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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

88/100



The 88 related artists for my profile are A Perfect Circle (2) Air (2) Al Hirt Alice in Chains (2) Amon Amarth Arch Enemy Charlie Feathers Children of Bodom Concord Dawn Confucius Cradle of Filth Danny Elfman Dave Dobbyn Dean Martin Deftones Duke Ellington Ella Fitzgerald Ennio Morricone Evol Intent + Dieselboy Evol Intent + Ewun Eye TV Fantômas Fly My Pretties Frank Sinatra Fur Patrol Future Technicians Ghostface Groove Armada GZA/Genius Headless Chickens Howard Shore Incubus Infiltrata + Define Iron Maiden Jazzanova Jerry…

In April 2005, I dropped my iPod. I'd done it before, but this time it was in the middle of doing something or other... so basically it was the straw that broke the camel's back. The hard drive was damaged, but I did manage to copy most of my tracks to my Mac (I did not have copies of them since until 2 months beforehand, my Mac's hard drive was 10GB while my iPod's was 20GB.) I then reformatted the iPod and it would work as long as I didn't fill it past a certain point, which would cause it to write on the bad blocks and need reformatting again. I installed iPodLinux on it and with the help of a little Cocoa app I wrote to split a dictionary into a whole lot of small text files grouped alphabetically in folders, I used it as a German-English dictionary, among other things. Then eventually it stopped even mounting on my Mac, so I sent it to my friend in Canada, for whom it still works to this day. I bought a fancy new iPod, of course.

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Well when i say recent, i mean like, in the last 2 months or something.
Some are crappish, others, briliant.

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
I was most disapointed when i bought this cd from sounds for $35, then 3 days later saw it in the warehouse for 20... ANGRY

Sleater-Kinney - S/T
Yes, i already had the songs on Media player, but i felt like a cheap fan, so i bouht it anyway, like im dong wit the rest of the s-k, plastic cases of gold.

Sleater-kinney - all hands on the bad one
ditto

Erase errata - Nightlife

Siouxsie and the Banshees
Christmas present

Fur patrol - Collider
I still proclaim fur patrol New Zealands best band of the last decade...

Fugazi - A steady Diet of nothing

Fugazi - Reapeter + 3 songs
Yes its called that.


Elliot Smith - Figure 8
I wanted either/or, but this one was like, half the price.

Sonic Youth - Daydream nation
Ok that was like 3 months ago. Good buy tho. real cheap.

led Zeppelin - Led zeppelin I
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StolenInspired by Jessie's entry...

America = 53
New Zealand = 18
Canada = 13
UK = 11
Australia = 3
Iceland = 1
Scotland = 1



1. Bright Eyes - America
2. Pearl Jam - America
3. The Phoenix Foundation - New Zealand
4. The Dears - Canada
5. Interpol - America
6. Fur Patrol - New Zealand
7. Pink Floyd - UK
8. Foo Fighters - America
9. The Arcade Fire - Canada
10. The Flaming Lips - America
11. The Cure - UK
12. Wilco - America
13. Eskimo Joe - Australia
14. Soundgarden - America
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - America
16. PJ Harvey - UK
17. Powerfinger - Australia
18. Pluto - New Zealand
19. Queens of the Stone Age - America
20. Rufus Wainwright - Canada
21. Cat Power - America
22. Jeff Buckley - America
23. The Beatles - UK
24. The Shins - America
25. Broken Social Scene - Canada
26. The Tea Party - Canada
27. The Accelerants - New Zealand
28. Bloc Party - UK
29. Betchadupa - New Zealand
30. Crowded House - New Zealand
31. Blondie - America
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Taken shamelessly from the followng journal entry by AngelxDirtyFace:
http://www.last.fm/user/angelxdirtyface/journal/2006/03/16/97287/


1. What are you listening to right now?
808 State - Azura from the Don Solaris album. Lou Rhodes from Lamb does the vocals on this track

2. What song makes you sad?
Live - "I Alone" from Throwing Copper. Dunno why, it's just made me sad since I first heard it.

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
I predict a riot - Kaiser Chiefs. The sooner they split the better; that man *cannot* sing for toffee.

4. Your all time favorite band?
The God Machine

5. Your newly discovered band is?
Asian Dub Foundation

6. Best female voice?
It's a dead heat between Julia Deans from Fur Patrol and Lou Rhodes from Lamb. Realistically, Lou probably wins.

7. Best male voice?
Brett Anderson from Suede, although Andrew Wood from Mother Love Bone comes a close second

8. Music type you find yourself listening to most?
Dub

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