What I listened to this year

Dec 30 2006

Kottke just posted his top 25 artists of 2006 according to Last.fm, so I thought it’d be interesting to see what I’ve been mostly listening to this year as well.

Top 25

According to my Last.fm profile, these were my favourite artists over the last year:

The New Pornographers
U2
Coldplay
Guns N’ Roses
System of a Down
Muse
The Wildhearts
Poison
Foo Fighters
Radiohead
Eminem
Metallica
Spoon
Neko Case
Soundgarden
The Arcade Fire
Kaiser Chiefs
Paul Simon
The Shins
Faith No More
The Rolling Stones
Sigur Rós
Belle and Sebastian
Interpol
Alice in Chains

The New Pornographers were runaway winners, with almost three times as many tracks as the next artist. There are no real surprises in there, although I don’t remember listening to that much U2.

I think the chart reflects my two frequent listening habits; one, when I discover something new I will listen to it over and over and over again (thus TNP, Coldplay’s X&Y, Neko Case); and two, I’ve spent a lot of time this year listening to music from my teenage years (cf. Poison, Metallica, Faith No More) which has probably skewed the chart slightly further into the rock/metal category than it really deserves.

Anyway, that was apparently my 2006 in music – what were you listening to?

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