At the way a portuguese actress bridges the gap between France and Brazil. The actress in question also happens to be a very sensuous singer. She is MARIA De MEDEIROS, of course. You might have seen her in Pulp Fiction or Henry & June, but she's acted better than that - believe it or not.
Her first album MARIA De MEDEIROS - a little more blue is a collection of 14 covers of brazilian songs from the 60s and early 70s, some romantic, some with a marked political content. If you're into Jane Birkin (and why else would you…

Post the top twenty bands/artists on your profile, the first song you heard of their's, the song that made you fall in love, and your current favorite.

Bessie Smith
First song: Nobody In Town Can Bake A Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine (yes, I swear - of course I didn't get the innuendo at all ^^)
Song that made me love: In The House Blues
Current favourite: Frosty Morning Blues

June Tabor
First song: Aqaba (because I think it's the first from that album - it was certainly the first one that made me stop whatever else I was thinking…

Overall Top Artists
1 Joni Mitchell 237
2 Rufus Wainwright211
3 Bessie Smith192
4 Sandy Denny182
4 Elis Regina182
6 June Tabor149
7 Sarah Vaughan144
8 Nina Simone125
9 Maria Bethânia122
10 The Divine Comedy115
11 Ute Lemper103
12 The Decemberists102
13 Rita Lee100
14 Martha Wainwright96
15 The Cardigans94
15 Billie Holiday94
17 Édith Piaf84
18 Judy Collins82
19 Françoise Hardy77
20 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds61
21 Janis Joplin59
22 Feist55
23 Kate McGarrigle44
24…

70 Question Quiz

1. What are you listening to right now?

John Lee Hooker – Thinking Blues

2. What song makes you sad?

Jacques Brel - Ne Me Quittes Pas

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?

too many: unfair to pick just one out of all that pile of shit

4. Your all time favorite band?

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

5. Your newly discovered band is?

Not really a band. Joan as Police Woman

6. Best female voice?

I'd feel rotten if I couldn't pick more than one in this particular category so: Bessie…

Moving away from the influence of Serge Gainsbourg in her career - which after all he created, svengali-like - though still fiercely protective of his legacy, Jane Birkin 's latest album is her first in a long time (ever?) to be mainly in English and she has surrounded herself with some pretty impressive talent as well as picking songs that were not obvious for her to cover but turned out to be from sublime to average.
Composing new songs for her are the likes of Neil Hannon which these days pretty much *is* The Divine Comedy, Rufus Wainwright,…

Without looking at the questions below, list your top 10 favorite artists according to Last.fm

1. Joni Mitchell
2. Rufus Wainwright
3. Maria Bethânia
4. Elis Regina
5. Bessie Smith
6. The Divine Comedy
7. Ute Lemper
8. Sandy Denny
9. Rita Lee
10. Martha Wainwright

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

Q: What was the first song you ever heard by #2?
A: Yesus, that was so long ago… Maybe Beauty Mark.

Q: What is your favorite album of #6?
A: Regeneration

Q: What is your favorite Lyric of #7?
A: None of the few she's written. Of those she hasn't:…

That seems to sum me up thus far - with a lot of brazilian music and some french pop thrown in for good measure. Except I think no one can be so easily defined by anything, At any moment in life growth may happen - or we may furiously pedal back in time.

I like open-ended life stories, broad and deep of mind can't be mutually exclusive. If they do cancel each other out we may be all doomed. But I enjoy the madness of it all. Since innocence was never with us, insanity always was the next best thing…

No I don't mean techno in a musical sense though I must admit I was never into that either. I mean it's beyond being literate or not regarding these new technologies - things like writing code, or even as father would say "surfing nets seems a dreadful mess - does it never get a bit, you know, entangled?". Or things like electricity which grandfather remembers being relatively new in his village, but then of course being deceased I can't unburden myself to him of all these feelings of techno-inadequacy. Not me deceased, right? Me just creeping insane. Creepy insane according…

Se calhar foi recompensa por ter chegado aí, minhas charts estão de volta!!!

Weekly Top Artists (a very mixed bunch in just 2 days):

1 Françoise Hardy 31
2 The Divine Comedy 27
3 Joni Mitchell 24
4 Bessie Smith 18
5 Elis Regina 17
6 Rita Lee 16
7 Ute Lemper 15
8 Maria Bethânia 14
9 Rufus Wainwright 12
10 Martha Wainwright 10

Weekly Top Tracks:

1 Françoise Hardy – L' Anamour 9
2 The Divine Comedy – Mastermind 8
3 The Divine Comedy – Timestretched 7
4 Jane Birkin – Jane B 6
5 Sandy Denny –…

I'm not offering this as a pearl of wisdom but most of the glitches unglitched themselves and things seem to be on firmer ground.
Only thing still mysteriously gone - my charts. But since they had materialized out of thin air after about 18 hours of use, I think it only fair to give them the chance to vanish at 6 AM UTC.
At least now I can listen to music again. And tag! I'm the tag-freak!