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In response to TVLukes Blogpost

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.

#01 Linkin Park
1) Jay-Z and Linkin Park
2) Chester Bennington
3) Dead by Sunrise
4) Xero
5) Limp Bizkit
6) Papa Roach
7) Adema
8) P.O.D.

#02 Franz Ferdinand
9) Kaiser Chiefs
10) Arctic Monkeys
11) Kasabian
12) The Fratellis
13) The Strokes
14) The Last Shadow Puppets
15) The Killers
16) Muse

#03 Eminem
17) D12
18) 50 Cent
19) Benzino
20) Stat Quo
21) Obie Trice
22) Dr. Dre
23) Proof
24) Young Zee

#04 Hans Zimmer
25) Harry Gregson-Williams
26) James Horner
27) James Newton Howard
28) Klaus Badelt
29) Steve Jablonsky
30) Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard *
31) John Powell
32) Trevor Rabin

#05 System of a Down
33) Serj Tankian
34) Scars on Broadway
35) Slipknot
36) KoЯn
37) Disturbed
38) Drowning Pool
39) Rammstein
40) Stone Sour

#06 Red Hot Chili Peppers
41) John Frusciante
42) Ataxia
43) John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer *
44) Rage Against the Machine
45) Foo Fighters
46) Audioslave
47) Lenny Kravitz
48) Incubus

#07 The Beatles
49) George Harrison
50) John Lennon
51) Paul McCartney
52) Ringo Starr
53) Paul McCartney & Wings *
54) Wings
55) The Who
56) Paul & Linda McCartney *

#08 Alicia Keys
57) Mary J. Blige
58) Amerie
59) Beyoncé
60) Mariah Carey
61) Joss Stone
62) Leona Lewis
63) Aaliyah
64) Destiny's Child

#09 Howard Shore
65) John Williams
66) Hans Zimmer
James Horner
Harry Gregson-Williams
James Newton Howard
Klaus Badelt
67) Howard Shore & Sir James Galway
68) Howard Shore, Sir James Galway, Viggo Mortensen & Renée Fleming *

#10 Kai Rosenkranz
69) Jeremy Soule
70) Michael Hoenig
71) Adam Skorupa
72) Russell Shaw
73) Inon Zur
74) Jesper Kyd
75) Glenn Stafford
76) Bill Brown

#11 Seeed
77) Peter Fox
78) Culcha Candela
79) Ohrbooten
80) Boundzound
81) Mono & Nikitaman
82) Jan Delay
83) Nosliw
84) Martin Jondo

#12 Moby
85) Voodoo Child
86) Röyksopp
87) Fatboy Slim
88) Faithless
89) The Chemical Brothers
90) Massive Attack
91) Orbital
92) Groove Armada

#13 RMB
93) Marusha
94) Members of Mayday
95) Raver's Nature
96) Mellow Trax
97) Perplexer
98) Kai Tracid
99) Star Wash
100) Sunbeam

#14 K.I.Z.
101) Tarek und Massimo
102) Prinz Pi
103) K.I.Z. feat. Rhymin Simon
104) Kollegah
105) Favorite
106) Casper
107) Jack Orsen, Tarek und Tony Tone
108) Sido

#15 Mark Ronson
109) Daniel Merriweather
110) Just Jack
111) Sam Sparro
112) Gnarls Barkley
113) Lily Allen
114) Amy Winehouse
115) Mutya Buena
116) Flow Dynamics

#16 Fort Minor
117) Styles of Beyond
118) Fort Minor Feat. Black Thought Of The Roots & Styles Of Beyond *
119) Flipsyde
120) Eminem
121) Styles of Beyond feat. Mike Shinoda *
122) DJ Green Lantern
123) Gym Class Heroes
124) Cypress Hill

#17 Peter Fox
125) Seeed
Jan Delay
Culcha Candela
Ohrbooten
126) Deichkind
127) Miss Platnum
128) Fettes Brot
129) Sportfreunde Stiller

