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Purchased albums:

Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue (1984)

The Cinematics - A Strange Education (2007)
The Coral - Singles Collection (2CD) (2008)

dEUS - Pocket Revolution (2005)
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (1996)
The Doors - Strange Days (1967)

Editors- An End Has a Start (2007)
Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery (1979) [Expanded Ed.]
The Electric Soft Parade - The American Adventure (2003)
The Electric Soft Parade - The Human Body EP (2005)
Electric Soft Parade - No Need To Be Downhearted (2007)

* Glasvegas - Glasvegas / A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss) (2008) [2CD]

Feeder - Picture Of Perfect Youth (2004 or 2007, not sure about this)

Hard-Fi - Stars Of CCTV (2005)
The Hives - Your New Favourite Band (2002)

Billy Joel - Piano Man: The Very Best of Billy Joel

Keane - Perfect Symmetry (2008)

Mew - A Triumph for Man (1997)
Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat (2007)
Moi Caprice - You Can't Say No Forever (2005; this time as a CD)

Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way (2002)

Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008)
Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966)
Elliott Smith - XO (1998)
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill (2004)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)
* Supertramp - Crime of the Century (1974)
Supertramp - Famous Last Words (1982)

Turin Brakes - Ether Song (2003)

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

Yes - 90125 (1983) [Expanded & Remastered]

Zen Café - Jättiläinen(2003)



Some assorted cds I got for free:
Jesse Malin - Broken Radio (single) (2007)
Something for Kate - The Official Fiction (2004)
Koop - Koop Island Blues (single?) (2006)
The Strokes - Heart in a Gage (single) (2006)
The Solution - I Have to Quit You (single) (2004)

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22-Pistepirkko - Eleven (1998)

A
Air - Premiers Symptomes (1999)
Air - Pocket Symphony (2007)
Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid (1979)
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot 30th Anniversary Edition (2007; Original release 1977)
Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture Expanded Edition (2007; Original release 1985)
Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)

B
The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits

C
The Coral - Roots and Echoes (2007)
The Coral - The Coral (2002)

D
Doves - The Last Broadcast (2002)

G
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen (2007)

I
Idlewild - Make Another World (2007)

J
Jet - Get Born (2004)

K
Kent - Tillbaka Till Samtiden (2007)

L
Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) (1973)

M
Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers (2007)
Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (2007) [single]
Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (2007)
Monty Python - The Final Rip Off (1987)

N
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1970)

P
Pink Floyd - Meddle (1971)
Pink Floyd - Division Bell (1994)
Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust (2006)

R
Razorlight - Up All Night (2004)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (1999)

S
Scissor Sisters - Ta Dah (2006) [Collectors' Edition] It was on sale... :P
Sigur Rós - Takk... (2005)
Sister Flo - The Healer (2007)
The Smiths - Rank (1988)

T
Travis - The Boy With No Name (2007)

V
Viola - Tearcandy (2004)
Viola - Melancholydisco (2005)
Viola - Anything Can Stop Us (2005)
Viola - Wonderabilia (2007)
Von Hertzen Brothers - Approach (2006)

W
The Who - Live At Leeds (1995)

=Total 38

Air - Talkie Walkie (2004)
The Alan Parsons Project - Eve (1979)
The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980)
The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky (1981)
The Ark - State of the Ark (2004)
Ash - Meltdown (2004)

The Beatles - Love (2006)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl (2005)
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
James Dean Bradfield - The Great Western (2006)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)

The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity (2005)
The Clash - London Calling (1979)
Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis (2006)
The Coral - Magic and Medicine (2003)

The Doors - The Doors (1967)
The Doors - L.A Woman (1971)

Egotrippi - Vielä koittaa uusi aika (2006)
Embrace - Out of Nothing (2004)

Feist - Let It Die (2005)
Feeder - Pushing the Senses (2005)
Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (2002)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)

Keane - Hopes And Fears (2004)
Keane - Under The Iron Sea (2006)
Kent - Du & Jag Döden (2005)

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I (1969)
Lemonator - At the Presence of Great Beauty (2006)

Moi Caprice - Once Upon a Time in the North (2003)*
Moi Caprice - You Can't Say No Forever (2005)*
Morrissey - Vauxhall and I (1994)
Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors (2006)
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry (2001)

Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale (2001, comp.)

Razorlight - Razorlight (2006)

Snow Patrol - Eyes Open (2006)
Snow Patrol - Final Straw (2004)
Suede - Sci-fi Lullabies (1997)
Supertramp - Breakfast in America (1979)

U2 - War (1983)

The Veils - Runaway Found (2004)

Thom Yorke - The Eraser (2006)
Neil Young - Harvest (1972)
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night (1975)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)


That makes it 48 albums :) (way more than last year...)

*NB: Two of the above albums (Moi Caprice) were purchased on digital form only. Due a computer failure they were accidentally deleted in November 2007. Unfortunately I had made no backups of them.
Boo hoo.

Bought the other one as a CD later, See Albums 2008.

