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I guess if I were to sum up the purpose for this livejournal, it would be "because peteindigital made me". But also "let me tell you about some great music - SOME GREAT MUSIC (let me tell you about it)". The thing is, I like music. A lot. I was idly filling out one of those email/myspace survey/quiz things the other day, and when I came to the question "What means the most to you?" I answered with "family & friends" because isn't that the typical answer for everyone who has even half a heart? But then I added "and music" because it really is true.
I can tell you about different parts of my life based on what I was listening to at the time. Queen's Greatest Hits was every road trip from Brisbane to Rockhampton (or the other way around) that I ever took with my mum and my siblings when I was little. RHCP's Californication was grade ten, more specifically that time I was running around with someone a lot older than me. Radiohead's Amnesiac was grade twelve, out on the front porch at 2am writing bad poetry and sneaking cigarettes. Saint Germain's Tourist was my first year of university, totally lost but struggling to grasp the physics of drama (and careening around in workshops to So Flute like monkeys). Something for Kate's The Official Fiction was 2003 when I'd just gotten my first full-time job and was terrified about what I was doing with my life, driving Sherryn's car around because she'd lost her licence and I didn't have my own car.
The moral of this story is that music makes my world go 'round. Also if I don't start telling Pete about great music when I hear it (instead of him telling me about a band/album and me replying with "I've had that for months..... isn't it great?") then I'll get in big trouble. So hooray for that.
Also, while I am here writing this post, I will also add The List. A couple of years ago when I started downloading full albums like a bandit, I swore to myself that the downloads would be "trial runs" and if I liked the album enough, I would buy it. So... two guesses for whether that plan came to fruition (buckleys, none). I scrolled through my iTunes the other day and wrote out a list of all the albums I have to buy. It's a little overwhelming. You will possibly see me write about these in this lj in the future. Anyway, I went to JB HiFi this morning (Q: If you could marry one store, which would it be?) with the intention of just buying a copy of No Man's Woman (Aussie gents covering female artists; damn, I love a good cover song!) but seeing as I can't seem to walk out of JB without spending less than $100 a trip, I ended up with a handful from The List. I'm proud of myself. It's begun...
ONE DAY I SHALL OWN ALL OF THESE.
Air -- Talkie Walkie
Andrew Bird -- Mysterious Production of Eggs
Antony & the Johnsons -- I am a Bird Now
Arctic Monkeys -- Whatever People Say I Am...
Band of Horses -- Everything All the Time
Beirut -- Gulag Orkestar
Bishop Allen -- The Broken String
The Boy Least Likely To -- The Best Party Ever
Bright Eyes -- Cassadaga
Clare Bowditch -- Autumn Bone
Clare Bowditch -- What Was Left
CocoRosie -- Noah's Ark
Cops -- Stomp on Tripwires
Cops -- Drop it in Their Laps
Crowded House -- Recurring Dream
Crowded House -- Woodface
Damien Rice -- 9
Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males -- Drowning in the Fountain of Youth
Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males -- Sing the Tabloid Blues
Dappled Cities Fly -- Granddance
The Darkness -- One Way Ticket...
The Darkness -- Permission to Land
Death Cab for Cutie -- Plans
The Decemberists -- Castaways & Cutouts
The Decemberists -- The Crane Wife
Deloris -- Ten Lives
The Dresden Dolls -- The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls -- Yes, Virginia
Editors -- An End Has a Start
Editors -- The Back Room
Electric Six -- Fire
Elliott Smith -- Figure 8
The Essex Green -- Cannibal Sea
Final Fantasy -- Has a Good Home
Final Fantasy -- He Poos Clouds
Fourplay
Franz Ferdinand -- You Could Have It So Much Better
Frou Frou -- Details
Givegoods -- I Want to Kill a Rich Man
The Go! Team -- Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Gomez -- Liquid Skin
Gotye -- Like Drawing Blood
Great Lake Swimmers -- Ongiara
GregoRy and the hawK
Holly Throsby -- On Night
Holly Throsby -- Under the Town
Hot Hot Heat -- Make Up the Breakdown
Imogen Heap -- Speak for Yourself
Iron & Wine -- Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron & Wine -- The Shepherd's Dog
Iron & Wine -- Woman King
Jeff Buckley -- Sketches
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins -- Rabbit Furcoat
Joan As Police Woman -- Real Life
Joanna Newsom -- Milk-Eyed Mender
Joanna Newsom -- Ys
Kashmir -- No Balance Palace
Kashmir -- Zitilites
The Killers -- Sam's Town
Laura Veirs -- Saltbreakers
Laura Veirs -- Year of Meteors
Metric -- Grow Up and Blow Away
Metric -- Live It Out
Metric -- Old World Underground...
