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    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     

    i love last.fm - it's the most accurate 'radio station in my head' since Magic FM.

    The snapshot of my musical taste, is I'm afraid to say, pretty accurate: http://www.last.fm/user/firetail/

    It's now asking me to subscribe. Does anyone do this? Does anyone else want to reveal their top artists/tracks?

    • CommentAuthorsophie
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     
    my list embarrasses me every week. i'm sure it doesn't count the cool stuff i try to listen to on purpose and instead says i've played paper doll by scott walker 15 times in an hour.
    but i do like the recommendations it gives me.
    p.s. we are low compatability. sorry.
    http://www.last.fm/user/slidl/
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     

    Low compatability, but there's stuff on your list that I like but don't have (lupe fiasco + vampire weekend).

    That said, I love that Jolene is your number 8 track.

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     
    • CommentAuthorLiz
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     

    I tried last fm about a year ago, and it broke my computer. Perhaps I was doing it wrong.

    • CommentAuthorFour Eyes
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     
    I was a big user until about a year ago and then got embarrased that all my closest neighbours were 18 year old girls :(

    I've never had to subscribe but my hall of shame is here...
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     

    @Four Eyes - my equivalent of your Panic! at the Disco shame is Fall Out Boy. Emo Rules!

    @ Poxy - saying you really really like Stump by Talking Heads is a bit of an understatement isn't it? (though itunes is telling me it's called strike up the band)

    My closest neighbours seem to be women in their 20s from Oregon.

    • CommentAuthordominic
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     
    @FourEyes - Anyone who has Belle and Sebastian as number one listen deserves cred, if only for not getting beaten up in the playground.

    Me
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     

    so if we put all of this in a group, would we get Radio Free Stroudgreen?

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     

    http://www.last.fm/group/Radio+Free+Stroudgreen

    OK, so I've invited people who've posted their profiles. Others should join in if they want too. Then we can embed Radio Free Stroudgreen on the site.

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     
    @ Poxy - saying you really really like Stump by Talking Heads is a bit of an understatement isn't it?

    I left it playing on repeat by accident one day. It's an amazing piece of music. It was like white noise wallpaper. And, it's by Talk Talk, not Talking Heads. I might put it on repeat now for the next three hours. It might drown out the noise of a screaming baby.
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     

    Stump, wasn't that part of the out takes used to produce Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock? Mark Hollis was regularly in the Magpie and Stump in Stokey in the early 90's, I presume the name might come from that. Did you ever listen to his eponymous album, Poxy?

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     
    I did. I'm a bit of a trainspotter, I'm afraid, when it comes to Talk Talk and Mark Hollis.
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008 edited
     

    Me too. Heard Rustin Man's album with Beth Gibbons then? This suddenly feels like a music discussion that belongs in Eugene's Lair.

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     
    I have. My trainspotterness also extends to all things Portishead. I think the new album is fantastic. (I've had a rogue download for sometime. Oops!) I shall be buying a legit copy on my way home from work tonight.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     

    Amazon tells me my legit copy of the Portishead album should arrive today, along with the new Breeders and Raconteurs albums.

    Yes - I am stuck in 1997.

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     
    Actually, Radio Free Stroudgreen is pretty good.

    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008 edited
     

    I'm yet to like the new Portishead album. It's got that intricacy that makes me think if I keep listening something will open up for me, but its not happening. I'm still trying. Hmm.

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     
    Please don't put a direct link to the embedded Radio Free SG on the directory page, my work's Firewall doesn't like it. Skiving in here during boring meetings keeps me sane.
    • CommentAuthordominic
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     
    I'm listening to it now and it's very nice. A bit much noodly electronica and Fallout Boy but I can always skip.. ;-)
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     

    Firewalls. The bane of web2.0 wannabes everywhere.

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     
    ..noodly electronica and fallout boy...

    my bad
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008 edited
     

    OK - the last.fm group is at 6 members - if we get to ten, other features get activated, so if you have a profile, can you join this group?

    http://www.last.fm/group/Radio+Free+Stroudgreen

    I am loving this radio station now.

    Ta

    • CommentAuthorFour Eyes
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     
    I'm loving Radio Stroud Green at the moment too. I might be a bit thick but...is it drawing on stuff from all our group members tastes? At the moment it seems to be churning out so many of my favourite tracks, it seems too good to be coincidental.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     

    I think it's a blend of i) member's playlists and ii) recommendations based on that.

    So with 6 members, it's 16.7% your stuff and the rest is everyone elses.

    • CommentAuthorsophie
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     
    as an experiment i tried listening to it whilst not signed in, and still over half of the songs it played were on my list. we must have lots of overlap even though i am apparently incompatible with the rest of you.
    i think it's ace. perfect exam-in-an-hour calming music.
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    I'm married to an industrial music snob, and I'm not allowed to listen to my music when he's in the house. Thus, I never bothered to set up a last.fm account of my own.

