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/stevethack/journal The Last.fm journal for stevethack. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/stevethack/journal/2010/02/16/3f6qpo_a_late_response_to_the_bbc_folk_awards Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:43:35 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/stevethack/journal/2010/02/16/3f6qpo_a_late_response_to_the_bbc_folk_awards Folk Awards Winners 2010


LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS WENT TO:
Nanci Griffith and Dick Gaughan

i like nanci so not going to critisise her, just not totally sure why the bbc folk awards would honour her .
Dick - his contiibution to the uk folk scene isn't desputable, a great folk artist deserving of the award

GOOD TRADITION AWARD:
Transatlantic Sessions

no arguement from me on ths one

FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR:
And the winner was:Jon Boden
Other nominees were:
Cara Dillon
Jackie Oates
Martin Simpson

as a short list of nominees i really can't argue with this list (ok if it were me id have a longer list of nominations as there are a good number of artists deserving to stand alongside these], Boden is prob my least fav of the artists on this list but thats more down to personal taste than anything else.

BEST DUO:
The winner was: Show of Hands{/artist]
Other nominees were:
Belshazzar's Feast
Damien Barber & Mike Wilson
Megson

do show of hands count as a duo or should they really be in the groups catagory? given there are been counted as a a duo then yes think they did deserve to win.

BEST GROUP:
The winner was:Lau
Other nominees were:
[artistBellowhead
Mawkin:Causley
The Unthanks

Lau won, i've seen them last year - very impressed but think i'd have backed the unthanks to win this one.

BEST ALBUM:
The winner was: Hill of Thieves - Cara Dillon
Other nominees were:
Here's The Tender Coming - The Unthanks
Hyperboreans - Jackie Oates
True Stories - Martin Simpson

(ok thats 4 albums i need to buy)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
The winner was: Arrogance Ignorance and Greed - Steve Knightley
(performed by Show of Hands)

i'm sure it was only a year or two back that folks were moaning that show of hands were continually overlooked by folk awards - something changed. good song (though not the best on the album in my opinion)
Other nominees were:
Home Again - Martin Simpson
One Day - Martin Simpson/Martin Taylor (performed by Martin Simpson)
The Testimony of Patience Kershaw - Frank Higgins (performed by The Unthanks)

BEST TRADITIONAL TRACK:
The winner was: Sir Patrick Spens - Martin Simpson
Other nominees were:
Cutty Wren - Mawkin:Causley
Spencer the Rover - Cara Dillon
The Isle of France - Jackie Oates

certainly can't argue with the judges on this one (very impressed with cara and jackie too, mawkin: Causley i'm yet to be convinced by and i've heard stronger versions of cutty wren)

HORIZON AWARD:
The winner was : Sam Carter
Other nominees were:
Hannah james and sam sweeney
Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts
Nancy Wallace

personally i'd have voted for Kat and Jamie (great album well worth checking out) but congrats to Sam, i definatly want to hear more by all of these.

MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR:
The winner was: John Kirkpatrick
Other nominees were:
John McCusker
Martin Simpson
Saul Rose

BEST LIVE ACT:
The winner was: Bellowhead
Other nominees were:
Edward II
Lau
The Bad Shepherds

Lau was the only one of these four i've seen live and that was a great gig, really wanting to see the bad shepherds live.

FOLK CLUB OF THE YEAR:
The Magpies Nest

awards like this usually provoke stong reactions so i'd be very interested to hear anyones reactions to the lists - i'm more interested in who folks think have been overlooked than in general rants .]]> http://www.last.fm/user/stevethack/journal/2010/01/02/3aymkb_2009_chart Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:31:39 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/stevethack/journal/2010/01/02/3aymkb_2009_chart 1 Duke Special 193

top of my chart and likely to stay pretty high for a while , though with three new albums on 09 its likley to go quiet from the duke for a while.

2 Miriam Jones 112

what a great artist. she was releasing a free song every month! hopefully we will see more from her in 2010

3 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds110
number 3 despite no new album this year

4 Boo Hewerdine103
i so need to buy boo's new cd

5 Cornershop95
they are back. forget the idea of one hit wonders they are on form. another cd on my shppoing list

6 Show of Hands93

great gig, and nice new album (maybe not as good as witness)
7 Ian Brown83

good live gig but expect ian to fall down my chart significantly next year
8 Sinéad O'Connor77

9 Foy Vance76
before 09 i'd only heard him doing backing vocals for iain archer - wow what an artist. and his new ep with the ulster orchestra is a must buy
10 The Waterboys73

11 Lobelia71
definaly need to buy some of lo's cds (and look into organising a gig for her - though little baby flapjack might make that a bit hard)

11 Rachel Taylor-Beales71

strangely very low profile with very little publicity for her red tree album. album 3 should be due in 2010 and if its half as good as red tree it will be great

13 Chumbawamba66
seen live 4 times this year, low listning figs but due a new album in spring

14 U2 62 thats despite a new cd out in 09. i'm loosing interest

15 Bob Dylan58

16 Spearhead56
note Micheal franti and spearhead get three seperate enteries on this chart. if all his recordings would scrobble the same he'd have been at number two in my chart

17 Depeche Mode54

18 Martyn Joseph 51

19 Steve Knightley 50
front man from show of hands

20 New Model Army 48

20 Emmanuel Jal 48

22 Steve Earle 47
seen live this year, really should get his new album but doesn't feel essential (given he is in the studio with t bone burnett this year his 2010 album may well be essential)

23 Bruce Springsteen 45

24 David Ford 44

25 16 Horsepower 34

26 Deacon Blue 33

27 Michael Franti & Spearhead 32

28 Michael Franti 30

28 The Hall Brothers 30
seen Nick hall more times than i can count this last year (with duncan think i'm on 5 gigs, on his own or with michelle plum a few more) given the quality of stuff nick is doing live his 2010 album should be essential. (think he is recording with michelle plum so expect plumhall to be pretty high in next years charts

30 Sway 29]]> http://www.last.fm/user/stevethack/journal/2009/06/22/2tf0oa_drft_journal_entry_my_second_year_on_last_.fm Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:50:14 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/stevethack/journal/2009/06/22/2tf0oa_drft_journal_entry_my_second_year_on_last_.fm just saving my latest "last twelve months " charts which mark my second full year on last.fm, i'll tidy them up and play around when i get the chance, then i can compare to first year etc so just ignore the journal entry for now

total artists in my libary at end of year two 1560, total at end of year one was 920 meaning i've listened to 640 new artists in the last year.

