Dziennik

Rank, Artist, Minutes
1. Keith Jarrett 1688
2. Marilyn Crispell 1326
3. Murcof 1157
4. Oren Ambarchi 1150
5. Hopkinson Smith 547
6. Hildur Guðnadóttir 528
7. Miles Davis 522
8. Taylor Deupree 520
9. Anders Jormin 479
10. Skúli Sverrisson 476
11. Atom™ 472
12. Moritz von Oswald Trio 429
13. Loscil 408
14. Murray Perahia 390
15. Alva Noto 376
16. Hammock 358
17. Pan•American 341
18. Stars of the Lid 338
19. Arve Henriksen 337
20. Gavin Bryars 302
21. Glenn Gould 290
22. Sufjan Stevens 287
23. Bobo Stenson Trio 285
24. Les Voix Humaines 279
25. Colleen 278
26. Tim Hecker 277
27. Jordi Savall 267
28. Arvo Pärt 259
29. Max Richter 241
30. Steve Reich 229
31. Brian Eno 228
32. Richie Beirach 221
33. Yo La Tengo 221
34. Anner Bylsma 221
35. Paul Bley 197
36. Ralph Towner 191
37. Ametsub 191
38. Ryuichi Sakamoto 189
39. Frank Bretschneider 163
40. Gustav Leonhardt 152


thanks to http://www.normalisr.com/

what i listened to at work and in the car is not counted here. i guess that Yo La Tengo would climb quite a lot, for instance. and Joan Sanmarti too!

Top 50 Artists as of January 1st, 2010:

1 The Microphones 1,407
2 Animal Collective 1,339
3 Radiohead 1,322
4 Thanksgiving 1,040
5 Neil Young 1,009
6 Mount Eerie 846
7 Do Make Say Think 812
8 Boards of Canada 746
9 Elliott Smith 743
10 The Books 711
11 The Beatles 669
12 Tom Waits 656
13 Built to Spill 634
14 Cat Stevens 628
15 Why? 553
16 Joanna Newsom 531
17 of Montreal 510
18 Aphex Twin 480
19 Pavement 448
20 Caribou 434
21 Adrian Orange & Her Band 410
22 Talk Talk 404
23 The Fun Years 402
24 Songs: Ohia 398
25 Modest Mouse 392
26 The American Analog Set 391
27 The Velvet Underground 387
28 Guided by Voices 385
29 Mississippi John Hurt 376
30 Grizzly Bear 365
30 Brian Eno 365
32 Polmo Polpo 363
32 The Olivia Tremor Control 363
34 Björk 362
35 Miles Davis 353
36 José González 345
37 Nick Drake 343
38 Frank Zappa 333
39 Tortoise 332
40 Jeremy Enigk 331
41 Silver Jews 326
41 Sunny Day Real Estate 326
43 Leonard Cohen 323
43 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 323
43 Pixies 323
46 Sonic Youth 322
47 Broken Social Scene 321
48 The Tallest Man on Earth 320
49 Wilco 317
50 Grateful Dead 315

Top 50 Artists of 2009:

1 The Fun Years 402
2 Songs: Ohia 291
3 Red House Painters 203
4 The Tallest Man on Earth 184
5 Juana Molina 178
6 Stars of the Lid 176
7 Deerhunter 175
8 Animal Collective 174
9 Mount Eerie 170
10 Sun Kil Moon 161
11 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 158
12 Beck 157
13 New Found Glory 156
14 José González 155
15 Radiohead 154
16 Jeremy Enigk 153
16 Ryan Adams 153
18 Thanksgiving 150
19 Tim Hecker 148
20 Mission of Burma 147
21 Silver Jews 145
22 Timber Timbre 144
22 Cat Stevens 144
24 Animal Hospital 134
25 Palace Music 133
26 The Replacements 132
27 Built to Spill 125
27 Weezer 125
29 Aphex Twin 123
29 Akron/Family 123
31 Magnolia Electric Co. 121
32 Mississippi John Hurt 120
33 Jon Hassell 119
34 The Microphones 115
34 A.A. Bondy 115
36 Fennesz 114
37 Spoon 109
38 Polmo Polpo 108
39 Do Make Say Think 107
40 The Get Up Kids 104
41 Colleen 102
42 Grouper 100
43 Kreng 99
43 Grizzly Bear 99
45 Erik Satie 98
46 1900 97
47 Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros 92
47 Phosphorescent 92
49 Natural Snow Buildings 89
50 Johnny Flynn 88

