Submission by Janey
I love Pandora. I enjoy doing experiments where I start a station with a single artist and see what happens. I don't rate anything, so its selection is not influenced by my own tastes. If I like the station, then I'll claim if for my own and start giving it input. The experiments began when, in a class, someone said, "Who IS like Bjork? What would happen if you started a Pandora station with her?" "Let us find out!" my sense of academic curiosity exclaimed. Turns out that station was really weird. Other experiments have included The Beatles (that one turned into a great station, and is a testament to how influential the group was and continues to be), The Arcade Fire (a surprisingly generic station, but vastly improved once I meddled and added Radiohead as a seed artist). Which leads me to a new challenge: Musical Crossbreeding. What do you get if you cross Aerosmith with John Meyer? Or Beethoven with Oasis? Do any of you have interesting stations? Any suggestions or successes related to musico-genetic experiments?
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I have some pretty diverse Pandora stations. Sadly, it doesn't cross-breed very well. It will pick an artist or genre and stay with it for 4-5 songs, then abruptly switch to its next feeder idea. Thus, I will hear Black Eyed Peas, Will Smith, Kanye West, Lil' Wayne, Gesualdo, Byrd, Josquin, and Ockeghem, in that order. I still like it that way.
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