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[Yakob]

Stolen from some stranger on Last.fm:

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 (When calculating your score, don't count your top 20 artists, only the similar artists).

My Score: 103

Top 20
The Beatles
The White Stripes
Pink Floyd
The Mountain Goats
Billy Talent
Nirvana
Radiohead
Avenged Sevenfold
Led Zeppelin
Rilo Kiley
Guns N' Roses
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Metallica
Wolfmother
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Fratellis
Metric
TV on the Radio
Devendra Banhart

Similar Artists
John Lennon 
The Rolling Stones 
Led Zeppelin
The Who 
Paul McCartney
Pink Floyd 
The Beach Boys 
George Harrison

The Raconteurs 
The Strokes 
Franz Ferdinand 
Pixies 
Weezer 
Yeah Yeah Yeahs 
Arctic Monkeys 
Queens of the Stone Age

Led Zeppelin 
Roger Waters 
David Gilmour 
The Doors 
The Beatles 
Jimi Hendrix 
The Who 
Queen

Neutral Milk Hotel 
The Decemberists 
Okkervil River 
John Vanderslice 
Sufjan Stevens 
The Magnetic Fields 
Silver Jews 
Iron & Wine

Pezz 
My Chemical Romance 
Rise Against 
Sum 41 
Bullet For My Valentine 
Lostprophets 
blink-182 
Fall Out Boy

Foo Fighters 
Red Hot Chili Peppers 
Alice in Chains 
Soundgarden 
The White Stripes 
The Smashing Pumpkins 
Pearl Jam 
Rage Against the Machine

Thom Yorke 
Beck 
Sigur Rós 
Coldplay 
Muse 
The Arcade Fire 
The Smashing Pumpkins 
The Flaming Lips

Atreyu 
Bullet For My Valentine 
Trivium 
Eighteen Visions 
Killswitch Engage 
Bleeding Through 
As I Lay Dying 
My Chemical Romance

Jimi Hendrix 
Pink Floyd 
The Who 
The Doors 
The Rolling Stones 
Cream 
Deep Purple 
Black Sabbath

 Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins 
Tilly and the Wall 
Bright Eyes 
The Decemberists 
Stars 
Death Cab for Cutie 
The Shins 
Tegan and Sara

Aerosmith 
AC/DC 
Metallica 
Mötley Crüe 
Led Zeppelin 
Van Halen 
Skid Row 
Ozzy Osbourne

Foo Fighters 
Nirvana 
Rage Against the Machine 
Audioslave 
Incubus 
Green Day 
System of a Down 
The White Stripes

Iron Maiden 
Megadeth 
Pantera 
Slayer 
Black Sabbath 
System of a Down 
Guns N' Roses 
AC/DC

The White Stripes 
Queens of the Stone Age 
The Raconteurs 
Led Zeppelin 
Eagles of Death Metal 
Foo Fighters 
Muse 
Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Arcade Fire 
Wolf Parade 
Broken Social Scene 
Neutral Milk Hotel 
The Decemberists 
The Shins 
The New Pornographers 
Sufjan Stevens

The Decemberists 
of Montreal 
The Arcade Fire 
The Shins 
Wolf Parade 
The Unicorns 
Yo La Tengo 
Pavement

Arctic Monkeys 
Razorlight 
The Kooks 
Kaiser Chiefs 
The View 
Dirty Pretty Things 
Kasabian 
The Killers

Stars 
Broken Social Scene 
Rilo Kiley 
Tegan and Sara 
Feist 
The Arcade Fire 
Death Cab for Cutie 
The Shins

Wolf Parade 
The Arcade Fire 
Broken Social Scene 
Yo La Tengo 
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 
Spoon 
Tapes 'n Tapes 
Modest Mouse

Joanna Newsom 
Animal Collective 
Vetiver 
Cat Power 
CocoRosie 
Sufjan Stevens 
Iron & Wine 
Vashti Bunyan 

[Jackie Blue]

This is way too much effort to put into just to prove how cool I am.

[IronOxide]

http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

I got 73, and it makes this game far too easy.

[Yakob]

Well that's no fun 

Edit: Mine's 79, btw

[2wenty7]

How eclectic is the musical preference of nickholland?

nickholland's eclectic score is

60/100

Not bad...not good. But not bad.

[Jackie Blue]

The problem is that last.fm is a really, really skewed view of what I like the most or listen to the most.  Last.fm doesn't take into account ANY actual CD I listen to, and for some reason doesn't count mp3s I play, either.  Since most of my music listening is done on a stereo, my last.fm profile is more indicative of "What artists I like that are or were in some sense popular", which is why bands like Pavement are way up on my list despite the fact that I actually stopped listening to Pavement albums about a decade ago because I am burned out on them.

[Liz]

The little script gave me 75/100. I was expecting it to be lower, I really don't listen to that big of a variety.

