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Estilo: Electro - Industrial - SynthPop - EBM

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Here are the top 20 tracks for each membership year, counted @ Trouble With Dreams. The first year doesn't have any statistics before February because these stats have been calculated on the basis of weekly charts which didn't exist before that.

1st Year (Nov 7 2004 - Nov 6 2005)

1. Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds (58)
2. Combichrist - Blut Royale (56)
3. Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have (43)
4. Deine Lakaien - Silence in Your Eyes (37)
5. PMMP Päiväkoti (37)
6. Assemblage 23 - Let the Wind Erase Me (35)
7. Teuvo Loman - Helsinki City Boy (34)
8. Dupont - Motel lover (32)
9. Death in June - Death is the Martyr of Beauty (30)
10. Depeche Mode - Free (28)
11. Nine Inch Nails - Only (28)
12. Musta Paraati - Romanssi (27)
13. Rotersand - By the Waters (27)
14. Deine Lakaien - Over and Done (26)
15. Sydän, sydän - Suu auki (26)
16. Wolfsheim - Find You're Here (26)
17. Depeche Mode - A Pain That I'm Used To (26)
18. Depeche Mode - Clean (Bare) (25)
19. Mew - Snow Brigade (23)
20. System of a Down - Violent Pornography (23)

Total tracks in this time: 13,234
No. in this chart: 647 (4,89 %)


2nd Year (Nov 7 2005 - Nov 5 2006)

1. Katatonia - My Twin (60)
2. Project Pitchfork - Timekiller (51)
3. Covenant - 20 Hz (43)
4. Boyd Rice and Friends - People (42)
5. Heijala - Usva (38)
6. Covenant - Ritual Noise (edit) (38)
7. Swans - Failure (37)
8. Swans - Song for the Sun (35)
9. Code 64 - True Faith (33)
10. Heijala - Korkeus (32)
11. Covenant - Babel (short mix) (31)
12. Swans - No Cure for the Lonely (31)
13. Depeche Mode - Better Days (31)
14. Swans - You Know Nothing (31)
15. Blood Axis - Storm of Steel (31)
16. Covenant - The Men (30)
17. Swans - Power and Sacrifice (30)
18. Swans - Miracle Of Love (29)
19. Pet Shop Boys - Integral (29)
20. Covenant - Spindrift (29)

Total tracks in this time: 18,105
No. tracks in this chart: 711 (3,93 %)


3rd Year (Nov 6 2006 - Nov 4 2007)

1. Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism (49)
2. Coil - Heaven's Blade (48)
3. Nine Inch Nails - In This Twilight (47)
4. Triarii - Heaven & Hell (40)
5. Nine Inch Nails - My Violent Heart (36)
6. Coil - Sex with Sun Ra (Part One - Saturnalia) (35)
7. Coil - Fire of the Mind (34)
8. Woven Hand - Winter Shaker (32)
9. Black Sun Productions - Johnny Over The Sea (32)
10. Nine Inch Nails - Me, I'm Not (32)
11. Coph Nia - Drinking to the Angel of the East (31)
12. Nine Inch Nails - God Given (29)
13. The Dresden Dolls - Sex Changes (28)
14. Coil - The Dreamer Is Still Asleep (28)
15. Coph Nia - Religion (28)
16. Black Sun Productions - Pimp Ballad (28)
17. Coil - The Last Amethyst Deceiver (27)
18. Swans - You're Not Real, Girl (27)
19. The Dresden Dolls - Dirty Business (26)
20. Antony and the Johnsons - Cripple and the Starfish (26)

Total tracks in this time: 17,922
No. tracks in this chart: 663 (3,7 %)


4th Year (Nov 5 2007 - Nov 2 2008)

1. The World Of Skin - You'll Never Forget (25)
2. Victoria - Like Rats (Rattus Rattus) (20)
3. Eleanoora Rosenholm - Maailmanloppu (18)
4. Ulver - In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed Are Kings (17)
5. Naevus - How Dogs Die (16)
6. In Slaughter Natives - As My Shield (16)
7. The World Of Skin - I'll Go There, Take Me Home (16)
8. Naevus - Cutting Tool (15)
9. Ladytron - Deep Blue (15)
10. God Module - Victims Among Friends (14)
11. Haus Arafna - Für immer (14)
12. The World Of Skin - The Child's Right (14)
13. Eleanoora Rosenholm - Kiltti vai tuhma (14)
14. Eleanoora Rosenholm - Musta ruusu (14)
15. Eleanoora Rosenholm - Japanilainen puutarha (14)
16. Antlers Mulm - Sunflowers (14)
17. The Tiger Lillies - Start A Fire (14)
18. Eleanoora Rosenholm - Ovet ja huoneet (13)
19. Eleanoora Rosenholm - Kopiokissa (13)
20. The Tiger Lillies - Killer (13)

