Velvet Acid Christ

Not a Spotify Wrap-up

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Okay, so lots of people are posting their end-of-year Spotify wrap-ups showing off their listening habits. I don’t subscribe to Spotify (they don’t pay their artists nearly enough, and they have a history of supporting podcasters I have issues with, so they don’t get my money), but I do have Apple Music (who, really, should also pay their artists more, but they’re at least better than Spotify), and Apple does an end-of-year “replay” thing.

Of course, even this is a very small peek at my listening habits, because I really don’t use Apple Music all that much. I get it as part of a subscription bundle, and only really use it briefly in the mornings before work, or occasionally in the evenings before bed. Most of the time I listen to songs from my local collection.

That said, though, here’s what Apple says about the, oh, 10% (if that) of my music listening that it knows about….

Top Artists

Top Artists 549 total artists 1 The Orb 137 minutes 2 Nine Inch Nails 136 minutes 3 4 Dolly Parton 128 minutes Orbital 124 minutes 5 Underworld 89 minutes 6 Bonobo 71 minutes 7 Hooverphonic 69 minutes 8 Imperative Reaction 64 minutes 9 Velvet Acid Christ 61 minutes 10 Apoptygma Berzerk 51 minutes 11 VNV Nation 50 minutes 12 Seabound 50 minutes 13 Front Line Assembly 46 minutes 14 Rotersand 44 minutes 15 Icon of Coil 44 minutes

549 total artists

  1. The Orb 137 minutes
  2. Nine Inch Nails 136 minutes
  3. Dolly Parton 128 minutes
  4. Orbital 124 minutes
  5. Underworld 89 minutes
  6. Bonobo 71 minutes
  7. Hooverphonic 69 minutes
  8. Imperative Reaction 64 minutes
  9. Velvet Acid Christ 61 minutes
  10. Apoptygma Berzerk 51 minutes
  11. VNV Nation 50 minutes
  12. Seabound 50 minutes
  13. Front Line Assembly 46 minutes
  14. Rotersand 44 minutes
  15. Icon of Coil 44 minutes

I’m quite amused that Dolly landed so high on this list, particularly how out of place she looks. But her recent Rock Star album is great, and it has been getting a lot of plays since it came out. Worth it!

Top Songs

Top Songs 872 total songs 1 BAD GUYS FEELIN' ALRIGHT ELLE KING Feelin' Alright (from... Elle King 8 plays 2 Wide Open The Crystal Method 6 plays 3 Cuts You Up Peter Murphy 5 plays 4 Came Back Haunted Nine Inch Nails 5 plays 5 Dial8 Velvet Acid Christ 5 plays 6 Modern Love David Bowie 7 5 plays HOOVERPHONIC 2Wicky Hooverphonic 5 plays 8 IMMA ATE Express Yourself (Edi... Madonna Madonna 5 plays 9 The Night (feat. Aliso... Röyksopp 4 plays 10 Underworld I Exhale Underworld 4 plays 11 12 13 14 15 SOME NIGHTS INVNATION AUTOMATIC Spock VCMG 4 plays Eraser E Nine Inch Nails 4 plays Some Nights E Fun. 4 plays Gratitude VNV Nation 4 plays Funk 4 Peace... Fort Knox Five 4 plays

Again, I’ve listened to many of these tracks far more times this year than is represented here, and have listed to a lot of other stuff as well, probably far more than the 4-8 times shown in these screenshots. That said, it’s not really that bad of a sampler of what I listen to.

So…it’s a weird list, and only somewhat representative of my tastes. But hey, since I have a limited sample size to work from because I don’t stream much of what I listen to, it’s what we get.

Goth humor

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I was hanging out in the Yahoo! Chat Alaska room this morning, and ended up meeting Wytchmagick on there. After discovering we shared some interests, we started tossing some links at each other, which was quite entertaining.

She told me about the band Velvet Acid Christ, and I ended up picking their album Fun With Knives while I was wandering around today. She asked if I’d ever gone goth hunting, and while I haven’t, it certainly looks like fun. I mentioned how I really wished that they really made a Tamagothi, and then she pointed out the piece de resitance — “Lego People That Aren’t, Will Never, But Should Be…”! I laughed so hard at that last one — combine a love of Legos with a dark sense of humor, and how can you go wrong?

Since the conversation, I’ve been bouncing around and found some other fun stuff. Ever wanted to be Goth? Pick up the Insta-Goth Kit and never worry again (incidentally, I’ve seen every movie on the I-GK’s movie list — and own at least half of them…should I be worried?)! Not interested in being Goth? Well, then, the same site offers assistance with becoming a Rivethead, Raver, Prep or Punk — find them all on Sykospark.

That led me to a site which has nearly had me in tears for the past few minutes — Gloom County. In the words of the creator, “It’s all Grace’s fault. She and I were chatting, and she said something about Opus and the gang in Bloom County. She chose that moment to have a glorious and inspired typo, however, and it lodged in my head for a while. It got me to thinking…What if the residents of Berke Breathed’s Bloom County had been goths, punks, rivetheads, and the like?” The results are flat-out brilliant — for a quick example, check out Lord of the Dance.

Oh, and by the way — Jesus was gother than you.

While bouncing around the GothMafia site that the Lego people came from, I found a link to a zoo’s information page about their liger — an 800-pound crossbreed of a lion and a tiger. Wow. I also spent some time exploring Wytchmagick’s personal site, and thought it was nice that as a practicing Wiccan, she took the time to put up this page in response to the many over-zealous people out there who immediately assume that her beliefs condemn her to eternal torment after she dies. It’s a much more thoughtful and measured response than I’ve seen from others in her position — and probably better stated than many of the things people have said to her.

Anyway, that’s it for now….