Samstag, 22. Sep 2007, 14:18

Ever looked at the top artists list? The one with lots of generic (or classic) bands? Noticed anything strange?

Well… Let me point that one out…

Top 20 this week -

The Beatles
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Radiohead
Muse
Coldplay
Linkin Park
Kanye West
Metallica
Nirvana
The White Stripes
Pink Floyd
Foo Fighters
The Killers
System of a Down
Green Day
Arctic Monkeys
Death Cab for Cutie
Led Zeppelin
The Smashing Pumpkins
Fall Out Boy

Still haven't noticed anything strange? Boy, you sure are… Unobservant. But I think you'll finally get my point, when you see this…

February 2005, first week, top 20 -

Radiohead
Green Day
The Beatles
Coldplay
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nirvana
U2
Metallica
The Killers
Pink Floyd
Franz Ferdinand
Modest Mouse
Led Zeppelin
Muse
Weezer
The Cure
The White Stripes
The Postal Service
The Smashing Pumpkins
Beck

Only 7 bands difference in almost 3 years! I shit you not. What is that all about? Three years have gone by, and people are still listening to the same stuff?
I mean, come on, people! How long will it last? Alternative, emo and shit like that was popular since mid-late 90's, don't you think it's time to start to try and listen to something different, not new, DIFFERENT? There's a shitload of interesting music outside of this boring MTV crap. Granted, there's a lot of classic bands, but most of them have gone from "classic" to "meh, everybody's listening to it", and that's really terrible…

When I first came to last.fm I thought it's a great place to find new bands, new music, new styles for me to listen. And, honestly, wasn't it one of purposes for last.fm's creation? Really, people… Won't you at least TRY listening to anything different? Anyone?