I generally listen to a fairly narrow range of music at any one time. I’m not quite as bad as a friend of mine who more or less plays one CD over and over until she’s done with it, but I can get close. That’s why I was so pleased to find www.pandora.com.
Essentially it’s a site that lets you pick song or artists as the basis for constructing your own music “station.” That is, putting in an artist will play that artist, as well as other artisits who have been judged to be similar.
For instance my Lucinda Williams station has been playing Neko Case, Wilco, Cowboy Junkies, as well as some artists I hadn’t heard of like Brandi Carlile and Lucy Kaplansky.
The whole thing is part of the Music Genome Project which, frankly, I’d never heard of before, but there you go. Essentially it measures music by a number of attributes, then finds other music with similar attributes. It seems to work pretty well.
It’s been around for a couple of years it seems, so I’m once again quite behind the times. Ah me. 🙂
In a completely different vein my list draft for this years MLB Fantasy Baseball came through. Here they are in no particular order.
Players
- Mike Napoli (C , LAA)
- Mark Teixeira (1B , ATL)
- Dan Uggla (2B , FLA)
- Alex Rodriguez (3B , NYY)
- Edgar Renteria (SS , DET)
- Shane Victorino (OF , PHI)
- Nick Markakis (OF , BAL)
- Bobby Abreu (OF , NYY)
- Ramon Hernandez (C , BAL)
- Jason Bartlett (SS , TB)
- Brendan Harris (2B,SS , MIN)
- Ty Wigginton (1B,2B,3B , HOU)
- Michael Cuddyer (OF , MIN)
Pitching Staffs
- San Francisco Giants (P , SF)
- New York Mets (P , NYM)
Aloha!