The chart I built around Ashley Hutchings was neat
Pandora thrills me every time, but I'm easy.
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Is this from the Philadelphia Story?
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I love LastFM! Much better than Pandora, at least rock-wise, IMHO. I was living away from my CD collection for a while last year and LastFM served as a handy replacement.
I'm still figuring out this toy version of it, but iss innerresting.
The post title made me think there'd be a link to this.
I too endorse "Dying is Fine", as does my 5-year-old, courtesy of this monthly NYC event (now also in some other cities) at which, among many other fine bands, the offspring and I have seen Ra Ra Riot play. Highly recommended to those who like good music and have children.
In other off-topic weirdness, the tax treatment of expense reimbursements to graduate students turns out to be less fascinating than you'd expect.
8: Don't worry, it's from the Daily Mail. Take it with a cup of salt.
This might actually be the toy that was too much fun. I have way too much work to do, and yet here I am, nodding my head and saying, "Yes, Seabound is who I wanted to see linked to Beborn Beton!"
8: Didn't that get figured out? IIRC it was a Russian satellite launch or something -- the spiral pattern was gases venting from something as it spun.
"Yes, Seabound is who I wanted to see linked to Beborn Beton!"
Ha! I'm doing the exact same thing. "And so Black Diamond Heavies...and press enter...YES! Scott H. Biram, Left Lane Cruiser, and Radio Moscow! I guessed three of six!"
Hands off genitals for Michael Foot. A genuinely great man.
14: I love that comment thread. It's hard to tell which people are having fun and which seriously think that aliens are more plausible than missiles.
17: Yeah, on Youtube there were a lot of comments along the lines of, "No, that's no missile. Believe me, I know a rip in the fabric of space-time when I see it. I have watched a LOT of movies."
16: Huh, first Zinn and now Foot. That's very sad.
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I posted this in the wrong thread. I suspect their audiomap connects to Glenn Beck, Orly Taitz, and G. Gordon Liddy.
Watch only if you're in the mood for stupid crazy.
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Anything like this for wine?
re: 16
Yes. Ripe old age, mind, but yes, very sad. It's a bit of a cliché, but he's one of those politicians the likes of which we shan't see again.
This might actually be the toy that was too much fun.
I sort of *hate music maps like Pandora and TuneGlue. I don't have trouble finding new music I want to listen to; I have trouble finding the time to listen to it all or the money to buy what I want.
(*for some tiny value of hate.)
one of those politicians the likes of which we shan't see again
You mean, more honest than not?
re: 24
And with some kind of intellectual presence. I'd be hard pushed to think of a member of Parliament we have now* who wasn't some moron barely able to write a sentence more complicated that a tabloid headline.
* well, maybe I can think of one or two ..
20: Wow, hearing that dude keep saying "shame on me; shame on we" is actively annoying. But he did, in fairness, bring pastry right at the beginning of his rap (about losing his job at the bakery).
This tool is disappointing. It is biased toward side projects and bands that have collaborated with the band in question, or are part of the same scene or something. If I know about a band, I know about its side projects, and collaborations. Responding to "Steely Dan" with "Donald Fagen", "Walter Becker" and "Boz Scaggs" is not helpful. Although the suggestion of Michael Franks was interesting. I'd forgotten about that guy (one of my dad's secret favorites).
27: On the other hand, it sounds useful for people who really don't know anything (hi!). Although Pandora wasn't, particularly -- I figured a while back that I should try listening to more music, and thought if put something I already liked into Pandora, it might pop up with things I wasn't aware of, but it didn't work particularly well. Everything I either knew already or hated.
28. Pandora and Hulu are restricted to the US, I assume caving into DRM bullies, so fuck 'em. But the trial version of Pandora I played with seemed mainly bland and boring.
Completely OT:
Somehow, I think the fact that Americans elected a black president is less shocking than the fact that a white sorority from the University of Arkansas won the national stepping competition.
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I have a couple of nosflow's radio shows on my iPod. It's rather unsettling to be reading a comment by him right as his dulcet baritone pipes up from the randomly shuffled playlist that's on in the background.
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Man, has it got the Third Ear Band all wrong.
Not bad at all on Magma, 5uu's, and Henry Cow, though! (Aside from the inexplicable absence of the Motor Totemist Guild from the second.)
27:It is biased toward side projects and bands that have collaborated with the band in question, or are part of the same scene or something.
Yeah. I just tried The Orchids, and it never managed to get off the Sarah Label, or even into the heavier bands on the Sarah label, like Heavenly or Wake. Let alone one step away to Lilac Time and Duffy. Pandora is a little better.
For contrast, on the Orchids AMG front page, I get the Castelles & Coronets, two 50s doo-wop groups, Josef K, Lloyd Cole, Orange Juice & Aztec Camera. Then Aztec Camera takes you everywhere, from R.E.M to New Order to the Byrds to Willie Nelson. Quiet gentle vocals.
I would really really miss AMG.
On the other hand, it sounds useful for people who really don't know anything (hi!). Although Pandora wasn't, particularly -- I figured a while back that I should try listening to more music, and thought if put something I already liked into Pandora, it might pop up with things I wasn't aware of, but it didn't work particularly well. Everything I either knew already or hated.
Interesting. I tried Pandora for pretty much the same reason, and I've been quite happy with it. But then I wasn't really looking for music I didn't know.
I just tried a "Mood" at AMG, mood being "gentle". Never had before.
Go-Betweens ( OK, but I found them a little rocky compared to GM's solo work); Mama's & Papas, Townes VZ, Van Morrison, Beth Orton, KLF (?), CSN, Tish Hinojosa, Ike Quebec(?), Bill Evans, Al Green, Air (?), Tim Hardin,, Damien Jurado(?), Simon & Garfunkel, Brad Mehldau(?), June Christy, Lightfoot, Flack, Getz, Fairport, Skeeter Davis, Dream Academy, Two of a Mind(?), Ron Sexsmith, Brummels
Obviously grotesquely incomplete (no fricking Astrid Gilberto or Wanderley?), but then each main page of those artists will lead you to a new cloud
I would really really miss AMG.
God, no kidding. I probably shouldn't say this out loud, but it's one of the very few things on the web that I would pay an extra monthly fee to use.
Now going thru Ron Sexsmith to "autumnal" you get Galaxie 500 & Mississippi John Hurt & Ride.
So:you can use the AMG database, looking for names & groups that are on multiple pages to narrow down or expand possibilities, according to particular criteria (e.g., female vocals). I got from The Orchids to Mississippi John Hurt. I'm fine with that.
Or you can listen to samples along the way.
But I have been able with Pandora, using my knowledge and intuition of where they are trying to send me, to discover new groups.
But I like everything.
