Music

So I had some spare time today, and decided to catalogue some music.  So here's the list of important things in my iTunes.  Basically it's either bands/artists that I would actively say I'm a fan of, or bands/artists that I listen to at least somewhat-regularly.

Oh, and I haven't undertaken the task of being more specific with a lot of the genres - especially in my very very vague 'Metal/hardcore' catagory.

10,000 Maniacs	Alternative
Anberlin	Alternative
Billy Corgan	Alternative
Cake	Alternative
Chris Cornell	Alternative
Cobbler	Alternative
Dashboard Confessional	Alternative
Embrace	Alternative
Further Seems Forever	Alternative
Guster	Alternative
Hoobastank	Alternative
Incubus	Alternative
Jars of Clay	Alternative
Jimmie's Chicken Shack	Alternative
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex	Alternative
Kings of Leon	Alternative
Lifehouse	Alternative
Lucerin Blue	Alternative
Monday In London	Alternative
Morningwood	Alternative
Pearl Jam	Alternative
Queens of the Stone Age	Alternative
R.E.M.	Alternative
Spin Doctors	Alternative
Sublime	Alternative
Switchfoot	Alternative
Taking Back Sunday	Alternative
The Academy Is...	Alternative
The Almost	Alternative
The Apex Theory (now Mt. Helium)	Alternative
The Juliana Theory	Alternative
Three Dog Night	Alternative
Weezer	Alternative
A Perfect Circle	Alternative > art rock
Radiohead	Alternative > art rock
The Smashing Pumpkins	Alternative > art rock
Thom Yorke	Alternative > art rock
Zwan	Alternative > art rock
Morphine	Alternative > jazz fusion
Electric Six	Alternative > new wave
Coheed & Cambria	Alternative > progressive
Muse	Alternative > progressive
Phish	Alternative > psychedelia
The Flaming Lips	Alternative > psychedelia
Tiger Army	Alternative > punk
The O.C. Supertones	Alternative > ska
Jeff Buckley	Alternative, folk
Dave Horton/Novus/Old Machines (haha)	Alternative, hard rock
Gorillaz	Alternative, hip-hop
Eve 6	Alternative, pop
Panic! At the Disco	Alternative, pop
Paramore	Alternative, pop
Say Anything	Alternative, pop
The Shins	Alternative, pop
Yellowcard	Alternative, pop
Morrissey	Alternative, pop rock
The Smiths	Alternative, pop rock
Five Iron Frenzy	Alternative, ska
Alison Krauss & Union Station	Bluegrass, folk
Christopher O'Riley	Classical, Instrumental
Twelve Girls Band	Classical, Instrumental
Taylor Swift	Country, pop
Aphex Twin	Electronica
Daft Punk	Electronica
Dieselboy	Electronica > drum & bass
Serart	Experimental rock
Madison Greene	Folk
Neil Young	Folk
Mumford & Sons	Folk rock
Tom Waits	Folk rock
Ben Harper (& the Innocent Criminals)	Folk, alternative
City & Colour	Folk, alternative
Jake Shimabukuro	Folk, jazz
Bob Dylan (& the Band)	Folk, rock
Grateful Dead	Folk, rock
Iron & Wine	Folk, rock
Bootsy's Rubber Band	Funk
Fishbone	Funk
George Clinton (& the Parliament Funkadelic)	Funk
30 Seconds to Mars	Hard rock
Bush	Hard rock
Chevelle	Hard rock
Dead Poetic	Hard rock
Deftones	Hard rock
H.I.M.	Hard rock
Stabbing Westward	Hard rock > industrial
1000 Clowns	Hip-hop
B.o.B.	Hip-hop
Blackalicious	Hip-hop
Bruno Mars	Hip-hop
Busta Rhymes	Hip-hop
DMX	Hip-hop
Eminem	Hip-hop
Gym Class Heroes	Hip-hop
Kanye West	Hip-hop
Lil' Jon	Hip-hop
LL Cool J	Hip-hop
Ludacris	Hip-hop
Lupe Fiasco	Hip-hop
Mac Miller	Hip-hop
Master P	Hip-hop
Mo Thugs (Family)	Hip-hop
Mystikal	Hip-hop
N.W.A.	Hip-hop
Outkast	Hip-hop
The Streets	Hip-hop
Timbaland	Hip-hop