10722 tracks played in the first two years of which 4742 were played in year one. quick maths time... thats 5980 tracks in year two roughly thats a 40% increase on my first year! :-)

1 Play
Duke Special

218
2 Play
Miriam Jones

160
3 Play
Michael Franti & Spearhead

130
4 Play
Levellers

124
4 Play
Rachel Taylor-Beales

124
6 Play
Michelle Shocked

112
7 Play
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

108
8 Play
Martyn Joseph

102
9 Play
Lobelia

101
10 Play
The Waterboys

87
10 Play
Sinéad O'Connor

87
12 Play
Beth Rowley

77
13 Play
Spearhead

75
14 Play
Bruce Springsteen

69
15 Play
Chumbawamba

63
16 Play
Utah Phillips

60
17 Play
Emmanuel Jal

59
18 Play
Bob Dylan

58
18 Play
David Ford

58
20 Play
Foy Vance

57
20 Play
U2

57
22 Play
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

54
23 Play
Michael Franti

52
24 Play
Steve Earle

51
24 Play
Show of Hands

51
26
Steve Knightley

50
27 Play
New Model Army

49
28 Play
Ian Brown

42
28 Play
The Housemartins

42
30 Play
Iain Archer

41
31 Play
Soulfly

40
32 Play
Deacon Blue

39
33 Play
The Hall Brothers

36
33 Play
David Rovics

36
35 Play
Seth Lakeman

34
35 Play
16 Horsepower

34
35 Play
Lucinda Williams

34
38 Play
Jacob Golden

32
39 Play
Joan Baez

31
40 Play
Brian Houston

30
41 Play
Depeche Mode

29
41 Play
Julie Lee

29
43 Play
Credit to the Nation

28
44 Play
The Handsome Family

27
45 Play
Nine Inch Nails

26
45 Play
Paul Robeson

26
47 Play
Oysterband

25
47 Play
MxPx

25
47 Play
John Parkes

25
50 Play
Green Day

24


1 Play
Duke Special – I Never Thought This Day Would Come

82
2 Play
Beth Rowley – Little Dreamer

72
3 Play
Various Artists – Orphans Of God

59
4 Play
Various Artists – Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man

57
5 Play
Martyn Joseph – Evolved

56
6 Play
Jacob Golden – Revenge Songs

54
7 Play
King Kool – Roken

52
8 Play
Emmanuel Jal – Warchild

49
8 Play
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury

49
10
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Yell Fire!

47
10
Spearhead – Chocolate Supa Highway

47
12 Play
Utah Phillips – We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years

43
13 Play
Sinéad O'Connor – Theology

42
13 Play
Miriam Jones – Being Here

42
15 Play
Danbert Nobacon And The Pine Valley Cosmonauts – The Library Book Of The World

41
16 Play
U2 – No Line on the Horizon

39
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Lobelia – 040515

38
18 Play
Foy Vance – Hope

37
18
Michelle Shocked – Arkansas Traveler [Bonus Tracks]

37
18 Play
Duke Special – Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just In Time)

37
18 Play
The Waterboys – Room to Roam

37
18 Play
Spearhead – Home

37
23 Play
John Parkes – Illegal Songs

36
23 Play
Rachel Taylor-Beales – Red Tree

36
23
Lobelia – Morgantown and Montreal

36
23 Play
David Ford – I sincerely apologise to all

36
27 Play
Fat & Frantic – Quirk

35
28 Play
Shudder to Think – Sweet Relief - A Benefit For Victoria Williams

34
28 Play
Fionn Regan – The End of History

34
30 Play
Michael Franti – Songs From the Front Porch

32
30 Play
Chumbawamba – A Singsong and a Scrap

32
30
Frank Black – Christmass

32
33 Play
Rev Hammer – Rev Hammer's Freeborn John: The Story of John Lilburne-The Leader of the Levellers

31
33 Play
New Model Army – Thunder And Consolation

31
33 Play
The Hall Brothers – Time and Tragedy

31
33
Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways

31
33 Play
Lucinda Williams – Essence

31
38
Miriam Jones – Sign & Semblance

30
39 Play
Lobelia – Solitary World

28
40 Play
A Place to Bury Strangers – A Place To Bury Strangers

27
41 Play
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Stay Human

26
41 Play
Bruce Springsteen – Working on a Dream

26
41 Play
Iain Archer – Flood the Tanks

26
41 Play
Steve Knightley – Track Of Words - Retraced

26
41 Play
Willard Grant Conspiracy – Regard the End

26
46
The Handsome Family – Last Days of Wonder

25
46 Play
David Rovics – Hang a Flag in the Window

25
46 Play
Duke Special – Songs From The Deep Forest

25
46
David Ford – Songs For The Road

25
46
Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series, Volume 5: Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue

25
51 Play
Steve Knightley – Cruel River

24
51 Play
Rachel Taylor-Beales – Brilliant Blue

24
53 Play
Various Artists – Everyone Deserves Music

23
53 Play
Deacon Blue – Fellow Hoodlums

23
53 Play
T-Bone Burnett – The True False Identity

23
53 Play
Aqualung – Memory Man

23
53
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey

23
53 Play
Piano Magic – Part-Monster

23
59 Play
Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man

22
59 Play
Various Artists – Folkways: A Vision Shared

22
59 Play
Brian Houston – thirteen days in August

22
59
Neil Young – Living With War

22
59 Play
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

22
59 Play
Ian Brown – The World Is Yours

22
59 Play
Various Artists – Migrating Bird: The Songs of Lal Waterson

22
59
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Abattoir Blues Tour 2004

22
59 Play
Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2

22
68
Buddy Miller – Universal United House of Prayer

21
68
Vigilantes of Love – Slow Dark Train

21
70 Play
Seth Lakeman – Freedom Fields

20
70 Play
16 Horsepower – Live March 2001

20
70
Julie Miller – Broken Things

20
70 Play
Rosie Thomas – These Friends of Mine

20
70 Play
Sinéad O'Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Special Edition)

20
70 Play
Tom Waits – Bone Machine

20
70 Play
Juliet Turner – Burn the Black Suit

20
70 Play
Martyn Joseph – Vegas

20
70 Play
Julie Lee – Stillhouse Road

20
70 Play
Guillemots – Through The Windowpane

20
80
Soulfly – Dark Ages [Bonus Tracks]

19
80 Play
Nick B Hall – Undertow ep

19
80 Play
Gemma Hayes – Night on My Side

19
80
Michael Franti & Spearhead – All Rebel Rockers

19
84
Soulfly – Soulfly

18
84 Play
The Waterboys – The Secret Life Of The Waterboys '81-'85

18
84
Warren Ellis – The Proposition

18
84 Play
Mike Scott – Bring 'em All In

18
84 Play
David Rovics – For the Moment

18
84 Play
Various Artists – Terminal City Ricochet

18
84 Play
Joan Baez – Bowery Songs

18
91 Play
Chris T-T – 9 Red Songs

17
91 Play
The Housemartins – Now That's What I Call Quite Good!

17
91
Eddi Reader – Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns

17
91 Play
Michelle Shocked – Kind Hearted Woman

17
91
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown

17
91 Play
Nine Inch Nails – The Slip

17
91
Michael Franti – Everyone Deserves Music

17
91 Play
Pulp – Different Class

17
99 Play
Bell X1 – 'Music in Mouth'

16
99 Play
The Flaming Lips – Finally, The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid Disc 2

16
99 Play
Phil Beer – Hard Works

16
99 Play
Andy Thornton – Sunflower Girl

16
99 Play
Bruce Springsteen – 18 Tracks

16
99 Play
Depeche Mode – Speak & Spell

16
99 Play
Danny Elfman – Milk

16
99 Play
Foy Vance – Live Sessions & The Birth of the Toilet Tour

16
99 Play
Pierce Pettis – Chase the Buffalo

16
99 Play
The Waterboys – Universal Hall

16
99 Play
Swamp Cranks – The Tapes

16
110 Play
Chumbawamba – Anarchy

15
110 Play
Bruce Springsteen – Devils & Dust

15
110 Play
Michelle Shocked – Mercury Poise: 1988-1995

15
110 Play
Various Artists – Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

15
110
Michelle Shocked – Texas Campfire Takes [Expanded] Disc 2

15
110
Seasick Steve – I Started Out With Nothin and I Still Got Most of It Left

15
110 Play
The Waterboys – Karma to Burn

15
110 Play
Sarah McLachlan – Afterglow

15
110 Play
Thomas Wydler – Soul Sheriff

15
110 Play
Bruce Cockburn – Stealing Fire

15
110 Play
Alison Krauss – O Brother, Where Art Thou?

