...alright, enough Shakespearean English for today. Out of my innate curiosity for all things statistical, I decided to delve deep into the wonderful world of last.fm related tests. Um...alright...no use denying it, I felt rather bored and came across these tests while skimming through some more or less generic journals here on last.fm. So I thought: "Well, if other people turn their humble test results into full-fledged journal entries, why shouldn't I?" And so here we are now, ent...er...without any further meaningless ado, let us begin.
Chapter 1 - I'll show ya just how extensive my musical taste is. You PUNK!
URL: http://keef.co.nr/?page=lastfm_test1
Description: The script lists the user's top 20 overall artists and lists the 8 most similar artists to each one, then deletes any repeated artists. The idea is to see how varied your taste is, a score of 9 is extremely unvaried while 160 represents an extremely varied one.
My Result:
1:
Saeko
2:
陰陽座
3:
Axxis
4:
Doro
5:
Rage
6:
Astral Doors
7:
Gamma Ray
8:
Therion
9:
Edguy
10:
Lacuna Coil
11:
Nightwish
12:
Within Temptation
13:
Evanescence
14:
After Forever
15:
Cradle of Filth
16:
Rammstein
17:
In Flames
18:
Theatre of Tragedy
19:
The String Quartet
20:
String Quartet
21:
The Section Quartet
22:
Weezer
23:
Foo Fighters
24:
The White Stripes
25:
Explosions in the Sky
26:
Danny Elfman
27:
Mogwai
28:
Sister Hazel
29:
Matchbox Twenty
30:
Vertical Horizon
31:
Counting Crows
32:
Hootie & the Blowfish
33:
Goo Goo Dolls
34:
Train
35:
Third Eye Blind
36:
Better Than Ezra
37:
Flowers From the Man Who Shot Your Cousin
38:
Cowbird
39:
Rivkah
40:
Sleepy Yule Overture
41:
Shantu
42:
Adeline Fargier
43:
Loons
44:
Lisa Li-Lund
45:
My Broken Frame
46:
LUNA SEA
47:
hide
48:
PIERROT
49:
X JAPAN
50:
L'Arc~en~Ciel
51:
GLAY
52:
Kagrra
53:
Gackt
54:
BUCK-TICK
55:
Ichirou Mizuki
56:
Kumiko Higa (Mandora Boy)
57:
Horan Chiaka (Nai) & Tomomi Kitagami (Mea)
58:
Atsushi Hashimoto (Kai)
59:
Takeshi Kusao (Smoky)
60:
Atsushi Mayumi
61:
Nobuo Yamada
62:
Hirona Matsumoto (Tsubasa)
63:
Yosuke Ichikawa (Hikaru)
64:
Vanilla Unity
65:
Rocket Diary
66:
Nell
67:
Boohwal
68:
Mellowyear
69:
My Aunt Mary
70:
Pia
71:
Monni
72:
SE7EN
73:
Animetal
74:
アニメタル
75:
Sex Machineguns
76:
Galneryus
77:
Siam Shade
78:
Anthem
79:
Concerto Moon
80:
Dark Chronicle
81:
final fantasy x
82:
Silbermond
83:
Juli
84:
Revolverheld
85:
Wir sind Helden
86:
Christina Stürmer
87:
Die Ärzte
88:
Sportfreunde Stiller
89:
Xavier Naidoo
90:
Rosenstolz
91:
鬼束ちひろ
92:
中島美嘉
93:
矢井田瞳
94:
Every Little Thing
95:
Do As Infinity
96:
椎名林檎
97:
大塚愛
98:
宇多田ヒカル
99:
倉木麻衣
100:
Madsen
101:
Tomte
102:
Kettcar
103:
Beatsteaks
104:
Farin Urlaub
105:
Mando Diao
106:
Olli Schulz & der Hund Marie
107:
Ten2Five
108:
Ribas
109:
Ello
110:
Audy
111:
Tompi
112:
Dua
113:
Glenn Fredly
114:
kahitna
115:
Andien
116:
ELLEGARDEN
117:
ストレイテナー
118:
BUMP OF CHICKEN
119:
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
120:
BEAT CRUSADERS
121:
ACIDMAN
122:
レミオロメン
123:
ART-SCHOOL
124:
GOING UNDER GROUND
125:
Virginia Jetzt!
