en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/Iechium/journal The Last.fm journal for Iechium. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/Iechium/journal/2008/11/02/29771c_questions_about_your_top_50. Sun, 2 Nov 2008 12:16:14 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/Iechium/journal/2008/11/02/29771c_questions_about_your_top_50. 1. How did you get into 31 (Cole Milner)?
Through The Watery Graves of Portland. Once I got into them I went to the Marriage Records site and found a bunch of good stuff.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22 (The World On Higher Downs)?
Most likely Euclid.

3. What's your favorite lyric by 29 (Built Like Alaska)?
"I put a lot of weight in this, but your head is a cow that's been living it down. Dreaming of the country, dreaming of the open space." From Does Your Mother Feel Sick? on Autumnland.

4. What is your favourite album by 49 (Candy Bars)?
Well since they only have one album so far I guess that makes it On Cutting Ti-Gers In Half And Understanding Narravation.

5. How many albums by 13 (Yo La Tengo) do you own?
Electro Pura, I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, Summer Sun, Painful, I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One, so six.

6. What is your favorite song by 50 (Arab Strap)? Fucking Little Bastards from Monday at the Hug & Pint, it's such a heart wrenching song and the music is really powerful.

7. Is there a song by 4 (Hammock) that makes you sad?
HammockI Can Almost See You from Raising Your Voice Trying To Stop An Echo is kind of sad, but really beautiful. They're typically more hopeful sounding than sad, though.

8. What is your favorite song by 15 (Akron/Family)?
Probably Future Myth from the split with The Angels of Light, it's just such an epic song and the lyrics are really clever and psychedelic.

9. What is your favorite song by 5 (The Microphones)?
There's a lot of them, but the first that comes to mind is Great Ghosts from the Live In Japan CD. Such a haunting (no pun intended) song.

10. Is there a song by 6 (Swords) that makes you happy? New Shapes from back when they were The Swords Project comes to mind. Actually the whole Entertainment Is Over If You Want It album makes me happy. I wish they hadn't changed their name so many times though, makes scrobbling a bitch.

11. What is your favorite album by 40 (Magnet)?
On Your Side is good but at times I prefer The Tourniquet

12. What is your favorite song by 10 (Early Day Miners)?
Wheeling from Jefferson At Rest, though there's tons of favorites.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 33 (The Books)?
The fact that my friend got me into them by telling me that I had gotten him into them through bands that I recommended to him. In terms of discovering music I'd love, he did all the heavy lifting and I got all the credit.

14. What is your favorite song by 37 (Low)?
Holy God, asking someone's favorite Low song is like asking which child they would sacrifice. I guess if I had to choose one it would be Dinosaur Act from Things We Lost In the Fire, mostly because it was the first song I heard by them and to this day I adore it ever bit as much as I did the first time I heard it, if not more.

15. Is there a song by 19 (Mogwai) that makes you happy?
Mogwai wrote happy songs? I don't know man, that's a tough sell. I guess if I had to choose one that made ME happy it would be Cody, Acid Food or Travel Is Dangerous, their songs with vocals tend to relax me and make me happy to an extent I guess.

16. How many times have you seen 21 (Efterklang) live?
Never, I have no idea how I would. It doesn't even seem like they're from this planet.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23 (Six Organs of Admittance)?
The whole The Sun Awakens album was my first exposure to them.

18. What is your favorite album by 11 (A Northern Chorus)?
It's hard to gage preference with ANC albums because they're all different from one another. If anything I would say Bitter Hands Resign because it plays more to my tastes. Longer, more spacey songs.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1 (Epic45)?
Well there's only two members of Epic45 and I don't know either of them personally, so this question is kind of unanswerable.

20. Have you ever seen 14 (Stars of the Lid) live?
No, but I would love to. I've always been curious as to how SoTL play live. You would think people would need to bring pillows and blankets because by the end of the show everyone would be asleep. I don't really know that ambient music is meant to be seen live.

21. What is a good memory involving 45 (Belle and Sebastian)?
I remember one day years back listening to Tigermilk while taking apart and cleaning my stove. I don't know why that would necessarily be a good memory, but there ya go.

22. What is your favorite song by 16 (Hood)?
Hrmm. The Negatives was the first song I ever loved by them. But The Lost You had an amazing video and is a really catchy ALMOST rock song. And I also love the songs that cLOUDDEAD members appeared on, although they were mostly in the backround, like They Removed All Trace That Anything Ever Happened Here and Branches Bare.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47 (Cat Power)?
Definitely Good Woman. Still one of my favorites, though it kind of got overshadowed as I heard the rest of the You Are Free album.

24. What is your favorite album by 36 (the squarewaves)?
Jeez couldn't you ask about 35 instead? Squarewaves don't really release traditional albums, they release their music online in batches. So I don't really think there's an answer to that.

