The Weekly List
My
weekly top artists according to Last.Fm.
Some notes on the entries for last week:
1. Flaming Lips (17) Not much of a Flaming lips fan, but these tunes were downloaded off the iTunes store via a gift card as a courtesy to
The Casting Couch who will be participating in a Flaming Lips hoot nite in a couple of weeks. TCC may come out of hibernation soon.
2. The Good, The Bad and the Queen (12) I've actually listened to it two other times. Maybe one more listen. I really dig Albarn, but there is a missing component of drive and rockitude. I'll give it another listen or so, maybe something will pop.
3. The Sadies (10) Great stuff, mostly from their live album that was released last year. I prefer the version of Neko's "Hold On, Hold On" because it sounds a little more ragged and the guitars a little more desperate.
4. The Mekons (6) Because a day without the Mekons is like night.
5. London Symphony Orchestra (5) Mahler's Second Symphony. This recording is maddening in its format. Two CDs, one of the symphony, the other of "alternate takes" and "deleted chords." Each has the artist listed differently (LSO on one, Gilbert Kaplan on the other). And the tracks are divided into submovement portions. So if you want to hear "Urlicht" it takes some digging through tracks named "Three bars before Trombones" or "Flutes, then molto assai." Urgh. But performance is top notch, otherwise it wouldn't show up.
