Your Most Listened to Artists of 2010

[U2inUtah]

so they are for real, though? it's not actually a joke?

I liked this quote from the LA Times:

"This 'Albucrazy'-based band has done for MySpace emo what some think Soulja Boy did for hip-hop: turn their career into a kind of macro-performance art that exists so far beyond the tropes of irony and sincerity that to ask 'are they kidding?' is like trying to peel an onion to get to a perceived central core that, in the end, does not exist and renders all attempts to reassemble the pieces futile."

 

[cobl04]

speaking of Hot Chip, i just saw the best video the year, via Pitchfork's list:

YouTube - Hot Chip - I Feel Better

fucking brilliant.

 

[Axver]

and is the pink pig mascot guy actually in the band? because that's one hell of a job. he's no bosstone, that's for sure.

That's Bree the Crunk Pig. There's also a guy officially in the band whose sole job is the lighting and smoke machine at their gigs. How the hell does even a band like Brokencyde have a fucking hanger-on?!

Don't ask me why I know this or why the fuck I have listened to all four Brokencyde albums (there was much alcohol involved). The only album I've ever heard that is actually worse than their shit is Your Ears Will Bleeping Bleed by Dot Dot Curve. I believe I dubbed it "the Hiroshima and Nagasaki of music" on Rate Your Music.

 

[RavenBlue]

Porcupine Tree is probably the band I listened to the most this year, besides U2. Their music suits me. I am in awe of the magic drumming of Gavin Harrison and of Steven Wilsons' lyrics, Colin Edwards basslines and Richard Barberi's atmospheric keys. It's all Axvers fault

 

[nirniva]

That's Bree the Crunk Pig. There's also a guy officially in the band whose sole job is the lighting and smoke machine at their gigs. How the hell does even a band like Brokencyde have a fucking hanger-on?!

Don't ask me why I know this or why the fuck I have listened to all four Brokencyde albums (there was much alcohol involved). The only album I've ever heard that is actually worse than their shit is Your Ears Will Bleeping Bleed by Dot Dot Curve. I believe I dubbed it "the Hiroshima and Nagasaki of music" on Rate Your Music.

Oh, God, Brokencyde. I've only heard one of their albums and barely survived the ordeal...you're a stronger man than I, Ax.

As for the actual thread topic: Arcade Fire, Gorillaz, Broken Bells, U2, Passion Pit, MGMT, Sleigh Bells, and Phoenix. Those are my guesses, anyway.

 

[The Sad Punk]

That's Bree the Crunk Pig.

I'd love to think you remembered this off by heart.

In any case, it's now made me a Camembert man instead.

 

[IWasBored]

That's Bree the Crunk Pig.

...symbolizing all that is wrong with the world.

 

[Popmartijn]

My list from Last.fm

1. U2 - 1,195
2. The Beatles - 785
3. Bob Dylan - 558
4. Ella Fitzgerald - 415
5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 395
6. Bettie Serveert - 354
7. Pearl Jam - 312
8. Johnny Cash - 289
9. Voicst - 261
10. Urban Dance Squad - 256
11. R.E.M. - 230
12. Bruce Springsteen - 224
13. The Rolling Stones - 220
14. Prince - 207
15. The Byrds - 206

 

[deltau922]

1. Ben FOlds
2. U2

no one else even close, evidently

 

[jacobus]

i listened most to
IRON MAIDEN and RAMMSTEIN

 

[IWasBored]

i'm sorry.

 

[nielsgov]