Dennis, all you need to do is click the link and the title will pop up even BEFORE the track plays. You don't HAVE to listen if you don't want to. Sometimes, a surprise can be nice. Who knows? Perhaps someone actually listened to this rather than going 'Bjork? The weird dressed girl with the weird voice?' and passing on a great listen...

My hands hover over the Command-W (close window in mac-speak) every link I click, but most times, I'll at least find out if it is WORTH a listen.

Thing is, you start threads with a LOT of embedded video in them, they can take quite a while to load. Just providing the link speeds up the page load...