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Listening Habits: Nimzo's 2022 In Review

I listened to a lot of music in 2022. Below is a list of my most-played artists of the year (taken from my last.fm). Format is: Artist  ||  Genres  ||  Top 3 most played tracks. 

Comment below on your own most-listened to's. Cheers!

(Artists that had fewer plays due to fewer-but-longer tracks: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Yes.)

1. Akira Yamaoka  ||  Trip Hop, Video Game Soundtrack, Electronic  ||  Theme of Laura, Waiting For You, Promise (Reprise)

2. Radiohead  ||  Alternative Rock  ||  2+2=5, Burn the Witch, How to Disappear Into Strings

3. Chelsea Wolfe  ||  Gothic Rock, Dark Folk  ||  Pale on Pale, Halfsleeper, Moses  

4. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds  ||  Post-Punk, Alternative Rock, Punk Blues  ||  Jesus Alone, Distant Sky, Rings of Saturn

5. Portishead  ||  Trip Hop  ||  Western Eyes, Cowboys, Numb

6. Broken Social Scene  ||  Indie Rock  ||  Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl, Lover's Spit, Sentimental X's

7. Björk  ||  Art Pop, Experimental, Electronic  ||  Hunter, New World, Ovule

8. The Smiths  ||  Indie Pop, Post-Punk, Jangle Pop  ||  There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, Bigmouth Strikes Again, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

9. Swans  ||  Experimental Rock, Post-Rock, Post-Punk  ||  A Little God In My Hands, You F******* People Make Me Sick, Lunacy

10. Black Country, New Road  ||  Post-Rock, Chamber Music, Art Rock  ||  The Place Where He Inserted The Blade, Bread Song, Concorde

11. The Avalanches  ||  Neo-Psychedelia, Plunderphonics, Electronic  ||  The Divine Chord, Oh the Sunn!, Music Is The Light

12. Big Thief  ||  Indie Folk, Indie Rock  ||  Simulation Swarm, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, Change

13. PJ Harvey  ||  Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Rock  ||  The Dancer, Written on the Forehead, The Words That Maketh Murder  

14. Arca  ||  Experimental, Ambient Pop  ||  Piel, Reverie, Desafio

15. Massive Attack  ||  Trip Hop  ||  Black Milk, Group Four, Better Things

16. Timber Timbre  ||  Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk  ||  Demon Host, Lay Down In the Tall Grass, Run from Me

17. Eels  ||  Indie Pop  ||  The Medication Is Wearing Off, Going to Your Funeral Part I, P.S. You Rock My World

18. Cocteau Twins  ||  Ethereal Wave, Dream Pop, Post-Punk  ||  Five Ten Fiftyfold, Ivo, Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires

19. Kendrick Lamar  ||  Conscious Hip Hop, West Coast Hip Hop  ||  The Heart Part 5, Money Trees, Mother I Sober

20. Sufjan Stevens  ||  Indie Folk, Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter  ||  My Rajneesh, Age of Adz, Come on! Feel the Illinoise!

21. Grizzly Bear  ||  Indie Rock, Indie Folk  ||  Sleeping Ute, Gun-Shy, Yet Again

22. The Beatles  ||  Pop Rock, Psychedelic Rock  ||  Eleanor Rigby, For No One, Let It Be

23. Hooverphonic  ||  Trip Hop, Dream Pop  ||  Antarctica - Live, 2 Wicky, Vinegar & Salt - Live

24. Low  ||  Slowcore, Indie Rock  ||  White Horses, Hey, All Night

25. Anathema  ||  Doom Metal, Progressive Rock  ||  Fragile Dreams, Judgement, Pressure

26. The Smile  ||  Art Rock, Math Rock, Post-Punk  ||  Skrting on the Surface, The Same, Pana-Vision

27. black midi  ||  Brutal Prog, Avant-Prog, Experimental Rock, Post-Punk  ||  Welcome to Hell, Eat Men Eat, bmbmbm

28. Arcade Fire  ||  Indie Rock, Chamber Pop  ||  Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels), The Lightning II, Haiti

