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Modest Mouse
Interpol
Fleet Foxes
From First to Last
Vampire Weekend
Scary Kids Scaring Kids? (i know they're breaking up but they said something about a new album)

Underoathx4
Silversteinx4
The Devil Wears Pradax4
Chiodosx4
Rise Againstx3
Protest the Herox3
Moneenx2
Billy Talentx2
Anti-Flagx2
Alesanax2
Drop Dead, Gorgeousx2
Flogging Mollyx2
illScarlettx2
Saosinx2
From First to Lastx2
Escape the Fatex2
Norma Jeanx2
The Stiletto Formal
Blessthefall
Bullet For My Valentine
Comeback Kid
2Cents
The Bled
My Chemical Romance
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Idiot Pilot
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Eighteen Visions
Bayside
My American Heart
Paramore
The Almost
A Static Lullaby
Taking Back Sunday
Armor for Sleep
Emery
Alexisonfire
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Lights
Greeley Estates
Family Force 5
A Skylit Drive
OK Volca
Shades of Dusk
A Dead Motion
GodFalls
Innerpartysystem
A Day to Remember
Sky Eats Airplane
Emarosa
Haste the Day
Breaking the fourth wall
Adessa
Colossus Of Rhodes
Oh, Sleeper
The Chariot
Agraceful
A Plea For Purging
Project 86
Sleeping Giant
Architects
Bring Me the Horizon
Every Time I Die

1. How did you get into 29? blink-182 & The Killers
Errr... blink, I've no idea. It was like... 6 or 7 years ago. And The Killers I think by hearing Somebody Told Me on the radio.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Dropkick Murphys
Bastards on Parade

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? Our Lady Peace
you worry about the future; the sign said "yoga class for cats"
it's okay...

4. What is your favorite album by 49? 30 Seconds to Mars
A Beautiful Lie

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Story of the Year
0

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Johnny Cash
A Boy Named Sue

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? My Chemical Romance
I'm Not Okay kinda makes me feel worse if I listen to it when depressed

8. What is your favorite song by 15? Switchfoot
Easier Than Love & Awakening

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Sum 41
Sooo many, but Hooch has been played a lot lately.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? HIM
I guess their cover of Larger Than Life is amusing...

11. What is your favorite album by 40? 12 Stones
12 Stones

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Good Charlotte
The World is Black

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Three Days Grace
No 30.

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
No 38.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Gob
Ming Tran

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? Simple Plan
0

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? The Offspring & The Sounds
Dunno The offspring / Living in America

18. What is your favorite album by 11? Zebrahead
MFZB

19. Who is your favorite member of 1? Rise Against
Tim McIlrath

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Anti-Flag
Nada

21. What is a good memory involving 27? Nickelback
Nothing.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? Fightstar / 3 Doors Down
We Apologize For Nothing / Loser

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Billy Talent
Nothing to Lose

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Bad Religion
The Gray Race

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Cauterize
Something Beautiful

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? All Time Low
Acoustic version of Six Feet Under the Stars

27. What is your favorite album by 3? Ramones
Mondo Bizarro

28. What is your favorite song by 2? Social Distortion
Reach for the Sky<3

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Mobile
See Right Through Me

30. What is your favorite song by 8? Pennywise
Alien

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
No 17.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
No 44.

33. What is your favorite album by 12? Placebo
Without You I'm Nothing

34. Do you own any merchandise of 45? Scary Kids Scaring Kids
nope

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Paramore
Misery Business?

36. What is your favorite album by 48? The All-American Rejects
Move Along

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? The 69 Eyes
0

38. What is your favorite song by 36? Ten Second Epic
Old Habits Die Hard

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Three Days Grace
uh. /Pain?

40. What is your favorite album by 7? Jonas Brothers
Jonas Brothers

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Faber Drive
G-Get Up and Dance, I guess. Not that I'm ever happy...

