humans vs. algorithms: the RIYL listening exploration cycle

i'm not saying The Stolen Moans are "bottom-feeding junk", I can't tell one way or another not having heard them...

OK, you know what, I listened to them. They're some weird fur supremacist group. I have no idea what to make of them and based on the 229 Youtube views for their video neither does anyone else. They probably deserve to be somebody's favorite group but they're not mine. The video was definitely more interesting than the song.

Anyway, I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about stuff like "Bohemian Rhapsody (Arranged for Piano, Strings, & Chorus by Rick Wakeman". When the only stuff I can identify on a list is stuff like this, it colors my opinion of the rest of the list.

People say I will listen to goddamn anything and it's not true. I will listen to goddamn anything as long as someone tells me they like them. Putting that extra step in there, a person "telling" a machine they like a song and then that machine telling me about it, doesn't work. That's a prejudice sure but part of harmonious human-machine interaction is acknowledging our irrational prejudices.

Anyway, I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about stuff like "Bohemian Rhapsody (Arranged for Piano, Strings, & Chorus by Rick Wakeman".

if you manage to seed a recommendation engine and get that in return, I'm honestly impressed

so, back to business then? allen, what did you think of your human recommendations?

bump

im on streaming and almost never engage with algorithms but it’s not like im avoiding them either? idk

ah nevermomd didn’t even read what this thread was

Years ago, the first song I entered in Pandora was Pink Floyd "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", hoping they'd follow it with songs of mystery and mood.

The next song Pandora played was Captain & Tenille "Love Will Keep Us Together"

i just looked up the pompeii version of that song on a porn-mode browser

up next is simon and garfunkel doing "the sound of silence"

frankly at this point i'll take daryl dragon over paul simon

that's youtube, btw

Years ago, the first song I entered in Pandora was Pink Floyd "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", hoping they'd follow it with songs of mystery and mood.

But doing so did help show your age.

The spotify playlist for "Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun" is weird in that it picks songs with vaguely similar aspects, except not the aspects that make Set the Controls actually interesting

ok, in keeping with the theme of the thread, my "set the controls" playlist, off the top of my head:

chico hamilton quintet - blue sands
om - pilgrimage
oneida - people of the north
the slits - earthbeat/wedding song
blues control & laraaji - awakening day

you decide

^ will listen as soon as i get wifi in my house or i can make it to the coffee shop before work

i also asked my floyd nerd friends and one of them recommended "om pax om" from the film "sign of aquarius", maybe that one as well