I agree with zero on this one, last.fm has a big problem in that you can't delete artists anymore. There are foour or five artists in my top 20 that I'm pretty much burnt out on but used to love therefore they will be hanging out there for some time in the future.

[Inlander]

I don't use Last.fm, but I listen to classical and blues and country and bluegrass and reggae and ska and dub and jazz from the 30s to the 60s and 50s rock 'n' roll and 60s singer-songwriter and 70s punk and proto-punk and 80s post-punk and new-wave and 90s grunge and "indie" and "I.D.M." and . . .

[SeanBateman]

88/100 bitches. I really am cooler than all of you.

[SeanBateman]

No fuck you I win.

[Jackie Blue]

BCUZ BEING ELCECTIC MEANZ U TIHNK MOAR BOUT MUSIX.

its true i raed it on wikpedea

[Jackie Blue]

I have always said that my "eclectic" taste in music is just an incidental side-effect of mental illness.

There is a potentially serious answer, I guess.  Since one of the hallmarks of being truly Zen is the ability to hold two thoughts in one's mind simultaneously without going bonkers, it could follow that being able to hold the appreciation of radically different styles in mind signifies that you have a deeper-than-visceral understanding of sound waves.

...or something.  I'm not drunk enough to have this discussion yet.

[Yakob]

Don't think that's the same thing Yakob did

It's not the exact same but it's very similar. Mine used 8 similar artists while that handy little link used the top 5.

[a pack of wolves]

Why do we assume that being eclectic is better than having narrowed down? Just curious.

I don't think it is necessarily better, I reckon a lot of the basis for the claim that narrowing down isn't as good comes from the consumerist record collector mindset. Then again, I'd say it also comes from people who're dismissive and prejudiced about certain kinds of music without good reason. And probably a few other things lobbed in as well. Personally, I reckon that if it's what really drives you then sticking to metal is as fine as going for a buffet approach. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.

[bff]

No fuck you I win.

No, I win 91/100
 
 

[Jackie Blue]

Someone on a local message board challeneged me to name 1000 bands I like, because I had said I like at least a thousand bands.

I just typed up the first 100 in under 10 minutes without even stopping to think.

When I've finished the whole list, I'll post it here and I fucking win, bitches!

NB: I am getting close to drunk, but at least I can spell when I drunk-post!

[supersheep]

There is a potentially serious answer, I guess.  Since one of the hallmarks of being truly Zen is the ability to hold two thoughts in one's mind simultaneously without going bonkers, it could follow that being able to hold the appreciation of radically different styles in mind signifies that you have a deeper-than-visceral understanding of sound waves.

[ravenjade]

87/100

Not bad. XD

[KharBevNor]

Man, eclectic scores are so last season. It's all about the Open Mind Index nowadays:

http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php

[Caspian]

85/100.

And Khar is right. I got either 117 or 123, I forget which.

Also: I fail to see what is so good about open mindedness. Narrow mindedness for the win.

[Thrillho]

Fuck this game.

I'm eclectic, so fuck you.

Fuck youuuuuuuuuuu! *shakes fist*

[kablaaamo]

85/100.

And Khar is right. I got either 117 or 123, I forget which.

Also: I fail to see what is so good about open mindedness. Narrow mindedness for the win.

I got 65/100 on my 'eclectic' score. It seems they're having server issues with the open mind index at the moment, but I've done it before and my score is in the mid-60s for it too if I recall correctly.

I have two issues with these though. The major one is that the 'similar artists' that guide the first score and the genre tags that guide the second are both put in by the users of the site, and seriously, they're useless. Anything and everything gets tagged with 'indie', including bands like the Beatles, and the Arcade Fire is listed as a similar artist for half the stuff I listen to just because they're 'indie darlings' and so many people listen to them as well as the bands that I do. (Radiohead comes up really often too as a similar artist for this reason.)

That being said...although a lot of stuff is lumped together in generic groups when it shouldn't be, I DON'T actually have a particularly varied taste in music, and I recognize it. Violins get me every time and if you chuck them into a pretty pop band, I'll probably enjoy it.  And I don't think that knowing what I like best makes me a bad music fan. It's lame if you dismiss the possibility of liking anything outside of a certain genre and if you entirely stop exploring and listening to different things, but returning to a comfort zone most of the time? That's alright.

[Inlander]

Khar, what are the differences between "Goth", "Gothic", and "Gothic Rock"?

[Jackie Blue]

I just finished up to #600 on my List Of A Thousand Artists I Like.  So far I've been naming them off the top of my head without even consulting my collection.  It's getting tough, though.

What's really interesting is that the list isn't panning out.  I mean, in the last 100 I just now remembered to put Gowns and No Age, who made two of my favorite albums this year.

[dalconnsuch]

105 for me, but what does this proove?

