Journal

I love last.fm immensely and cannot imagine a life without my stats, but play count isn't the only indicator of a listener's devotion to a band.

Since two-minute pop songs rack up plays quickly, and half-hour post rock songs don't, let this list serve as a proper guide to my musical tastes.

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The Airborne Toxic Event: The Airborne Toxic Event
The Album Leaf: Red Tour EP
The Album Leaf & Bright Eyes: Collaboration Series no. 1
Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain
The American Dollar: The Technicolor Sleep
The Antlers: Hospice
Arcade Fire: Funeral
Astrobear: First Contact
Aussitôt Mort: Montuenga
Azure Ray: Burn and Shiver

Behemoth: Grom
Beirut: Gulag Orkestar
Bitcrush: Epilogue In Waves
Bit Shifter: Information Chase
The Best Pessimist: I Just Want To Be Your Everything
Bishop Allen: The Broken String
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath
The Boy Least Likely To: The Best Party Ever
Bon Iver: Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Burial + Four Tet: Moth / Wolf Cub
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a million faces
a million smiles
a million strangers
a million lies
a million hearts
a million sighs
a million shoes
a million fakes
a million souls
a million screams
a million masks
a million dreams
a million hands
a million sins
a million scars
a million failures
a million superstars
a million slide
a million insane
a million confide
a million feign
a million wake
a million use
a million fake
a million lose
a million cheat
a million frown
a million repeat
one


HOWL - ALLEN GINSBERY

I
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,
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Ólafur Arnalds - ‘Foung Songs’

From Twitter via Flickr to traditional record stores –
7-songs in 7-days online series becomes physical on August 31!

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You can now pre-order the remastered Limited Edition CD in Digisleeve and 10” Vinyl incl. Digital Download Code here: http://store.erasedtapes.com

'Iceland's best new export' – Clash // ‘Youthful Icelander Arnalds sculpts classically toned indie epics' – Time Out

'Enchanting Icelandic song-smith Ólafur Arnalds has been a favourite at DiS towers for a while but he's only gone and endeared himself to us even bloody more now!' – Drowned In Sound

'Ólafur Arnalds is a brilliant everything. I love nothing more than seeing genuine, hardworking, creative people capture attention of audiences, creating instead of complaining and talking. The new music industry is in their hands. The Erased Tapes team is a similarly inspired bunch' – Anthony Volodkin, The Hype Machine (US)
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With the critically acclaimed debut album 'Eulogy for Evolution' and follow-up EP 'Variations of Static' – both released on cinematic music label Erased Tapes – under his belt, Icelandic neo-classical composer Ólafur Arnalds embarks on a brand new collection of tracks entitled 'Found Songs'. Each track from this series will be created and released within 24 hours and made exclusively available online as a free download on foundsongs.erasedtapes.com .

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For the first time Ólafur will compose and release a track daily – an idea which he developed as a way to collate several lost and found musical sketches and ideas in a 'very challenging, but fun' series. From Monday April 13th, Arnalds will create a song a day, for 7 days – instantly making each track available and keeping his fans up to date on Twitter.com/OlafurArnalds.

'Found Songs' will provide listeners with an intimate insight into the artists creative world. …

Vinyl
* The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
* The Beatles - Let It Be (1970)
* The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour/Yellow Submarine (1992, Russian double LP)
* Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi (1984)
* The Clash - London Calling (1979)
* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu (1970)
* The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
* múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK (2005)
* Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul (2008, boxset)
* Pink Floyd - Meddle (1971)
* Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
* Queen - A Night At The Opera (1975)
* Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (2008, 7" single)
* Radiohead - Nude (2008, 7" single)
* Sigur Rós - In a Frozen Sea: A Year With Sigur Rós (2007)
* Sigur Rós - Hljómalind (2007, 7" single)
* Various Artists - The Concert for Bangladesh (1971)
* U2 - Boy (1980)
* U2 - War (1983)
* U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)
* The Who - Tommy (1969)
* Thom Yorke - The Eraser Rmxs (2008, 12" single #1)
* Thom Yorke - The Eraser Rmxs (2008, 12" single #2)
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Download from: http://www.sendspace.com/file/qt6q6e

the svelte selection - 9th July 2008

1. Joe Jackson - ‘Fools In Love/For Your Love' from Summer in the City (Sony)
2. Tunng - ’Bullets’ from Good Arrows (Full Time Hobby)
3. Ólafur Arnalds - ‘1953’ from Eulogy for Evolution (Erased Tapes)
4. Radiohead - ‘Pyramid Song’ from Amnesiac (Parlophone)
5. Franz Ferdinand - ‘Michael’ from Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
6. Dizzee Rascal - ‘Dance Wiv Me (Extended)’ from Dance Wiv Me Single (Dirtee Stank)
7. Hoodoo Gurus - ‘Like Wow/Wipeout’ from Mars Needs Guitars! (Bigtime)
8. Neill MacColl & Kathryn Williams - ‘Shoulders’ from Two (Caw)
9. The Cave Singers - ‘Dancing On Our Graves’ from Dancing On Our Graves Single (matador records)
10. Roots Manuva - ‘Buff Nuff’ from Buff Nuff Single (Big Dada)
11. Badun - 'Print' from Badun (Rump Recordings)
12. The City Waits - ‘There was a Lass of Islington’ from Pills To Purge The Melancholy…