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I just started LastFm ing recently, so the chart tends to skew towards stuff I've been listening to lately, and I listen to a lot of podcasts, so that messes things up to.
For example, the Barenaked Ladies are in my weekly top-ten right now, but I haven't listened to any of their songs recently. I have been listening to their in-studio podcast though.
For me it's:
The Pogues
Wire
J Dilla
King Tubby
Death
Badawi
deadbeat
Scientist
The Rolling Stones
Augustus Pablo
Keith Hudson
Kit Clayton
The Velvet Underground
Hanoi Rocks
RZA
Rhythm & Sound
Talking Heads
The Clash
Prince Far I
The Beatles
I almost never listen to the Beatles, Stones, Wire or Talking Heads, but recently aa-burned-choo some stuff and gave them a listen. J Dilla is number 2 because his CD has 30 tracks on it, and I listened to it twice. Prince Far I just seems to turn up a lot on my "play artists like" radio, but I don't own any of his albums. That's my story.
Most of this stuff comes from listens at work, so it's really at best a representation of stuff I listen to there. I don't use iTunes a whole lot at home.
I know this is kinda dorky, I'm just obsessed with lists and Last.FM. It really bugs me when I listen to a f-burned-kunukk disc and the info doesn't show because the CCCP or whatever didn't recognize it.
This list is pretty accurate, but all of the reggae is slightly overrepresented. Especially Burning Spear. He belongs somewhere down at #45 or so.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Deerhoof
Neutral Milk Hotel
Burning Spear
The New Pornographers
Augustus Pablo
The Shins
The White Stripes
Super Furry Animals
The Flaming Lips
The Futureheads
Jackie Mittoo
Blonde Redhead
The Libertines
The Arcade Fire
Toots and The Maytals
Sufjan Stevens
Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters
Franz Ferdinand
The Faint
My list is very representative of my tastes. All melodic kind of stuff. New Zealand music representing well.
Interpol
Dimmer
The Chills
Split Enz
Pixies
Crowded House
Belle and Sebastian
Straitjacket Fits
Glenn Miller
PJ Harvey
Garbage
The Clash
Radiohead
Tom Waits
REM
Beck
Johann Sebastian Bach
Dinosaur Jr
Massive Attack
Half Japanese
Miles Davis
Johnny Cash
Nina Simone
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
John Prine
Bud Powell
Johann Sebastian Bach
Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley
Dungen
Tin Hat Trio
Charles Mingus
Sufjan Stevens
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Bear McCreary
Chet Baker
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
The Whitefield Brothers
Ella Fitzgerald
Doves
Mozart is entirely my wife listening, Bach is almost entirely me.
Haven't listened to Doves in a long time, must be residual.
Bloc Party
Stereo Total
Mew
Chicks on Speed
Radiohead
少年ナイフ (Shonen Knife)
New Order
The Futureheads
A.R.E. Weapons
Interpol
Death From Above 1979
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Ladytron
2raumwohnung
frida hyvönen
Mikael Simpson
The Flaming Lips
Cat Power
The Knife
The Killers
I guess it's pretty accurate. Shonen Knife shouldn't be in the top twenty but somehow they are anyway. I must have listened to them a lot at some point.
My taste is broader than what seems to be represented on this list. I like a lot of indie rock, hip hop, electronica and singer-songwriter stuff but mostly indie pop and indie rock seems to be on the list.
The Shins
Spoon
Wilco
Tom Waits
Ambulance LTD
The Rolling Stones
The Clash
Interpol
The White Stripes
The Mountain Goats
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
The Pogues
Jim White
Bruce Springsteen
Johnny Cash
The Beatles
Hüsker Dü
Green Day
Screeching Weasel
Scared of Chaka
The top of the list is more representative of "albums that I like to play while falling asleep" (Shins, Wilco, Ambulance LTD, Interpol, Jim White) than my actual favorite bands/albums. And I'm not sure how Husker Du made it on here, or Bruce Springsteen (I only have two Springsteen albums, both of which I purchased in the last two months). I listen to my iPod much more often than I listen from my computer, and I'm not sure if that gets reflected here at all.