TLC	Hip-hop
Travie Mccoy	Hip-hop
Tupac Shakur (2Pac)	Hip-hop
Twista	Hip-hop
Warren G	Hip-hop
Wyclef Jean	Hip-hop
Cee-lo	Hip-hop > neo-soul
Common	Hip-hop > neo-soul
Gnarls Barkley	Hip-hop > neo-soul
Mos Def	Hip-hop > neo-soul
The Roots	Hip-hop > neo-soul
N.E.R.D.	Hip-hop, alternative
Craig David	Hip-hop, R&B
Drake	Hip-hop, R&B
Jamie Foxx	Hip-hop, R&B
John Legend	Hip-hop, R&B
Ne-Yo	Hip-hop, R&B
Usher	Hip-hop, R&B
Sean Paul	Hip-hop, reggae
Animal Collective	Indie
Arcade Fire	Indie
Bad Books	Indie
Band of Horses	Indie
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution	Indie
Battles	Indie
Belle & Sebastian	Indie
Black Kids	Indie
Broken Bells	Indie
Broken Social Scene	Indie
Circa Survive	Indie
Craig Owens	Indie
Deerhoof	Indie
Dressy Bessy	Indie
Fun.	Indie
Jenny Reeve	Indie
Klaxons	Indie
MGMT	Indie
Minus the Bear	Indie
of Montreal	Indie
Pedro the Lion	Indie
Rilo Kiley	Indie
Silversun Pickups	Indie
Sufjan Stevens	Indie
Tattle Tale	Indie
The Bravery	Indie
The Divine Comedy	Indie
The Domesticated	Indie
The Good Life	Indie
The Murmurs	Indie
The Pierces	Indie
The Temper Trap	Indie
The Violet Burning	Indie
The xx	Indie
Tony Bullard	Indie
Travis	Indie
Twothirtyeight	Indie
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Indie
Hot Chip	Indie > electronica
Psalters	Indie > folk punk
Chairlift	Indie > pop
Cinematic Sunrise	Indie > pop
Eisley	Indie > pop
Element 101	Indie > pop
Florence + The Machine	Indie > pop
Pomplamoose	Indie > pop
Reverie Sound Revue	Indie > pop
Tegan and Sara	Indie > pop
The Early November	Indie > pop
The Format	Indie > pop
The Ting Tings	Indie > pop
Under the Influence of Giants	Indie > pop
Do Make Say Think	Indie > post-rock
Explosions in the Sky	Indie > post-rock
Godspeed You Black Emperor!	Indie > post-rock
Mogwai	Indie > post-rock
Sigur Ros	Indie > post-rock
The Polyphonic Spree	Indie > psychedelia
AWOLNATION	Indie, alternative
Brandtson	Indie, alternative
Cool Hand Luke	Indie, alternative
Copeland	Indie, alternative
Death Cab for Cutie	Indie, alternative
Dustin Kensrue	Indie, alternative
Eels	Indie, alternative
Jimmy Eat World	Indie, alternative
Mae	Indie, alternative
Manchester Orchestra	Indie, alternative
Modest Mouse	Indie, alternative
Moros Eros	Indie, alternative
Mute Math	Indie, alternative
Big Sir	Indie, electronica
Cursive	Indie, post-hardcore
Miles Davis	Jazz
Nina Simone	Jazz
Thelonious Monk	Jazz
Holy Blood	Metal > black, celtic
Dragonforce	Metal > power
Galneryus	Metal > power, japanese
Syu (of Galneryus)	Metal > power, japanese
Dream Theater	Metal > power, progressive
Queensryche	Metal > progressive
Tool	Metal > progressive
A Skylit Drive	Metal/hardcore
Alesana	Metal/hardcore
Alexisonfire	Metal/hardcore
Arch Enemy	Metal/hardcore
As Blood Runs Black	Metal/hardcore
As I Lay Dying	Metal/hardcore
Atreyu	Metal/hardcore
August Burns Red	Metal/hardcore
Beauty to Ashes	Metal/hardcore
Becoming the Archetype	Metal/hardcore
Before Their Eyes	Metal/hardcore
Beloved (US)	Metal/hardcore
Blindside	Metal/hardcore
Bring Me the Horizon	Metal/hardcore
Cadaveria	Metal/hardcore
Chiodos	Metal/hardcore
D.R.U.G.S. (Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows)	Metal/hardcore
Dance Gavin Dance	Metal/hardcore
Demon Hunter	Metal/hardcore
Destroy the Runner	Metal/hardcore
Dimmu Borgir	Metal/hardcore
East West	Metal/hardcore
Emarosa	Metal/hardcore
Emery	Metal/hardcore
