Posts by Robin Sheat
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I dunno, MC Frontalot makes up for a lot of sins :)
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It would be cool to set up a PAS group on Last.FM so all this playlist playing could be shared and seeing a Top 20 for PAS would be kind of interesting as well.
Hmm, I often wonder about the point of that kind of thing for groups that aren't musically oriented (as in, a PAS group to me doesn't make sense, as there's not a genre or musical interest thread that ties the members together). So, you'd end up getting just popular music that more people play than the more obscure, interesting stuff.
I go through groups based on things I like, and often find interesting things. But the ones that are about something other than music have little appeal to me, musically.
But, I'm not saying to not give it a go if you want :)
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Addendum to the last, I strongly suggest signing up to last.fm. It's a music-oriented social network and will find recommendations based on what you like. For example, my details are at http://www.last.fm/user/eythian
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Weird. I buy most of my music online (from emusic, although I also get stuff from Jamendo), and buy a reasonable number of CDs too (although it's all from independent labels), and I listen to albums start-to-finish much of the time.
Especially when working and listening to music, I don't want to be surprised by change, as that's distracting. However even that aside, good albums, which I like to think is all I buy :), work well when listened from start to finish.
A song on its own can be fine, but if the whole album is put together well, 'the whole is more than the sum of the parts'.
Oh, and I never buy a single track, or pick and choose from an album. I always buy the whole thing.
All this said, I do quite often listen to a playlist that is something like 'everything added in the past five months that hasn't been played more than three times, nor in the past 24 hours' that I leave on random. This helps stop me missing out on new stuff that I otherwise consistently overlook when choosing an album to listen to.
@Emma Hart: gothic cello rock? I don't know Darling Violetta, but two places to start are Apocalyptica and Rasputina. They are quite different from each other, the former is more at the heavy end, the latter at the often-mellow-and-usually-weird end. Looking here: http://www.last.fm/music/Darling+Violetta/+similar
about a third of these bands I know, and those I quite like. So it sounds like she's on to a good thing :)