There are plenty of great groups on Last.fm. However, some of them can be a bit hard to find. We thought one way to make it easier to find groups would be to make it easier to find similar groups. What do you think?
Here are some of my personal favourites and their similar groups:
- Bossa Nova: they have a great group radio, if you are into that kind of music
- Addicted to Last.fm: the title says it all
- Converse: this special sponsored group has a really cool feature you won’t find elsewhere on the site
- The Special Interest Tag Radio Collective: some of the best tag radio stations I know of are listed there
- People with no social lives that listen to more music than is healthy who …: a wonderful example of how a long group name totally makes sense
- Last.fm Book Club: a great example that there is sometimes more to life than just music
- …
Btw, what are your favourite groups?
Comments
Claudia
28 August, 18:03
Kudos for this great tool, Elias. And thanks for the mention :-)
mosquitokillah
28 August, 18:07
Don’t ask me why but I really
love
http://www.last.fm/group/LAST+FM+DETOX
Deeno9
28 August, 18:11
Bring back the old Last.fm
dont misunderstand me, i enjoy last.fm, but the old one really looked better
Kimiko
28 August, 18:25
Teehee. This is fun ^_^
Is this based on the actual music the group members listen to, or just on overlapping group membership?
neko
28 August, 18:29
once this gets out of the playground, you guys should have an option to have it show on group pages, similar to facebook’s similar groups list.
also, neat groups i’m in:
People against Radiohead being number one in every group – (ironically has radiohead in it’s number one spot. sigh.)
Last.fm CSS Color Changer – (have the firefox addon Stylish? well, you don’t have to look at that red header anymore)
brothers! sisters! small boats of fire are falling from the sky.. – (to quote you, they have a great group radio, if you are into that kind of music. ‘that kind’ being post-rock. TeXtile hates periods in links, so add one to the end for it to work)
People’s Socialist Republic of Good and Interesting Music – (another great genre group. this time, electronica)
Elias Pampalk
28 August, 19:05
Oh I forgot to mention the playground group!
@ Kimiko: It’s based on which other groups people join (and not the musical taste).
Nectar_card
28 August, 20:26
The 1 Percenters – not many qualify but the ones who do have pretty diverse taste in music.
George of the Jungle
28 August, 20:33
this playground stuff is nice – but when is this stuff going to actually get implemented in the main site?
mr_maxis
28 August, 21:07
Nice tool! I discovered plenty of groups that I had never heard about before.
Kimiko
28 August, 21:16
Elias – Oh, that’s a pity. I’d rather it be based on actual listening habits instead of mere group membership. Last.fm is about the music people listen to, not the people listening to the music. Or maybe it is, but the latter should be secondary.
Blog
29 August, 05:41
Excite tool! I will try out your tool.
thinkwhite
30 August, 08:57
this is very confuse
Tecfan
31 August, 13:59
Deeno9:
STILL whining about that?
/me had to take a 20 second break to convince himself not to give deeno9 a rude speech
anyways, I don’t really have any favorite groups, they’re all full of forum games.. But, there are a lot nice bands to find at the “Rare progressive rock bands & albums”
gwalla
1 September, 07:38
Kind of fun to mess around with. Doesn’t seem too useful, though.
Any word on when group recommendations will be back? Or user recs that actually do something, for that matter?
protospork
2 September, 14:02
another vote for Bring back the old last.fm here, as well as Greasemonkeys
Jean Claude
3 September, 01:30
How about a way to find groups based on music scrobbled on your profile?
AL, the BIG
3 September, 17:13
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Dental Students
4 September, 06:52
New Group***
Join “Dental Students”
Even future dentists need love :)
mll
4 September, 19:01
Too bad the name of the group you just typed isn’t hyperlinked to the group’s home page.
Chris
12 September, 02:40
What happnened to the fans(listeners) radio station. It’s gone in the new version!
I loved listening to music from the fans of a group.
I discovered many more songs/groups compared to the similiar artists (like) radio station.
Gamester
25 September, 15:46
Hey! I think it’s a great idea! Would be especially helpful trying to find “classical music” groups (i.e. “Romantic Era” “Baroque Era” “Medieval and Renaissance Music” etc.!
It would also be helpful to identify an artist’ own group (if one exists) on his artist’s page, upfront and in an obvious place so visitors could be made aware and be invited to join it!
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