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Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
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Spazz - Sweatin To The Oldies
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His Hero Is Gone - Like Weeds
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The ego is a product of pathology. The suppression of the ego is the defeat of the dominators, the materialists and the product-peddlers. 10:48 AM Jan 10th from Nambu

Frodus

Decahedron

Man and Wasp

The Out Circuit

Here's a quick list of showcases I hope to catch the evening of Saturday, March 21st:

7:50pm: Kissy Sell Out (La Zona Rosa)
8:40pm: The Whip (La Zona Rosa)
10:00pm: An Horse (Emo's Jr)
11:00pm: Lady dottie & the diamonds (Wave)
12:00am: Florian Horwath (Submerged)
12:45am: Frodus (Red 7 patio)

My fallbacks are:

7:40pm: White Lies (Stubb's)
8:00pm: Adam Heldring (Wave rooftop), The Shitsez (Buffalo Billiards)
9:00pm: Found (Volume), The Elysian Quartet (The Tap Room at Six)
10:00pm: Bloodgroup (Karma Lounge), TAT (Spiro's ampitheater)
11:00pm: Alaska In Winter (Submerged), Pete Philly & Prerequisite (Buffalo Billiards)
11:40pm: PRE (Mohawk)
12:00am: Friends Electric (Latitude 30), Street Dogs (Emo's Annex)
1:00am: Marnie Stern (Central Presbyterian Church), Six Finger Satellite (The Independent), Dmitry Fyodorov (Karma Lounge), Fair to Midland (Maggie Mae's rooftop)

just for posterity's sake.

1. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (159) http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/resizer.php?i=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003L26.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg&w=100 http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/spacer.gif2. Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty (156) http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/resizer.php?i=http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/14991713.jpg&w=100 http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/spacer.gif3. Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (156) http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/resizer.php?i=http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/15367759.jpg&w=100 http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/spacer.gif4. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (153) http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/resizer.php?i=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004U8EP.02._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg&w=100 http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/spacer.gif5. Matthew Good - Hospital Music (143) http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/resizer.php?i=http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/174s/13258007.jpg&w=100 http://ilo.gda.pl/filip/cover/spacer. …

You take your top twenty artists here on last.fm, and post the first song you heard by them, the one that made you fall in love with them and your current favorite one.

Dead Kennedys
First: Police Truck
Fell In Love With: California Uber Allies
Current Favorite: I Am the Owl

They Might Be Giants
First: Theme From Flood
Fell in love with: Particle Man
Current Favorite: I Have a Fang

Frodus
First: Misaligned Men of Flomaton
Fell in love with: The Earth Isn't Humming
Current favorite: Swingset

Bad Brains
First: Pay to Cum
Fell in love with: Attitude
Current favorite: How Low can a Punk Get?

Starflyer 59
First: Sundown
Fell in love with: My First Heart Attack
Current favorite: Fell in Love at Twenty-Two

Botch
First: Oh Fortuna
Fell in love with: To Our Friends in the Great White North
Current favorite: Japam

Zao
First: Trashcan Hands
Fell in love with: Savannah
Current favorite: Autopsy

Genghis Tron
First: Board up the House
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10.Converge

9.mewithoutYou

8.Dead Kennedys

7.Project 86

6.He Is Legend

5.Benea Reach

4.Norma Jean

3.Zao

2.Frodus

1.Five Iron Frenzy

Last week was a good week to be a music lover. No, let me rephrase that. Last week was a great week to be a music lover. With three outstanding new releases, that made my week very tough and enjoyable. Tough, because I was having a hard time dividing my time between these album, to give them all fair play. And I was fairly happy with all of them.

(In alphabetical order, by artist.)

Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight

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As I expressed in my *new* music that will surely have some dominance over my charts this year journal, I've been waiting for this album for the last couple of months. Due to some clever promoting and advanced tracks, I came to expect great things from this, and it has delivered in a big, big fashion.

They've certainly perfected their craft with this release. Reaching the high levels of top-quality melodic pop rock. They've made their sound bigger without sacrificing the personal and…

Instructions on how to calculate this as well as the original post are here:

http://www.last.fm/user/Fraloopie/journal/2007/04/21/402077/

1. List your top 20 overall artists

2. For each, list the 8 most similar artists

3. Delete any repeated artists to get an idea of how eclectic your music listening habits are

A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a score of 160 represents an extremely varied one.

A tool to generate one for yourself is here:

http://keef.co.nr/?page=lastfm_test1

1: Nine Inch Nails
2: Tool
3: A Perfect Circle
4: Marilyn Manson
5: The Smashing Pumpkins
6: Nirvana
7: Deftones
8: Radiohead
9: Queens of the Stone Age
10: Shpongle
11: Hallucinogen
12: Infected Mushroom
13: Younger Brother
14: 1200 Micrograms
15: Ott
16: Entheogenic
17: Astral Projection
18: Celtic Cross
19: Sister Machine Gun
20: Chemlab
21: Die Warzau
22: Pig
23: Gravity Kills
24: KMFDM
25: Pigface
…