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Last Fm and depression

Last Fm and depression

2009-10-03 by markpringnz

For the last few weeks I have been listening to Last FM, hearing lots of music from the 60's to 90's I have not heard before. Quite a lot of it seems very good, most of what I have heard would have made very little for the artists concerned, whilst a lot of music which seems very poor to me made millions. It's odd and somewhat depressing. I suspect most of the artists concerned woud have preferred to be rich. I note that Mike is on LastFm and so am I, Mike has more listeners so far!

Re: [newmellotrongroup] Last Fm and depression

2009-10-04 by Mike Dickson

I haven't checked my LastFM page in a while. They fell out of favour with me when they removed the ability to embed tracks in web pages, which cost me a substantial amount of my web site; I now have to upload tracks there, rather than manage them all from LastFM.

Having said that, they are pretty good for listeners. Someone in Thai radio picked up on mellotronworks (yes, Thai radio) via LastFM and put together a radio show based around it. Downloads from the web site shot up dramatically from that point onwards. A similar thing happened with a chap in Finland - he found me via LastFM. Pity I speak neither Thai nor Finnish. I have a lingering fear that I've been labelled as 'prog fucking rock' without knowing it. (I have embellished description that a mere tad)

I have a SoundCloud account too and that doesn't get anywhere near the same 'coverage'.

Mike

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For the last few weeks I have been listening to Last FM, hearing lots of music from the 60's to 90's I have not heard before. Quite a lot of it seems very good, most of what I have heard would have made very little for the artists concerned, whilst a lot of music which seems very poor to me made millions. It's odd and somewhat depressing. I suspect most of the artists concerned woud have preferred to be rich. I note that Mike is on LastFm and so am I, Mike has more listeners so far!