Well, it had to be done, and it's a handy excuse to go back and listen to all of these again. Limiting myself to one release per artist and with apologies to
Lawrence English, Sylvain Chauveau, Black Dice, Jan Jelinek, Jasper TX, The Wrens, The Unicorns and all the others I either forgot or didn't have room for, here's one way of looking at my favourite records of the decade:


1. Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds Of... (2001)
I can't think of another album in my adult life that has influenced the music I listen to more than this one, and it's fitting that it was released at the beginning of a decade that for me personally was a discovery of ambient music. Together with its successor, ...And Their Refinement Of The Decline, this is where I go when I get paralysed by the agony of choice. Like a Rothko painting, it appears from a distance to be simplistic, but when you stand and stare for a long while, it turns out to be as detailed as your own imagination. A soundtrack to thought.


Stars of the Lid - Requiem For Dying Mothers, Part 1


2. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I-IV (2003)
From bohemian New York rooftops to drab and wintry Southwick chimney pots, but the spellbinding melancholic beauty of these records transcends circumstances and back stories. Condensation on windows, graffiti furtively scratched into plastic, long necklines and grids of railings. Just some of all possible worlds that exist in these loops.


An excerpt from William Basinski - D|P 1.1


3. Joanna Newsom - Ys (2006)
With courageously poetic and challengingly inventive lyrics set to the subtlest and most absorbing arrangements, Ys took a good few listens before you could stand back far enough to see the whole picture. I love the way her voice seems to have a different sound for almost every word on some stretches of this album, and I still find myself smiling at the wonderful rhymes, assonance and alliteration of the lyrics:

But walk a little faster
And don't look backwards
Your feast is to the East which lies a little past the pasture
When the blackbirds hear tea whistling, they rise and clap
And their applause caws the kettle black
And we can't have none of that!
Move along, Bear; there, there; that's that.
Monkey & Bear


4. Machinefabriek - Marijn (2006)
This spot could have gone to one of about a dozen or so of his releases (including the fantastic Ranonkel, Dauw, Box Music with Stephen Vitiello and Drawn with Soccer Committee , such has been the prolific and consistently brilliant nature of Rutger Zuyderfeldt's output over the last 6 or 7 years, but, after over 1600 plays according to my lastfm stats, I might as well give it to the one which started it all off for me, Marijn. The most interesting experimental musician working today.


Machinefabriek - Dauw (from the album Dauw)


5. Deaf Center - Pale Ravine (2005)
Although this wasn't itself on the Miasmah label, it was made by its founder, Erik Skodvin (a.k.a Svarte Greiner) and seemed to me to be the father of a succession of fantastic albums (for example, from Elegi, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Jacaszek and Gultskra Artikler) that bore the label's trademark mixture of elegaic beauty and sinister sonic debris.


Deaf Center - White Lake


6. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (2004)
One of the most ambitious, entertaining and defiantly individual bands of the decade's finest achievement, Blueberry Boat is an out-of-control splatter-gun attack of ideas, characters and melodies.


7. Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (2007)
Clicks, pops, sparks, beats, bangs, twangs, loops, hoots, snaps, whirls, claps, crackles, hisses, rips, taps, ticks, thumps, whacks, jumps, darts, dunks, barks, blinks, zips, bumps, rumbles and ripples. Earphone heaven from a Chilean genius.




8. Burial - Untrue (2007)
Darkly beautiful, like the glint of a knife.


9. Jacaszek - Treny (2008)
Electronics, samples. live strings and haunting soprano voices curl around one another in this heartbreaking album from last year.