25. What is your favorite song by 18 (Bows)?
Definitely impossible to answer. If you twisted my arm I might say Cuban Welterweight Rumbles Hidden Hitmen, though.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 38 (The Unicorns)?
It's been a while but probably I Was Born A Unicorn or more likely I Don't Wanna Die.

27. What is your favorite lyric by 3 (Little Wings)?
Who could choose a favorite Little Wings lyric? Everything Kyle Field writes is amazing,

28. What is your favorite song by 2 (Do Make Say Think)?
I don't know that it's easy to have a favorite Do Make Say Think song. Their albums kind of flow together perfectly. Though I've listened to Auberge Le Mouton Noir more than anything else.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32 (múm)?
Definitely We Have a Map of the Piano from Finally We Are No One. A friend of mine sent it to me years ago and I was like "What in God's name am I listening to?". Now it's my favorite song of theirs.

30. What is your favorite song by 8 (Sigur Rós)?
Again, that's like asking favorite children. Though I could probably get away with Svefn-g-englar.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live (Rachel's)?
Never. I don't get out much. I would love to see them though, live shows with classical string arrangements are always interesting.

32. Is there a song by 44 (The Blithe Sons) that makes you happy?
The Book of Names doesn't suck.

33. What is your favorite album by 12 (Earlimart)?
Very easy question to answer. Treble & Tremble, far and above everything else they had done and have done since.

34. What is the worst song by 34 (Elliott Smith)?
I don't really know that Elliott Smith has a bad song. He's kind of hit and miss, though. Mostly his albums get you into his head space and you don't really think about the individual songs so much as the dude being good.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 46 (Jessamine)?
Say What You Can, weird fucking song. But in the best way.

36. What is your favorite album by 42 (Bedhead)?
I think every Bedhead fan has a special place in their heart for What Fun Life Was. All their stuff was good, but that album just seemed more fresh.

37. How many times have you seen 39 live (Marconi Union)?
Again with the ambient bands. Never seen them live, and similarly would have to bring blankets and pillows.

38. What is your favorite album by 9 (Health & Beauty)?
Yet another artist that only releases music online and has no "albums".

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28 (Mount Eerie)?
The whole No Flashlight album. I kept thinking, wait, I'm listening to The Microphones right? No, I guess not.

40. What is your favorite album by 7 (The Watery Graves of Portland)?
Well I heard CARACAS first, and loved it. But I do also enjoy Portland quite a bit.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/Iechium/journal/2008/06/14/20vf7d_favorite_albums Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:52:18 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/Iechium/journal/2008/06/14/20vf7d_favorite_albums Little Wings - Wonderue

Early Day Miners - Jefferson At Rest

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun

Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn

Epic45 - Against the Pull of Autumn

Mountain Goats - Tallahassee

Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun

Low - Things We Lost In the Fire

The Swords Project/The Swords - Entertainment Is Over If You Want It

The Cancer Conspiracy - The Audio Medium

Akron/Family - Akron/Family

Jeff Buckley - Grace

The Watery Graves of Portland - CARACAS

Bows - Cassidy

A Northern Chorus - Bitter Hands Resign

Earlimart - Treble & Tremble

Built Like Alaska - Autumnland

Magnet - On Your Side]]> http://www.last.fm/user/Iechium/journal/2007/11/18/8714p_best_songs_by_my_top_20. Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:29:56 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/Iechium/journal/2007/11/18/8714p_best_songs_by_my_top_20. 20. Mogwai, Acid Food, from Mr. Beast

19. Sigur Rós, Svefn-g-englar from Ágætis byrjun

18. Bedhead, Liferaft from WhatFunLifeWas

17. A Northern Chorus, Let the Parrots Speak for Themselves from Spirit Flags

16. múm, We Have a Map of the Piano from Finally We Are No One

15. The Mountain Goats, Oceanographer's Choice from Tallahassee

14. Rachel's, Last Thing's Last from
Systems/Layers

13. The Unicorns, I Was Born A Unicorn from Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

12. Elliott Smith, Between the Bars from Either/Or

11.Built Like Alaska, Ran Into a Corner from Autumnland

10. Bows, Big Wings from Blush

9. Epic45, Low Tide from Reckless Engineers

8. The Swords, MD11 from Entertainment Is Over If You Want It

7. The World On Higher Downs, Euclid from Land Patterns

6. Health & Beauty, Worthlessness from Unreleased Demos.

5. The Microphones, Great Ghosts from Live In Japan

4. Earlimart;Broke The Furniture;Treble & Tremble

3. HammockRaising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an EchoRaising Your Voice Trying To Stop An Echo

2.Little Wings;So I Finally Belong to the Night;Wonderue

1. Do Make Say Think;Goodbye Enemy Airship;Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead]]> http://www.last.fm/user/Iechium/journal/2007/11/17/870xw_be_negative_about_your_top_20 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:17:01 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/Iechium/journal/2007/11/17/870xw_be_negative_about_your_top_20 Saw this somewhere else. It's interesting, if not difficult.