126:
Anajo
127:
Tocotronic
128:
Hund am Strand
129:
The All-American Rejects
130:
Fall Out Boy
131:
Taking Back Sunday
132:
Yellowcard
133:
Panic! At the Disco
134:
Dashboard Confessional
135:
Sugarcult
136:
Jimmy Eat World
137:
Something Corporate
138:
Dead Can Dance
139:
Lisa Gerrard
140:
Cocteau Twins
141:
Bauhaus
142:
Brendan Perry
143:
The Sisters of Mercy
144:
This Mortal Coil
145:
Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
146:
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
147:
반야
148:
BeautifulDay
149:
Konami
150:
植松伸夫
151:
下村陽子
152:
Namco Sound Team
153:
三宅優
154:
Asuka Sakai
155:
Akitaka Tohyama
156:
Orange Pekoe
157:
EGO-WRAPPIN'
158:
Mondo Grosso
159:
BONNIE PINK
160:
Monday満ちる
161:
小島麻由美
162:
小野リサ
163:
Towa Tei
164:
Pizzicato Five
[I believe this is what you would call "off the chart". Surprised me as much as you.]
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[Due to it having been canceled, I couldn't get any updated score for this test. Ah well. Would've probably been even more off the chart.]
Chapter 2 - Mainstream? Me? No way.
URL: mainstream.vincentahrend.com
Description: The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates your mainstreamness by comparing the listener count of your favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users.
Of course, the results may be different from what you would've thought of as mainstream. Some bands which have a lot of listeners in real life don't have a large fanbase on Last.fm since people who use this service tend to be younger and more experienced with computers than the average person. Because of the restricted number of users, some genres like classical music and countries like India or the People's Republic of Chine are really underrepresented on Last.fm.
Since some users listen to all of their top artists equally while others have one top artist they listen to 99 percent of the time, the Meter also takes into account how much you listen to these bands in comparison. The artist you listen to most always gets a weight of 100%, while every other artist's play count in your profile is then compared to this.
My Result:
Azel_of_AnH's top artists:
Azel_of_AnH is 8.35 % mainstream
[Note the fact that 9 out of my 30 top artists are actually 0% mainstream. Yay.]
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[Seems like the nice formatting has up and gone MIA, but hey, who needs all those clicky connections anyway?]
Artist Mainstreamness Listeners Weight
1. Bright Eyes 41 % 735,964 100 %
2. Takeharu Ishimoto 0.39 % 7,006 70 %
3. ELLEGARDEN 2.8 % 50,305 62 %
4. Lacrimosa 6.44 % 115,578 58 %
5. Brett Dennen 5.34 % 95,816 50 %
6. 반야 0.3 % 5,350 50 %
7. Madsen 4.59 % 82,449 49 %
8. Sister Hazel 5.3 % 95,157 47 %
9. Saeko 0.05 % 932 45 %
10. Linkin Park 63.61 % 1,141,630 41 %
11. Forseti 0.31 % 5,501 41 %
12. Die Ärzte 12.99 % 233,226 40 %
13. 近藤浩治 2.67 % 47,934 40 %
14. System of a Down 63.81 % 1,138,745 40 %
15. Lacuna Coil 18.64 % 334,601 38 %
16. Damien Rice 36.79 % 660,270 37 %
17. Dragon Ash 2.6 % 46,648 35 %
18. In Extremo 6.17 % 110,741 29 %
19. Angela Aki 0.86 % 15,486 29 %
20. djpretzel 1.38 % 24,819 29 %
21. Ichirou Mizuki 0.01 % 260 28 %
22. LUNA SEA 2.54 % 45,672 28 %
23. 鬼束ちひろ 2.11 % 37,789 28 %
24. Jack Johnson 50.06 % 898,429 28 %
25. Toshiharu Yamanishi 0.02 % 383 27 %
26. Abandoned Pools 1.58 % 28,269 26 %
27. Dargaard 1.71 % 30,692 26 %
28. Vanilla Unity 0.05 % 831 26 %
29. The String Quartet 2.6 % 46,588 26 %
30. Mutsuhiko Izumi 0.13 % 2,244 26 %
12.76 % mainstream
[Despite some major changes in my Top 30 Artists, they still contain exactly 9 artists which are 0% mainstream. Why the big rise then? Obviously the fact that there's a lot of people who like the great music by Bright Eyes and Jack Johnson and some catching up with previously unheard material from LP and SOAD are the two main reasons. Could still be worse, right?]