15
121
Woody Guthrie – Dustbowl Ballads [BMG International]

14
121
Chagall Guevara – Chagall Guevara

14
121
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

14
121 Play
U2 – Achtung Baby

14
121 Play
Danny Cope – Colour me in

14
121 Play
Sam Phillips – Martinis & Bikinis

14
121 Play
Steve Earle – El Corazon

14
121
Sinéad O'Connor – Sean-Nós Nua

14
121
King Kool – yeah yeah liberte

14
121
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Kicking Against the Pricks

14
131 Play
Steve Earle – Jerusalem

13
131
Eliza Carthy – Angels & Cigarettes

13
131 Play
Deacon Blue – When the World Knows Your Name

13
131 Play
Chumbawamba – Showbusiness!

13
131 Play
Evanescence – Fallen

13
131
Credit to the Nation – Daddy always wanted me to grow a Pair of Wings

13
131 Play
David Ford – I Don't Care What You Call Me

13
131 Play
Fat & Frantic – Fat & Frantic Aggressive Sunbathing

13
131 Play
Primal Scream – Star

13
131 Play
Various Artists – Music From the Motion Picture The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert…

13
131 Play
New Model Army – No Rest for the Wicked

13
131 Play
Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke

13
131 Play
Thea Gilmore – Harpo's Ghost

13
131
R.E.M. – Green

13
131
The Waterboys – Is She Conscious

13
131
Tyler Bates – Watchmen - Original Motion Picture Score

13
147 Play
Lambchop – What Another Man Spills

12
147 Play
PJ Harvey – Uh Huh Her

12
147 Play
The Housemartins – London 0 Hull 4

12
147
Skindred – Roots Rock Riot

12
147 Play
Chumbawamba – The Boy Bands Have Won

12
147 Play
Paul Robeson – Legends Of The 20Th Century

12
147
T Bone Burnett – The True False Identity

12
147
St. Vincent – Actor

12
147
Martyn Joseph – Celtic Connections 2007

12
147 Play
Andy Yorke – Simple

12
147
Hello Saferide – More Modern Short Stories From Hello Saferide

12
147 Play
William S. Burroughs – Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales

12
147 Play
Oysterband – The Big Session (Volume 1)

12
147
Michelle Shocked – Texas Campfire Takes [Expanded] Disc 1

12
147 Play
Dick Gaughan – Handful of Earth

12
147 Play
Robert Plant – Raising Sand

12
147 Play
Cherine Anderson – Kingston state of mind (Single)

12
147 Play
Sam Phillips – Fan Dance

12
147
mewithoutYou – Brother, Sister

12
147
Edwina Hayes – Out on My Own

12
147 Play
U2 – Pop

12
168 Play
Ned Evett – Circus Liquor

11
168 Play
Fightstar – Grand Unification

11
168 Play
Show of Hands – Witness

11
168 Play
Ian Brown – Solarized

11
168 Play
Adam Cohen – Melancolista

11
168 Play
Mark Heard – Mosaics

11
168
Linda Thompson – In Concert, November 1975

11
168 Play
Various Artists – Folk Awards 2006

11
168 Play
David Ford – Go To Hell

11
168 Play
Steve Earle – Guitar Town

11
168 Play
Bat for Lashes – Fur and Gold

11
168
Michelle Shocked – Don't Ask, Don't Tell

11
168 Play
Iona – Iona

11
168
Pete Seeger – Sowing The Seeds - The 10th Anniversary

11
168 Play
New Model Army – The Ghost of Cain

11
168
Skindred – Babylon

11
168
David Rovics – Behind the Baricade: The Best of David Rovics

11
168 Play
Utah Phillips – The Telling Takes Me Home

11
168 Play
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns

11
187
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Boatman's Call

10
187 Play
16 Horsepower – Hoarse

10
187 Play
Bruce Cockburn – Breakfast In New Orleans, Dinner In Timbuktu

10
187
New Model Army – Fuck Texas, Sing For Us

10
187 Play
Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine

10
187 Play
Steve Earle – We Ain't Ever Satisfied

10
187 Play
Steve Earle – Washington Square Serenade

10
187
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois

10
187 Play
Credit to the Nation – Take Dis

10
187 Play
Sam Phillips – A Boot and a Shoe

10
187
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life

10
187 Play
Joan Baez – Greatest Hits

10
187
Petra Jean Phillipson – Notes On Love

10
187
Sarah Masen – Carry Us Through

10
187 Play
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Good Son

10
187
Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series, Volume 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack

10
187 Play
The Hooters – Nervous Night

10
187 Play
Jeff Buckley – Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk

10
187
Neil Young – Greatest Hits

10
187 Play
Chumbawamba – Singsong and a Scrap

10
187 Play
Kashee Opeiah – panic in solitude

10
187 Play
Chumbawamba – WYSIWYG

10
187 Play
Various Artists – Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute To Sister Rosetta Tharpe

10
187 Play
Allison Moorer – Getting Somewhere

10
211
Faultline – undefined

9
211 Play
Credit to the Nation – Teenage Sensation

9
211 Play
Eric Andersen – Blue River

9
211
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine

9
211 Play
Seth Lakeman – Poor Man's Heaven

9
211 Play
Spiers & Boden – Songs

9
211
Martyn Joseph – Five Sisters

9
211 Play
Iron & Wine – 9/20/02

9
211 Play
Various Artists – Pulp Fiction

9
211 Play
Depeche Mode – Some Great Reward

9
211
Duke Special – undefined

9
211 Play
Allison Moorer – Miss Fortune

9
211 Play
Martha Wainwright – Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole

9
211
Adam & The Ants – Kings of the Wild Frontier

9
211 Play
Indigo Girls – Rarities

9
211
Levellers – The Julie EP

9
211
Tribe of Dan – The Bootus Red

9
211
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Henry's Dream

9
211 Play
The Electrics – Old, New, Borrowed & Green/Living It Up When I Die

9
211
PJ Harvey – Dry

9
211 Play
New Model Army – Small Town England

9
211
Duke Special – Portrait

9
211
Ace – Still Hungry

9
234 Play
The Housemartins – Raise The Flag

8
234 Play
Finchley – No Clouds

8
234 Play
Gemma Hayes – The Roads Don't Love You

8
234 Play
Thom Yorke – The Eraser

8
234
The Apples – Buzzin' About

8
234
Chechelele – Ry Lanitra

8
234 Play
William S. Burroughs – Dead City Radio

8
234 Play
Abram Wilson – Jazz Warrior

8
234 Play
The The – London Town 1983-1993

8
234 Play
Frank Turner – Sleep Is For The Week

8
234 Play
Ric Hordinski – When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

