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10 August 2008

It's been a while since we did this and since I'm new to Pandora, I thought I would share. Favorite Pandora stations anyone? What have you created?[More:]

One I created is called This is Spinal Tap, a station devoted to Spinal Tap and all the bands that led to the mocumentary. Basically British Invasion sound, and the hard rock that many of those same bands adopted.
I haven't made any new stations since that last thread, but thanks for your station... it's rockin'! :)
posted by BoringPostcards 10 August | 18:05
Can we tailor Pandora now? I thought it was just a thumbs-up, thumbs-down type deal?
posted by Lipstick Thespian 10 August | 19:56
You can create your own station, and continue to "seed" it with songs and artists. For instance, on the Spinal Tap station, it played some of the "old Spinal Tap" stuff that is very early British Invasion stuff, I seeded it with a couple songs by The Byrds (yes I know they're not British Invasion, but they were heavily influenced by it). But then it started playing too much of that kind of music, so I added Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin to the artist list, and got the mix I was looking for.

It's kind of like making a stew. You know you like beef and carrots, so you throw those in, then Pandora suggests celery and potatoes and pork, but you decide you don't like the pork so much so you suggest onions and see what else gets suggested. But the more you put in, the more the musical flavors get mixed around.

I've thought about trying to mix, say, Beethoven and Jimi Hendrix to see what comes out...
posted by Doohickie 10 August | 22:15
Bunny! OMG! || How many "OMFG Isaac Hayes died" posts are we going to see deleted on MeFi?

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