Help me run an experiment with Pandora.com

[jennythereader]

One of the things that amuses me about Pandora is how, eventually, any station that I create starts playing a lot of music by The Who. It seems as if this happens no matter what sort of music I use to start the station. I decided today that I'd like to test that theory and see if it's really happening.

What I'd like you folks to do is give me names of bands that in your opinion are as unlike The Who as possible. I'll use some of them to create a separate Pandora station, and then just listen to it the same way I do any other station, giving songs thumbs up and down as I hear them.

I'd also love it if somebody else out there would create a station of their own using the same starting bands. That would test if the trend toward The Who is a quirk of my taste or a quirk of the formula Pandora uses to find similar songs.

Thanks for your help!

Edit, 10:15 PM I'm up to nine bands, which seems like a good number to work with. No more suggestions please.

Comments

[collwen.livejournal.com]

Rammstein
Dragonforce
(two that I can think of off the top of my head)

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'd heard of Rammstein before, although I don't think I've actually heard their music. Dragonforce I've never heard of.

Pandora did have both of them in its records, so I was able to start the experiment.

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

Nine Inch Nails
Marilyn Manson


One the other end, you can go with classical music..

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your suggestions. I added both performers. Unfortunately, classical is the only type of music that Pandora doesn't play.

[sunatrya.livejournal.com]

Evanescencse
Gretchen Wilson

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Thanks Sunny! I added both of them.

[nounsandverbs]

Neko Case
Steely Dan
XTC

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I added them all. That brings the total up to nine bands, which I think is a good place to stop.