fear is your only god on the radio...

[glassandahalf]

For a while now, I've been quite a fan of last.fm. I remember graceless_me getting all obsessive about it when she first discovered it, and whilst friends like geek_gone_wrong expressed concern and even abhorrence about the lack of privacy all these Web 2.0 user content logs provided in reality, I quite like the fact I have my own personal music charts. Sure, its completely skewed towards music I don't own on wax - The New Pornographers have remained around the 380 mark on my charts ever since Mass Romantic and Electric Version arrived in the mail last year - it isn't complete inaccurate either. But the one thing ive always wondered about was how well it would go in playing my personal station. That's a "paid user" feature, and whilst you can do it on a monthly basis, I dont think I've ever been fussed to. Luckily, because they have added that thing where you can add your email contacts to your friends list thing that all of these sites have now, I added a whole bunch of new people, and nsomn1a, who i think is a girl who found me on msn once, but ill never be quite sure, added me and last night decided to listen to my personal radio. So using my super sleuthing skillz, I clicked to see what tracks had been laid down if you listen to Al's personal radio. And the results are quite awesome actually.

Out of 49 tracks, it gets broken down into

34 Indie/alternative/rock/punk
10 Hip-hop/electronica/dance music
5 Pop/Guilty pleasures
3 Songs I would skip
32 songs I would pump my fist in celebration if they were played...

So overall im quite impressed. Sure, less of the obscure stuff is in there, but its a artist/label contributed thing, so the smaller labels probably aren't in on it yet... under the cut is the playlist



Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up
Gravenhurst - Animals
Silversun Pickups - Checkered Floor
The Streets - Fit But You Know It
Young and Restless - Kapow!
Prefuse 73 - The Color of Tempo
Lemon Jelly - Soft
Less Than Jake - Portrait Of A Cigarette Smoker At 19 (Album Version)
Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot
The Rakes - Retreat
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
Panic! At the Disco - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage
Mr. Scruff - UG
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Warrior
Modest Mouse - The View
Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
Pulp - Babies
Elliott Smith - Stupidity Tries
Arctic Monkeys - Cigarette Smoke
Nas - One Time 4 Your Mind
Kasabian - Processed Beats
gay against you - ice scooter
Refused - Liberation Frequency
Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart
Digable Planets - Black Ego
Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song for Karen)
Monta - see me through your eyes
Supergrass - Hollow Little Reign
Maxïmo Park - The Unshockable
The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant
Death From Above 1979 - Little Girl
Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death (Hybrid remix)
Burial - You Hurt Me
CocoRosie - Beautiful Boyz
Sleater-Kinney - Step Aside
The Cops - Call Me Anytime
Girl Talk - Smash Your Head
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Wu-Tang Clan - Bring da Ruckus
The Dandy Warhols - Holding Me Up
CAKE - The Distance
Giant Drag - This Isn't It
Minus the Bear - You Kill Bugs Good, Man
Black Mountain - Don't Run Our Hearts Around
Weezer - Hash Pipe

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In other news, Im off to Canberra today.

Tonight I will be going to watch the awesome Batrider at Toast, and I suggest you do the same.

On Friday night, I will be playing at a fundraiser for turtles out at UC bar, which is pretty rad.



and on Saturday, the awesomeness of Ug Beats returns, with my homegirl Beccy P, esteemed dino lover DJ Paeleo and some young gun called Fourthy Mc FourthState as well as me and crowie and a list of other people who may or may not show up...




And dont forget to add us on Facebook! Just search for Ug Beats and you will see the group of awesome!