#18 Tiësto
130) Kamaya Painters
131) Armin van Buuren
132) Clear View
133) Allure
134) Ferry Corsten
135) Global Experience
136) Paul van Dyk
137) Progression

#19 Michael Hoenig
Jeremy Soule
138) Mark Morgan
Inon Zur
139) Ben Houge
Adam Skorupa
140) Kai Rosenkranz
141) Matt Uelmen
142) Jason Hayes

#20 Green Day
143) Foxboro Hot Tubs
144) Pinhead Gunpowder
145) The Network
146) Sum 41
147) blink-182
148) The Offspring
149) Billy Talent
150) Good Charlotte

150/160 - BAM!
And if you consider those artists marked with a * as duplucates too (which i do) it's still 143/160

After completing the list I wondered how many of these I had actually ever listened to. So I discarded all those artists which were not in my Last.fm library. This left me with 90 of the original 150.

Saw this somewhere else and thought it'd be nice to post mine.



Updated: 08-03-2010

rock-o-mania's top albums (12 months) 1. Moderat - Moderat (Deluxe Edition) (918) 2. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles (893) 3. Ellen Allien - Berlinette (750) 4. Modeselektor - Hello Mom! (503) 5. Sascha Funke - Mango (466) 6. Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself (446) 7. The Fray - The Fray (392) 8. Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling (351) 9. Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling: The Soundtrack (296) 10. Sascha Funke - Bravo (293) 11. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (259) 12. Various Artists - Lost in Translation (249) 13. The Fray - How To Save A Life (189) 14. Peter Fox - Stadtaffe (186) 15. Ellen Allien - Thrills (176) 16. The Ramones - Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology [Disc 1] (172) 17. R.E.M. - In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (154) 18. Green Day - Nimrod (128) 19. Kiki - Kaiku (111) 20. Ellen Allien - Stadtkind (111) 21. Paul Kalkbrenner - Zeit (107) 22. The Beatles - 1 (91) 23. The Beatles - Love (89) 24. Apparat - Things to be frickled (80) 25. Green Day - American Idiot (80) 26. R.E.M. - Live [Disc 1] (80) 27. R.E.M. - And I Feel Fine: The Best Of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 [Disc 1] (79) 28. Modeselektor - Happy Birthday! (78) 29. Elvis Costello - The Very Best Of Elvis Costello [Disc 1] (75) 30. Sascha Funke - Forms & Shapes Remixe (71) 31. Ellen Allien - Sool (68) 32. R.E.M. - Accelerate (68) 33. Green Day - Know Your Enemy (Single) (66) 34. Apparat - Walls (60) 35. Bruce Springsteen - The Essential Bruce Springsteen (disc 2) (59) 36. Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!! (59) 37. Green Day - Warning (56) 38. Paul Kalkbrenner - Self (54) 39. Green Day - Dookie (52) 40. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People (50) 41. Green Day - Insomniac (50) 42. Green Day - International Superhits (49) 43. Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits (48) 44. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment (48) 45. Green Day - 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour (45) 46. Paul Kalkbrenner - ReWorks (44) 47. R.E.M. - Around the Sun (40) 48. The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album) [Disc 1] (39) 49. The Beatles - Rubber Soul (39) 50. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (38)

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. Our Lady Peace
Raine Maida
Matthew Good Band
Matthew Good
Moist
The Trews
Neverending White Lights
I Mother Earth
Treble Charger

2. AFI
Son of Sam
Tiger Army
Anti-Flag
Alkaline Trio
Bad Religion
Pennywise
---Aiden
The Bouncing Souls

3. Green Day
Foxboro Hot Tubs
Pinhead Gunpowder
The Network
Sum 41
The Offspring
blink-182
Good Charlote
Billy Talent

4. Bright Eyes
Conor Oberst
Desaparecidos
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Commander Venus
Monsters of Folk
Son, Ambulence
The Good Life
Neva Dinova

