# Join us! Your musicial distinctiveness will be added to our own.\[Last.fm and Pandora\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842 "2008-12-19T01:49:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/21 "2008-12-20T05:09:25Z")
I figured I should post my Pandora profiles too. Take a look and (hopefully) enjoy. [Happy Folk](http://www.pandora.com/stations/c718fc1f242cc3ad8f79cd25ea528af6b605a4ab5f33e08b) [Dark Folk](http://www.pandora.com/stations/a540c6e2318757fe32dcb16236b8e31b097373da80590865) Two sides of the same basic spectrum. None of it is actual folk music per se, but it’s all low fi stuff that has it roots in folk music. [80s Post Punk](http://www.pandora.com/stations/be1888387fe595587a05ad68d94f8abb425ba2910f7abf8b) [Our Band Could Be Your Life](http://www.pandora.com/stations/57a3bb7bd92fb1bf0ddf4eb96b56315d425ba2910f7abf8b) Two stations based on two basic genres of \*good \*music from the 80s. One is mainstream one is old school indy. [Indy Rock Radio](http://www.pandora.com/stations/f5e5b6e8bfcbddbae13eb1ce5e36cd66738fa8e21936e145) What the name says [Radiohead Radio](http://www.pandora.com/stations/2e155d54b643d1a3d714333fca51d1d8ebf20850b0c936ea) My first station. Seeded only with the band Radiohead. [Hip Hop Radio](http://www.pandora.com/stations/fa5d449ebf9acbbcff10609223b62b5d65a0e38f2e7a0c70) Created when I was into hip hop. Mostly underground stuff. I listen to Pandora almost exclusively on quick mix, so…a lot of these stations sound similar. But I try to keep them distinct. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/22 "2008-12-20T05:16:32Z")
Killed the link when it assumed my tastes. Personal taste: Any shit recorded between 1870 and now, with a leaning toward stuff NOBODY likes. Yes, aggressively personal and self-destructive toward my eardrums, but you knew that if you knew anything about me, and, otherwise, fuck off. 😉 ETA: Honest, I listened to a station for 25 minutes before I could be sure it was music and NOT inter-station noise. And it was both. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/23 "2008-12-20T05:24:14Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Your tastes are . . . a bit more poppy than mine, but over half of my top fifty are female singers, so you should check them out if you’re interested. I vastly prefer the feminine voice to the masculine. Based on the one song I listed to from your profile :p, I recommend that [you](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUE7TZfUITE) [try](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMm7gqowAO4) [Blümchen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO4UapYnhos) (the German version of that one is better, but not YouTube) [and](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KJ__06kyxs)/[or](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk0jN_t2-4I) [Dune](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qholYrAf4GU). Million Miles from Home is one of my favorite songs, and yes, Dune is named after the book. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ETA: They seemed like the most similar, i.e. more than not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/24 "2008-12-20T05:27:44Z")
What song did you listen to? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/25 "2008-12-20T05:34:30Z")
Not one of MINE, THAT’S for sure. (says someone who has ignored all of those songs.) ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/26 "2008-12-20T05:35:25Z")
I recently put Pandora on my iPhone. I love it. I just started with it and have already discovered some great new bands/songs. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/27 "2008-12-20T05:44:15Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > What song did you listen to? Shakedown! by theSTART. They’re not very similar (I was just thinking female artists/less poppy), but eh, I mainly just wanted to post some music videos. > [@dropzone](#): > > Not one of MINE, THAT’S for sure. (says someone who has ignored all of those songs.) That \*would \*be rather difficult, since you haven’t posted a Last.fm profile. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ETA: And I got Blümchen from Last.fm and Dune from Pandora (indirectly, though—someone covered Million Miles from Home). ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/28 "2008-12-20T05:47:27Z")
Heh. That’s not a favorite song of mine at all (though my favorit of that band), but I will listen to the songs you have recced. I am pretty open minded whn it comes to music. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/29 "2008-12-20T06:24:22Z")
> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > That’s interesting that you’ve listened to twice as much music as I have, but you’re highest playcount is only 34, while mine is 336 and even my 30th highest is 109. Vox, you can play the anachronistic balls against her, but her Godliness protects her. Er, besides her preternatural, loveliness, which I can, beside the Gods, ignore. Meaning, of course, Psycat!! May I say hello? ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/30 "2008-12-20T17:30:40Z")
