clearskies

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Folks, I use this site to gather my listening stats, no more. I am no longer a subscriber. You can catch me on Grooveshark

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- Last.fm - RIP November 17th 2010
- Twitter > Facebook
- 80,000 - M83 - Dark Moves of Love - 30th October 2011
- Friend requests from people with Super tastes only :)
- Emos are from Mars...I've checked!
- To get an accurate view of my taste, select the 6 month option. I haven't listened to REM in a good while and my taste has changed dramatically in the last few months
- 58,000 and rising!
- I saw a gospel choir yesterday, what music!!
- Well, my attempt to knock R.E.M. off the Number One spot is well and truly over!
- Boy, it is windy out there!
- I just tried to friend myself, but I was rejected!
- I don't like Mondays...tell me why!!
- I regularly Twitter...@clearer_skies
- 55,000 plays!!!!! - Maps, I Dream of Crystal. A new album to mark a great achievement.
- News just in.........I need to lay off Stewart Lee, he's as dull as a doornail..it's catching!
- Good News!!!!!!......The Daysus Sandero is such a class car ;)
- I choose to support Manchester United, it's a life choice.

Ten Things You May Not Know About Me:
1) I'm from Dublin
2) I still buy CD's
3) I play guitar, mandolin and kazoo!
4) I like to listen to any type of music....once.
5) I get a great thrill of listening to new music, while also liking to delve through tapes from the 80s!
6) I write music ....but I don't think much of it!
7) My favourite channel is coincidentally is Dave......which is my name!
8) I have recently been finding it hard to sleep, see what music does to me?!
9) Eh..not much more to say really..
10) GAA > Football > Tiddly winks > Rugby

Recent Purchases

Chromatics - Kill For Love
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Grimes - Visions
The Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea
MMOTHS - Mmoths Ep
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
John Talabot - Fin
We Have Band - Ternion
Chairlift - Something
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
R.E.M. - Part Lies....
R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
Gotye - Making Mirrors
Washed Out - Within And Without
The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
Balam Acab - Wander / Wonder
The Field - Looping State of Mind
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
Beirut - The Rip Tide
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant (Deluxe Edition)
Austra - Feel It Break
Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Deerhunter - Halycon Digest
Low - C'mon
Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
A Lazarus Soul - Through a Window in the Sunshine Room
R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
James Blake - James Blake
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Glasser - Ring
Strands - Strands
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Frightened Rabbit - The winter of mixed drinks & The Midnight Organ Fight
Solar Bears - She was Coloured In
Peter Broderick - How They Are
Beach House - Teen Dream
Steve Mason (ex Beta Band ) - Boys Outside
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Tired Pony - The Place we Ran From
The Drums - The Drums
Crowded House - Intriguer
Halves - Haunt Me When I'm Drowsy
The National - High Violet
Low - Things we lost in the fire
Low - The Great Destroyer
Ólafur Arnalds - ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness
Turin Brakes - Outbursts
UNKLE - Where did the Night Fall
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Efterklang - Magic Chairs
Kasper Bjørke - Standing on the top of Utopia
Toro Y Moi - Causers of This
Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
The Holy Roman Army - Desecrations
Jonsi - Go
Lali Puna - Our Inventions
The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
Midlake - The Courage of Others
Patrick Kelleher - You Look Cold
The Album Leaf - A Chorus of Storytellers (I haven't gotten arount to listen to it)
Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain
Dark Room Notes -We Love You Dark Matter
And So I Watch You From Afar - Self titled album
The Magnetic Fields - Realism
Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
Delphic - Acolyte
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
David Kitt - The Nightsaver
Beautiful Unit - European Son
John Matthias - Tales from the Watercooler
R.E.M. - Reckoning (Deluxe Edition) + Live at the Aragon Ballroom
Fink - Sort of Revolution
Sufjan Stevens - The BQE (Yet to listen to)
R.E.M. - Live at the Olympia
Seasick Steve - Man from Another Time (7/10)
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence (9/10)
Maps - Turning The Mind (8/10)
David Gray - Draw the Line (didn't think much of it)
Bibio - Ambivilence Avenue
Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps (10/10)
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Fijiya and Mayagi - Transparant Things
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
White Rabbits - It's Frightening
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I wish I were an eagle
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commader

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move".....Douglas Adams
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"..... Barack Obama
"The European Union: five hundred million people, two hundred languages – no one's got a clue what they're saying to each other!"....Eddie Izzard
"'A hUachtarain agus a chairde (President and friends)"....Queen Elizabeth II, Dublin, May 2011
"Remember that whatever hardships the winter may bring, springtime is always just around the corner. And if they keep on arguing with you, just respond with a simple creed: Is féidir linn. Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Is féidir linn"...Barack Obama, Dublin, May 23rd 2011
"Muintir na hÉireann, ar aghaidh linn le chéile leis an dóchas agus an misneach sin a bhí is ba choir a bheith i gcónaí in ár gcroí"....President Michael D Higgina, Dublin, November 11th, 2011

Clearskies's top 10 albums (3month):
1. Sigur Rós - Valtari (208)


2. Grimes - Visions (101)


3. John Talabot - ƒin (82)


4. UNKLE - End Titles...Stories For Film (44)


5. School of Seven Bells - Ghostory (39)


6. We Have Band - Ternion (28)


7. Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour (27)


8. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. (27)


9. School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire (26)


10. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules (22)