8
234 Play
Kinzli – Going just to be going

8
234 Play
Suzanne Vega – Beauty & Crime

8
234 Play
Rev Hammer and The Levellers – Too Drunk In public

8
234 Play
Bruce Cockburn – Waiting for a Miracle

8
234
Julie Lee – Will There Really Be A Morning

8
234 Play
Radiohead – In Rainbows

8
234 Play
The The – Dusk

8
234 Play
The Housemartins – B-Sides

8
234 Play
Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band – Live In Dublin

8
234 Play
Elliot Jack – Music to make you feel better

8
234 Play
Gillian Welch – Soul Journey

8
234 Play
Steve Earle – Transcendental Blues

8
234 Play
Anathallo – Floating World

8
234 Play
The Housemartins – The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death

8
234 Play
Mike Scott – Still Burning

8
234 Play
Various Artists – Friday Night Lights

8
234 Play
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Everyone Deserves Music

8
234 Play
Cisco Houston – The Folkways Years (1944-1961)

8
234 Play
Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

8
234 Play
Various Artists – Tunes from the Lowlands, Highlands & Islands

8
234
The Imagined Village – The Imagined Village [Alternate Tracklisting]

8
234 Play
Ricky Ross – Pale Rider

8
234 Play
Easyworld – Better Ways To Self Destruct

8
234 Play
Pete Seeger – The Essential Pete Seeger

8
234 Play
Attila the Stockbroker – Attila The Stockbroker - Solo and with Barnstormer - A Last.fm Compilation

8
234 Play
Pearl Jam – Seattle, Washington, November 6, 2000

8
234 Play
Hummingbird – Tougher Than Love

8
272 Play
The Seahorses – Do It Yourself

7
272
Richard Thompson – Rumor and Sigh

7
272 Play
The Housemartins – The Housemartins - Live At The BBC

7
272 Play
Odetta – Absolutely The Best

7
272
MxPx – Let It Happen

7
272
McDermott's 2 Hours vs. Levellers – World Turned Upside Down

7
272
R.E.M. – E-Bow the Letter

7
272
Duke Special – Those Proverbs We made In Winter Must End

7
272
Neil Young – Fork In The Road

7
272
Bruce Springsteen – Live In Dublin

7
272 Play
My Spoon – Love stories & Lies

7
272
Various Artists – Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur

7
272 Play
Leonard Cohen – Ten New Songs

7
272
The Waterboys – Dream Harder

7
272 Play
DFG – you are the problem, dfg is the solution

7
272 Play
Various Artists – Lost Highway

7
272 Play
Ned Evett – iStole

7
272 Play
Dolly Varden – The Dumbest Magnets

7
272
Iona – Journey Into the Morn

7
272
Cavalera Conspiracy – undefined

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272 Play
Levellers – Green Blade Rising

7
272
The Peace Artistes – We Love You

7
272 Play
Various Artists – The Million Dollar Hotel

7
272 Play
Various Artists – Music From The O.C. Mix 4

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272 Play
Sarah McLachlan – Rarities, B-Sides, and Other Stuff

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272 Play
Julie McKee – What A Woman Shouldn't Do

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Sway – The Signature LP

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272 Play
Eat – Sell Me a God

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Various Artists – There`s a hole in heaven where some sin slips through

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Primal Scream – Screamadelica

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Iain Archer – Magnetic North

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The Nightwatchman – One Man Revolution

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The Waterboys – Too Close to Heaven

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Emmylou Harris – All I Intended To Be

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Ian Brown – The Greatest

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Tom Robinson – Gold Collection

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Duke Special – Little Revolutions

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Show of Hands – Live

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Gareth Davies-Jones – A Play Upon The Conscience

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David Bazan – Fewer Moving Parts

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The The – Soul Mining

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Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions American Land Edition

7
272 Play
Newton Faulkner – Hand Built By Robots

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Cali – L'espoir

7
272 Play
Show of Hands – The Path

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272 Play
The Brute Chorus – Debut Single

7
272 Play
Judy Collins – 24 Classic Songs

7
319 Play
Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost of Tom Joad

6
319 Play
Will Tang – Everything Changes

6
319 Play
Arrested Development – 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of...

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319
The Beautiful South – Golddiggas Headnodders & Pholk Songs

6
319 Play
Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now

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319 Play
Duke Special – No Cover Up

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319 Play
Chumbawamba – English Rebel Songs 1381-1914

6
319 Play
Howe Gelb – 'Sno Angel Like You

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319 Play
Nic Jones – Penguin Eggs

6
319 Play
Eliza Carthy – Rice

6
319 Play
Over the Rhine – Ohio

6
319 Play
Billy Bragg – Billy Bragg Volume 2

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319 Play
Woody Guthrie – This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1

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319 Play
Bonnie Bramlett – Roots, Blues & Jazz

6
319
Duke Special – Sweet Sweet Kisses

6
319
Soulfly – Primitive [Bonus Tracks]

6
319
Over the Rhine – Discount Fireworks

6
319 Play
Multi Interprètes – Hitting The Ground

6
319
Credit to the Nation – Call It What You Want

6
319 Play
Various Artists – Lyricist Lounge Vol. 1

6
319 Play
Karine Polwart – Faultlines

6
319 Play
Leonard Cohen – I'm Your Man

6
319 Play
Miriam Jones – sign and semblance

6
319 Play
Pop Will Eat Itself – Wise Up Suckers

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319 Play
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – B-Sides & Rarities (disc 3)

6
319
Levellers – One Way Of Life

6
319 Play
The Austin Francis Connection – A bit of a shambles

6
319
Judy Collins – The Judy Collins Concert

6
319
Cornershop – When I Was Born for the 7th Time

6
319
Coloursound – Coloursound

6
319 Play
U2 – All That You Can't Leave Behind

6
319 Play
The Matthew Herbert Big Band – Goodbye Swingtime

6
319 Play
Various Artists – Hard Knock Records Presents: What About Us?

