Monday, July 27, 2009

Listlessness

I've been using last.fm, a program which logs all the music you listen to on your computer and iPod, for nearly two-and-a-half years. I suppose it's a way to catalogue your listening habits or maybe just to show off or maybe to meet other people... I'm not terribly sure. Though it was only a coincidence, I started using their "loved" tagging feature intermittently around a sort-of significant occurrence in my life a few months ago. I came to the round number of 200 yesterday (correction, today, after realizing I had tagged a Françoise Hardy song twice, once with the wrong spelling). Naturally, I love more than just 200 songs, and more than just THESE 200 songs, but for my own sake, I figured I'd post them on here, though it's more for my own self-curiosity than anything else, as they put into place my mind during the past few months. They're listed in order of when I "loved" (er, tagged) them.

Moonbabies - Ghost of Love
The Knife - We Share Our Mothers' Health
Big Star - Holocaust
Grizzly Bear - Don't Ask
PJ Harvey - Dear Darkness
Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
José González - Hand on Your Heart
CocoRosie - South 2nd
This Mortal Coil - The Jeweller
The Radio Dept. - The Worst Taste in Music
The Verve - Beautiful Mind
The Radio Dept. - Gibraltar
Misty Roses - Mario and Dario
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Eighth Wonder - I'm Not Scared
The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
Breathless - Stay Beside You
Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom
Pinback - Versailles
PJ Harvey - Missed

The Verve - On Your Own
Tindersticks - A Night In
PJ Harvey - Liverpool Tide
Roy Orbison - In Dreams
Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
Tindersticks - Another Night In
The Sugarcubes - Birthday
Benjamin Biolay - Bien avant
The B-52's - Private Idaho
Devo - Mongoloid
The B-52's - Dance This Mess Around
Cyndi Lauper - All Through the Night
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie and Clyde
Françoise Hardy - J'aurai voulu
Françoise Hardy - Träume
Röyksopp - What Else Is There?
PJ Harvey - Sweeter Than Anything
PJ Harvey - Legs
PJ Harvey - Snake
Röyksopp - This Must Be It

Atlas Sound - Ativan
Fever Ray - Dry and Dusty
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By / The Crow Knows Where All the Little Children Go
Liz Phair - Fuck and Run
Beirut - Venice
PJ Harvey & John Parish - Pig Will Not
Jacques Dutronc - Les cactus
Jacques Dutronc - Et moi, et moi, et moi
Yo La Tengo - Everyday
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Peter Bjorn and John - I'm Losing My Mind
Macy Gray - I Try
PJ Harvey & John Parish - April
PJ Harvey & John Parish - Cracks in the Canvas
Bedhead - Beside Table
Le Tigre - Fake French
Pinback - Loro
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Knife - Heartbeats

Mark Lanegan - Resurrection Song
Animal Collective - My Girls
Animal Collective - Leaf House
Tindersticks - Cherry Blossoms
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Strange Form of Life
The Cardigans - Lovefool
Broadcast - Black Cat
Fugees - Fu-Gee-La
Doveman - Let's Hear It for the Boy
Anna Karina - Sous le soleil exactement
Hole - Retard Girl
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Fever Ray - Concrete Walls
ABBA - The Day Before You Came
Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sun
Slint - Good Morning, Captain
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World
Daniel Johnson - Some Things Last a Long Time
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Sebadoh - Spoiled

ABBA - Summer Night City (Extended Version)
Vitesse - 2nd Thought
J.J. Fad - Supersonic
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Sonic Youth - (I Got a) Catholic Block
Brigitte Fontaine - Kekeland
Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost
Desert Sessions - A Girl Like Me
Piano Magic - Saint Marie
Patti Smith - Pissing in a River
Palace Music - New Partner
The Radio Dept. - The City Limit
Slint - Breadcrumb Trail
The Replacements - I Will Dare
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races
Mrs. Miller - Downtown
Olivia Newton-John - Magic
The The - The Beat(en) Generation
The The - Love Is Stronger Than Death

The The - Slow Emotion Replay
Kelis - Trick Me
The Knife - You Take My Breath Away
Sally Shapiro - I Know
Tom Waits - The Ocean Doesn't Want Me
The Sea and Cake - Parasol
Slowdive - Slowdive
Erykah Badu - Bag Lady
Portishead - It's a Fire
Broadcast - You Can Fall
The Magnetic Fields - Strange Powers
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home on Ice
Feist - Let It Die
Shellac - Prayer to God
Boris - Farewell
CocoRosie - Beautiful Boyz (White Session)
PJ Harvey - Reeling
M83 - You, Appearing
Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone

Auburn Lull - Old Mission
PJ Harvey - Kick It to the Ground
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Stop
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous!
Broken Social Scene - Shampoo Suicide
Tom Waits - Big in Japan
Tom Waits - Make It Rain
Bat for Lashes - Sleep Alone
Breathless - Is It Good News Today?
John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey - Taut
The Verve - Grey Skies
Gang of Four - Love Like Anthrax
Divine - T-shirts and Tight Blue Jeans
Kylie Minogue - Love at First Sight
Japandroids - I Quit Girls
Kelis featuring Nas - In Public
Elvis Perkins - Moon Woman II
Bat for Lashes - Good Love
PJ Harvey - Catherine
Lauryn Hill - Ex-Factor

The Knife - Silent Shout
Grizzly Bear - Particular to What?
Boris - Just Abandoned My-Self
Kylie Minogue - Secret (Take You Home)
The B-52's - Rock Lobster
Émilie Simon featuring Perry Blake - Graines d'étoiles
The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words
Madonna - Everybody
Madonna - Lucky Star
Kelis - Good Stuff
The B-52's - 52 Girls
Michael Jackson - Rock with You
The Magnetic Fields - The Desperate Things You Made Me Do
The Magnetic Fields - When You're Old and Lonely
Yo La Tengo - Saturday
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Justin Timberlake - Last Night
Serge Gainsbourg - L'hôtel particulier
April March - Chick Habit
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Comic Strip

Yo La Tengo - Our Way to Fall
Sonic Youth - 'Cross the Breeze
Hot Chip - And I Was a Boy from School
Grizzly Bear - Ready
Phoenix - Fences
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait
The Hidden Cameras - Shame
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?
Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem pour un con
Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing
Busta Rhymes featuring Kelis & will.i.am - I Love My Bitch
Madonna - Causing a Commotion
Blonde Redhead - 23
Montag - Dormir sur les villes
Beirut - Nantes

Breathless - Pride
Neutral Milk Hotel - April 8th
Goldfrapp - White Soft Rope
Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red
The Knife - Neverland
Mark Lanegan featuring PJ Harvey - Hit the City
The Radio Dept. - We Climb the Wire Fences
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Antony and the Johnsons - Another World
Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone with You
The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Stereolab - Super Falling Star
INXS - Don't Change
The Microphones - The Mansion
Kylie Minogue - I Believe in You
Electreland - To the East
of Montreal - The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
Dizzee Rascal - Pussyole (Oldskool)
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime moi non plus
Crystal Castles - Crimewave