Enter Shakari	Metal/hardcore
Escape the Fate	Metal/hardcore
Extol	Metal/hardcore
Finch	Metal/hardcore
From Autumn to Ashes	Metal/hardcore
Haste the Day	Metal/hardcore
He Is Legend	Metal/hardcore
Hopesfall	Metal/hardcore
I Killed the Prom Queen	Metal/hardcore
In Flames	Metal/hardcore
Isles & Glaciers	Metal/hardcore
Iwrestledabearonce	Metal/hardcore
Kekal	Metal/hardcore
Killswitch Engage	Metal/hardcore
Krallice	Metal/hardcore
likeDavid	Metal/hardcore
Living Sacrifice	Metal/hardcore
Maylene & the Sons of Disaster	Metal/hardcore
My Chemical Romance	Metal/hardcore
Narcissus	Metal/hardcore
Nightwish	Metal/hardcore
Nodes of Ranvier	Metal/hardcore
Norma Jean/Luti-kriss	Metal/hardcore
Of Mice & Men	Metal/hardcore
Oh, Sleeper	Metal/hardcore
Opeth	Metal/hardcore
Pantera	Metal/hardcore
Pierce the Veil	Metal/hardcore
Poison the Well	Metal/hardcore
Project 86	Metal/hardcore
Remission	Metal/hardcore
Scary Kids Scaring Kids	Metal/hardcore
Serj Tankian	Metal/hardcore
Showbread	Metal/hardcore
Silverstein	Metal/hardcore
Sky Eats Airplane	Metal/hardcore
Soilwork	Metal/hardcore
Spoken	Metal/hardcore
System of a Down	Metal/hardcore
The Agony Scene	Metal/hardcore
The Beautiful Mistake	Metal/hardcore
The Bled	Metal/hardcore
The Number 12 Looks Like You	Metal/hardcore
The Used	Metal/hardcore
The Word Alive	Metal/hardcore
Training for Utopia	Metal/hardcore
Underoath	Metal/hardcore
Virgin Black	Metal/hardcore
Zao	Metal/hardcore
Beanbag	Metal/hardcore (later alternative)
Embodyment	Metal/hardcore (later alternative)
Rites of Spring	Metal/hardcore > emo (original usage)
Rise Against	Metal/hardcore > hardcore punk
Ministry	Metal/hardcore > industrial
mewithoutYou	Metal/hardcore > post-hardcore
Receiving End of Sirens	Metal/hardcore > post-hardcore
Saosin	Metal/hardcore > post-hardcore
The Cinematic Orchestra	Indie > post-rock
Thursday	Metal/hardcore > post-hardcore
Thrice	Metal/hardcore > post-punk
(hed) P.E.	Metal/hardcore > rap-metal
Flight of the Conchords	Musical comedy
Stephen Lynch	Musical comedy
Tenacious D	Musical comedy
3Oh!3	Pop
Avril Lavigne	Pop
Ben Folds (Five)	Pop
Cobra Starship	Pop
Fall Out Boy	Pop
George Michael	Pop
Hall & Oates	Pop
Jason Mraz	Pop
Katy Perry	Pop
Ke$ha	Pop
Lily Allen	Pop
Metro Station	Pop
No Doubt	Pop
Owl City	Pop
Scissor Sisters	Pop
The Cure	Pop
The Higher	Pop
The Hush Sound	Pop
The Killers	Pop
Shiny Toy Guns	Pop > electronica
Tears for Fears	Pop rock
Barenaked Ladies	Pop, alternative
Clinic	Pop, alternative
Counting Crows	Pop, alternative
Maroon 5	Pop, alternative
AFI	Pop, punk
Dogwood	Pop, punk
Against Me!	Punk
The Buzzcocks	Punk
The Clash	Punk
Jesse Powell	R&B
Justin Timberlake	R&B
Prince	R&B
Bob Marley (& the Wailers)	Reggae
Matisyahu	Reggae
Bruce Springsteen	Rock
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Rock
Fleetwood Mac	Rock
Jefferson Airplane/Starship	Rock
Jimi Hendrix (Experience)	Rock
Led Zeppelin	Rock
Pink Floyd	Rock
Styx	Rock
The Beatles	Rock
The Black Keys	Rock
The Doors	Rock
The Rolling Stones	Rock
The Who	Rock
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Rock
Frank Zappa	Rock > progressive
The Mars Volta	Rock > progressive
The Moody Blues	Rock > progressive
Uriah Heep	Rock > progressive
Depeche Mode	Rock, electronica
Elvis Costello (& the Attractions)	Rock, punk, indie
Billy Paul	Soul
Jonny Craig	Soul, alternative
Earth, Wind, & Fire	Soul, funk
Joss Stone	Soul, R&B