Total tracks in this time: 25,331
No. in this chart: 309 (1.22%)


5th Year (Nov 3 2008 - Nov 9 2009)

1. Depeche Mode - Peace (27)
2. The Legendary Pink Dots - The More It Changes (23)
3. Coph Nia - Levitation (23)
4. Depeche Mode - Oh Well (21)
5. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio Feat. Spiritual Front - Your Sex Is The Scar (20)
6. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Confessions of a Sinflower (20)
7. PMMP - Pariterapiaa (19)
8. Crash Worship - Awake (19)
9. Propaganda - P-Machinery (19)
10. Silmät - Haudattu (17)
11. Lama - Turpa kiinni ja nussi (17)
12. Depeche Mode - Corrupt (17)
13. The Marionettes - Ave Dementia (15)
14. Vuk - Kiss the Assassin (15)
15. Rude 66 - Walked In Line (14)
16. U2 - The Wanderer (14)
17. Depeche Mode - Come Back (13)
18. Vuk - Valaiden laulu (13)
19. KMFDM - Bitches (13)
20. Triarii - Muse In Arms (12)

Total tracks in this time: 24,767
No. in this chart: 351 (1,42 %)

Analysis

Here you can see the same big transition in my listening habits between 3rd and 4th year: the number of total tracks listened increased but the percentage of plays for top 20 tracks from all tracks has decreased. More artists, tracks and albums, but with fewer repetitions. That seems to be the trend.

Here are some more stats: Top 20 artists for each year I've been a last.fm member (not calendar years - those stats can be found in earlier journal entries). The first year doesn't have any statistics before February because these stats have been calculated on the basis of weekly charts (@ http://troublewithdreams.com/scrobbler/) which didn't exist before that.

1st Year (Feb 13 2005 - Nov 7 2005)

1. Depeche Mode (666)
2. Nine Inch Nails (625)
3. Icon of Coil (606)
4. Covenant (521)
5. The Legendary Pink Dots (411)
6. Deine Lakaien (402)
7. CMX (359)
8. Death in June (340)
9. Assemblage 23 (316)
10. KMFDM (296)
11. Combichrist (295)
12. Current 93 (266)
13. Siouxsie and the Banshees (266)
14. Mew (251)
15. :wumpscut: (249)
16. VNV Nation (236)
17. Diary of Dreams (234)
18. Front Line Assembly (210)
19. Rammstein (209)
20. System of a Down (200)

2nd Year (Nov 8 2005 - Nov 5 2006)

1. Swans (1267)
2. Current 93 (847)
3. Covenant (612)
4. Depeche Mode (601)
5. Death in June (498)
6. The Legendary Pink Dots (438)
7. Project Pitchfork (399)
8. Icon of Coil (270)
9. Coil (247)
10. KMFDM (244)
11. Mesh (224)
12. Front Line Assembly (218)
13. Nine Inch Nails (208)
14. Einstürzende Neubauten (204)
15. Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio (193)
16. Pet Shop Boys (190)
17. The Angels of Light (184)
18. CMX (183)
19. VAST (176)
20. Heijala (174)

3rd Year (Nov 6 2006 - Nov 4 2007)

1. Swans (1124)
2. Coil (775)
3. Nine Inch Nails (626)
4. Current 93 (496)
5. Depeche Mode (407)
6. The Angels of Light (312)
7. Black Sun Productions (307)
8. CMX (306)
9. The Legendary Pink Dots (300)
10. Woven Hand (260)
11. Coph Nia (251)
12. The Dresden Dolls (248)
13. Covenant (234)
14. Death in June (213)
15. Lustmord (213)
16. Front Line Assembly (199)
17. Sol Invictus (186)
18. KMFDM (180)
19. 16 Horsepower (170)
20. Antony and the Johnsons (166)

4th Year (Nov 5 2007 - Nov 2 2008)

1. Sleep Chamber (577)
2. The Tiger Lillies (440)
3. Coil (323)
4. Swans (317)
5. The Doors (296)
6. The Legendary Pink Dots (261)
7. Nine Inch Nails (245)
8. Einstürzende Neubauten (226)
9. Naevus (217)
10. Current 93 (205)
11. In Slaughter Natives (185)
12. Eleanoora Rosenholm (183)
13. Karjalan Sissit (182)
14. Death in June (167)
15. Sieben (158)
16. Kirlian Camera (149)
17. Ladytron (146)
18. Throbbing Gristle (146)
19. :wumpscut: (141)
20. Dead Can Dance (140)