20. Mogwai:
This whole refusal to be called post-rock. Look, I get it, there's lots of shitty post-rock bands out there, but it's WHAT YOU ARE. Accept it or start writing folk songs.

Best songs:
Acid Food
Cody
Sine Wave

19. Sigur Ros:
To be fair, I don't know how you say anything negative about this band. Other than maybe the fact that nothing compares to Ágætis Byrjun

Best songs:
Untitled 1
Untitled 8
Svefn-g-Englar
Olsen Olsen

18. Bedhead:
Their songs are monotonous and boring, in the best way possible. I mean, it's the kind of music that's just uniquely leveled. It's laid back music, but occasionally I just get tired of it. And The New Year isn't as good. It's just not. But WhatFunLifeWas is still amazing.

Best songs:
life raft
Bedheaded
Crushing

17. A Northern Chorus:
Occasionally they let their pop-sensibilities take control of them. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, just sometimes rubs me the wrong way. If I had my way, all of their songs would be 8 minute spacey epics like their on Bitter Hands Resign.

Best songs:
Winterize
Let the Parrots Speak for Themselves
Song & I
Subjects & Matter
Prisoners of Circumstance
Fragile Day

16. múm:
I really don't agree with this whole no more female singers thing. I know they left, but still. Bribery always works. Also, why was Summer Make Good not as good as it should have been? Try harder, damn it.

Best songs:
Green Grass of Tunnel
We Have a Map of the Piano
I'm 9 Today
Awake on a Train

15. The Mountain Goats:
Let's all be perfectly honest here, most of John's songs and most of his albums sound the same. This is just what happens when you're a one man band. It's hard to evolve or take in outside influences. He strums acoustic guitar chords and sings fragile yet angry stories into boomboxes. It's what he does, and he's good at it, but it does get repetitive.

Best songs:
Lonesome Surprise
Lion's Teeth
Peacocks
Oceanographer's Choice
Cubs In Five
Snow Owl

14. Rachel's:
This band is really hard to pin down, and probably my main complaint would be that you have to be in a really specific mood to enjoy their music.

Best songs:
Moscow in the Telephone
Water From the Same Source
Last Things Last
Unclear Channel
NY Snow Globe

13. The Unicorns:
They're one of the most frustrating bands to love. I mean, they only really released one full album (Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?), and it was so brilliantly perfect that the fact that they broke up right after makes it a tough love to have. I mean, if they weren't so frustratingly endearing (with lyrics like "I checked myself into emergency urgently", "Hey let's get known, if we work real hard we can buy some matching clothes for our live shows!"), it would be so much easier to let go of the fact that they're no longer with us.

Best songs:
The Unicorns 2014
Child Star
I Was Born A Unicorn
The Clap
Tough Ghost
Let's Get Known
Jellybones

12. Elliott Smith:
They say that death is harder on those who love the dead rather than the dead and dying themselves, and they're right. I think everyone who loves Elliott Smith's music gets a little pain in their chest when they think about the fact that once they release all of the b-sides, demos, early versions, live shows, covers, and whatever else they can dig up (as seen with Jeff Buckley)...he'll truly be gone. And all we'll be left with are his songs. Luckily, they're amazing.

Angeles
Twilight
Everything Reminds Me Of Her
Waltz #2 (XO)
2:45
Happiness
Between the Bars
Oh Well, Okay
Stupidity Tries
...and a million more.

11. Built Like Alaska:
The only complaint I have with them is that they're not releasing a new album fast enough. Autumnland was my introduction to a whole new kind of indie rock, that mixes pop and folk influences in a way that only a band from California could do.

Best songs:
Ran Into a Corner
(I Want A) Happy Home
Random Car
Mistake #2
Seven Steps of Trespassing
Throw A Man Into The Ocean With A Lead Weight Tied Around His Leg

10. Bows:
Why doesn't he release more? I mean seriously, how can you be a musician who's brilliant and talented, who bends genres and writes some of the best sleepyhead music out there, and be satisfied with only releasing two albums?

Best songs:
Luftsang
Big Wings
Sleepyhead
Brittanica
Cuban Welterweight Rumbles Hidden Hitmen

9. Epic45
One of my biggest frustration with good music is when you can't effing find it. So far I've downloaded one of their albums and bought another. They have like two dozen out there and I can't find any of them. This irks me.

Best songs: (last won't link...awesome...)

(To be continued, as Last currently cannot even find the artist "The Beatles". What a great site. =/ )]]>