I recently got a Livejournal account mostly to join a few communities, but since I already post my personal journal-y stuff at my website, I wasn't sure what to use that part of it for. But I've decided that I think I'm going to try making it a music blog. Nothing fancy, just some of my favorite songs every now and then, because really, the best part about music for me is sharing it with other people.

I've put up some stuff I've uploaded this week as the first entry, and I'll probably be putting up my first set of…

After discovering quite a few great new artists last week, I decided to try and do the same this week. I actually ended up liking a fair amount of what I listened to which is good for me, not so good for dialing down my massive music collection. Here's the rundown:

1. The Vincent Black Shadow (58 plays)
I actually first heard them while being forced to watch the Fuse music channel with my sister. I saw the video for "Metro" a few times and the song kind of got stuck in my head, though not enough to make me…

I haven't written a very substantial entry in awhile and I listened to quite a bit of new stuff this week, so what better time than now?

Still very evident in my weekly chart is my Shannon Wright obsession. She's there in first place with her solo stuff, in eighth with Crowsdell, and finally tied for eleventh with the Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright collaboration. I just cannot express in the right words what her music does to me. In a similar fashion to my Rilo Kiley obsession last summer, I want to listen to her all the time…

Last year, my New Year's resolution of sorts was to a.) buy more music in 2006 and b.) keep up with current releases better than I had in the past. This was brought on by me realizing just how much music I had been downloading and that I had only purchased about five new releases in 2005 that I can remember. One year later, I have to say that I think I accomplished my goal successfully. I spent almost every dollar I acquired on music, beefing up my collection quite drastically, and managed to get most of the new releases…

Merry Christmas! It is officially less than three hours away, for me anyway. I have to say I'm not very much in the Christmas spirit. My sister and I did listen to some old-school *NSync Christmas tunes but I don't think it helped much, though we did have fun laughing at the way Lance sings "the only gift I wanted was youuuuuu." Anyway, aside from that, I realized that my music collection is sorely lacking in Christmas music. Everything that I could find that was slightly Christmas-y or December-y: Rilo Kiley - "Xmas Cake", Sarah Slean - "What Child…

This journal's purpose is mostly just to save some lyrics I like for future reference. Sometimes, I just can't find the right words to say on my own but a certain line or phrase from a song can say it perfectly. Consider this one of those times.

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Topic: single lines or verses that say something perfectly, in a straight-forward and simple manner, especially from an artist who wouldn't be considered a "great lyricist".

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First up, lines that stick out throughout So Jealous by Tegan and Sara. This album got me to start thinking about lyrics that don't…

About a year ago, I wrote this journal entry about my current top 25 artists at the time and how I thought they would change in the future. Looking back over that list really puts how much I've listened to into perspective. One year ago, my top artist had 461 plays while today my top artist has a whopping 1391, which is slightly more than three times as much. The artist in 25th place had only 32 plays while now it is 240 plays. In fact, to even make it into the top 50, I now have to play an…

What's going on in the musical world of Shannon, you may be asking. Well, probably not, but I'll let you know anyway.

When I listen to the Last.fm radio, I usually listen to one of my tag stations, but I get bored easily with "favorites" and frustrated easily with "investigate further" so I've been listening less and less lately. Then, I realized that my personal radio would probably be a good alternative, since it plays anything you've already listened to and anything you have tagged. I don't know why I didn't realize this earlier, but now I'm glad I…

I skipped last week. I'm not sure why. Probably partly because I didn't think much of it was worth writing about and partly because I'm just completely lazy. These week-in-review entries were getting kind of repetitive and boring to me so I was just going to write about my latest obsessions and discoveries but it seems that they're all somewhere among my top ten this week, so it basically would be a week-in-review entry anyway. I guess this week is more interesting than most as a lot of these artists I haven't really written about much yet… so here we…

So, my top ten for the week:

1. Metric
2. Tilly and the Wall
2. The Sounds
4. Sarah Slean
5. Shannon Wright
6. Sia
7. Patty Griffin
8. Joanna Newsom
9. Bright Eyes
10. Nina Nastasia

Nothing too terribly exciting, but…

My new discovery of the week was The Sounds, which really was almost by complete accident. Earlier in the week, my_epitome randomly sent me "Queen of Apology". I hadn't heard much of theirs previously, but I had pretty much written them off as something I wouldn't like, for some reason or other. Anyway, I listened to the…