSIC. Well, I kinda like some of it though.
Favoritest EP/Single of all time:
1. Andy Hunter - Life
2. Leaves' Eyes - My Destiny
3. Project 86 - The Kane Mutiny EP
Favoritest discoveries on Last.fm:
The vast majority of everything I listen to :-P From past 12 months chart:
1. Leaves' Eyes
1. Nightwish
2. Delain
2. Becoming the Archetype
2. Within Temptation
3. Theatre of Tragedy
3. The Birthday Massacre (Well, I saw that they existed on here and then tryingtofly recommended them, so….)
Least favoritest discoveries on Last.fm:
Um… Angtoria :-P
Favoritest female singers:
1. Tarja
1. Liv
2. Charlotte
2. Nell (Theatre of Tragedy)
2. Anette
2. Amulyn (Although I've only heard her on ONE SONG :-P)
2. Silje (The Gathering, Octavia Sperati)
3. Okay fine, I still like Sharon :-P
See also my 2008 journal, Top Female Vocalists and Why
Favoritest male singers:
…Who has time for male singers? <_<
Harsh:
Jason Wisdom (Becoming the Archetype)
Um… Anders Jacobsson (Draconian)
Umm…. and Morten Veland (Tristania, Sirenia)
Clean:
Marco Hietala
Roy Khan
Andrew Schwab (Project 86)
Jon Foreman (Switchfoot)
Best music videos:
1. Delain - April Rain
2. Tarja - Die Alive
3. Within Temptation - Utopia
23 Favorite Music Videos
Strangest band names:
Black Moth Super Rainbow and their amazing song titles, like Vietcaterpillar ^_^
And The Devil Wears Prada, what's up with that?
I suppose I may have once thought "The Birthday Massacre" and "Leaves' Eyes" were strange names, but not any more. :-P
Ummmm… and Morten Veland's new project, Mortemia.
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/041503/a-name-for-your-band.gif
I hope they become (more) famous:
Bloodline Severed (The band Amulyn sang with on one song. The hardest bits of Design Your Universe sound like Bloodline Severed to me. :-P)
And this guy.
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/1488/83924304.jpg
Kamelot Liv Kristine
Best pairup:
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3578/tuomasmarcelocopy.jpg
TWO
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Get your overall top 10 artists from Last.fm, and find their three tracks you've scrobbled the most. Then note where they come in that artist's tracks chart. The lower the track in the list, the weirder you are… or something to that effect.
^re-worded because that's what I do.
Leaves' Eyes
Twilight Sun is #35
The Holy Bond is #21
The Dream is #31
I've never liked the Leaves' Eyes top 15 much. At least now the top two tracks don't have ten times as many plays as anything else, that was ANNOYING. :-P I'm pretty sure they still get played a lot more than the others on Last.fm tag radio, though, just because they've been playable longer than anything else and picked up more attention in that time, leading to blah blah blah blah who really cares how Last.fm radio works any way.
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/9256/leaveseyeslef2daec84a9d.jpg
Nightwish
Nemo is #1
The Heart Asks Pleasure First is #343 this week and something like #1,020 for the past six months.
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/2519/nightwish1135224319876c.jpg
Ghost Love Score is #14
Howard Shore
The White Tree is #18
The Houses of Healing is #126 (But I'm scrobbling it as Liv Tyler - Arwen's Song :-P)
Isengard Unleashed is #56
Project 86
A Shadow on Me is #38
Lucretia My Reflection is #95 (Favoritest cover ever, by the way)
The Spy Hunter is #16
Within Temptation
Jillian (I'd Give My Heart) is #24
Memories is #3
Running Up That Hill is #33
Hans Zimmer
Red Warrior is #49
Run Free is #138 (I rented Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron because of this track :-P)
Drink Up Me Hearties is #7
Apologetix
Corinthians is #2
Smooth Grandmama is #8
Here I Go (Against All I've Known) is not on the weekly chart, #138 for the past six months
^These are, respectively, parodies of Linkin Park, Alien Ant Farm/Michael Jackson, and Whitesnake
Switchfoot
Lonely Nation is #21
We Are One Tonight is #20
Awakening is #11
Theatre of Tragedy
Storm is #10
Envision is #52
Ashes and Dreams is #33
"Forever is the World" is my favorite of their songs, it's just not up there on my chart yet. If you haven't heard it yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzxq_YAFaTM
Relient K
Forgiven is #31
Fallen Man is #159 :D
More Than Useless is #19
