Artists With Few Plays (15-20 Plays)

I was looking at my boy's blog and was interested in mimicking a blog post that he had did recently. He had looked at the bottom half of his least played artists on his Last.fm charts and listed them in a posting.

15 Plays
Athlete-
I was a little surprised that this band was so low on the charts. They had a hella good LP.








Shiny Toy Guns-
This LA band was a big hit for me back in '05, but seemed to never get many plays.

Lyrics Born-
I'm not surprised by this cat being low on the charts; I don't really like his shit much. Quannum Records has good artists (such as Blackalicious, Pigeon John, and Honeycut), but LB hailing from Berkeley, California just doesn't do it for me.













16 Plays
Shad K.-
A friend of mine from "I left My iPod in El Segundo" gave me this cat's LP back in January, and I really liked what I had heard. I gotta dust off this guy's LP and give it hella more rotation than this! Crazy!
























P.O.D.-
San Diego big-time band, P.O.D. was a big hit for me in my earlier days of getting into rock back in high school; I guess they didn't have the influence to make it higher in the charts.











17 Plays
Souls of Mischief-
DAMN! I must really be slippin! I work for Hiero and the group that brought the Hieroglyphics to the forefront isn't gettin' any serious rotation from me!

Dionne Farris-
"They say I'm hopeless...like a penny with a hole in it." I guess the "Hopeless" smash hit from the "Love Jones" soundtrack didn't give Dionne enough strength to be higher in my plays.

MSTRKRFT-
The electronic group from Toronto that is sort of a big deal to the rest of my friends really must not be sort of a big deal to me with 17 measly plays. They definitely need some heavier rotation than what I have given them.












18 Plays
Modest Mouse-
Even with hits like "Float On", Modest Mouse didn't have the balls to make it higher on the charts. Nah...(jokin)....I need to give their music more of a chance. I got so much music on this damn computer, it's hard to sort through everyone.

mewithoutYou-
"January 1979" was a song that got me into this band while I was in college in Maryland. I remember playing their LP at the time (2005) a lot, so I am truly surprised that these cats are so low on the play charts.

19 Plays

D-Block-
Now, this is a shocker...all through my time of hip-hop, D-Block has been one of my favorite groups. Styles P. is atop of the list of my favorite emcees and it is a trip that these Yonkers natives didn't make it past 20 plays?!

Thursday-
Another band from college that I was really into at
the time, and that guess didn't have the spark to
make it higher in the plays.












20 Plays

Janis Joplin-
With the smoky voice, this woman that passed away at the young age of only 27 years old had the talent to soar beyond. She will definitely get a lot more playtime!

Michael Andrews-
"Mad World" by this cat and Gary Jules is my favorite song of all-time. It defines me as a person completely more than any other song I have ever heard.

Commercial Trash (That you call music)

You know what the most interesting reason why people listen to this commercial trash that they consider "music" is because...well, it's the only kind of music that they know. Most people think that..."Hey, if you're an artist that's not on MTV or BET, then you most definitely might as well be considered crap!"
I laugh at people for making such assumptions. These are the same people that may ridicule you for listening to Murs while "they got they Vans on, but they look like sneakers." These are the same people that may diss you for listening to Atmosphere, Hieroglyphics, or Cage while they sing nursery rhymes like "Does your chain hang low...does it hang to the floor?"

The few of us that realize that this is only manufactured music to keep you as a consumer and a slave to multi-billion dollar conglomorate corporations should not be seen as outcasts, but as individuals unlike most of the general public. I could have sworn that music was an artform, not a cash cow! Whatever happened to art over commerce, not commerce over art? No wonder our generation is headed down the toilet...we have morons walking around singing songs about shoes, jewelry, cars, drugs, and murder.

And another thing, this shit that most of you call "hip-hop," is not hardly hip hop! I could have sworn that hip hop was about making you feel good and expanding your mind to help out your community, not subliminally destroy and poison your mind with flith about murder, cash, and hos. You see all these ignorant niggas on TV making videos with elaborate mansions, cars, and models, and to the general public that shit is cool. The commercial rap scene looks just like modern day slavery to me. The huge record companies (that are mostly owned by conglomorate corporations like Viacom) being the slave master while who else would be the slave...these ignorant niggas on BET and MTV all day.
People think because you see a rapper with hella jewelry and nice cars in videos that he automatically labeled as rich. But the funny thing about it is isthat most of these rap artists (recording artists in general) only average 50 cents per album sale!But, I thought they were rich!!! LOL

While the so-called "starving" underground hip hop cat makes 10 dollars per album (if he owns his own record company.

Now, people...don't let the media fool you into thinking that just because you may hear an artist all day and see them all day that they must be rich while the underground cat is starving..The irony of it being the other way around.

Thank God for independent music!