Been a member of lastfm.com for a long time but never really used it. But then i realised i could use that site to search for new japanese artists. Its really good and there are a lot of jpop communities on their. It would be cool if there was a reviewingthekanji group so we could reccommend a lot of songs to listen to to each other. What you think fab, can we name it after this site???
Lastfm is basically like facebook for music, but on pills and speed but less narcissim (no cocaine thats why). You create an account, download a plugin for your media player, the plugin tells lastfm what music you play on your pc and gradually it learns your music preferences etc. It then finds you other users who seem to listen to the same music as you (rating those users on their similiarity in musical tastes to you). The good thing about lastfm is that nearly every song is listed on the website and a good proportion have a 30second sample to listen to. This way you can soon find out which artists should be on your shopping trip. A lot of the tunes can be bought online from the site.
Other ways it helps you find new artists is by showing you similiar artists to the one your listening to, listing that artists songs in order of plays, their most popular albums etc etc etc. The other cool thing is that as you listen to a song, the lastfm plugin instantly downloads loads of cool info about that artist and that song that you can read while listening (sounds a bit trainspotterish but hey now i can tell my friends irrelevant facts about oasis etc).
Oh and for japanese all the time followers there in an option for a japanese version as well though most user comments and stuff are written in english.
Anyway thought it might help those who dont know where to start with their japanese music collection.
Lastfm is basically like facebook for music, but on pills and speed but less narcissim (no cocaine thats why). You create an account, download a plugin for your media player, the plugin tells lastfm what music you play on your pc and gradually it learns your music preferences etc. It then finds you other users who seem to listen to the same music as you (rating those users on their similiarity in musical tastes to you). The good thing about lastfm is that nearly every song is listed on the website and a good proportion have a 30second sample to listen to. This way you can soon find out which artists should be on your shopping trip. A lot of the tunes can be bought online from the site.
Other ways it helps you find new artists is by showing you similiar artists to the one your listening to, listing that artists songs in order of plays, their most popular albums etc etc etc. The other cool thing is that as you listen to a song, the lastfm plugin instantly downloads loads of cool info about that artist and that song that you can read while listening (sounds a bit trainspotterish but hey now i can tell my friends irrelevant facts about oasis etc).
Oh and for japanese all the time followers there in an option for a japanese version as well though most user comments and stuff are written in english.
Anyway thought it might help those who dont know where to start with their japanese music collection.
