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The Sixty One and Last.fm

I got on a little promotional kick. I noticed that Frankie is all about The Sixty One lately, so I gave it a shot. It turns out to be an excellent concept for a music site. I could try to explain it, but it suffices to say that it’s a site with a point scheme that rewards artists for posting good music and listeners for promoting good music, allowing them to post more and promote more.

Here is my profile page. After a week, I’ve achieved some modest success. I’ve reached level 4 with 32 listeners, which is nice. Being level 4 lets me upload a few more songs, so I’ll be doing that over the next few weeks. It’s always exciting to reach new audiences. Consider me a T61 addict.

Here are some profiles of people I know: Frankie Big Face (and his listener account), John Benjamin’s Band (and his listener), and then some kind of T61 celebrity Glenn Case (and his super listener).

I also decided to check in on Last.fm and was very disappointed. I mean, I understand that I did a bad job choosing a band name that was unique, but it’s very irritating that Last.fm doesn’t provide any way to differentiate between bands with the same name. From their FAQ:

It is currently not possible to disambiguate artists with the same name, which means that if an artist shares their name with at least one other artist, they will have to share one Last.fm artist profile.

So at least four of us ADDs or Adds or A.D.D.s get to share the same bio, song list, label list, related artists list, photo gallery, etc. The result is a bizarre frankenstein profile that fully represents none of us. Fucking brilliant, Last.fm. Also, I may have started a wiki war on the bio.

Slightly adding to the annoyance is that I know I was the first Add on that site. Oh well. Boo hoo. I never did register, so it was mine to lose, I suppose. Now I have registered, and I created a label to upload songs as. I would rather upload songs as the artist Add, but someone else has claimed the right do that. (Yes, it’s confusing that we seemingly all have access to the profile but still only one has upload rights.) I’m going to upload all my stuff in the hopes of bumping up the listen counts of my songs and perhaps mostly retaking the artist page. No offense to the other Adds, but I want it, and Last.fm apparently insists that we fight over it.

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2 Responses to “The Sixty One and Last.fm”

  1. fluffy Says:
    December 11th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    The Last.fm problem is a big part of why I made damned sure to choose a completely unique band name this time around. And of course a couple months after I started releasing songs as “Sockpuppet,” another band named Sockpuppet showed up. Fortunately they were just a cover band which never released any recordings, and then they ended up changing their name to “RockBoxx,” and then a few months later they broke up.

    I remember contributing to the Last.fm ADD edit war quite some time ago. I think at the time it was just you and some Spanish dude.

  2. state shirt Says:
    December 12th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    bastards, you are obviously the very first and best Add.

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The Weak Moment

1. I Know My Rights
2. I’m Having Trouble Concentrating
3. One Less
4. We Have the Technology
5. I’m Going Away for a While
6. Chance
7. Method of Delivery
8. Boundaries

[Artwork]

Started as a “mini-album,” I started it in Feb.2006, finished recording in July, and posted the final songs in December. The gimmick here is that I recorded myself playing the songs in order and in one session, and those tracks (lead vocal/rhythm guitar) became the basis for the final versions. I wrote the songs in order as well. They’re all from Song Fight titles. So I’d play through a song I’d written, and when it was over, I’d pick a new title to go with and see what kind of song should come next.

Divider Why Are You Doing This?

1. You’re a True Believer
2. It’s Always Something
3. Let It All Burn
4. It Won’t Last
5. Flagwavers
THE ECHO CHAMBER
7. Don’t Be Afraid
8. Uniter
9. Divider
10. Open Your Eyes

[Artwork]

You can buy Divider at CD Baby.

Started in 2003. Intended to be done in 2003. Instead, I finally tore myself away from the last mix in October 2004. I had to post it on the web just to keep myself from messing with it into infinity. Delays continued, and I finally received my box of CDs for selling in late January 2005, about a week after the inauguration of the original Divider.

It’s a semi-political album… but hopefully more to me than to anybody else. Personally political. I wouldn’t really want it to be specific about that stuff lest the life get sucked out of the music once the national tide turns.

The CD has the video for “Let It All Burn” on it as well as some extra mp3s:
Cold Sweat
Complaining
Don’t Be Afraid (acoustic)
Don’t Let the Waiting Wear You Out
It Comes and It Goes
It Won’t Last (alternate)
Sad Saints
They Will Sing
Voices Constantly
Your God Is an Idol
Your God Is an Idol (Acoustic)

Add Covers Achtung Baby

1. Zoo Station
2. Even Better Than the Real Thing
3. One
4. Until the End of the World
5. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
6. So Cruel
7. The Fly
8. Mysterious Ways
9. Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World
10. Ultraviolet
11. Acrobat
12. Love is Blindness

Songs written by U2
Produced/performed by Jeff Fal

I needed to work, and I needed to work fast. So I ditched the burden of writing songs. We were listening to this album on a roadtrip to and from California. It was speaking to me.

[Artwork]

Please Let Your Faith and Patience Be Mine

1. Scared to Death
2. Locked Box
3. Towering Inferno
4. What’s Happening to Me?
5. Shades of Black
6. New York
7. Good Morning!
8. Coming Dear
9. Red
10. When Have I Been Wrong?
11. Air Traffic
12. Maybe So

Songs made by Jeff Fal

Made in late 2002 and early 2003, this was an unrealistic project undertaken by me and some of my Song Fight friends. We came up with 12 titles by secret ritual and then attempted to each write and record songs for all 12 titles within a month. We gave up that deadline in favor of making more polished work, which I think is for the better. The companion albums for this are Frankie Big Face’s Smile If You Absolutely Have To and John Benjamin’s Feel Things Deeply.

You can order it here.

Dirty Water

1. Back Like This
2. A Reason to Stay
3. Choose My Battles
4. Dirty Water
5. Alone
6. Carrying On
7. Exactly the Same
8. I Know Better
9. Wears on Me
10. Let It Go
11. I Feel Bad
12. The Smile on Your Face
13. I Know Better

Songs made by Jeff Fal

This album took me all of 2002 to make. Ok, That’s not completely true. Probably 80% of the work got done in the summer. There are a couple of songs from before then, and I did a lot of mixing and remixing afterwards. But all in all, I’d say it’s a summer document. Something about summers… They just get me working.

[Artwork]

Songfight Songs: Feb 2001-Feb 2002

1. Midnight Rendezvous
2. Don’t Dance
3. Shipwreck
4. On a Line
5. Black Hole
6. Dad, I’m Changing
7. Listen Close
8. It’s Invisible
9. Been to China
10. A Thousand Swords
11. I Can See You
12. Do It for Captain
13. Red Robot
14. Birds of Our Own
15. Firecrackers
16. Acid Mouth
17. Experimental Fashion
18. Secrets
19. Hotel

Bad Guy

1. I Won’t Be There
2. Hard Enough
3. Fall Apart
4. Five o’Clock
5. Guess You’re on a Plane
6. I Know This Won’t Solve My Problems
7. Maddie
8. Bad Guy
9. Quit Breaking My Heart
10. Tell You Today

Songs made by Jeff Fal

This is an album I recorded in the summer of 2001. It’s actually the third or fourth album I made, but this was the first one after people other than me and my brother began to listen to my music. Which is fine, because those others weren’t great, and Bad Guy was really the first time I succeeded at recording an album of songs that all belonged together that were also all good songs. Of course, to accomplish that, I had to set myself the modest goal of 25 minutes. Actually, my goal was 30 minutes, but you take what you can get.

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