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(thought I was actually being early this week as no-one starts the thread til all hours now)

ANYHOO
1. Mew 197     - still rather addicted to ATGHK, Frengers is lovely too
2. Therapy? 84     - the new album is, well, huh
3. Motörhead 39
4. Radiohead 23
5. Guided by Voices 21
6. Electric Six 17     - WON'T BE RELEASING A STUDIO ALBUM THIS YEAR :'(
7. Django Django 13     - i like most of this, shaked my bottom a bit
      Karate Party 13
9. I'll Eat Your Face 11
      Thomas Truax 11
11. The Cast of Cheers 10
12. Mayyors 8     - good driving music
13. A Place to Bury Strangers 6
14. And So I Watch You From Afar 4
       Kanye West 4

ONE MONTH CHART
1. Mew 269
2. Biffy Clyro 126
3. Jetplane Landing 119
4. Therapy? 113
5. Electric Six 86
6. Radiohead 72
7. And So I Watch You From Afar 58
8. Deerhunter 53
9. Troy Gregory 49
10. Obits 47

ONE WEEK

01 of Montreal 31
02 Cardiacs 25
03 Lana Del Rey 24
04 R. Stevie Moore 20
05 Starving Weirdos 18
06 The Mae Shi
06 Julia Holter 14
08 Momus 11
08 Parenthetical Girls 11
10 Islet 10
10 Pop. 1280 10

Paralytic Stalks by of Montreal is really good. Bit too many long freeform symphonic sections but sometimes it works really well within the context of "my whole life is shit and falling apart i am miserable here's some philosophical/quantum mechanics references look i'm clever + miserable help me". All the actual song bits are as top notch as anything from the last 5 or 6 albums. BEST BAND.

Think the Starving Weirdos album would easily be top of the charts this week if Zenses didn't glitch when scrobbling the other day. Looooong psychadelic Eastern drones to walk about your city with.

The Pop. 1280 album probably isn't as good as the hype suggests but tbh I only listened to it for the first time last night. Birthday Party rip off stuff like your hipster auntie used to get fingered to back in the early 80s.

ONE MONTH

01 Julia Holter 97
02 of Montreal 84
03 Don Lennon 71
04 Standard Fare 58
05 Trouble Books & Mark McGuire 46
06 Ensemble Economique 44
07 Los Campesinos! 40
08 Beyonce
08 Starving Weirdos 33
10 Islet 31

Everyone should listen to all of these bands if they aren't already fans. The last Julia Holter record is just so good, perfect perfect mix of high brow cerebral CONCEPTS and perfect bedroom pop. I suspect she'll end up topping my last.fm of the year easily. Don Lennon is frequently hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time and I have poosie/thisismyjam to thank for that one. Really brilliant melancholic indiepop songwriting.

1 Xiu Xiu 60
2 Bob Dylan 47
3 Harry Nilsson 23
4 Blind Thomas 19
4 James Pants 19
6 John Phillips 18
7 D'Angelo 16
8 Marvin Gaye 15
9 Polaris 14
10 Perfume Genius 13

1 month:

1 Roy Orbison 473
2 John Fahey 301
3 Drake 214
4 Bob Dylan 96
5 Xiu Xiu 72
6 The Notorious B.I.G. 65
7 Hookworms 63
8 Lil B 62
9 2Pac 49
10 Blind Thomas 48
11 Ty Segall 44
12 Viking Moses 43

weekly:

1 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma 23
2 Swell Maps 20
3 White Hills 17
4 Grimes 16
5 The Byrds 14
6 Spacemen 3 13
7 Gregory Isaacs 12
8 Conquering Animal Sound 11
9 Marcus Fischer 10
10 Windy & Carl 9
10 Scott Cortez 9
10 Jon Porras 9
13 The Smashing Pumpkins 8
13 Pop. 1280 8
15 NUMBER GIRL 7

monthly:

1 The Byrds 29
2 Cocteau Twins 25
3 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma 23
4 Swell Maps 20
5 Public Image Ltd. 19
6 McCarthy 18
6 Walls 18
6 White Hills 18
9 cokiyu 17
10 The Upsetters 16
10 Grimes 16
10 Echo Lake 16
13 NUMBER GIRL 15
14 The Smashing Pumpkins 14
14 Close Lobsters 14
14 The Dream Syndicate 14
14 Trailer Trash Tracys 14