Jacaszek - Zal


10. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
This seems to be a divisive choice, but from where I am, a million miles away from the source and the chatter and the associations that surround the band, this completed a trio of flawless art-pop albums. It's kind of cool to hear a band who are into ideas like synthesis, harmony and family as well, a kind of.


Animal Collective - My Girls


11. David Thomas Broughton - David Thomas Broughton Vs. 7 Hertz (2007)


12. Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet (2006)


13. Junior Boys - Last Exit (2004)


14. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs (2002)


15. Autechre - Confield (2001)


16. Broadcast - Tender Buttons (2005)


17. Claro Intelecto - Neurofibro (2004)


18. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002)


19. Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia (2006)


20. Library Tapes - Feelings For Something Lost (2006)


21. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon (2002)


22. Goldmund - Corduroy Road (2005)


23. Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI:Ambleside (2008)


24. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (2004)


25. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co. (2003)


26. Charalambides - A Vintage Burden (2006)


27. Panda Bear - Person Pitch (2007)


28. Gonzales - Solo Piano (2004)


29. The Books - Thought for Food (2002)


30. Natural Snow Buildings - Dance Of The Sun And The Moon (2006)


31. Fennesz - Endless Summer (2001)


32. Gas - Pop (2000)


33. Rameses III - Basilica (2008)


34. Lucien-N-Luciano - Blind Behaviour (2004)


35. Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks (2005)


36. Akron/Family - Akron/Family (2005)


37. Menomena - Friend & Foe (2008)


38. Voices And Organs - Orphanage (2006)


39. Christopher Willits & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ocean Fire (2008)


40. Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked (2004)


41. Pan American - Quiet City (2004)


42. Oren Ambarchi - Grapes From The Estate (2004)


43. Lichens - Omns (2007)


44. Rolan Vega - Documentary (2007)


45. Four Tet - Rounds (2003)


46. Gultskra Artikler - Kasha Iz Topora (2007)


47. Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (2008)


48. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun (2000)


49. Emeralds - What Happened (2009)


50. The Notwist - Neon Golden (2002)

mandrak2000's top albums (overall)
1. Various Artists - Trésors Chansons Françaises (144) 2. Barbara - Les 50 plus belles chansons (123) 3. Fm3 - Buddha Machine (119) 4. Ансамбль В. Мещерина - EasyUSSR (99) 5. Various Artists - CVM Vol-30 (98) 6. Константин Сокольский - Старинные романсы, песни (82) 7. Various Artists - The Rough Guide To Paris Café Music (78) 8. Xavier de Maistre - Debussy (76) 9. Various Artists - Blow Up Presents Exclusive Blend 1 (75) 10. Concha Piquer - Concha Piquer Oro (74) 11. Sound Effects - V33-SFx for Movies and Videos-Vol.10 (71) 12. Hector Zazou - Sahara Blue (71) 13. Bernard Dimey - La mer a boire (64) 14. Folkswingers - Raga Rock (61) 15. Various Artists - Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word (61) 16. Jordi Savall - Christophorus Columbus - Lost Paradises (60) 17. Various Artists - Living Is Hard: West African Music in Britain, 1927-1929 (60) 18. Irène de Trébert - INTEGRALE 1938 - 1946 (60) 19. Various Artists - Authenticité - The Syliphone Years (59) 20. Yvette Guilbert - Yvette Guilbert Vol (Disc 2) (58) 21. Various Artists - Trésors Bals Et Guinguettes (57) 22. Various Artists - Blow Up Presents Exclusive Blend 3 (57) 23. Boris Vian - Boris Vian chante Boris Vian (56) 24. Veronique Gens - Stabat Mater - Pergolesi (55) 25. Warsaw Soloists, Fournier, Stefanowicz - Stabat Mater - Pergolesi. Vivaldi (54) 26. Solomon Schwartz - Jewish Twist (53) 27. Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers (53) 28. Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection (53) 29. Mehrpooya - Ghayeghran (53) 30. Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc. (disc 1) (53) 31. Khánh Ly - Hát cho quê hương Việt Nam 1 (52) 32. Messer Chups - Vamp Babes Upgrade Version (52) 33. Various Artists - Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones (52) 34. Strike Scrobbling - Free Is Free (51) 35. Various Artists - Jacques Prevert: Et Ses Interpretes (50) 36. Mahmoud Zoufonoun - Suite Rastpanjgah - Naghde Sufi (49) 37. Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research Inc. (48) 38. Bugotak - Coverlar (48) 39. Nino Nardini & Roger Roger - Jungle Obsession (47) 40. The Beatles - Abbey Road (47) 41. Various Artists - The Mash Up (46) 42. Agustín Lara - Pasión Bolero (46) 43. Various Artists - THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL (1945-1954) (46) 44. Various Artists - Music From The TV Series Curb Your Enthusiasm (46) 45. Selda - Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi (45) 46. 山下毅雄 - 「ジャイアントロボ」ミュージックファイル　《懐かしのテレビまんがＢＧＭコレクション》 (45) 47. Hugues Le Bars - Musiques pour Versailles (45) 48. Various Artists - Blow Up Presents Exclusive Blend 2 (45) 49. Roy Budd - Get Carter (45) 50. Baltimore Consort - On the Banks of Helicon: Early (44)

