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1. How did you get into 29?
Raine Maida - He's the lead singer for my #1, I can't not listen to them. I didn't really get into his solo stuff until after I went to an OLP concert and fully appreciated the sexiness that is Raine Maida.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Breaking Benjamin - Diary Of Jane, naturally. I was listening to it in the car with a friend and she thought that he was singing "Diarrhea Jane."

3. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Skillet - Three. I have Collide, Comatose, and Awake.

4. What is your favorite song by 15?
Paramore - I love their slower songs. I'd have to go with Misguided Ghosts, because it's so different that what they usually do, and much more lyrically deep.

5. What is your favorite song by 5?
Hoobastank - Inside Of You got a ton of extra points in my book when I heard it live, but You're The One still holds a special place in my heart.

6. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Green Day - Almost everything off of 21st Century Breakdown makes me happy, because they're such fun songs. If I want to be in a good mood, I listen to that CD.

7. What is your favorite song by 10?
Tickle Me Pink - Definitely Tomorrow's Ending, although Madeline is pretty awesome too.

8. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Switchfoot - 24 is a song that has this odd habit of showing up in those moments in my life where the things that were once going wrong suddenly became right. I have so many good memories of that song.

9. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
AFI - None of their songs are particularly happy, haha. The chorus of End Transmission is one of the best things that has happened to my ears, though, so I guess I'll go with that one.

10. How many times have you seen 25 live?
30 Seconds To Mars - Sadly, none. It seems they don't like to tour much in America. Or, at least not when I end up looking at their tour dates...

11. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Rise Against - I know I heard a bunch of stuff on Siren Sound when it first came out because my friend bought it, but I didn't pay much attention. The first song of theirs I actually remember hearing was Give It All.

12. What is your favorite album by 11?
Zeromancer - All their albums have their high points and some songs that I usually skip, but I guess the best overall is Eurotrash.

13. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Our Lady Peace - Absolutely Raine Maida. But I already discussed that.

14. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Foo Fighters - I live a kind of sad, concertless life. I think it's the result of living first in nowhere Montana and then in a border town where the only artists that come through sing in Spanish. So, no. But that would be a great day in my life.

15. What is a good memory involving 27?
Lifehouse - Their CD was one of the first ones that I bought from FYE. It started a dangerous trend of spending all my money there until it closed a few months ago.

16. What is your favorite song by 16?
The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret, definitely. Because I have this nasty habit of usually preferring the singles.

17. What is your favorite album by 18?
Panic at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out was way better than their newer one.

18. What is your favorite song by 21?
Jimmy Eat World - I am really starting to like Chase This Light.

19. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
Boys Like Girls - I think it was Thunder, but I'm not sure.

20. What is your favorite album by 2?
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake... It's Morning is definitely the best, but Cassadaga is starting to grow on me too.

21. What is you favorite song by 3?
Papa Roach - Probably Lifeline, although every other song off Metamorphosis is a close second.

22. What is you favorite song by 8?
The Used - I have this weird thing where I usually like the slow songs from my more hardcore bands. I think I have to pick Tunnel.

23. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Garbage - Never. How sad.

24. What is the worst song by 12?
Augustana - None of them. Okay... Mayfield.

25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
My Chemical Romance - Helena. I watched the music video on youtube, because I heard the singer was hot. I sometimes thank myself for my shallowness.

26. What is you favorite album by 7?
Trapt - Only Through The Pain is better than their others by leaps and bounds.

27. What is your favorite song by 24?
Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit is probably my favorite, although New Divide is starting to grow on me.

28. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
The Killers - Human puts me into a kind of melancholy happy. It's hard to describe, but I'd consider it happy.

29. What is your favorite album by 4?
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High. That's the only one that I can listen to its entirety and not get bored with it.

30. How many albums do you own by 20?
Alkaline Trio - None, actually. I did buy one for a friend once though.

...Top 30 on Last.FM over the last 7 days...

Insane Clown Posse - 53
My Chemical Romance - 46
Andrew W.K. - 44
Linkin Park - 32
Nothingface - 22
Chevelle - 16
Megadeth - 15
Breaking Benjamin - 14
(hed) Planet Earth - 14
Demons & Wizards - 13
Puddle of Mudd - 13
Papa Roach - 13
Pitchshifter - 12
P.O.D. - 12
Fenix TX - 11
Cathedral - 10
Grade 8 - 10
Five Finger Death Punch - 10
Ulver - 9
Endo - 9
Fear Factory - 8
Filter - 7
Darwin's Waiting Room - 7
Slayer - 6
Crazy Town - 6
The Offspring - 5
Ozzy Osbourne - 5
Muse - 5
Oleander - 5
Reveille - 5
White Zombie - 5

So here's how you do it:
- Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
- Put it on shuffle
- Press play
- For every question, type the song that's playing
- When you go to a new question, press the next button
- No cheating!

