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I'm not sure if this has been done before and I tried looking for a topic of this nature, but couldn't find one so thought I'd create one. I sometimes find myself asking people how they found a particular entry. So please tell me

Here are the ones from me. Let's all reminisce about Deandria

BJSC 11: Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch

My sister and I like many of the same things musically which is a nice thing to share with a sibling. I have discovered a ton of music thanks to her and vice versa. This was one of them. I can't remember exactly (some of these might be a bit vague as I might not be able to remember properly) but I believe it was when she brought over her old computer for me to use because she wanted to get a laptop and didn't see a need for a home computer anymore, so brought it to me. She had left all her music in the computer when she brought it to me so I had a lot of fun discovering music from it. Ladytron was one of the artists in it and this song was one of them. I just really liked it at the time so decided I wanted it to be my debut entry for BJSC. It is still my best result in the main contest where it came fourth (I came second in the Halloween spin-off).

BJSC 12: Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

This was through my sister also. Pretty much the same deal - I was listening to the music on my sister's old computer and fell in LOVE with this song, and eventually, the group.

BJSC 13: Hooverphonic - Mad About You

This was through my sister as well I can't remember what the story with this one was exactly, I know it was through her but how exactly, I'm not sure. I think she may have brought over some of her CD's when she was visiting me and I listened. Or possibly the old computer deal again...

BJSC 14: Alanis Morissette - Straitjacket

Well I've known and liked Alanis since I was a kid and heard 'Hands Clean' on the radio. Downloaded the album this is on probably as soon as it came out. It's not one of my favourite songs by her but I wanted to enter it because at the time I thought it would appeal a lot more than some of my previous entries. I was wrong.

BJSC 15: Au Revoir Simone - Dark Halls

This was a YouTube discovery. I have no idea how exactly as it was just a random moment years ago, but I think I was just browsing through related videos on YouTube or whatever, this came up and I liked it. I remember someone saying at the time that it was a huge shock it didn't qualify.

BJSC 16: Halou - Political

This was when I had my massive trip-hop period. Halou are often labelled 'trip-hop', I wouldn't call this particular song trip-hop, though. However, it's absolutely stunning. I found Halou on a trip-hop site that listed a huge amount of trip-hop artists and I listened to so many of them, including Halou, who became one of my favourite discoveries from that site. I remember listening to them daily for weeks.

BJSC 17: Regina Spektor - Samson

lol, I remember seeing on a social media site I no longer use, my cousin telling her sister (also my cousin) to listen to Regina Spektor. I was intrigued as they both have music tastes that I somewhat relate to, so decided to give her a try as well. I immediately liked her and this was one of my favourites.

BJSC 18: Röyksopp - This Must Be It

I saw the video for 'Sparks' on a music show, was very intrigued and fell in love with the song. I listened to some of their other songs and didn't really like them at first, but eventually became a big fan. This particular song happened to be on their new album at the time, that my mum and sister gave me for Christmas. I remember seeing it for the first time and making a little gasp

BJSC 20: Pogo - Expialidocious

Another YouTube discovery. Again, I can't recall how exactly I found it on YouTube, but it might've been just looking at random songs again.

BJSC 21: Elegeion - Scars

YouTube again! And sorry, but it's hard to remember how exactly I find songs on YouTube sometimes, especially if it was a long time ago. I just know it was YouTube.

BJSC 22: The Big Pink - Dominos

This was on an ad on TV! I always liked when that ad came on because I really liked hearing the clip of this song. So I googled parts of the lyrics, leading me to find out the name of the song and the artist, and ended up sending it to BJSC!

***long break from the contest***

BJSC 46: Emilia - Teardrops

I knew and liked Emilia as a kid, but didn't know this song until later. Found it on YouTube somehow...

BJSC 47: Kate Havnevik - Unlike Me

I found Kate Havnevik online somehow, I'm trying to remember how exactly. I think it may have been through Wikipedia actually. I think I might've been reading up on trip-hop artists I hadn't heard of before. This particular song isn't trip-hop though I had a still from the music video of this song in my signature for a while (her in water).

BJSC 48: Stars - Counting Stars on the Ceiling

This was on the old home computer my sister brought me that I was telling you about earlier. A lot of songs by Stars were on it and this one in particular was always one of my favourites by them.

BJSC 50: Télépopmusik - Breathe

I believe I checked out this artist and song because they often came up in lists of good trip-hop albums etc. (always with the trip-hop at that time!) I think it was in an ad as well for a bit.

BJSC 55: Anneli Drecker - You Don't Have to Change

Anneli sings with Röyksopp sometimes, who have been one of my favourites for a good while now. I was always in love with her voice so decided to listen to some of her solo stuff. Came last in the semi with this

***long break from the contest***

BJSC 77: Sutrastore - Zero Point

This came up in some trip-hop artists' similar artists list on last.fm. It had been a while since I had discovered an artist of this kind I loved, so randomly decided to check out this Sutrastore. Fell in love with the album (with an awful album cover). Sent this song on somewhat of a whim and came last in the semi for the second time consecutively However, it managed not to get zero points!

BJSC 78: LOLAWOLF - Calm Down

This is still my favourite entry of mine! I just love it so much! This was around the time I was starting to really get into Spotify. I wanted to send an alternative r&b song because I was really getting into it at the time, and I believe I was looking at artists that were tagged as that on last.fm, then listened to a few of them on Spotify to see if I would like them. This song stood out immediately. I was also considering a different song by them for a bit, which I've played on Dubtrack a couple of times.

BJSC 79: Daya - Sit Still, Look Pretty

This was a Spotify discovery. I think Daya came up in my recommendations of new releases. I was considering another song by her as well, a ballad. Cameron had this as one of his potentials as well but seemed enthusiastic for me to send it when I played it on plug

BJSC 80: Ms. Henrik - Slow Dancing

Now this I believe I found because I was obsessed with Quintessa's entry 'Resonate' by Avec Sans. I was listening to that song on YouTube, found some other songs by them, including their cover of Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill', then went through random related videos, as you do, this came up and I was like woah omg, BJSC!!1

BJSC 81: who knows?


Spin-off time!

UK #10s: R.E.M. - At My Most Beautiful

My Dad gave me his old R.E.M. CD's, this was one of the songs on one of them.

Worldvision: Beangrowers - Not in a Million Lovers

Now I can't remember exactly how I found it, but I was randomly assigned Malta in the Worldvision spin-off (which I absolutely loved!), so I went looking for songs from Malta on last.fm, YouTube, Soundcloud and probably more sites. I think Beangrowers may have come up on last.fm under either the "malta" or "maltese" tag, I checked them out on YouTube and decided to send this song. I was also considering a dance-pop song which might've done a little better. I liked this one more though.

UK Near-misses: Skin Up - Ivory

I was getting into 90's rave music at the time of this contest. I loathe myself for not remembering exactly, but it's one of two possibilities - either I was on that chart site looking at songs that were "near-misses", or I was listening to a 90's rave playlist on YouTube, liked this song, checked out its chart position and it happened to be eligible for the contest. I'm not sure which. I think it was the latter, if so - lucky coincidence

Halloween 2015: The Cranberries - Zombie

My Dad sent me a couple of Cranberries CD's once. I liked them instantly.

Christmas 2015: Vanessa Carlton - Hear the Bells

I've always been in love with her song 'A Thousand Miles', and decided once to start checking out all her other work (so glad I did!). Eventually I downloaded all her albums from iTunes. The album this is on became one of my favourite albums.

This post has been edited by Mattias: Jan 8 2016, 10:53 PM