LAST FM

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Because I have been working at home today I have been absolutely CANING last.fm (under my cunning disguise of freakytrigger), obsessively hitting REFRESH on the 'dashboard' so's I can taste-stalk my 'friends'. Unsurprisingly since the heart of LFM is big graphs of stuff I am a monster nerd for it, however not as much as some who have multiple accounts enabled for multiple genres wtf wtf.

So my question is - if you have it, do you find it affects how you listen, do you keep one eye on the minute hand when a shite track is playing, are you afeard to leave the itunes on "random", does it recommend you good stuff, do you think your charts are an accurate representation of you or not, are you the kind of MENTALIST who would choose to play one thing rather than another simply because you want it to be higher on your charts (btw I AM THIS PERSON :(:(:(:(_)

And if you don't have it is this any kind of principled decision?

And what do the top tracks/artists say about the Internet Nation???

JUST TALK ABOUT IT BASICALLY

(I have found myself thinking incidentally that a better way to do CANONS wd be to pick the top 30 all time tracks on Last FM)

Comments

warning: i have just started a cup of very strong coffee and may well talk and talk and talk

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

IE if I like it enough to have it on cd then I will listen to it on a stereo with decent sound apart from rub old computer speakers.

I generally put stuff on random anyway - I suppose all it picks up with me is particular one-off favourites. IE when I have to listen to King Kong Song five times before I stop wanting to sing along to the deep doo-wop backing bits, or when I have to listen to MUCHACHO DE LOS OJOS TRISTE and recline on bed like melancholy senorita in a siesta.

Re: warning: i have just started a cup of very strong coffee and may well talk and talk and talk

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I've plugged my computer into my proper speakers now (don't really have a CD player to speak of) - though yes, having to import something when I want to listen to it = choosing to listen to something else instead.