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Recommended Songs (sorted by most recommended songs)

Get Sexy : Sugababes (Score = 5.07)
Spotlight : Jennifer Hudson (Score = 4.94)
If This Isn't Love : Jennifer Hudson (Score = 4.59)
Sweet Dreams : Beyoncé (Score = 4.32)
Boys and Girls : Pixie Lott (Score = 4.3)
Damaged : Danity Kane (Score = 4.27)
Lose My Breath : Destiny's Child (Score = 4.22)
Breathe Slow : Alesha Dixon (Score = 4.21)
Work : The Saturdays (Score = 4)
We Break The Dawn : Michelle Williams (Score = 3.91)
Say It Right : Nelly Furtado (Score = 3.65)
T-Shirt : Shontelle (Score = 3.61)
Take a Bow : Rihanna (Score = 3.59)
Long Way 2 Go : Cassie (Score = 3.24)
Like Me : Girlicious (Score = 3.09)
No One : Alicia Keys (Score = 3.08)
Take It Off : Ke$ha (Score = 2.98)
Stand Up : Cheryl Cole (Score = 2.89)
We Belong Together : Mariah Carey (Score = 2.76)
Bust Your Windows : Jazmine Sullivan (Score = 2.6)
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Some of these are highly personal selections, some are critical. There's a lot I haven't heard... maybe I will, maybe I won't. At the end of the day, this is me in list form. What a decade of music.

TOP 25 ALBUMS FROM 2000-2009

25. Fantasy Black Channel - Late of the Pier
24. Seven Swans - Sufjan Stevens
23. Revolution in Me - Siobhan Donaghy
22. Hopes and Fears - Keane
21. Folklore - Nelly Furtado
20. Lycanthropy - Patrick Wolf
19. Bright Like Neon Love - Cut Copy
18. Junior - Röyksopp
17. Aaliyah - Aaliyah
16. Chemistry - Girls Aloud
15. Rated R - Rihanna
14. Black Cherry - Goldfrapp
13. Confessions on a Dance Floor - Madonna
12. Overpowered - Róisín Murphy
11. Ghosts - Siobhan Donaghy

10. The Tension And The Spark - Darren Hayes
09. Funeral - Arcade Fire
08. Anniemal - Annie
07. American Life - Madonna
06. Lungs - Florence + the Machine

05. White Lilies Island - Natalie Imbruglia
04. Arular - M.I.A.
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I did this six months ago (exactly), so I thought I'd do it again. Because I'm just that much FUN.

1. How did you get into 29? [Imogen Heap]
I can't really remember; I think possibly a LiveJournal friend recommended her.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? [Beyoncé]
Crazy in Love, of course.

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? [Mariah Carey]
"I won't ask for much this Christmas / I won't even wish for snow..."

4. How did you get into 49? [M.I.A.] (bizarrely exactly the same spot)
I honestly couldn't tell you, but I'm very very glad I somehow did. She is completely amazing. (so I'll give the same answer)

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? [Vienna Teng]
All of them, and there's a new one very very soon! (So look for her to shoot up my charts.)

6. What is your favorite song by 50? [Yann Tiersen]
Oooh. La Noyee?

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? [Michael Nyman]
Much of The Piano soundtrack is upsetting.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? [Jamelia]
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to all of you who know Chaos Royale this is awesome news, and if you never heard of him this is a chance to get familliar with one of the sickest and best musicians i know.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/2918870.jpg

at first a little information about chaos royale in general:

Chaos Royale is the performance unit of British-born Tokyo-based sound creator Luke Chaos. The sound is a synthesis of hip-hop, avant-garde classical, reggae, death metal and noise. Live shows combine acrobatic dance performances with realtime heavy beats, remixes of hip-hop and R’n’B and a ton of noise. The result is extremely danceable, extremely hard, extremely harsh and extremely addicting music somewhere between powernoise and mashcore. if you happen to live in japan, another reason to see him live are his 2 acrobatic dancers ;)

as of now, he released 2 ep's and a couple of single tracks, (almost) all for free download at his label's page .
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Because I'm bored, so very bored...

Post your top __ bands/artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, your current favorite and your all-time top 3.

1. Madonna
First: Papa Don't Preach
Love: Till Death Do Us Part
Current: La Isla Bonita

2. Girls Aloud
First: Sound Of The Underground
Love: Biology
Current: Crazy Fool

3. Rihanna
First: Pon de Replay
Love: Umbrella
Current: Disturbia

4. Sugababes
First: Freak Like Me
Love: Freak Like Me
Current: Push The Button

5. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
First: Groovejet
Love: Leave the Others Alone
Current: Leave the Others Alone

6. Nelly Furtado
First: I'm Like A Bird
Love: Maneater
Current: Somebody To Love

7. Delta Goodrem
First: Born To Try
Love: Innocent Eyes
Current: Believe Again

8. Kylie Minogue
First: I Should Be So Lucky
Love: Spinning Around
Current: The One (Freemasons Remix)

9. Vienna Teng
First: Harbor
Love: Harbor
Current: Hope On Fire

10. Britney Spears
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So... I discovered this song by one of my favorite R&B/Pop artists... Amerie. It's called Take Control and it's amazing... blarring horns and staccato drums and her amazing voice... It's a 60ish throw-back... and the video is amazing...

And on another note, she is drop-dead gorgeous... just sayin'...

Other favorite tracks from Amerie:
Talkin' About
Touch
1 Thing

And her promotion company sucks because I never even heard a peep from Take Control and it was released in 2006... I hate that... when an amazing song doesn't get any radio play and I hear it only to find out it came out a year ago and it went without being popular... sad...

It has been two years since Amerie has released an album. Touch was a good album, but what I missed from that album was the overall quality. The album had some wonderful songs, like 1 Thing and Talkin' About, but the rest was mwah. Not good enough to be named "wonderful" or "superb". And for an artist with a voice like Amerie (original and inspiring) that was all too bad.

So, hoping to hear only superb songs on her new Columbia album, I started listening Because I Love It, and I was more than pleased with what I heard coming out of the speakers. Not only did she make a wonderful, superb and good album, she made one of a hell goddamn inspiring classic wtf-this-is-unimaginable-good album!!

I love the new Amerie sound, '80s inspired and full of funky beats. With more sophisticated sounds, like on Paint Me Over, and incredibly original sounds on tracks like Some Like It. And as usual, the first single doesn't really reflect the rest of the album. …