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/viciousadmirer/journal The Last.fm journal for viciousadmirer. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/viciousadmirer/journal/2010/12/17/43uto7_top_10_albums_of_2010 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:40:36 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/viciousadmirer/journal/2010/12/17/43uto7_top_10_albums_of_2010 I have to say, as far as new music goes, this year sucked. I hope 2011 is much, much better. Nonetheless, these were my personal favorites, and they all stayed on heavy rotation in my car for most of 2010.

1) Lowcountry - Envy on the Coast
2) Kaleidoscope Heart - Sara Bareilles
3) Gorilla Manor - Local Natives
4) Dancing With a Ghost - Valencia
5) This is What Happens - The Reign Of Kindo
6) Only Every Time - The Graduate
7) Blue Sky Noise - Circa Survive
8) Some Things Don't Wash Out - You, Me, and Everyone We Know
9) The Orchard - Ra Ra Riot
10) Contra - Vampire Weekend]]> http://www.last.fm/user/viciousadmirer/journal/2009/12/11/38e266_25_songs_that_defined_2009 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:33:51 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/viciousadmirer/journal/2009/12/11/38e266_25_songs_that_defined_2009 I normally do an annual favorite album list, but I could not think of enough albums from this year that I loved all the way through.

These were my new favorite songs to come out of 2009 & the songs that defined the year for me personally, in no particular order. If you don't have them, you should :)


1. Physical Love by The Working Title (Bone Island)
2. 11th Dimension by Julian Casablancas (Phrazes For The Young)
3. Time to Move (feat. John Mayer) by Crosby Loggins (Time To Move)
4. Electrify by Mute Math (Armistice)
5. experimental bed by Nightmare of You (Infomaniac)
6. Walk Like A Gentleman by Eye Alaska (Genesis Underground)
7. Be Calm by fun. (Aim and Ignite)
8. Just Not Each Other by William Fitzsimmons (The Sparrow and the Crow)
9. Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.) by Monsters of Folk (Monsters Of Folk)
10. If You Go by Vedera (Stages)
11. Mientras La Veo Soñar by Rx Bandits (Mandala)
12. Where I'm From, You Die With Your Secrets by A Loss for Words (The Kids Can't Lose)
13. Better Than Me by The Brobecks (Violent Things)
14. The Beacon by A Fine Frenzy (Bomb In A Birdcage)
15. Edge of Desire by John Mayer (Battle Studies)
16. Amelia by Cassino (Kingprince)
17. Moth's Wings by Passion Pit (Manners)
18. Sixes & Sevens by As Tall As Lions (You Can't Take It With You)
19. Ready, Able by Grizzly Bear (Veckatimest)
20. Coal War by Joshua James (Build Me This)
21. Sleep. When We Die. by Anchor & Braille (Felt)
22. Silvia by Miike Snow (Miike Snow)
23. Tigerlily by La Roux (La Roux)
24. Dance On Our Graves by Paper Route (Absence)
25. Indian Summer by Jónsi & Alex (Riceboy Sleeps)]]> http://www.last.fm/user/viciousadmirer/journal/2008/12/13/2byul9_best_albums_of_2008 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:41:08 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/viciousadmirer/journal/2008/12/13/2byul9_best_albums_of_2008 These are not, by any means, the best albums released overall this year. This is a list of my personal favorites that came out in 2008:


1. Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust - Sigur Rós
Best track: Vid spilum endalaust

2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Best track: Blue Ridge Mountains

3. Bring Me Your Love - City and Colour
Best track: Sleeping Sickness

4. The Glass Passenger - Jack's Mannequin
Best track: Caves

5. Not Animal - Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
Best track: A Children's Crusade on Acid

6. Mending - The New Frontiers
Best track: The Day You Fell Apart

7. The Sucker Punch Show - Lovedrug
Best track: Blood Like

8. We All Need a Reason To Believe - Valencia
Best track: Listen Up

9. Feed the Animals - Girl Talk
Best track: Still Here

10. Saturdays=Youth - M83
Best track: We Own The Sky

11. Only By the Night - Kings of Leon
Best track: Use Somebody

12. Can't Love, Can't Hurt - Augustana
Best track: Hey Now

13. Champion - The Audition
Best track: Hell To Sell

14. Illuminate - Lydia
Best track: This Is Twice Now

15. The Alchemy Index 3 & 4: Air & Earth - Thrice
Best track: A Song For Milly Michaelson

16. Innerpartysystem - Innerpartysystem
Best track: New Poetry

17. Wake - Brightwood
Best track: Taken

18. Yellow & Elephant EP - Eye Alaska
Best track: I Knew You'd Never Fly

19. Rhythm, Chord & Melody - The Reign Of Kindo
Best track: Let It Go

20. You Are My Sunshine - Copeland
Best track: Should You Return

21. Gossip In the Grain - Ray LaMontagne
Best track: I Still Care For You

22. Razia's Shadow - Forgive Durden
Best track: Toba the Tura (ft. Chris Conley)

23. Avalon - Anthony Green
Best track: Stonehearted Man

24. Konk - The Kooks
Best track: Do You Wanna

25. Whisper War - The Cab
Best track: Risky Business]]> http://www.last.fm/user/viciousadmirer/journal/2007/07/17/iou_new_playlist Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:44:15 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/viciousadmirer/journal/2007/07/17/iou_new_playlist This is the playlist I put on when I'm trying to relax or fall asleep. It's pretty long, but worth it. If you don't have these songs, you absolutely need to get them.