[SeanBateman]

No fuck you I win.

No, I win 91/100
 
 

Yeah but you like Korn.

[Soidanae]

92/100 with the script.  Don't feel like the hardcore version in OP.

OMI:

[Misereatur]

This is way too much effort to put into just to prove how cool I am.

[IronOxide]

I guess that means not bad?

[Inlander]

Okay. That's it. I can't take it any more. I could handle having "Goth", "Gothic", and "Gothic Rock" all as separate categories. I could even turn a blind eye to the splitting of "Indie", "Indie Pop", and "Indie Rock". But now I'm calling bullshit on this chart system. Even if you accept that genres in popular music are a sketchy proposition at best, there's no escaping the fact that "Canadian" IS NOT A GENRE.

[Johnny C]

Have you heard The Weakerthans?

[Spinless]

You could have maybe 50 genres in your last FM and an 'eclectic score' of over 200.

By listening to Broken Social Scene and several related bands.
Listening to Broken Social Scene and several related bands is NOT eclectic taste. That is why this thread is poop.

[Johnny C]

I dunno, dude, off the top of my head here are artists associated with Broken Social Scene.

Amy Millan
Jason Collett
Stars
Metric
The Dears
Young Galaxy
K-Os
Feist
Do Make Say Think

Two alt-country acts, one dream-pop band, one synth-rock band, one chamber-pop band, one space-rock band, one rapper one folk-pop singer and one symphonic post-rock band. Pretty eclectic!

This thing is shit for entirely different reasons really.

[Spinless]

It does sound eclectic when you say it like that, but there's almost a unifying aspect to a lot of the bands/artist that makes them sound similar somehow. You could apply several genre titles to each one, yet still categorise them under a catch-all blanket term, which would still be fair.

I'm also one of those irritating people think that source of the music is important when you're claiming to be eclectic too, so when they all come from the same source or are all popular in a certain subculture, I don't think that you can truly claim to have 'eclectic' taste.

[Jackie Blue]

"Canadian" IS NOT A GENRE.

Neither is "Japanese" or "anime" for that matter.

[IronOxide]

Fuck you Canadians are their own genre because they will defile the rest of my collection with their socialized health care and winter sports.

[Caspian]

I just realised the OP had AVENGED SEVENFOLD in his top 10.

And NO ONE has done a witty flame to it.

SERIOUSLY WTF

[Hat]

so varied

[Tom]

Two alt-country acts, one dream-pop band, one synth-rock band, one chamber-pop band, one space-rock band, one rapper one folk-pop singer and one symphonic post-rock band. Pretty eclectic!

This thing is shit for entirely different reasons really.

Which one of those is the Dears?

On a side not, Nat Yanchak defines the Dears as, yes I'm totally fuckin' serious, orchestral pop noir romantique and that they pioneered it.

[Yakob]

I just realised the OP had AVENGED SEVENFOLD in his top 10.

And NO ONE has done a witty flame to it.

SERIOUSLY WTF

I'm honestly completely over them now. I was quite the impressionable young teen 10 months ago!

Which one of those is the Dears?

It looks to me that the genres are in order of the artist's apperance in the post.

[Thrillho]

Oh come on man. Less of the rash self-justification. Show some nuts! Everyone here likes or has liked shitty music. I know I certainly do, and I'm not afraid to admit it.

[ledhendrix]

Paul Simon-You Can Call Me Al. Some shitty music is great just because it is so ridiculously cheesy.

[jeph]

my musical taste is so varied the police come to my house and they're like DAAAAAAAMN

my musical taste is so varied when it walks up the stairs people behind it are like DAAAAAAAMN

my musical taste is so varied Oprah Winfrey is eating pancakes in the morning and she's like DAAAAAAAMN

my musical taste is so varied when it roll over next to you in bed you're like DAAAAAAAMN

[pentaen]

w00t 83
  Dammmnnnnn

[Der Turm, der Leute frass]

my musical taste is so varied the police come to my house and they're like DAAAAAAAMN

my musical taste is so varied when it walks up the stairs people behind it are like DAAAAAAAMN

my musical taste is so varied Oprah Winfrey is eating pancakes in the morning and she's like DAAAAAAAMN

my musical taste is so varied when it roll over next to you in bed you're like DAAAAAAAMN

[est]

How eclectic is the musical preference of est_xplosif?

est_xplosif's eclectic score is 81/100

I don't get it.  I pretty much listen to dance and electro these days.  My taste is not very eclectic at all.  This fucking thing is broken.

[Inlander]

Paul Simon-You Can Call Me Al. Some shitty music is great just because it is so ridiculously cheesy.

What are you saying. What the fuck are you saying.

[est]

Dude, what the fuck is he saying?

[est]

I WILL DO IT

[ledhendrix]

Don't try and hurt me. It doesn't work over the internet, you'll just be wasting your time.