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it's better together

This is one of those ideas that could be really cool, or totally lame:

The WWdN: Music for Exile group at Last.fm.

If you like the music I write about on my blog, or share on my last.fm profile, and you'd like to connect and share music with other WWdN:iX readers, this group is for you. You won't find any Top 40 crap, but you will find Pink Floyd, Wilco, Depeche Mode, Oingo Boingo, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Nada Surf, The Conet Project, Death Cab for Cutie, Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Underworld and a ton of indie stuff you didn't even know you liked.

I realize that Music for Exile is kind of a lame title. I thought it was close to Music for Airports, and we all know that I enjoy an obscure reference that I ruin by over-explaining. The important thing is, for forty-six blissful seconds, I'm not bashing my head against a wall trying to fix the second act of this story.

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That's pretty good timing, since I am completely sick of every bit of music I own. Thanks!

Oh, and be nice to the wall. Go play with the dogs.

Wil, this is off the topic, but I thought I'd better ask you:

Did you know that Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine/Audioslave) appeared as an extra in Star Trek Voyager?

He was also in Insurrection I think. Did you meet him?

Wil,

Last.fm is great! The events concept is killer - thanks for the heads up on this. Look forward to your playlist.

Mark
http://newecho.typepad.com/blog

Joined, although I'm becoming less and less enamored of last.fm. It's neat for what it does, but I listen to a lot of my music on vinyl or on the ipod I have on a docking station in my living room--none of this is captured by last.fm. My tracking, as you can imagine, is a little skewed as a result.

Still, I'll take any chance I get to spread the word about Gogol Bordello. Hopefully I'll find some other good stuff from this group.

I love Gogol Bordello; nice to see someone else likes them. My current favorite is Sufjan Stevens, who I just discovered recently. Also Soul Coughing, Dave Matthews Band, and lots of African stuff.

Funny - I immediately thought Gary Numan, since he has the albums "Music For Chameleons" & "Exile". Brian Eno is a good obscure reference too though...

I hate to use the blog for tech support, but for some reason I can't subscribe to last.fm. It tells me it can't find my account or the currency I selected. Their tech support email won't answer me. Has anyone else had this problem?

Darn you Wheaton! You've given me another outlet to waste my time on! Last.fm is pretty cool. :-) I do have some top 40 in my list... However, I have very broad taste, so there are plenty of obscure songs in there too.

All I'm getting is "Not enough content to play this station". That can't be right... *le sigh!*

I joined the group.

There's some top 40 on mine, though I mostly listen to Dir en grey nowadays.

Great! Now I'm addicted to something else =)

Dont you lose a few d6 worth of geek points for liking Led Zeppelin?

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