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My top 10 albums of the decade (random order)

December 25th, 2009
  • Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise
  • Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
  • Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
  • Sigur Rós - Takk…
  • Damien Rice - 0
  • Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
  • Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
  • The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
  • Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
  • Beck - Sea Change

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250+ great SAD songs

May 6th, 2009
  1. Aerosmith - Dream On
  2. Afterhours - Male In Polvere
  3. Afterhours - Non è per sempre
  4. Air - All I Need
  5. Andrew Bird - Tables and Chairs
  6. Antony and the Johnsons - BirdGuhl
  7. Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
  8. Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining
  9. Baustelle - Gomma
  10. Baustelle - La Canzone di Alain Delon
  11. Beck - Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes
  12. Beck - Guess I’m Doing Fine
  13. Beck - Lost Cause
  14. Beck - The Golden Age
  15. Beirut - A Sunday Smile
  16. Beirut - Nantes
  17. Beirut - Postcards From italy
  18. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy Done Wrong Again
  19. Ben Folds - Landed
  20. Ben Folds - The Luckiest
  21. Ben Folds Five - Brick
  22. Ben Kweller - On My Way
  23. Ben Kweller - Thirteen
  24. Blink182 - Adam’s song
  25. Bloc Party - This Modern Love
  26. Bob Dylan - Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
  27. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
  28. Bob Dylan - If You See Her, Say Hello
  29. Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet
  30. Bob Dylan - Sara
  31. Bob Dylan - She’s Your Lover Now
  32. Bon Iver - Flume
  33. Bread - I Would Give Everything I Own
  34. Bright Eyes - Contrast And Compare
  35. Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
  36. Bright Eyes - Lime Tree
  37. Bright Eyes - Lover I Don’t Have to Love
  38. Bright Eyes - Lua
  39. Bright Eyes - Old Soul Song
  40. Bright Eyes - Poison Oak
  41. Bright Eyes - Something Vague
  42. Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden
  43. Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost Of Tom Joad
  44. Bruce Springsteen - The River
  45. Buffalo Springfield - Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing
  46. Carole King - So Far Away
  47. Carole King - Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
  48. Carole King - You’ve Got a Friend
  49. Cat Power - Lived In Bars
  50. Cat Power - The Greatest
  51. Cat Stevens - Father and son
  52. Cat Stevens - The first cut is the deepest
  53. Cesare Cremonini - Marmellata #25
  54. Cesare Cremonini - Padremadre
  55. Chocolate Genius - My Mom
  56. Coldplay - Fix You
  57. Coldplay - Green Eyes
  58. Coldplay - In My Place
  59. Coldplay - The Scientist
  60. Coldplay - Yellow
  61. Counting Crows - Colorblind
  62. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Who’ll Stop The Rain
  63. Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
  64. Damien Rice - Cannonball
  65. Damien Rice - Cold Water
  66. Damien Rice - The Blowers Daughter
  67. Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
  68. David Bowie - Five Years
  69. David Bowie - Letter to Hermione
  70. David Bowie - Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
  71. David Bowie - Space Oddity
  72. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
  73. David Bowie - Wild Is the Wind
  74. Death Cab For Cutie - What Sarah Said
  75. Death Cab for Cutie - Company Calls Epilogue
  76. Death Cab For Cutie - Different Names for the Same Thing
  77. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You into the Dark
  78. Death Cab For Cutie - Tiny Vessels
  79. Depeche Mode - Somebody
  80. Depeche Mode - Walking In My Shoes
  81. Devendra Banhart - Heard Somebody Say
  82. Devendra Banhart - In Niel
  83. DeVotchKa - How It Ends
  84. Dire Straits - News
  85. Dire Straits - On Every Street
  86. Eagles - Desperado
  87. Eagles - I Can’t Tell You Why
  88. Eagles - Wasted Time
  89. Elisa - Eppure Sentire (Un Senso Di Te)
  90. Elisa - Qualcosa che non c’e’
  91. Elisa - Una poesia anche per te life goes on
  92. Elliot Smith - Miss Misery
  93. Elliott Smith - Between the Bars
  94. Elliott Smith - Twilight
  95. Elton John - Your Song
  96. Elvis Costello - I Want
  97. Feist - Let It Die
  98. Final Fantasy - This Lamb Sells Condos
  99. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
  100. Francesco De Gregori - Rimmel
  101. Franceso De Gregori - Generale
  102. Franco Battiato - E Ti Vengo A Cercare
  103. Franco Battiato - La canzone dell’amore perduto
  104. Franco Battiato - La Cura
  105. Gary Jules - Mad World
  106. Genesis - In the Rapids
  107. Genesis - Ripples
  108. George Harrison - Beware Of Darkness
  109. George Harrison - Isn’t It A Pity
  110. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
  111. Harry Chapin - Cats In The Cradle
  112. Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
  113. Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
  114. Iron and wine - Such great heights
  115. Israel Kamakawiwo’ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow-What A Wonderful World
  116. James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
  117. James Blunt - High
  118. James Blunt - Same Mistake
  119. James Blunt - You’re Beautiful
  120. James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street