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Smile Empty Soul
Anxiety

43. What is your favorite song by 24?
No 24.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? Matt Willis
Music video for Crash. Gotta love Mr. Bean :)

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Linkin Park
Breaking the Habit

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Lostprophets
no

47. What is your favorite album by 4? CKY
Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild & An Answer Can Be found

48. Who is your favorite member of 37? Flogging Molly & Treble Charger
Flogging Molly, dunno / Treble Charger, dunno

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? Smashing Pumpkins & Misfits
No idea.

50. How many albums do you own by 20? Green Day
2: Dookie & American Idiot. Well, Dookie was 'borrowed' off my mum's bf... but he had 2 copies, I'm sure it's not missed.

1. How did you get into 29? blink-182 & The Killers
Errr... blink, I've no idea. It was like... 6 or 7 years ago. And The Killers I think by hearing Somebody Told Me on the radio.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Dropkick Murphys
Bastards on Parade

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? Our Lady Peace
you worry about the future; the sign said "yoga class for cats"
it's okay...

4. What is your favorite album by 49? 30 Seconds to Mars
A Beautiful Lie

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Story of the Year
0

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Johnny Cash
A Boy Named Sue

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? My Chemical Romance
I'm Not Okay kinda makes me feel worse if I listen to it when depressed

8. What is your favorite song by 15? Switchfoot
Easier Than Love & Awakening

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Sum 41
Sooo many, but Hooch has been played a lot lately.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? HIM
I guess their cover of Larger Than Life is amusing...

11. What is your favorite album by 40? 12 Stones
12 Stones

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Good Charlotte
The World is Black

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Three Days Grace
No 30.

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
No 38.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Gob
Ming Tran

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? Simple Plan
0

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? The Offspring & The Sounds
Dunno The offspring / Living in America

18. What is your favorite album by 11? Zebrahead
MFZB

19. Who is your favorite member of 1? Rise Against
Tim McIlrath

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Anti-Flag
Nada

21. What is a good memory involving 27? Nickelback
Nothing.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? Fightstar / 3 Doors Down
We Apologize For Nothing / Loser

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Billy Talent
Nothing to Lose

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Bad Religion
The Gray Race

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Cauterize
Something Beautiful

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? All Time Low
Acoustic version of Six Feet Under the Stars

27. What is your favorite album by 3? Ramones
Mondo Bizarro

28. What is your favorite song by 2? Social Distortion
Reach for the Sky<3

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Mobile
See Right Through Me

30. What is your favorite song by 8? Pennywise
Alien

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
No 17.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
No 44.

33. What is your favorite album by 12? Placebo
Without You I'm Nothing

34. Do you own any merchandise of 45? Scary Kids Scaring Kids
nope

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Paramore
Misery Business?

36. What is your favorite album by 48? The All-American Rejects
Move Along

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? The 69 Eyes
0

38. What is your favorite song by 36? Ten Second Epic
Old Habits Die Hard

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Three Days Grace
uh. /Pain?

40. What is your favorite album by 7? Jonas Brothers
Jonas Brothers

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Faber Drive
G-Get Up and Dance, I guess. Not that I'm ever happy...

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Smile Empty Soul
Anxiety

43. What is your favorite song by 24?
No 24.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? Matt Willis
Music video for Crash. Gotta love Mr. Bean :)

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Linkin Park
Breaking the Habit

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Lostprophets
no

47. What is your favorite album by 4? CKY
Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild & An Answer Can Be found

48. Who is your favorite member of 37? Flogging Molly & Treble Charger
Flogging Molly, dunno / Treble Charger, dunno

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? Smashing Pumpkins & Misfits
No idea.

50. How many albums do you own by 20? Green Day
2: Dookie & American Idiot. Well, Dookie was 'borrowed' off my mum's bf... but he had 2 copies, I'm sure it's not missed.

Anti-Flag
Bad Religion
Big D & The Kids Table
blink-182
Breathe Carolina
Chiodos (x2)
A Day to Remember
The Devil Wears Prada (x3)
Emery
Every Time I Die
The Fall of Troy
Flogging Molly
From First to Last
Less Than Jake
NOFX
Reel Big Fish
Say Anything
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Senses Fail
Streetlight Manifesto
Subcolour (x2)
Trophy Scars (x2)
Weezer

so as a testament to my never ending hunt for good new music to obsess over, i'm going to listen to every song in this list at least once to see if i like any of it and if this script is worth a shit. will report back over the months as i work through it..