Bill Laswell
Stevie Wonder
Blackalicious
Tony Allen
Marvin Gaye
Miles Davis
Cassandra Wilson
Herbie Hancock
Gato Negro
DJ Shadow
Fela Kuti
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System
Matthew Shipp
DJ Spooky
Charles Mingus
mr. dibbs
The Roots
Niney the Observer
DJ Ayres
Nina Simone
It's more or less reflective of my tastes, though I listen to more jazz and dub reggae than the list would suggest.
Thelonious Monk, Archie Shepp, Scientist, Cedric Brooks, Augustus Pablo (hi agro), Curtis Mayfield and Aretha Franklin should probably all be on there (some of them might not make the cut because they've released with various groups, under several different names, etc.). The Roots, while I'm a big fan, probably shouldn't be, except that when I bought the 'Do This Well' 3-cd rarities set, I listened to the whole thing.
Kate Bush
100 Songs
Dean Gray
Leonard Cohen
The Smiths
PJ Harvey
The Zutons
The Streets
Dawn Miceli and Drew Domkus
KT Tunstall
Ry Cooder
The Avalanches
Bloc Party
Suzanne Vega
The Flaming Lips
Tom Waits
Chumbawamba
The Sisters of Mercy
Echobelly
The Aquabats
And no, it doesn't seem to be totally representative.
I mean, "The Aquabats" - Where's that from.
Tom Waits
The Kleptones
The Cardigans
2 Many DJ's
Big Bad Mutha Fuka
Belle and Sebastian
The Decemberists
The Magnetic Fields
MC Frontalot
NPR
The Arcade Fire
mashuptown.com
Metric
Kanye West
Radiohead
Paul Simon
The White Stripes
Aceyalone
Grandaddy
Gorillaz
The Temptations
Sufjan Stevens
Broken Social Scene
Death Cab for Cutie
The Mountain Goats
Wir sind Helden
Wilco
Belle and Sebastian
Radiohead
National
Bloc Party
Beck
The Postal Service
Feist
U2
Sigur Rós
Iron & Wine
Gorillaz
French Kicks
The New Pornographers
The Perishers
A lot of my Sufjan listening is residual from listening to his Christmas EPs a lot in December, but I'd say my list reflects my tastes pretty well. Just your average indie kid I suppose. The National should technically be more like #7 since some of the tracks are labeled "National" and some are "The National" and it splits those into seperate bands. It's maybe the most annoying thing about last.fm.
Go Augustus! Who knew?
A pretty diverse inventory here, even within everyone's list.
box - Twilight Circus Dub Sound System! That would probably be in my top 20 if it could count CDs. And Tony Allen - w'alright. And a guy I know just started a project with Laswell, it's supposed to be incredible (according to a friend who saw them live).
The only time I listen to music on my computer is when I'm making a mix disc (and I don't even do all of my mixes on a computer) so this isn't something possible for me at the moment. And my portable music player is a CD player, so I'm really behind the times. And this type of shit is right up my alley too.
Mum
Skinny Puppy
Eluvium
Low
The National
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson & Sigur Rós
This is a Process of a Still Life
Great Lake Swimmers
Unto Ashes
Matisyahu
Antony and the Johnsons
The Wedding Present
Mary Lou Lord
James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards
The Great Depression
The Mountain Goats
Swans
Tori Amos
Hocico
faith assembly
It's fairly representative of my tastes, I suppose.
The Beach Boys
They Might Be Giants
Black 47
Pete Townshend
The Clash
XTC
R.E.M.
