The Look Back

 

 Since Brendo put together his top albums of 2008 late last week I figured there was still room to discuss lists pertaining to 2008.  I recently checked my last.fm account (thome50, you know for my favorite baseball player when I was 12 and my high school football number. Classy, I know.) and saw that they have changed things up a bit.  I’m not able to easily see my top artists and tracks for the last week, 3 months, 6 months, year and overall. 

 

I’ve been using last.fm and the aggregator since roughly January 2006.  I thought it was an interesting concept and I enjoy keeping track of random things such as the music I am listening to so long as I don’t have to actively do it and that I’m not going to be marketed to with spam for my doing so.  Since that point I’ve made it a necessity to include the background app on all my machines.  Even my ipod gets into the game with all the music “scrobbled” to the site when I dock it.

 

After the break I dissect what I actually listened to from the 12 and 3 month stand point and what may have caused that as well as why Lonely Island is completely overrated.  (Note: I would say this is 95% accurate as I will rarely listen to a CD in my truck anymore since I got my iPod hook up. On top of that I’m also listening to sports talk radio, judge me all you like, almost exclusively in the truck.)

 

 

2008 (Feb 08-Feb 09)

 

1. Drive-By Truckers – 385

2. Okkervil River – 339

3. Fleet Foxes – 303

4. Abe Vigoda – 257 (Surprising)

5. Girl Talk – 218

6. Vampire Weekend – 147

7. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – 143

8. Jay Reatard – 141

9. The Airborne Toxic Event – 139

10. Kanye West – 138 (All but three in the last 3 months)

11. Dwight Yoakam – 136

12. Animal Collective – 131 (Over half in the last month)

13. Hercules and Love Affair – 126

14. The Hold Steady – 123 (Surprising since I didn’t listen to the new album as much)

15. Ryan Adams – 119 (Lower than I thought)

 

3 Months

 

1. Kanye West – 135 (808’s is a GREAT album)

2. Fleet Foxes – 97

3. Animal Collective – 89 (Ok, so 89 of those 131 came in the last month)

4. Drive-By Truckers – 88

5. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – 87

6. Charlie Louvin – 84 (Got the new albums kinda late)

7. Dwight Yoakam – 63

8. Abe Vigoda – 60 (Their new EP is great)

9. Sufjan Stevens – 55 (Christmas music)

9. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Awesome LP. Much better than the last)

11. A.C. Newman – 54

12. Jimmy Eat World – 52

13. Okkervil River – 45

13. The National – 45

15. M83 – 43 (Came on late)

 

Last week (Just for the hell of it)

 

1. Lucinda Williams – 35 (Downloaded some of her back catalog finally. Great stuff. Also appeared with Charlie Louvin on Saturday.)

2. Ben Folds – 23 (On an old kick hear about his new album)

3. Bat for Lashes – 17 (The new album is interesting though hasn’t grown on me yet)

3. Phosphorescent – 17 (The Willie tribute album is very good)

5. Great Northern – 15 (New album comes out April 28th, definitely pick this one up)

6. Wavves – 14 (Label released his LP early this week after getting so much early buzz. Good job internet!)

7. Handsome Furs – 12 (Eh, not a huge fan but had to hear it all the way through)

7. Dwight Yoakam – 12 (Can’t get enough)

9. No Age – 7 (One of the biggest surprises to me was that No Age wasn’t on the top two lists)

10. The Lonely Island – 4 (I just don’t get this humor. I think SNL is in one of its weakest seasons in a LONG time and these writers are to blame. I’m sorry if “Jizz in my Pants” is too high of humor for me to get.  If only there was a Dane Cook appearance it would be complete.)

11. M83 – 2

11. Okkervil River – 2

11. Port O’Brien – 2

11. Animal Collective – 2

15. Lily Allen – 1 (Eh)

 

This is likely only really interesting if you are me but that’s what this blog is about so deal with it. 

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