5. Papa Roach
Three Days Grace
---Linkin Park
Adema
P.O.D.
---Breaking Benjamin
Drowning Pool
Limp Bizkit
---Lostprophets

6. Hoobastank
3 Doors Down
---Breaking Benjamin
---Lostprophets
---Trapt
---Three Days Grace
---Crossfade
Daughtry
---Hinder

7. Fall Out Boy
---Panic at the Disco
---The Academy Is...
---Cobra Starship
---The Cab
Midtown
---All Time Low
---My Chemical Romance
---Cute Is What We Aim For

8. Trapt
---Crossfade
---Breaking Benjamin
12 Stones
TRUSTcompany
Evans Blue
Smile Empty Soul
---Hinder
---Three Days Grace

9. The Used
---My Chemical Romance
From First to Last
Escape the Fate
---Aiden
Taking Back Sunday
Silverstein
Saosin
Senses Fail

10. The Killers
Franz Ferdinand
The Strokes
Kaiser Chiefs
Kings of Leon
Arctic Monkeys
Coldplay
The Bravery
White Lies

11. Augustana
Jack's Mannequin
The Fray
Something Corporate
We Shot The Moon
Thriving Ivory
Waking Ashland
Between the Trees
OneRepublic

12. Tickle Me Pink
Single File
National Product
I Hate Kate
Just Surrender
So They Say
The Sophomore Act
Dropout Year
Asteria

13. Zeromancer
Seigmen
Ljunblut
Deadstar Assembly
Dope Stars Inc.
Orgy
Jesus on Extasy
Celldweller
Razed in Black

14. Foo Fighters
Audioslave
Incubus
Them Crooked Vultures
Pearl Jam
Queens of the Stone Age
Nirvana
Soundgarden
Nickelback

15. Skillet
Thousand Foot Krutch
Red
Pillar
---Three Days Grace
Disciple
Kutless
Decyfer Down
Falling Up

16. Paramore
Hey Monday
Hayley Williams
---Flyleaf
VersaEmerge
---Boys Like Girls
Automatic Loveletter
---All Time Low
You Me At Six

17. 30 Seconds to Mars
---Three Days Grace
Kill Hannah
---Breaking Benjamin
---Lostprophets
---My Chemical Romance
Dead by Sunrise
---Flyleaf
---Linkin Park

18. The All-American Rejects
---Boys Like Girls
Yellowcard
Plain White T's
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
---All Time Low
Simple Plan
---Cute Is What We Aim For
---The Academy Is...

19. Panic at the Disco
---Fall Out Boy
---The Academy Is
---Cobra Starship
---The Cab
Forgive Durden
The Hush Sound
---My Chemical Romance
Black Gold

20. Garbage
Angelfish
The Cardigans
No Doubt
Republica
Auf der Maur
Veruca Salt
Hole
The Cranberries



121...
Meh, that's pretty much what I was expecting. My top 20 is still a little polluted from all the pop punk from last spring when that was pretty much the only thing I listened to. Now I don't really listen to it at all.
Also, I must say, I can't really believe that I don't like Three Days Grace after how many times it popped up on there.

