Jane Dallaway

Jane Dallaway

Jane Dallaway  //  Data loving developer/leader/product shaper, storyline curator/creator, life-long learner, photographer, dog owner, reader, crafter, gardener and occasional snowboarder

This blog contains all sorts of odds and ends, from event reviews, stuff about my storyline project, bits of craft, through thoughts on learning, to photography stuff, and general inspiration things. It's a bit all over the place with no real theme, but then so am I!

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My top music choices for 2011

In the category of "better late than never". I've had the graphs sitting on my desktop since the beginning of the year but just hadn't got around to posting them. Following on from last years top music choices here are the graphs for 2011

Top Artists

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Top Tracks

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Top Albums

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Some thoughts on what this tells me:

I'm not at all surprised to see Marina and the Diamonds at the top. It was on pretty much constantly whilst I was emptying my family home as it was (mostly) uplifting, and had a decent tempo to keep me going.

It's interesting to see Stephen Fry in the Top Artists, and the only reason for that was because his auto-biography, which I listened to as an audio book, was broken into tiny chunks, I'm guessing that there were 131 tracks to it.

It's quite amusing to me to find the Seekers in the Top Albums. This was an album I bought whilst emptying the house as I found a lot of Seekers records amongst Mum's record collection and was curious. 

Metric (just), Vampire Weekend, Ra Ra Riot and Muse are still in the top artist lists.

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My Top Music choices for 2010

Thanks to last.fm and the ability to auto-scrobble from iTunes/iPod/iPhone, I know that the following were my "Top" lists for 2010

Top Artists

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Top Tracks 

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Top Albums 

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I love last.fm, the fact it records this information for me, uses this to make recommendations, and lets me have access to a set of neighbours, people with similar music tastes to me - which is how I discovered some of the artists who made it into my list, is wonderful.  It takes very little effort for me to get this information, and leads to me finding new music to listen to.  What's not to love.

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Spotify playlist for the 2010 last.fm top 40 - Jane Dallaway

Last year I created a spotify playlist for the last.fm top 40 chart and discovered a few bands whose albums ended up on my Christmas list. This year I've done the same thing. So far only artists 40 - 11 are available. I'll add the top 10 next week. But if you're interested, then take a listen.

Today I've updated this playlist to include the top 10, well all except for Arcade Fire, who come in at number 3 and aren't listed on spotify

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Spotify playlist for the 2010 last.fm top 40

Last year I created a spotify playlist for the last.fm top 40 chart and discovered a few bands whose albums ended up on my Christmas list. This year I've done the same thing. So far only artists 40 - 11 are available. I'll add the top 10 next week. But if you're interested, then take a listen.
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