6
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Imelda May – Love Tattoo

6
319
Miriam Jones – the Solitary Songs

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319 Play
Various Artists – Chillout 2003: The Ultimate Chillout

6
319
Tom Robinson – Having It Both Ways

6
319 Play
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – You Fat Bastard: The Anthology

6
319 Play
Waking the Witch – Boys from the Abattoir

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319 Play
Pop Will Eat Itself – Dos Dedos Mis Amigos

6
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Over the Rhine – The Trumpet Child

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319
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus

6
319 Play
Rev Hammer – The Bishop Of Buffalo

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Inspiral Carpets – Cool As

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Deacon Blue – Ooh Las Vegas: B-sides, Film Tracks & Sessions

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319 Play
Portishead – Dummy

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319 Play
Frank Sidebottom – Bollocks To Christmas

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319 Play
Julian Cope – The Collection

6
319 Play
Cathy Burton – Silvertown

6
368 Play
Steve Lawson – Lessons Learned From An Aged Feline, Pt II

5
368
Dan Donovan – Dust Shaker

5
368 Play
Guards Of Metropolis – Alligator

5
368
Various Artists – Trojan Christmas Box Set

5
368 Play
Shawn Colvin – A Few Small Repairs

5
368 Play
The Wonder Stuff – Never Loved Elvis

5
368 Play
Various Artists – Preserve Volume One

5
368 Play
Show of Hands – Country Life

5
368 Play
Lies Damned Lies – Lonely Together

5
368 Play
Low – Christmas

5
368 Play
Jake Thackray – The Very Best Of Jake Thackray

5
368 Play
MxPx – Secret Weapon

5
368 Play
Indigo Girls – Come On Now Social

5
368
Sam Phillips – The Indescribable Wow

5
368 Play
Show of Hands – Show of Hands

5
368 Play
Various Artists – Playlist: Alternative

5
368 Play
Paul Robeson – Songs for Free Men

5
368 Play
John Cale – HoboSapiens

5
368 Play
The Pine Valley Cosmonauts – The Executioner's Last Songs * Vol 1

5
368
Garbage – Garbage

5
368 Play
Michael Franti – 1 Giant Leap

5
368
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Live From London

5
368 Play
Nevio – Nevio

5
368
Tom Robinson – Love Over Rage

5
368 Play
Andy Yorke – Rise and Fall

5
368
Luka Bloom – Riverside

5
368
Calexico – I'm Not There

5
368 Play
The Hall Brothers – Songs From The Shore

5
368 Play
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – Worry Bomb

5
368 Play
Various Artists – BBC Jazz Awards 2007

5
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Various Artists – Reggae Redemption Songs

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368
Terrorvision – This Is... 1999

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368 Play
Larry Norman – Only Visiting This Planet

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368 Play
Seth Lakeman – Kitty Jay

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368 Play
Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet

5
368 Play
Odetta – At the Gate of Horn

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368 Play
Supergrass – Supergrass Is 10: Best of 94-04

5
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe – The Gospel of the Blues

5
368 Play
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

5
368 Play
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral

5
368
16 Horsepower – Low Estate

5
368 Play
Steve Lawson & Jez Carr – Conversations

5
368
Tonio K. – Romeo Unchained

5
368
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Let Love In

5
368 Play
Steve Earle – Copperhead Road

5
368 Play
U2 – Beautiful Day

5
368
Beth Rowley – EP

5
368 Play
Bic Runga – Beautiful Collision

5
368 Play
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues

5
368 Play
Faultline – Your Love Means Everything

5
368
The Waterboys – A Pagan Place

5
368
65 dBA – The Great Awakening

5
368 Play
Will Tang – Love Bites (Single)

5
368 Play
David Ford – State of the Union

5
368 Play
Oysterband – The Shouting End of Life

5
368 Play
Radiohead – Towering Above the Rest (disc 2)

5
368 Play
mr g and rich – A Little Advice On Life And How Not To Live It

5
368
Neil Young – Living With War: In The Beginning

5
368 Play
Aqualung – Aqualung

5
368 Play
Probot – Probot

5
368 Play
Lobelia – In

5
368 Play
Joey Ryan – ...with its roots above and its branches below

5
368 Play
Bruce Springsteen – Another Side of Bruce Springsteen

5
368
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – B-Sides And Rarities (CD1)

5
368 Play
The Amazing Pilots – Hello My Captor

5
368 Play
Faithless – Sunday 8pm

5
368
Phil Beer Band – Mandorock Live 2000

5
368 Play
The Mekons – Rock 'n' Roll

5
368 Play
The Beautiful South – Miaow

5
368 Play
Show of Hands – Cold Frontier

5
368 Play
Pop Will Eat Itself – The Best Of

5
368
Miles Hunt – Life's Great!

5
368
U. Utah Phillips – Loafer's Glory

5
368 Play
June Tabor – Beat The Retreat: Songs By Richard Thompson

5
368
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Obama Song

5
368 Play
David Rovics – Make It So

5
368
Amy Ray – undefined

5
368 Play
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Best Of

5
368
The Housemartins – Live At The Bbc

5
368 Play
Oysterband – Little Rock To Leipzig

5
368 Play
Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching for the Young Soul Rebels

5
368 Play
Tankus The Henge – Tankus the Henge

5
368 Play
Mark Heard – Dry Bones Dance

5
368 Play
The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible

5
368 Play
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

5
368 Play
The Violet Burning – The Violet Burning

5
454 Play
Eels – Electro-Shock Blues

4
454 Play
Michael Weston King – Love's a Cover

4
454
Levellers – Just the One

4
454
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks

4
454 Play
New Model Army – Vengeance: The Independent Story

4
454 Play
José González – In Our Nature

4
454 Play
Vigilantes of Love – Driving the Nails

4
454 Play
Saul Williams – Not In My Name

4
454 Play
Sarah Masen – Sarah Masen

4
454
Damien Rice – O

4
454 Play
Emiliana Torrini – Love In The Time Of Science

4
454 Play
Steve Lawson – Lessons Learned From an Aged Feline, Part 1

4
454 Play
Brian Houston – Days Of Pearly Spencer

4
454 Play
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – B-Sides & Rarities (disc 1)

4
454
Jonny Greenwood – Bodysong

4
454 Play
Iain Archer – To The Pine Roots

4
454
Fundamental – With Intent To Pervert The Cause Of Justice

4
454
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part

4
454 Play
John Parkes – Faithlessnessless

4
454 Play
Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds

4
454 Play
Show of Hands – Roots - The Best of Show of Hands (Digital-Only Bonus Version)

4
454 Play
Bruce Springsteen – Body Of War: Songs That Inspired An Iraq War Veteran

4
454 Play
Phil Ochs – Pleasures of the Harbor

4
454 Play
Daniel Lanois – For the Beauty of Wynona

4
454
Gemma Hayes – Work To A Calm

4
454 Play
David Rovics – Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

4
454 Play
Cat Stevens – Teaser and the Firecat

4
454 Play
The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello acoustic) – One Man Revolution

4
454 Play
Portishead – Mysterious Heads

4
454
Kristin Hersh – The Holy Single

4
454 Play
Duke Special – My Villain Heart

4
454
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Le Peuple Migrateur

4
454 Play
Bruce Springsteen – Magic

4
454 Play
Allison Moorer – Show

4
454 Play
John Cale – Fragments of a Rainy Season

4
454 Play
Uncle Tupelo – No Depression

4
454
Steve Taylor – The Best We Could Find

4
454
Victoria Williams – Musings of a Creek Dipper

4
454 Play
Ani DiFranco – So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter

4
454 Play
The Copper Family – Come Write Me Down - Early Recordings of The Copper Family of Rottingdean

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454 Play
Johnny Cash – Christmas With Johnny Cash

4
454 Play
Deacon Blue – Walking Back Home

4
454 Play
Various Artists – By The Hand Of The Father: Songs & Stories From The Original Theaterwork

4
454 Play
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4
454 Play
Giant Sand – Is All Over ... the Map

4
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Duke Special – I Never Thought This Day Would Come

82
2 Play
Beth Rowley – Little Dreamer

72
3 Play
Martyn Joseph – Evolved

56
4 Play
Emmanuel Jal – Warchild

49
5
Spearhead – Chocolate Supa Highway

47
6
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Yell Fire!