EFFY


1. Colleen – Your Heart is so Loud
2. The Draytones - keep loving me
3. Grizzly Bear - Knife
4. Wolf Eyes -Lake of Roaches
5. Mand Daso - Sheepdog
6. Wolf Eyes - Ancient Delay
7. Gescom - fully
8. Barrington Levy - Under Me Sensi
9. Broadcast - Hammer Without A Master
10. Wolf Eyes - Lake of Roaches
11. Skream - Angry
12. Skream - Colorful
13. Fat Segal - Subbass
14. Skream - Exclusive Mix
15. Gescom - interchangeable world
16. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
17. David Edwards - Cafe Track
18. Pete Doherty and Wolfman - This Is For Lovers
19. Skream - Exclusive Mix
20. Wolf Eyes - Black Vomit
21. Mc Craft - Dragonfly
22. Micah P Hinson - close your eyes

Colleen – Beater (El-B remix)
Brackles – Get A Job
Westernsynthetics – Low-Brow Know-How
Anansi – Margarita
The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
Animal Collective – Peace Bone
Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun
Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
British Murder Boys – Hate Is Such A Strong Word
Suckafish P Jones - Moneyrun
Deepchild – Shameless In Seattle
Monkfly – World Blues
Sub Swara – Eskmo Remix
Amanaska – Easeback
Dub Dentist – Sakura
Subway – Persuasion
Some Freak – The Light
Karoshi – Dunkler Shatten
Audiodrop – Emperor Rosko (Kriece Remix)
Donk Boys – Sharpening The Knives

Decade-end Figures
1. Britney Spears - 59.0m
2. Madonna - 49.4m
3. Björk - 48.8m
4. Avril Lavigne - 41.7m
5. Regina Spektor - 39.5m
6. Lady GaGa - 38.8m
7. Amy Winehouse - 38.5m
8. Feist - 35.6m
9. Tori Amos - 32.4m
10. Cat Power - 31.8m

Welcome to my journal. I thought it might be interesting to write up the top female artists of Last.fm, so this is fairly self-explanatory. Hope it's of use =]
(I'm updating figures where possible, but with college and stuff it's difficult)

The 25M+ Club
1. Britney Spears - 63m
2. Madonna - 53m
3. Björk/Bjork - 51m
4. Lady GaGa - 51m
5. Avril Lavigne - 44m
6. Regina Spektor - 42m
7. Amy Winehouse - 40m
8. Feist - 37m
9. Beyoncé/Beyonce - 36m
10. Rihanna - 34m
11. Tori Amos - 34m
12. Lily Allen - 33m
13. Cat Power - 33m
14. Norah Jones - 30m
15. Nelly Furtado - 27m
16. Kelly Clarkson - 27m
17. P!nk/Pink - 26m (many acts with this name)

