My scrobbler stopped working correctly about a year and a half to two years ago so my top five is probably a bit out of date at this point. Here they are though:
1. Harry Nilsson—One of my favorite artists of the 60s and 70s. My love of him goes back to early childhood and his album The Point but I really, really got into him about two years ago and got all of the albums of his that could find. The timing probably explains why he's top of my last.fm list, though I still listen to him a lot so I'm sure he'd rank pretty high even if the scrobbler still worked right.
2. Necro—Campy, rough-hewn hip hop that worships at the altar of metal. There's something about this guy where, once I start listening to him, there's nothing else I'm in the mood for and I definitely went on a lot of these Necro benders around 2010-2012 so he's high on the list. I have no recollection of where I heard of him but I do remember I didn't like him on first listen but then he somehow grew on me.
3. The Beatles—I was doing my "Win Janszoon Over To The Beatles" thread a few years ago and I listened to them a hell of a lot in the the process. I was won over to them to a certain extent in the end, though I rarely put them on just to listen to at this point.
4. NeoTokyo—Great weird Spanish post-rock band that I saw at small club in London many years ago. I only owned one vinyl release from them for over a decade until discovering their bandcamp page in early 2013, at which point I was happy to discover that they had made a whole lot more great music in the intervening years.
5. Igorrr—Crazy ass baroque metal breakcore guy from France who is easily one of my favorite musical discoveries of the past decade. I first heard of him because of a thread here on MB, checked him out and immediately fell in love. I still listen to Igorrr and one of his other projects, Whourkr, a hell of a lot.
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