Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

I'm always looking for new music to listen to at home, work, and the gym. As such, pandora.com is a great way to diversify my song selection within the defined genres I know I like.

Here's my Indie/Rock/Hardcore thumbs up list:

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/2...pandorasr6.jpg

For those of you who don't know what pandora.com is, check it out here.

Everyone else: Post your thumbs up lists!

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

Possible advertisement, alerting the mods!!

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

DAMNIT, why did they ban this in holland? You us guys can still have acces.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

i just pretended i was and stuck a random US zip code in. They haven't challenged me in like 18 months use.

edit: I got to 8 screenshots and I'm only at "H". Should i bother? The upshot of thumbing so many songs is pandora has me down pat now. (edit 2: worked out it'd take 22 screenshots. Is that a lot of thumbs ups?)

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

I've always loved Pandora, but I love it even more now that I can get it on my cellie. I'm so happy I switched to Sprint. Sero FTW!

I have the same issue as PH. My thumbs up list is way too long to post, although I doubt you'd like any of my stuff. It's mostly techno/house/dance stuff. Here's a link to the station :

Smooth Dance

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

i must be the only one not in love w/ pandora.

the first week i rated guns n roses songs all thumbs up because they rock obviously. as a result i had cinderalla, great white, warrant, slaughter on my quick rotation. after hours of critiquing, i still fast forward through countless songs (it usually maxes out and i have to change channels). pandora is so-so nice but i dont get a boner over it.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

pandora seems to work really well if your tastes fall pretty clearly along genre or time lines. if you are like me and enjoy particular artists across a bunch of different genres, but dislike many of their contemporaries, it can be hard to get a consistently good mix.

i have had some good luck with finding songs or albums that i like on pandora, it's just not a sure-fire thing for me.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

I loved it until it threw Bronson Arroyo's album at me. WTF.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

ok, dumb question, but how do you pull up your thumbs-up list?

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

[ QUOTE ]
ok, dumb question, but how do you pull up your thumbs-up list?

[/ QUOTE ]

Hit the little down arrow next to the station name and go to edit station.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

pandora was all i listened to before they banned it in canada (and then banned the anon proxy i used to get around that). most of my stuff was bachata and reggaeton tho, so i won't post my thumbs up.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

[ QUOTE ]
if you are like me and enjoy particular artists across a bunch of different genres, but dislike many of their contemporaries, it can be hard to get a consistently good mix.

[/ QUOTE ]

my biggest beef with them actually is the way they will play like 5 hip-hop songs, then 5 dance/trance songs, then 5 rock songs, rather than a crazy mix. I guess they are trying to segue all their tracks but it doesn't work for me. Therein lies the problem with loving everything from a capella and bluegrass to xylophone music.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

[ QUOTE ]
pandora seems to work really well if your tastes fall pretty clearly along genre or time lines. if you are like me and enjoy particular artists across a bunch of different genres, but dislike many of their contemporaries, it can be hard to get a consistently good mix.

i have had some good luck with finding songs or albums that i like on pandora, it's just not a sure-fire thing for me.

[/ QUOTE ]


yeah that was my problem. I gave thumbs up to a bunch of lil wayne, but then it kept trying to get me listen to every southern rapper, none of whom I like. I wish it could figure out that if I like lil wayne but give thumbs down to the next 20 southern rap artists they give me, maybe loving lil wayne does not equal loving southern rap.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

It occurred to me listening to Pandora now that I only thumb down songs i have a strong distaste for, the "meh" ones i just let slide. So i'll post my thumbs down list!

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/7846/boo1lk9.jpg
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/7783/boo2my7.jpg http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1638/boo3pb7.jpg

the issues, i think, lie in these facts:

- I like pop music, but not saccharine pop / boy band / girly solo artiste pop

- I like politically informed / protest hiphop, but not the "braggard" forms

- I like dance music and some trance, but not totally insano drum and bass, I'm kind of picky.

- I like some 'classic' bands, but not Paul McCartney. lol. Or the Bee Gees.

that should cover most of the bases.

I'd like to add, of all those songs above, the polar opposite of what i like is the godawful number called "Social Frankenstein". That was utter crappy pap fecking crapsh**e.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

How dare you thumbs down the Geto Boys.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

[ QUOTE ]
How dare you thumbs down the Geto Boys.

[/ QUOTE ]

however good it feels to be gangsta, I just prefer the Dead Prez / Immortal Technique / Disposable Heroes political hiphop better. Maybe it's an empathy thing - I'm no gangsta, but I do see the political world more that the projects. Especially in the UK, where no projects exist.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

I'm also looking for new music all the time.

