My Top 20 Artists For 2008-Statistically
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Yesterday I admitted to being a stick in the mud, when it comes to new music. It doesn't mean I don't like discovering music, it's just that I don't get as much of a thrill from new new records..As you can see from my list, most of my "discoveries" are of the archaeological variety..there's also the tribute listening factor, for artists that passed away in '08.
Artists with the most tracks played in the last 12 months:
- Duke Ellington
- Isaac Hayes
- James Brown
- The Kinks
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk
- NRBQ
- Tom Waits
- Tim Maia
- Miriam Makeba
- Sidney Bechet
- Funkadelic
- Parliament
- Earth,Wind & Fire
- Drive By Truckers
- Big Bill Broonzy
- Bo Diddley
- Bruce Springsteen
- Lester Young
- David Axelrod
- Grateful Dead
Outside of the DBTruckers, you have to go down to number 32 for Of Montreal to get anything current. I know..sad. It's not like I don't listen to any new records. My Top 500 artists for 2008 include many brand spanking new records direct from MOG to me, TV on the Radio, Lykke Li, Q-Tip,Sweatmaster,Fujiya & Miyagi, and tons more.
These new jacks are gonna have to do some work though, to catch Duke next year..
All info from my last fm stats
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I deleted my lastfm account some time ago, so I don't have stats like these. I do, however, have the 25 most played tracks via iTunes, and the bands would be: The Last Shadow Puppets, The Kills, Maximo Park, Late of the Pier, Manic Street Preachers, Arctic Monkeys, Blood Red Shoes, and The Charlatans. Only current stuff here :o) Let's say that I make up for your lack of them, and you make up for my lack of older music :)
The beauty of MOG, Anna..between all of us we cover a lot of ground. And there's a lot to cover.
I basically do a lot of random listening, so my stats reflect my collection with a few serious spikes for mourning music.
Timmy Maia at number eight? Either you've been playing the hell out of him for the past week, or you found another stash....
Seriously, man, that's a pretty choice list....
My turn. Nothing real groundbreaking here, but I like...
1. My Morning Jacket
2. The Black Keys
3. Ryan Adams
4. Radiohead
5. Feist
6. Death Cab For Cutie
7. Devendra Banhart
8. Band Of Horses
9. Miles Davis
10. Rilo Kiley
11. Metallica
12. The Rolling Stones
13. Nick Drake
14. The Beatles
15. Wes Montgomery
16. Santana
17. Sufjan Stevens
18. John Coltrane
19. Iron and Wine
20. Air
I had some Tim before you hooked me up Ivy..just a little. I think I had a week where I was Tim crazed. His good stuff is real good, but there is some cheese.
Nice to see Miles,John, and Wes in there battling..
Bonus stats for me..
Number of different tracks listened to in '08=An even 10,000 and growing.
My most listened song of the year--
(outside of a 12 song spike of songs about strikes that I vowed not to speak about)
Alice Smith -Love Endeavor (A great tune whose stats are boosted because my wife plays it a lot on her ipod-the plays are noted in my stats)-23 plays
My most listened song not on my wifes ipod- Dolphin Dance-Ahmad Jamal
And then there's the amount of music I added this year...Van Damme, I've been consuming..24,900 tracks. I need help.
You don't want to hear what was left off that mix, man.....
Timmy's got some disco material that is a little scary..but there's no doubt dude can sing.
What's interesting is that most of my Top played stuff of the year almost never reverts to older stuff. It's always the new stuff that I get my hands of (or an older album I happen to pick up recently). Also, it probably has a lot to do w/ my iTunes playlists - I make monthly mixes of the new stuff I pick up (or old stuff from time to time that I want to listen to - ie Minutemen "History Lesson" this month). That, and my "very current" mix - stuff that's been bought (or checked out in the past 3-4 months (before I delete it from the playlist from overplaying it)...
I gotta get down on this and then I'm going to respond to Anna's post about the "4" most disappointing albums of the year - that's too good too pass up. hahaha
I'm not even sure I can list 20 but right off the bat - My favorite albums of 2008 (kind of in order)
1. MGMT (Oracular Spectacular) - groundbreaking. Love everything about it and every song on the album
2. Vampire Weekend (self titled)- a fun album everybody should get into. Great party mix too - upbeat and gets you in the mood to dance.
3. Radiohead (In Rainbows) - I know it was technically released in 2007, but it was the very end of December, so I'm counting it as 2008. To put it simply - brought me back to my "The Bends" days, which i translate into the 'best days.'