29. Denali  ||  Indie Rock, Trip Hop  ||  Nullaby, Normal Days, Surface

30. The Drones  ||  Punk Blues, Garage Rock  ||  The Miller's Daughter, I See Seaweed, Laika

31. Wire  ||  Post-Punk, Art Punk  ||  Practice Makes Perfect, Outdoor Miner, I Am The Fly

32. Madvillain  ||  Abstract Hip Hop  ||  All Caps, America's Most Blunted, Money Folder

33. The Knife  ||  Synthpop, Electronic, Experimental  ||  Marble House, We Share Our Mother's Health, Pass This On

34. The Jesus and Mary Chain  ||  Alternative Rock  ||  Darklands, April Skies, Just Like Honey

35. Beach House  ||  Dream Pop  ||  Myth, Lazuli, Wild

36. Tom Waits  ||  Singer/Songwriter, Experimental Rock  ||  Alice, Kommienezuspadt, Dirt in the Ground

37. YAYA KIM  ||  Art Pop, Jazz Pop, Singer/Songwriter  ||  The qualifications of others., Anger is my power, Tonight is mine

38. Morphine  ||  Jazz Rock, Alternative Rock  ||  In Spite Of Me, The Night, Buena

39. SOPHIE  ||  Experimental, Deconstructed Club  ||  Immaterial, Is It Cold in the Water?, Ponyboy

40. Pink Floyd  ||  Progressive Rock, Art Rock  ||  Brain Damage, Comfortably Numb, Hey You

41. Little Simz  ||  Conscious Hip Hop, UK Hip Hop  ||  Pressure, Introvert, Offence

42. Talking Heads  ||  Post-Punk, New Wave  ||  Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On), Houses in Motion, Once in a Lifetime

43. Depeche Mode  ||  Synthpop  ||  Condemnation, The Things You Said, I Want You Now

44. Daniel Rossen  ||  Progressive Folk, Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter  ||  It's A Passage, Celia, Shadow in the Frame

45. The Cure  ||  Gothic Rock, Post-Punk  ||  One Hundred Years, Disintegration, Cold

46. Soap&Skin  ||  Darkwave, Singer/Songwriter  ||  Boat Turns Toward the Port, Vater, Fall Foliage

47. The Flaming Lips  ||  Neo-Psychedelia, Experimental Rock  ||  Feeling Yourself Disintegrate, See the Leaves, Watching the Planets

48. David Bowie  ||  Pop Rock, Jazz Rock, Art Rock, Glam Rock  ||  Blackstar, Girl Loves Me, I Can't Give Everything Away

49. Animal Collective  ||  Neo-Psychedelia  ||  For Reverend Green, Peacebone, Daily Routine

50. Bruno Coulais  ||  Film Soundtrack, Neoclassical Darkwave, Modern Classical  ||  Exploration, End Credits, Dreaming

51. LCD Soundsystem  ||  Dance-Punk, New Rave, Electronic  ||  North American Scum - Live, Too Much Love - Live, Losing My Edge - Live

52. Klô Pelgag  ||  Art Pop  ||  Samedi soir à la violence, Rémora, Les ferrofluides-fleurs

53. Florence + the Machine  ||  Art Pop, Chamber Pop, Indie Pop  ||  Seven Devils, Leave My Body, Shake It Out

54. The Joy Formidable  ||  Indie Rock, Shoegaze  ||  The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie, A Heavy Abacus, Cradle

55. Nine Inch Nails  ||  Industrial Rock, Industrial Metal  ||  Reptile, The Day the World Went Away, Mr. Self Destruct

56. Tindersticks  ||  Indie Rock, Chamber Pop  ||  Tyed, Whiskey And Water, Marbles

57. Destroyer  ||  Sophisti-Pop, Indie Rock  ||  Kaputt, Tintoretto, It's For You, The Bad Arts

58. Broken Bells  ||  Indie Pop  ||  Holding on for Life, The High Road, The Ghost Inside

59. The Rolling Stones  ||  Blues Rock, Rock 'n' Roll  ||  Sympathy For The Devil, Wild Horses, Sway

60. Death Cab for Cutie  ||  Indie Rock, Indie Pop  ||  Expo '86, Lightness, A Lack of Color

61. Jon Brion  ||  Film Soundtrack, Modern Classical  ||  Something You Can't Return To, Ok, Little Person

62. Porcupine Tree  ||  Progressive Rock  ||  Lazarus, Glass Arm Shattering, Harridan

63. Flunk  ||  Trip Hop, Downtempo  ||  Six Seven Times, On My Balcony, Kemikal Girl

64. Ulver  ||  Electronic, Experimental, Trip Hop, Ambient, Black Metal  ||  Eos, Solitude, Like Music

65. Soulsavers  ||  Trip Hop, Slowcore  ||  Paper Money, Revival, Jesus of Nothing

66. Bo Burnham  ||  Comedy Rock, Alt-Pop  ||  All Eyes on Me, Welcome to the Internet, Goodbye

67. St. Vincent  ||  Art Pop, Art Rock, Indie Pop, Indie Rock  ||  Chloe in the Afternoon, Cruel, Dilettante

68. A Silver Mt. Zion  ||  Post-Rock, Chamber Music  ||  Could've Moved Mountains, The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes, Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats of Fire Are Falling From the Sky!

