Let the year end best-of lists begin!

These are in no particular order. They're all really really good.

Radiohead - House of Cards


Jay-Z - Wonderwall/99 Problems


Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul


Elbow - The Bones of You


The New Pornographers - Mutiny, I Promise You


Amanda Palmer - Oasis


Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal


Marnie Stern - Transformer


Nine Inch Nails - 1,000,000 (Live Rehearsal Video)


Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma


M83 - Kim and Jesse


The Mars Volta - Wax Simulacra


She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?


Björk - Wanderlust


Weezer - Pork and Beans

50 questions about top 50 bands, here we go.

1. How did you get into 29? Martina Topley-Bird

funnily enough, Sandpaper Kisses was in the game Fahrenheit, and that is where I heard it first. Went rather fast from there!

2. What was the first song ever you heard about 22? AFI

It would have to be The Boy Who Destroyed The World, on the THPS3 soundtrack.

3. What's your favourite lyric by 33? Carla Bruni

"On me dit que le temps qui glisse est un salaud,
Et que de nos chagrins il s'en fait des manteaux." - Quelqu'un m'a dit

4. What is your favourite album by 49? Jack Johnson

Hands down, In Between Dreams.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Bonobo

Not a one, surprise surprise...

6. What is your favourite song by 50? Weezer

Huh... Only in Dreams I think.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Kazik

I guess I could find a few. notably, Gdybym wiedział to co wiem.

8. What is your favorite album by 15? Red Hot Chili Peppers

That would be Californication. I know, I know. I guess i'm not that great a fan.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Days of the New

Well, from this summer onwards, Die Born. Maksym, mon, thanks for the memories! xD

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?Foo Fighters

Dave Grohl attempting Stairway to Heaven always brings forth a chuckle.

11. What is your favorite album by 40? The Doors

Um. 'The Very Best Of'...

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Arctic Monkeys

I won't be original, but I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Nouvelle Vague

Finally, an easy one! xD that night on the veranda stairs of a certain house in the suburbs... hey oh, Toyger! ;*

14. What is your favorite song by 38? 菅野よう子

Woop! Rouya. That guitar makes me weep softly inside - that I can't play it...

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Gotan Project

Mi Confesion comes quite close. also, Paris, Texas.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? Nine Inch Nails

Not a time. which is a shame, coz I love With Teeth. But I'm pretty sure i couldn't take the songs from the other albums, so maybe it's for the best...

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? Richard Bona

Something off Munia (The Tale).

18. What is your favorite album by 11? Bloc Party

Silent Alarm, no two minds about it. First and, as of the time of writing, still the best.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? Modest Mouse

Hahah! I have no clue. xD I like the singer though, whatever his name might be...

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Tori Amos

Oh man, I wish...

21. What is a good memory involving 27?Medeski, Martin and Wood

Any time, basically, when i listened to End of the World Party on repeat for hours on end. xD

22. What is your favorite song by 16? The Seatbelts

Hmmm... either the opening theme of Cowboy Bebop, or the ending one. ;p in other words, Tank! or Real Folk Blues.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Nick Cave

That'd be People Ain't No Good, on the Shrek 2 soundtrack, I think.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Greg Edmondson

The stuff he made for Firefly is awesome. Dunno about the rest...

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Kult

I can never remember what they recorded as Kult and what Kazik sang solo, so I'll just skip this. He's basically awesome all over. ;p

So I felt the need to update this. yeah!

Be negative about your Top 20.

1. Say Anything
OMFG perverts. And phone sex with a minor? You're fucking 24, Bemis.. grow up.

2. Death Cab for Cutie
Fucking 7 minute long intros?

3. Ben Folds
OK so I get the whole nerd!piano!rock but can't you branch out?
(jk ilubb and i can't wait to see you in concert again)

4.Julia Nunes
START UPDATING WITH NEW SONGS EVERY GODDAMNED DAY

5.The Beatles
Stop being so fucking dead. I expect a new single by next week.

6. Weezer
Why is only one member famous?

7. Motion City Soundtrack
Cut your hair, hippies! And I expect a full album of songs like Antonia by the end of 2009. Get on it, you slackers

8. Muse
You LET SMEYER USE YOUR SONGS? Now all the fucking Twihards on campus blast this.. ruining good music.

9.Jason Mraz
What the fuck? Go back to your roots. You've become so lame.

