all that remains is hope
Pandora’s pretty neat: you tell it some music you like and it finds not only that music, but music that’s “like” it… and plays it. Well. You mark things you like and dislike, á la Amazon, and it chooses based on those.
… OH, NO, PANDORA! THIS IS CRAP!
Whew.
That’s what I get for doing a review while listening. The next track is neat and I’ve never heard of it before! “Army of Me” by Atoi. A bit like Portisehead covering Bjørk. With deliberately amateur engineering.
I’m encouraged by their extensive Wire library, they got some Natacha Atlas… what else could you need?
February 9th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Hey! Pandora’s right! I do like the Psychedelic Furs! I forgot about that! They’re a Pogues pie with a Violent Femmes crust!
February 9th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Isn’t that the box from “Hellraiser”?
February 9th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Yes.
Pandora’s box, like the Lament Configuraion of the Box of Sorrows, is as full of wonders and horrors as most web applications that you come across randomly on the Net.
That said, Pandora’s playing Love and Rockets for me right now. It’s like it read my mind!
… not that I particularly like this track. Man, that’s some weak drumming there.
February 9th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Jeff posted about this a while back, but I have recently rediscovered it as well. A really great execution of a clever idea.
February 9th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
…I have it on good authority that there’s an Mac OS X dashboard widget on the way.
February 9th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
I should hope so. The browser window thing is clearly one of those Best Ideas Given a Crappy Medium things.
February 21st, 2006 at 1:57 pm
opera has a widget / which is good because the site didn’t do opera browser
http://my.opera.com/community/customize/widgets/info/?id=3765