  121. James Taylor - Fire And Rain
  122. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
  123. Jefferson Airplane - Today
  124. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
  125. Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
  126. John Lennon - God
  127. John Lennon - Jealous Guy
  128. John Lennon - Mother
  129. Johnny Cash - Hurt
  130. Joni Mitchell - Blue
  131. Joni Mitchell - River
  132. José Gonzáles - Heartbeats
  133. Joshua Radin - Closer
  134. Kings Of Convenience - Homesick
  135. Lou Reed - Caroline Says II
  136. Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
  137. Luca Carboni - Silvia lo sai
  138. Lynard Skynard - Tuesday’s Gone
  139. M. Ward - Poison Cup
  140. M. Ward - Post-War
  141. Magnetic Fields - Come Back From San Francisco
  142. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
  143. Massive Attack - Teardrop
  144. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
  145. Mazzy Star - Into Dust
  146. Modest Mouse - Bankrupt On Selling
  147. Morrissey - Let Me Kiss You
  148. Morrissey - The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
  149. My Morning Jacket - I Will Be There When You Die
  150. Negramaro - L’Immenso
  151. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
  152. Neutral Milk Hotel - Naomi
  153. Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night
  154. Oasis - The Masterplan
  155. Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
  156. Pernice Brothers - Chicken Wire
  157. Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don’t Give Up
  158. Phil Collins - Against all Odds
  159. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
  160. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
  161. Placebo - Centrefolds
  162. Placebo - My Sweet Prince
  163. Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye
  164. Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing
  165. Portishead - The Rip
  166. Prefab Stout - When Love Breaks Down
  167. Procol Harem - A Whiter Shade of Pale
  168. R.E.M. - Country Feedback
  169. R.E.M. - E-Bow The Letter
  170. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
  171. R.E.M. - Find The River
  172. R.E.M. - Half A World Away
  173. R.E.M. - Nightswimming
  174. Radiohead - Idioteque
  175. Radiohead - Knives Out
  176. Radiohead - No Surprises
  177. Robbie Williams - Angels
  178. Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud
  179. Roy Orbison - Crying
  180. Roy Orbison - In The Real World
  181. Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely
  182. Samuele Bersani - Giudizi universali
  183. Sarah McLachlan - Adia
  184. Sarah McLachlan - Arms of an Angel
  185. Sigur Rós - Glosoli
  186. Sigur Rós - Hoppipolla
  187. Sigur Rós - Starálfur
  188. Sinead o connor - Nothing compares to you
  189. Smashing Pumpkins - Jupiter’s Lament
  190. Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
  191. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
  192. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
  193. Sufjan Stevens - Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
  194. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
  195. Talk Talk - I Don’t Believe in You
  196. The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
  197. The Beatles - Across The Universe
  198. The Beatles - Fool on the Hill
  199. The Beatles - For No One
  200. The Beatles - In My Life
  201. The Byrds - Draft Morning
  202. The Cars - Drive
  203. The Cure - Pictures of You
  204. The Decemberists - Eli, The Barrowboy
  205. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 4
  206. The Killers - Mr Brightside
  207. The Killers - Somebody Told Me
  208. The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You
  209. The Mountain Goats - Broom People
  210. The Mountain Goats - No Children
  211. The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show
  212. The Police - Wrapped around your finger
  213. The Rolling Stones - Angie
  214. The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
  215. The Rolling Stones - You Can’t Always Get What You
  216. The Shins - New Slang
  217. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
  218. The Smashing Pumpkins - Blank Page
  219. The Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
  220. The Smashing Pumpkins - Galapogos
  221. The Smashing Pumpkins - To Sheila
  222. The Smiths - Asleep
  223. The Smiths - I Know It’s Over
  224. The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
  225. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
  226. The Strokes - Is This It
  227. The Weepies - World Spins Madly On
  228. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Breakdown
  229. Tom Waits - Georgia Lee
  230. Tom Waits - Martha
  231. Tom Waits - Time
  232. Tom Waits - Train Song
  233. Tori Amos - Winter
  234. Townes Van Zandt - Pancho And Lefty
  235. Travis - Travis / Flowers In The Window
  236. Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me
  237. U2 - If You Wear That Velvet Dress
  238. U2 - One
  239. U2 - Staring at the Sun
  240. U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
  241. U2 - With or Without You
  242. U2 - All I Want Is You
  243. Vasco Rossi - Ogni Volta
  244. Vasco Rossi - Sally
  245. Vasco Rossi - Vivere una favola
  246. Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale
  247. Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
  248. Willie Nelson - Pancho And Lefty
  249. Yann Tiersen - Les Jours Tristes (Instrumental)
  250. Yann Tiersen - Summer 78 (instrumental)
  251. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Little Shadow