1. Sleeper 1972 - Manchester Orchestra
2. Close Your Eyes - Young Love
3. Japanese Gum - Her Space Holiday
4. On A Freezing Chicago Street - Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
5. Concrete Boots - Immoor
6. Simple, Starving To Be Safe - Daphne Loves Derby
7. Instead Of Beauty, Branding - After The Sirens
8. Little Child - The Panic Division
9. How Do I Fix My Head - Straylight Run
10. The City Lights - Umbrellas
11. Away to the Heart - Noise Ratchet
12. You Remind Me Of Home - Ben Gibbard
13. Motionless - Hotel Lights
14. Earth And Venus - Andy Davis
15. Holiday in Spain - Number One Fan
16. Once More With Feeling - Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
17. Picture - Mute Math
18. City Dreamer - The Go Find
19. Paper Bag - Dear and the Headlights
20. Someone Else's Life - Joshua Radin
21. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
22. Acoustic #3 - Goo Goo Dolls
23. Echo - Incubus
24. Lover's Lie (Acoustic) - Vedera
25. Dust Went Flying - Cassino
26. Underwear - Sugarcult
27. Cavanaugh Park - Something Corporate
28. The Circumstances - ...Of Sinking Ships
29. Lovesick - Celebrity
30. The Boy Who Stopped The World - Aaron Sprinkle
31. I'd Rather Be Wine Drunk - The City on Film
34. Stay Away - The Honorary Title
35. Half - Ben Forrest Davis
36. No You Drop It - Inkwell
37. The Ocean - Mae
38. couches in alleys - Styrofoam
39. In The Deep - Bird York
40. Easy Like A Sunday Morning - Transit Studio
41. Hands Running Down and In Your Clothes - De Lotus Repèré
42. Writings On The Wall - The Album Leaf
43. The Night They Blew Up The Moon - Hot Rod Circuit
44. Starálfur - Sigur Rós
45. A Hole In The World (Acoustic) - Thursday
46. A Thousand Years - Brandtson
47. She Was Only in It for the Rain - Rocky Votolato
48. What Do You Go Home To? - Explosions in the Sky
49. Play Crack the Sky - Brand New
50. The Grace - Neverending White Lights
51. Most Nights - Owen
52. Something Isn't Right Here - The Juliana Theory
53. Fever Dream - Iron & Wine
54. Casey's Song - City and Colour
55. Two Zero Two - Northstar
56. No Good At Saying Sorry (One More Chance) - The Early November
57. Loneliest Girl in the World - Cary Brothers
58. Pachuca Sunrise (Alias Remix) - Minus the Bear
59. Kickin' Myself - As Tall As Lions
60. Sleep - Copeland
61. A Message (Acoustic) - Park
62. Inevitable - Anberlin
63. Spiders (Acoustic) - Lovedrug
64. Second Chances - Paper Route
65. There Is None - The Working Title]]> http://www.last.fm/user/viciousadmirer/journal/2007/05/17/iot_bands_i%27ve_seen_live_%28updated_2312%29 Thu, 17 May 2007 22:15:03 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/viciousadmirer/journal/2007/05/17/iot_bands_i%27ve_seen_live_%28updated_2312%29 (even though the date of the entry never changes, this is always being updated)


3OH!3 (6)

A Change of Pace (4)
A Cursive Memory (3)
A Day To Remember
A Loss For Words
A Static Lullaby
A Thorn For Every Heart (2)
A Weekend Flight
Abe Vigoda
The Academy Is...
Acceptance
Act As If
Aimee Allen (2)
The All-American Rejects
All Time Low (9)
Allister (3)
The Almost
Amber Pacific
Anarbor (4)
Anathallo (2)
Anberlin (6)
Andrew McMahon
Armor For Sleep
Army of Freshmen
As Cities Burn
As Tall As Lions (6)
The Ataris (2)
Atreyu
The Audition
August Burns Red
Aushua (3)
Autopilot Off
Avenged Sevenfold

Bayside (2)
Beat Union
Best Interest (10)
Between The Trees
Blaqk Audio
The Bled
blink-182
Bowling For Soup
Boys Like Girls (7)
Boys Night Out (3)
Brand New (7)
Brandtson
Breathe Carolina (2)
Brian Bonz
The Bridges
Brighten
Broadway Calls
The Brobecks (2)

