Great Timesuck: Listen to Random Weird Music from the Internet

November 18, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Thanks to Boing Boing, we now know about Metaratr, a site that serves up the weird and wonderful sounds of SoundCloud. And because it’s customizable, you can order Metaratr to give you nothing but terrible music. Seriously.

There’s a leaderboard that tracks the, um, “best” SoundCloud has to offer. There are five buttons: “Shit,” “Ok,” “Good,” “Great” and “Spectacular.” Keep hitting the buttons for new selection. Here is an example of what you might hear.

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