LAUNCHcast
Saturday, March 19, 2005

An online acquaintance suggest I check out Yahoo's customizable music radio station. I was highly unenthusiastic about this, I being a loather of all Yahoo products and services, their policy of covering things with adverts, the busy pages, the firefox crashing non-compatible codes etc... . But today, a couple of weeks later, in my free time, I decided to check it out. After filling out forms, registering a yahoo account and yadda yadda, I listened to my own personal station. I chose a few of my favourite artists to include at the start, Eva Cassidy, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith. My very first song was some upcoming teen-bopper loveydovey piece of shit which made my skin crawl, I rated it 1. Some more songs followed, Portishead, Massive Attack, Moby, all fairly standard songs I could hear a lot of other places. I wasn't too impressed at this point. Rather than give up and move on, upon hearing a Nick Drake tune (from Garden State OST) I felt compelled to make this great. I scanned my Audioscrobbler and iTunes for my fave songs and artists and I rated all of them. Now I am at 300 ratings with an Enthusiast user ranking and my station has developed a firm sense of ALL my tastes. Just now it played a local band "Sunna" followed by my favourite track from the Virgin Suicides soundtrack, "Dead Bodies" by Air. It successfully covers my need for ragtime, blues, rock, indie, rap and orchestral in one harmonious place. If anyone wants to listen to my radio station, PLEASE PLEASE do, you can find it here:
FofR's LAUNCHcast; click this to listen to what I listen to

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