LAUNCHcast

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