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Falling
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada11349 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-12-29 19:52:46
November 15 2018 07:21 GMT
#1
Well, I made it- 10,000 posts and 10 years on Team Liquid (Almost)- Although, maybe I could include my lurking years... Also, seven years since my 1000th post, and five years since my 5000th post.

Life
I don't really have anything insightful to say. I haven't really played a lot of Starcraft since remastered came out, but I recently started working on my macro again, so we'll see. Cross Out is a game I've been playing most recently. But mostly, I'm just really busy. I teach, I'm the athletic director of a small school, and I'm currently coaching two volleyball teams. (I'm going to try and not coach basketball so I can recover in time for Track and Field season.) Our volleyball season is almost at an end and the senior team I coach has a shot at provincials, but anything can happen. Busy, busy busy.

And next semester I'll get to teach 20th Century History as a grade 12 course, so after six years of classroom teaching, I'll have taught history in every grade from 7-12 (except grade 9). So that'll be a lot of work developing yet another new course, but it'll be fun as I enjoy the time period.

Oh yeah. And I bought house, so now I have debt again. But I have a house, which without family help would've been a few years away still.

Music
So to close out my blog (which is surprisingly short if anyone recalls my monster blog posts from the past- I haven't blogged in a year), I thought I would post my Top 10 most played songs in my iTunes library. It's still pretty relevant to what I listen to as I never gravitated to music streaming services (beyond youtube's synthwave videos).

The library has been imported across multiple computers since 2009 (when I learned you could so my play count stopped resetting.) Of course it doesn't count mp3 player and android phone play counts, but it's a good approximate to what I listen. The play count isn't super high in the Top 10 because I try not to over play songs because I want to enjoy them long term, so my library ends up being relatively evenly distributed (I think). I also don't make heavy use of playlists, except to curate the Up Next feature.

I guess, unsurprisingly most of the songs in the Top 10 were imported in 2009/2010 as those songs have the most chance to be played on Random. The Top 10 of the Top 25 iTunes list has actually been fairly stable over the years as all the songs I've listed below have been in the top for years.

Hopefully someone finds something enjoyable in the music I have enjoyed. If not, oh well.


Falling's iTunes Top 10 Play Count: 2018


Three way tie for 10th at 39 Plays

10) Maylene and the Sons of Disaster- Dry the River
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Southern Metal- aside from my alternative metal, I tended to gravitate toward more of the power/ synth metal side of metal, for instance, Stratovarius, Nightwish, Blind Guardian, or more recently Sabaton, but there are three songs by Maylene that I really like and this is one of them.

10) Marie Mai- Emmene-moi
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French-Canadian band. First heard this song during the Winter Olympics and added it to my collection.

10) Linkin Park- In The End
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I listened to a lot of Hybrid Theory, Reanimation, and Meteora in high school. I don't listen to them near so much anymore, but I still like playing them from time to time and this song (and its remix) is still excellent.

9) Saosin- Bury Your Head 41 Plays
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I'm a little surprised that P.O.D. never ended up in my top 10, but then again all my play counts on iTunes kept resetting until 2009 when I learned to import library... and CD plays from high school wouldn't have counted, haha. But yeah, I still like the alternative metal that was coming out in the early 2000s. But I got this song from a music library dump from a girl in university and I really gravitated to this song (and The Juliana Theory to the Tune of 5000 Screaming Children + Show Spoiler +
, but I guess that didn't make it to the top either.)

8) London Beat- I've Been Thinking About You 41 Plays
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Not much to say, except that I still enjoy it.

7 Kaskade & deadmau5-I Remember 41 Plays
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Rather melancholy song. I was introduced to electronica in high school and really got into a lot of electronica and trance music in university.

6) Chagall Guevara- Take Me Back (To Love Canal) 41 Plays
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A band that foundered before it really started, but put out one really great album. Founded in part, by my favourite lyricist, Steve Taylor

Bonus: A more recent project of his Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil- Only a Ride
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5) Aspirations- Get F'd 42 Plays
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(Although, I have it renamed to "What You Deserve" because I edited the song for myself, haha.) I don't know why I like this song so much. Somehow the screaming voice with the melodic female voice really works (Her voice is more prominent in some of the other songs). And there's just a lot of energy in the beat and with the trumpets.

Bonus- another by them
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4) Woodhands- Pockets 43 Plays
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Just a really bouncing beat. Friend in university introduced me to them. Love it.

3) Röyksopp- Alpha Male 43 Plays
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My house mate of four years in university introduced me to Royksopp- his musical taste was rather ecletic/ weird. Sigur Ros and mewithoutyou + Show Spoiler +
or Listener + Show Spoiler +
or for the really bizarre Danielson + Show Spoiler +
. Of course other stuff was more normal like Muse, Arcade Fire, MGMT, Wintersleep, Minus The Bear or The Postal Service I hated probably half of his music in the beginning and then ended up adding most of it to my music collection. Guess it grew on me.

