Link to first comparasion

Exactly six months later, I'm at it again. Same ground rules apply. Some new additions:

1. If the highest charting version of the track isn't main artist - track title, then I state the tagging of the highest charting version in the first parenthesis.

2. If the streamable version of the track follows neither of the previous conventions, I will then list the streamable version of the track in parenthesis.

And now, with the fact that fingerprinting should be in the near future, the number with the plus sign in parenthesis are even more useful, as…

I'm really happy with the service. The only thing i was looking for was something to log my plays across media players (Winamp, WMP, and iTunes), which this does excellently. But I like the social aspects, and am completely enamored with the utilities people have written. In fact, I'd kinda like to write one myself that deals with the correlation between top songs and producers, but that's going to take a buttload of information to get off the ground, and I'm not sure I want to undertake something that heavy. Anyway, because of how much I have enjoyed the service,…

Anyone who pays attention knows that last.fm has a decidedly rock/indie rock/indie pop lean (and that's an understatement) when it comes to it's charts, both globally and with the U.S. charts. I set out to see how bad this lean actually was. What I originally wanted to do is use the Billboard 200 albums chart (which actually only charts sales) and last.fm, but realized that last.fm doesn't have any way to check how many listeners an album has. So then I wanted switched to the Billboard Top 100 charts (which I believe rely on both sales and radio airplay) and…

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

64/100

The 64 related artists for my profile are:
2pac
50 cent (4)
a tribe called quest - already in top 20
aaliyah
al green (2)
alicia keys
aretha franklin (2)…

Just for fun and the ability to show my friends what I have and have added, I'm putting my entire collection of records in this posts. And by records, I of course mean vinyl records. Singles link to songs; albums, of course, link to albums.

Singles

Case - Think of You/Happily Ever After (Remix)

Black Star - Definition/Twice Inna Lifetime

Jay-Z - Stop/Excuse Me Miss Again

LL Cool J - Headsprung/Feel the Beat

Amerie - 1 Thing

Krs-One - Step Into a World (Rapture's Delight)

The Beatnuts - Watch out Now/Turn…

By that title, I mean I have at most 12-14 plays for any given song (and usually somewhere between 3-10 of these songs in the past 6 months). That I can come up on these songs top listeners list is kinda sad, because they should have way more listeners than they do. I'm gonna add to this list each time I see another one.

P.S. I'm not including the tracks that I know I have mistagged.

For the Cool in You - 574 listeners total

Hopeless - 550 listeners total

Under the Moon and Over the Sky - 48 listeners…

Sat 3 Mar – Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gnarls Barkley

I went to the Red Hot Chili Peppers/Gnarls Barkley concert today. Great fun, great fun. Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse definitely held their own at the beginning of the show, but RHCP just killed it. I had almost forgot how much better most music sounds live. Except hip hop. Because even live it is usually still just a turntable with the beat and an MC. Very rarely is their any palpatable energy at a rap concert, and that is only when you get a very dynamic performer (the best…

This post will contain examples of all of my chart designs that I want to share.

Chart #1: Rachelle
http://imagegen.last.fm/rachelle/otracks/hodayathink.gif

Chart #2: The completely unofficial Facebook Development Platform Chart
http://imagegen.last.fm/fdplarge/otracks/hodayathink.gif

Chart #3: Brittany
http://imagegen.last.fm/brittanybyplus/otracks/hodayathink.gif

My top 21 rap albums of all time:

Ground Rules:
1.) I have to have heard the album in its entirety at some point in time. This excludes some albums that I know are good, like Mecca and the Soul Brother and Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde.

2.) No artist can have more than one album on the list. This excludes albums like The Low End Theory, The Blueprint, ATLiens and Aquemini.

3.) The vast majority of what is said here is opinion. Feel free to disagree with me. In fact, I encourage it.

4.) Some…

I keep looking for a definitive answer to this question, and I keep getting conflicting results. So I'm posing it here to see if I can get a definitive answer.

Multiple pages I've read state that J Dilla (Jay Dee) produced Janet Jackson's Got 'Til It's Gone, but went uncredited. While many others say he only produced a remix to it. Does anyone know the official truth?