I muted the last.fm player last night to watch a video - and forgot to unmute it or close it before I went to bed. Guess that will up my AEP score a bit?

It's a shame that last.fm doesn't have a decent system for handling artists who share the same name. Discogs, for example, is very strict about naming, although you have to put up with names such as "Outrage (6)". I would have thought some technical wizadry would allow for a seamless system.

Wouldn't it be good though if last.fm and Discogs merged? Then strict mp3 tagging could be enforced, and it would allow people to slowly rename their whole music collection as they came across badly named/tagged songs.

Until then I guess all those obscure D&B artists that I find on…

Decided to change the image in my profile to reflect the fact that I'm playing WoW much too much these days, hence the lack of activity.

I'm only on here now cos the servers are still down after the big patch :/

the idea is to take your top 6 neighbours, list their top three artists then show whereabouts those artists are on your charts.

A is for Aphex Twin
B is for The Black Dog
C is for Cocteau Twins
D is for Digital
E is for Ed Rush
F is for The Future Sound of London
G is for A Guy Called Gerald
H is for Herbie Hancock
I is for Gregory Isaacs
J is for Linton Kwesi Johnson
K is for Kid Spatula
L is for Lemon D
M is for Joni Mitchell
N is for Nick Drake
O is for The Orb
P is for Public Enemy
Q is for Q Project
R is for Roxy Music
S is for Steely…

This is like email spam from a girlfriend, but slightly more random…

The rules:
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn't make sense. NO CHEATING!

The questions, and my answers:

Will it be ok?
Caution (Spirit Remix) (not looking good)

How are you feeling today?
The Breakdown (Part 1) (this is getting scary…)

How do your friends see you?
Married, 2 kids (didn't even know I had this track. Anyway, I'm not!)

Will you get married?
Peng 33 (suitably…

Can't get the Player to work, and the AS plugin doesn't seem to be working for WinAmp either. Grr! I have a feeling my boss's blocked some ports on the firewall or something, although it's a pretty strict firewall anyway and it's always worked before.

Can't see any news about the player changing however, so I reckon it's gotta be something at my end.

UPDATE: the AS plugin is reporting recent tracks, so there's definitely a problem with the connection… hmmm

Look at the album cover, it says "]EIB[" in the top left corner. "Bad Company" looks like a rock band from their artist page, and this is not rock, it's drum and bass.

Wow. Just listened to "Takk" last night, on the way into town to see a friend, and then later while I was in bed. It's not often you hear music that is so different that it takes you somewhere that you've never been before. I'm probably a bit late in discovering them (!) but I'm so glad I have. I'd recommend this to anyone. Turn down the lights, turn up the volume, lie on the floor and bliss out.

OMG I'm going from darkstep jungle to lounge music!

Found a rich seam of Brazilian music (gotta love the beats) and then found myself listening to lots of lounge music/acid jazz. Some favourite finds: Beady Belle and Rivera Rotation, especially Clouds Around Your Heart.

Well, I doubt they'll knock Mr James off the top spot on my charts for a while, but it makes a change :)