Pink Floyd
Steely Dan
Enter the Haggis
Barenaked Ladies
Supertramp
Bruce Springsteen
Louis Jordan
Norah Jones
Great Big Sea
Jimmy Buffett
The Nat King Cole Trio
Miles Davis
John Mayer
Benny Goodman Sextet
Oscar Alemán
This is me, for sure. It's recommending Aerosmith, matchbox twenty, James Taylor, Moxy Früvous, Yellowcard and Air. I have no idea who Yellowcard and Air are.
B.A. Baracus Band
Imogen Heap
Django Reinhardt
Alkaline Trio
royksopp
Taking Back Sunday
A*Teens
Dashboard Confessional
Mylo
Death Cab For Cutie
Big Kahuna & The Copa Cat Pack
Ladytron
Petula Clark
Aberfeldy
The Slackers
Ramones
System of a Down [now deleted - my "taste" has moved on]
The Go! Team
Blur
Lifehouse
cmonkey - heard the new Wedding Present? Worth getting? How does it compare to say, Bizarro?
tommasz - my guess is it's recommending Air because of your Beach Boys ranking. Both have flawless production. FWIW, Bertrand Burgalat *may* be a better/closer recommendation. But I suppose it could be the 70's Air, because of the jazz.
Enter the Haggis? heh.
The Flaming Lips
Radiohead
The Fiery Furnaces
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Pixies
The Shins
[unknown] (podcasts, etc)
Hollertronix
Interpol
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jeff Buckley
TV on the Radio
Badly Drawn Boy
Stereolab
The White Stripes
Blur
Beck
Bob Marley
Air
The Strokes
My list is pretty typical. I don't actually have that much music on my computer, so I tend to listen to the same albums over and over, and usually only when I'm studying. I think they should scale by the number of tracks on a given album, though. Album listeners, like me, generally have results skewed towards longer albums over shorter ones.
I agree with hellbient--Dub Voyage is among my favorites.
Also, Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Henry Threadgill, should probably be on my list too. But the different Threadgill groups--Very Very Circus, Make a Move, Zooid, Air, etc.--you know how it is.
1 Susumu Yokota (discovered him recently, downloaded all his albums, been listening to them a lot)
2 Super Furry Animals (listened to them a lot when they came through town)
3 Calexico (ongoing listening)
4 Sons and Daughters (ongoing listening)
5 Low (ongoing listening)
6 Beck (ongoing listening)
7 The Decemberists (listened to them a lot when they came through town)
8 Mogwai (ongoing listening)
8 The Rosebuds (new discovery, heavy rotation)
10 Boards of Canada (ongoing listening)
11 Rogue Wave (didn't think I listened to them that frequently)
12 Broken Social Scene (ongoing listening)
13 The American Analog Set (ongoing listening, may be higher if some songs are classified as "American Analog Set")
13 The Harvey Girls (ongoing listening)
15 Of Montreal (listened to them a lot for a while, not so much now)
16 Kate Bush (heavy rotation of new album)
17 Stina Nordenstam (light rotation of lots of albums)
17 Need New Body (this may be a fluke of downloading a lot of albums and listening to each of them once)
19 Animal Collective (ongoing listening)
20 Wolf Parade (ongoing listening - higher because they're in the car a lot)
21 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (ongoing listening - higher because they're in the car a lot)
22 The National (ongoing listening)
Belle and Sebastian isn't on here because they're mostly in the car.
Andrew Bird
Sam Cooke
Bessie Smith
Sam Phillips
The Zombies
REM
Serge Gainsbourg
The Small Faces
The Magnetic Fields
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Majestic Arrows
Lou Reed
Eddy Grant
Mulatu Astatke
Radiohead
The New Pornographers
Lisa Germano
The O'Jays
Kevn Kinney
The Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane
It's sort of representative, but half the time it doesn't actually track the songs I'm playing. And the other half of the time I usually just put it on random.
Loudon Wainwright III
Brendan Benson
The Residents
Half Man Half Biscuit
Steely Dan
The Rezillos
David Bowie
The New Pornographers
Wire
Super Furry Animals
Procol Harum
Veda Hille
Teenage Fanclub
XTC
The Pretenders
Man or Astro-man?