Recommended Songs (sorted by most recommended songs)

Call Me Sick Boy - Hopes Die Last (Score: 247.49)
Chemical Kids and Mechanical Brides - Pierce the Veil (Score: 202.33)
The Guillotine - Escape the Fate (Score: 185.05)
Broken Stars - Silverstein (Score: 180.31)
Ghost In The Mirror - Motionless In White (Score: 169.16)
Sound the alarm - Adept (Score: 158.26)
A Great Fire - Silverstein (Score: 157)
No Vacancy - Breathe Carolina (Score: 156.96)
To Keep From Getting Burned - Motionless In White (Score: 153.94)
My Darkest Hour - Scary Kids Scaring Kids (Score: 148.71)
Symptoms of a Failing System - Our Last Night (Score: 144.64)
The Business Of Living - Adept (Score: 143.57)
Goodbye My Love - LoveHateHero (Score: 143.52)
Numbers - Sky Eats Airplane (Score: 140.71)
Photographic Memory - Sky Eats Airplane (Score: 138.25)
Escape - Our Last Night (Score: 135.99)
Boiled Frogs - Alexisonfire (Score: 135.66)
This Could Be Anywhere In The World - Alexisonfire (Score: 129.12)
Children Of The Night - The Blackout (Score: 117.56)
Faces - Scary Kids Scaring Kids (Score: 115.46)
Red Dress - LoveHateHero (Score: 112.65)
My love for you is bombproof - Dying Diva (Score: 100.93)
I Owe You One - Lights (Score: 100)
It's Lonely At the Top [Or So I've Heard] - Burden of a Day (Score: 100)
This Is Usually The Part Where People Scream - Alesana (Score: 98.28)
Show Me Yours - Breathe Carolina (Score: 96.92)
Tilting the Hourglass - Alesana (Score: 95.75)
Take a Bow - Muse (Score: 94.74)
Scavenger - A Static Lullaby (Score: 93.77)
Can't Let Up - The Word Alive (Score: 92.84)
My Darkness - Destroy The Runner (Score: 92.16)
Drella - Pierce the Veil (Score: 92.01)
I Belong To The Skies - Hopes Die Last (Score: 90.2)
Black Lungs & Dollar Signs - Herbrightskies (Score: 89.56)
Holes - Confide (Score: 85.42)
There's No Sympathy for the Dead - Escape the Fate (Score: 84.86)
Poker Face - Of Mice & Men (Score: 83.55)
Our Friend Lazarus Sleeps - I Am Ghost (Score: 80.07)
Read Between - Cry Of The Afflicted (Score: 79.62)
Escape Artists Never Die - Funeral for a Friend (Score: 79.39)
shutthefuckuppercut - The Blackout (Score: 77.63)
Drop Me Off At The Bridge - We Are The Emergency (Score: 76.97)
The Seduction - He Is Legend (Score: 76.03)
Dead March - Architects (Score: 75.58)
Prom Queen has No Friends - Broadway (Score: 74.52)
XOXOXO - Secret And Whisper (Score: 74.52)
The After Dinner Payback - From Autumn to Ashes (Score: 73.56)
If We Speak Quietly - Lower Definition (Score: 70.48)
Recovery - Our Last Night (Score: 70.43)
Currents Convulsive - Pierce the Veil (Score: 70.05)
Robots 3 Humans 0 - Norma Jean (Score: 67.04)
Hot Water on Wool - Dance Gavin Dance (Score: 66.43)
Breathe - Scary Kids Scaring Kids (Score: 64.76)
Goodbye, Goodnight, For Good - Alesana (Score: 64.28)
Thoughts In Reverse - Destroy The Runner (Score: 63.99)
Voices - Saosin (Score: 63.65)
Timing Is Everything - Our Last Night (Score: 62.05)
Apology - Alesana (Score: 61.33)
Anyone Can Dig a Hole But it Takes a Real Man to Call it Home - Underoath (Score: 61.19)
Seven Years - Saosin (Score: 59.73)
Antarctica Inside Me - Poison the Well (Score: 59.35)
Security Without Doubts - Dear Whoever (Score: 58.84)
On The Offensive - From Autumn to Ashes (Score: 55.83)
The Fire - The Blackout (Score: 55.51)
Alex English - Dance Gavin Dance (Score: 54.59)
Ambrosia - Alesana (Score: 54.51)
American Dream - Silverstein (Score: 54.03)
Killer Likes Candy - I Am Ghost (Score: 53.07)
Moving for the Sake of Motion - Underoath (Score: 51.82)
The Greatest Story Ever Told - Ice Nine Kills (Score: 51.55)
Making Waves - Life in Your Way (Score: 50.8)
Some Live Their Lives - Herbrightskies (Score: 50.41)
Miami Nights - Lower Definition (Score: 50.13)
Something - Escape the Fate (Score: 49.55)
Disregard the Formula - Harp and Lyre (Score: 49.12)
Deth Kult Social Club - From Autumn to Ashes (Score: 48.47)
Tempus Vincit Omnia - Hopes Die Last (Score: 48.25)
Are You On Drugs - The Word Alive (Score: 47.86)
Still Fly (Big Tymers) - The Devil Wears Prada (Score: 47.86)
Affliction: The Witness, The Advocate - A Hope For Home (Score: 47.62)
Retribution - A Plea For Purging (Score: 47.06)
After A Storm - Sever Your Ties (Score: 46.27)
The Antidote - Story of the Year (Score: 46.19)
Prelude To A Dream - A Skylit Drive (Score: 46.13)
Milligram Smile - From Autumn to Ashes (Score: 45.74)
Hang 'Em High - A Static Lullaby (Score: 45.23)
This War Is Ours (The Guillotine II) - Escape the Fate (Score: 44.59)
Finding Home - Saosin (Score: 44.17)
Thanks For Coming (I like you dead) - Hopes Die Last (Score: 44.05)
Bleeding Mascara - Atreyu (Score: 42.97)
Roses for the Dead - Funeral for a Friend (Score: 42.85)
It's So Simple - Saosin (Score: 42.78)
METEMPSYCHOSIS - Helia (Score: 42.51)
Timothy - As Cities Burn (Score: 42.43)
Sleepers - Saosin (Score: 42.4)
An Era of Treachery - Adept (Score: 42.21)
Drunks, Lovers, Sinners And Saints - Alexisonfire (Score: 41.91)
All We Ever See Of Stars Are Their Old Photographs - We Are The Emergency (Score: 41.71)
The Grass Is Greener On Our Side - We Are The Emergency (Score: 41.04)
Pioneers - From Autumn to Ashes (Score: 40.88)