Missy Higgins -- On a Clear Night
Modest Mouse -- Good News for People Who Love Bad News
The Mountain Goats -- Get Lonely
The Mountain Goats -- Tallahassee
The Mountain Goats -- The Sunset Tree
The Mountain Goats -- We Shall All Be Healed
Muse -- Black Holes and Revelations
The Music -- The Music
The Notwist -- Neon Golden
The Panics
Patrick Watson -- Close to Paradise
Paul Simon -- Graceland
Phoenix -- Alphabetical
Phoenix -- It's Never Been Like That
Pinback -- Summer in Abaddon
PJ Harvey -- Stories From the City...
Placebo -- Black Market Music
Placebo -- Sleeping With Ghosts
The Postal Service -- Give Up
Powderfinger -- Internationalist
Radiohead -- Kid A
Radiohead -- OK Computer
Red Riders -- Replica Replica
Regina Spektor -- Begin to Hope
Regina Spektor -- Songs
Regina Spektor -- Soviet Kitsch
Regina Spektor -- 11.11
Rilo Kiley -- Under the Blacklight
Rufus Wainwright -- Release the Stars
Rufus Wainwright -- Want One
Rufus Wainwright -- Want Two
Sarah Blasko -- The Overture and the Underscore
Seu Jorge -- The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
The Shins -- Chutes Too Narrow
The Shins -- Oh, Inverted World
The Shins -- Wincing the Night Away
The Shortwave Set -- The Debt Collection
Snow Patrol -- Eyes Open
Spoon -- Kill the Moonlight
Stars -- Do You Trust Your Friends?
Stars -- Heart
Stars -- In Our Bedroom After the War
Stars -- Nightsongs
Stars -- Set Yourself on Fire
The Submarines -- Declare a New State
Sufjan Stevens -- Come On, Feel the Illinoise!
Sufjan Stevens -- Greetings From Michigan
Sufjan Stevens -- Seven Swans
Sufjan Stevens -- The Avalanche
Tegan & Sara -- So Jealous
Tegan & Sara -- The Con
Thom Yorke -- The Eraser
Tilly & the Wall -- Bottoms of Barrels
Tilly & the Wall -- Wild Like Children
Tori Amos -- Under the Pink
We Are Scientists -- With Love and Squalor
The Weepies -- Say I Am You
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Show Your Bones
I can tell you about different parts of my life based on what I was listening to at the time. Queen's Greatest Hits was every road trip from Brisbane to Rockhampton (or the other way around) that I ever took with my mum and my siblings when I was little. RHCP's Californication was grade ten, more specifically that time I was running around with someone a lot older than me. Radiohead's Amnesiac was grade twelve, out on the front porch at 2am writing bad poetry and sneaking cigarettes. Saint Germain's Tourist was my first year of university, totally lost but struggling to grasp the physics of drama (and careening around in workshops to So Flute like monkeys). Something for Kate's The Official Fiction was 2003 when I'd just gotten my first full-time job and was terrified about what I was doing with my life, driving Sherryn's car around because she'd lost her licence and I didn't have my own car.
The moral of this story is that music makes my world go 'round. Also if I don't start telling Pete about great music when I hear it (instead of him telling me about a band/album and me replying with "I've had that for months..... isn't it great?") then I'll get in big trouble. So hooray for that.
Also, while I am here writing this post, I will also add The List. A couple of years ago when I started downloading full albums like a bandit, I swore to myself that the downloads would be "trial runs" and if I liked the album enough, I would buy it. So... two guesses for whether that plan came to fruition (buckleys, none). I scrolled through my iTunes the other day and wrote out a list of all the albums I have to buy. It's a little overwhelming. You will possibly see me write about these in this lj in the future. Anyway, I went to JB HiFi this morning (Q: If you could marry one store, which would it be?) with the intention of just buying a copy of No Man's Woman (Aussie gents covering female artists; damn, I love a good cover song!) but seeing as I can't seem to walk out of JB without spending less than $100 a trip, I ended up with a handful from The List. I'm proud of myself. It's begun...
ONE DAY I SHALL OWN ALL OF THESE.
Air -- Talkie Walkie
Andrew Bird -- Mysterious Production of Eggs
Antony & the Johnsons -- I am a Bird Now
Arctic Monkeys -- Whatever People Say I Am...
