Last.fm

A nice little fact about me is that I quite fancy the website, last.fm. I find the whole scrobbling and building a music library to be quite a fascinating concept and apparently I'm not the only one since as of 2009 the site had 30 million active users.

It's also allowed me to meet some priceless and great friends, which much to my amazement I've actually met in real life and had good times with. I've found friends near me as well as on both the east and west costs of the USA and up north of me in Canada. Stretching even further to the other side of the world I've found friends in England, France, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Estonia, and yes once again actually met all these people. It has also occasionally reunited me with friends or band members I knew else where on the Internet or from the old LH website, but lost contact with for whatever reason.


I also find it interesting the way the scrobbler keeps track of what I play and since February of '06 when I joined its been fun playing my favorite bands and watching my charts grow. In a very odd sort of way I had dreamed of something like this back in the mid 90's where I had envisioned an option on my stereo that would keep track of how many times I played a CD or a single song simply because I've always had some obsession with random pointless statistics, despite that fact that I actually really hate numbers. Back then, perhaps around '95 or '96 I never would have imagined such a creation ever coming into existence. You can only imagine my joy when I came across last.fm in early '06.

Personally I aim to keep my profile and scrobbles as close to what I actually own as I'm a strong advocate of playing only physical music or if you prefer my own personal quote, "Only physical music is real!" Therefore, bands and albums come and go from my charts sometimes as I do occasionally sell stuff, and if you're thinking, "Dude, get a fucking life" then you're more than welcome to think so, but I really don't care. Music means the world to me and its something I take very seriously as its brought me so much joy and allowed me to meet amazing people too.

Therefore, I figured it would be a good idea to bring my last.fm profile to the attention of this blog so my readers could not just read my writings but talk with me on last.fm if they so choose to do so. I know many of you already have me as a friend there, but this is for the others out there that haven't done so just yet.

So, if you'd like to add me, then feel free to visit my profile and do so. Say hey, leave me a shout and will go from there. And if you haven't already joined last.fm then I strongly recommend it as I believe its the one and only music forum/site out there really worth spending any time on. And the amount of great music you'll discover and friends you'll make will really be worth all of it too. Check it out!