2) Journey- Separate Ways 43 Plays
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I think, although I like a lot of different genres, I really gravitate to 80s Rock and 80s New Wave. This has such a big sound, and I love it.


1) Aha- Take On Me 45 Plays
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Classic radio rock. (And 80s... of course) I actually had a hard time figuring out what this song because I somehow always missed when they announced what the band and song title was and I had such a hard time figuring out what he was singing, that I couldn't google search the lyrics, haha. I'm surprised Depeche Mode- Precious + Show Spoiler +
also didn't get on here because Precious and Take On Me were the two songs that I always loved when they came on the radio but it took me years to figure out what the songs/bands were for both. I have them both pretty connected in my mind.

I can't say it's my favourite song as such- in fact, I might put it on the bottom of the songs I've listed so far, but I do really enjoy it. And it's 80s, so that' fairly representative of my musical taste.

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Qwyn
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2779 Posts
November 15 2018 09:06 GMT
#2
That Royksopp! Instant thumbs up from me, that's good shit. I first learned about them from NukeTheStar's 2009 Ever OSL hype video.

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I'm glad life is treating you well. Congrats on the house and the new course. 20th century history was my favorite time period in high school (even better, I'm sure, with a teacher like you!).

Happy 10k, Falling! You have great taste in music .
"Think of the hysteria following the realization that they consciously consume babies and raise the dead people from their graves" - N0
solidbebe
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Netherlands4921 Posts
November 15 2018 17:13 GMT
#3
Röyskopp and deadmau5 in the top ten, that's a double thumbs from me
That's the 2nd time in a week I've seen someone sig a quote from this GD and I have never witnessed a sig quote happen in my TL history ever before. -Najda
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-11-16 19:44:32
November 16 2018 19:44 GMT
#4
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BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
November 17 2018 03:13 GMT
#5
Grats Falling. Where's the BW love though?
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Falling
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada11349 Posts
November 17 2018 08:53 GMT
#6
I gotta get back into it- I've been on hiatus for a bit. I guess I need to buy remastered if I want to ladder. iCCup was looking pretty empty a couple nights ago.
Moderator"In Trump We Trust," says the Golden Goat of Mars Lago. Have faith and believe! Trump moves in mysterious ways. Like the wind he blows where he pleases...
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50119 Posts
November 17 2018 12:08 GMT
#7
Passafist remastered!
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Falling
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada11349 Posts
November 18 2018 04:56 GMT
#8
And we got second in Islands- we're off to provincials in volleyball!
I've never actually been to provincials as a player or coach, so this is new.
Moderator"In Trump We Trust," says the Golden Goat of Mars Lago. Have faith and believe! Trump moves in mysterious ways. Like the wind he blows where he pleases...
FuDDx *
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States5008 Posts
November 26 2018 16:10 GMT
#9
Happy Happy 10 year 10k!

Thank you for sharing music!! love finding new stuff and loving it or knowing not to listen again!! haha!
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Falling
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada11349 Posts
November 27 2018 21:31 GMT
#10
Haha. To true is there some of both? I'm curious now if you found something you loved and found something you'd never listen to again.

Love you balloon blogs by the way.
Moderator"In Trump We Trust," says the Golden Goat of Mars Lago. Have faith and believe! Trump moves in mysterious ways. Like the wind he blows where he pleases...
Qikz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United Kingdom12022 Posts
December 17 2018 18:55 GMT
#11
I've known you Falling for as long as I've been on TL actively pretty much. I'm glad your back!
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StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
December 23 2018 22:15 GMT
#12
congrats mate
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
SnafuZerg
Profile Joined April 2016
17 Posts
December 29 2018 16:39 GMT
#13
Always heard about Saosin and for some reason never cared to really give them a listen! Thanks to you, I'm doing it today. Cheers friend and grats!
Danglars
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States12133 Posts
January 02 2019 06:57 GMT
#14
Good picks. I also grew up listening to Linkin Park. Their Hybrid Theory/Reanimation were formative for my teenage years. Meteora and Evanescence (...yeah yeah) were always in the CD changer/CD walkman. Now it's all nostalgia. I got hooked on only a couple since--Bleed it Out and Robot Boy. The first for the classic feel of the band, the second for the melody and techno elements.

I also like Kaskade's 'I Remember.' Trance and electronica were (and are) my choice for background songs while I'm working on the computer. It's a good mood song when you're missing someone, or circumstances are keeping you from spending time with people you love. I can soak in the music and lyrics and indulge the feeling for a little bit.

I revisit "I've Been Thinking About You" and songs in that period very rarely. It's probably because I played them on repeat for far too long just after release. It's still a fun tune.

Good post.
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