#eof

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. The Academy Is...
Cobra Starship
This Providence
The Cab
Midtown
Remember Maine
We The Kings

2. Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romance
Hey Monday

3. Forgive Durden
Gatsby’s American Dream
The Hush Sound
The Dear Hunter
CitizensFOB Mixtape
Brighten

4. The Maine
The Summer Set
The Friday Night Boys
Sing It Loud
Every Avenue

5. Mayday Parade
Boys Like Girls

6. Port Blue
Sumner McKane
Childs
Glowworm
Hammock
Lights Out Asia
Message to Bears
Anoice
The American Dollar

7. There For Tomorrow
Anarbor
Artist Vs Poet

8. Chiodos
Pierce the Veil
Dance Gavin Dance
A Skylit Drive
Emarosa
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
The Devil Wears Prada
Alesana

9. All Time Low

10. Panic at the Disco

11. VersaEmerge
Paramore
Automatic Loveletter
Renfue
Conditions
Isles & Glaciers
Kenotia

12. A Rocket To The Moon
This Century

13. The Almost
Saosin
Emery
Ivoryline
Oh, Sleeper
As Cities Burn
Confide
akissforjersey

14. Forever the Sickest Kids

15. Hit the Lights
Valencia
The Years Gone By
Fireworks
Farewell
Houston Calls

16. Underoath
Blessthefall
In Fear and Faith

17. nevershoutnever!
Stephen Jerzak
nickasaur!
Chase Coy
Stereo Skyline
The Ready Set