45
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Utah Phillips – We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years

43
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Sinéad O'Connor – Theology

42
8 Play
Miriam Jones – Being Here

42
10 Play
U2 – No Line on the Horizon

39
11 Play
Foy Vance – Hope

37
11 Play
The Waterboys – Room to Roam

37
11
Michelle Shocked – Arkansas Traveler [Bonus Tracks]

37
14
Lobelia – Morgantown and Montreal

36
14 Play
Rachel Taylor-Beales – Red Tree

36
16 Play
Jacob Golden – Revenge Songs

32
17 Play
The Hall Brothers – Time and Tragedy

31
18
Miriam Jones – Sign & Semblance

30
19 Play
Lobelia – 040515

29
20 Play
Spearhead – Home

28
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Lobelia – Solitary World

27
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Steve Knightley – Track Of Words - Retraced

26
22 Play
Bruce Springsteen – Working on a Dream

26
24
Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series, Volume 5: Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue

25
24
The Handsome Family – Last Days of Wonder

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Steve Knightley – Cruel River

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David Ford – Songs For The Road

24
28 Play
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury

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28
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey

23
30 Play
Ian Brown – The World Is Yours

22
30 Play
Brian Houston – thirteen days in August

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30 Play
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Abattoir Blues Tour 2004

22
34 Play
Various Artists – Everyone Deserves Music

21
34 Play
Michael Franti – Songs From the Front Porch

21
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Frank Black – Christmass

21
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Vigilantes of Love – Slow Dark Train

21
34 Play
John Parkes – Illegal Songs

21
39 Play
16 Horsepower – Live March 2001

20
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Lucinda Williams – Essence

20
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New Model Army – Thunder And Consolation

20
39 Play
Sinéad O'Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Special Edition)

20
43 Play
Nick B Hall – Undertow ep

19
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Michael Franti & Spearhead – All Rebel Rockers

19
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Soulfly – Dark Ages [Bonus Tracks]

19
46 Play
The Waterboys – The Secret Life Of The Waterboys '81-'85

18
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Warren Ellis – The Proposition

18
46 Play
Rachel Taylor-Beales – Brilliant Blue

18
46 Play
Chumbawamba – A Singsong and a Scrap

18
50
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown

17
50 Play
Nine Inch Nails – The Slip

17
50
Michael Franti – Everyone Deserves Music

17
50
Eddi Reader – Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns

17
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Bruce Springsteen – 18 Tracks

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Danny Elfman – Milk

16
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Joan Baez – Bowery Songs

16
54 Play
Foy Vance – Live Sessions & The Birth of the Toilet Tour

16
54 Play
Depeche Mode – Speak & Spell

16
54 Play
Mike Scott – Bring 'em All In

16
54 Play
Phil Beer – Hard Works

16
61 Play
Thomas Wydler – Soul Sheriff

15
61 Play
Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2

15
61
Michelle Shocked – Texas Campfire Takes [Expanded] Disc 2

15
61 Play
Martyn Joseph – Vegas

15
61
Seasick Steve – I Started Out With Nothin and I Still Got Most of It Left

15
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David Rovics – Hang a Flag in the Window

15
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A Place to Bury Strangers – A Place To Bury Strangers

14
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Danny Cope – Colour me in

14
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King Kool – yeah yeah liberte

14
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Seth Lakeman – Freedom Fields

14
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Kicking Against the Pricks

14
67
Sinéad O'Connor – Sean-Nós Nua

14
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

14
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Woody Guthrie – Dustbowl Ballads [BMG International]

14
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Iain Archer – Flood the Tanks

14
76
R.E.M. – Green

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Tyler Bates – Watchmen - Original Motion Picture Score

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Juliet Turner – Burn the Black Suit

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Danbert Nobacon And The Pine Valley Cosmonauts – The Library Book Of The World

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Eliza Carthy – Angels & Cigarettes

13
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Deacon Blue – Fellow Hoodlums

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Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man

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Deacon Blue – When the World Knows Your Name

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Michelle Shocked – Kind Hearted Woman

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Julie Lee – Stillhouse Road

13
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Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke

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Hello Saferide – More Modern Short Stories From Hello Saferide

12
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Michelle Shocked – Texas Campfire Takes [Expanded] Disc 1

12
87 Play
Shudder to Think – Sweet Relief - A Benefit For Victoria Williams

12
87
Soulfly – Soulfly

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Paul Robeson – Legends Of The 20Th Century

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Cherine Anderson – Kingston state of mind (Single)

12
87
T Bone Burnett – The True False Identity

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Lambchop – What Another Man Spills

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Andy Yorke – Simple

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mewithoutYou – Brother, Sister

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87
Credit to the Nation – Daddy always wanted me to grow a Pair of Wings

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Robert Plant – Raising Sand

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St. Vincent – Actor

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Piano Magic – Part-Monster

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Martyn Joseph – Celtic Connections 2007

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Chumbawamba – The Boy Bands Have Won]]> http://www.last.fm/user/stevethack/journal/2008/08/27/24uyik_greenbelt_festival_2008_my_last_three_months_listening Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:16:41 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/stevethack/journal/2008/08/27/24uyik_greenbelt_festival_2008_my_last_three_months_listening Fri 22 Aug – Greenbelt Festival 2008

having listened to many of the bands playing this years greenbelt fest the plan is to post my last three month chart here (given when i was away this actually covers the full 11 weeks from me returning from the greenbelt iona retreat to my arrival at the festival) then slowly edit it with comments about the bands that did play the fest. prob a big job so count this journal entry as a work in progress.



1 Levellers 119(no link to greenbelt, well Seth lakeman's brother Sean produced their new album and i can find half a dozen other tenuous links)

2 Michael Franti & Spearhead 82
headlined friday night, wow. maybe not as impressive as when he played two years back and so far i do think i prefer Yell fire to his new album.

2 Duke Special 82
ok joint second for the duke, not at the festival this year but has been most years (once we get out of my top ten i'll delete the bands who weren't on the gb08 line up)
4 Rachel Taylor-Beales 77
Ok despite her new album being fantastic and her getting a great response to her greenbelt 07 set somehow Rachel wasn't booked this year. a terrible oversight and injustice in my opinion.

5 Beth Rowley 38
Beth played what i heard was a blinding set on mainstage sunday afternoon (and given the size of the crowds for much of sunday's bill think a good case could have been made for giving beth a headlining slot) personally and despite Beth coming in my top five artists for the last 3 months i missed her set. (thats greenbelt for you) i would have been up in centaur for the larry norman tribute, did catch Beth in last orders doing two songs which were great.

6 Seth Lakeman 34
someone else i missed at greenbelt this year , went to see Franti's film and was a bit tiredafter so didn't even stop around for the last half hour of Lakeman's set. still hoping i might catch him up her in leeds.