10. The Hush Sound
I stopped listening to y'all when I found out someone I am not a fan of totally fucking loves you.. sorry, it's just a bad association.

11.Sherwood
Maybe mix it up on the vocals? and write songs about different things..?

12. Sondre Lerche
OK So maybe I haven't been listening to my bff sondre in a while.. but it's easy to get sick of acoustic music, no matter how beautiful the voice.

13. The Academy Is...
Urgh. I feel like I can't see you live because your fans are annoying 12 year olds.

14.The Mighty Boosh
R1 DVDS? US Touring? MAKE IT HAPPEN

15.Foo Fighters
Um. Stop being sold out everywhere.. and why did my brother get to see you when I didn't?

16. Vampire Weekend

You don't have to be super trendy hipster trash all of the time. And Blake's Got A New Face sucks balls.

17.The Bird and the Bee
Annoying vocals.. I can only listen for 1/2 a song, if that. And bad associations with overplay at Victoria's Secret.

18. Incubus
Can we get a new album/tour anytime soon?

19.Brad Neely
HOW HAVE I LISTENED TO YOU 123 TIMES IN THE LAST WEEK? I LOVE THIS.

20. Cartel
So.. I only liked your first album.. that's a bit shitty. Even though I loved every song on the first album (Chroma), that doesn't excuse you for the second album (Cartel)'s mediocrity

Lowbacca's top albums
1. Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun (130) 2. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (69) 3. The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues (63) 4. Elvis Presley - 30 #1 Hits (58) 5. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (54) 6. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (50) 7. Elliott Smith - New Moon (49) 8. Songdog - A wretched sinner's song (49) 9. Bright Eyes - A Christmas Album (47) 10. I Am Kloot - I Am Kloot (45) 11. Cat Stevens - The Very Best of Cat Stevens (45) 12. Matthew Barber - Ghost Notes (44) 13. Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue & Bambu - 2 CD Deluxe Legacy Edition (44) 14. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (44) 15. She & Him - Volume One (44) 16. John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (44) 17. Javier Navarrete - Pan's Labyrinth (43) 18. Nada Surf - Let Go (43) 19. Sea Wolf - Leaves In The River (43) 20. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (41) 21. John Lennon - Anthology (41) 22. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (40) 23. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (40) 24. Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson & Sigur Rós - Angels of the Universe (40) 25. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (38) 26. Big Japan - Untitled (36) 27. Rufus Wainwright - Poses (35) 28. Niels Frevert - Du kannst mich an der Ecke rauslassen (35) 29. Friska Viljor - Tour De Hearts (33) 30. Sambassadeur - Sambassadeur (33) 31. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (33) 32. The Beatles - Rubber Soul (33) 33. The Beatles - Live at the BBC (32) 34. The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle (Bonus Tracks) (31) 35. Brian Wilson - What I Really Want for Christmas (31) 36. Nada Surf - The Weight Is a Gift (30) 37. Gisbert zu Knyphausen - Gisbert zu Knyphausen (30) 38. Damien Rice - 9 (28) 39. The Beach Boys - [album artist=The Beach Boys]Pet Sounds [Mono + Stereo][/album] (28) 40. Paul McCartney - Back In The Usa Live 2002 (CD1 (28) 41. Johnny Burnette - 25 Greatest Hits (28) 42. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (28) 43. Dennis Wilson - [album artist=Dennis Wilson]Pacific Ocean Blue [Legacy Edition] Disc 2[/album] (27) 44. Sigur Rós - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (27) 45. Weezer - Weezer (Blue) (27) 46. Weinland - La Lamentor (27) 47. The Beatles - Anthology 1 (disc 1) (26) 48. Sugarplum Fairy - First Round, First Minute (26) 49. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens (26) 50. Keane - Under the Iron Sea (25)

Personal (loved / unloved) tracks of top artists

I.
Weezer

1. You Gave Your Love to Me Softly
2. I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams
3. Susanne
4. Across the Sea
v. Only in Dreams

1. We Are All on Drugs
2. Beverly Hills
3. Everybody Get Dangerous
4. Freak Me Out
v. Slave

Type your top 20 artists and their total listeners.

