Pandora is very, very cool. I got a surprise today, though, while listening to a radio station I had seeded with the Crash Test Dummies and other rather mellow bands. Pandora decided that I like music with “basic rock song structures, a subtle use of paired vocal harmony, extensive vamping, paired vocal harmony and minor key tonality.” The song it played was “Strip 4 Me” by Gravy Train!!!!. The lyrics to this song are available here. WARNING: Definitely TV-MA stuff, and again, not exactly what I was expecting to hear after a steady stream of Tom Petty, The Police, Counting Crows, etc.

On the other hand, I suppose Pandora did its job by exposing me to a band I wouldn’t have known about otherwise, and it did give me the option not to hear it again.