7 Miriam Jones 29
made it into the performance cafe and saw her set. fantastic, two more tracks in last orders that night (and i believe she's been in the night before as well after i'd gone to bed) including "i am one" which i'd been disapointed had been missed from the performance cafe set. bought her first cd and now wishing i'd bought the second one two. new ep coming soon apparently.
8 Brian Houston 26
kept intending to catch this man, did manage to pick up an old live cd of his cheap.
performance cafe was just too full, it needs maybe 6 to 10 less table and a 100 or so more chairs. even then acts the size of Brian could really really do with a bigger venue.
9 MxPx 24
not sure why i listened to so many mxpx tracks, certainly had no intention of seeing them at greenbelt. to be honest it seemed whenever i was listening to the greenbelt event radio on last it would play an mxpx track every time i nipped out of the room.
10 Show of Hands23
not played greenbelt for too many years. someone must get them back.
10 Utah Phillips23
sadly Utah passed away this year but something of this man's spirit does live on in patches of greenbelt, real shame greenbelt never booked him.

ok from now on bands with no gb 08 link are deleted (well except a few who i think really should have been booked)

12 Michael Franti 21
he keeps cropping up on this list.
14 Iain Archer20
greenbelt set advertised as and friends, should really have been "and usual musicians he turns up with plus a few family members he wanted to blag free tickets for" still fantastic set. nice little seminar thing with stockie on the friday too despite me choosing to sit at a point where we could only hear half of it.

17 Andy Yorke 16
great little set in the performance cafe, man deserves a bigger audience, glad i bought his CD before the fest as not available on site , ICC don't stock stuff on major labels (too low a profit margin it seems) for big name artists this is no big loss for folks like Andy it is doing a great disservice to both him and greenbelt punters.

20 Frank Black 15
Ok never was any real chance of greenbelt booking frank but he does a) have Charlie norman (larry's bro) as part of his band and b) do a mean cover of six sixty six


23 Martyn Joseph13
nice little set from Martyn. not given half as much time in the program as he should have been (any idiot could tell it was going to overrun and there was enough time after that the comedians on after could have been booked for slots an hour later, as it was with overruns and time to empty venues etc they ended up on at later times anyway Delsio chiponda ended up with a much smaller adience then he had last year as a result of this. sorry supposed to be writting about music not comedy and errors by whoever compiled the program. MJ's anyway great just seen him twice since the last greenbelt so nothing too unexpected.
24 Will Tang 12
Ok thats 12 listens before the fest which sounded great sadly live he didn't really do much for me. all nice but nothing more than that. maybe just the mood i was in.
24 Abram Wilson 12

performed as part of Roll Jordan Roll, actaully quite liked some of his solo stuff, cant really say same for roll jordan roll. quality wise you couldn't fault it but really not my thing and judging by the size of the crowd most greenbelters were thinking the same way as me. great to have on greenbelt mainstage but really didn't justify a headline slot.

28 Michael Franti & Spearhead 11
third appearance on the list this time due an extra space in the band name (last.fm software can be very picky at times)
28 Danny Cope 11
good little set from Danny, impressed. given he is local am hoping might grab a chance to catch him again sometime soon.
32 Emmanuel Jal 10
great to have Jal back at greenbelt, smaller crowd than he deserved (at least for the first half of his set, fortunatly that meant most folks missing the big sound problems)) due in part to so many greenbelters ariving late on the friday and also due to the weird way the firday mainstage line up was put together (fans of either [dweeb] or starfield were unlikly to be staying around for Jal.


32 1 Giant Leap 10
not at this years fest but Jamie Catto was and i intentended to both catch his accoustic set and to see the 1 giant leap film, event i was in overran so missed jamie and after two bad experiences of the film venue wasn't going to risk a third (the room didnt work, the venue manager needed tech support etc)
32 Maggi Dawn 10
not at this years fest but did write a nice bit in the program
32 Cathy Burton 10
didn't catch cathy and not sure why.
32 Juliet Turner 10
couldn't get into the tent but watched from outside sounded great, new cd sold out before i got chance to part with my cash though.
32 Gareth Davies-Jones 10
intended to catch him in the end didn't work out that way. same him do one track with others in the Norman tribute.
32 Kashee Opeiah10
dont think i was realy intending to catch Kashee but they do sound good.
39 Julie Lee9
kept seeing Julie everywhere great woman, got her new ish cd and new ep.


39 Fightstar9
saw a couple of tracks from fightstar seemed OK, nothing too special. wasn't really in a hard music mood at greenbelt this year though.

41Kinzli 8
41 Elliot Jack 8
41 Finchley 8
three good bands just happens to be three good bands i failed to catch.

41 Anathallo 8
pulled out of greenbelt pretty early on.

46 The Austin Francis Connection 7
wasn't really aiming to catch them at greenbelt though they do sound like a real fun band
46 My Spoon 7
46 Virgin Passages 7

two more acts i intended to catch, Virgin passages were circled on my program but it never happened.
46 Sinéad O'Connor 7
Ok not booked for greenbelt this year but did hear rumors folks were trying.
46 Linchpin 7
actually suprisingly good band from what i've heard. would be interested to see live just didn't happen at greenbelt this year.
time of their mainstage slot was changed - shame greenbelt didn't use the text message service to get this info out. still wouldnt have made the gig though was too busy defending my chair in the performance cafe.
46 Faithless 7
ok obviously not at greenbelt this year but founder member jamie catto was and i was upset i missed him (believe his accoustic set included a couple of old faithless numbers)
46 Giant Sand 7
good set on mainstage from the Giant Sand stuff i've heard had capacity to be a really great set which it fell a bit short of.

54 The Matthew Herbert Big Band 6
all the write ups on this band seem to focus on the experimental nature of the work and the electronica influences, from these 6 tracks all i heard was very competent jazz of no interest to me so avoided. listening on last.fm to Herbert's stuff on his own without the big band i prefered that.



54 Howe Gelb 6
played as Howe Gelb and giant Sand(see above) did bring on as a special guest one Mr John Parish (one of only two folks at greenbelt this year to have made it onto the rather select playlist on my mobile)

54 miriamjones 6
whoever uploaded miriam's stuff onto last.fm made an error with the first album missed a space hence this entery.

54 The Brute Chorus 6
quite a nice band really just not nice enoughto compete against whatever else was on at that time slot.
54 Daby Touré 6
quite fancied seeing Daby this year , another missed oppertunity.
54 Julie McKee 6
definatly wanted to see Julie at greenbelt this year, shame it didnt happen.

63 The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

early 90's band and what got me into the work of Michael Franti in the first place.5


63 Starfield 5

canada's answer to delirious? personally i was board of the Uk version so definatly in no need of a canadian one. still a good set on mainstage to a reasonable crowd or so i heard.

63 Spearhead 5
first two albums under this name before change of label resulted in name change to Michael Franti and...
63 Baluji Shrivastav 5
playing probably the smallest venue on site at a peak times when up against some of the biggest names on the bill. still stuff i heard on last is worth recomending.
63 Tankus The Henge 5
can't say they do a lot for me.
63 Larry Norman 5
saw the tribute to Larry . there is a limit to how much you can do in an hour but what was done was impressive. (thought centuar would have been at capacity which it wasn't respectable crowd all the same)
63 José González 5
saw one song by him i think , not in the mood really though clearly two thirds of folks on site were.
63 Paul Robeson 5
long departed so obviously not at greenbelt left on this list as Martyn Joseph does a track in tribute to him. which he did in centaur this year
63 Guards Of Metropolis 5
not at greenbelt, but really really should have been . band features charlie norman.


