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Nightwish : Amaranth, While Your Lips Are Still Red, Wish I Had An Angel

Coronatus : Beauty In Black

Epica : Cry for the Moon, Quietus

Lunatica : Song for You, Two Dreamers

van Canto : Speed Of Light

Elis : Der letzte Tag

Angtoria : God Has a Plan for Us All

Leaves' Eyes : Take The Devil In Me, Ocean's Way

Amberian Dawn : River Of Tuoni

Delain : The Gathering, April Rain

Edenbridge : Shine

Haggard : La Terra Sancta, Upon Fallen Autumn Leaves

Lacuna Coil : Closer, Our Truth

Sonata Arctica : Don't Say a Word

Emilie Autumn : Gothic Lolita

Blackmore's Night : Locked Within The Crystal Ball, Under a Violet Moon

Tarja : The Seer, I Walk Alone

To/Die/For : In the Heat of the Night

Within Temptation : Our Solemn Hour, What Have You Done

Lyriel : Wild Birds, Surrender in Dance

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 Madonna
1 Kylie Minogue
2 Janet Jackson
3 Cher
4 Lady GaGa
5 Britney Spears
6 Danii Minogue
7 Cindy Lauper
8 Spice Girls

#2 Marilyn Manson
9 Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids
10 Nine Inch Nails
11 Rob Zombie
12 Rammstein
13 Deathstars
14 John 5
15 KoЯn
16 Dope

#3 Crass
17 Flux of Pink Indians
18 Conflict
19 Subhumans
20 Rudimentary Peni
21 Zounds
22 Poison Girls
23 Dirt
24 Aus-Rotten

#4 Icon of Coil
25 Combichrist
26 Rotersand
27 Panzer AG
28 Covenant
29 Assemblage 23
30 Seabound
31 Neuroticfish
32 Apoptygma Berzek

#5 Combichrist
Panzer AG
33 Icon of Coil
34 Suicide Commando
35 Grendel
36 Noisuf-X
37 Aesthetic Perfection
38 Agonize
39 :wumpscut:

#6 London After Midnight
40 Fear Cult
41 Clan of Xymox
42 All Gone Dead
43 Cinema Strange
44 Diary of Dreams
45 Rosetta Stone
46 Christian Death
47 Two Witches

#7Nightwish
48 Tarja
49 Epica
50 Within Temptation
51 Delain
52 Vision of Atlantis
53 Leaves' Eyes
54 After Forever
55 Sonata Artica

#8 Megadeth
56 MD.45
57 Anthrax
58 Testament
59 Slayer
60 Exodus
61 Kreator
62 Pantera
63 Annihilator

#9 Fun People
64 Boom Boom Kid
65 Cucsifae
66 Eterna Inocencia
67 Loquero
68 El Otro Yo
69 Shaila
70 Flema
71 2 Minutos

#10 Immortal Technique
72 Jedi Mind Tricks
73 Poison Pen
74 Akir
75 OuterSpace
76 Ill Bill
77 Sabac
78 dead prez
79 Army of the Pharaohs

#11 Propagandhi
80 I Spy
81 Dillinger Four
82 Good Riddance
83 Strike Anywhere
84 Bigwig
85 None More Black
86 A Wilhelm Scream
87 Dead to Me

#12 Social Distortion
88 Mike Ness
89 The Bones
90 Rancid
91 Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
92 Pennywise
93 Backyard Babies
94 Street Dogs
95 The Bouncing Souls

#13 Siouxsie and the Banshees
96 The Creatures
97 Siouxsie
98 Bauhaus
99 X-Mal Deutschland
100 The Glove
101 Alien Sex Fiend
Christian Death
102 Skeletal Family

#14 1200 Micrograms
103 Talamasca
104 Astrix
105 GMS
106 Hallucinogen
107 Infected Mushroom
108 Shpongle
109 Electric Universe
110 Astral Projection

#15 Depeche Mode
111 Dave Gahan
112 Martin L. Gore
113 Recoil
114 Camouflage
115 De/Vision
116 Erasure
117 And One
118 Pet Shop Boys

#17 Atmosphere
119 The Dynospectrum
120 Brother Ali
121 Slug
122 Eyedea & Abilities
123 Sage Francis
124 Murs
125 Mac Lethal
126 Aesop Rock

#16 Eminem
127 D12
128 50 Cent
129 Obie Trice
130 Stat Quo
131 Benzino
132 Proof
133 Dr. Dre
134 2Pac