Opening Credits
Parkway Drive - Carrion

Waking Up
Richard Ashcroft - God in the Numbers

First Day At School
The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Falling In Love
The Smiths - Shoplifters Of The World Unite

Losing Virginity
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood

Fight Song
Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack

Breaking Up
Mogwai - Stupid Fuck Gets Chased By the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend

Prom
Protest the Hero - Sequoia Throne

Life
Amusement Parks on Fire - Out of the Angeles

Mental Breakdown
Robbie Williams - The Trouble With Me

Driving
Breaking Benjamin - Polyamorous

Depression
Oasis - Slide Away

Partying
Doom Unit - Killing Time

Happy dance
Arab Strap - Fucking Little Bastards

Betrayal
Queen - Under Pressure

Regretting
The Enemy - Aggro

Long night alone
Billy Talent - Devil on My Shoulder

Flashback
Mudvayne - Forget to Remember

Getting Back Together
Keane - Is It Any Wonder

Wedding
Franz Ferdinand - Well That Was Easy

Birth of Child
Working for a Nuclear Free City - England

Final Battle
Lamb of God - Vigil

Death Scene
Akercocke - Intractable

Funeral Song
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name

End Credits
Killswitch Engage - Reject Yourself

So here's how you do it:
- Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
- Put it on shuffle
- Press play
- For every question, type the song that's playing
- When you go to a new question, press the next button
- No cheating!

Opening Credits
Parkway Drive - Carrion

Waking Up
Richard Ashcroft - God in the Numbers

First Day At School
The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Falling In Love
The Smiths - Shoplifters Of The World Unite

Losing Virginity
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood

Fight Song
Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack

Breaking Up
Mogwai - Stupid Fuck Gets Chased By the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend

Prom
Protest the Hero - Sequoia Throne

Life
Amusement Parks on Fire - Out of the Angeles

Mental Breakdown
Robbie Williams - The Trouble With Me

Driving
Breaking Benjamin - Polyamorous

Depression
Oasis - Slide Away

Partying
Doom Unit - Killing Time

Happy dance
Arab Strap - Fucking Little Bastards

Betrayal
Queen - Under Pressure

Regretting
The Enemy - Aggro

Long night alone
Billy Talent - Devil on My Shoulder

Flashback
Mudvayne - Forget to Remember

Getting Back Together
Keane - Is It Any Wonder

Wedding
Franz Ferdinand - Well That Was Easy

Birth of Child
Working for a Nuclear Free City - England

Final Battle
Lamb of God - Vigil

Death Scene
Akercocke - Intractable

Funeral Song
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name

End Credits
Killswitch Engage - Reject Yourself

mahoney_777's top albums (overall)
1. Three Days Grace - One-X (878) 2. Seether - Disclaimer II (653) 3. Seether - Karma & Effect (609) 4. Iron Maiden - Best of the Beast (464) 5. Three Days Grace - Three Days Grace (457) 6. Howard Shore - The Fellowship Of The Ring (392) 7. Chevelle - Wonder What's Next (356) 8. Antonio Vivaldi - Complete Cello Concertos (347) 9. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance (342) 10. Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (313) 11. Seether - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces (312) 12. Entwine - diEversity (304) 13. Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark (279) 14. Carter Burwell - Twilight (276) 15. Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) (261) 16. Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight (254) 17. Seether - Fragile (250) 18. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (247) 19. Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony (242) 20. Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now (239) 21. Entwine - Fatal Design (235) 22. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade (234) 23. Nicholas Hooper - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (214) 24. Danny Elfman - Corpse Bride (207) 25. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (205) 26. Carlo Siliotto - Fluke (194) 27. Evanescence - Fallen (193) 28. Metallica - S & M (188) 29. Entwine - Time of Despair (186) 30. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (181) 31. In Flames - A Sense of Purpose (172) 32. Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (167) 33. System of a Down - Toxicity (159) 34. Howard Shore - The Return Of The King (153) 35. Howard Shore - The Two Towers (152) 36. Papa Roach - The Paramour Sessions (152) 37. HIM - Razorblade Romance (148) 38. Hans Zimmer - Gladiator (148) 39. Apocalyptica - Cult Special Edition (146) 40. HIM - Dark Light (145) 41. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem (145) 42. Elliot Goldenthal - Interview With The Vampire (143) 43. Breaking Benjamin - Phobia (142) 44. Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight (142) 45. Entwine - Painstained (138) 46. Iron Maiden - Brave New World (136) 47. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (134) 48. Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone (132) 49. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind (130) 50. Linkin Park - Meteora (128)

Alright, as we near the end of this first Y2K decade, it's time to take a look back at all the incredible Albums that have been released up to now.

