Trying an experiment
Nov. 28th, 2009 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaGenerally speaking, I don't much see the point of listening to the radio for anything other than specific programming. Why let someone else whose taste you don't trust pick music for you?
But the Spouse's post about the Scruffy-the-Cat-seeded Pandora station made me curious, so I went and poked around.
I started one seeded with the Gin Blossoms to see what would happen.
Well, it certainly has picked my era - it handed me the Wallflowers' "One Headlight," the Counting Crows "A Long December," and then Matchbox Twenty's "Push."
Problem is, I'd like Matchbox Twenty if I could stand their lyrics, and there's no good way of telling the station "Yes, this is the right sound, but don't play misogynisitc assholes, please." Especially since there are a couple of Gin Blossoms songs that I didn't rip that aren't exactly woman-friendly. I just went ahead and voted the song down. Hey, at least the station apologized.
Now it's playing a Collective Soul song, "The World I Know," which isn't in the jangly guitars genre and which I had completely forgotten about, but which is, again, in the right time period.
Apparently my preferred genre is 1995-1998. :-/
Am debating adding Alanis Morissette and Pearl Jam to see what happens.
But the Spouse's post about the Scruffy-the-Cat-seeded Pandora station made me curious, so I went and poked around.
I started one seeded with the Gin Blossoms to see what would happen.
Well, it certainly has picked my era - it handed me the Wallflowers' "One Headlight," the Counting Crows "A Long December," and then Matchbox Twenty's "Push."
Problem is, I'd like Matchbox Twenty if I could stand their lyrics, and there's no good way of telling the station "Yes, this is the right sound, but don't play misogynisitc assholes, please." Especially since there are a couple of Gin Blossoms songs that I didn't rip that aren't exactly woman-friendly. I just went ahead and voted the song down. Hey, at least the station apologized.
Now it's playing a Collective Soul song, "The World I Know," which isn't in the jangly guitars genre and which I had completely forgotten about, but which is, again, in the right time period.
Apparently my preferred genre is 1995-1998. :-/
Am debating adding Alanis Morissette and Pearl Jam to see what happens.
