Every week Last.FM has a new top 500 tracks chart (ranked by the amount of different listeners each song had during the last 7 days.) It’s amazing to me how little the rankings seem to change week to week and how the same older songs seem to be in the list every week.
That’s what […]

Most played song (week ending May 3, 2009) on last.fm for each of Radiohead’s 7 studio albums to date:
1993 - Pablo Honey - “Creep”
No surprise that “Creep” is the most played song from Pablo Honey, but I’m a little disappointed it’s the 2nd most played Radiohead song overall. Nostalgia?

1995 - The Bends - “Fake Plastic […]

As a follow up to the 60s/70s post, these are the top 10 artists who made their debut in the 1990s according to the Last.FM top artist charts.
I think this is interesting as it gives an idea of which bands from the ’90s have continued to remain relevant to music listeners and which ones […]

As I’ve mentioned about 50 times before Last.FM is my favorite music website. The radio player is a great way of hearing new music (I dig using the similar artist route and the tag route) and I also like the charts they have of what Last.FM members are listening to.
I think it’s a reasonably […]

Many people associate the adjective “psychedelic” only with a certain style of music from the 1960s. While I happen to love that certain style of music, I think it’s a mistake to have such a narrow definition.
To me psychedelic music is any music that “trips me out.” Usually that means the music has unusual […]

“15 Steps” with the USC Marching Band. Check it out (sound quality isn’t great…)

Microsoft has a program out now called Songsmith that creates music to go along with whatever vocal you sing into it. Some folks have had some fun with this by playing the vocal tracks of well known songs into the program to see what kind of music it would create for those songs. Check these […]

This will be a new running feature which will basically be about my three favorite albums from each year and I’ll start by working my way back from 2007.
Choosing just three albums from any given year is hard enough so I won’t make it harder by making me rank them. Instead I’ll just do […]

Radiohead ran a contest to have videos made for songs from In Rainbows and this video for “Weird Fishes” by Tobias Stretch was among the winners and I must say it’s a pretty awesomely weird video. Suitable, indeed, for a song called “Weird Fishes.”
Watch It:

In Rainbows On EBAY:

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One year ago today Radiohead made a surprise announcement that their new album, In Rainbows, would be released online in just 10 days (on October 10, 2007.)
The announcement was a surprise on many levels. One being that no one was expecting a new Radiohead album to come out so quickly (in just 10 days), […]