Boring stats post

Happy Thursday! Today I found what most certainly has to be relative of Donnie's. It was like, the same cat. Only cat-shaped. (not whale shaped) It was really bizarre.

So let's talk about how tv controls my musical tastes, or else I'll talk about cat clones all day.

I don't mean TV, but if I keep saying "narrative media" I'm gonna keep sounding arrogant. Narrative visual media. TV, video games. Internet? Narrative internet? Hulu? Whatever. Movies. Anyway, Primary interest: Visual media (tv movies games); secondary interest: Music.

Let's look at my Last.fm stats for my top 15 artists.

1 - The Beatles
2 - Bear McCreary
3 - Linkin Park
4 - Kunihiko Ryo
5 - Tokio HOtel
6 - Nobuo Uematsu
7 - Micheal Giacchino
8 - Queen
9 - The Hoosiers
10 - Panic at the Disco
11 - Shigeru Umebayashi
12 - Risa Ohki
13 - Nobuo Uematsu (added with #6 and he'd actually be #3)
14 - Ikimono Gakari
15 - Billy Idol

Okay, how many of those are composers for TV, movies, and/or video games? 6. (2, 4, 6, 7, 11...12--but she's the recording artist of Uematsu's arrangements)

How many of these did I get into from video games? Beatles and Tokio Hotel from Rock Band. Uematsu did the Final Fantasy scores. Ohki Risa sang some albums of vocalizations of the previous.

From Youtube videos? Hoosiers (Heroes fanvid, so TV caused this, too) and Billy Idol. (White Wedding literal video)

Movies? Queen. (Shaun of the Dead ftw) Shigeru Umebayashi. (House of Flying Daggers) The Beatles - Hard Day's Night really kicked off my Beatlemania. Giacchino - see below v

TV? McCreary - BSG. Giacchino - Alias, Lost, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Speed Racer, Star Trek, Up etc etc.

Anime? Ryo - Juuni Kokuki. Ikimono Gakari did a couple intro songs for Naruto or Bleach and I ended up downloading everything they've ever done.

The only two honest bands in here are Linkin Park and Panic, both of which I leeched off of Carolyn. All said and done, 86% of my most-listened to artists were introduced to me by visual media. And 14% comes from the trusted opinion of the best friend.

How about most-listened-to songs?

1 - Nakushita Kotoba - No Regret Life -- Naruto ending song
2 - We Used to Be Friends - The Dandy Warhols -- Veronica Mars theme song
3 - ALONES - Aqua Timez -- BLEACH opening song
4 - Rolling Star - Yui -- BLEACH opening song
5 - Sen no Yoru wo Koete - Aqua Timez
6 - Ketsui no Asa ni - Aqua Timez
7 - Kanashimi wo Yasashisa ni - little by little -- Naruto opening song
8 - Edge of the Ocean - Ivy -- from Beth
9 - Re:START - Surface -- Yakitate!! Japan ending song
10 - Killer -- The Hoosiers -- the song used in the Heroes fanvid
11 - ALONES (TV size) - Aqua Timez -- I really love this song
12 - Sora wo torimodoshia hi - ShakkaZombie -- I downloaded this because it says it was from Cowboy Bebop. I'm pretty sure it's not, but I still love it
13 - Everything Goes Dark - The Hoosiers
14 - Aru Machi no Gunjou - Asian Kung-Fu Generation -- this band did a bunch of Naruto/Bleach/FMA openings/endings.
15 - Another Night - Heavens -- research into "emo music" impulse download lol

The anime-heavy influence here is that when I got these songs, a few summers ago, I was listening to probably 90% anime songs 10% Linkin Park. Those three Aqua Timez songs are the ONLY Aqua Timez songs I have, and I really like their band, so I over-listened.

These days, especially +Beatles +Beatles affiliates, my listening is much more watered down. Spread out among many many artists and songs. Like, The Beatles are my #1 artist because they've got 250 songs that I've listened to 12 times each. Aqua Timez has four songs I've listened to a total of 334 times. Timez.

The band Cage the Elephant is #9 out of everything I've listened to in the last 3 months just because their song Ain't No Rest for the Wicked was used in Borderlands. I've listened to that 24 times.

So pretty much before the Beatles, I was just listening to anime/video game/movie music. I'm so geekish.

I was playing Red Dead Redemption today, and realized I needed the soundtrack to that sucker, too. Remember, I played you that song? That cowboy song? Yes. Anime/video game/movie/tv music is a good genre of music. It's music that has a story, and more than anything I need a story.

-Steph

ps
I refurbished this boring stats post with a bunch of youtube links! Hooray for visual aids!