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To answer your questions: I've seen the Peppers live 2 times, in 2006 and 2007. My favorite album is hard to decide, but I think I'll go with Californication. There's about 25 cms of snow where I live.

The list of who's posted what is out of date, might be handy to update?

That was mine! Tape: http://www.filedropper.com/mixtape_2 Tracklisting: 1. Broken Bells - The High Road 2. Tom McRae - My Vampire Heart You're absolutely right that it's depressed/depressing, but this is what this British singer-songwriter does best. He's quite funny and sarcastic during his concerts and he plays amazingly well live. 3. Alexi Murdoch - Breathe 4. Band of Horses - The Funeral 5. Joseph Arthur - Honey and the Moon 6. BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Murray Gold - I Am The Doctor (from the soundtrack of Doctor Who, the latest season ;) ) 7. Opeth - To Bid You Farewell I can see how you could dislike the drama here, and generally Opeth does melodic metal :P 8. Billy Bragg - Days Like These Protest song, of course. What Billy Bragg does. 9. Mumford & Sons - I Gave You All 10. Chris Pureka - Landlocked 11. I Am Kloot - Storm Warning At concerts, I Am Kloot's John Bramwell always announces a new song like this: "This song is about drinking.... and disaster." or "...birds.... and disaster". Brilliantly ugly guy, lovely songwriting! 12. A Day to Remember - If It Means A Lot To You I actually wanted to put one of their less 'forgettable' songs on here but figured as they usually do post-hardcore/pop that might be too abrasive :) 13. Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here In my opinion Porcupine Tree's best song. Supposedly about a car accident. 14. Alexandre Desplat - Obliviate From the first scene of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, part 1, where Hermoine erases herself from her parents' memory. 15. Oceansize - Ornament / The Last Wrongs It's sort of two songs in one and epic live. I don't like the loud bit either.

To my mixtape-maker: I loved reviewing this! :) Nice varied selection and only one song I already knew, I really enjoyed listening to this a couple of times. I didn't like everything on it per se, but what do you expect. 1. Sounds like one of those "The String Quartet Tribute to.."-covers, and I have a feeling I should know what this is a cover of as it sounds familiar. Can't recall it for the life of me, though. It's a nice song, a bit rock (if that can be said of string music)! I'm curious about the original artist. 2. A piano track, quite old school dramatic Tom Waits-style, limping and bluesy. When I hear the singing voice, I want to say Dresden Dolls or Amanda Palmer, but I can't say for sure because I don't know enough of their music. This is something I'd want to listen to over a good glass of whiskey and sulking. 3. I hear an upright bass and some bongos. A gentle, young female voice sings about love. This is quite easy listening, although it is something I'd put on in the background to hum along to rather than sit and listen. It's also a bit short. 4. Pretty psychedelic opening with male harmonies and an acoustic guitar. Judging by the production this is probably 60s inspired rather than actually 60s made. I like it, it's all sultry and trippy and it even has birdsong in it. 5. Classical. I have a feeling I know this from somewhere. I may have had to play something like this for my piano lessons. I like classical music every once in a while, but this bores me because it's quite standard chamber music. 6. Something from a musical? All drama and dun-dun-dun? I'm very confused because the lyrics and voice sound like the singer from System of a Down, Serj Tankian. I haven't heard any of his solo work, but as I said it sounds like something from a musical. I don't really like it, but it's interesting to have heard. 7. VERY extremely hilariously 80s. It's either actually 80s, like Depeche Mode, or it's one of those 80s revivalist bands like Hurts or summat, but so far I've refused listening to them so I wouldn't know. The song isn't all bad, but after a minute the 80s style drum production is working on my nerves so much I can't really listen to it. This is probably something I'd be able to appreciate more in a cover version by some contemporary artist like oh, say, Coldplay? :P 8. I knew what this was at literally the first 2 guitar notes! It's Wet Sand by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm such a huge Peppers nerd, like you wouldn't believe. As I have their official biography and considered for years getting that asterisk tattooed on my wrist, I don't think I can say anything objective or useful about this, so I'll just leave it at this: <3 9. More piano. Sorta indie. I like how it pumps on, and I like it even better when the electric guitar joins in. Something to listen to while trying to plough through the snow on my bike in an hour or so ;) 10. Acoustic guitar weeee. Quite a typical Baritone voice. At times he lays the dramatic tremolo on a bit too thick. All and all it sounds inspired by very early "pop" and folk music. I like the lyrics a lot, they're well crafted. 11. A love/drinking song, no doubt. Has an accent and an accordion and everything. Irish folk style. Quite OK. 12. Beatboxing + guitar. Very catchy! "We all kick the bucket in the end, the end!". It's incredibly uplifting despite the singer's above insurance. I really love this, the instrumentation is hilarious and the lyrics nicely fourth-wall breaking :) I wanna know who this is! 13. Eastern-style opening guitar. Breaks down into a more progressive rock-type thing. It's OK, but not great. It has a hidden bit at the end that seems very funnily out of place, something Spanish or Balkan style with bits of The Offspring's Pretty Fly for a White Guy in it, which I like MUCH better. I'm guessing this is the Offspring, then? The End.

Review time! As my holiday didn't go through (snow, anyone?) I'll be posting it in about 15 minutes. So however made it: hold your horses for just a little while longer ;)

To my mixtape maker: I've downloaded your tape and will listen to it, but I'm going on holiday and it'll be a while before I can post my review. Bear with me ;)

Sign me up, Scotty! Or is that something else. Looking forward to making something awesome already :)

I'm not okay.

Definitely.

Any. I don't like driving. Did you ever have a stuffed animal and if so, what kind?

Denial? :P

I have a t-shirt of his :)

To possibly lure people out of their little closet of shame - mine is this: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRNNOeDIEA&ob=av2e]YouTube - Tokio Hotel - Schrei[/ame] And I'm genuinely ashamed for liking this, because I consider myself quite a music lover/buff. But it's just damn catchy and I love German as a language. GOGOGO! Your turn! :)

*sings* Charlie is so Charlie is so Charlie is so cool.. like.

Admit it. We all have our guilty pleasures!

I'd buy a nice, roomy house with a big back yard and a big bath. I'd want it to be in a city, close to the historical center and some park. And it'd have to have a nice space to practice music. I'd hire a cleaner. In an ideal situation I'd live there with my boy/girlfriend.

Only true providing that a person has some basic cooking skills; for instance, knowing when meat or veggies are ready, how to boil something, how high to turn the fire up, what kind of pot or pan to use for which foods and how to manage your time. These might sound like moronic things, but I swear to God one of my flatmates' idea of "cooking" is putting rice in a pot (no water!), turning the gas all the way up and then leaving the kitchen for fifteen minutes, only to find me & another flatmate LITERALLY extinguishing her food. Her rice was on fire. And this is a 23-year old we're talking about! :D Other than that I believe most simple to medium difficulty recipes can be managed by reading carefully and practicing a lot. Same goes for some more tricky recipes.

Utter shite. Drizzly, grey, wet wet wet.

YES!!!!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSjaM9E2gr4]YouTube - ENTER SHIKARI - DESTABILISE (official promo video) - OCT 2010[/ame] Holy shit, what a tune.

Please don't ever spell it that way again.

This from a woman who has included the word penis three times in her signature.

Why the hell isn't it? :P

Even if it's with a boy/girlfriend?