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/davidkerr88/journal The Last.fm journal for davidkerr88. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/08/30/251vg0_origins Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:55:25 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/08/30/251vg0_origins UNITED STATES
Linkin Park
O.A.R.
Paramore
The All-American Rejects
Less Than Jake
Maroon 5
Green Day
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jimmy Eat World
Yellowcard
The Killers
Mindless Self Indulgence
No Doubt
3 Doors Down
Evanescence
Puddle of Mudd
Matchbox Twenty
Third Eye Blind
Foo Fighters
Jay-Z and Linkin Park
MxPx
The Spill Canvas
My Chemical Romance
Nickelback
Kid Rock
The Fray

ENGLAND
Muse
The Subways
Kaiser Chiefs
The Pigeon Detectives
Little Man Tate
Coldplay
The Ting Tings
The Wombats
The Kooks
The Long Blondes
Arctic Monkeys
Keane
The Pipettes
Lily Allen
Hard Fi

SCOTLAND
The Fratellis
Snow Patrol
Franz Ferdinand

SWEDEN
ABBA
Soilwork

WALES
Lostprophets

DENMARK
Alphabeat

IRELAND
U2

THE NETHERLANDS
Within Temptation

TOTALS
United States - 26 = 52%
England - 15 = 30%
Scotland - 3 = 6%
Sweden - 2 = 4%
Wales - 1 = 2%
Denmark - 1 = 2%
Ireland - 1 = 2%
The Netherlands - 1 = 2%]]> http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/08/25/24rzph_music_eclecticism Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:50:00 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/08/25/24rzph_music_eclecticism Take your top 20 artists, and note down the first eight similar artists. Cross out any duplicates, and divide the total by 160. Multiply this figure by 100, and it will leave you with how eclectic your music is.

1.Muse
Placebo
Radiohead
Franz Ferdinand
Kasabian
Coldplay
Kaiser Chiefs
Arctic Monkeys
The Cooper Temple Clause
8/8 ~ 100%

2.Linkin Park
Fort Minor
Limp Bizkit
Papa Roach
Grey Daze
Xero
P.O.D.
Jay-Z and Linkin Park
Chester Bennington
16/16 ~ 100%

3.O.A.R.
Dispatch
Dave Matthews Band
State Radio
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
Dave Matthews
Guster
Braddigan
Rusted Root
24/24 ~ 100%

4.The Subways
Blood Red Shoes
Dirty Pretty Things
The Kooks
Maximo Park
The Libertines
The Fratellis
The Pigeon Detectives
The Rakes
32/32 ~ 100%

5.Lostprophets
Funeral For A Friend
Story Of The Year
Papa Roach
The Use
Hoobastank
30 Seconds To Mars
Madina Lake
Breaking Benjamin
39/40 ~98%

6.Paramore
Boys Like Girls
All Time Low
Flyleaf
The Veronicas
Fall Out Boy
Cobra Starship
The Academy Is...
My Chemical Romance
47/48 ~98%

7.Kaiser Chiefs
Franz Ferdinand
Arctic Monkeys
Kasabian
The Fratellis
Maximo Park
Hard-Fi
The Cribs
The Pigeon Detectives
49/56 ~86%


8.The All American Rejects
Boys Like Girls
Yellowcard
Simple Plan
Sugarcult
Plain White T's
Good Charlotte
American Hi-Fi
Taking Back Sunday
56/64 ~86%

9.The Fratellis
Kaiser Chiefs
The Pigeon Detectives
Arctic Monkeys
Franz Ferdinand
Dirty Pretty Things
The Libertines
The View
The Kooks
57/72 ~79%

10.The Pigeon Detectives
The Enemy
The Wombats
The Courteeners
Little Man Tate
The Cribs
Milburn
The Maccabees
Boy Kill Boy
64/80 ~80%

11.Less Than Jake
Reel Big Fish
Streetlight Manifesto
Goldfinger
Mad Caddies
Catch 22
Mustard Plug
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Big D And The Kids Table
72/88 ~82%

12.Maroon 5
Kara's Flower
Rob Thomas
Matchbox Twenty
The Calling
Gavin DeGraw
Jason Mraz
Savage Garden
Orson
80/96 ~83%

13.Green Day
Pinhead Gunpowder
Foxboro Hot Tubs
Sum 41
Blink-182
Good Charlotte
The Offspring
My Chemical Romance
The Network
86/104 ~83%

14.Red Hot Chili Pepper
Jane's Addiction
Foo Fighters
Incubus
Nirvana
Lenny Kravitz
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pearl Jam
The Offspring
93/112 ~83%

15.Little Man Tate
Milburn
The Pigeon Detectives
Good Shoes
The Holloways
The Courteeners
The View
The Enemy
Reverend And The Makers
96/120 ~80%

16.Snow Patrol
Feeder
Coldplay
Athlete
Ash
Keane
Razorlight
Stereophonics
Editors
103/128 ~80%

