CBS understands the Last.fm vision, the importance we place on putting the listener in charge, the vibrant and vocal community, the obsession with music stats, and our determination to offer every song ever recorded.

OK, last.fm is sold. And it happened despite the fact that no one asked us, the listeners, our opinion-even though we are supposed to be in charge. i am more than a little annoyed by the reduction of the listeners into "music stats obsessed" nerds and the occlusion of what is really being sold here.

Then how should we respond to this sale? My initial response…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2V_ZT-nyOs

lcd soundsystem
all my friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5V-GKlWYZA

kaffe matthews

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_YnzNv-qSM

new order
turn
waiting for the sirens call

by The Slits

I am trapped in a flood, but it isn't raining
I have a tendency to get bored too quickly
Recently my dull life seems to have no meaning
I am stuck with someone we're not communicating

I want to buy
(Have you been affected?)
I need consoling
(You could be addicted)
I need something new
Something trivial would do
I want to satisfy this empty feeling

Walking down the street looking in the windows
The TV, the lights flickering in other peoples windows
Imagine myself moving in the kitchens
Somehow I don't know, it just looks so…

While being taken to his death, was there a slight hesitation in Saddam’s steps, a small stagger or fear in his eyes? I did not see any. Advancing towards the gallows, he resembled a soldier from a defeated army making inspection.

With an astounding calm, he wanted the black band prepared for closing his eyes to be wrapped around, and with the same calm he allowed the oily rope to be placed around his neck. Saddam’s way of meeting his own death can be seen as heroic to some. As a matter of fact, his family called the toppled leader’s…

by Man Man

only time will tell if I'll allow
the scenery around to eat me alive

I want to sleep for weeks like a dog at her feet
even though I know it won't work out in the long run
so I burn down the wall, breathe my good shadow
those arms I once knew, hold me like gold
I learn how to speak a forgotten language
I fall in the sea but forget how to swim

When anything that's anything becomes nothing that's everything
and nothing is the only thing you ever seem to have

but only time…

a new dj plummer release | 2006
love me with my wrongs

the shining path
fumerie d'opium
hatasiz kul olmaz
love song
cruise boat
die befindlichkeit des landes
in every dream home a heartache
satin chic (through the mystic mix, dimension 11 by the flaming lips)
beautiful boyz
the tease is over
restrict
this is not a love song
what's the use
studio di colore
pink steam
temptation

This is not a love song (1983)

This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song

I'm crossing over

This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song (repeat)

This is not a love song
Happy to have
Not to have not
Big business is very wise
I'm crossing over into enterprise…

(Bryan Ferry)

In every dream home a heartache
And every step I take
Takes me further from heaven
Is there a heaven?
I`d like to think so
Standards of living
They are rising daily
But home oh sweet home
It only a saying
From bell push to faucet
In smart town apartment
The cottage is pretty
The main house a palace
Penthouse perfection
But what goes on
What to do there
Better pray there

Open plan living
Bungalow ranch style
All of its comforts
Seem so essential
I bought you mail order
My plain wrapper baby
Your skin is like…