Steve asked me how many words are in a typical Last.fm artist tag. So lets answer that question. Of the 100,000 or so unique tags, about 33% of them are single word tags (like 'rock', 'emo' and 'metal'), 36% are two word tags (like 'heavy metal', 'punk rock' and 'seen live'), 16% are three word tags ('brutal death metal'), 6% are 4 word tags ('asian drum and bass'), 3% are 5 word tags ('sounds awesome in my car'). The longest tag is 49 words long. It is:
i am a child in a field and i grow things in my dreams to wake and water them to go to sleep and raise them from the earth into existence from an idea to physical existence what power what madness a gentle madness an eleven year olds madness
The longest tag that has been applied multiple times is:
songs that i sing along to but i always forget the words so i say duh duh while trying to sound like i do know the words and no one is falling for it but they keep quiet because they are embarassed for me

Some long tags that seem to be about music :

bands or people from india or who sound like they might be from india or who sound like they might be from around india or who sound like they might enjoy bands or people who sound like they are from around india
A number of the longer tags seem to be the result of someone being confused about how to enter separate tags. For example, this single tag was probably meant to be 20 individual tags:
rock - metal - industrial - electronic - punk - emo - ebm - alternative - punk - dark electro - japanese - metalcore - female fronted metal - techno - psytrance - love metal - new wave - synth pop - indie

Some long single word tags:

63 Eksprimentell-teknisk-avantgarde-saer-dop-steikbra-metal-musikk
55 SkankledoodleskattysuperSKAalifragilisticexpialidocious
55 No-break-twitch-screaming-grindcore-ninja-commando-team
47 indiepostteletronicrockistsbaroquechamberaltpop
47 hatebreedlookalikessoundsalikeswannabesgoodshit
46 rrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggghhhhhhhhhhh
43 up-down-up-down-left-right-A-B-select-start
40 put-your-brain-in-a-blender-and-drink-it
40 baseballbatmusicforcoolindiekidswithbats
39 fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
38 where-do-thoughts-like-those-come-from
37 good-old-animation-guitar-syntheziser
36 gothic-techno-industrial-dance-disco
36 MAurrrrriiiiittttttiiiiiuuuuuussssss
36 21AAD6B6-A1E6-4e07-B2E9-9F512F446E4B
35 onemightbecomebarrenlisteningtothis
35 not-to-be-confused-with-THE-Citadel
35 Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious
35 Lie-on-the-floor-and-smoke-to-music
35 BatmanUcanBeMySupermanSaveMeHereIam
34 Progressive-Industrial-Atmospheric
34 Industrial-Electroica-Jungle-Death
Once again, many of these seem to be the results of the confused tagger not understanding how to apply multiple tags at once.

317 Unique tags that start with "I ..." such as:

11 I would like to own or listen to more music by these bands and artists
11 I got a patch
11 I dig it
11 I dig
10 I must try
10 I can be cool sometimes
10 I LOVE THIS MUSIC
10 I Have Seen Them
9 I think its a doom metal band
9 I like this stuff
9 I cant account for these
9 I am so sad
8 I love this bands
8 I love them all
8 I like this music
8 I like this
8 I like these guys a lot
My favorite is: I was never a Swedish teenager with swedish teen angst so now I will attempt at having it. Speaking of 'favorite', Last.fm taggers have hundreds of ways of tagging their favorite artists. Among them are:
FavoriteArtists
favoritebands
FAVORTIEEESSS
Favoritmusik
Favoritizims
favoritttes
favoiteness
faveartists
favorites1
favorieten
faveorites
Favourites
Favoritter
favroites
favoutite
favourits
favourite
favour-01
favorites
favoriten
favoritas
faveorite
favaurite
fav0urit3
Favouites
Favoritos
Favoriter
favorito
favoriet
favoirte
favbands
Favoritt
Favorits
Favorite
favorit
Favoris
FavBand
favour
favori
favor8
favies
favela
Favvis
Favess
FavArt
favvy
favou
favos
Favvo
Favor
Faves
favs
favo
fava
Fave
fav
Tags can be crazy - there are just so many different reasons why people tag, there's tons of noise, there are tag abusers - but because there are so many tags, they can also be extremely useful. Next up, we'll try to sift through the tags and categorize them into big buckets like genre, mood, opinion and so on.
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