bone in sub

i had been thinking how cool it is that i can think of any album, and have really visceral, almost synaesthetic memories of when i was first into it, and any times in my life i was really listening to it. so imagine my pleasure when i found this site, that turns your last.fm info into a timeline poster of your listening. i’ve only been logging to my last.fm since late january, so it doesn’t go back super far, but still far enough to let me just stare at it and time travel.

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this might be mildly interesting if you know me, but for me it’s fascinating. i can see a ton of things from it:

• the week or two after i dumped a girl i had been dating for years, i listened to a lot of reel big fish. i think most of their songs are about dumping chicks
• one reel big fish song, “she has a girlfriend now”, has a female guest singer. i liked her voice so i checked out her main band, save ferris (it’s horrible).
• i also spent a lot of time at home, on the computer, listening to music for a while here, until something happened a week into february and this changed.
• right after that when i was really excited/into ‘other girls’ for a few weeks, i listened to a ton of New Pornographers. i don’t know why but those two subsets of memories are really associated.
• even though the zombies only have two songs i like (‘care of cell 44′, and ‘this will be our year’), they were noticeable during all that.
• as a followup to the new pornographers, i checked out destroyer, dan bejar’s band.
• i didn’t notice this at all at the time, but the week or two before my recital (the most stressful time of the year) i listened to mainly punk. nofx and fugazi.
• after my recital, i switched from punk to 70s rock: led zeppelin, the kinks, and black sabbath.
• my three favorite bands, led zeppelin, david bowie, and the beatles, are always present, and their popularity fluctuates in periods of weeks, not days.
• i listened to fischerspooner for the first time in early april, and i liked it so it stayed around for a month.
• fischerspooner rekindled my interest in electronica, and following that i listened to the chemical brothers, daft punk, and dj shadow.
• mid-may i had a gig playing some soundtrack music of my uncle’s with him, so i was listening to it to learn it for a few days before the show
• right after that, i got the flight of the conchords album.
• if i’m listening to tenacious dundee, why not listen to tenacious D?
• late may through mid-june i didn’t sleep very much.  staying awake all night a couple times a week and not sleeping much the rest – late at night i would either go for a walk, ride my bike, or be on the computer listening to music, and it’s noticeable.  the big gap is when i was out of town for a bit.
• i started listening to fabriclive, which has a ton of different artists, so there is a lot of variety here.  after i listened to dj yoda’s fabriclive, i revisited his discography because i like him so much.
• in the last couple weeks i’ve been huge into david bowie.  like, so much.