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First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

1. Mae
Copeland
Sherwood
Waking Ashland
Daphne Loves Derby
Acceptance
Deas Vail
The Starting Line

2. Imogen Heap
Kate Havnevik
A Fine Frenzy
Jem
Regina Spektor
Florence + the Machine
Sia
The Bird and The Bee

3. Fireflight
Krystal Meyers
Eowyn
Kutless
Flyleaf
Falling Up
Disciple
Red
Decyfer Down

4. Utada
宇多田ヒカル
Cubic U
倖田來未
ravex
Boa
安室奈美恵
鈴木あみ
Crystal Kay

5. Anberlin
Anchor & Braille
Emery
Relient K

6. The Classic Crime
Ivoryline
The Wedding
Jonezetta
Search The City
The Fold
Run Kid Run

7. Switchfoot
Jon Foreman
Sanctus Real
Audio Adrenaline
Jars Of Clay
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Aim of the game: Go to your number one artist's page, and from there click it's number one similar artist. Do this for the next artist and so on upto 50, going to the next artist down if it's already gone. I'll be marking (H) after those I've heard, (R) after recognize.

1. The Seatbealts (H)
2. Taku Iwasaki (H)
3. Håkan Hellström(H)
4. Nick Drake
5. ayumi hamasaki (H)
6. Kara’s Flowers
7. Inoue Marina
8. Matt Costa
9. Taku Iwasaki (H)
10. Capsule (H)
11. Tristan Pettyman
12. Hirokazu Ando (H)
13. Hideki Naganuma (H)
14. Koji Kondo (H)
15. Hitomi (H)
16. NODAME ORCHESTRA (R)
17. Kow Otani (H)
18. Hitoshi Sakamoto (H)
19. ai otsuka (H)
20. Killingscum (H)
21. Kawada Mami
22. YUKI KAJIURA
23. Justice (H)
24. Yoko Takahashi (H)
25. REDHOOKER
26. Tristeza
27. John Williams (H)
28. Noriko Hibino (H)
29. The Latch Brothers
30. Natsuko Kawatani
31. P. Blaszczak
32. Hazel Fernandes (H)
33. Chihiro Harada (H)
34. Blur (H)
35. Vapnet
36. COLTEMONIKHA
37. kors k (H)
…

I'm going to use my Top 50 for the last 12 months instead of overall because my shitty tags for old music kind of fuck it up.


1.How did you get into 29? (Cake)
screenagerJ played me a few of their songs while riding bus 184 back in middle school, haha.

2. What's the first song you ever heard by 22? (Yelle)
Ce Jeu, the first track on Pop Up. TY, CB.

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Franz Ferdinand)
The Dark Of The Matinée
I time every journey to bump into you, accidentally
I charm you and tell you of the boys I hate
All the girls I hate
All the words I hate
All the clothes I hate
How I'll never be anything I hate

You smile, mention something that you like
How you'd have a happy life if you did the things you like
4. How did you get into 49? (The Servant)
I heard the instrumental of Cells in the trailer for Sin City and was hooked. This band is a really good summary of what I listened to in 2005. Jack aided and abetted this obsession.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (The Pipettes)
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Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently
76/100
The 76 related artists for my profile are Afi aiko American Hi-Fi Anti-Flag ATB Bad Religion Blink-182 (4) Brooklyn Bounce Capcom Sound Team Evanescence Eve 6 Every Little Thing Fall Out Boy (2) Fatboy Slim Foo Fighters Gabriela Robin George S. Clinton Gigi D'Agostino Good Charlotte (2) Gorillaz Green Day (4) Groove Coverage Hitomi Iron Maiden Kasz & Beal Konami Kukeiha Club KoЯn Lagwagon Limp Bizkit (2) Liquid Tension Experiment Massive Attack Metallica Millencolin Moby Mutha's Day Out My Chemical Romance New Found Glory Nirvana…

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

76/100


The 76 related artists for my profile are AFX (3) Air (2) Aphex Twin Autechre (2) Barenaked Ladies Beastie Boys Beck Belle and Sebastian Björk (2) Boards of Canada (2) Bowling For Soup Broadcast Coldplay Cypress Hill David Bowie De La Soul DJ Cam DJ Food (2) DJ Shadow (2) DJ Vadim DZihan & Kamien Eric B. & Rakim Gorillaz Green Day Harry Gregson-Williams Jeremy Soule Jimmy Eat World Kruder & Dorfmeister Lagwagon Lamb (2) Less Than Jake Madonna Marvin Gaye Massive Attack (4) Michael Jackson Modest Mouse Morcheeba My Bloody Valentine N. …

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

67/100


The 67 related artists for my profile are "Weird Al" Yankovic 0 Brother Where Art Thou? Alanis Morissette Alex Wunschel Annik Rubens & Timo Hetzel Bear McCreary Bedlam Bards Ben Harper Bob Dylan Bob Marley Britney Spears Christina Aguilera Coldplay (2) Danny Elfman (4) David Newman Disney Eric Serra Evanescence Fatboy Slim Graeme Revell Green Day Hans Zimmer (7) Harry Gregson-Williams (3) Hot Chip Howard Shore (5) James Horner (6) James Newton Howard (2) John Williams (9) JOHNNY CASH Jonathan Larson Kelly Clarkson…

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

77/100


The 77 related artists for my profile are 3 Doors Down Ace of Base ALI PROJECT Andrew Lloyd Webber (2) Avril Lavigne Backstreet Boys Beauty And The Beast Bill Brown Bloc Party Bob Dylan Bright Eyes Britney Spears Coldplay (2) Céline Dion Danny Elfman (2) Death Cab For Cutie Disney ECLAIR Emily Bindiger Enigma Enya FictionJunction YUUKA Frank Klepacki Franz Ferdinand Galaxy Angel Green Day Hans Zimmer (2) Harry Gregson-Williams Howard Shore (2) Jack Wall James Blunt James Horner James Newton Howard Jeremy Soule (2) John Williams…