69. My Chemical Romance  ||  Pop Punk, Emo Pop  ||  Welcome to the Black Parade, Mama, Dead!

70. The National  ||  Indie Rock  ||  Humiliation, Santa Clara, Conversation 16

71. Steven Wilson  ||  Progressive Rock  ||  Routine, Hand Cannot Erase, Home Invasion / Regret #9

72. Muse  ||  Alternative Rock  ||  Butterflies and Hurricanes, New Born, Apocalypse Please

73. Deerhunter  ||  Indie Rock, Shoegaze  ||  Twilight at Carbon Lake, Nothing Ever Happened, Helicopter

74. Kate Bush  ||  Art Pop, Singer/Songwriter  ||  Sat in Your Lap, Night of the Swallow, The Big Sky

75. Joy Division  ||  Post-Punk, Gothic Rock, Coldwave  ||  Atrocity Exhibition, Decades, Disorder

76. The Velvet Underground  ||  Proto-Punk, Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock  ||  After Hours, Pale Blue Eyes, Candy Says

77. Janelle Monáe  ||  Neo-Soul, Art Pop, Alternative R&B  ||  Come Alive (The War of the Roses), Dance or Die, Tightrope

78. Lou Reed  ||  Glam Rock, Pop Rock  ||  Walk on the Wild Side, Perfect Day, Satellite of Love

79. Phoenix  ||  Indie Pop, Post-Punk Revival  ||  Lisztomania, 1901, Love Like a Sunset, Pt. 1

80. Universal Hall Pass  ||  Trip Hop  ||  Tutelary Genius, Dragonfly, Avatar

81. Mother Mother  ||  Indie Rock, Indie Pop  ||  Simply Simple, Hayloft, The Stand

82. La Roux  ||  Synthpop  ||  Bulletproof, In for the Kill, I'm Not Your Toy

83. U2  ||  Alternative Rock, Pop Rock  ||  With Or Without You, Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

84. Coldplay  ||  Pop Rock, Britpop, Art Pop  ||  Midnight, What If, Viva la Vida

85. Lingua Ignota  ||  Death Industrial, Neoclassical Darkwave, Singer/Songwriter  ||  Pennsylvania Furnace, Many Hands, I Who Bend the Tall Grasses

86. Spellling  ||  Progressive Pop  ||  Boys at School, Little Deer, Always

87. Death Grips  ||  Industrial Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop  ||  Hacker, The Fever (Aye Aye), Get Got

88. Boards of Canada  ||  Downtempo, IDM, Trip Hop  ||  Amo Bishop Roden, An Eagle in Your Mind, Dawn Chorus

89. We Never Learned To Live  ||  Post-Hardcore, Screamo  ||  Shadows in Hibernation, Fragmented Footnotes on Self-Diagnosis, Tasting Paralysis

90. Sonic Youth  ||  Experimental Rock, Alternative Rock, Noise Rock  ||  Shadow of a Doubt, Schizophrenia, Secret Girl

91. Backxwash  ||  Horrorcore, Experimental Hip Hop, Industrial Hip Hop  ||  Vibanda, Burn to Ashes, Nyama

92. The Shins  ||  Indie Pop  ||  Kissing the Lipless, Saint Simon, So Says I

93. Interpol  ||  Post-Punk Revival, Indie Rock  ||  Leif Erikson, Obstacle 1, The New

94. Anna von Hausswolff  ||  Neoclassical Darkwave, Experimental Rock  ||  The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra - Live, Red Sun, The Truth the Glow the Fall - Live

95. Yo La Tengo  ||  Indie Rock, Noise Pop  ||  Green Arrow, Big Day Coming, From a Motel 6

96. Gorillaz  ||  Hip Hop, Trip Hop, Synthpop  ||  Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood, Feel Good Inc.

97. Janet Jackson  ||  Contemporary R&B, Art Pop  ||  Got 'Til It's Gone, Go Deep, Free Xone

98. Queens of the Stone Age  ||  Stoner Rock, Hard Rock, Noise Rock  ||  Smooth Sailing, I Appear Missing, Go With the Flow

99. The Sound  ||  Post-Punk  ||  I Can't Escape Myself, Missiles, Heyday

100. Everything Everything  ||  Art Rock, Art Pop  ||  No Reptiles, To the Blade, Regret



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