Chas 'n' Dave
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Therapy?
A.C. Newman
I don't listen to The Residents that much but I guess I must've played The Commercial Album twice cos they got 84 plays.
Looking at that list from a distance I guess it gives a pretty good idea of where my music taste is at. Pop music with a PhD, and a bit of rock n roll.
Based on the High Fidelity "it's not what you're like but what you like" theory, I would propose marriage to all of the girls and a few of the guys who have posted in this thread so far.
cmonkey - heard the new Wedding Present? Worth getting? How does it compare to say, Bizarro?
I like the new one, but it really doesn't hold up against Bizarro. It's unmistakably a Wedding Present album, for sure, and it certainly feels more mature than their earlier stuff, but it just doesn't have the same feeling they used to. Almost like the characters in David Gedge's imagination stopped falling in love and getting their hearts broken.
The New Pornographers
Kirsty MacColl
The Mekons
Urge Overkill
Drive-By Truckers
Sufjan Stevens
Eels
Belle and Sebastian
50 Foot Wave
Stars
The Mountain Goats
Fischerspooner
The Flaming Lips
Gang of Four
The Stooges
Kate Bush
The Gun Club
LCD Soundsystem
Kelly Hogan
Pixies
I'd say that's pretty accurate. Kate Bush is probably there because of her last album being that big ol' double CD, and I'm actually surprised Stars ranked in my top 20, but there you are.
Is anyone reading these? Besides, I mean, hellbient?
Grateful Dead
John Coltrane
Björk
Calexico
Miles Davis
On Fire
Blusom
Pelican
Deep Puddle Dynamics
Red Sparowes
Max Richter
Themselves
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Hangedup
Buddhafinger
Leo Kottke
Blind Willie McTell
Nina Simone
Alias
Sole
This is all representative, but of different things.
Skycycle
Oasis
Tenacious D
The Clash
These Arms Are Snakes
Porno for Pyros
Playing Enemy
Il Balletto Di Bronzo
Katie Melua
The Murder City Devils
Ken and the New Incredibles
Susan McKeown
Nils Landgren's Funk Unit
Catherine Lara
Drop Nineteens
Dido
Sarah McLachlan
Banderas
Texas Gladden
Dead Low Tide
Tracy Chapman
Frontalittle Squad
Ben Folds Five
CAKE
The Spotlight Syndicate
Mary Coughlan
Deux Filles
Tosca
Hot Snakes
The Long Winters
Robbie Williams
Björk
Van Morrison
Depeche Mode
Jimi Hendrix
Queen
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tori Amos
St. Germain
Le Tigre
The Avalanches
Death Cab for Cutie
Counting Crows
Bob Marley & The Wailers
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Rage Against the Machine
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
..this list has a lot of weirdness on it that I've never heard of (Hot Snakes, The Spotlight Syndicate, Skycycle, Ken and the New Incredibles). I'm listening to LastFM Recommended Radio to see if I like 'em or not. The rest is kind of on-base, kind of not. I Don't Like ...Trail of Dead at all. Or Oasis. Or even Van Morrison for that matter.
The Cannanes ---------> accurate
Die Tödliche Doris ---> accurate
Songs: Ohia ----------> accurate
Consonant ------------> skewed by recent listening
Yo La Tengo ----------> maybe accurate
Tindersticks ---------> sorta accurate
Brother JT -----------> accurate
Mecca Normal ---------> kinda
Pip Proud ------------> accurate
The Go-Betweens ------> accurate
Tom Waits ------------> skewed by profligacy
The Magnetic Fields --> ditto
Ikara Colt -----------> skewed by recent listening
noski of octofist ----> skewed by 31 covers posted
Sonic Youth ----------> accurate
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds --> accurate
Deerhoof -------------> skewed by short songs
Knife In The Water ---> accurate
The Feelies ----------> accurate
Pierre Bastien & Mecanium ----> accurate
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