73 Voice Of The Mysterons 4
nice bit of heavy music in the underground, not the mood i was in this year. maybe next time.
73 Chip Bailey 4
has played greenbelt as part of so many bands somone really needs to give him a solo gig, though that wasn't likely this year (his cd features guests like duke special and aqualung both were at greenbelt 07)

73 Michelle Shocked 4
ok she was in england at the right time plays beautiful music and is outspoken about her faith and social justice - why oh why oh why didnt greenbelt book her?

82 Ed Sheeran 3
young lad never actually named on the gb web site still i managed to hear three tracks of his before the fest. definaly want to hear more
82 This Morning Call 3
from what i've heard prob the best band in the underground this year. still manged to miss them sadly

82 Unbelievable Truth 3
andy Yorke's old band , never as successful as his brothers band , friends will prob lynch me for this but Andy may well be more talented than his bro Thom

82 Foreign Slippers 3
not available on last so i actually paid good cash to download these mp3's , truely beautiful. did a couple of songs with Iain archer which also sounded great. still didn't manage to make her set though.

82 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 3
rumured to be interested in playing greenbelt and listening to these three tracks can see why would make a great fest headliner for next year.

99 Lobelia 2
not on the official line up but played two tracks in last orders on monday with her hubby and also part of Miriam Jones's band. seeing Lobelia in last orders was certainly in my top ten festival moment of the year so why dint she have her own set?


99 yfriday 2
seems like they pulled out at the last min (ie at some point over the actual weekend) slot on the bill replaced by quench , all much the same to me really.


99 Death Is Not Welcome Here 2
actually quite liked these tracks , another band playing as part of the metal session in the underground. would have been intersting to catch them.

99 Helen J Hicks 2
really wasn't too impressed by these tracks , did though catch her doing one song at greenbelt which rather changed my mind. She did a track in the Larry norman tribute that was real beautiful.

99 Shlomo 2
saw a couple of this guys tracks from mainstage. now he had attracted a decent crowd who seemed to love him so who am i to criticise. crowd response certainly justified the slot he had just whatever he was doing was lost on me.



141 Cherine Anderson 1
given her guest stuff on franti's new cd was kind of hoping he might bring Cherine with him. oh well maybe next time.


141 The Vigilantes of Love 1
not at this years greenbelt but i did pick up an old album of theirs going cheap.


141 Ben Castle 1
was Ben at greenbelt this year anyone? he's dating Beth Rowley so its quite probable.


141 Michael Franti; Spearhead 1
yet another of franti's tracks somehow getting yet another tag.


141 Keith Ayling 1
former kato and K front man used to like his old stuff in the mid 90's.


141 Steve Lawson 1
steve in the end did end up with a greenbelt gig (as lawson, dodds, woods) still managed to miss that one. saw him in a number of other places though.


141Steve Lawson & Jez Carr 1
well they were both at greenbelt. a full set from this pair would have been pretty easy for greenbelt to arrange. no luck sadly.

other folks i saw at greenbelt not on this list Karen Grace . ok only saw her gig so as to not lose mt seat in the performance cafe, hadn't even heard of her. maybe a bit floaty for my taste but definatly want to hear more.
Calvin's Dream (just the one track) not seen or heard of these guys in well over a decade so that was a nice surprise.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/stevethack/journal/2008/06/12/20rgmt_marking_1_full_year_on_last.fm_for_me Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:28:05 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/stevethack/journal/2008/06/12/20rgmt_marking_1_full_year_on_last.fm_for_me having now been on last.fm for exactly one year thought it might be time to have a look at what i've been listening to.
total tracks listened to 4742. not bad . (and checking on the beta version of this site that is 4742 tracks by a total of 920 artists , i'll be interested in how much that figure alters over the next year
)

first thing that hits me is how little i've listened to any one artist this year. artists that have come out with new cds this year i loved are still getting only a few dozen listens.

expected problem in the top artist list Danbert nobacon manages to appear twice due to mis tagging! think i've corrected that now.
Michael Franti and spearhead would have been higher in the chart without mis tagging too.
just one artist here appears on my top 30 thanks to last.fm David Ford listened to thanks to geizzil's radio station , was then informed thanks to last.fm of
his gig in my area. - nice one last.fm!
Also interesting that Fionn Regan makes my top 30 given i might have seen him live this year but dont actually own anything by him yet.

1 Duke Special 166
2 Chumbawamba101
3 King Kool 90
4 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 88
5 David Ford 85
6 Radiohead 77
7 Levellers 67
8 The Waterboys 66
9 sir silence and the hush 59
10Martyn Joseph 56
11Skindred 54
12 U2 53
12 Rev Hammer 53
14 Chip Bailey 48
14 Michael Franti & Spearhead 48
16 Bruce Springsteen 46
17 New Model Army 40
18 Deacon Blue 39
19 Bruce Cockburn 38
19 David Rovics 38
19 Danbert Nobacon 38
22 Fat & Frantic 35
23 Steve Earle 34
23 Tom Robinson 34
25 Ben Hales 33
25 Aqualung{/artist} 33
25 Fionn Regan 33
28 Iain Archer 32
28 Danbert Nobacon And The Pine Valley Cosmonauts 32
30 Neil Young31

ok lets look at my top album list
first think i note is my second album also appears down at no.28 on the list as the title is listed with and without the ":" thats not my error i dont even own the album so can't be blamed for the tagging.
also intersting to note that 9 of my top 20 albums are ones i dont own. though given how much ive been listening to that cohen tribute album think id better go out and get a copy.

album 4 is actually a single scoring so high due to me downloading b sides from various formats. (odd it was listened to more than the original album)
hmmm intersting list . all very male (apart from track from various artist albums) and very white (except for two entries from Michael Franti) really thought my tastes were more diverse than this. ok looking down the next 20 on my list are a bit more diverse.
1 Various Artists – Orphans Of God 52
2 Various Artists – Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man 51
3 King Kool – Roken 48
4Duke Special – Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just In Time) 34
5 Fionn Regan – The End of History 32
6 Danbert Nobacon And The Pine Valley Cosmonauts – The Library Book Of The World 29
6 Rev Hammer – Rev Hammer's Freeborn John: The Story of John Lilburne-The… 29
8 The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury 28
9 Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways
27
9 Fat & Frantic – Quirk 27
11 David Ford – I sincerely apologise to all 25
12 Michael Franti & Spearhead – Stay Human 22
12 T-Bone Burnett – The True False Identity 22
12 Shudder to Think – Sweet Relief - A Benefit For Victoria Williams 22
12 Jacob Golden – Revenge Songs 22
12 Willard Grant Conspiracy – Regard the End 22
17 Various Artists – Folkways: A Vision Shared 21
17 Various Artists – Migrating Bird: The Songs of Lal Waterson 21
19 Guillemots – Through The Windowpane 20
19Duke Special – Songs From The Deep Forest 20
19 Neil Young – Living With War 20

looking at those figs think its fair to conclude i've not really listened to albums this past year. Guess i've either used last.fm as a radio station or as a was to explore and listen to new music so i'm predicting the top artist chart next year will be similar but the album chart completely changed.]]>