1. why? - besides clouddead and the likes, the first time i actually listened to a why? song was when my internet friend linked me to crushed bones sometime in 2007. i wasn't blown away by it or anything, but i enjoyed it. it wasn't until i listened to the vowels, pt. 2 sometime shortly after alopecia leaked online that i became really interested in why?. now i have no problem saying their my favorite group, and i enjoy at least 80% of yoni's output.
2. nara leao - there's no interesting story behind this. i believe i found out about nara through a now defunct blogspot sometime around 2009, which i don't recall the name of or even what i had been looking for at the time. her music doesn't have much significance in my life, but she's still a neat vocalist.
3. bruce haack - nothing interesting here either. just another artist found through yet another blogspot, this time around 2010.
4. the magnetic fields - i listened to 69 love songs for the first time in 2007 or 2008 as it was posted on another blogspot (radiobutt maybe);
fido, your leash is too long became an instant favorite. i've loved merritt's work ever since, with holiday being my current favorite magnetic fields' release. i didn't learn until years later that this wasn't the first time i had heard the them though, since they were featured on the soundtrack for nickelodeon's adventures of pete & pete which aired in the early 90s. at least two other of merritt's groups were featured on the series' soundtrack also, the 6ths being the most prominent of the three.
5. evenings - i first heard this guy sometime in 2010 when i used to view a bunch of videos on vimeo.
this video had evenings'
friends - lovers with before sunrise audio clips dubbed over it. i thought it was great and still think so. that's about it