Random is a damn good artist name. Perhaps it's even too good, since at least six other artists other than me wants to use it. This can be slightly problematic sometimes, for several reasons which you can probably figure out yourself.
Recently there has been a small war going on between me and some other Randoms on Last.fm. It started with my picture being changed to a picture of five hopeless Austrian emopunk wretches sitting in a room looking very serious about life and their hairdos, and a few days later the Random page on Last.fm was pestered with (suprise, surprise!) a bunch of emopunk songs. Not acceptable.
It took a little work and some e-mails to change it back, and for the moment it's a bit of a compromise with two of my songs and two emopunk songs on the page, but I'm planning to put Operation Ruthless into action soon...
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I'm relatively lucky compared to how meager my publicity is and the only other nim who cared to post a picture at last.fm is a nice bloke (and doesn't make something horrid like bad emopunk) :) http://www.last.fm/music/nim and there are others too apparently :U
the thing it boils down to in the end is the net is vast and infinate I guess :P
that is to say, last.fm should really bring the discerning power back to the people and let people separate the artists and assign which tracks go where :p
Yes... Would be nice to have a system where names which are used by more than one artist have can have a separate page. Like on discogs.com for instance. The problem is for the system to know which songs are connected with which artist (using the same name) since the ID-tag will simply tell Last.fm that it's a song by "Random", and not "The Chiptune Random" or "The Emopunk Random Suckers". It's a problem that should be solvable somehow though, even if it have to be a compromise in some way...
They did the same crap with bLiNd of Overclocked Remix. I really dislike scrobbling songs of some crap band that has no relation to what I'm playing.