One good thing I found with pandora is making a new station with a new seed band, so you get a whole new group of suggestions.

I think I have 10+ stations. This is the list from my 2 most listened to.

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/7748/pandoranr6.png

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

Oh yeah, who has a prediction as to how long this thread takes to devolve into a bunch of people insulting other's taste in music?

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

Peter,

You don't like The Jam? WTF?

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

it's useful to see thumb up / down lists because you can see a "spectrum" - i.e. a hundred bands who are interconnected in some way, namely the compilers prediliction for certain genres.

No need to trash really, horses for courses. That said i think the only one i recognise from yours is lostprophets and i was meh on them. Maybe because I heard they were Welsh.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

[ QUOTE ]
Peter,

You don't like The Jam? WTF?

[/ QUOTE ]

I like the Jam. And Bowie. I just think those songs are the weakest/poorest exponents of an otherwise excellent career.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

[ QUOTE ]
How dare you thumbs down the Geto Boys.

[/ QUOTE ]

and all i gotta say to you wanna-be, gonna-be, [censored] pussy eatin pranksters

is when the fire dies down, what the [censored] you gonna do?

damn it feels good to be a gangsta

f you euro smegma, the hood IS politics, that [censored] is the troof [censored]

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

sadly my "hood" is full of pensioners and commuting dads, we have one street light in the village of 1,500. The butcher/paper shop have known me from birth and the most exciting thing in the village in recent memory was about 8 years ago when there was a chimney fire down the road.

your truth > my truth

[img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Peter,

You don't like The Jam? WTF?

[/ QUOTE ]

I like the Jam. And Bowie. I just think those songs are the weakest/poorest exponents of an otherwise excellent career.

[/ QUOTE ]

never thumbs down Yanni

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...bebe/yanni.jpg

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

I even went to the trouble of checking the samples of people who have "wtf'd" me.

Yanni sounds like a poor man's Vangelis imo, that Jam track is possibly one of the worst "trying to be jazzy and coming off as arrhythmic/epileptic fit" intros ever, and "gangsta-ass [censored]"? please.

So far i'm happy with my draconian thumbs down. Glad to see noone has felt compelled to defend "band on the run".

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

[ QUOTE ]
i just pretended i was and stuck a random US zip code in. They haven't challenged me in like 18 months use.

edit: I got to 8 screenshots and I'm only at "H". Should i bother? The upshot of thumbing so many songs is pandora has me down pat now. (edit 2: worked out it'd take 22 screenshots. Is that a lot of thumbs ups?)

[/ QUOTE ]
does this still work for you? I haven't been able to access pandora directly outside the US since they changed it. I had it working with Tor + Privoxy proxy software, but it didn't stream very well and cut out a lot.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

I wish you could start a new station without any seed at all so that it's starting with their whole library on random.

Is there some secret way to do this that I haven't figured out?

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

This is a great thread simply because I didn't know you could find what songs you've Up'd.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
i just pretended i was and stuck a random US zip code in. They haven't challenged me in like 18 months use.

edit: I got to 8 screenshots and I'm only at "H". Should i bother? The upshot of thumbing so many songs is pandora has me down pat now. (edit 2: worked out it'd take 22 screenshots. Is that a lot of thumbs ups?)

[/ QUOTE ]
does this still work for you? I haven't been able to access pandora directly outside the US since they changed it. I had it working with Tor + Privoxy proxy software, but it didn't stream very well and cut out a lot.

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm currently in Sri Lanka and it doesn't work here. In the UK I've got along fine. So yeah, guess it depends where you are.

f'ing RIAA.

Re: Pandora \"Thumbs Up\" Lists
 

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
How dare you thumbs down the Geto Boys.

[/ QUOTE ]

and all i gotta say to you wanna-be, gonna-be, [censored] pussy eatin pranksters

is when the fire dies down, what the [censored] you gonna do?

damn it feels good to be a gangsta

f you euro smegma, the hood IS politics, that [censored] is the troof [censored]

[/ QUOTE ]

And now, a word from the President...
Voters of the world keep supportin' me and I promise to take you very far
Other leaders better not upset me or I'll send a million troops to die at war
So to all you Republicans that helped me win, I'd sincerely like to thank you
'Cause now I got the world swingin' from my nuts
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta

[Wait, this wasn't written about GWB?]