Coming late to the party
After reading that last.fm is going to get a whole lot more music in their library I decided to give last.fm another try. I don’t know what happened to make me avoid it until now, but both my standard login and my backup one are registered but not used. It’s clear that I’ve wanted to try this out before. It’s also clear that the whole usewhateveraddressyouwant@dlade.net situation is a bit dangerous, since I can’t figure out what email works with their password recovery system.
So I’ve created yet another account and tried it out once more. What really surprised me about last.fm is that it has actually heard of the artists that I like to listen to, and has already within the first hour of using it managed to suggest other artists that I hadn’t heard of but whose music I actually liked. At the risk of sounding Californian, that is just awesome. Other services of the same kind usually have no idea what I’m talking about when I mention Hedningarna or Amadou & Mariam, and when I finally find an artist they have heard of (such as Nitin Sawhney) they pick up on a part of the music that I don’t particularly like and then quickly steer off towards mainstream music.
I’ve needed to find some new music for a while now (read: years.) This could be a good start.
