I was just listening to a new Runrig track I got hold of, simply titled “Canada“. It’s great (not just because of the name). Like most of their other music. Alan Cox was indeed wise to recommend them to ajh, whom I’m glad decided to pass on the recommendation on our road trip back in February. I have been listening to a fair bit of their music and have learned that they are over 30 years old – why didn’t I discover this kind of music a lot sooner?
Anyway, if anyone wants to buy me anything, you can get me one of their albums.
Incidentally, I’ve been using Audioscrobbler for a while now and it has begun to profile the kind of music I like to listen to (or maybe just the music it happens to be logging at the time). Here’s my top 10 artists and tracks:
Artists
1 Runrig
2 The Arrogant Worms
3 Enigma
4 Garbage
5 Enya
6 Brad Johner
7 Bay City Rollers
7 Captain Tractor
9 Danny Elfman
10 A-ha
Tracks
1 Runrig – Rocket to the Moon
2 The Arrogant Worms – The Canadian Crisis Song
3 Brad Johner – The Last Saskatchewan Pirate
4 Bay City Rollers – We Built this City on Rock-n-Roll
4 The Arrogant Worms – Boy Band
6 Runrig – (Stepping Down The) Glory Road
6 Rita McNeil – Farewell to Nova Scotia
8 Enigma – Silence Must Be Heard
9 Garbage – Supervixen
9 Danny Elfman – Descent Into Mystery
Unforunately, it doesn’t currently account for listening I do when on the go so much of the above is just whatever I randomly decided to play with xmms when in a particular mood. To get a proper representative sample will require me to get gtkpod to talk to audioscrobbler and inform it of the music I have been listening to whilst away from a terminal.
Jon.