Chapter 3 - "AEP" - what in blazes is THAT?
URL: http://www.davethemoonman.com/lastfm/aep.php
Description: AEP is a measure of how diverse your music tastes are, based on the top 50 artists in your Last.fm profile. It was invented by
C26000 and you can find full details about how it is computed
here. AEP is a number, usually below 5. Roughly speaking, if it is greater than 4 you have very diverse taste in music, if it greater than 3 then you have fairly diverse taste in music. At the other end of the scale, if it is less that 0, you are probably an obsessive fan of your top artist. If it less than -10, you are probably a fake top fan. Depending on which end of the scale you are, you can join either the
We Don't Have Exponential Profiles or the
We Have Exponential Profiles group.
My Result:
[Ooooh, a picture. How eye-candyish.]
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[Er...damn. Back then I kind of got so carried away by the precarious thought of allowing myself the luxury to use a PICTURE for displaying some three digit number I absolutely forgot to note what my actual AEP was in May of 2007. As you can see, the current one resides at 3.76 which should be lower by quite a big amount which I blame on my uncanny passion for anything Bright Eyes as well as for Takeharu Ishimoto. Man, I never would have imagined my profile could get this exponential.]
Chapter 4 - 折衷主義 (Eclecticism) [These are Kanji, you know.]
URL: http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php
Description: 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.
My Result:
My eclectic score is currently
96/100
The 96 related artists for my profile are ACIDMAN, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, Adeline Fargier, After Forever, Anajo, Antonio Vivaldi, Astral Doors, Atsushi Hashimoto (Kai), Atsushi Mayumi, Audy, Axxis, BEAT CRUSADERS, BONNIE PINK, BUMP OF CHICKEN, Bauhaus, Beatsteaks, BeautifulDay, Boohwal, Brendan Perry, Christina Stürmer, Cocteau Twins, Counting Crows, Cowbird, Cradle of Filth, Dashboard Confessional, Die Ärzte, Do As Infinity, Doro, Dua, EGO-WRAPPIN', Ello, Evanescence, Every Little Thing, Fall Out Boy, Farin Urlaub, Foo Fighters, GLAY, Galneryus, Georg Friedrich Händel, Goo Goo Dolls, HIDE, Hootie & the Blowfish, Horan Chiaka (Nai) & Tomomi Kitagami (Mea), Johann Sebastian Bach, Juli, KONAMI, Kettcar (2), Kumiko Higa (Mandora Boy), L'Arc~en~Ciel, Lisa Gerrard, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mellowyear, Monday満ちる, Mondo Grosso, My Aunt Mary, Namco Sound Team, Nell, Nightwish, Olli Schulz & der Hund Marie, Panic! At the Disco, Pierrot, Rage, Revolverheld, Ribas, Rivkah, Rocket Diary, Sex Machineguns, Shantu, Siam Shade, Sleepy Yule Overture, Sportfreunde Stiller (2), String Quartet, Takeshi Kusao (Smoky), Taking Back Sunday, The Section Quartet, The Sisters of Mercy, The White Stripes, Tompi, Tomte (2), Vertical Horizon, Weezer, Wir sind Helden, Within Temptation, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, X JAPAN (2), Yellowcard, matchbox twenty, アニメタル, ストレイテナー, 下村陽子, 中島美嘉, 小島麻由美, 植松伸夫, 椎名林檎, 矢井田瞳, 陰陽座
[I tend to think this is about the same as the extensive musical taste test, but come on, "eclecticism" sounds *way better* than that, doesn't it? Heh.]
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[Not that much of a change over here...]