#18. Mind.In.A.Box
135 Edge of Dawn
Seabound
136 Pride and Fall
Rotersand
137 Liquid Divine
138 Syrian
Neuroticfish
139 Code 64

#19. Black Sabbath
140 Ozzy Osbourne
141 Judas Priest
142 Dio
143 Heaven and Hell
144 Deep Purple
145 Motörhead
146 Iron Maiden
147 Rainbow

#20. Angelspit
148 Ayria
149 Helalyn Flowers
150 Zombie Girl
151 I:Scintilla
152 Pzychobitch
Combichrist
153 Hanzel und Gretyl
154 Psyclon Nine

That took time -.-

My score is 154/160 :D

(14 days and counting!! :D)

I decided to while away the time by showing you all how ridiculously centralised my music is. The vast majority of what I listen to is connected in some way to Nightwish or Sonata Arctica, my two favourite bands who just happen to be best buddies, apparently. To illustrate this fact, here's a list of the artists I currently have queued up on my playlist and how they're connected to Nightwish or Sonata.

Alyson Avenue - Anette Olzon was the vocalist
Brother Firetribe - Emppu Vuorinen is the guitarist (or one of, they may have two, idk) and Anette guested on one of their songs
Deadlock - no connection.
Delain - supporting Sonata Arctica on their current tour, and Marco Hietala guested on many of their songs
Dir en grey - no connection.
Elias Viljanen - is also the current guitarist for Sonata, and Tony and Marco have both provided vocals for his solo project
Emppu Vuorinen - is obviously the guitarist for Nightwish
Finntroll - one of Finntroll's old vocalists, Tapio Wilska, guested on several Nightwish songs
Galneryus - no technical connection, although the sound is quite similar to Sonata
HIZAKI grace project - no technical connection, although three members are also in Versailles (see below)
Machinae Supremacy - no connection. Apart from being the same nationality as Anette xD
Marco Hietala - is also the current bassist and male vocalist in Nightwish
Martin Kesici feat. Tarja Turunen - Tarja was obviously the old vocalist of Nightwish
My Dying Bride - Tuomas Holopainen cites them as a major influence and a favourite band
Nightwish - IS NIGHTWISH xD
Northern Kings - one vocalist is Marco of Nightwish and another is Tony Kakko of Sonata Arctica
Pain - supported Nightwish on their latest European tour
Sonata Arctica - IS SONATA ARCTICA xD
Sydänpuu - vocals, guitars, bass and keys are all performed by Jani Liimatainen, Sonata Arctica's old guitarist
Tarot - Marco is the bassist and vocalist
Tarja - Nightwish's old singer, obviously
Tony Kakko - singer/songwriter/composer/clown/keyboardist/general genius of Sonata Arctica :D Has also guested on a couple of Nightwish songs
Versailles - no connection, although the sound is not too different from Nightwish and Sonata Arctica
Winterborn - supporting Sonata on their current tour
Zachary Hietala - brother of Mr Marco Hietala ;)


As you can see, I should really be less biased in my music xDD

AEP: 4.45

Last.fm-Underground-O-Meter (overall top artists):
0.6% underground and 9% mainstream.

top artists:

• 1 - Epica: 24 up
• 2 - Tarja Turunen or Tarja: 0 up/down
• 3 - Sentenced: 2 down
• 4 - Poets of the Fall: 4 up
• 5 - Nightwish: 0 up/down
• 6 - Tarot: 3 down
• 7 - Sonata Arctica: 3 down
• 8 - Ayreon: 2 down
• 9 - Vanessa-Mae: 2 down
• 10 - Leaves' Eyes: 6 up
• 11 - After Forever: 4 up
• 12 - Stream of Passion: 0 up/down
• 13 - Leningrad Cowboys: 2 down
• 14 - Amorphis: 9 up
• 15 - Xandria: 5 down
• 16 - Hans Zimmer: 3 down
• 17 - Poisonblack: 11 up
• 18 - Threshold: 1 down
• 19 - Shadow Gallery: 0 up/down
• 20 - Kiuas: 11 down
• 21 - P!nk: 7 down
• 22 - Foxy Brown: 1 down
• 23 - Delain: 1 up
• 24 - Mariah Carey: 4 down
• 25 - Joss Stone: 2 up
• 26 - Lil' Kim: 4 up
• 27 - Liv Kristine: 9 down
• 28 - Katie Melua: 6 down
• 29 - Symphony X: 3 down
• 30 - Visions of Atlantis: 1 down

