So aggravating, isn’t it? I’ve hated cheaters since playing board games as a kid. I just block them and go about my day. I used to post on their shoutboxes about their bs, but it’s a waste of time. The whole faking scrobbles is so pathetic, especially when we can see their entire history.

Hey, you might be one of the few who I could ask this: what do you think about the ones who scrobble literally every minute of the day, 24 hours every day?

We’ll remedy this once I plunder whatever infernal maelstrom of music you listen to.

One day. when I am but a memory, you will be the light in the darkness of last.fm.

thank you much!!

I cant go to one damn profile without seeing that you left a shout there before

The sounds of billions of babies screaming in unison, per usual.

My charts are perfect. 🤘🏻

Another night worker 🌃

We also dated a few times before he was making one of his new albums and jammed a bit at his house. He liked the songs I wrote myself. I gave it to him and said: Make something of it Robbie. take it as a basis and add your own text to it. 4 years later my style became famous and they called it Grunge. Nirvana and the other Seattle bands played exactly like me. Today I live as a healthy senior in Munich, Germany. I stopped working in 2016 because I made enough money for my retirement,

Mister… Tangent, I presume??!

You must have watched Deadpool lately!

Highly considering blocking the 24/7 scrobblers now, too. Bitch, you never sleep (okay, some listen to music to sleep)? You never watch tv? Movies? Hang out with a real, living human being? Never go to family functions? Never have your phone die? Never feel like just having silence? Never go to work? I listen to a LOT of music and it’s just not possible to listen to music 24 hours in a day, every day.

I’d say start with either The Fragile, or The Downward Spiral. My favorite is Ghosts I-IV, but it’s entirely instrumental/ambient/industrial. Sort of a prelude to his later soundtrack work.

devastated by this

what did you think of the scrap.edx? it's cool if you didn't like it. I'm just gonna assume you followed me from the Synapscape artist SB. I was wondering if you had any recommendations. I used to really like Pneumatic Detach, Converter, Aural Blasphemy and Scrap.edx a lot. Heard a lot of this shit from Audio Galaxy, Soulseek, and DALnet IRC (EFnet and Undernet after DAL got cleanswept). Hard to remember everything I was into back then, but you had to invest real time & effort or luck out with word of mouth. Yeah you could follow all the label releases, but it wasn't like today where you can stream almost all this shit on YT or their bandcamp. MP3.com was pretty cool though, was basically bandcamp 1.0.

Because nothing, and I mean nothing, says holiday spirit like the unequivocal assault on one’s ears.

hi, I was just passing by, and I guess I know what genre it is—so, welcome to the noir side :)

btw when you recover, as a long-time fan of the style, I have some quality stuff recs 😁

An interesting side note, only semi-recently have I gotten back into industrial. I was a huge fan/listener from the late 80’s until mid-90’s, when I got really into IDM. At one point I even wrote for an industrial magazine (got to call/interview Bill Leeb circa ‘96/97!). Might have been later. It was the day Fight Club came out because I distinctly remember wanting to have the interview done in time for me to catch Fight Club’s opening night (98?). I recorded the interview using an old analog voicemail tape thingy. Then I had to tediously type it all up and edit it down for the magazine (did that later, after the movie). Anyway, my interest waned in industrial that by the time the new millenium rolled around I only listened to the really vanguard/interesting artists, like Skinny Puppy, Einstürzende Neubauten, Coil, Fad Gadget and NIИ (as commercial as Trent became, he was and still is an extraordinary talent to weave pop hooks with dissonant electronics/guitars). 1/

What people called industrial became really formulaic in the mid-90’s and later. It seemed every artist was either a Skinny Puppy, Front 242, FLA, Ministry or NIИ clone. There were some really good finds though, that while inspired by aforementioned (or bands like Cabaret Voltaire, DAF, Clock DVA, Severed Heads, Portion Control, Dive, Throbbing Gristle, Killing Joke, etc.), still sounded challenging and utilized a personalized spin on the formula. Some that stood out at the time was haujobb, Kalte Farben, Lassigue Bendthaus, Mortal Constraint, Paracont. Anyway, I got bored and burned out. So for nearly two decades I only listened to the pioneers/2nd wave (mostly), eschewing most “industrial”, electro/EBM. So within the last few years my interest has been rekindled, but I still prefer the 70’s-early 90’s stuff. It became too sterile and lifeless, devoid of real human connection or authenticity. /2

I love Foetus, although admittedly I need to listen to more of Mr. Thirlwell’s oeuvre. He was a very busy beaver with all his Foetus related offshoots! I do like KMFDM/MDFMK/En Esch/Skold/etc., and KMFDM was one of my earliest concerts in the very early 90’s (‘91?). Their sound became really stagnant, imo. I’m rambling, but suffice to say, I really enjoy the crusty, pioneers that used analog synths, beat on metal, recorded factory noises and challenged the system. Just kinda re-listening to all the classics/favorites. Trying to find new bands in the genre that are exceptional, and unique. 3/end

That’s whacky, your story of rediscovery after so long. Typically I find new music by clicking on last.fm using the “similar artists” feature. Sometimes doing same in Spotify. I also go on invented sonic journeys wondering what people in various other countries listen to, like, say, searching for “Papua New Guinea traditional music” in Spotify and seeing what pops up and going down the rabbit hole. I have favorite genres, like most, but am pretty hungry for new sounds, genres, artists and noises. Beansaclava. Zoom in to my profile pic. A beans themed balaclava. Breakfast. On your face. :)

U sound mad

Btw, I am mostly taking a piss. If you love Phish, that’s awesome. I just can’t grok jam bands. At. All. Maybe it’s a personal failing, who knows. Just not my… jam. 😉

I listened to that album half to death. I don’t listen to it as much these days because I damned near killed it. It, along with DM’s Music For The Masses and Black Celebration (and several Skinny Puppy albums) I played nonstop. Reaaaaally wish my scrobbles went back to when I was a child.

I just found them yesterday. So I’m probably not the best to ask, but I enjoyed The Song Of Investment Capitol Ov.

Yes. Very much. I used to be a rabid collector. Wanting to get back into it. You?

what is your opinion on Grant Morrison?

What’s hilarious is I was just talking about removing my own foot last night. True story. Jokingly remarked to my significant other about having a bug bite on my foot that I was scratching intensely. She remarked bactine was a godsend. I retorted that gangrene had already set in so I was going to bind my foot tautly with a cord until it fell off. 100% true story, so your random comment was eerily coincidental. Only lie I told was that there was obviously no gangrene. It was well beyond that stage. More like mummified. I kid, I kid. But seriously, the convo happened just last night,

or bald Donald Trump?

I wish. Just did that for the lulz. We need a time machine.l tho.

got real jealous for a sec

Yes, but you’ve chatted with me. Did I not deliver, good Sir?

As a long time fan of dadaism/surrealism, I thank you. In other news, torch porcelain moped hunger.

Acknowledgement for your acknowledgement for shouting at you.

Barring extremely edge cases, no one actually does this… except people wishing to artificially inflate their scrobble counts.

beans, good sir. b-e-a-n-s. glorious. beans. BEANS.

What would you like to know?

Indeed. Listen to Low and Scary Monsters, his two best, imo, if you haven’t already.