Comments on: Shag, Shagg, Shagged http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2007/03/15/shag-shagg-shagged/ Music matters as if music mattered Sat, 05 May 2012 17:22:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Shagg http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2007/03/15/shag-shagg-shagged/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Shagg Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:12:21 +0000 http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2007/03/15/shag-shagg-shagged/#comment-148 The lyrics you highlight are from a tongue-in-cheek song, suckah! But thanks for the nice artist comparisons. One man's dollar bin is another man's desert island disc. I agree that the iTunes and Last.fm databases leave something to be desired. The lyrics you highlight are from a tongue-in-cheek song, suckah! But thanks for the nice artist comparisons. One man’s dollar bin is another man’s desert island disc.

I agree that the iTunes and Last.fm databases leave something to be desired.

]]> By: shacker http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2007/03/15/shag-shagg-shagged/comment-page-1/#comment-36 shacker Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:03:13 +0000 http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2007/03/15/shag-shagg-shagged/#comment-36 Wow. Just goes to show that even with our wonderful relational databases and tons of human involvement, systems that seem pretty intelligent on the surface are really just dumb automatons after all, and artificial intelligence is still the impossible holy grail. Wow. Just goes to show that even with our wonderful relational databases and tons of human involvement, systems that seem pretty intelligent on the surface are really just dumb automatons after all, and artificial intelligence is still the impossible holy grail.

]]> By: mal http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2007/03/15/shag-shagg-shagged/comment-page-1/#comment-34 mal Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:38:05 +0000 http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2007/03/15/shag-shagg-shagged/#comment-34 Last.fm takes this a step further, and it confuses any bands with the same name, mixing their play stats into one, and with a wiki entry that may clarify that there is more than one band by this name, but doesn't disambiguate the bands into separate pages becasue it relies on the band name in song tags to pull the bios. The stats part of it makes it pretty confusing to figure out what songs are what. Also this confuses the social networking since listeners to bands by the same name get lumped together. It also has a nasty way of confusing songs with the same title by the same artist that appear on different releases. So, a copy of the Velvet Underground's last third album offers a sample of After Hours from the playlist, and suggests the song is in their radio rotations. But, instead of the original version, which is to me all about the fragility of Mo Tucker's gentle voice, I get a hard rockin' version sung by Lou Reed, apparently from a later live album. And while it's playing I see the album cover from VU's third. Very disorienting. I've seen this a few times, even with it playing remixes instead of the original, such as a reggae version of Pink Floyd's Fearless that apparently showed up on a later collection, Works. And the shout out page they have for each song doesn't disambiguate either, so you have no clue which version the comments are raving about. Last.fm takes this a step further, and it confuses any bands with the same name, mixing their play stats into one, and with a wiki entry that may clarify that there is more than one band by this name, but doesn’t disambiguate the bands into separate pages becasue it relies on the band name in song tags to pull the bios.

The stats part of it makes it pretty confusing to figure out what songs are what. Also this confuses the social networking since listeners to bands by the same name get lumped together.

It also has a nasty way of confusing songs with the same title by the same artist that appear on different releases.

So, a copy of the Velvet Underground’s last third album offers a sample of After Hours from the playlist, and suggests the song is in their radio rotations.

But, instead of the original version, which is to me all about the fragility of Mo Tucker’s gentle voice, I get a hard rockin’ version sung by Lou Reed, apparently from a later live album. And while it’s playing I see the album cover from VU’s third. Very disorienting.

I’ve seen this a few times, even with it playing remixes instead of the original, such as a reggae version of Pink Floyd’s Fearless that apparently showed up on a later collection, Works. And the shout out page they have for each song doesn’t disambiguate either, so you have no clue which version the comments are raving about.

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