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According to Anthony Liekins Last.fm user tag cloud, this year I'm more or less into hip-hop, indie, rock, alternative, singer-songwriter, electronic, acoustic, jazz, blues, indie rock, underground hip-hop, funk, folk, classic rock, pop, soul, reggae, alternative rock, southern rock, post-punk, underground, chill, jazz hop, chillout, 60s, blues rock and trip-hop.

My number one favourites in 2010 are Blue Scholars, an underground hip-hop/indie duo from Seattle, United States. I'm totally amazed by their performance - marvelous melodic samples mixed with social and political urban delivery, themes I always have had evaluate. For example, see Back Home about necessity to bring back US troops from Iraq war and 50 Thousand Deep, which is concerned about Battle in Seattle, the historic protest in 1999, as thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999.

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1 Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light
(2009)
The black-and-white image of legendary Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno that adorns the cover of The Crying Light, the third full-length by Antony and the Johnsons, seems to offer a view of a being enveloped in both ecstasy and agony -- or does it? The songs contained here offer something else: a glimpse of a universe beyond the pale of vision, seen only by the individual experiencing it. Neo-classical underpinnings are entwined lovingly with broken pop songs and secretive after-hours cabaret poems. Check the opener, "Her Eyes Are Underneath the Ground". The piano and cello fall together as one slow dancer, alone in the spotlight, keeping memory as time: "In the garden, with my mother/I stole a flower/With my mother, in her power/I chose a flower/I saw six eyes glistening in my womb/I felt…

Recommended Songs (sorted by most recommended songs)

Appetite (For Lightin' Dynamite) : Citizen Cope (Score = 1.06)
Arms Of A Woman : Amos Lee (Score = 1.04)
Mission Of My Soul : Peter Himmelman (Score = 1.02)
Best Imitation of Myself : Ben Folds (Score = 1)
Blessed : Brett Dennen (Score = 1)
Satisfied Man : Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers (Score = 1)
Bells Ring : Mazzy Star (Score = 1)
Seven Lonely Days : Patsy Cline (Score = 1)
Caravan : Van Morrison (Score = 1)
She's Mine : Brett Dennen (Score = 0.96)
Rag Mama Rag : The Band (Score = 0.95)
Five String Serenade : Mazzy Star (Score = 0.93)
True Love : Patsy Cline (Score = 0.9)
Not The Same : Ben Folds (Score = 0.89)
Missed My Chance : Griffin House (Score = 0.86)
All At Once : Pete Yorn (Score = 0.85)
Casimir Pulaski Day : Sufjan Stevens (Score = 0.75)
The Drying of the Lawns : The Tallest Man On Earth (Score = 0.71)
Always In Disguise : Peter Himmelman (Score = 0.7)
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1 Them - It's All Over Now Baby Blue
as used in "Basquiat"
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2 Underworld - Born Slippy
as used in "Trainspotting"
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3 Gioacchino Rossini - The Thieving Magpie
as used in "Clockwork Orange"
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4 Love and Rockets - This Heaven
as used in "The Doom Generation"
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1. Yann Tiersen - J'y suis jamais allé
from Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
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2. Nico – These Days
from Royal Tenenbaums
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3. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
from Trainspotting
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4. Gary Jules - Mad World
from Donnie Darko
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Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky

It was on that episode of House where Harriet the Spy needed a heart transplant or something.

Since last post:

-While avoiding an exam, I discover that I am disappointed with how little I actually like David Bowie. I have been pleasantly surprised with my music so far. For example, I really like American Beauty, and a selection of the Bjork songs I own.
-25% finished with my rating and tagging work. Actually listening to my music is way more time consuming that I ever thought it could be. The problem is that I changed laptops early 2009 and I have lost my play counts and ratings so many times before that. Last.fm is actually the most accurate count I have of what songs I've liked and stopped liking over the years (hello, Chumbawamba!) and it doesn't begin to take my mixed cds and thousands of hours behind the wheel into account. Why did I give those away? I should have kept them and saved playlists. But what are you going to do?
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1st track: (03 Nov 2006)
Muse - Starlight
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1000th track: (30 Nov 2006)
Incubus - Wish You Were Here
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2000th track: (18 Dec 2006)
Kings of Convenience - Parallel Lines
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3000th track: (07 Jan 2007)
John Frusciante - Carvel
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4000th track: (23 Jan 2007)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hard To Concentrate
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5000th track: (10 Feb 2007)
Manu Chao - Desaparecido
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6000th track: (23 Feb 2007)
Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
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7000th track: (11 Mar 2007)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
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8000th track: (03 Apr 2007)
Panic at the Disco - I Constantly Thank God for Esteban
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