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Charlemagne · 09-20-2014, 09:53 AM

I reset my last.fm a while back, so this is actually based around the last year, not since I've had it. Either way

Sufjan Stevens - My dad bought Illinois when I was 15 and I loved it. I used that album as a springboard to discover all his other albums and I've been a fan ever since. Not to mention I listen to his two Christmas compilations basically for the entire month of December.

The Mountain Goats - I think I was a sophomore in high school and I heard "This Year" for the first time on some site, I don't really remember, but I bought The Sunset Tree and then slowly over the next 5 years I went and got everything in his discography. I remember also having a friend who really liked them as well, and I could talk to him about their music which was how I made friends back then.

Madeline Ava Back in senior year in high school there was this site that I loved to go to called CLLCT, which basically allowed DIY pop artists to post albums for free, and I scoured that place. The first album I got by her were her albums where she "covers" In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and I thought it was adorable.

Into It. Over It. - Okay in freshman year of college I started discovering Emo. For the longest time I couldn't get myself to respect that genre, so finally this guy on last.fm, oddly enough, recommended Castevet, and I loved them, so Castevet had a split with this band and I picked it up, and I loved Into It. Over It.'s side more, and I found that he had done, and was currently doing a bunch of splits with a bunch of great bands, and that he had an album out of 52 songs he had recorded in 52 weeks, and I would spend hours listening to just that.

Jason Anderson - I was a DJ throughout my four years of college, and my freshman year we were allowed to take any CD we want and rip it onto our laptop if we brought our laptop to our DJ shifts. So I used that to rip everything that I was interested in. So while rummaging through the back room that was filled with hundreds of CD's from years passed I stumbled upon an album by him called Tonight, which was like a faux live album, he recorded it in a studio with a live audience. I was obsessed with it because of the joy and passion that he sang with.

09-20-2014, 09:53 AM	#8 (permalink)
Charlemagne Say something vague Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,551	I reset my last.fm a while back, so this is actually based around the last year, not since I've had it. Either way Sufjan Stevens - My dad bought Illinois when I was 15 and I loved it. I used that album as a springboard to discover all his other albums and I've been a fan ever since. Not to mention I listen to his two Christmas compilations basically for the entire month of December. The Mountain Goats - I think I was a sophomore in high school and I heard "This Year" for the first time on some site, I don't really remember, but I bought The Sunset Tree and then slowly over the next 5 years I went and got everything in his discography. I remember also having a friend who really liked them as well, and I could talk to him about their music which was how I made friends back then. Madeline Ava Back in senior year in high school there was this site that I loved to go to called CLLCT, which basically allowed DIY pop artists to post albums for free, and I scoured that place. The first album I got by her were her albums where she "covers" In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and I thought it was adorable. Into It. Over It. - Okay in freshman year of college I started discovering Emo. For the longest time I couldn't get myself to respect that genre, so finally this guy on last.fm, oddly enough, recommended Castevet, and I loved them, so Castevet had a split with this band and I picked it up, and I loved Into It. Over It.'s side more, and I found that he had done, and was currently doing a bunch of splits with a bunch of great bands, and that he had an album out of 52 songs he had recorded in 52 weeks, and I would spend hours listening to just that. Jason Anderson - I was a DJ throughout my four years of college, and my freshman year we were allowed to take any CD we want and rip it onto our laptop if we brought our laptop to our DJ shifts. So I used that to rip everything that I was interested in. So while rummaging through the back room that was filled with hundreds of CD's from years passed I stumbled upon an album by him called Tonight, which was like a faux live album, he recorded it in a studio with a live audience. I was obsessed with it because of the joy and passion that he sang with. __________________ Charlemagne had eyes like a lover, but last winter there was weather and his eyes they iced right over. My Last.fm