Music Stalking

My brother kept telling me about this site called "last.fm" for over a year. Nearly every time we spoke he said "So, have you signed up for last.fm." And every time, I said "No, what's it like?" It's nearly become a college requirement to have a facebook, a social requirement to have a myspace--who wants another Web page lingering around in their cyber world?

And then came the night I couldn't sleep, so I caved and decided to see what it was like. Before I even signed up I realized that procrastinating and pushing off last.fm was probably one of the more stupid things I have done in my life. This site is amazing.

You create a list of friends solely interested in music, you recommend music to people, you love music, ban music. As long as it involves music, you can do it on last.fm. Annnnd they don't allow profiles to have html mark up, or applications which makes it increasingly cooler than facebook or myspace at this time.

Anyway, I'm working on keeping my posts short (and regular) so here is my last.fm page, feel free to yell at me for listening to shitty music, or to send suggestions. But most of all--JOIN THIS WEB COMMUNITY. It's amazing.

EyesOfCuriosity, 20 points for who ever can tell me what song that comes from.

EDIT: I forgot to mention exactly what makes last.fm so freaking awesome. It leaches itself to your media player (they have a list to choose from) and an optional leach to your portable media player (I know I can hook it to my iPod, I would assume it can be hooked to other media players).

Then the program "scrobbles" the songs and compiles lists, top tracks, etc on your homepage. Additionally, the site finds the top 50 people whose music tastes are most similar to yours and creates a "neighbors" list. The list changes as your taste change.

The coolest feature is probably the "recommend" feature. Whenever you're listening to a song in your media player you can go to your last.fm account and recommend that track to any of your friends. Then, when your friend signs on to last.fm the track will show up on their login page.

When the site was first developed many of the songs had short 30 second features (similar to the sample feature with the iTunes store.), however now that the sight is gaining popularity it has been able to feature many full songs, in addition to more pictures and videos.