I bet you thought this was a journal about people mistagging stuff and how gay joke tags are? Well it's not and they're not.

I was just poking around following bands and such and checking what stuff is tagged as if it's something new I'm listening to.

And here's where the thought comes in, so I'm listening to Jesu for the first time, and I'm enjoying it, well the tags for them are pretty wide ranging, sludge, shoegaze AND doom metal? Well that seems a bit hard to believe, but the thing is, there are so many different genres these days it's hard to even keep up with what things mean. I have no idea what doom metal means, I can't even tell teh difference between black metal and death metal. As far as I knew bands like Giant Squid and Mastodon were sludge, maybe throw in stuff like Dystopia for a sludge crust combo.

So what I'm thinking is, last.fm is a music connection site where you can get together with others, learn about bands, write about them, there are certainly enough people who actually know something to fill out a page on a genre. So why not? If I click on Doom Metal instead of just giving me a list of bands tagged as Doom metal or bands tagged as crust punk, why don't you do that and have a blurb explaining what makes something a particular genre. It would certainly help with mistaggings and make the site more informative.

Now I'm sure some of you out there will go OH THIS WILL BE ABUSED. Hi, yeah, shit's already being abused, the amount of good this will do would in my mind counter balance, hopefully we wouldn't have to lock things down like they do with say Tool or Sanjaya Malakar. Anyway I don't think it would be to hard to just set it up so that only tags with a certain amount of uses could be written about, although as it is bands with only three or so listeners have pages on them, I know since I wrote a page for Crack Filler and Karma Bat two local acts that I'm sure no one on last.fm could give two tugs of a dead dogs cock about.

So yeah, it seems like a pretty sweet idea to me! Although I'm sure posting a journal about it will do nothing but bring ridicule and shame!

In other news I just got some more Funkadelic, Dan Deacon, Skullflower, Grouper and Lost Sounds all of which have been really fun and cool listens, Lost Sounds really got me out of a funk of slight boredom with punk, they're just great I highly recommend them and Jay Reatards other projects.