I just came back from the Ruisrock festival and I'm over the moon... I got to see the Morrissey live, he's my personal hero #1.

Aww, his gig was way too short. :( But he sung the Smiths' How Soon Is Now, Girlfriend in a Coma, Panic, hmm, anything else? ;) I have (not very good) pics of him in three different shirts, but I'll have to get me a cord to get them out of the camera.

Mew, yesterday night, was brilliant too, but they had some sort of technical problems at first. It took them 15 minutes to get the gig really started. After that it was so good, they almost made me cry. (Well, I had been up from 6 am... I'm sure it had nothing to do with that.)

They are apparently afraid of Moomin (you know the Finnish cartoon.) Hmm... They must be very sensitive if that's the case.

Lemonator was great too, but that's kind of obvious. Marvellous, perfect, superb this, superb that.

I'd like to write some more details, but I'm afraid I'm about to pass out... ;)

Good night.
Fri 7 Jul – Ruisrock

I bought Snow Patrol's new album today, but I had heard the duet with Martha Wainwright before. Actually, it's the most beautiful thing I've heard this year.

I've read some reviews of the album and people tend to either love it or think it's too clinical.
Well, Set the Fire to the Third Bar is not clinical one bit. ;)

</pointless journal entry>

(third time edit... damned last.fm won't accept my tagging :P)

Yeah, even though I remember stumbling to this page thanks to a Google "free internet radio" search like it was yesterday... :P

To celebrate this occasion I'm allowed to present some useless statistics:

I have obsessions - and to prove this, I counted all of my weekly charts #1's.
Here's the score:

Manic Street Preachers 13
The Alan Parsons Project 9
The Beatles, Franz Ferdinand 5
Pink Floyd, Morrissey, Mew 3
(Ten different bands 1)

Only 17 bands have made it... I blame my Manics obsession last year. ;)


If this shows, you can see my weekly average listens... (Not going in the right direction.)

I got almost 50,000 tracks played in a year (47955), damned real life didn't let me listen more. ;)

Today, January 28th 2006, is my 23rd birthday. Woohoo.

Like I promised, it's time for a new entry - exactly 25 days later. (Or 26, if you live in the Netherlands, like I was kindly pointed out.)

In honor of the celebration, I'm going to write a few words about my current obsessions.

Mew
I finally finished my long-term obsession with Mew's newest album, the amazing And The Glasshanded Kites couple weeks ago.
Now I've found myself indulging their debut (?) album Frengers.
There should be a law against bands as magnificient as Mew. ;)

Air
To be honest, I never really got into their 1998 release Moon Safari. There are excellent songs, but I was way too lazy to listen it properly.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I've fallen in love with Talkie Walkie. (We are announcing our engagement any day now.)
Uh, seriously, it's probably the most relaxing album (along with Sigur Rós) I've ever listened to (ie. I've fallen asleep while listening to it more than once.) I love that kind of albums.

The Alan Parsons Project
Tales of Mystery and Imagination? Indescribable. I wish more people would do albums about literature pieces (especially Egdar Allan Poe's, as I'm strangely fascinated by him.)
A Turn of a Friendly Card? A definite classic.
Gaudi? I don't think many albums have gotten me interested in the subjects, unlike this album. Besides, the song La Sagrada Familia is as gorgeous as the building.
(Eye in the Sky? I think I've run out of praising adjectives.)


Pink Floyd
I've said this before: I'm too stubborn for my own good.
I got into Pink Floyd in 2002, loved The Piper at the Gates of Dawn but then (TEH horror) I was really disappointed with The Dark Side of the Moon (I just loved Syd) and quitted the scene. Stupid.

Ahem, the Pulse version of Comfortably Numb changed my mind; Pink Floyd minus Syd does not equal DSOTM. :D

Wish You Were Here is my absolute favourite now. One day I'm going to listen to TDSOTM veeery carefully and maybe - just maybe - I'll start liking it (too).

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Please excuse me my stupid fragmented sentence structure and lame inside jokes, I've been up way over 18 hours. Heh.
And I couldn't bother adding the album tags. Gimme a break. ;)

What to do when one of your last.fm top 25 artists begin seriously annoy you?
Especially when you've listened them well over 400 times and dropping them the "traditional" way just takes way too long.

Yeah, this is the time when the profile editor comes into the play. But you're too worried about the "correctness" of your stats, so you just can't remove their plays altogether. Come on, what would people say? Horrible.

So you try to remove some tracks you obsessively hate, but later discover all the removed things after 13th December have returned.
You kind of get pissed off because Firefox tends to crash every time you open the editor, too.
And every time Firefox crashes, your computer starts to complain how there is no memory left.

At this point you wonder why do you bother doing this at all and write a long, stupid and boring journal entry about it. The entry will be later deleted by equally pissed off future-self, who has rediscovered (*shudder*) the damned band.

You swear never to write anything to your last.fm journal again. The promise is broken exactly 25 days later.

THE END