Hi all,

Below is my response to Last.fm - the blog . Yes, it does!

Last.fm, I'm afraid I have to echo what those before me have already pointed out.

I've been using (and loving) the site for nearly 5 years now, clearly before the on-demand listening was introduced. This development, whilst not devastating, can only be viewed as a huge step backwards.

Imagine Google. Imagine if two years down the line from launching their webmail service Gmail, they announced "you know what, Hotmail has got webmail covered pretty well. I think we'll just focus on our search engine…

Official UK release date for 'Soul for Sale' confirmed as APRIL 23, 2010!

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Soulcage will release their sophomore album Soul for Sale in the UK on the 23rd April 2010. Soul for Sale was released in the band's own country of Finland on April 8th last year, and sports a more melodic aspect than its predecessor (2006's Dead Water Diary), whilst maintaining a heavy metal edge and the usual Soulcage blend of keyboards, 80's synth and soaring vocals.

Two singles have been released in the UK; headbanger My Canvas, My Skin at the end of last year…

Mon 29 Jun – Steely Dan

The setlist
I was writing this down on my phone during the gig as I always do, and during the penultimate song my phone decided to crash and lose the whole thing. Below is definitely the correct songs in a mostly correct order, but if anyone remembers different just drop a comment :-)

Reelin' In The Years
Time Out Of Mind
Show Biz Kids
My Old School
Aja
Bad Sneakers
Two Against Nature
Black Friday
Hey Nineteen
Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More
Parker's Band
Glamour Profession
Babylon Sisters
Deacon…

Sun 12 Apr – Machinae Supremacy, SoulCage

Before I start let me first state that my girlfriend ClamLydia and I travelled especially from England to attend this gig. It wasn't cheap doing so, but it was worth every goddamn penny!! So I urge anyone, especially those who live closer to the band's usual tour destinations (eg Norway) to bite the bullet and travel to see MaSu, you won't regret it.

Soulcage

01 You Get So Alone
02 I See
03 My Canvas, My Skin
04 Ride On
05 Until You Find Me
06 Satellite Children
07 Stranger In You
08…

So this entry is almost exactly 3 months late - my two year anniversary on Last.fm was 16th December last year, and I've been meaning to do this ever since but never got around to it. Yes so, as usual picking just 12 albums to encompass a whole year of discoveries is very taxing indeed, so expect the order to be vague to say the least! Also, to avoid what happened last year I've limited myself to one album per band, though I trust there will still be some controversial albums included ;-)

Here goes, reverse order:

12. Disturbed -…

Fri 13 Feb – Priest Feast

What an awesome gig! Megadeth was my favourite overall because I know the songs/lyrics inside out, but there's no doubt that Priest were technically the best and put on an amazing show! Testament I was looking forward to the most, and was a little let down by average sound clarity on the vocals but still really enjoyed them.

Testament
1 For The Glory Of...
2 Over The Wall
3 The New Order
4 Into The Pit
5 The Persecuted Won't Forget
6 D.N.R. (Do Not Resuscitate)
7 3 Days In Darkness
8 Practice What…

Before I start, let me make clear that I've already researched into this a fair bit, so I know about the whole scandal involving Michael Jackson and the simularities between some Sonic 3 tracks and MJ songs. (Incidently, for those who don't know take a look at this video).

So all I want to know is what to tag Sonic 3 music so I can listen to it and not mess up scrobbles! I was pretty angry that I had to scrobbles loads of Sonic 2 tracks as Masato Nakamura 2 instead of the 中村正人 because of the bug in…

A collection of ramblings not important enough to warrent their own journal.

No new bands for May
I'm on another kick of trying to finish off band catalogues, since I have this awful habit of buying 80% of a band's discography and then moving on. Of highest priority are Slayer (Show No Mercy, Hell Awaits) and Anthrax (Stomp 442 (ordered yesterday), We've Come For You All) since I love both bands and have been listening to them for over a year and a half now, which is far too long to not be owning all…

Machinae Supremacy launched their new website recently, and with it they reorganised their webography into 3 compilation albums - 'Origin', 'Arcade' and 'Fury', all with their own fancy hi-res artwork. Anyway, after much deliberating over whether to follow suit or not, I finally arranged the songs into the 3 compilations on my iTunes yesterday, therefore completely dissolving the Promo album, which up until now is my most played album on Last.fm with 827 plays.

Being the geek that I am, I rate all my songs in iTunes, and naturally I slip into rating songs…

I've kept a playlist of identically titled songs for quite some time now, but I never thought to make a challenge out of it until I saw Quiplash do it in this journal. (not all of his have been answered, so give that a go too).

Allow me to emphasize that these are NOT covers. The songs bare no relation to oneanother, they just happen to have identical titles. So to use the same example as Quiplash:

Patsy Cline; Gnarls Barkley

ANSWER IS: Crazy (i.e., both artists performed *different* songs with the title "Crazy")

Give it a shot! :-)

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