Thought this might turn out interesting. xD This is what I do when I get bored.

~~~

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.

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(Artists aren't in a particular order)..
This is so hard because this is constantly changing!! >.>

1. Cinema Bizarre
~Tokio Hotel
~Lovex
~Negative
~LeFee
~Panik
~Killerpilze
~Fräulein Wunder

2. Green Day
~Foxboro Hot Tubs
~Pinhead Gunpowder
~The Network
~Sum 41
~The Offspring
~blink-182
~Good Charlotte

3. The Hush Sound
~Forgive Durden
~Panic at the Disco
~Charlotte Somtimes
~The Academy Is...
~This Providence
~Phantom Planet
~Eisley

4. Owl City
~Swimming With Dolphins
~Lights
~A Rocket To The Moon
~Breathe Carolina
~nevershoutnever!
~The Secret Handshake
~Breathe Electric

5. Tori Amos
~Charlotte Martin
~Kate Bush
~Alanis Morrisette
~PJ Harvey
~Poe
~Sarah Slean
~Fiona Apple

6. Flyleaf
~Fireflight
~Three Days Grace
~Sick Puppies
~Red
~Breaking Benjamin

7. Evanescence
~Amy Lee
~Within Temptation
~Lacuna Coil
~Ben Moody
~Nightwish
~Epica

8. Basshunter
~Cascada
~Tune Up!
~Special D
~DJ Splash
~Dj Satomi
~Groove Coverage

9. t.A.T.u.
~Serebro
~Юлия Савичева
~МакSим
~Линда
~Ничья
~Сергей Лазарев
~Britney Spears

10. The Fratellis
~Kaiser Chiefs
~Dirty Pretty Things
~The Pigeon Detectives
~Franz Ferdinand
~Arctic Monkeys
~The Wombats
~The Kooks

11. GACKT
~HYDE
~MALICE MIZER
~L'Arc~en~Ciel
~Chachamaru
~VAMPS
~-Miyavi-
~Acid Black Cherry

12. Utada Hikaru
~Utada
~Cubic U
~BoA
(There were 4 artists here whose names couldn't translate).

13. Hey Monday
~All Time Low
~We The Kings
~The Cab
~Boys Like Girls
~The Friday Night Boys
~Automatic Loveletter

14. Jimmy Eat World
~The Get Up Kids
~Dashboard Confessional
~Brand New
~Taking Back Sunday
~Something Corporate
~The Early November
~The Ataris

15. Meg & Dia
~VersaEmerge
~Daphne Loves Derby
~New Years Day
~Brighten

16. Muse
~Kasabian
~The Killers
~Keane

17. Radiohead
~Thom Yorke
~Jonny Greenwood
~Interpol
~Blur

18. Paramore
~Hayley Williams

19. Stream of Passion
~Delain
~Elfonía
~Ayreon
~Star One
~Ambeon
~Leaves' Eyes

20. Coldplay
~Snow Patrol
~Travis
~The Fray
~Oasis

I counted 121 but I have a feeling that's way off. :3
<3

rock-o-mania's top albums (overall)
1. Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling: The Soundtrack (971) 2. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles (869) 3. Moderat - Moderat (Deluxe Edition) (831) 4. Ellen Allien - Berlinette (772) 5. Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling (532) 6. Modeselektor - Hello Mom! (496) 7. Sascha Funke - Mango (486) 8. Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself (427) 9. The Fray - The Fray (326) 10. The Fray - How To Save A Life (300) 11. Sascha Funke - Bravo (284) 12. Paul Kalkbrenner - Zeit (280) 13. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (243) 14. Various Artists - Lost in Translation (240) 15. R.E.M. - In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (229) 16. Green Day - Nimrod (179) 17. Peter Fox - Stadtaffe (170) 18. Ellen Allien - Thrills (170) 19. The Beatles - 1 (169) 20. Green Day - American Idiot (161) 21. Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob (160) 22. Paul Kalkbrenner - Self (149) 23. Paul Kalkbrenner - ReWorks (139) 24. The Ramones - Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology [Disc 1] (133) 25. Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!! (124) 26. Elvis Costello - The Very Best Of Elvis Costello [Disc 1] (117) 27. Green Day - Insomniac (112) 28. The Beatles - Love (112) 29. Green Day - Dookie (109) 30. Ellen Allien - Stadtkind (101) 31. Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads (98) 32. R.E.M. - Accelerate (94) 33. Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll (92) 34. Kiki - Kaiku (92) 35. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment (91) 36. Green Day - Warning (88) 37. R.E.M. - Live [Disc 1] (69) 38. Mumm-Ra - These Things Move in Threes (67) 39. Apparat - Things to be frickled (65) 40. Sascha Funke - Forms & Shapes Remixe (65) 41. R.E.M. - And I Feel Fine: The Best Of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 [Disc 1] (65) 42. Green Day - Know Your Enemy (Single) (64) 43. The Enemy - We'll Live and Die in These Towns (63) 44. Bruce Springsteen - The Essential Bruce Springsteen (disc 2) (59) 45. Modeselektor - Happy Birthday! (58) 46. Ellen Allien - Sool (56) 47. Green Day - International Superhits (54) 48. Green Day - Kerplunk! (45) 49. Apparat - Walls (38) 50. The Beatles - With the Beatles (37)

1. How did you get into 29? (Midtown)