I'll start off this extensive research with 2000, up until 2009. I'll then go back to 1980, all the way up to 1999, to then wrap things up with the 70s and before.

Seeing the amount of albums I listen(ed) to, I'll be choosing my Top 25 Albums for each year. An ordered Top 10, and ~15 others worth mentioning. I'm also considering the live albums and EPs (~5), but they have their own section since songs on these have usually already been released before.

These are general rankings of how I see them today, and based on my Last.FM songs playcounts (2005-now) put through the formula:

Total Sum of each Album's Song's (running time X playcount)
DIVIDED BY
Album's Total Running Time

Thanks to MediaMonkey and its amazing scripting abilities, that formula gives an Album's REAL playcount, taking into consideration every song's lenght & playcount in relation to the overall album's lenght and # of songs on it.
You'll see the result (# of times I've really listened to an album since 2005) besides each, along with my 10* Rating. (x/x)
Besides each Year, you get the Total of all Albums' Playcounts and the average of all Albums' Ratings. (x / %)

Note that I haven't necessarily discovered and enjoyed all these albums on their released years, some I discovered years later. So these are also based on how important (to me) some of these albums were at the time.

(**) are the complete albums I was into at that time;
(*) are albums that contained only a few song(s) I was into or listened to at that time;
and those without (*) are albums I discovered years later.

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Favorite albums (1970-1979)
Favorite albums (1980-1989)
Favorite albums (1990-1999)
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2000 (139 / 81%)



1) Furnished Souls for Rent (48/10) (**)
2) The Screen Behind The Mirror (9/9) (**)
3) Universe (6/9) (**)
4) Dead Soul Men (6/9)
5) undefined (1/9)
6) A New Day Yesterday (1/9)
7) CAB (4/9)
8) Another Spin Around The Sun (5/8) (*)
9) Origin (9/8)
10) Stiff Upper Lip (1/8)

Live/EP:

-) S&M (-/10)
-) Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live (-/10)
-) Half the World Is Watching Me (-/9)
-) Earth, Sky and Everything in Between (-/9)
-) Spirit of Live (-/8)
-) Not Enough Shouting (-/8)

worth mentioning:

-) Awake (3/8)
-) The Perfect Element, Part I (1/8)
-) SMPTe (3/8) (*)
-) Don't Give Me Names (1/8)
-) if_then_else (2/8)
-) You Go Now (6/8)
-) Rated R (6/8)
-) Outbound (1/8)
-) Brave New World (1/8)
-) Flamenco.A.Go.Go (1/8)
-) The Sickness (4/7)
-) Lightbulb Sun (3/7)
-) Shuttlecock (2/7)
-) Mer De Noms (3/7) (*)
-) My Favorite Headache (2/7)
-) Crush (9/7) (*)
-) Crack a Smile... and More (1994 album w/ Blues Saraceno) (1/7)




2001 (99 / 84%)



1) Leitmotif (23/10)
2) Alive in an Ultra World (8/10) (**)
3) The Pleasure and the Greed (10/10) (**)
4) Amélie (3/10)
5) Huron Street (6/9)
6) Toxicity (3/9)
7) Contact (2/9)
8) Emalgamation (1/9)
9) Days of the New III (4/9)
10) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2/9) (**)

Live:

-) Live Scenes From New York (-/10) (**)
-) One Wild Night (-/10) (*)
-) Half Life (-/9)
-) Live at the Baked Potato (-/9)
-) The Deep End (-/8)
-) Live Frogs (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Lateralus (7/8)
-) Everyday (2/8)
-) Inertia (6/8) (*)
-) Manic Moonlight (1/8)
-) Feeding the Wheel (3/8) (*)
-) Bridge Across Forever (1/8)
-) Origin Of Symmetry (3/8)
-) Tantric (1/8)
-) Almost Heathen (3/8)
-) Invincible (1/8)
-) Unleashed Memories (1/8)
-) 2 (2/8) (*)
-) 10 000 Hz Legend (1/8)
-) The Interzone Mantras (1/7)
-) The Idiot King (2/7)
-) Buck Fever (1/7)
-) Book M (1/7)




2002 (262 / 85%)



1) Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (25/10) (**)
2) Population 1 (36/10) (**)
3) Moon Babies (15/10) (**)
4) Songs For The Deaf (21/9)
5) 67 (28/9) (**)
6) Move (12/9)
7) In Absentia (11/9) (*)
8) Freak Guitar (3/9)
9) Saturate (25/9)
10) El Cielo (13/9)

Live/EP:

