Okay. I'm beginning to see this stupid 'mainstreamness' formula around last.fm. So, since I pride myself on listening to quite a lot of artists a lot of people don't listen to, let's see.

Step One
Find the number of listeners for each of your Top 10 Artists. Take the sum of listeners for all 10 of them, divide the sum by 10 and obtain the average.

Sarah Brightman - 19,259
Vanessa-Mae - 14,512
Tori Amos - 90,217
Delerium - 43,541
Secret Garden - 5,722
Franz Ferdinand - 185,434 (HA! AN ANOMALY!)
Enya - 80,253
Bond - 7,368
Itzhak Perlman -…

I finally picked up a recording of Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa (with Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony). I think it's going to be my favourite modern-classical composition for a long time. I really love the texture and the colour of the work - as well as the whole idea.

Which reminds me. I finally know what the hell 'tintinnabuli' refers to. Now that certainly explains Adiemus.

Other Classical recommendations for the time include Valery Gergiev's interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor (with the Winer Philharmoniker) and Lorin Maazel conducting Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (with…

Well, this was somewhat overdue, wasn't it? 5000 plays. Yep. And it's now counting at around 5300 or so. Anyway. I've modified a meme I stole somewhere. Yep.

Post your top ten bands/artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, and your current favorite.

1. Sarah Brightman
First Song Heard: I believe it was 'Music of the Night' from The Phantom of the Opera. The original cast recording, I think.
I Fell In Love: 'Hijo de La Luna'. I thought (and I still think) it was the best cover of the…

I should really, really stop using last.fm as a source of dumping all my music memes. Anyway. All the following are in no order of importance.

Ten bands/artists you couldn't live without:
Vanessa-Mae
Sarah Brightman
Franz Ferdinand
Itzhak Perlman
Tori Amos
Enya
Poe
Delerium
Secret Garden
Loreena McKennitt

Nine albums that are important to you:
Eden
Scarlet's Walk
Haunted
Once in a Red Moon
Conjure One
Choreography
Franz Ferdinand
Play
From the Choirgirl Hotel

Eight movies you'd watch over and over:
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Life as a…

Go to the music player of your choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud and press play. Use the song titles as your answers.

Well.

iTunes, how does the world see me?
Song: Wet Blanket
Comments: Oh. Crap. I figured there was a reason people liked to kick me.

iTunes, will I have a happy life?
Song: Rag Doll
Comments: Apparently not, then. I get cheated.

iTunes, what do my friends really think of me?
Song: Enter Lord Vader
Comments: That when I hug them I'm really trying to get a feel of how much strength…

Put your media player on random and select a lyric from each of the first 30 songs that come up, then allow everyone to guess the song and cross a song off your list once it has been guessed correctly. (Using a search engine is CHEATING!)

So, here we go.

1. Choose the highest bidder was my answer when they told me I was up for sale…
2. All that summer we travelled the world never leaving his own back garden… Snow Cherries From France
3. Until I went crazy and I killed her with a knife…
4. Please, I…

I've just acquired a couple of recordings by Itzhak Perlman. I think it's already more or less established out there that he isn't the perfect violinist - which is exactly why his playing sounds very human. I mean, he doesn't play Bach partitas at triple speed simply because he can do it. His tone is really beautiful and I think the best thing about his playing is that you can really appreciate the violin from it. Yep. Anyway.

I want the soundtrack to Memoirs of a Geisha.

I've been waiting for neighbours since forever. Okay. I didn't notice that I had neighbours until I started staring at my page.

And then I realised that I had 3 pages of them. *sighs* Murphy, you never fail us.

Okay. A few things that happened to my taste in music this year. Wait. Change that.

A lot of things happen to my taste in music this year. I think they're quite serious, but whatever. For a start, I stopped listening to a lot of the New Age artists I used to like. Or rather, I don't listen to them as much nowadays. For example, I don't listen to Loreena McKennitt as much. Not because I don't like her anymore. Believe me, I still love her music. Problem is, I know every single song she has released and well, the…

I did this once on my LJ. Now I'm doing this again because… ha. You'd be surprised how much your listening stats can change in a few days.

Anything I strongly recommend will be in italics.

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrasing it is.

How many songs?
319, or 1 day of music. You see, most of my songs average at around 6 minutes… So there.

No, I don't have a habit of collecting music either. And I've just reformatted my computer, so this figure is biased.…