Muse 1,317,490
Ben Folds 429,623
R.E.M. 1,112,027
Tilly and the Wall 190,103
Silverstein 204,209
AFI 586,759
The Magnetic Fields 310,331
Ben Kweller 315,881
Say Hi to Your Mom 74,489
Saves the Day 259,415
The Shins 915,226
The Beatles 1,551,132
Queens of the Stone Age 850,375
Cake 622,374
The Moldy Peaches 222,028
Radiohead 1,708,827
Weezer 1,118,486
Nirvana 1,404,657
The Flaming Lips 721,146
MGMT 400,096


Total: 14,314,674
Divide by 20: 715,733.7
Divide by number of Radiohead (1,708,827) Listeners: 0.418845

Multiply by 100 and round, if neccessary.
42% Mainstream

i love these things. i meant to go to bauhaus and drink a million cups of coffee and do a fuckload of homework, but i'm still at my apartment. whatevz.

List your Top 25 on Last.FM

1: Modest Mouse
2: JFA
3: Sex Vid
4: The Pogues
5: Neil Young
6: Paul Baribeau
7: Creedence Clearwater Revival
8: Jellyroll Rockheads
9: Minutemen
10: Pinback
11: Black Lips
12: Dillinger Four
13: Rambo
14: Gogol Bordello
15: Sleep
16: Idol Punch
17: The Microphones
18: Dean Dirg
19: Lack of Interest
20: Pink Floyd
21: Built to Spill
22: Against Me!
23: Weezer
24: Mischief Brew
25: Sexy


Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
"ten things"

What is your favorite album by 2?
we know you suck is the only one i have, it's a best of collection. but hell, it's SWEET

What is your favorite lyric that 1 has sung?
i'm so bad with lyrics, even though modest mouse has amazing ones. RIGHT WING LEFT WING CHICKEN WING.

How many times have you seen 11 live?
NEVER. i definitely will the next time they run through town, though.

What is your favorite song by 7
run through the jungle or i put a spell on you

What is a good memory you have involving 20?
the whole album meddle makes me think of high school.

Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad?
it's fucking sex vid, they makes me either pissed off or pumped up

What is your favorite lyric that 14 has sung?
CAN'T THINK OF ANY.

What is your favorite song by 19?
maaaan i don't know

How did you get in to 22?
i borrowed 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1 from clay.

What was the first song you heard by 21?
randy described eternity.

What is your favorite song by 4?
fairytale of new york, sally maclennane, if i fall from the grace of god... it's too hard to choose one.

How many time have you seen 10 live?
nawh. i probably wouldn't, either.

What is a good memory you have involving 13?
none, really. i'm like the only person i know that listens to RAMBO.

Is there a song by 23 that makes you sad?
naaaah

What is your favorite album of 15?
holy mountain!!

What is your favorite lyric that 9 has sung?
i hate these lyric questions

What is your favorite song by 8?
no skate no thrash

What is your favorite song by 16?
hakone riot

How many times have you seen 5 live?
NEVER AAAAAH I WANNA SEE NEIL YOUNG.

What is your favorite album by 12?
midwestern songs of the americas

What is a good memory you have involving 25?
getting super stoked upon ever listen of every track of por vida

What was the first song you heard by 18?
i don't know. i saw a live video of them when they played in kavala, greece. dylan's friend's band opened for them.

What is your favorite song by 17?
i felt your shape

What is your favorite album by 24?
bellingham and philadelphia is really growing on me

This is my top 20 singles of the year. To qualify a single must have been released in the UK in 2008.

20. Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

19. Coldplay - Violet Hill

18. Anti-Flag - The Bright Lights Of America

17. Oasis - The Shock of the Lightning

16. Snow Patrol - Take Back the City

15. We Are Scientists - After Hours

14. Primal Scream - Can't Go Back

13. The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution

12. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

11. MGMT - Time to Pretend

10. Coldplay - Viva la Vida

9. Biffy Clyro - Mountains

8. The Subways - Alright

7. Elbow - Grounds for Divorce

6. Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer

5. Jimmy Eat World - Always Be

4. Nine Inch Nails - Discipline

3. The Killers - Human

2. Foals - Cassius

1. Weezer - Pork and Beans


Albums of the year to follow.

Comments Welcome.