Yeah, I can't believe how anyone could make a search function that's so fucking useless!
But just like peffy, I've been using last.fm for almost 10 years now and I just can't stop using it now. Though I have only a little bit over 100,000 scrobbles (I took a break from last.fm for a few years lol), I just can't stop using last.fm.
And like Lestat said, I loved having two different artist views. I used the grid view as a custom list of my current favorite bands, and the list view for my top bands in the past 356 days. I hate the album view, because the bands I follow don't usually release full albums. It's fucking useless. Would it be so difficult to implement a custom solution, so that every user can choose which information to show on those three "list spots"?
BUT there is ONE good thing about the new last.fm!! I love those new listening trend visualizations that show when you've been listening to something.