1 Stiff Little Fingers 15
2 Pavement 14
3 Sonic Youth 13
3 The Twilight Sad 13
5 Idlewild 12
5 Graham Coxon 12
7 Pulled Apart By Horses 11
7 Cloud Nothings 11
9 Tortoise 10
9 Hüsker Dü 10
11 Lite 5
12 The Radiators From Space 1

then what the fudge *have* I been doing? Always asking the important questions me

1. Guided By Voices - 30
2. James Vincent McMorrow - 10
3. M.I.A. - 7
4= Robert Pollard - 6
4= Sky Larkin - 6
6= Alice In Chains - 5
6= The Radio Dept. - 5
8= Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - 4
8= Lana Del Rey - 4
10= The Rolling Stones - 3
10= Yo La Tengo - 3
10= Modest Mouse - 3
10= Jawbreaker - 3

6a - Them Bones and Man In A Box are tunes. Couldn't really get into anything else though

1 month:

1. Guided By Voices - 255
2. The War On Drugs - 31
3. Bash & Pop - 29
4. Lana Del Rey - 27
5. The Lemonheads - 20
6. Robert Pollard - 18
7. Tobin Sprout - 17
8= Cymbals Eat Guitars - 16
8= Boston Spaceships - 16
10= Pavement - 15
10= Preston School of Industry - 15

2 - They just keep on getting better with every listen

7 Days >

1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 70
2. The Smashing Pumpkins 62
3. Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains 28
4. Guided By Voices 22
5. Laura J Martin 19
6. The Boats 17
6. Steve Hauschildt 17
8. Leonard Cohen 13
8. Django Django 13
10. First Aid Kit 11

1 - All since Thursday. Tickets for last night in Bristol from the gf ....wicked birthday surprise.
2 - Reissues. Some how I missed out on Gish first time around.
3 - Mid week gig. Lovely stuff.
6 both - From last weeks Last FM thread> Thanks!
8b - Sound like the Beta Band....

Last Month >

1. David Bowie 131
2. The Magnetic Fields 70
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 70
4. The Smashing Pumpkins 62
5. Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains 53
6. Chairlift 51
7. Efterklang 44
8. Ani DiFranco 37
9. First Aid Kit 33
10. School of Seven Bells 27

A playlist from the last month

http://open.spotify.com/user/pale-eyedbadger/playlist/2ouZEb1K09zrDN5rvlLcAX

1 Mark van Hoen 51
2 Mort Garson 32
3 Gonjasufi 15
4 Pional 12
5 D'Marc Cantu 11
6 Wolfram 10
7 Azari & III 9
8 DMX Krew 8
9 The Peter Brötzmann Octet 7
9 Freddie Gibbs 7
9 Midnight Magic 7
9 Parallel Dance Ensemble 7
9 Nobuto Suda 7

this week i have mostly been listening to the new Permanent Vacation comp, which is house/disco like what i like. About half of it is very good. Really impressed with the Mark van Hoen LP as well, some of it reminds me of the creepier BoC moments. Mort Garson is pretty ripe, but i like it.. very much of its time. New Gonjasufi is yet to do much for me, mind

1
Isengrind

69
2
TwinSisterMoon

44
3 Play
The Beach Boys

29
4 Play
Tim Hecker

11
5 Play
The Smiths

8
5 Play
Natural Snow Buildings

8
5 Play
Julia Holter

8
5
Pocahaunted

8
9 Play
Arcade Fire

7
10 Play
Trouble Books

6
10 Play
Oneohtrix Point Never

6

AND

1
TwinSisterMoon

149
2 Play
The Beach Boys

104
3 Play
Natural Snow Buildings

98
4
Isengrind

69
5 Play
Tim Hecker

66
6 Play
Swirlies

30
7 Play
Flat Duo Jets

25
8 Play
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

23
9 Play
Julia Holter

20
10 Play
The Smiths

17
10 Play
Man or Astro-man?

