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[np96]

 The other day they recommended me MGMT and Herbert, based on what I bought/rated, and I really liked it! However, they also recommended me the new Arctic Monkeys album based on me buying Secret Machines stuff so they drop points for that. Has anyone been recommended anything on Amazon and really liked it?

[Nodaisho]

I was looking at... either The Mantle or Ashes Against the Grain, and it recommended ...Beyond My Grey Wake, from How Like a Winter, which I really liked. I think it also recommended an Empyrium album and Bergtatt from Ulver (I spelled the album name right, didn't I?), but I didn't check either of those out.

[suitupletsgo]

years ago I bought Pele - Enemies and they suggested The Mercury Program - From the Vapor of Gasoline, so I just picked it up also. I really enjoyed that album as well, but the Pele one is still far superior, hehe.

[Thrillho]

Any time I buy a movie, I find that idiots buy it. I bought Dodgeball because I love it, but hate Ben Stiller and that whole fraternity, and of course now my recommendations are flooded with Will 'you're not fucking funny, at all' Ferrell.

[Beastmouth]

Any time I buy a movie, I find that idiots buy it. I bought Dodgeball because I love it, but hate Ben Stiller and that whole fraternity, and of course now my recommendations are flooded with Will 'you're not fucking funny, at all' Ferrell.

He was funny that time he did Neil Diamond

[20 jazz funk greats]

amazon is telling me to buy really obvious things like spiderland and loveless.
uhhh well that would have been helpful A FEW YEARS AGO.

[20 jazz funk greats]

owning multiple copies of said albums would not improve their quality.

[Ikrik]

The "recommendations" they give are absolutely ridiculous.  Apparently I should buy Citizen Kane because I bought Psycho.....which frightens me a little bit. The only one that seems like a good recommendation is Pan's Labyrinth for getting Children of Men.  I really want to see what music they'd recommend for someone who likes mainstream music like Linkin Park....or MCR.

[20 jazz funk greats]

one would think that if you had clicked "already own it" the site might take that as a hint

[Tom]

That's the same with iTunes recommendations.

No I've told you 5 times every day for the past month that I already own We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.

[Thrillho]

Amazon's system isn't really flawed, they have more than one version of a lot of albums even when you've checked them off as being not what you want.

[RedLion]

A few months ago, I bought an amazing book, "The Fate of Africa : A History of the last 50 Years" (an in-depth history of every African country since their independence. Fascinating stuff) and Amazon deduced that, because of this, I would enjoy a memoir by that living blob of pus, Newt Gingrich.

The hell is that about?

[Luke C]

The system is a quite simple one based on what other people who bought the item have also bought.

I find it is often quite useful for books, less so for music.

[StaedlerMars]

Man, mine just recommends video games. I've only ever bought one game off amazon ever.

EDIT: The reason for this would apparently be that amazon.co.uk and amazon.com use the same usernames, but different recommendations for each site.

That's stupid.

It's recommending Band of Horses, Feist, and Iron & Wine, which are all good calls.

[Jimmy the Squid]

Amazon just recommends me Thundercats boxed sets and the DSM-IV handbooks and guides.

[pwhodges]

I find they rather often suggest things I have already bought off them; I suppose that's safe...

Paul

[Thrillho]

The system is a quite simple one based on what other people who bought the item have also bought.

I find it is often quite useful for books, less so for music.

It's also worth avoiding recommendations from other media. I bought the Arctic Monkeys album in 2006 and got recommended one of those bogus psychics' 'I could change your life' books.