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My top five iTunes most played albums (excluding JF) are:-

Baby Dee - The Robin's Tiny Throat

Amon Duul 2 - Hijack

Marc Almond - Orpheus in Exile

Tom Waits - Real Gone

Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky

Interestin. I wouldn't have predicted this

Excluding my own compositions, my top 5 most played songs according to iTunes are:

Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene 2 (Aero version)
Jean Michel Jarre – Aero
Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene 2
Depeche Mode – Hole to Feed
Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene 3

I'm a Jarre fan then!
I'm pretty sure Bowie's Golden Years would have been in there too, had I not replaced it recently with the new remaster which I've only played a couple of times.

Coincidentally, John Foxx comes 7th in my top 25, with A Million Cars.

A Christmas gift, coutesy of Michel Rother http://alteredzones.com/posts/644/guest-post-neu/

These days I rarely listen to music through itunes on computer - so my top five initially came as a bit of a surprise, there's a lot of guitar involved, but its also electro-acoustic - so maybe not such a surprise at all:

Bibio: Abrasion
Deerhunter: Vox Humana
Atlas Sound: River Card
Benoit Pioulard: Ash Into The Sky
Bill Nelson: Living In My Limousine

John's first showing in my list is with A Secret Life - Part 2

Predictably...

Trout Mask Replica

A legendary album

Shameless own-trumpet-blowing by listening to one of my own 'mini-albums' that I sort of 'released' many years ago:
The Cloud Factory by The Shed Man (that was me in a former incarnation on another forum)

I made three of these little albums but this was the only completely electronic one and turned out to be my favourite. Hold on, I think the tracks are on my SoundClick page if anybody's remotely interested. Yep, I thought so, here you go (next six tracks on the page after tracks one and two):

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=247665

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Recently discovered Rukkanor and everything he's done just blows me away. If you like Martial Industrial/Neofolk/Dark Ambient it's right up your street.
Beauty and Beauty from Despartica - Face One
The Fall Of Humanity from Deora

He's also part of the group Across the Rubicon, which is even heavier Martial Industrial, State Of Fear from the album Elegy.

Just as a heads-up, if you like this stuff Steinklang Industries have a sale on at the moment.

At the same time I also discovered Triarii, another Martial Industrial group, more orchestral than Rukkanor, The Final Legion from their album Muse In Arms

Been listening to these since and I've yet to tire.

After buying Bryan Ferry - Olympia , I dug out these cds of his I have & gave them a much belated listen to.

These Foolish Things
As Time Goes By
Bete Noire
Taxi
Dylanesque
Mamouna

Some real gems to be found.

Nothing but crumbs from The Captains Table this weekend, so:

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off baby
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

DNA and I'm hooked,on hearing the first track I thought 'more beats' but was pleasantly surprised by the rest of the album - stunning!