NP - Pandora Radio

[Joe Allonby]

Pandora makes me buy things. Very dangerous. I have twelve stations.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:08 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > http://www.pandora.com/
>
> My first experiment with this was to start 'er off with The Pandoras ...
>
> http://www.juliepatchouli.com/
>
> ... and then to run it neck to neck with last.fm ...
>
> http://www.last.fm/
>
> They both coughed up bona fide surprises for me, I even went out an
> blew ca. $60 on a 45 I heard on Pandora, though they both also tend to
> get stuck in certain ruts ...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruts
> http://punkmodpop.free.fr/ruts_pic.htm
> http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/ruts.htm
>
> But the most interesting thing for me was, how they differ in their,
> uh,  modi operandi (?).  Pandora seems to work by matching various
> preselected descriptors (e.g., fast, loud, female vocalists, garage
> rock, et al.), whilst last.fm seems to work like amazon.com
> recommendations (if somebody liked this AND this, then maybe you will,
> too).  I also actually find msyelf getting less annoyed by lapses in
> taste and/or the lack of "flow" because there's no one (i.e., an
> actual DJ) to blame.  It's the only way I've been able to listen at
> length to "radio" beyond, say, a few people I know and trust, e.g.,
> ...
>
> http://wfmu.org/playlists/SV
>
> Anway, starting both with The Pandoras ...
>
> Pandora: The Pandoras to Daisy Chainsaw to Penetration to, uh, recent
> Joan Jett and post-Plasmatics Wendy O. Williams, then back to The
> Pandoras--strong start, but lost wind/direction early ... oh, dear,
> and it's on to Greg Kihn ...
>
> Last.fm: The Pandoras to Gravediggers IV to '68 Comeback to The
> Miracle Workers to ... well, more of a tortoise to Pandora's hare in
> this case, but ...
>
> But both are well worth a spin.  You CAN tweak either one a bit,
> thumbs upping or downing any given track, but I prefer to takes my
> chances, so ...
>
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