Wow, so do you. At some point I decided that it was a sad thing when people got stuck on the same music they grew up listening to and would start to tune out anything else, culminating in "they don't make good music anymore". I put some effort into finding good new music every year. It's so worth it.

My parents listened to a lot of Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry growing up, and they saw Bryan live around when my mom was pregnant with me. My name is also Bryan, though my parents refuse to say that I'm named after anyone in particular, there's no way they chose the Y spelling by accident.

Haha, "Yeah, sure, mom, you didn't name me after Bryan Ferry". That is pretty cool, though. Thank you for sharing that little story!! :)

It does blow my mind that I can see exactly what I was listening to over 20 years ago. This page became a diary of sorts. My friend who introduced me to the site and had a profile even older sadly seems to have deleted theirs within the past year.

I got into Tegan and Sara around 2005 because they were being played on the radio at my work. I haven't followed them at much recently, so now I wonder what they're even up to! As for Madonna, I mostly just love a few albums from the mid 80s to early 90s. I remember being embarrassed as a teen to admit how much I loved the song Open Your Heart.

Yes, although I'm not in love with my car

It's surprising given how many artists we've both listened to, and how much music is out there. I don't ever expect to find anyone with a similar top 10, and it's always cool when it happens. I may check your charts for anything I am overlooking. Also thinking of putting a IG link on my profile because it would be nice to chat to some music people sometime. When I look at my shoutbox I feel like I've left a lot of people hanging. And really it's quite difficult to just meet people who agree with me on music in my everyday life.

Hey buddy. I'm actually on a bit of a music funk lately. Haven't discovered as much in the past year. Any recommendations would be appreciated. :-) Thanks for shouting.

Do you use Instagram? I've posted best of listings there or alternately have quite a few playlists on Spotify, same username as here!

I'm always dreaming of whatever the next discovery will be, though it feels like I haven't found a new musical love in a while. Perhaps I would find some inspiration from your charts. At least half of what I listen to comes from people on last.fm recommending me stuff.

It's okay; I love a couple tracks, and the new mix of Zeroes is pretty good. I do tend to like 80s music, though, and understand why fans of the classic rock style were put off. What do you think?

hah. You absolutely do, though I guess I've been listening to them a few years longer? In any case, that doesn't matter, I just had a lot of time to listen to music in the past few years. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy New Year! It was my pleasure to help!

Happy New Year. I appreciate that you thought of me and my family, and I hope you're doing well!

Yeah! I've been listening to them a long time now, although I suppose I never got as into anything nearly as much as Skylarking. I wonder if I should go back and give the rest another try.

You're missing out, my friend! Skylarking is a fantastic album but there's a world of goodness outside of that record. Trust me.

Hey there! There's an editing tool as a subscriber where you can alter past scrobbles. I used the editing tool and a script to convert all the old plays into the new name. Probably more trouble than it was worth but I was just trying to see if I could do it.

I wonder if you smile proudly when you see all the artists you nudged me into listening to. You're the best last.fm pal! Hope you're well!

Truly one of the greatest around!

I prefer Bowie overall, but Prince was a big influence on me in high school back in the 90s. I might not have gotten into Bowie in the first place without my musical education from Prince.

Haha...it sounds strange in a way, but I do put a lot of effort into finding what I consider to be good music. So I guess it's validating that the results of my efforts have managed to shock someone. Also: your taste seems rather awesome too.

I love your taste in music! There's probably a lot I could recommend...have you not listened to Beach House? I think they're not too far off from Wild Nothing, and (clearly) amongst my favorite of all time.

omg youre listening to til tuesday rn voices carry is one of my fav albums!!! <333 but yeah i have checked them out but ive never gone that deep with them, not sure why. my favorite song is sparks but thats all i really know. i like the pace of wild nothing a little more i think...maybe i need to relax a little lol

i assume teen dream is your favorite album?

haha I'm so glad someone found my joke. I think they should update the lyrics to actually be that now.

Yeah, that's right. Their lyrics seem to be so universal and this song is a perfect example. Times change but some meanings stay the same. They could also return to the studio finally , to record some new stuff. I'm sure Roland's observations about the world could lead to very wise and very intellectual lyrics and music.

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My son was going around singing "Welcome to the Jungle!" today even though the last time he heard it was a week ago. :-D So now I have to play it for him again.

By the way, you're an absolute legend that I find you as the top comment yesterday on Beach House, and today on U2.

thanks, same to you!

Well I think the fact that you got me listening to Janelle Monae made my library a little more perfect. That's amazing that you met Annie!!! How did that happen?

I’m so happy to have introduced you to Janelle! As for Annie, during the concert she reached out and touched my hand(!!!) and was just generally looking at me and my friends a lot so after the show we thought we would try our luck meeting her outside the venue. She got in the van and it started to drive off and then it stopped and she opened the door and jumped out. It was awesome!

:-D Thanks, followed. Feel free to recommend something.

Yeah that soundtrack turned out to be pretty good! Thanks.

Thanks! I like that we both have St. Vincent and Marina in our top artists. It doesn't seem like there would be an obvious connection, but there must be something to it! As for Bowie, well, he has one of the largest discographies of anyone you'll ever try to get into. My #1 advice is not to just focus on his classic rock era. Honestly, I don't even really like his first two albums. His best music is probably from the late 70s and early 80s, but also from the mid 90s onward most of those albums are pretty good. Foe example, 2002's "Heathen" is essential, especially the second half.