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Music Vision

Paul — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:35:00 +0000

I found a stats site that takes Last.fm data to produce a tidy graph showing listening trends over a set period. Here’s my resultant PDF from September 2004 until this month, June 2007, with a minimum of 10 plays required to trigger an artist being shown:
My Listening Trends PDF

Preview of my March 2007 listening trend:

The site is called LastGraph and it was built using Processing.

Audial Pleasures of the Early Summer

Paul — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:46:00 +0000

This season’s newest audial pleasures.

Last Weeks Most Listened To Artists

Paul — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:54:00 +0000

Jason Forrest
Vashti Bunyan
Paavoharju
Nick Drake
Sufjan Stevens
L’Altra
Kemialliset Ystävät
Three 6 Mafia
Arve Henriksen
The Microphones

This Weeks Listening Chart

Paul — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:07:00 +0000

1	The Microphones	32
2	The Arcade Fire	10
3	Idlewild	7
4	RJD2	6
4	Pink Floyd	6
4	Eva Cassidy	6
7	Les Savy Fav	4
7	Moby	4
7	Lightning Bolt	4
7	The Postal Service	4

Current top 50 artists snapshot

Paul — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:07:00 +0000

Last generated: June 27, 2005
1	Nick Drake	202
2	Elliott Smith	170
3	The Microphones	112
4	RJD2	93
5	Iron & Wine	91
6	Sage Francis	86
7	Klaus Badelt	85
8	The Arcade Fire	84
9	Nightwish	82
10	Eva Cassidy	72
10	Shining	72
12	Ennio Morricone	71
13	Leonard Cohen	64
13	Simon & Garfunkel	64
15	The Decemberists	61
16	Radiohead	60
17	Pixies	58
17	David Bowie	58
17	2 Many DJ’s	58
17	Kenji Kawai	58
21	Air	57
22	Grandaddy	56
22	Venetian Snares	56
24	M83	55
24	The Shins	55
26	Interpol	54
27	Pink Floyd	53
28	Ministry of Sound	52
29	The Beatles	50
29	Ludovico Einaudi	50
31	The Dust Brothers	48
32	65daysofstatic	47
33	Neko Case	46
33	Martin O’Donnell & Michael Salvatori	46
35	Moby	44
36	Penguin Cafe Orchestra	43
36	Strapping Young Lad	43
36	Ted Leo and the Pharmacists	43
39	Tan Dun	42
40	Boards of Canada	41
41	Angelo Badalamenti	37
41	Squirrel Nut Zippers	37
41	R.E.M.	37
44	DJ Shadow	36
45	Steely Dan	35
45	Françoise Hardy	35
47	Queen	34
47	The Prodigy	34
49	Blackalicious	33
49	Les Savy Fav	33

Last.FM — Another customised radio station

Paul — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:02:00 +0000

This is a station based on my Audioscrobbler profile, i.e. the site that logs what I listen to, it plays songs from other people’s profiles that are similar to mine. Not quite the library of LAUNCHcast but improved bitrate, no annoying adverts and Audioscrobbler integration make this extremely good. Not quite as advanced as LAUNCH but it has a lot more user friendly features and is more community orientated; groups, friends, musical neighbors, RDF feeds, favourite albums, artists and songs, avatars and advanced features at a fraction of the cost.

LAUNCHcast

Paul — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:44:00 +0000

An online acquaintance suggest I check out Yahoo’s customizable music radio station. I was highly unenthusiastic about this, I being a loather of all Yahoo products and services, their policy of covering things with adverts, the busy pages, the firefox crashing non-compatible codes etc… . But today, a couple of weeks later, in my free time, I decided to check it out. After filling out forms, registering a yahoo account and yadda yadda, I listened to my own personal station. I chose a few of my favourite artists to include at the start, Eva Cassidy, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith. My very first song was some upcoming teen-bopper loveydovey piece of shit which made my skin crawl, I rated it 1. Some more songs followed, Portishead, Massive Attack, Moby, all fairly standard songs I could hear a lot of other places. I wasn’t too impressed at this point. Rather than give up and move on, upon hearing a Nick Drake tune (from Garden State OST) I felt compelled to make this great. I scanned my Audioscrobbler and iTunes for my fave songs and artists and I rated all of them. Now I am at 300 ratings with an Enthusiast user ranking and my station has developed a firm sense of ALL my tastes. Just now it played a local band “Sunna” followed by my favourite track from the Virgin Suicides soundtrack, “Dead Bodies” by Air. It successfully covers my need for ragtime, blues, rock, indie, rap and orchestral in one harmonious place. If anyone wants to listen to my radio station, PLEASE PLEASE do, you can find it here:
FofR’s LAUNCHcast; click this to listen to what I listen to

Music Snapshot

Paul — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:02:00 +0000

Audioscrobbler :: User :: FofR

: “1 The Microphones — Drums 18:58:37 UTC, December 14 2004
2 Tim Hecker — untitled (8) 18:55:23 UTC, December 14 2004
3 Deerhoof — The Forbidden Fruits 18:53:50 UTC, December 14 2004
4 Wire — Read and Burn 18:51:16 UTC, December 14 2004
5 The Wrens — The House That Guilt Built 18:34:50 UTC, December 14 2004
6 mu — Jealous Kids 18:29:49 UTC, December 14 2004
7 The Unicorns — Sea Ghost 18:24:40 UTC, December 14 2004
8 The Unicorns — Ghost Mountain 18:21:13 UTC, December 14 2004
9 The Unicorns — Tuff Ghost 18:18:09 UTC, December 14 2004
10 The Unicorns — I Don’t Wanna Die 18:15:38 UTC, December 14 2004″

Asylum Browsing

Paul — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:58:00 +0000

Presently life is very dull. Hoorah Hoorah the troops are a coming. Not. Anyway, today I have been mostly looking at pictures of an old abandoned asylum. Pictures include freaky looking chairs, scrawled messages on walls and old medical records. That and an mp3 of what the folks picked up on their walkie talkies when in the children’s ward. Freaky stuff. And they promise to deliver more from their next visit. All very fun. I also spent a fabulous hour resizing 30 or so images to save a few megabytes. Life doesn’t get any better than this.

Upon Physicist’s recommendations, I am soon to listen to the complete works of Tom Waits, Nick Drake and Belle & Sebastien. I look forward to it. I am already a growing fan of Mr Drake’s. Pink Moon being a favourite. Other new music should include completions of my Leonard Cohen, Pixies and Angelo Badalamenti collections. Currently listening to some electronic FC Kahuna who I had heard some things from before. Bleep Freak. Not loving it but it may be a grower. On my to listen to list are: BT, Kosheen, Soulwax and some vinyl Air.

In the post I received £20 in book tokens from my school. I’ll probably spend it on some uni text books. Got it as a prize for my good grades in A-level examinations.