Grrrr. And I made a station yesterday… And I hit ‘play now’ today… And nothing. Yes, I have javascript enabled. Grrrr. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/31 "2008-12-20T18:18:07Z")
> [@ArrMatey](#): > > Grrrr. And I made a station yesterday… And I hit ‘play now’ today… And nothing. Yes, I have javascript enabled. Grrrr. This happened to me before, but for the life of me I can’t remember how I fixed it. Do you have a firewall? If so, try making your computer a DMZ (forwards every single port at the same time), just to see if that is the problem. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/32 "2008-12-20T20:08:05Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Vox, you can play the anachronistic balls against her, but her Godliness protects her. Er, besides her preternatural, loveliness, which I can, beside the Gods, ignore. > > Meaning, of course, Psycat!! May I say hello? Has someone spiked the eggnog?? 😉 Hi dropzone. I added you as a friend. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/33 "2008-12-21T06:52:27Z")
> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > This happened to me before, but for the life of me I can’t remember how I fixed it. Do you have a firewall? If so, try making your computer a DMZ (forwards every single port at the same time), just to see if that is the problem. > > Valete, > Vox Imperatoris Nope, that’s not it. It works just fine on Internet Explorer, but won’t ‘play’ on Opera… Although it played when I first made the station. The ‘play station’ button just doesn’t seem to run the javascript. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/34 "2008-12-21T07:08:32Z")
> [@ArrMatey](#): > > Nope, that’s not it. It works just fine on Internet Explorer, but won’t ‘play’ on Opera… Although it played when I first made the station. The ‘play station’ button just doesn’t seem to run the javascript. Ah, that would be because Opera is not supported. Can’t help you there. I used to use Opera, but I gave up and switched to Firefox because I like things to work. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/35 "2008-12-21T10:31:10Z")
> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > Also, post your Last.fm profiles in this thread. [whee!](http://www.last.fm/user/jackdavinci) last.fm is pretty cool, but I’m not sure it’s terribly accurate about my listening habits. often they seem to emphasize too much what i’m playing during bookkeeping/organizing activities. one of my ‘top artists’ is someone i don’t even recognize.. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/36 "2008-12-22T04:25:26Z")
I just realized that you can move songs from one station to another. I’ve been making extra stations and adding the songs I like to [one central station](http://www.pandora.com/stations/14206faf7e1b6a48de23daa32528239ab605a4ab5f33e08b). Hurrah for 17 pages of Thumb-ups and 65 pages of Thumb-downs! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/37 "2008-12-22T05:50:20Z")
I played with Pandora a long time ago and last.fm around that same time. I had a profile with nothing much in it, but [here it is now](http://www.last.fm/user/juliecarter) that I’ve restarted it. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/38 "2008-12-22T10:48:29Z")
We’re on last.fm and Pandora, but haven’t updated in a while. I gotta figure this stuff out. Oh, yeah, and Facebook, too. I’m a little behind… :o ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/39 "2008-12-22T11:18:50Z")
Here’s my [Last.fm](http://www.last.fm/user/sigko835) profile, feel free to “friend” me if you want to. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842/40 "2008-12-22T13:31:26Z")
I’m a dissident, in that I prefer Yahoo Music! Radio. Don’t kill me please, and it is going through some shitty changes. I’m connecting as if I were in Spain now (and I get better song selections, go figure), but I got an email saying they would be changing the Spanish Yahoo Music layout too. ☹ What I love the most about Yahoo Music that Pandora doesn’t have is the ability to rate the songs in a scale, not just a thumbs up or down. That way the songs I like the most are played the most, and the artists I love the most are on rotation more often. With Pandora, it’s more hit or miss. Sometimes I like a song, but not as much as others or I’ve had my share of it _for the day_, and there is no way for me to tell the damn system that I prefer some songs above others, and the shitty thing puts the songs I like less on more rotation than those I like the most!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-us-your-musicial-distinctiveness-will-be-added-to-our-own-last-fm-and-pandora/477842.md?page=3)