5th Year (Nov 3 2008 - Nov 9 2009)

1. Depeche Mode (474)
2. The Legendary Pink Dots (294)
3. Swans (292)
4. Sleep Chamber (273)
5. Militia (247)
6. Crash Worship (224)
7. Coil (208)
8. Einstürzende Neubauten (203)
9. KMFDM (200)
10. The Tiger Lillies (190)
11. Die Form (183)
12. Dernière Volonté (182)
13. Vuk (161)
14. Current 93 (159)
15. Nine Inch Nails (154)
16. Foetus (140)
17. Test Dept. (134)
18. The Young Gods (131)
19. Coph Nia (129)
20. Esplendor Geométrico (127)

Just like last year (and the year before that), it's time to compare the artist stats of this year to the previous one. The first number in parantheses is the position in the last year's top 50 and the second number in parantheses is the play count for past 12 months.

01 (01) Swans 3,086 (+297)
02 (02) Depeche Mode 2,374 (+471)
03 (03) Current 93 2,002 (+159)
04 (04) Nine Inch Nails 1,889 (+155)
05 (07) The Legendary Pink Dots 1,722 (+295)
06 (06) Coil 1,668 (+207)
07 (05) Covenant 1,531 (+40)
08 (08) Death in June 1,301 (+69)
09 (10) CMX 1,046 (+114)
10 (11) KMFDM 1,034 (+200)
11 (09) Icon of Coil 1,033 (+21)
12 (18) Sleep Chamber 849 (+272)
13 (15) Einstürzende Neubauten 848 (+203)
14 (12) Front Line Assembly 823 (+96)
15 (14) Combichrist 739 (+46)
16 (16) Project Pitchfork 723 (+119)
17 (13) Deine Lakaien 717 (+22)
18 (19) :wumpscut: 669 (+94)
19 (17) The Angels of Light 635 (+45)
20 (26) The Tiger Lillies 630 (+184)
21 (22) Coph Nia 597 (+129)
22 (21) Assemblage 23 (+41)
23 (20) VNV Nation 581 (+22)
24 (27) Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio 540 (+97)
25 (23) Paradise Lost 519 (+53)
26 (29) Black Sun Productions 505 (+73)
27 (25) Diary of Dreams 492 (+38)
28 (24) Rammstein 487 (+31)
29 (28) Mesh 481 (+41)
30 (32) Rotersand 448 (+52)
31 (30) Diorama 444 (+14)
32 (31) Pet Shop Boys 435 (+34)
33 (33) Dead Can Dance 429 (+37)
34 (36) Bauhaus 423 (+75)
35 (34) Siouxsie and the Banshees 412 (+24)
35 (35) Gary Numan 412 (+31)
37 (58) Foetus 408 (+140)
38 (38) This Morn' Omina 403 (+66)
39 (37) Velvet Acid Christ 378 (+33)
39 (50) The Doors 378 (+73)
41 (41) Lustmord 373 (+42)
42 (54) Ulver 366 (+78)
43 (40) Skinny Puppy 363 (+31)
44 (39) Joy Division 361 (+26)
45 (43) Sara 360 (+36)
46 (106) Dernière Volonté 358 (+182)
47 (53) Cabaret Voltaire 355 (+67)
48 (46) Woven Hand 352 (+40)
49 (47) Ladytron 348 (+37)
50 (59) Der Blutharsch 345 (+83)

Well, that was a boring year... at least looking at the changes in top 50. Everything was very static. The hottest climber of the year was Dernière Volonté by 60 positions straight to #46 outside of the 4th anniversary Top 100. Also Foetus and Ulver entered Top 50 for the first time. Cabaret Voltaire and Der Blutharsch returned after being absent from Top 50 for a while. The biggest mover that was in Top 50 last year was The Doors, up by 11 positions.

The static nature of my Top 50 is easy to explain because my listening habits have changed if the chart hasn't. I listen to a bigger amount of artists but a smaller amount of songs per artist. My overall listening amounts have stayed pretty much the same but now they are more divided between more bands. The same has happened to tracks a lot earlier: I rarely listen to a single track for a lot of times. This means that both my tracks and artist Top 50 charts aren't changing that much these days.

The overall charts are so static that sometimes I even think about resetting the statistics. But that would be a waste because I can set my default layout to show the stats for last 12 months which I think also represents my current taste in music a lot better. It's becoming more and more diverse each year, concentrating less and less on repetition of individual tracks or artists. It's also becoming less focused on ebm, futurepop and related genres, as you may even notice from the slight changes in positions of my top 50 artists.

