I was spending a quiet evening browsing through last.fm social tags when I stumbled across the tag: 742617000027.
Clearly this was some sort of bug. Some underlying coding constant
poking through the web veneer. Something akin to GLaDOS saying "The device is now more valuable than the organs and combined income of everyone in [Subject Hometown Here]" . But this tag is not a bug. It is the name of a song by Slipknot. According to songfacts, 742617000027 is the intro track to
Slipknot's self-titled CD. It contains some guitar scratches and weird
sound samples. " 742617000027 was the shipping code on their 1996 self-released album, Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat. All the band members wear that number on their jumpsuits.
There's
just no end to the wide variety of music metadata one can
encounter. But I must wonder what it is like for a hardcore
Slipknot fan. In my day, we could shout out 'freebird' or
'stairway' - but imagine trying to shout out '742617000027 in a concert.