LastFm has long been a regular companion at the keyboard. The recommendations are great and the random play is fine for most uses. Unfortunately, in WordPress.com the tie-up with Sonific Songspot means that we can’t have proper widgets or quilts yet.

I use projectplaylist.com to post specific songs to my blog – the great advantages being that I can post a single song on demand, and because the music is not hosted on my site there are no copyright infringement issues, either.

The technique is a little tricky to master – although I wrote a ‘How to’ post for the wp.com forums once… if I weren’t posting this comment remotely I’d be able to give you the link, so perhaps brightfeather can edit it in later…

To this basic set of instructions, I’d now add that there is an excellent additional search feature to use – if the site doesn’t find your music first time, then you can ask it to search other music consolidators in different countries and that works really well. It’s quite hard to locate that page, though, and I suspect that few people know it’s there…

Setting that aside you and I do have overlapping taste in music. I like alternative rock and 1980′s music too. I do not like opera, metal or rap at all. Other than that I’m pretty much open to most musical genera. I added a Soda Stereo track to my playlist to check out. Remarkably, I also really like traditional Japanese and Chinese music too.

Generally speaking what goes on my playlist is what I like to sing. I have a reasonable voice and used to sing in groups and choirs. I got tired of it because I wasn’t really into the music that was selected for us. Luckily, I’m alone a lot of the time so I can wail away without disturbing anyone. :-D

I have an eclectic taste in music. I like from Classical to New Age, from Instrumental to Electronic (trance, etc.), from (80s) pop to Death Metal. However, I don’t like rap, R&B and “de Banda” nor “Norteña” (these are Mexican folk music that some of my co-workers listen to, and which I find annoying).

I like Rock in Spanish, especially from the 80s; some of my favorite rock bands are from Argentina. Russian Rock (when I went to Russia, I got to hear some Russian rock bands and I think they were really good); Japanese Pop/Pop-Rock (I knew about them from the Anime I watch).

Although I don’t understand Russian nor Japanese, I don’t let that to prevent me from enjoying what I believe is good music since they have awesome rhythm.

I also like Chinese and Japanese traditional music… it relaxes me a lot.

Oh, I don’t like romantic/slow songs that much either… they put me to sleep :D

Overall, I’m more of an Alternative Rock/Rock/80s guy :)

I’m gonna put together a list of songs of all the genres I like and will share them with you as soon as it’s ready ;)

Best!

PS. If you’d like to check my favorite rock (in Spanish) band of all time, the number one on my list, check the post I have in the blog my brother and I maintain (is in Spanish, though). The band’s name is Soda Stereo; they are from Argentina.