(the Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter has an error on the server)


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eclectic score:

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




The 74 related artists for my profile are After Forever (4), Ambeon (2), Amorphis, Avantasia, Ayreon, Before the Dawn, Bond, Brother Firetribe, Charon (2), Circus Maximus, David Garrett, Delain (4), Diablo, Ed Alleyne-Johnson, Edvin Marton, Elfonía, Elis (2), Entwine, Epica (4), Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Fates Warning (2), For My Pain..., HammerFall, Harry Gregson-Williams, Heavy Metal Perse, Hurriganes, Insomnium, Itzhak Perlman, James Horner, James Newton Howard, Kamelot, Klaus Badelt, Kotipelto, Leaves' Eyes (3), Liv Kristine, Machine Men, Marko Saaresto, Mind's Eye, Nemesea, Nightwish (2), Northern Kings (2), Pain Confessor, Peer Günt, Playground, Poisonblack, Redemption (2), Reflexion, Remu Aaltonen, Sentenced (2), Shadow Gallery (2), Sirenia (2), Sleepy Sleepers, Star One (2), Steve Jablonsky, Stratovarius, Stream of Passion, Sunrise Avenue, Swallow the Sun, Symphony X, Tarja Turunen, Teräsbetoni, The Rasmus, Theatre of Tragedy, Theory of a Deadman, Threshold, Thunderstone (2), To/Die/For, Tristania, Turo's Hevi Gee, Twilightning, Vanden Plas (2), Visions of Atlantis, Within Temptation (3), Xandria



super-eclectic score:

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 super-eclectic score is currently




The most similar artists for my profile are Elis (13), Xandria (12), Leaves' Eyes (12), Imperia (12), Nemesea (12), Epica (11), Visions of Atlantis (11), Sirenia (11), After Forever (11), Delain (11)

1. How did you get into 29?
Dark Tranquillity I saw them as a supporting act with Nile

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Spiderwebs

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33?
Arckanum The lyrics are all in old Swedish, so I wouldn't know.

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Covenant

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Nightwish 5

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Boyz

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Danzig No.

8. What is your favorite song by 15?
Dying Fetus I love this band so much, too many good songs. can't pick just one.

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Kylie Minogue Again, she is too amazing to narrow it down to one.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
I have a love/hate relationship with Britney Spears, but a lot of "her" songs make me happy.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?
Mandylion

12. What is your favorite song by 10?
Come to the Sabbath


13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
A good friend of mine and I used to cruise through Hollywood bumping Plasmatics

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
Motivated by Hunger

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Violet


16. How many times have you seen 25 live?
I've never seen Horrorpops{/artist]

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Pagan Poetry


18. What is your favorite album by 11?
The Graveyard

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Macabre Corporate Death

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Who would want to see the current Misfits?

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
I had fun seeing Moonspell live.

22. What is your favorite song by 16?
Bloodcraft

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
I don't remember the first song I heard by [artist]Nile[/artist}


24. What is your favorite album by 18?
Robyn

25. What is your favorite song by 21?
Sin documentos

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
Too Many Puppies

27. What is your favorite album by 3?
Jerk of All Trades

28. What is your favorite song by 2?
Almost everything Therion has ever done is great.
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29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
I don't remember the first song I heard by Caifanes

30. What is your favorite song by 8?
I love Fobia too much to only pick one.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
I've seen The Chasm one time.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Creo Que Es Tiempo

33. What is you favorite album by 12?
Wishmaster

34. What is the worst song by 45?
Does Garbage have any bad songs?

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
I was a teeny tiny child, when I first heard Michael Jackson. no me acuerdo!

36. What is you favorite album by 48?
Conquering the Throne

37. How many times have you seen 42 live?
I saw Gogol Bordello once.

38. What is you favorite song by 36?
Entre Dos Tierras

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
L.E.S. Artistes

40. What is you favorite album by 7?
La Pipa de la Paz

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy?
Baby Girl

42. What is your favorite album by 41?
Chainsaw Dismemberment

43. What is your favorite song by 24?
The Darkness That Embrace Me

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46?
no good memories involving After Forever

45. What is your favorite song by 35?
Un Pato

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Fuck the Pain Away

47. What is your favorite album by 4?
Tarja only has one album so far.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37?
I don't care about the members of gravy train!!!

