Last time 25000 plays took eight months - this time it took 19 months. Clearly, I'm listening less to music today (or at least I scrobble less) than I used to.

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (previously #1)
No change since last time.

2.PJ Harvey (#4)
There is no growing tired of PJ Harvey. If I'm not in the mood for one of her albums, I'm in the mood for one of the others.

3. The White Stripes (#2)
Still getting regular plays, mostly in the Ipod.

4. The Knife (#3)
Is there hope now for a…

It took nine months to add 25000 tracks to my charts. Last time, very little had happened, this time all the more, at least in the lower half of the top 10.

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (previously #2)
I feel I almost need to restrain myself and listen to other stuff too. So good.
2. The White Stripes (#1)
My interest has waned a little bit, but just a little bit.
3. The Knife (#3)
Two good albums isn't enough. I listen to them now and then, but I suspect that with another 25000 plays, PJ Harvey…

A few things has happened on this list since the last time (30000 tracks), even if the top looks remarkably similar.

1. The White Stripes 1,031 (previously #1)
Still on top, but levelling out just a little bit. I don't see them going anywhere.

2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 1,019 (#3)
A large catalogue compared to the Knife was enough for Nick Cave to overtake my favorite band.

3. The Knife 972 (#2)
I love the Knife, but there's not enough music to go around…

4. PJ Harvey 913 (#4)
Has been coming on strong in number of…

Deciding to go home to Borlänge for the Peace & Love festival or stay in Stockholm for Accelerator The Big One wasn't entirely easy, but I figured that even if there were a lot of good bands playing in Borlänge, most of them were Swedish and I'll get more opportunities to see them. You never know when The Gossip or Interpol decides to visit Sweden again.

As far as my expectations were concerned, the festival was heavily front loaded. Almost every band I was really interested in played on the Friday. It ended up being a good thing - I…

Boredom as fuel for creativity

Long slow day at work, and nothing to do but write. Don’t even have anything in particular to write about, other than to note that it’s a gorgeous spring afternoon, and I wish I wasn’t in a dark office when the sun shines outside.

I love making up new playlists, and I feel this season deserves its own. Problem is of course, I can’t think of a whole lot of good songs for this season. I’ll list a couple, but I think I need help…

Hello Saferide – San Francisco
The Cure – Friday I’m…

I did a similar entry after I had passed 15000 songs played, though at that time last.fm was far less exact, so I really just guessed when I had hit 15000. Hopefully I was more or less correct.

Here are my top 10 as of right now.

1. The White Stripes (previously #10)
The rocket on the list. I really didn't think anyone would pass The Knife and Nick Cave at the top of the list, but I have been listening so much to the White Stripes the last few months.
2. The Knife (#2)
Passed Nick Cave & The…

I did a compilation like this when I had listened to 5000 tracks, and now at 15000 I figure it's time again. I think my listening habits have changed, more perhaps than what is evident when comparing this list with the one I wrote in April. The changes are in the artists a bit below the top 10, where a lot of new artists appear that I had not yet discovered three months ago. Thank you, last.fm. ;)

Anyway, here goes:

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - an odd tag behaviour splits my Nick Cave songs into two…

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I've looked at my neighbours before to see what we really have in common. Another journal I read inspired me to take a look at the top three artists of my closest neighbours and see how they rate for me.

Shrike_Priest:

1. Queen - Not in my top 300
2. The Hellacopters - Not in my top 300
3. Iron Maiden - Not in my top 300

Ouch! Pretty damning. How did we end up closest neighbours??

Grimtooth:

1. The Black Keys - 19th
2. Clutch - Not in my top 300
3. Soledad Brothers - Not in…

I decided to simply sort my iTunes songs by year, and pick one from each year (and hope that the years listed are correct, because you can be damn sure I'm not going to doublecheck *that*). At the best of my ability I've tried avoiding selecting songs from compilations and "Best Of" type records, but I might have missed some.

2006: Steady As She Goes
2005: Feelgood Inc.
2004: Parliament Square
2003: You Make Me Like Charity
2002: The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane
2001: El Tango de Roxanne
2000: This is Love
1999: Real Folk Blues
1998:…

I figure I should record this as some kind of time document for the future, to see what I used to listen to the first quarter of 2006, my first time on last.fm.

Unfortunately, the backlog has been pretty bad lately, so I will do a little bit of guesswork…

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Not surprising at all, and will likely stay in that top position next time I update this as well.
2. The Hives - Not very surprising either, but could very well be overtaken by some groups in the near future. I'm thinking…