Song tags in (and two slight disappointments with) last.fm
Thursday, January 11th, 2007I’m always amazed at the use of tags in last.fm, specially for songs.
Some random examples I’ve seen lately:
- Stereolab - Hallucinex: resistance is futile, electronic renaissance, sounds like sun, sigh and swoon in equal measure.
- Stereolab - Nothing to do with me: music to edit pictures to.
- Stereolab - Suggestion diabolique: take the bull by the horns
- Daedelus - Thus the whirligig: achingly intelligent
- u-ziq - mushroom compost: I am a party girl here is my soundtrack, systolische phase
What I love is the interpretations they suggest. And most of the times you can understand what the tag means listening to the song.
And then two things I don’t like about the last (otherwise great) last.fm player update (1.1.0.0):
- As far as I know, I can no longer see this information (tags for the currently playing song) directly in the player. That was, as you’ve seen, a good source of joy
- You can no longer construct a multiple artist radio either in the web or the radio player. I cannot see a reason for this, as you can still do it with a url (Note: this link will try to open your last.fm player, if you have one, and will tune in a radio based on all the artists mentioned in this post). Hope they are not deprecating this feature, as I have something soon to release based on that