18. Owl City
Swimming With Dolphins
Lights
Breathe Carolina
The Secret Handshake
Breathe Electric
PlayRadioPlay!

19. Ratatat
E*vax
The Octopus Project
MSTRKRFT
Passion Pit
Hot Chip
LCD Soundsystem
Black Moth Super Rainbow
RJD2

20. You, Me, and Everyone We Know
The Dangerous Summer

ouch, 97
I swear, I got All Time Low about 10 times :|

I think I might just wind up doing this thing weekly... It's quite amusing, and helps to pass the time whilst bored :)

1. How did you get into 29? Mobile
I do know for a fact that it's because of seeing their music video for See Right Through Me, although I've no idea when or where... although when was most likely back around when it was first released, and where was on the TV (since that's where I seemed to discover a lot of new music years ago)

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Simple Plan
Possibly Perfect. Or maybe Addicted... one of those too... plus also maybe I'd Do Anything.

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? Linkin Park
i don't want to be the one, the battles always choose;
'cause inside i realize that i'mm the one confused

4. What is your favorite album by 49? Elvis Costello
uuuuuuhmm...idunno

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? 3 Doors Down
0

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Faith in the Knife

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Faber Drive
Again

8. What is your favorite song by 15? Lostprophets
A Town Called Hypocrisy, 4am Forever, A Million Miles, and I Don't Know

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Sum 41
Sooo many, but Hooch has been played a lot lately.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? HIM
I guess their cover of Larger Than Life is amusing...

11. What is your favorite album by 40? Smashing Pumpkins
no idea

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Zebrahead
Hello Tomorrow

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Three Days Grace
First concert.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? The 69 Eyes
Lost Boys

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Fightstar
uhm. No.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? The Offspring
0

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? Dropkick Murphys
Bastards on Parade

18. What is your favorite album by 11? Placebo
I don't really care about the fucking albums.. so. Passing on...

19. Who is your favorite member of 1? Rise Against
Tim McIlrath

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Switchfoot
Nope.

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
No number 27.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? Bad Religion
Shattered Faith

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Johnny Cash
Dunno.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Story of the Year
'Cause this question's never been asked before... I kinda just like them all, actually.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Cauterize
Something Beautiful

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? The Sounds
uh... I think Living in America

27. What is your favorite album by 3? Social Distortion
Firstly, how in the fuck are they at 3 now? But... Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell and Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N Roll :)

28. What is your favorite song by 2? Ramones
Something to Believe In, Cabbies on Crack, It's Gonna Be Alright, She Talks to Rainbows, Poison Heart

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Cauterize
Misery Business

30. What is your favorite song by 8? Pennywise
Alien

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Gob
0

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Billy Talent
Nope.

33. What is your favorite album by 12? (Dashboard Confessional)
The Swiss Army Romance

34. Do you own any merchandise of 45? Blink 182
ha. like... a poster, pictures, a VHS and their Greatest Hits Cd... and I can't watch the video because VCRs are like... deadish.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Ten Second Epic
Count Yourself In

36. What is your favorite album by 48? The Rasmus
..........

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? My Chemical Romance & Treble Charger
0 & 0

38. What is your favorite song by 36? 12 Stones
uhm. I dunno.

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

40. What is your favorite album by 7? Jonas Brothers
Jonas Brothers

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Our Lady Peace
nope

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Misfits
.............

43. What is your favorite song by 24? All Time Low
Lost in Stereo

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? 30 Seconds to Mars
none

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Flogging Molly
blah. i dunno

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Good Charlotte
eh. footloose?lol

47. What is your favorite album by 4? CKY
Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild & An Answer Can Be found

48. Who is your favorite member of 37? Smile Empty Soul
dunno

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
no 43

50. How many albums do you own by 20? Green Day
2 actually... well one was 'borrowed' off my mum's bf ;)