Last.fm Comments

The comments people leave on Last.fm are quite funny to read.

Most of them are over the top, elitist comments from people who must try so hard to look cool and alternative that I doubt they get much else done. The fact that so many of them are just stupid and often wrong is also quite funny.

A large amount of these comments are based around the tags that Last.fm has for bands. Examples being whether Panic! at the Disco has an exclamation mark or not, and whether Green Day are really a punk band anymore, or if they ever were. It's all irrelevant arguments that don't really matter, so long as people enjoy the music.

What I find truly unbelievable is that people will go so far out of their way as to go on pages for bands they dislike, and leave a comment saying how shit they think they are. It just seems a bit inane and unnecessary. Nobody needs to know if you think that Oasis are shit. A lot of people think that, but they don't bitch about how crap they think they are on the band's page. It's just not worth it.

However, the reason for writing about this now, after having last.fm for a few months (username = mattme24 if you want to add me up), is that I saw that Warsaw had a page. Warsaw being Joy Division before they changed their name to Joy Division. On their page, there are people leaving comments saying that either a). They were better before they changed their name, or b). That they were a shit Joy Division rip off. Both comments are equally retarded. The band were around for a very short period of time, only documented on a couple of bootleg albums, in which they play songs that Joy Division went on to play and very little else. How they could be better then, before they had the name change, I don't quite understand.

Seriously, I think people try too hard to look alternative. It's kind of sad really.