This month's ten tracks you should hear:

And So I Watch You From Afar
If it ain't broke, break it
And So I Watch You From Afar

One of the unexpected star turns of Damnation the other week, yet another instrumental "post-metal" band, but not one that sound like everyone else. For starters, they rock like bastards, they have an ability to make lengthy songs - and a lengthy album - consistently interesting, and their marvellously deranged song titles suggest that there is a sense of humour in there somewhere, too. Anyway, this song. A lengthy, muscular build-up breaks to a single, insistent guitar riff, before it all kicks off again with an impressive guitar solo at the heart of it all, and then doing it all again, in an even better way. Just for once, can the mainstream music press focus on a truly great band/album like this rather than those wannabe-baggy fuckwits in Kasabian?

[:SITD:]
Rot V1.0
Rot

I've felt in the past that while good at what they do, [:SITD:] have in recent years become a bit one-paced, and indeed the last album wasn't half as good as it could have been. I've still not had the chance to listen to all of the new album yet, but this track leapt out as a perfect example of what they can do. Finally, they've upped the BPM somewhat, and this pounding track is their best track probably since their debut album got us interested in the first place. The change in choice of those doing the mastering - it's X-Fusion this time - also appears to have made a big difference - this sounds massive, and certainly club-bound. Maybe a few changes and tweaks were all they needed after all.

The Twilight Sad
I Became A Prostitute
Forget The Night Ahead

I've noted before that it took me a while to discover this band, but now I've caught up I've picked up the new album pretty quickly. It's a bit special, too. Broadly, it's more of the same - shoegazey rock with a gut-wrenching emotional core that allows the band to transcend what would otherwise be a torrent of accusations that they are yet another My Bloody Valentine clone. Really, they aren't, and they aren't really like anyone else much, either. A little bit special, a little bit precious, one of eleven more songs to make you reflect, think, and every now and then shed a tear in sympathy with the heartbreak displayed here.

Assemblage 23
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Compass

I make absolutely no apologies for including two of the bands here for the second month on the trot. There is a good reason, of course: both artists in question have album tracks even better than the preludes I enthused about last month. The new A23 album keeps up the quality we've come to expect - this is top quality melodic electro-EBM-industrial with a songcraft second-to-none - but like previous albums, there is one song that simply stands head, shoulders and probably a bit more over everything else. Collapse is that song here. Lyrically a little darker and more pessimistic than usual, it retains Tom Shear's seemingly unique ability nowadays to shift through the gears to a chorus that sends shivers down the spine. It's bouncy, quick-paced beats are going to be great for dancefloors, too.

Sunna
Spider
TWO MINUTE TERROR

I said last month that "if the rest of the album is of this quality, I'm all ears". The good news is that it really is all of this quality, even the cover of ASHES TO ASHES. There's a lot more power and drive than on the debut album, in my view, less ballads and more uptempo stuff. This is the opening track, opening with bubbling, churning electronics before a simply monstrous drum loop stomps over everything and fills the speakers: and even more amazingly, it keeps building, keeps getting more complex and louder, and never once loses it's grip. It's spectacularly good - ok, I've no idea what the vocals are going on about, but then they ain't really the focus here. Welcome back folks, and this time, please don't leave the next album so long. And when are the live shows coming?

W.A.S.T.E.
Marked For Extinction
A Silent Mantra Of Rage

W.A.S.T.E.'s long-awaited (and long-delayed, it seems) return has been worth the wait, although things aren't quite the same as before. Not that this is a bad thing - on first listen, many tracks are more rooted in pure industrial noise, and only a few tracks rush headlong into rhythmic noise. Either way, this is brutal stuff and will be guaranteed to have some people running away quickly. It'll just have me turning it up, though. This track is probably the most dancefloor, er, friendly: five-minutes of unrelenting industrial beats and distorted, uncomfortable vocal samples. A full review will follow in the coming weeks.

Katatonia
The Longest Year
Night Is the New Day

The lead singer of Opeth, Mikael Åkerfeldt, has been vocal in recent weeks about how brilliant this album is, and now it's out and I have it, he wasn't kidding. Katatonia have simply continued what they have done so well for the past few albums - that is, pitch-dark, brooding gothic/doom metal. The bit that sets them apart from their peers, though, is vocalist Jonas Renkse. It's his clean, melodic vocals, coupled with his lyrics that always have that hint of malice and simmering fury, but never are inaccessible. Instead these are almost dark-pop songs at their heart. In short, this album is bloody glorious, and Katatonia are the primary reason I'm going to the Paradise Lost gig tomorrow.

