The assumption that any of the things that I like—music, for instance—are “guilty pleasures” operates on the premises that, 1) there is an objective basis of determining whether or not a particular piece of music has value, which transcends the subjective human equipment that we have to experience it, 2) this objective basis is something that both you and I, only equipped with our human perceptions, are somehow aware of, 3) you are someone who follows this objective basis and rightly looks down on the music in question, and I am knowingly at fault in defying it and as such…

Last.FM Milestones

200th track: (17 Aug 2005)
Marilyn Manson - I Dont Like the Drugs
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500th track: (25 Aug 2005)
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
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1111st track: (10 Sep 2005)
Nine Inch Nails - Piggy
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7000th track: (02 Dec 2005)
Dr. Hook - I Got Stoned And I Missed It
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11111st track: (29 Jan 2006)
Patti Smith - Gloria
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17000th track: (01 May 2006)
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
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24000th track: (06 Sep 2006)
Oingo Boingo - Little Girls
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25000th track: (25 Sep 2006)
Scissor Sisters - Skins
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28000th track: (15 Nov…

What doesn’t make sense to me is claiming to love specific styles of music when the attraction is such that it inhibits your ability to listen to various musicians from various countries, cultures, and backgrounds, producing music to tell their stories in their own styles. That is the antonym of attraction. That's surrounding yourself with a repelling force and keeping everything else outside of your scope of interests far away.

I like what’s at the core of music; not the surface sound. I like hearing the different ways that people express that. I enjoy feeling like there’s a huge world…

Nick Cave & Neko Case's She's Not There: The divisive line in a fanbase is once again between those who either think everything X does is heaven-sent, or that it can never be good as songs X wrote when they were teenaged, and it's once again unsettling to encounter so many unintelligent people with such an intelligent common interest. Sincerely, I'd rather be surrounded by people who are over-the-top fanatical about Beyonce than a random sampling of the Bad Seeds fanbase, because, statistically, I believe I'd end up with far fewer people at risk of asphyxiation from all…

I feel that I must take it upon myself to act as an interpreter, so that all might come to understand and gain from, both intellectually and spiritually, the complexly composed brilliance of this gem. Ke$ha has broken all molds manufactured by our oppressive, mundane society and wiped the slate clean once again for pop music. So much larger than this, she has unveiled the current state of social affairs within our culture for all the public to see, with such a renewing light of self-reflection, that to label it a wake-up call for our species would be disastrously under-representing…

There should be a word for the feeling you get when you put on a song from an album that you've listened to as a whole numerous times and when it ends you expect to hear the song that comes after it start, in fact hear it partly in your head, but a different song comes on instead because you aren't listening to the whole album. There isn't one.

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