-) Live From Oz (-/10) (*)
-) Stolen Babies EP (-/9)
-) And All That Could Have Been (-/9)
-) Not for Your Ears (-/8)
-) Boozed, Broozed & Broken-Boned (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Bounce (4/9) (*)
-) X (13/8) (**)
-) By the Way (2/8) (*)
-) Exit Elvis (11/8) (**)
-) Weight of the World (3/8)
-) Steal This Album! (3/8)
-) So, It's Like That (1/8)
-) Remedy Lane (2/8)
-) Diorama (4/8)
-) Audioslave (6/8) (*)
-) Vapor Trails (7/8) (*)
-) From One (4/8)
-) Dead Soul Tribe (1/8)
-) Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (3/7) (**)
-) Independent (3/7)
-) Believe (4/7)




2003 (236 / 90%)



1) Train of Thought (41/10) (**)
2) The Quicksilver Meat Dream (35/10) (**)
3) Office of Strategic Influence (38/10) (*)
4) Frengers (24/10)
5) The Moon is Falling (3/10)
6) Robot Monster (10/10) (**)
7) Re-Foc (12/9)
8) Summercamp Nightmare (2/9)
9) Good Bye Lenin! (1/9)
10) Absolution (14/9) (*)

Live:

-) Live at the Astoria (-/10) (**)
-) Rush in Rio (-/10) (**)
-) This Left Feels Right (-/8) (*)
-) 10 anos ao vivo (-/8)
-) Spatial/Design (-/8)
-) Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Faceless (4/8)
-) Souvenirs (2/8)
-) Black Utopia (4/8)
-) In Lake 'ch (2/8)
-) Black Like Sunday (1/8)
-) Blues Deluxe (8) (*)
-) Little Worlds (1/8)
-) Jeff (1/8)
-) A Murder of Crows (1/8)
-) Walking on a Thin Line (1/8)
-) A Natural Disaster (2/8)
-) Fallen (21/8) (*)
-) St Anger (7/7) (*)
-) Quadropus (1/7)
-) Emergent (1/7)
-) Voyageur (4/7)
-) Thirteenth Step (2/7)




Coming up next: 2004



Artists List

3, 7 for 4, A Perfect Circle, AC/DC, Air, Anathema, Attention Deficit, Audioslave, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Big Wreck, Black Label Society, Blues Saraceno, Bon Jovi, Breaking Benjamin, CAB, Canvas Solaris, Chroma Key, Cosmosquad, Dave Matthews Band, Days of the New, Deadsoul Tribe, Def Leppard, Derek Sherinian, Disturbed, Don Ross, Dr Sin, Dream Theater, dredg, Edwin, Enigma, Estradasphere, Evanescence, Freak Kitchen, Geddy Lee, Godsmack, Gordian Knot, Gov't Mule, Guano Apes, Harem Scarem, I Mother Earth, Iron Maiden, Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, Joel Hoekstra, John Williams, Jordan Rudess, Karma to Burn, King's X, Kingdom Come, Lacuna Coil, Lucia Moniz, Mattias IA Eklundh, Metallica, Mew, Michael Jackson, Mourning Widows, MullMuzzler, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Nuno Bettencourt, OSI, Pain of Salvation, Pink Floyd, Planet X, Poison, Porcupine Tree, Primus, Queens of the Stone Age, Ra, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rush, Sam Aliano, Secret Chiefs 3, Silverchair, Steve Stevens, Steve Vai, Stolen Babies, Super TransAtlantic, System of a Down, Tantric, The Gathering, The Les Claypool Frog Brigade, The Mayan Factor, The Tea Party, Tool, Transatlantic, Tribe of Judah, Wolfstone, Yann Tiersen.

Take your 20 Overall Top Artists and find out how many listeners they have...

1. Breaking Benjamin (703,548 listeners)
2. Trapt (380,313 listeners)
3. Yellowcard (716,130 listeners)
4. Rise Against (699,663 listeners)
5. Tech N9ne (93,723 listeners)
6. Evans Blue (151,672 listeners)
7. Paramore (787,331 listeners)
8. Fall Out Boy (1,182,945 listeners)
9. Cute Is What We Aim For (248,759 listeners)
10. Three Days Grace (697,705 listeners)
11. Cobra Starship (283,268 listeners)
12. Cartel (270,107 listeners)
13. Forever the Sickest Kids (156,889 listeners)
14. 3OH!3 (146,806 listeners)
15. Flyleaf (370,552 listeners)
16. Relient K (354,383 listeners)
17. Papa Roach (927,515 listeners)
18. Avril Lavigne (1,160,099 listeners)
19. Metro Station (306,201 listeners)
20. Panic at the Disco (934,078 listeners)

Total: 10,571,687

Divde by 20

Average: 528584.35

Divide by the number of Coldplay listeners

Coldplay: 2,556,768

Result: 0.20673927

Multiply by 100 and round

Final Result: 20.6

I am 21% mainstream