söndag 4 Nov 2007, 11:03
I'm having back-to-school blues so I decided to map out my top 200 artists, as of 05.04.07. The thought of school makes me irrational this way.
US (88): Explosions in the Sky, The Album Leaf, Neutral Milk Hotel, Andrew Bird, Death Cab for Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, Yo La Tengo, Dustin O’Halloran, The Shins, The Six Parts Seven, Page France, Mirah, Pavement, The Robot Ate Me, Eluvium, Beulah, Pinback, Modest Mouse, Hammock, The Decemberists, M. Ward, Talkdemonic, Rilo Kiley, Jack Johnson, Rachel’s, Cat Power, Pedro the Lion, The Mountain Goats, Gregor Samsa, Norfolk & Western, Devendra Banhart, Built to Spill, Bright Eyes, Mom, Portastatic, Tortoise, Guster, Caspian, Saxon Shore, Folksongs for the Afterlife, Red House Painters, Jars of Clay, Battles, Isotope 217, Of Montreal, Pete Yorn, Jump, Little Children, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Owen, Red Sparowes, Film School, Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, The Microphones, Thanksgiving, Kilowatthours, Hezekiah Jones, Beirut, Kaki King, Ben Kweller, Denison Witmer, Halifax Pier, Papa M, The Books, Benoît Pioulard, Imaad Wasif, Okkervil River, The Magnetic Fields, Jim Croce, PAS/CAL, Invert, The American Dollar, The Century of Aeroplanes, John Zorn, Nickel Creek, Stan Getz, BUMPS, Dispatch, The Softies, RF & Lili De La Mora, Nada Surf, Chicago Underground Trio, Tristeza, The Flaming Lips, Iron & Wine with Calexico, Grandaddy, The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, 1 Mile North, The Apples in Stereo
UK (36): The Boy Least Likely To, Obi, The Beatles, Max Richter, Badly Drawn Boy, Doves, Radiohead, Elbow, Aqualung, 65daysofstatic, The Cure, Everything but the Girl, Fridge, Trembling Blue Stars, Bloc Party, Adem, The Durutti Column, Emmy the Great, Coldplay, Dakota Suite, Matthew Jay, Blur, Gomez, Thee, Stranded Horse, Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia..., Big Eyes Family Players, Stereolab, Led Zeppelin, Snow Patrol, Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai, Camera Obscura, The Reindeer Section, Teenage Fanclub, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Feeder
Canada (14): The Most Serene Republic, Patrick Watson, Broken Social Scene, As the Poets Affirm, Barzin, Hayden, Do Make Say Think, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stars, Joni Mitchell, Hṛṣṭa, The Arcade Fire, Gonzales, Final Fantasy
Japan (12): Toe, 二階堂和美, Yasushi Yoshida, Kazumasa Hashimoto, Té, Shugo Tokumaru, Caroline, Mono, Miaou, Lantern Parade, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, World's End Girlfriend
Sweden (11): José González, Ef, Loney, Dear, The Radio Dept., Kent, Immánu El, I'm From Barcelona, Amandine, Surrounded, Boy Omega, Jeniferever
Philippines (7): Up dharma Down, Sandwich, Daydream Cycle, Imago, Urbandub, Rivermaya, The Brew
Australia (5): Tamas Wells, Architecture in Helsinki, Dirty Three, Laura, Adlerseri
Iceland (5): Sigur Rós, Stafrænn Hákon, Amiina, múm, Ólafur Arnalds
France (4): Erik Satie, Flowers from the Man Who Shot Your Cousin, Julie Delpy, Manu Chao
Ireland (4): Damien Rice, God Is an Astronaut, David Kitt, U2
Norway (4): Jaga Jazzist, Sondre Lerche, The Samuel Jackson Five, Kings of Convenience
Austria (1): Your Ten Mofo
Spain (1): Bosques de mi Mente
Germany (1): Kammerflimmer Kollektief
Netherlands (1): We vs. Death
Argentina (1): Gustavo Santaolalla
New Zealand (1): Flight of the Conchords
Russia (1): Ivan Wyschnegradsky
Switzerland (1): The Evpatoria Report
Brazil (1): Pale Sunday
Finland (1): Magyar Posse
Wouldn’t it be great if I had some deep reflection about this? Alas, as there was no logic, there will be no analysis.
(But, let me just say: that some of the American bands in the list were from the US surprised me. I thought they’d be more, I don’t know, Greenlandic or something.)