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Andy’s Top 20 Music Playlist (2011)

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1 – SCRITTI POLITTI - A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT
2 – Coldplay – Paradise
3 – Arcade Fire – Culture War
4 – The Cars – Sad Song
5 – Ryan Adams – Invisible Riverside
6 – Wilco – One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)
7 – Fleet Foxes – Montezuma
8 – Feist – How Come You Never Go There
9  - Lady Antebellum - Just a Kiss
10 – Thomas Dolby – Cloudburst At Shingle Street
11 – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Dream On
12 – The Jayhawks - Pouring Rain At Dawn
13 – Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory
14 – Journey – City Of Hope
15 – Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Never Lookin’ Back
16 – Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers - Skokiaan
17 – Ry Cooder - No Banker Left Behind
18 – George Harrison – Isn’t It A Pity
19 – Gorillaz - Phoner To Arizona
20 – Red Hot Chili Peppers - Brendan’s Death Song

Thomas Dolby and Bjork – Musicians Innovating With Gaming and Apps

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As money from CD sales evaporates it’s always interesting to see how innovative musicians are approaching the multimedia world these days. Two real innovators recently have been Thomas Dolby and Bjork.

Thomas Dolby’s Map of the Floating City was a rich multiplayer transmedia game within a living world based around Thomas Dolby’s recent and past back catalogue of songs. Over the last two months I’ve been playing the game which through trades of items allowed users to travel across the sea towards the mythical floating city and at the same time build up a stack of Thomas Dolby mp3′s once all items in a set had been collected. There was a lot more to the game than trading but unfortunately time and work commitments didn’t allow me to fully explore it but it was a really different and interesting experience to some of the other online games I’ve come across.

Whats interesting is that Thomas Dolby funded it’s development himself: ”There is no record company behind this game, no marketing budget, no cynical ulterior motive. I dreamed it up as a way to fuse together all the mythology running through my songs and lyrics over the last 30 years, and to tie it in to my new album. It’s an extension of my own artistic expression. ”

App developers might like to consider getting hold of a copy of last month’s UK Wired where there’s a really interesting article about Bjork’s iPad app - How Björk’s ‘Biophilia’ album fuses music with iPad apps - and the development process behind it.

Some of information came as a surprise to me (for example, Touchpress spending $200,000 on R&D for the Hollow and Crystalline apps and Whitby and Gray selling 200,000 copies of The Elements where I’d have expected this to have made a lot more sales based on the press coverage it received) and again Bjork is releasing the apps independently to the record company.

Bjork – Biophilia (iTunes Store)

App Developers:

Cosmogony – Developer: M/M
Crystalline – Developer: Touchpress
Thunderbolt – Developer: Scott Snibbe
Virus - Developer: Scott Snibbe
Moon – Developer: Max Weisel
Hollow – Developer: Touchpress
Solstice – Developer: Max Weisel
Sacrifice - Developer: M/M
Mutual Core – Developer: tbc
Dark Matter – Developer: tbc

Other musicians dipping their toe in the water :  (courtesy of Word Magazine Bloggers)

 

Andy’s Top 20 Music Playlist (2010)

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1 – GORILLAZ – STYLO
2 – Arcade Fire – Deep Blue
3 – Broken Bells – The High Road
4 – Teenage Fanclub – Dark Clouds
5 – Brandon Flowers – Crossfire
6 – Black Country Communion – One Last Soul
7 – Dr Feelgood – Going Back Home
8 – Steve Winwood – Vacant Chair
9 – Thomas Dolby – Oceanea
10 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Jefferson Jericho Blues
11 – Bruce Springsteen – Racing In The Street (’78)
12 – Coldplay – Christmas Lights
13 – Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses – The Poet
14 – The Black Crowes – Jealous Again (Acoustic)
15 – Blur – Fool’s Day
16 – Elton John & Leon Russell – Gone To Shilo
17 – Jack Johnson – You And Your Heart
18 – The Killers – Boots
19 – Mr. Mister – Learning To Crawl
20 – Neil Diamond – Love Song

Andy’s Top 20 Music Playlist (2009)

