Music, January 12, 2009 9:07 PM 1 comments
Listened in 2008
The top 25 artists in rotation for 2008 as recorded by Last.fm, the website that tracks my listening habits in iTunes on my computer and iPod*.
- Beirut
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
- Dan Deacon
- Ween
- Sacred Harp singers
- Morrissey
- Portishead
- Brian Eno
- The Smiths
- The Cinematic Orchestra
- Elvis Costello
- Björk
- Devendra Banhart
- Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
- Radiohead
- Electrelane
- Feist
- Ernst Reijseger And Mola Sylla
- Talking Heads
- Girl Talk
- The Books
- Julee Cruise
- Aesop Rock
- Dan Bern
Compared to my top artists from 2006 only three remained at the top for 2008: Elvis Costello, Ted Leo, Brian Eno. Some of the new entries, however, weren't so much as new to my ears as they were to being mp3s: artists like Morrissey and Ween were simply on CD in 2006 before I started migrating them over to the computer. Some artists are genuine newcomers, like Girl Talk, Julee Cruise, Dan Deacon and Beirut; others, like Aesop Rock and The Books, had been forgotten on an external hard drive and resurrected.
*I upgraded Last.fm's plug-in near the end of the 2008; previously it did not include iPod play counts.
1 comments on Listened in 2008
1. Leanne | March 19, 2009 12:24 PM
Hmm... looks like a list of artists to discover! I've only heard stuff from a few of the more mainstream artists, like Feist and Radiohead.
My top artist/album for 2008 would most certainly be Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's Raising Sand. It reminds me of older folk stuff, like Joni Mitchell, mixed with some more old-school blues material.
-Leanne (yer cousin)
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