17.ABBA
Agnetha Faltskog
Boney M.
Frida
The Pointer Sisters
Bee Gees
Baccara
Ace Of Base
Cher
111/136 ~82%

18.Jimmy Eat World
The Get Up Kids
Dashboard Confessional
Motion City Soundtrack
Something Corporate
New Found Glory
Brand New
Yellowcard
The Ataris
118/144 ~82%

19.The Killers
Kaiser Chiefs
[Franz Ferdinand
The Strokes
The Bravery
We Are Scientists
Interpol
Arctic Monkeys
OK Go
123/152 ~81%

20.Coldplay
Keane
Travis
Snow Patrol
Oasis
Radiohead
Athlete
Muse
Aqualung
128/160 ~80%

MY MUSIC ECLECTICISM: 80%]]> http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/08/24/24q2d0_mainstream_music Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:04:12 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/08/24/24q2d0_mainstream_music STEP ONE: List your top 20 artists and find the number of listeners for each of them.

Muse: 1,188,575
Linkin Park: 1,049,178
O.A.R.: 112,431
The Subways: 298,101
Lostprophets: 470,119
Paramore: 352,386
Kaiser Chiefs: 714,682
The All-American Rejects: 517,190
The Fratellis: 382,727
The Pigeon Detectives: 143,908
Less Than Jake: 247,829
Maroon 5: 816,624
Green Day: 1,187,046
Red Hot Chili Peppers: 1,472,302
Little Man Tate: 73,583
Snow Patrol: 916,300
ABBA: 400,495
Jimmy Eat World: 738,997
The Killers: 1,260,974
Coldplay: 1,580,068



STEP TWO: Calculate the total listeners of these artist.

TOTAL: 13,923,515


STEP THREE: Find the average of this total by dividing by 20.

AVERAGE: 696,175.75


STEP FOUR: Divide this figure by the total number of Radiohead listeners.

Radiohead: 1,522,369
MAINSTREAM: ~0.457297639


STEP FIVE: Finally, multiply this by 100 and round off to get your mainstream percentage.

MAINSTREAM PERCENTAGE: 45.73%]]> http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/08/23/24nuse_sorting_music Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:37:51 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/08/23/24nuse_sorting_music How much time do you spend looking at your music? I think I spend way too much time with WinAmp. I am constantly ordering, reordering, tweaking, updating, making a variety of playlists and various other stuff. I've seen a few versions of this type of sorting on various last.fm users' pages.

Being a little bored and curious about the results, here are my Sorting results:

Alpha sort by song name
First: - / Snow Patrol.
Last: Zwitter / Rammstein.


Alpha sort by artist name
First: Live Another Day / Spunge.
Last: Don't Ever Think Too Much / The Zutons.


Alpha sort by album name
First: Sweetheart / Mariah Carey (#1's)
Last: Blood Music / Zeromancer (ZZYZX)


Alpha sort by genre
First: Attack / 30 Seconds to Mars (alternative metal).
Last: Jane Doe / Within Temptation (symphonic metal).


Sort by duration
First: Intro / The Offspring (00:05).
Last: Better Man / Oasis (37:49).


Sort by track number
First: #1crush / Garbage (1).
Last: Baby I Love You / Ramones (32).


Sort by play count
First: Live Another Day / Spunge (0).
Last: I Wanna Hear What You Have Got To Say / The Subways (16).


Sort by played last(not including non-played tracks)
First: Born to be a dancer / Kaiser Chiefs (11th July 2008, 20:35:26).
Last: 4:AM Forever / Lostprophets (23rd August 2008, 21:29:49).]]> http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/08/17/24bi4e_a_to_z_%3A_first%2C_last_and_best Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:32:18 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/08/17/24bi4e_a_to_z_%3A_first%2C_last_and_best Using the artists from my music library, I'm going to list the first and last, and the one that I think is best from each letter of the alphabet. Just passing some time, so here we go:

First: +44
Last: 50 Cent
Best: 3 Doors Down

First: A Change of Pace
Last: Avril Lavigne
Best: The All American Rejects

First: Backstreet Boys
Last: Bullet For My Valentine
Best: blink-182

First: Caesars
Last: Cute Is What We Aim For
Best: Coldplay

First: Damien Rice
Last: The Dresden Dolls
Best: Death Cab for Cutie

First: Eagles
Last: Everclear
Best: Evanescence

First: Faithless
Last: Funeral For A Friend
Best: Foo Fighters

First: Goldfinger
Last: Gym Class Heroes
Best: Green Day

First: Hard-Fi
Last: The Hoosiers
Best: Hard-Fi

First: Idlewild
Last: Iron Maiden
Best: Incubus

First: Jack Johnson
Last: Just Jack
Best: Jimmy Eat World

First: Kaiser Chiefs
Last: Kylie Minogue
Best: Kaiser Chiefs

First: Lacuna Coil
Last: The Lovers
Best: Linkin Park

First: Madness
Last: My Chemical Romance
Best: Muse

First: N.E.R.D
Last: NOFX
Best: No Doubt

First: O.A.R.
Last: Orson
Best: O.A.R.