Give it Up had been sampled on a shitload of tv shows, so I figured I'd check it out.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Brand New)
Jesus Christ

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Empire of the Sun)
"Never looking down, I'm just in awe of what's in front of me."

4. What is your favorite album by 49? (The Color Fred)
None, to be perfectly honest.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (The All-American Rejects)
Three.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Oasis)
Whatever

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (David Cook)
Permenant.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (My Chemical Romance)
Don't really know..

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Jack's Mannequin)
Swim

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Cobra Starship)
They all do, but Guilty Pleasure never fails.

11. What is your favorite album by 40? (Boys Like Girls)
Haven't heard their new one, so Boys Like Girls.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Panic at the Disco)
Northern Downpour

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (The Audition)
When I saw them play, there was a powercut and Danny got the crowd to tell jokes. That, or "CAUSE I HAVE TASTED GRAPES!"

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (John Mayer)
Your Body Is A Wonderland.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Vampire Weekend)
A-Punk. (Jake!)

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? (Angels & Airwaves)
Never.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Tokio Hotel)
Monsoon. Good times auf Spainen.

18. What is your favorite album by 11? (Cute Is What We Aim For)
Rotation

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Fall Out Boy)
Patrick Stump.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? (Adam Lambert)
I wish.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (AFI)
Not sure, but they probably involve Steph. "Hey, Miss Curtain!"

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (smosh)
Boxman's Girlfriend

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Kill Hannah)
Lips Like Morphine.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (Taking Back Sunday)
Not sure.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Bowling for Soup)
Ew. Probably 1985.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (The Academy Is...)
We've Got A Big Mess On Our Hands

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (You Me At Six)
Well, considering Take Off Your Colours is their only album..

28. What is your favorite song by 2? (All Time Low)
Remembering Sunday

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Elliot Minor)
Jessica. Good times with Kizzy and co.

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Something Corporate)
Only Ashes.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Simple Plan)
Once, unfortunately.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Arctic Monkeys)
When the Sun Goes Down. He knows why.

33. What is you favorite album by 12? (Green Day)
Oh my God, that's not fair. No way can I choose!

34. What is the worst song by 45? (OneRepublic)
Surprisingly..I like them all.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Metro Station)
Control

36. What is you favorite album by 48? (The Cab)
Whatever the one I have is called. I can't remember..

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (The Pink Spiders)
Never.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (Paramore)
Pressure.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (The Killers)
Mr Brightside

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (blink-182)
blink-182.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (Kids In Glass Houses)
Give Me What I Want. (Martha!)

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Jimmy Eat World)
Not sure..

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Madina Lake)
Never Take Us Alive.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Hot Hot Heat)
Watching them on Yo Gabba Gabba.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Gym Class Heroes)
Cookie Jar.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (Paolo Nutini)
Pencil full of lead.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Good Charlotte)
Not sure, to be honest. (How did they get to 4?!)

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Foxboro Hot Tubs)
Billie Joe?! Soooo not Kevin.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Foals)
Cassius.

50. How many albums do you own by 20? (Billy Talent)
Three.