The Family

I usually have Pandora running in the background at work. I don’t have many stations as I’m pretty stagnant on the ‘must find new music’ front, though I wish I had more CD’s at home for my listening enjoyment. (1)

Anyway, if you have not heard of pandora, here is the way it works. First, you give it a ‘seed’ song or artist; something or someone that you enjoy. They look their musical style up in their database and start playing music that you’ll probably like by other artists. Your seed artist/song will get airtime too, but it won’t appear right away. As the different songs are playing, you get the option to vote ‘thumbs up/down’ on any track and it will use that information to adjust your station.

The way I have been using the service is to make a new station based off a song I liked on a previous station; something that is different enough that the new station is likely to have a different music set with the new beginning. I’ve been exposed to more different music through this service than any other medium using this method. Well, there is one song that I’ve been hearing that I have liked. The beat is good, the flow of the song is enjoyable, and the interplay of voices is good. Based off this one song, I went ahead and bought the CD is it on.

Now the CD has arrived and I’m not quite sure what it is that I just bought. See, I didn’t do any research aside from hearing the single song on Pandora. Maybe I should have. Thing is, this is the first CD that I’ve bought that has a sticker on the front proclaiming that this CD is a highly rated ‘goth rock/metal’ CD that fans of (other goth rock/metal groups I’ve never listened to) will enjoy.

Yeah. I’m not exactly sure what is on this CD. But I’ll give it a listen. I might even try to figure out the lyrics (2) , although they are probably a bit…different.

1: Funny how fifty someodd CD’s get boring after a while.
2: Really, figuring out the lyrics takes concentration these days