PANDORA
Pandora Internet Radio (also known as Pandora Radio or simply Pandora) is a music streaming and automated music recommendation service powered by the Music Genome Project. The service plays songs that have similar musical traits. The user then provides positive or negative feedback (as thumbs up or thumbs down) for songs chosen by the service, and the feedback is taken into account in the subsequent selection of other songs to play. The service can be accessed either through a web browser or by downloading and installing application software on the user’s device such as a personal computer or mobile phone. (More from Wikipedia)
Bruce Hornsby and the Range, A Night on the Town – I signed up for one of those Internet music services at about the time I got these CD’s (Pandora probably); I guess I was supposed to buy a lot of songs and albums through the website, but I never even got around to downloading the 20 free songs that they offered me. I’m just too old-school I guess! In any case, it was an easier way to play CD’s than what I have on my computer at work now; and one bonus was that I could easily call up a short review of whatever CD I was playing rather than having to pull one up on Wikipedia or Allmusic. The review for this 1990 CD called it their “rock album”; it definitely does rock harder than the hits by the piano-driven Bruce Hornsby and the Range that I have heard over the years, like “The Way it Is”. I have little doubt that I have the right Bruce Hornsby album.
(December 2015)
