“DRIVE-THROUGH fast food restaurants are rarely able to boast much in the way of atmosphere. But there is a way of livening up the usually soulless experience as this talented chap shows, as he brings some musical flavour to proceedings”

His website

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One of the features I like best is finding out which tracks or artists I’ve listen to most over a period of time. Last FM makes it easy to do this and track the last 7 days or even the past year or previous years and also provide a list of the overall most listened to.

You don’t have to tell the last FM site what music you are listening to but it tracks the music you are listening to via a small application known as an audio scrobbler. This works with iTunes, Windows Media Player and there are various other players out there which natively support scrobbling such as Songbird. When you finish listening to a track the scrobbler sends a message to Last FM site with the track name.

Obviously due to having to use the scrobbling app Last FM hasn’t managed to capture every single track I have listened to over the years, but mainly the ones from iTunes.

You can create your free account at http://www.lastfm.com

One other neat feature is you can make available your music listening habits to other websites to create fancy tag clouds one website which offers this is http://lastfm.dontdrinkandroot.net like the following

Most listened to albums

Music genres most listened to

Artists most listened to

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It starts in my belly
Then up to my heart
Into my mouth, I can’t keep it shut
Do you recognise, the smell
Is that how you tell us apart

I fool myself to sleep and dream
Nobody’s here
No-one but me
So cool
You’re hardly there
Why can’t this, be killing you

Frankenstein would want your mind
Your lovely head
Your lovely head

Your lovely head

The unspeakable sadness… the terrible loneliness… is it any wonder that they spend their time all huddled together, talking, drinking, with loud music filling the air? lighting cigarettes, drinking coffee… they’ll talk about anything. Laugh loudly at anything remotely humorous… or there’s various forms of electronic entertainment… or, you can even read a newspaper, a magazine or a book… anything other than being alone with your thoughts, memories, speculations, uncertainties…