Comments on: Hiding Your Listening Habits On Social-Networking Sites? You Should Be Ashamed!

By: miryam

miryam — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:56:41 +0000

When I read the bit about people not wanting other people to know they were listening to “Piece of Me” and “Girlfriend,” the first thing I thought was, “what’s wrong with listening to Menswear and Matthew Sweet?” I need to get with the times, it seems.

By: ineffable.me

ineffable.me — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:26:19 +0000

@Poubelle: Yes, I was expecting Ashlee Simpson in that list for sure. I mean, just cause I heard that some people liked her first record or whatever. I wouldn't really know anything about that.

By: Ned Raggett

Ned Raggett — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:15:51 +0000

@miryam: Nah, it'll all come around. And there's nothing wrong with listening to Menswear.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:12:24 +0000

hahah people are afraid of being humiliated for what they listen to i guess....

the stereotypical hipsters shall inherit the earth...for better or worse

By: joris_stereo

joris_stereo — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:05:07 +0000

this looks like something we in the business like to call baserate neglect. beatles and radiohead are the most often played artists on last.fm so there are a lot of beatles and radiohead tracks tó delete. would be more interesting to see which artists have the highest percentage of deleted tracks.

By: dreamsneverend

dreamsneverend — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:11:19 +0000

I have done the UNKNOWN and other erroneous tag removal before. Simply to neaten things up, I suffer from my wife’s listening habits showing on my last.fm profile as well. I’ll check my most recent list at times to find she’s been jamming out to stuff I find cringeworthy. Alas, I leave it be and it makes for some interesting conversation with friends bring it up hehe.

By: DocStrange

DocStrange — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:49:11 +0000

unknown I can understand, maybe some of the Radiohead or Beatles scrobbles were mistagged (like the mistagging of "Creep" as "So Fucking Special" [[www.last.fm]]). I mean, Radiohead is my #1 most played artist on last.fm (with 626 plays. The Cure, Pink Floyd, Blur and Los Campesinos! are not far behind) I don't understand ANYONE deleting Radiohead from their last.fm. But here's a few i've deleted after one or two listens because they get embarrasing:
The Academy Is
Marc Cohn
Fine Young Cannibals
Men Without Hats
several death metal artists recommended to me because the twee pop group Heavenly shares the name with a French power metal band.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:58:31 +0000

@brownham: Implying that people who listen to the Beatles and Radiohead may also like Grizzly Bear is now "bashing"? Talk about memos that I missed!

By: brownham

brownham — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:16:54 +0000

must you always bash grizzly bear maura? must you?

By: brownham

brownham — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:55:15 +0000

@Maura Johnston:

guess I misinterpreted

my internet bad!

By: westartedthis

westartedthis — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:42:21 +0000

people probably delete the Beatles and Radiohead just to give another artist a fighting chance at being no. 1.

my own name is my personal most deleted, because i don't want to give people the impression that i'm the type of guy who listens to his own shit on itunes. but i am that type of guy. it's a real catch 22.

By: AL

AL — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:18:59 +0000

@Poubelle: that's one of the things that really annoyed me when i was into following my last.fm charts - i would start listening based on who i wanted to get more plays, rather than what i really may have wanted to listen to at the time.

but hey, Grizzly Bear is my #1 artist, so i guess i did something right!

By: Poubelle

Poubelle — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:38:01 +0000

The only time I deleted some tracks from my last.fm was one time it scrobbled some Ashlee Simpson--not even from my iTunes, but someone's shared library. But I totally wasn't listening to it, I was letting my roommate borrow my laptop at the time. And there's absolutely no recorded evidence that I was singing along.

Granted, I will start listening to an artist more if I notice a less worthy artist is beating them on my charts. I don't want anyone thinking I like the Killers more than Kitchens of Distinction or something. Then strangers on the internet could judge me!

By: RaptorAvatar

RaptorAvatar — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:35:45 +0000

Does this mean that we’ll be post-poptimism within five years? Also, I didn’t know you can delete tracks… I just realized that I’ve listened to Lifter Puller and The Hold Steady more than almost everything else in my top 10 combined.

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:32:17 +0000

Also, “Rehab”? What’s shameful about that?

By: superineficaz

superineficaz — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:17:02 +0000

whoa whoa whoa. i can delete things from last.fm? because there are a whole lot of inebriated ani difranco singalongs that i don’t want the world to kn—err, i mean, i don’t want people knowing that i’ve listened to “154″ more than “pink flag.” that’s totally what i meant to say.

By: Rock You Like An Iracane

Rock You Like An Iracane — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:11:22 +0000

I would never be ashamed of any of the top four songs. The fifth one I hate. But, then, I don’t use Last or any other registered social-networking site show individual songs I don’t like; usually just artists.

By: Rob Murphy

Rob Murphy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:08:08 +0000

This is Scott Storch’s personal list of deletions, right?