It may be 3am, but today is my one-year anniversary of signing up to Audioscrobbler, now better known as Last.FM. What has it taught me?
It’s taught me that apparently I like Pink Floyd, quite a bit. And Roger Waters. I can understand the Floyd – I rarely listen to a single track, so every time I listen to them I rack up a whole album’s worth of play-time – but Roger Waters?
All right, so Amused to Death is good – relatively speaking, and we’re talking relative to The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking here – but did I listen to it on a constant loop for a few days? And then blank the incident from my memory?
It’s scaring me, man.
What else has it taught me? That I am the world’s biggest fan of Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto. Apparently. Oh dear.
Note: I know for a fact that the above is not true, and not just because I don’t even like that album too much.
I am also suitably embarrassed that ABBA are ranked higher on my Top Artists list than, say… well, everyone past position #15.
Embarrassing revelations aside, Last.FM is a fantastic service and great fun to have a poke around. Sign up if you haven’t already – a voyage of dubious discovery awaits you.
Oh, and if you want to laugh at the whole of my profile, feel free.
