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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I love watching last.fm but it's been REALLY SHIT for the past few days, not recording tracks for up to 12hrs after I actually played them. LAME.

It's really skewed towards album artists in terms of the data it flags up - I think when I listened to the 23-track Tori Amos album twice to review, it sent it zooming up to No 1. I do now try to listen to promos on my discman or ipod first (there is apparently a way to record what you listen to on your ipod but I downloaded it and I can't get it to work).

It doesn't always acknowledge repeat listenings - the first weekend of 'Umbrella' it recorded maybe one every four or five plays.

Mine is totally skewed by what I have to review - of my top 10 I've had to write about 8 recently, which is why they were on repeat.

Tagging = 1x major issue with the genres I like, with their featurings and their remixes and what have you.

I am always kind of conscious of it but I really don't listen to anything I wouldn't want people to know about, and I never have itunes on random anyway...the only 'artificial' thing I do is sometimes make sure that a track I want to big up is one of my last 10, so stays on the front page (this is also on my facebook and myspazz profiles).

Top weekly artists can be surprising.

Both the poptimists and ilx last.fm groups are disgraces to life and taste.

These are all whingey comments but I do love it really! I like seeing what other people listen to.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Both the poptimists and ilx last.fm groups are disgraces to life and taste.'

truth = beauty but falseness = sexier