    This is his account.

    I doubt that it'll be all that compatible with other SGers.

    Oh, and he's a paid-up subscriber. Apparently there are advantages, like being able to see who is looking at your profile. He's listed some others, but, frankly, I stopped listening.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008 edited
     
    So I went and listened to a few of his tunes and i can't get out of my head the idea that you are married to Olaf from the film Clerks.



    Sorry. I'm sure he's lovely.
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008 edited
     

    Does he like GodFlesh? They were great. Circle of Shit being a favourite.

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     
    Who are "whitehalls" and "one2one234"? We've got last.fm members I can't link to sgr members.
    • CommentAuthordominic
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     
    @David - preferred Streetcleaner myself.
    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008 edited
     
    Radio Stroud Green rocks in a shoegazingly electronicanoodly way. I love it. It's almost as good as 6music.
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     
    one2one234 is me - sadly "James" was already taken...
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     
    I seem to have high musical compatibility with everyone else

    Is this just because we're all listen to SGR - or do you all love mogwai as much as I do?
    • CommentAuthordominic
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     
    Doesn't everyone love Mogwai?
    • CommentAuthorShaunG
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     
    "whitehalls" is me. Hadn't used last.fm before reading this but signed up and it's sucked up everything I've listened to on my ipod. Quite a lot of it is podcasts though - hopefully that doesn't mean that the group radio starts playing five live.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     
    lucy's now joined it as well. so if it starts playing shakira, you'll know who to blame/thank/hunt down
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2008
     

    not to mention S Club 7, Neil Young and a Schubert - way to get eclectic/embarrassing on your asses! No didlyelectronical wotsit stuff though.

    • CommentAuthorFour Eyes
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2008
     
    Been listening all morning again and a whole new world of French and German electro/techno is opening up to me. Not usually my cup of tea but that combined with strong coffee has got me working away like a lunatic. Thanks to whoever is responsible.

    Who's the Justin Timberlake fan, incidentally? Confess...
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2008
     

    Cher's If I Could Turn Back Time popped up just now.

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2008
     
    there goes the neighbourhood.
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2008
     

    Is that directed at me or cher?

    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2008
     

    Andrew, I've just noticed that your last.fm name is 'firetail'.

    Is that a sort of male version of this

    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2008
     

    There's a song on now called Swansea by some Appalachian lady - are the places twinned?

    They should be.

    • CommentAuthorColette
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2008
     
    Talk Talk followed by Tears for Fears?
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 1st 2008
     

    Oo, I like TFF.

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    @Andy - He said that he's flattered to be compared to Olaf.

    But no, he's nothing like that. He does have a mohawk. So if you see a boy walking around SG with funny hair and big boots, that's probably him.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 2nd 2008
     

    Ace. There can't be that many of them. If I see him in the street, I'm going to give him a hug.

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    Go for it. Only, I must warn you, he doesn't like to be touched by strangers...
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 2nd 2008
     

    Then we've created a great game "hug a mohawk" with a double risk

    1. it's not him and i get a beating
    2. it's him and i get a beating

    bring it on

    I'd encourage everyone to play

    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeMay 6th 2008 edited
     

    I'm here

    whilst not a 100% accurate list of my musical preferences, it is more accurate since I started scrobbling automatically over wifi from my iPod Touch.

    have joined the group and added a few people as friends

    • CommentAuthorFour Eyes
    • CommentTimeMay 6th 2008
     
    Our first chart has now appeared on the site - New Order at #1. Should be interesting to see how it evolves as time progresses...
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    What a cracking idea. Have joined the SGR gang. Do come say hi (or turf me out). Though having just looked at my recently played, I don't remember Rolf Harris being in there. Just goes to show.

    http://www.last.fm/user/Chrisreed

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 8th 2008
     

    There's no hiding with last.fm. You can pretend to be into good music, but it quickly becomes apparent you've been playing Fall Out Boy on a near-constant loop.

    • CommentAuthordominic
    • CommentTime6 days ago
     
    So I'm finding the station a little bit too... diverse. Which sounds stupid and I really want to like all your music, I really do, but my music is just better.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTime6 days ago
     

    I have to say, it was a bit better when we had five members, because those five people seemed to have different tastes, but only by a bit - they were more similar than different.

    Now it's gone random. I still persist with it though.

    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTime4 days ago
     
    I'm doing everything in my power to make you lot like french jazz-pop
    • CommentAuthordominic
    • CommentTime3 days ago
     
    So it's you with the French stuff. All I seem to get is French stuff and early 90s industrial.
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTime2 days ago
     

    Agree on the "diverse" call. Haven't heard anything I really like for at least two hours!

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