songs that are like your fave song

[KYYX4ever]

www.pandora.com

This is an interesting concept: you log on to this site, enter the name of one of your favorite songs or bands, and the site will begin playing a succession of songs similar to your choice that it thinks you'll dig. It's both cool and a little scary.

The site was created by the Musical Genome Project, a group that anlyzes music by breaking it down into its fundamnetal elements. A staff of trained musicians has listened to some 500,000 tunes and noted their various characteristics, including "repetitive melodic phrasing", "subtle use of vocal harmony" and "minor key tonality", among numerous others. These traits are used to discover similarities between songs and to build playlists that are geared specifically toward your own taste. And--the site is free.
(above from [i]American Profile[/i].)

I just tried it. I typed in "Planet Earth", and so far it's played "Nightmares" by AFOS, "Shake it Up" by the Cars, and "Shock the Monkey". Excellent songs that seem to make sense. There's a feature you can click on that tells you why they pick the song they did, and it told me: "based on what you told us so far, we're playing this track because it features electronica influences, minor key tonality, electric guitar riffs, and many other similarities identified in the music genome project." The FAQ is very detailed wrt music theory.

Wonder what you guys think.[?]

[NuWaveRx]

Quite cool, KYYX--I'm experienting with it now. I put in Between Something and Nothing by the Ocean Blue and it gave me a song y Death Cab for Cutie and the Smith.

Thanks for the link..[:D]

[Frayo]

Which was funny cause SaveTheWave posted a link here on my blog and I've been fooling around with it off and on ever since.....its kinda interesting.

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[Rubbeet921]

Niiiice!!![8D]

I typed SoM's "Lucretia My Reflection" and it played "Dominion/Mother Russia" first, then "Äddiction" by Kill Switch, followed by "Summerland" (What Dreams may Come) by Fields of the Nephilim!

I am loving this! Great find, KYYX4ever! I will register shortly. [:I]

[Panorama]

I typed in: Enjoy the Slience - Depeche Mode, then it played:
Blue Monday - New Order
Daphne Decends - Smashing Pumpkins
Warm - The New Cars
Fall in Love with Me - Japan
Twilight - Downtown
In My Dreams - Berlin

Pretty good selection, considering I'd only heard the first two songs of the seven played.

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[waldnorm]

I typed in Kate Bush--Running Up That Hill, gave me a Kate Bush song to select ("Never Be Mine" was the first. I declined. "Suspended in Gaffa" is next).

Oh my. Way off the mark! Here's what I got:

1. Kate Bush--Suspended in Gaffa
2. Nicolette Larson--"Lotta Love" (Live)
3. Madonna--Bad Girl

I stopped right there. I can't believe a "Dreaming" song would lead me to Madonna. I wanted to avoid going further to a deeper circle in Hell until I reach the Britney Spears Ninth!

Tried again. This time just typed in the artist Ultravox:

1. Ultravox--Vienna
2. Tears For Fears--Mad World
3. Ultravox--Overlook
4. Summer in Berlin--Alphaville
5. Master and Servant--Depeche Mode
6. One of Our Submarines--Thomas Dolby
7. Souvenir--OMD
8. Terra Titanic (Lost at Sea)--Peter Schilling
9. Blasphemous Rumours--Depeche Mode
10. We Came to the Dance--Ultravox

Okay--note to self. When choosing artists that may transcend a traditional genre, you may run into trouble.

[stella]

Great site thank you.[8)] I put in Steve Kimock band and got Toung N' Groove, Than Brightness by Lanterna, and Memorial by Explosions I.

chosen for:
electric rock instrumentation
extensive vamping
mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation
major key tonality
electric guitar riffs
an instrumental arrangement

I love it

[DevoManiac101]

I picked B-52's "Song For A Future Generation" and they gave me The Who, wtf?

[Frank_Chickens]

It's not very good - I typed in songs and it found those with a similiar name - "Danger Games" turned up with "angerous Minds and "Small Ads" with the Small Faces. All it does is search for terms similiar to those that were typed in.


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"As chairman of the Cradle of Filth fanclub I'm the most insensitive man in Britain, but even I can see there's tension there"

[edisonoside]

This is so cool![8D]

My 1st pick is Kraftwerk.
I added 5 other bands to "KRAFTWERK RADIO".
Giorgio Moroder
Air
Legendary Pink Dots
Brian Eno
Front 242

[Panorama]

[quote][i]Originally posted by DevoManiac101[/i]
<br>I picked B-52's "Song For A Future Generation" and they gave me The Who, wtf?
[/quote] The Who is an obvious choice.
"People try to put us down (talkin bout my generation)..."

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[WolverineSyr]

Interesting - I could play with it for hours...

Blondie brought up:

Milk n' Cookies - Tinkertoy Tomorrow (cool song...never heard of them. Is it 80's era or something new?)
Altered Images - I Could Be Happy
Go-Gos - Beneath the Blue Sky (never heard this one)
Blondie - Background Melody
Aimee Mann - Superball
Viva Voce - The Tiger & How We Tamed It

[Mechi]

Joy Division brought up:
Plenty of Joy Division
The Jam
Iggy Pop
Dinosaur Jr.



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[randy]

I tried this a year or so ago and didnt care for what came up after the Cars All Mixed Up.
Today--dont remember what those songs were though...

[Frayo]

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals.....

This is where my search ended up...and all I have to say is...

This aint half bad.

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