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
Elegy

50. How many albums do you own by 20?

Janet Jackson 5

1. The Howling by Within Temptation


2. Die Alive by Tarja


3. Pahinta tänään by Indica



4. Ravenheart by Xandria


5. Misery Business by Paramore


6. Nemo by Nightwish


7. April Rain by Delain


8. The Path to Decay by Sirenia


9. I Like It by Lacuna Coil


Sparkle by 浜崎あゆみ

"Post your top fifteen bands/artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, your favourite album and your current favorite song."

#1 Within Temptation
Angels
Our Solemn Hour
The Black Symphony
Caged

#2 Kamelot
Ghost Opera
Mourning Star / March of Mephisto (tie between the two, lol)
The Black Halo
Lost and Damned

#3 Emilie Autumn
Rose Red
Opheliac
Opheliac
306

#4 Krypteria
Somebody Save Me
Sweet Revenge
Bloodangel's Cry
Shoot me

#5 Nightwish
Bless The Child
Nemo
Once / Dark Passion Play (no possibly way to choose)
The Heart Asks Pleasure First

#6 Epica
Never Enough
Quietus
Design Your Universe
Burn to a Cinder

#7 Lunatica
New Shores
Into the Dissonance
New Shores
Who You Are

#8 Delain
Frozen
The Gathering
April Rain
Control the Storm

#9 Tarja
I Walk Alone
Sing For Me
My Winter Storm
Enough

#10 The Birthday Massacre
Looking Glass
Red Stars
Walking With Strangers
Blue

#11 Children 18:3
All My Balloons
Even Sleeping
Children 18:3
Even Sleeping

#12 Stream of Passion
Out in the Real World
Out in the Real World
The Flame Within
A Part of You

#13 Sirenia
The Other Side
My Mind's Eye
Nine Destinies and a Downfall
The Other Side

#14 Amberian Dawn
River Of Tuoni
River Of Tuoni
River Of Tuoni
Lost Soul

#15Abney Park
Airship Pirates
Herr Drosselmeyer's Doll
Lost Horizons
Love


WHOOT!!!! I DID IT!!!
lol =)

Original title: "Two viruses for the price of a bacterial infection"

Second title: "Funny Nightwish pictures >>> my opinions on music"

Well, these don't take long to read :-P

I wrote most of this a couple of days ago.

ONE

LEO_ and Sanguine_Sky and Euphoria_Nemo did this before.

Made-up questions first!

Most anticipated albums:
1. Tarja - What Lies Beneath (2010)
1. Nightwish Album VII (2011)
1. Delain - Album III (2010? 2011?)
2. The Birthday Massacre - Album IV (2010)
2. Within Temptation Album V (2010)
3. Liv Kristine - Skintight (2010)
3. Leaves' Eyes Album IV (an album of new ballads) (2010)
3. Elis - Catharsis (2009)
3. Revamp - debut album (2010)
3. Kamelot - album... um... nine? (2010) Wow, I didn't realize they'd been around that long. O_o
3. Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was (2010)
4. Anette Olzon - solo album (2010)
4. Evanescence - Album IV (2010)
4. We Are the Fallen - debut album (2010) (I was going to vote for Carly but forgot so maybe I'll buy her band's album :-P)
5. Xandria - Album IV (2010)
6. Tristania - Album VI (2010)

Best shoutboxes:
1. Nightwish

All the other shoutboxes are pretty boring right now :(

The crowning achievement of humanity in music:
Ghost Love Score

The loveliest, most wonderful song of all time:
Shared space-time continuously Twilight Sun and The Holy Bond

Bands that get undeserved hate:
Pretty much any band that plays heavy pop music and gets lambasted for not being metal, like Lunatica and Delain, to a lesser extent Within Temptation, etc. You can't equate the worth of music with its adherence to the boundaries of a genre.

Singers who get undeserved hate:
Just about every female clean vocalist who isn't the ideal classical soprano like Vibeke or Floor. Liv: "Ethereal vocals are weak!" Tarja: "Technically flawed and therefore overrated!" Anette and Charlotte: "Pop/rock/JAZZ?!? vocals in OUR MUSIC? NEVAAAARRRR!"

Favoritest albumses of all times:
1. Leaves' Eyes - Njord

2. Nightwish - End of An Era
3. Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga
3. Harry Gregson-Williams - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
3. Martin Kiszko - The Ocellus Suite: Music from Alien Empire (Have loved this for ten years now! :D)
4. Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
5. Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight
5. Project 86 - Songs to Burn Your Bridges By
5. Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound (My first exposure to dark and rich music, 2005. "It'll be a day like this one when the world caves in....")