17
10 Play
Wolf Parade

17

abit addicted to twinssitermoon/isengrind/natural snow buildings, smile by the beach boys lives up to the hype, think the swirlies may actually have a better sound than MBV

last 7 days

1 Grinderman 20
1 Trailer Trash Tracys 20
3 The Vaselines 17
4 Mark Lanegan 14
5 Engineers 13
6 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx 12
7 Arcade Fire 11
7 The Kills 11
9 The Big Pink 10
9 Allo Darlin'10

last month

1 The Kills 83
2 Radiohead 46
3 Girls 41
4 Trailer Trash Tracys 37
5 Frightened Rabbit 33
6 The Cure 31
7 Allo Darlin' 30
8 Charlotte Gainsbourg 29
8 The Moth & The Mirror 29
10 Jeru the Damaja 26

1) Earth 32
2) Erykah Badu 24
3) Unwound 17
4) Lil B 11
5) Grails 9
6) King Midas Sound 8
7) Toro Y Moi 7
8) Pharoah Sanders 4
8) Evian Christ 4
10) John Coltrane Quartet 3

Monthly theme - ColdMuzik
1) Erykah Badu 105
2) The Haxan Cloak 43
3) Earth 42
3) King Midas Sound 42
5) Swans 35
5) Curren$y 35
7) Andy Stott 28
8) Pinch & Shackleton 25
9) Madlib 23
10) Grails 22

1)The Long Blondes 20
2)Weezer 14
3)The Maccabees 11
4)Fucked Up 10
4)Iceage 10
6)The Beautiful South 5
6)Alexisonfire 5
6)Pulled Apart By Horses 5
6)Los Campesinos! 5
10)EMA 4

All scrobbles from my Ipod, no idea how accurate these are, and they are only from Friday- now, so wont comment on any yet!

WEEK

01. Pop. 1280 - 63
02. Turbowolf - 42
03. Letherette - 28
04. Total Control - 26
04. Screen Vinyl Image - 26
06. Clair Cassis - 24
07. Ectoplasm Girls - 22
08. Everyone to the Anderson - 21
08. Ashan - 21
10. Pete and the Pirates - 18
10. Julianna Barwick - 18
10. Run DMT - 18

01 – Dirgy post-punk b-movie horrorcore dystopia on Sacred Bones. I'm have a biased predisposition to love anything off that label, but the reason is it just keeps turning out to be good. This week’s highest entry makes my top ten of the month too.

02 – Constant in-car rotation for the greatest British rock band alive. Even my 3 year old gets it. Asks for all the songs they say “Hey”, shouts along with “Seven severed heads”.

03 – Electro fetishised soul. Just got the second ep, so I’ve been playing both a bit.

04a – Can’t stop playing Henge Beat. Half the songs sound like different bands (which reminds me, I need to get the new Balaclavas album)

04b – Got a little bit of filler (or maybe I’m just not a fan of the slower stuff) , but the wall-of-noise shoegaze stuff is almost overwhelming. Not quite A Place to Bury Strangers, but it’s a slightly sleeker thing.

06 – Had a luxurious velveteen black metal moment

07 – TxN is fantastic! Swedish girl/girl spacious, surreal industrial noise minimalism littered with hooks and beats.

08a – More heavy in-car rotation playing the ...Inside A Horse album. I need to put their earlier eps on my ipod. Looking forward to this band blowing up as big as an angular post-rock hardcore band can.

08b – Different project from Gkfoes Vjgoaf’s Sean Conrad that plugs into the same rural acoustic nu-age psychedelic hypnotics. New album on Inner Islands is four tracks of deep and heavy lucid jam.

10a – Got One Thousand Pictures too late for it to make my end of year list, which I think it would have.

10b – The Magic Place.

10c – Still marvelling at this summery acid psych even while it snows outside.

MONTH:
01. Run DMT - 186
02. Pete and the Pirates - 121
03. Total Control - 116
04. Colin Stetson - 107
05. Turbowolf - 106
06. Matthewdavid - 90
07. Screen Vinyl Image - 87
08. David Thomas Broughton - 78
09. Cold Cave - 68
10. Pop. 1280 - 63

TOTW – Ectoplasm Girls – Sexodrone (or anything off TxN really)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk93-nlTe_8