Ai! I did not Alt-M!

I tried to download that thing once. It didn't work, and I forgot about it until now.

i was definitely one of the ones who played that wolf parade song...i'm a little obsessed at this point.

Ah! But there were three others! Out with ye! Stand with your unindicted co-conspirators!

(For those new to Last.FM, the group stat numbers indicate how many group members played an artist or track during the last week -- hence, 11 of us 28 members played a Modest Mouse track at some point.)

Oh... OK. I was wondering how that worked.

and why none of the music I played was up there

Most of the top songs are ones that I've never heard in my life.

Looks like people were listening to my latest MetaChat Mix.

I don't see my beloved Dictators, Bell Rays, Fastbacks or even Ramones anywhere on that list. Something will have to be done.

Damn hipster kids.

Also, how sorry am I to have missed this? Dennis Thompson, Wayne Kramer, and Michael Davis from the MC5, along with Mark Arm from Mudhoney, Lisa Kekaula from the Bell Rays, and his majesty Handsome Dick Manitoba, doing MC5 songs on stage.

Which begs the larger question, how come nobody writes straight ahead unironic rock and roll like that anymore? Are they unable or just unwilling? Or do they think nobody but a few old codgers wants to hear it?

It's like the song on my userpage says: who will save rock and roll?

What the hell are you talking about, Jon? Everyone I know was all a-jeancreamin' over the MC5 revive.
But it was disappointing to see that only one scrob-enabled other person was listening to my awesome mix. And even then, they seem to have avoided the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, despite my assurances that it's all cotton wadding and explosions (and that singing "The albatros begins his revenge" in a falsetto is totally gratifying).

Jon, if you don't think that people like straight ahead rock, you need to come to Michigan. I agree with you about most of those indie bands (I find 'em kinda boring, really), but we've got fantastic straight ahead rock pretty much every day of the week, and definitely every weekend.
Here are some bands for you to check out:
The Sirens— Think Heart played by amazons.
The Avatars— South America meets the Motor City in a blaze of MC5 and Stooges.
The Woggles— Despite the name, they're more explosive Mooney Suzuki types.
The Hard Lessons— Lucinda Williams meets Italian garage (again, here in Michigan).
Coke Dick Motorcycle Awesome— Somewhere between Evel Knievel and grindcore.
The Deadly Snakes— Just put out a new album, proving that Montreal isn't just the stomping grounds of delicate 15-member indie bands, but that insane blues has a place too.
The Muggs— Black Crowes meet Guns 'n' Roses in diry blues town.
The Amino Acids— Dick Dale in sci-fi alien shocker! Think more punk than Man or Astroman.
Powertrane— Longtime luminary Scott Morgan fronts powerblues combo.
The Solution— Scott Morgan again, this time with the guys from the Hellacopters (Sweden rockers that eat the Hives for breakfast).

If that doesn't get you started on realizing that plenty of us youngin's love the rock, then you're to be sent off for soylent green.

What the hell are you talking about, Jon? Everyone I know was all a-jeancreamin' over the MC5 revive.

Well, I think among our demographic, me you and those with like minded tastes are a distinct minority. Otherwise the bell Rays would be multiplatinum superstars and Limp Bizkit and Arcade Fire would be playing Holiday Inn lounges.

I trust your opinions, klang, so I'll look into the groups you mentioned. But I've been burned on bands claiming to be all about the rock before. Remember the Strokes, the Hives, the Vines? Although there was a band called the Riff Randells that i heard a while back who were pretty neat.

Back in the early 90's there was plenty of real rock being played both in the mainstream and the underground, (not to mention plenty of good hip hop and R&B), but these days everywhere you look it's either mechanized pop with no sense of nuance or stilted arty crap with no sense of fun and no balls.

I HATE actively dislike most of those bands.
Frankly, Wilco bores me, the Decemberists annoy me, and Modest Mouse is way too pretentious.

Don't even get me started on the Arcade Fire.

One of my "Musical Neighbors" has Coldplay as her #1 band right now. I HATE dislike social software.

Modest Mouse stole my friend's beer AND his jacket.

So fuck them.

Jon: Like LaVar Burton at the end of Reading Rainbow— Don't Take My Word For It. That's The Avatars, in one of their sounds-like-Blondie moments. They also do barnburning revival rock. They've finished their album and I hope to get a leak of it soon.
The Muggs: Gonna Need My Help. They didn't put my favorite song of theirs up on the web, and I might YSI later if I can track down the disc. But this is a good intro.
Scott Morgan's mp3s are dead, and I don't have any handy. But he was in The Rationals back in the day, who were the band that was most likely to make it from the Stooges/MC5 clique. They had regional hits and the other two would open for them. Then they had the traditional "bad manager/drug abuse/bad contract" problems and disappeared. Morgan kept fronting Scott's Pirates for years, then switched over to Powertrane (which is a decent band, despite having a dumb name).
The Hard Lessons only have a couple of songs up that I can link to, so here's one of their poppier ones: That Other Girl.
There's also the Peruvian band Motosierros' I Hate Rock 'n' Roll (also on No Fun Records— they just had a festival and I got a couple of wild mod/garage albums from South America... WOO!).
Here's one from The Boomerangs— Thunderbird. They're a band made up of folks from all sorts of local rock bands past and present. And they rock.
Aside from that, there's a buncha damn Myspace pages that don't allow hotlinking because MySpace is for douchebags...

this is for jon. Rock out, mate.

jon: at least on the full charts you can see that 4 people played the Ramones.

And for the record, apart from, say, "Float On", Modest Mouse doesn't do anything for me. Just in case my sarcasm was too subtle. They seem to me like the Journey of the indie set.

and why none of the music I played was up there

Yeah, the full charts only list artists or tracks played by two or more group members. It has nothing to do with how much you play a track. In the old days Audioscrobbler used to do it that way, but people then tried to game the charts and get their favorites at the top or themselves as top fans. The new way has its own drawbacks as a "chart" but tends to reflect the group consensus better, I think.

I will play a custom station based on jonmc's favorite bands tonight, I promise.