Least favoritest albums of all time:
I don't know, if I hate the music I don't listen to the entire album if I can help it. However, one of my flatmates played Vampire Weekend all the time this past spring. I HATE THAT MUSIC. Well, I kinda like some of it though.

Favoritest EP/Single of all time:
1. Andy Hunter - Life
2. Leaves' Eyes - My Destiny
3. Project 86 - The Kane Mutiny EP

Favoritest discoveries on Last.fm:
The vast majority of everything I listen to :-P From past 12 months chart:
1. Leaves' Eyes
1. Nightwish
2. Delain
2. Becoming the Archetype
2. Within Temptation
3. Theatre of Tragedy
3. The Birthday Massacre (Well, I saw that they existed on here and then tryingtofly recommended them, so....)

Least favoritest discoveries on Last.fm:
Um... Angtoria :-P

Favoritest female singers:
1. Tarja
1. Liv
2. Charlotte
2. Nell (Theatre of Tragedy)
2. Anette
2. Amulyn (Although I've only heard her on ONE SONG :-P)
2. Silje (The Gathering, Octavia Sperati)
3. Okay fine, I still like Sharon :-P

See also my 2008 journal, Top Female Vocalists and Why

Favoritest male singers:
...Who has time for male singers? <_<

Harsh:
Jason Wisdom (Becoming the Archetype)
Um... Anders Jacobsson (Draconian)
Umm.... and Morten Veland (Tristania, Sirenia)

Clean:
Marco Hietala
Roy Khan
Andrew Schwab (Project 86)
Jon Foreman (Switchfoot)

Best music videos:
1. Delain - April Rain
2. Tarja - Die Alive
3. Within Temptation - Utopia
23 Favorite Music Videos

Strangest band names:
Black Moth Super Rainbow and their amazing song titles, like Vietcaterpillar ^_^
And The Devil Wears Prada, what's up with that?

I suppose I may have once thought "The Birthday Massacre" and "Leaves' Eyes" were strange names, but not any more. :-P

Ummmm... and Morten Veland's new project, Mortemia.



I hope they become (more) famous:
bloodline severed (The band Amulyn sang with on one song. The hardest bits of Design Your Universe sound like Bloodline Severed to me. :-P)
And this guy.

Kamelot Liv Kristine

Best pairup:



TWO

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Get your overall top 10 artists from Last.fm, and find their three tracks you've scrobbled the most. Then note where they come in that artist's tracks chart. The lower the track in the list, the weirder you are... or something to that effect.
^re-worded because that's what I do.

Leaves' Eyes
Twilight Sun is #35
The Holy Bond is #21
The Dream is #31

I've never liked the Leaves' Eyes top 15 much. At least now the top two tracks don't have ten times as many plays as anything else, that was ANNOYING. :-P I'm pretty sure they still get played a lot more than the others on Last.fm tag radio, though, just because they've been playable longer than anything else and picked up more attention in that time, leading to blah blah blah blah who really cares how Last.fm radio works any way.



Nightwish
Nemo is #1
The Heart Asks Pleasure First is #343 this week and something like #1,020 for the past six months.

Ghost Love Score is #14

Howard Shore
The White Tree is #18
The Houses of Healing is #126 (But I'm scrobbling it as Liv Tyler - Arwen's Song :-P)
Isengard Unleashed is #56

Project 86
A Shadow on Me is #38
Lucretia My Reflection is #95 (Favoritest cover ever, by the way)
The Spy Hunter is #16

Within Temptation
Jillian (I'd Give My Heart) is #24
Memories is #3
Running Up That Hill is #33

Hans Zimmer
Red Warrior is #49
Run Free is #138 (I rented Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron because of this track :-P)
Drink Up Me Hearties is #7

ApologetiX
Corinthians is #2
Smooth Grandmama is #8
Here I Go (Against All I've Known) is not on the weekly chart, #138 for the past six months
^These are, respectively, parodies of Linkin Park, Alien Ant Farm/Michael Jackson, and Whitesnake

Switchfoot
Lonely Nation is #21
We Are One Tonight is #20
Awakening is #11

Theatre of Tragedy
Storm is #10
Envision is #52
Ashes and Dreams is #33

"Forever Is the World" is my favorite of their songs, it's just not up there on my chart yet. If you haven't heard it yet:



Relient K
Forgiven is #31
Fallen Man is #159 :D
More Than Useless is #19