Last night I was trying to fix all my genres in iTunes, I was doing this by using the most popular tag from here for each artist. When I came to my metal collection this rational broke down, since it seemed each band would get its own genre.

I've noticed that metal is probably one of the most fragmented genres of music. Its kind of annoying. Do we really need 18,000,000 different terms, all ending in "core"? We have mathcore, noisecore, kittencore, and most obnoxiously "metalcore". Who thought of this crap? I mean metalcore is…

Knockin Em Down (In The City)

Either that or High Noon

To tell the truth, I wasn't paying attention, and don't see how it much matters.

Track time played, instead of number of plays. The amount of time you waste on your favorite artist is probably a better exemplar of your tastes, than the amount of tracks played, it would give a farer representation of your habits.

For example, I can listen to an hour of a band with really short tracks (Fantômas, for example), and get 20 or 30 plays, while if I spend the same amount of time on listening to someone with overly long tracks (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, say) I would only get two or three.

Looking at…

While busily running about trying to find new and amusing music, I've realized the fatal flaw (to over state) of Last.fm, the similar artists sidebar. It picks "similarity" by the number of people who have artist x in common with the one your currently viewing, and not any actual musical similarity.

This is generally not a problem, since people usually stick within a couple genres of music, and users generally stick within one or two genres of difference, with a high variance of other genres between different users. But with truly diverse, or cult like artists this can break down…

My name is:
Rock and Roll
Pretty nonsensical…

I was born:
Process
A little bit more nonsensical… Verging on zen.

My occupation is:
Where is the Line
Yes, I look for lines while Mike Patton goes "dum dum dum" in the background.

My 3 major skills are:
1. Subcultural Girl
2. Lady Stardust
3. Six Pack
So… My skills are girls and beer? I could live with this.

But I am also good at:
Melatonin
Yes, regulating sleep cycles. I *AM* good at that, sleep.

My 3 main weaknesses are:
1. Bring You Down
2. Crawlin' King Snake
3. Forever…

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library and answer the questions, no matter how embarrassing it is.

How many songs: 4378

Sort by song title:
First Song: !Fire in the Hole!
Last Song: Það Sést Ekki Sætari Mey

Sort by time:
Shortest Track: Untitled Track - Fantomas - 0:04'
Longest Track: MX/Damone - 37:18

Sort by artist:
First Artist: ...anabase*
Last Artist: ZZ Top

Sort by album:
First Album: 6.0
Last Album: You Could Have It So Much Better

Top Three Most Played Songs:
1. Ladies and Gentlemen
2. Walk Like a Zombie…

Yes, I know that no one likes Clutch, but this is a music site, so I might get lucky. What secret track does everyone have at the end of The Dragonfly, from The Dragonfly? I got the geeky C-64 one… just wondering how common that is.

For some reason this damn site has made me go back and listen to bands I used to love, like Skinny Puppy and Covenant, and of course Clutch, which is nice, but I feel like I'm in bloody high school again. Next thing you know I'm going to be ripping…

So, yet another silly social page to add to my bookmarks. Its getting rather hard to keep track of all of these social sites anymore.

Actually I joined here awhile ago, 2005, but didn't touch it except for quick look-ups of artists to compliment Amazon's recommendations when I went on my monthly "mad hunt for new music" sprees. For some odd reason I decided to actually give this a try, see how it competes with Pandora (which I owe a lot of my new music to).

So, how does this place work? How social is it really? Are the recommendations…