Guten tag, Senor. I am your biggest fan! Okay...no, I'm not really. I read about you on 666.com, the website I stumbled upon in my unsurfer-like surfing. But, I'm extremely sleepy, so, goodbye.

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Oh dear. After following links from this I am not only inspired to finish rating every song in my music collection, but also determined to rejig my rating system. Despite this, my natural response seems to be "thank you".

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An interesting list of stuff, and a few things I should pick up on that, so thanks :)

re: Goldfrapp, though - you may want to try the latest album Supernature (a bit of a refinement of the style, although I'm not sure it is actually available in the US yet), or indeed the first album Felt Mountain, which is probably best described as "cinematic".

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A girl punk band calling themselves The Applicators put out an album a few years ago that I absolutely love. Far as I can tell it's their only album and there aren't any more forthcoming. It's relatively loose and free, but not underwater or falling apart. Have you heard of 'em?

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..and Jesus, apparently they have a myspace account and some new (1994) ep out.. and I'm suddenly not so impressed. Bleh.

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Based on your recommendation in dnalounge, I also picked up Android Lust's “The Dividing”. I was surprised to find her older stuff listed on Amazon's seller's network for about a hundred dollars. Yow.

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You can link directly to Regina Spektor's video for Us. Lo: http://www.reginaspektor.com/video/Us.swf . The aspect ratio of the video itself is 400 by 300 pixels (and it's in H.263 video format with an MP3 soundtrack), so an embed tag with the following parameters will show it correctly: embed src="http://www.reginaspektor.com/video/Us.swf" quality="high" width="400" height="300" .

You can screen-scrape anything. You just need the right tools.

...well, the right tools and a bit of free time. Or readers with both.

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I don't really know you, but i just thought i'd mention that you're quite wrong about The Pimps. Splinter is their best album, they're a much better band without Kelli, and far less of a tr*p-h*p cliche. Becoming X is great, but not as great as Splinter. Recognize. And you thought Bloodsport sucked? Woah.

Yea, that was enlightening, i know.

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I'm with the Becoming X crowd on this one. It's a great album and the stuff they've put out since is listenable, it's not bad, it's just not great and not really anything I'd go out of my way to listen to. And he's right about the last two tracks on Tigermouth, although I wish she hadn't done the sneaky hidden track garbage with the last song.

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When I come across hidden tracks, I usually split them up into seperate files: Context Menu / Show Song File, then open it with Audacity, and Export Selection as MP3.

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I love you for the Gram Rabbit nod. I can't even remember how I found them, but they were my newly-discovered highlight of the year, that unfortunately no one else seems to have ever heard of. I played it for a friend who is supposed to be super musically-inclined and he asked "what is this shit?" Then again, he likes Dredg, and you couldn't pay me to see that band after the hippie-influenced disaster I saw at the Catalyst a few years back.

Anyways, hats off.

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Good lord, unlike previous years, I've not only heard of more than one of the items on the list, but I actually own both of the CDs you mention that I've heard of!

Those two being, possibly unsurprisingly, With Teeth and Katamari Fortissimo Damacy. I don't know if that means that Katamari Fortissimo Damacy is mainstream or I have exceedingly nerdy tastes in music.

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I have just those two as well.

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Yes.

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Slightly off topic...

is there a way to apple script a list from iTunes of your 5 star songs, 4 star songs, etc.? I'm curious both about the scripting and your sense of what ranks as 5 star. ;-)

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...but I guess that's what happens now that you're a music-industry titan yourself.

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Are you still listening to any industrial stuff, now that you two have broken up? I still really like it (although I've become much pickier than I used to be) and am always looking for recommendations.

Also, while I like listening to industrial, I've finally learned there's really no reason to go see it live; if I wanna see a guy stare at his laptop, I can go into the other room.

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I find that these days I have no mechanism for discovering new industrial music. It's all drowned out in the background noise. This makes me sad, but I don't know what to do about it.

Part of this problem is that the few people I know who might actually have decent taste in industrial still, despite my nagging, steadfastly refuse to post year-end wrap-ups like this one.

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thanks! glad you like the cd.

scott/plink

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Hi! This is the part of this exercise that still kinda weirds me out.

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i feel your pain. when i'm at shows, i hate it when musicians make eye contact with me.

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Haha.. I enjoyed your comment on mash-ups.

Have you checked out the We ♥ Katamari soundtrack as well? It's pretty neat. That series of games has the niftiest soundtrack...

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No; I've only played a few levels in the sequel game, but from what I've heard so far I wasn't as impressed with the music in that one as the first one.

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"Live Evian and the deep blue sea, you and me got different tastes"

But...

I do like Angry Chick Rock, and post-Angry Chick Rock. So I'll buy the Veruca Salt EP, as there's no way to go wrong there.

And I've always had a soft spot for the whole Kate Bush, Tori Amos, etc continuum of female artists. So thank-you for the link to Regina Spektor.

What can I give back? The only thing that I love that you might be susceptible to is the Boom Boom Satelites. Their first album is the best (although pretty old now) - "Out Loud". The subsequent albums have been a little more hit and miss, although the hits are still good. I can't give you anything from now, as I've had a very poor music buying year. Something I aim to remedy next year.

Also. What does your Top 25 Played list look like? It's an interesting reality check for me at least, as mine only has 4 artists in it, and three of them only appear once. I find that very ... troubling.

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Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth = Post-Industrial Disco.

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