4. Beck (Modern Guilt) - Please see Radiohead above, but replace The Bends with Mutations or Sea Change.
5. Raconteurs (Consolers of the Lonely) - Great follow up to Broken Boy Soldier and even better live, if you can believe that.
6. Santogold (self titled) - has somewhat of an MGMT feel, with a girl vocalist.
7. Frightened Rabbit (the Midnight Organ Fight) - check out the track modern leper - great tune.
8. Okkervil River (The Stand Ins) - have been one of my favorite bands for a while now and they keep getting stronger.
9. The Republic Tigers (Keep Color) - featured track - Buildings and Mountains
10. Death Cab for Cutie (narrow stairs) - great album, could be their best, but it's hard to tell - give me a few more listens.
11. Conor Oberst (self titled) - believe it or not this goes on both lists for me (favorite and most disappointing.) I was expecting so much more from the genius boy that brought us Bright Eyes. The reason it's on my favorite album list, A) because I can listen to the whole album all the way through 3 times in a row on a road trip, and B) because of two songs in particular - Lenders in the Temple and Souled Out!!! Check it out, it's a great album, I just had much higher expectations, which probably isn't fair to Conor.
12. CSS (Donkey) - have loved them ever since I heard Music is my hot, hot sex on an apple itouch commercial.
13. The Cool Kids (the bake sale) - love them and I'm not even a huge hip-hop fan.
14. Sigur Ros (?????) I have no idea how to spell it our pronounce it. Just try singing along - haha
That's all I can think of at the moment, I'll try to edit later.
Cool news Eric..For me...new records are old ones and hence my stats..I never had one Tim Maia song, very little Ellington, and zero Makeba til this year. I feel like I want to listen to everything..so I'm a little behind.
Chocolate Thunder!!! Nice list..I have actually heard most of those..probably in 20 years they'll be in my top 20, due to my old school ways.
Oh fun. My list is pretty ecclectic, and discerning of course, I have nothing if not self respect! But just like Cody, nothing new here in the past 12 months:
from the top 1 descending to 20
Prefuse 73
Ammoncontact
Gilberto Gil
The Sea and Cake
Harold Budd/Brian Eno
Talking Heads
Wilco
John Lee Hooker
ESG
Daedelus
Adventure Time!
The Black Keys
Minutemen
Air
Dabrye
Biosphere
Bill Frisell
Lee Dorsey
M. Ward
Pixies
PS: interestingly my top albums were much more varied, with a few more current works of music.
Hmm,I see Black Keys on two lists..Damn, Oat, I see similarities between us..are we related..
Man, I really am slow on the uptake..callisto=Lester...
Cody, your list is one I could easily get used to living with. Rahsaan Roland Kirk at #6 is cool. Check out this obscurity of his, as a guest soloist on a single reviewed in the U.K. mag Blues Unlimited probably in the late Sixties, my first exposure to him, "Bird Brain" by a James Rivers, whose mediocre harmonica briefly opens and closes this tune. The above music-loving commenters have some serious lists as well.
I like your self portrait. At first I thought you reclined when online, but then realized you were seated and reaching. 1980 is my cut-off year also; what do you know! How could someone as wizened as I chase the hip train without MOG's help?
I just noticed your "Warm Valley," new to me. To now come upon a fellow Johnny Hodges nut warms my heart's valley.
We could be soul brothers Cody.
I gotta mention that Chocodile's The Cool Kids pick was good. That Black Mags tune of theirs was definitely on my top 20 songs.
I shared Black Keys and Air with callisto.
I need more RRK, especially the flute stuffs.
@spike-Late 60's indeed! The fusions were flying fast and furious..RRK lights that up!
I don't recline to MOG til Pesach.
I'll be honest and say, I know more about Gil Hodges, than Johnny Hodges..The Ellington sideman I know only by reputation, but I'm learning.
@oat-I have to check that cool kids..y'all are not the first to recommend that one.
I need to get RRK..he was a complicated man..
Hey, some artists on your list are still alive, you up-to-the minute hipster, you.
Of Montreal is your most listened non-DBTruckers artist? i knew you were cool. ;p
well, here's mine... (i got this Mac mid-year, like July, and didn't transfer all my music. just stat factors, not excuses.)
The Futureheads
The Weakerthans
Spoon
Immaculate Machine
The Afghan Whigs
Ida
!!!
The Smiths
The Hold Steady
British Sea Power
Jesu
Ladytron
Joy Division
Maximo Park
DeVotchKa
Teenage Fan Club
The Mabuses
M83
Architecture in Helsinki
65daysofstatic
...yeah, two entries as old as the '80s.
You are pretty modern, Ms.Poe. But most certainly not a new only kid.