Fuck Buttons
The Lisbon Maru
Tarot Sport

I knew next to nothing about this band until I stumbled across the video for single Surf Solar of late, and they are rather different to what I had expected. They are rather irritatingly described as "noise" in the music press (note: the term "noise" in music I understand to be much harsher and louder than this - in fact, see W.A.S.T.E. above - it is not a bunch of indie-kids playing with electronics), when in reality they are much more, listenable. Andrew Weatherall's production hand here has resulted in a sun-drenched, lazy sound that allows each of the seven songs here to unwind in their own sweet time - five of the songs are around nine minutes long or more. Remarkably, it's never boring, either. This track has a nagging, incessant martial beat that underpins it but never dominates, but keeps driving things on while all kinds of things sweep in and out of the speakers. To me, it's perhaps the kind of sonic effect you'd get going deep into the sea, as schools of fish sweep past you, and you head back towards the sun-drenched surface. It's a bit good, this.

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Trouble
Through The Devil Softly

The return of Hope Sandoval after a long absence between albums is most welcome, and even after all these years her songs and voice remain as sensual as ever. And on this track more than any other on the album, the ghost of Mazzy Star looms very large indeed. So if you know Mazzy Star, you know what to expect - slow and sparse instrumentation, and Sandoval's rich voice dominates the song as it should (and not to mention that this song can only be described as sexy as hell). So, anyway, about that reported Mazzy Star reunion...

XP8
Want It
Want It EP

After the quantum leap that was The Art Of Revenge, I have been looking forward to what this band did next. This is the lead single from the forthcoming album, featuring Daniel Graves of Aesthetic Perfection, and it's pretty good. Dominated by a twisting electro-beat, the filthy-minded lyrics suggest all manner of bad things, and is a much more effective take on this subject than the previous album's Cracked.

sarakthx's top albums (overall)
1. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black (1956) 2. Soundgarden - Superunknown (1632) 3. Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk (1426) 4. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (1423) 5. Placebo - Battle For The Sun (1263) 6. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel (1249) 7. Opeth - Watershed (1244) 8. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (1207) 9. Tori Amos - Boys for Pele (1046) 10. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance (1036) 11. Tori Amos - The Beekeeper (818) 12. Strapping Young Lad - Alien (797) 13. Assemblage 23 - Storm (698) 14. Josh Groban - Closer (690) 15. Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy (678) 16. The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits (658) 17. Assemblage 23 - Defiance (650) 18. Evanescence - The Open Door (589) 19. Alice in Chains - Facelift (555) 20. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (551)

Playlist:
Tyrondai Braxton - Dead Strings (From the brand new Central Market album, out on Warp September 14)

Black Devil Disco Club - Dangerous Mix (From The Strange New World Of Bernard Fevre out on Lo Recordings September 11th)

Martial Canterel - Hausmann (Off the album Refuge Underneath on Wierd Records)

Contra - Obsessionism (From their new release on DTrash Technologies called Enter the Winter)

Rotersand - Waiting To Be Born (From their brand spankin' new album Random Is Resistance, out on Metropolis October 27th)

Gatekeeper - optimus maximus (Out on Fright records, a brand new imprint of Kompakt. This single just came out on Halloween, yay)

Apoptygma Berzerk - Non-Stop Violence

Automelodi - Buanderie Jazz

royksopp - This Must Be It (Apparat Remix)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (Tommie Sunshine Remix)

Zero 7 - All Of Us

Things Kat's Excited For:
Seeing Skinny Puppy in Vancouver this week!

I also can't wait to here more from Mesh's new album, A Perfect Solution. I've been hearing bits here and there but I can't wait to receive the album in its entirety. It's truly going to be awesome (unlike the disappointment I have felt over Assemblage 23's new one... don't get me started)

New Releases October 12th, 2009 - November 1st, 2009
October 13, 2009: Hudson Mohawke - Buter (Warp)
October 13, 2009: Terrorfakt - RE/Evolution (Metropolis)
October 13, 2009: My Robot Friend - Soft-core (Double feature/Worried Rainbow)
October 20, 2009: Assemblage 23 - Compass (Metropolis)
October 20, 2009: Electic Six - Kill (Metropolis)
October 23, 2009: Raz Ohara & The Odd Orchestra - II (Get Physical)
October 23, 2009: Mesh - A Perfect Solution (Metropolis)
October 27, 2009: Velvet Acid Christ - The Art of Breaking Apart (Metropolis)
October 27, 2009: [:SITD:] - Rot (Metropolis)
October 27, 2009: Rotersand - Random Is Resistance (Metropolis)
October 31, 2009: Gatekeeper - Optimus Maximus (Fright)