Old Flame - Kimbra
In a very odd turn of events, three Kimbra songs in the top 5? :P

This lady is a massive influence on my current musicianship. Her tenacity and stage persona mixed with her unique musical styles speak deeply to me, more so than a lot of the artists I listen to nowadays. Whether its seeing her in an alley with an acoustic guitar or live on stage with a freakin' gospel choir, she consistently impresses me with her vocal talent and songwriting skills. Can't wait for new material!

Someone's been sleeping downstairs…

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Mary Without Sound - Motion City Soundtrack
One of the tracks from this album that really cemented this band as one of my favourite of all time. The rawness of Justin's vocals along with the great guitars and drums really put me onto this one.
I just love the opening stanza as well
"Mary go round
I'd like to see you when the summer sun sets down
Straight from the pages into memories that hang around
I can't believe that there is nowhere you can go
and not be found without sound"

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Distraction - Angels & Airwaves
I…

Who's the Boss? by Farewell Continental

Bought my first ever vinyl when I heard whispers of Justin Pierre from Motion City Soundtrack was starting a side-project. I had no idea what to expect, no idea what the music would even be like but I knew pretty much anything he touched I would love. Took me a little while to get completely onto Farewell Continental but goddamn when !Hey Hey Pioneers! took a hold of me, it took a HOLD of me. This was one of my favourite albums from last year due to its energy, its eclectic musical influences and…

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Bandages
Mmm, so tasty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja_Hkk9j2nM#

That video is great.
So Hey Rosetta! supported City & Colour at their show at the Astor and I had no idea who they were. Needless to say they blew my mind hole with their amazing lyrics, song structures, swelling strings and general instrumental amazingness.
I have nothing but love for this band, and this album is one of my favourite album-albums of all time.
And this is Chris' favourite!

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Gladiator by Big Scary

Such a sweet sweet Australian band, one that's made a huge impact on my songwriting and influences in the last year or so that I've been listening to them. Saw them live at Southbound and was absolutely blown away by how tight they were as a garage-rock-y two piece (Tuesday is Rent Day) and then their vulnerability and general awesome Autumn.

Cut to seeing them live twice in two days at The Bird and then Norfolk Basement in Fremantle, meeting them and just saying Hi was really great. Huge influence on me…

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Led to the Sea - Jenny Owen Youngs
I first started listening to JOY through the recommendation of my favourite band of all time, Motion City Soundtrack. They had toured with her in the past and I'd only heard glowing reviews as well as listening to her amazing Fuck Was I but had put off getting an album until they tweeted that she had just released a brand-spankin' new one An Unwavering Band of Light. This album is so freakin' good, and easily climbed to one of my favourites of the year so far. This song's not…

I'm quite excited by this one, decided to do something a little special..

A playlist of my top10 albums of all time, combined with a playlist of my top10 albums of the year, in a competition to see who will take the coveted 100,000 mark of my last.fm history.

The albums for posterity:
ALLTIME
1. Commit This To Memory
2.The Con
3. I Am The Movie
4. Like Blood Like Honey
5. We Don't Need to Whisper
6. Everything in Transit
7. So Jealous
8. Even if it Kills Me
9. Minutes to Midnight
10. Manipulator

LAST12MONTHS
1. ¡Hey,…

It's December 25th, and it's never felt less like Christmas!

I've been listening to a bunch of Farewell Continental recently, their album was an insanely slow growth on me after a relatively disappointing EP #2. The album's now one of my favourites of the year. I'll do a little blog about my favourite 2011 albums soon though, there have been some doozies.

90,000 came up on a shuffle, it was

She's So Hard by The Jezabels.

I saw them recently, supported by Hey Rosetta! and goddamn, that was a great show. Met most of Hey Rosetta before the…

My 83000th track was Parson Brown by Hey Rosetta!. Listened to it the morning of Thursday April 14th, just saw them support City and Colour on Monday, it was a pretty amazing concert. Now I'm at Uni beginning my 1500 word Romeo & Juliet essay :(

My 80,000th track was
Violent Dream by The Jezabels.
Great song on a great EP, I really have to get at least one more of theirs before seeing them at Southbound. I'm quite looking forward to that.
Anyways I was sitting on my laptop playing Plants vs. Zombies when I scrobbled this, feeling a tad ill after drinks at Meg's last night. But good times, pictionary man.