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1 – ATHLETE – SUPERHUMAN TOUCH
2 – Pet Shop Boys – All Over The World
3 – Chris Isaak – We Let Her Down
4 – Lady GaGa & Colby O’Donnis – Just Dance
5 – Rob Thomas – Believe
6 – Wilco – Everlasting Everything
7 – The Black Crowes – I Ain’t Hiding
8 – Madness – NW5
9 – Midlake – Roscoe (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation)
10 – Bon Jovi – Work For The Workingman
11 – U2 – No Line On The Horizon
12 – Melody Gardot – Baby I’m A Fool
13 – Bruce Springsteen – The Wrestler
14 – Madeline Peyroux – Instead
15 – Simple Minds – Moscow Underground
16 – Alberta Cross – Song Three Blues
17 – Coldplay – The Hardest Part / Postcards From Far Away (Live)
18 – Bob Dylan – Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
19 – Kings of Convenience – Mrs Cold
20 – Little Axe – Take A Stroll

Andy’s Top 20 Music Playlist (2008)

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1 – Cat Power – Metal Heart
2 – Coldplay – Lost!
3 – Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake – Four Minutes
4 – The Feeling – The Greatest Show On Earth
5 – Guns ‘N Roses – Street Of Dreams
6 – Joe Jackson – Too Tough
7 – KD Lang – I Dream Of Spring
8 – The Killers – Spaceman
9 – The Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
10 – AC/DC – Rock ‘N Roll Train
11 – Beck – Chemtrails
12 – Razorlight – Wire To Wire
13 – Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Memory Lane
14 – Steve Winwood Featuring Eric Clapton – Dirty City
15 – The Black Crowes – Whoa Mule
16 – Elbow – One Day Like This
17 – Goldfrapp – Caravan Girl
18 – Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
19 – Queeen + Paul Rogers – Say It’s Not True
20 – Alex Lloyd – Slow Train

Andy’s Top 20 Music Playlist (2007)

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1 – Jose Gonzalez – Down The Line
2 – The Arcade Fire – No Cars Go
3 – Ry Cooder – Three Chords And The Truth
4 – Maroon 5 – Makes Me Wonder
5 – Rihanna – Umbrella
6 – Ryan Adams – Halloween Head
7 – The White Stripes – You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told)
8 – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Please Read The Letter
9 – Newton Faulkner – Dream Catch Me
10 – Wilco – Either Way
11 – Arctic Monkeys – Brianstorm
12 – Fall Out Boy – This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race
13 – Manic Street Preachers – Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
14 – Nelly Furtado – All Good Things (Come To An End)
15 – Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling Into Place
16 – Rufus Wainwright – Going To A Town
17 – Timbaland Presents OneRepublic – Apologize
18 – Feist – 1234
19 – Kanye West – Stronger
20 – Willy Mason – We Can Be Strong

Andy’s Top 20 Music Playlist (2006)

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1 – Josh Rouse – It Looks Like Love
2 – The Feeling – Sewn
3 – Keane – A Bad Dream
4 – Donald Fagen – H-Gang
5 – Embrace – The End Is Near
6 – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Snow (Hey Oh)
7 – T.I. – What You Know
8 – Thom Yorke – The Eraser
9 – Arctic Monkeys – Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
10 – The Strokes – You Only Live Once
11 – Bruce Springsteen – Erie Canal
12 – Dixie Chicks – Long Way Around
13 – John Shuttleworth – Two Margarines
14 – Meat Loaf – Blind As A Bat
15 – Prince – Fury
16 – Morrissey – You Have Killed Me
17 – Rascal Flatts – Life Is A Highway
18 – Razorlight – In The Morning
19 – Tom Waits – Lie To Me
20 – David Gilmour – On An Island

Andy’s Top 20 Music Playlist (2005)

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1 – Supergrass – St. Petersburg
2 – Gorillaz – DARE
3 – The Raveonettes – Love In A Trashcan
4 – Ben Folds – Landed
5 – Kelly Clarkson – Behind These Hazel Eyes
6 – Robert Post – Got None
7 – Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Magnolia Mountain
8 – Sigur Ross – Glosoli
9 – Coldplay – Speed Of Sound
10 – Nickleback – Savin’ Me
11 – Athlete – Half Light
12 – Beck – Epro
13 – White Stripes – Red Rain
14 – The Coral – In the Morning
15 – Kanye West – Gold Digger
16 – The Caesars – Jerk It Out
17 – Rob Thomas – Problem Girl
18 – Weezer – Perfect Situation
19 – Richard Hawley – Just Like The Rain
20 – Teddy Thompson – Everybody Move It