Oh, how I love trying to figure out the vagaries of recommendation engines. Lots of hype re Pandora these days, but I'll just report that the first time I tried it, I entered in "David Bowie" and it decided I needed to be rockin' some Eddie Money. Hmmm... But the most common one I hit is the "Recommended for You" feature on Rhapsody, which pulls up some supposedly like-band recommendations based on your recent listening. Today when it came up with REO Speedwagon, Journey, *and* Foreigner I like to had a cow, as they say. (ok, they don't actually but you get the point...)
Not sure what really drove those recommendations - my last few days on Rhapsody, I checked out the Jen Trynin albums (catching up with...), played the latest Audioslave, and for some reason came across a "Punk Goes '80s" album with Sugarcult, Motion City Soundtrack etc doing 80's radio classics. And then went back to my old workday standby, the "downtempo" streaming radio channel. Somewhere in there was some odd combo which reminded their system of its own AOR glory days, which it wanted to make sure I shared in...
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