Band of Horses -- Everything All the Time
Beirut -- Gulag Orkestar
Bishop Allen -- The Broken String
The Boy Least Likely To -- The Best Party Ever
Bright Eyes -- Cassadaga
Clare Bowditch -- Autumn Bone
Clare Bowditch -- What Was Left
CocoRosie -- Noah's Ark
Cops -- Stomp on Tripwires
Cops -- Drop it in Their Laps
Crowded House -- Recurring Dream
Crowded House -- Woodface
Damien Rice -- 9
Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males -- Drowning in the Fountain of Youth
Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males -- Sing the Tabloid Blues
Dappled Cities Fly -- Granddance
The Darkness -- One Way Ticket...
The Darkness -- Permission to Land
Death Cab for Cutie -- Plans
The Decemberists -- Castaways & Cutouts
The Decemberists -- The Crane Wife
Deloris -- Ten Lives
The Dresden Dolls -- The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls -- Yes, Virginia
Editors -- An End Has a Start
Editors -- The Back Room
Electric Six -- Fire
Elliott Smith -- Figure 8
The Essex Green -- Cannibal Sea
Final Fantasy -- Has a Good Home
Final Fantasy -- He Poos Clouds
Fourplay
Franz Ferdinand -- You Could Have It So Much Better
Frou Frou -- Details
Givegoods -- I Want to Kill a Rich Man
The Go! Team -- Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Gomez -- Liquid Skin
Gotye -- Like Drawing Blood
Great Lake Swimmers -- Ongiara
GregoRy and the hawK
Holly Throsby -- On Night
Holly Throsby -- Under the Town
Hot Hot Heat -- Make Up the Breakdown
Imogen Heap -- Speak for Yourself
Iron & Wine -- Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron & Wine -- The Shepherd's Dog
Iron & Wine -- Woman King
Jeff Buckley -- Sketches
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins -- Rabbit Furcoat
Joan As Police Woman -- Real Life
Joanna Newsom -- Milk-Eyed Mender
Joanna Newsom -- Ys
Kashmir -- No Balance Palace
Kashmir -- Zitilites
The Killers -- Sam's Town
Laura Veirs -- Saltbreakers
Laura Veirs -- Year of Meteors
Metric -- Grow Up and Blow Away
Metric -- Live It Out
Metric -- Old World Underground...
Missy Higgins -- On a Clear Night
Modest Mouse -- Good News for People Who Love Bad News
The Mountain Goats -- Get Lonely
The Mountain Goats -- Tallahassee
The Mountain Goats -- The Sunset Tree
The Mountain Goats -- We Shall All Be Healed
Muse -- Black Holes and Revelations
The Music -- The Music
The Notwist -- Neon Golden
The Panics
Patrick Watson -- Close to Paradise
Paul Simon -- Graceland
Phoenix -- Alphabetical
Phoenix -- It's Never Been Like That
Pinback -- Summer in Abaddon
PJ Harvey -- Stories From the City...
Placebo -- Black Market Music
Placebo -- Sleeping With Ghosts
The Postal Service -- Give Up
Powderfinger -- Internationalist
Radiohead -- Kid A
Radiohead -- OK Computer
Red Riders -- Replica Replica
Regina Spektor -- Begin to Hope
Regina Spektor -- Songs
Regina Spektor -- Soviet Kitsch
Regina Spektor -- 11.11
Rilo Kiley -- Under the Blacklight
Rufus Wainwright -- Release the Stars
Rufus Wainwright -- Want One
Rufus Wainwright -- Want Two
Sarah Blasko -- The Overture and the Underscore
Seu Jorge -- The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
The Shins -- Chutes Too Narrow
The Shins -- Oh, Inverted World
The Shins -- Wincing the Night Away
The Shortwave Set -- The Debt Collection
Snow Patrol -- Eyes Open
Spoon -- Kill the Moonlight
Stars -- Do You Trust Your Friends?
Stars -- Heart
Stars -- In Our Bedroom After the War
Stars -- Nightsongs
Stars -- Set Yourself on Fire
The Submarines -- Declare a New State
Sufjan Stevens -- Come On, Feel the Illinoise!
Sufjan Stevens -- Greetings From Michigan
Sufjan Stevens -- Seven Swans
Sufjan Stevens -- The Avalanche
Tegan & Sara -- So Jealous
Tegan & Sara -- The Con
Thom Yorke -- The Eraser
Tilly & the Wall -- Bottoms of Barrels
Tilly & the Wall -- Wild Like Children
Tori Amos -- Under the Pink
We Are Scientists -- With Love and Squalor
The Weepies -- Say I Am You
Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Show Your Bones