Last week's charts are a bit weird as I was mostly experimenting with my new ability to play Last.fm radio which resulted in many artists with one or two songs played. I did, however, find time to have a couple more obsessions.

First up, Metric. I seriously take back every negative thing I've said about them in previous entries. A condensed version of the story: I tried a couple songs a long time ago and didn't like them, I tried out Old World Underground… and Live It Out a few months ago and still didn't like them… fastforward to…

Even though the timestamp on this will probably say Monday because I took so fucking long to write it, it was actually still Sunday when I started… so any time I refer to "today" it means Sunday. Got it? ;)

So, here it is, my much anticipated 20000th song played is … *drumroll* … Rasputina's "A Quitter".

I have worked out every small detail
In this plan I've made,
This thing which cannot fail.
I dare myself to do this one thing.
You can have my car.
Go and take everything.

All that's good is gone,
It's gone.
I…

I listened to a ton of music again this week, including a lot that isn't of the norm for me. I discovered some new artists and rediscovered some old favorites. I'm less than 700 plays away from 20k now - that seems so crazy! I'll definitely be reaching it before long. Next week, I'm going to try and listen to lots of new stuff, though I always say that and it usually doesn't end up happening.

1. Joanna Newsom (61 plays)
I am seriously obsessed with this girl. The only song I really liked for awhile was "Sprout and the…

Oh wow, I haven't listened to Tori Amos in what seems like forever but for some reason I really got the urge to listen to her suddenly. I've said for awhile that Under the Pink is probably my favorite album, but I really forgot how great it is. I've been tagging the songs here as I play them and I'm going to end up with seven out of twelve songs as favorites - "Pretty Good Year", "Bells for Her", "Baker Baker", "Cornflake Girl", "Icicle", "Space Dog", and "Yes, Anastasia". So, that's more than half of the album which is pretty…

I actually listened to quite a bit of stuff this week, just over 500 plays total. And I'm less than 1200 plays away from 20000 so I expect to reach that within a month at least, probably about three weeks, if I keep playing as much as I usually do. Anyway, this week's charts…

1. Patty Griffin (80 plays)
Patty managed to take the ever-so-important number one position after I had a spur-of-the-moment listening spree of everything I have of hers on my computer on Saturday night. I just can't get enough of her - the voice, the lyrics, everything…

Weekly charts have been updating really early these last few weeks. I honestly didn't listen to anything much, just the usual, but whatever… I'm bored and I'm going to do this anyway.

The biggest shock of the week: Rilo Kiley is way down in fourth place - the horror! I'm not going to go back through all my charts and look, but this may possibly be the lowest they've ever been.

So, we'll start off on them… I was expecting Rilo Kiley to take over The Dresden Dolls as my number one artist overall by the end of the week…

I can't believe I haven't taken the opportunity to fully dissect The Dresden Dolls' self-titled debut in here yet. It is one of my favorite albums, period, and has been a huge part of my life in many ways. I used to listen to it multiple times a day, marvelling with wide-eyed wonder at the amount of emotion and passion poured into those twelve songs and at how deeply they spoke to my own feelings and thoughts. Nothing had ever or has yet touched me so intensely, as far as music goes, or really, as far as anything goes.…

I'm a bit late with my weekly review this time around, but I don't really have much to talk about. It wasn't a very interesting week. I listened to hardly anything which is the complete opposite of the week before when I listened to a lot more than usual. I'll post my entire top ten but I'm only going to elaborate on a few of them.

1. The Elected (83 plays)
I finally got into Me First last week and I played it nearly non-stop, a lot more than this count lets on because a good portion of my listening…

I listened to a lot of stuff over the past week… some of it similar to the week before so I'll try just to talk about the important ones.

1. Rilo Kiley (107 plays)
I truly thought my obsession with them had died down a bit, but looking at these numbers, it obviously hasn't. I listened mostly to Initial Friend-era stuff along with some Take Offs and Landings and a few random tracks thrown in. I played a lot of songs of theirs on repeat often which explains why a whopping five are in my top ten for the…

Well, my weekly chart is nowhere to be found on my profile page, hopefully this is only temporary. It does seem to be completely updated when I go to the charts section though so I'll go ahead and do my little summary of the week.

1. The Grates - 66 plays
Obviously, I'm still completely obsessed with them. I got their album in the mail around the middle of the week and even though I had already played it tons of times before, the excitement of having the real thing was still very overwhelming. Today, I listened to Be Your…