Pinup girls have never been so hot.

Here's one for the gentlemen in the crowd... Her name is apparently Casey Bachelor, and she's a British model-slash-video girl. I don't know why I hadn't heard of her before today, you'd think she'd be more popular with a shape like hers. Anyway, enjoy you feisty young men!

(click the pictures for larger versions)

Below are a couple of music videos you can see her in. The first is "Flathead" by The Fratellis - Casey is the pinup girl in red in that one. The second video is for the terrible song "Hear Fear" by the equally terrible band HENTAIGENE - Casey's the main girl in that one, though it's kinda hard to tell... so just look for the first girl to take over her over-layer of clothing and dance around (jiggling happily as she does so).


Flathead


Hear Fear


Well men, I hope you enjoyed that - I'm sure I'm going to be hearing from my girlfriend over this post once she finds it!

Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, and rainbows have nothing to hide.

If you follow music news at all, you've probably heard about the newest album from the art rockers Radiohead. Their seventh studio album is collecting quite a bit of buzz, although very little of it seems to be about the actual music. What people are really talking about, is the band's innovative approach to releasing this record. An excerpt from Time magazine:

"In Rainbows will be released as a digital download available only via the band's web site, Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits — but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" — and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want to pay for it. And it's perfectly acceptable to pay nothing at all."
-Time magazine

You can see why the music world would have a lot to say about this news - we're looking at a move that could potentially help change the entire industry. A quick google search will find hundreds of people discussing and debating how much money the band has already made on their Oct 10th release (which I bought on the 11th for a little over $5). Some are even subtly implying that this may be their most profitable album yet - and we're just 4 days into the release!
As fascinating and incredible as their new business model (for lack of a better term) is, I can't help feeling a bit worried. Not about whether the album will be profitable for them or not - I'm certain it will be - but rather on whether or not all this talk of their method is overshadowing their music itself. Honestly, I think that what I've heard of In Rainbows (the download only offers the first disc - the additional 8 songs currently need to be purchased as an expensive boxed set) is probably the best Radiohead has ever composed. The entire album is solid - not a single track fails to impress. I'm just afraid that years from now this album won't be talked about for how awesome it is - but rather for it's gimmicky sales approach. More people need to talk about the music itself than the pay as you'd like scheme. So anyway, I highly recommend heading over to the In Rainbows website and purchasing the album for whatever you think is fair. Not because I believe in the method (I do, btw), but because this is a fantastic album that really shouldn't be missed out on. If you're only going to own one Radiohead album - it really should be In Rainbows.

Oh - and listen for the Little Mermaid reference at the end of 'Nude,' it makes me smile every time I hear it.