10-25M-ers
18. Alanis Morissette - 24m
19. Christina Aguilera - 24m
20. Enya - 24m
21. PJ Harvey - 23m
22. Imogen Heap - 22m
23. 浜崎あゆみ/Ayumi Hamasaki - 20m
24. Mariah Carey - 20m
25. Kylie Minogue - 19m
26. Emilíana Torrini/Emiliana Torrini - 19m
27. M.I.A. - 19m
28. Shakira - 18m
29. Dido - 18m
30. Katy Perry - 17m
31. Alicia Keys - 17m
32. Fiona Apple 16m
33. Taylor Swift - 15m
34. Gwen Stefani - 15m
35. Kate Nash - 15m
36. 宇多田ヒカル / Utada - 14m
37. KT Tunstall - 14m
38. Miley Cyrus / Hannah Montana - 11m
39. Nina Simone - 13m
40. Róisín Murphy/Roisin Murphy - 13m
41. Sarah McLachlan - 13m
42. Sia - 12m
43. Kate Bush - 12m
44. Katie Melua - 12m
45. Bat for Lashes - 12m
46. Céline Dion/Celine Dion - 11m
47. Ani DiFranco - 10m
48. Leona Lewis - 10m
49. Billie Holiday - 10m
50. Fergie - 10m

5-10M
51. Duffy - 9.9m
52. Hilary Duff - 9.9m
53. Adele - 9.4m
54. Janis Joplin - 9.1m
55. Santigold / Santogold - 8.9m
56. Ella Fitzgerald - 8.8m
57. Aimee Mann - 8.7m
58. Ashlee Simpson - 8.7m
59. Natasha Bedingfield - 8.6m
60. Lykke Li - 8.6m
61. Colbie Caillat - 8.5m
62. Janet Jackson - 8.2m
63. Aretha Franklin - 8.1m
64. Jennifer Lopez - 7.9m
65. Emilie Autumn - 7.9m
66. BoA - 7.9m
67. Joni Mitchell - 7.7m
68. Diana Krall - 7.7m
69. Joss Stone - 7.6m
70. Sheryl Crow - 7.6m
71. Peaches - 7.3m
72. Loreena McKennitt - 7.1m
73. Corinne Bailey Rae - 6.8m
74. YUI - 6.8m
75. Jem - 6.7m
76. Ciara - 6.6m
77. Natalie Imbruglia - 6.6m
78. Mary J. Blige - 6.6m
79. Sara Bareilles - 6.5m
80. Michelle Branch - 6.5m
81. Koda Kumi/倖田來未 - 6.4m
82. Jewel - 6.4m (many artists)
83. Missy Elliott/Missy Elliot - 6.2m
84. Carrie Underwood - 6.1m
85. Vanessa Carlton - 5.8m
86. Whitney Houston - 5.7m
87. Carla Bruni - 5.6m
88. Ladyhawke - 5.5m
89. Cyndi Lauper - 5.5m
90. Sarah Brightman - 5.4m
91. Emilie Simon - 5.3m
92. Robyn 5.1m
93. Laura Marling 5.0m


<5m
94. Sinéad O'Connor - 4.9m
95. Patti Smith - 4.8m
96. Paris Hilton - 4.5m
97. Suzanne Vega - 4.5m
98. Lindsay Lohan - 4.5m
99. Anastacia - 4.5m
100. Yelle - 4.5m