First: The Paddingtons
Last: The Pussycat Dolls
Best: Paramore

First: Queen
Last: Queens of the Stone Age
Best: Queen

First: R.E.M.
Last: The Rocket Summer
Best: Razorlight

First: S Club
Last: System of a Down
Best: The Subways

First: T.A.T.U
Last: Trivium
Best: Travis

First: U2
Last: The Used
Best: U2

First: The Veils
Last: VnV Nations
Best: The Verve

First: Waltham
Last: The Wombats
Best: Within Temptation

No Xs

First: Yellowcard
Last: Yellowcard
Best: Yellowcard

First: Zebrahead
Last: The Zutons
Best: The Zutons]]> http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/07/29/23azlv_ipod Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:17:53 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/davidkerr88/journal/2008/07/29/23azlv_ipod SONGS:

1. Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - Backstreet Boys.
2. Back in Black - AC/DC.
3. Believe - Yellowcard.
4. Punk Rock 101 - Bowling for Soup.
5. Given Up - Linkin Park.
6. Crawling - Linkin Park.
7. Jerk It Out - Caesars.
8. Moving to New York - The Wombats.
9. Come As You Are - Nirvana.
10. Read My Mind - The Killers.
11. Get The Party Started - Pink.
12. Everyday I Love You Less and Less - Kaiser Chiefs.
13. Grace Kelly - Mika.
14. Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand.
15. I'm Not Sorry - The Pigeon Detectives.
16. Stigmatized - The Calling.
17. Never Be Lonely - The Feeling.
18. 4th Period: Clothes Off!! - Gym Class Heroes.
19. she said she loved me - Reverend and The Makers.
20. Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers.
21. Bring Me To Life - Evanescence.
22. (There's Gotta Be) More To Life - Stacie Orrico.
23. My Hero - Foo Fighters.
24. What's My Age Again? - blink-182.
25. I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs.
26. Dakota - Stereophonics.
27. He Wasn't - Avril Lavigne.
28. Stomp - Steps.
29. New Shoes - Paolo Nutini.
30. Burn Burn - Lostprophets.


QUESTIONS:

1. Which song do you prefer, 1 or 30? Number 30.

2. Have you ever listened to 12 continuously on repeat? I think so, lol.

3. What album is 26 from? Language. Sex. Violence. Other?.

4. What do you think about the artist who did 15? They're one of the best modern British indie bands.

5. Is 19 one of your favorite songs? Not really.

6. Who does 28 remind you of? I can't think of anyone, apart from the band.

7. Does 20 have better lyrics or music? That's a tough one, I love the lyrics, but the music just says something to me.

8. Do any of your friends like 3? Yes, we all went to see them live.

9. Is 23 from a movie soundtrack? I'm not sure, I think it should be if it isn't though.

10. Is 18 overplayed on the radio? It was when it first came out, not heard it much recently.

11. What does 21 remind you of? Arguing with my friend about the fact that Evanescence are a good band.

12. Which do you prefer, 5 or 22? Number 5.

13. What album is 17 from? Twelve Stops and Home.

14. When did you first hear 19? At Leeds Festival last year.

16. What genre is 8? Definitely indie rock.

17. What is your favourite lyric from 3? Think about the love inside the strength of heart; Think about the heroes saving life in the dark.

18. What colour does 4 remind you of? Purple.

19. Have you ever blasted 11 on your stereo? Nope, but it would be a good song to do that with.

20. What genre is 7? Not sure, either pop-rock or indie.

21. Can you play 13 on any instrument? I don't play any instruments.

22. What is your favorite lyric from 30? Burn burn for us, for them, for you.

23. What is your favorite lyric from 23? There goes my hero, watch him as he goes.

24. Would you recommend 24 to your friends? Sure.

25. Is 2 a good song to dance to? Not really dancing, if we're talking air band though, yeah it is.

26. Do you ever hear 16 on the radio? Nope.

27. Is 22 more of a nighttime or daytime song? Daytime.

28. Does 16 have any special meaning to you? Not really.

29. Do any of your friends like 1? Yes. In fact, I was threatened to be dragged to their concert, it never happened though.

30. Is 25 a fast or slow song? Moderately fast.

31. Is 5 a happy or sad song? Kinda sad.

32. What is one of your favorite lyrics from 9? As a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy.

33. Is 14 better to listen to alone or with friends? Definitely with friends.

34. When did you first hear 27? Probably in the computer labs at university when my friend played it.

35. Name 3 other songs by the artist who did 29. Jenny Don't Be Hasty; These Streets'Loving You

36. Do you know all the words to 6? Yes.

37. Does 28 have better lyrics or music? Definitely music.

38. What album is 10 from? Sam's Town.]]>