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10 indie songs that change your life

December 8th, 2008

2008 Best in Music

December 6th, 2008

For last.fm this:

http://www.last.fm/bestof/2008

For metacritic this

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2008.shtml

Fleet Foxes, MGMT, Bon Iver, Coldplay and so on.

For me? See my played at last.fm:

http://www.last.fm/user/vlain/charts?subtype=artists

Probably the best was a revival from The Strokes, Morissey, David Bowie, Beck and the discover of Stars, Devendra Banhart, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, MGMT, The Kooks, Ben Folds.

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Indie Way and Taste

November 9th, 2008

I like a lot of things, like everybody, but I don’t have any religion. I looked for a way in the past, a true way, my way. Maybe I found it, maybe I found it about two years ago, after a bad period. Only now I realize it: it’s Indie, Indie way. It’s a taste, I call it the Indie taste.
It started with Indie music, little production, raw sounds, no middle-man:

Indie does not mean underground, don’t mean few fans, Indie mean a way to do it and it’s stunning his beauty.
It’s a taste in that beauty, it’s a nous.
So stop words and let me listen one masterpiece of indie-lo-fi In the
Aeroplane Over the Sea from Neutral Milk Hotel

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My first and only cd

October 14th, 2008

When I was young I entertain myself mixing sample and create some music.Here you can find the tracklist of my first and only cd. Maybe I was too young: between 14 and 17. Title is 426C7565 426974 and it is the ASCII code for “blue bit”. If you want to listen me this is my page on last.fm.

http://www.last.fm/music/Vlain

1. Inside 0:48
2. Like a God 2:21
3. Diem 1:37
4. Don’t forget the origin 4:04
5. Music 2:54
6. Posh 1:41
7. Blue Tears 4:21
8. Fear 2:14
9. P-Sound 3:31
10. E-mode 1:23
11. Vlain’s Mind 4:42
12. Be Quiet 2:14
13. The Master 1:43
14. 6:66 1:00
15. Light 3:58
16. Another Cry 0:57
17. Hope Was You 1:48
18. History of Fear (Fear 2) 2:59
19. Celtic Love 1:56
20. Treat Me 0:58
21. Snow of August 1:58

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