*below is a post that I left in a forum thread that was created (I'm supposing) for Last.fm staff to post status updates addressing a lengthy period when their servers were down and the songs that users of the site were listening to were not being cataloged. Or worse, many people were having listened tracks duplicated in large multiples, significantly skewing the credibility of their personal charts for a day. At the point of posting this, there had accumulated 19 long pages worth of distress signals, and pleas for more updates, or any light of reason to shine through the…

The dismal chorus of desperate cries for attention that literally litter this site display a stark contrast in pitch and tone to the otherwise sonorous promises of freedom that decorate this loose, yet taught web.
Perhaps the recent insurgent reduction of music into 'noise' is a reflection of this new-age rejection of the gift of space and choice. Premature birthday presents for a stumbling generation of cyborgs trying to escape from their iPods.
We aren't ready yet…

I was just scrobbling a particular artist. Preceding the initial playing of the album, I was confronted by the ultimatum of whether to leave the album tag as (album name)(Disc 1) or to delete (Disc 1) and just tag it as (album name)… Universally, in the realm of this website, the majority vote agrees that leaving such distinguishments that denote for example which disc the album is in a multidisc set, or whether it is a 7" or 12", or if a track is a 'bonus track' or 'hidden track', etc. are too specific and sully the real material of…