Description: 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 Result:
My eclectic score is currently
99/100
The 99 related artists for my profile are 10-FEET, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, After Forever, Alexi Murdoch, Amos Lee, Arcana, Artesia, Autumn Tears, Azrael, BONNIE PINK, BUMP OF CHICKEN, Beatsteaks (2), Bela B., Bell X1, Clon, Conor Oberst, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, DJ Doc, Damien Rice & Lisa Hannigan, Dark Sanctuary, Darkwood, David Wise, Dead End, Desaparecidos, Die Toten Hosen, Die verbannten Kinder Evas, Disturbed, ELLEGARDEN, Elliott Smith, Epica, Farin Urlaub, Flowing Tears, Fort Minor, Fotos, Gin Blossoms, HY, Hootie & the Blowfish, Illuminate, Ingram Hill, Jay-Z and Linkin Park, Joe Purdy, KREVA, Kazuhiko Toyama, Kazumi Totaka, Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo, Kettcar, KoЯn, L'Âme Immortelle, Leah, Leaves' Eyes, Letzte Instanz, Limp Bizkit, Lisa Hannigan, London After Midnight, Lord Crome, Makiko Noda, Matt Costa, Moon of Steel, Nebelung, Nintendo, Of the Wand and the Moon, Orplid, Otto Dix, P.O.D., Papa Roach, Radwimps, Ray LaMontagne, Red Wine, Rize, Saltatio Mortis, Scars On Broadway, Schandmaul, Serj Tankian, Slipknot, Sonne Hagal, Sportfreunde Stiller, Subway to Sally, T.T.MA, Tanzwut, The Frames, The Good Life, Theatres des Vampires, Tom McRae, Tomte, Train, Vertical Horizon, WIZO, Within Temptation, Yahpp, ayaka, ケツメイシ, ストレイテナー, 伴都美子, 宇多田ヒカル, 平原綾香, 桜庭統, 植松伸夫, 浜渦正志, 젝스키스
[...but wait, there's more! After this nearly untoppable result I got cocky enough to try out the new Super-Eclectic Test which you may peruse at
http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/supereclectic.php. My lowdown is as follows:]
Description: Take your top 50 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 20 similar artists (where the artist itself is the #1 most similar). The resulting number of unique artists is your
super-eclectic score. You can compute your own score at
http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/supereclectic.php
My result:
My super-eclectic score is currently
841/1000
The most similar artists for my profile are 崎元仁 (3), 植松伸夫 (3), The Devil Wears Prada (3), Death Cab for Cutie (3), 光田康典 (3), Breaking Benjamin (3), Ray LaMontagne (3), David Gray (3), Papa Roach (3), Rilo Kiley (3)
Chapter 5 - One to rule them all: Tag Cloud Generation
URL: http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/index.php
Description:A musical user tag cloud is a textual depiction of one's listening habits, here based on musical social networking service Last.fm. The weight of a tag in the cloud is determined by the play counts of top artists in the user's profile, and the top tags for those artists, labeled as such by the Last.fm community.
Inclusion of these tag clouds in a user's profile increases the readability, since now it is often unclear what musical genres a user is listening to. Provided with a tag cloud, a visitor gets a quick overview of the user's musical preferences. Last.fm should consider putting tag clouds in user profile pages!
My Result:
[I absolutely dig the whole concept of tag clouds. This result probably contains the most (only?) interesting information of them all. Really neat/1337. Your choice.]
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[Might be my eyes or the fact it's gotten way too late for any kind of reasonable, meaningful comment yet again, but I can't help thinking these two tag clouds still look way too similar considering all the time that has passed and the mad amount of new music I've been listening too. Guess it's true habits don't break easily, eh?]
My Result:
Whoo, done. My apologies for not removing all those (artist)-Tags [and thus having like 180 artist connections for this journal], but it's about 3:00 at night and my only concern right now is to post this and finally go to bed. Expect some insanely exciting and intricately sculptured boatloads of journal entries in the future. Also, I WILL unveil the secret to the meaning of life right here in this journal. Some day.
My Broken Frame
No One. That's what i've got with friend of mine: findirectorr.