**Haven't updated below this point for a while...**

101. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - 4.0m
102. Namie Amuro/安室奈美恵 - 4.0m
103. Ashley Tisdale - 4.0m
104. Shania Twain - 3.9m
105. Mandy Moore - 3.8m
106. Camille - 3.7m
107. Missy Higgins - 3.7m
108. Anna Nalick - 3.7m
109. Jordin Sparks - 3.6m
110. Eva Cassidy - 3.6m
111. Annie Lennox - 3.6m
112. Dusty Springfield - 3.5m
113. Brandy - 3.4m
114. Cher - 3.4m
115. Bebel Gilberto - 3.3m
116. Marisa Monte - 3.2m
117. Jill Scott - 3.1m
118. Macy Gray - 3.1m
119. Jessica Simpson - 3.0m
120. Tina Turner - 3.0m
121. Annie - 3.0m
122. Mylène Farmer - 2.9m
123. St. Vincent - 2.9m
124. Delta Goodrem - 2.9m
125. Cassie - 2.7m
126. Florence and The Machine (many alternatives) - 2.7m
127. Melanie C - 2.7m
128. Dolly Parton - 2.7m
129. Etta James - 2.7m
130. Brandi Carlile - 2.6m
131. Ashanti - 2.6m
132. LeAnn Rimes - 2.4m
133. Amerie - 2.4m
134. Nico (multiple artists with this name) - 2.4m
135. Demi Lovato - 2.4m
136. Sarah Vaughan - 2.4m
137. My Brightest Diamond - 2.4m
138. Vanessa Hudgens - 2.4m
139. Toni Braxton - 2.4m
140. Faith Hill - 2.3m
141. Heather Nova - 2.3m
142. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 2.3m
143. Natalie Merchant - 2.3m
144. Alizée - 2.3m
145. Miss Kittin - 2.3m
146. Joan Baez - 2.2m
147. Kelly Rowland - 2.2m
148. Little Boots - 2.2m
149. Mika Nakashima - 2.1m
150. Bonnie Tyler - 2.0m
151. Carole King - 2.0m
152. Donna Summer - 2.0m
153. Dinah Washington - 1.9m
154. Keri Hilson - 1.9m
155. Julie London - 1.8m
156. Peggy Lee - 1.8m
157. Melissa Etheridge - 1.8m
158. Kate Voegele - 1.8m
159. Diana Ross - 1.7m
160. Sezen Aksu - 1.7m
161. Pati Yang - 1.7m
162. Christina Milian - 1.7m
163. Anja Garbarek - 1.6m
164. Dar Williams - 1.6m
165. Patsy Cline - 1.6m
166. Dannii Minogue - 1.5m
167. Kim Wilde - 1.5m
168. Dolores O’Riordan - 1.5m
169. Monica - 1.5m
170. Katharine McPhee - 1.5m
171. Monica - 1.5m
172. Nicole Scherzinger - 1.5m
173. Gloria Estefan - 1.5m
174. Barbra Streisand - 1.5m
175. Bic Runga 1.5m
176. Nellie McKay 1.4m
177. Colleen - 1.4m
178. Carly Simon - 1.4m
179. Kate Havnevik - 1.4m
180. Joan Osborne - 1.3m
181. Mýa / Mya - 1.3m
182. Younha - 1.3m
183. Lhasa 1.3m
184. Chantal Kreviazuk - 1.3m
185. Lucie Silvas - 1.3m
186. Paulina Rubio - 1.3m
187. Nerina Pallot - 1.3m
188. Bonnie Raitt - 1.3m
189. Martina McBride - 1.3m
190. Sarah Blasko 1.2m
191. Jennifer Hudson - 1.2m
192. Marianne Faithfull - 1.2m
193. Stacey Kent - 1.2m
194. Shawn Colvin - 1.2m
195. Emma Bunton - 1.2m
196. Charlotte Martin - 1.2m
197. Geri Halliwell - 1.2m
198. Vanessa Paradis - 1.1m
199. Gal Costa - 1.1m
200. Rachel Stevens - 1.1m
201. Jeffree Star - 1.1m
202. Sandi Thom - 1.1m
203. Hanne Hukkelberg - 1.1m
204. Paula Cole - 1.1m
205. Dionne Warwick - 1.1m
206. Juana Molina - 1.1m
207. Şebnem Ferah - 1.1m
208. ORIGA - 1.1m
209. Tamia - 1.0m
210. Belinda - 1.0m
211. Sarah Connor - 1.0m
212. Bette Midler - 1.0m

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* I haven't included an artist with >1m plays (many are missing)
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