The Cab
Canon Blue
Cartel (4)
Cary Brothers
The Chase
Chasing Victory
The Cinematics
Circa Survive (6)
City and Colour
The City Drive (4)
The Classic Crime (2)
Club Of The Sons
Cobra Starship
Coheed and Cambria
Copeland (4)
Cordova
Coretta Scott
The Cure
Curt Phillips
Cute Is What We Aim For (3)

Damone
Danger Radio
The Dangerous Summer
Daphne Loves Derby (3)
Dashboard Confessional
Days Away (3)
Dear and the Headlights (2)
Denver Harbor
Discover America
Don't Look Down (2)
Down For The Count (3)
Down To Earth Approach (2)
The Drive
Dropping Daylight (2)
The Duke Spirit

E>K>U>K
The Early November (5)
Edison Glass
Eisley (3)
Emanuel (3)
Emery (2)
Energy
Envy on the Coast (2)
Eric Hutchinson (2)
Evaline (2)
Every Avenue (4)
Every Time I Die (2)
Everybody Else (3)
Eye Alaska (2)

The Faint
Fall Out Boy (4)
Family Force 5
Far-Less
Fiasco!
Fight Fair
Finch (2)
Firescape
Fletch
The Fold
Forgive Durden
The Format (5)
Foxy Shazam
The Fray (3)
From First To Last (2)
Full Switch Coma
Further Seems Forever

Gatsby's American Dream (4)
Get Back Loretta
Ghostland Observatory (2)
Girl in a Coma
Gomez
Goodbyetomorrow
Grace Gale
The Graduate (5)
Greeley Estates (2)
Gym Class Heroes

Haste The Day
Hellogoodbye (6)
Hey Mercedes
Hidden In Plain View (2)
The Higher (5)
Hit The Lights
Home Grown (3)
The Honorary Title (3)
Hot Rod Circuit (2)
Houston Calls (5)
The Human Abstract
The Hush Sound

I Am the Avalanche
Idiot Pilot
Innaway
Innerpartysystem (2)

Jack's Mannequin (3)
The Jakes
JamisonParker (4)
Jenoah
Jesse Lacey
Jimmy Eat World (2)
John Ralston
The Jonas Brothers
The Juliana Theory (3)
The Junior Varsity
Just Off Turner
Just Surrender (3)

Keating
Kevin Devine (4)

Liam and Me
Limbeck (3)
Locksley
Love you long time (2)
Lovedrug (3)
Lydia
The Lyndsay Diaries

M83
Madcap (2)
Mae (7)
The Maine
Manchester Orchestra (3)
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
Maritime
Mat Kearney
Matchbook Romance (4)
the Matches (3)
Mates of State
Mayday Parade
Meg & Dia (2)
Mêlée (5)
Meriwether
Mest
mewithoutYou
Michael Johns
Minus the Bear
Moneen (2)
Monsters of Folk
Monty Are I
Morning Call
Motion City Soundtrack (6)
The Movielife
MUTEMATH (7)
My American Heart (7)

Name Taken
The New Amsterdams
New Atlantic
New Found Glory (4)
Nightmare of You (3)
Normal Like You
Nothing Ever Stays
Number One Fan
Nural (4)

O.A.R.
The Outline (3)
Over It (2)
Owen

The Panic Division (2)
Panic at the Disco (2)
Paper Rival (2)
Paramore
Pelican
Permanent Me
The Pink Spiders
Plain White T's (6)
PlayRadioPlay! (4)
Portugal. The Man (2)
Powerspace

Quietdrive

Ra Ra Riot
Rainer Maria
The Receiving End of Sirens (2)
The Redwalls
Relient K
Renfue
Reubens Accomplice
River City Rebels
The Rocket Summer (7)
Rocky Votolato
Ronnie Day
Rookie Of The Year (4)
Rooney (2)
Roses Are Red (2)
Rufio (3)
RX Bandits (2)

S.T.U.N. (2)
Satisfaction
Saves The Day (4)
Say Anything (3)
Secondhand Serenade (2)
Secret Lives Of The Freemasons
Self Against City (4)
Senses Fail (5)
Sherwood
Sigur Rós
Sing It Loud
The Sleeping
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Something Corporate (2)
Something For Rockets
The Spill Canvas (5)
Spitalfield (2)
The Starting Line (7)
The Status
Steel Train
Story Of The Year (3)
Straylight Run
Street to Nowhere
Sugar Ray
Sugarcult (4)
Sullivan

Taking Back Sunday (2)
Tegan and Sara
Terminal
Them Terribles
Thrice (3)
Thursday (2)
Ticker Tape Parade
Transit Studio (2)
The Transit War
Treaty of Paris (2)

Underoath
Understated (3)
The Used

Valencia (4)
Vast Atlantic
Vedera (2)
Vogue In The Movement

Waking Ashland (4)
Watashi Wa
We Are Lions (4)
We Shot the Moon (4)
We The Kings (3)
Weatherbox
Weezer
What Laura Says Thinks And Feels
William Tell (2)
The Wonder Years (3)
The Working Title

Yeasayer
Yellowcard (3)
You, Me, and Everyone We Know
Young Love (3)]]>