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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.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
1 Metric
2 The Kills
3 Be Your Own Pet
4 Interpol
5 Arcade Fire
6 Florence + The Machine

Madonna
7 Kylie Minogue
8 Janet Jackson
9 Cher
10 Lady GaGa
11 Britney Spears
12 Dannii Minogue

Le Tigre
13 Bikini Kill
14 Sleater-Kinney
15 Bratmobile
16 Julie Ruin
17 Lesbians On Ecstacy
18 Peaches

Moby
19 Voodoo Child
20 Faithless
21 Fatboy Slim
22 The Chemical Brothers
23 Massive Attack

Portishead
24 Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
Massive Attack
25 Tricky
26 Hooverphonic
27 Lamb
28 Morcheeba

Deerhoof
29 The Curtains
30 The Fiery Furnaces
31 Marnie Stern
32 OOIOO
33 Ponytail
34 Boredoms

Interpol
35 Julian Plenti
36 Editors
37 I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
38 The National
39 She Wants Revenge
40 stellastarr*

The White Stripes
41 The Raconteurs
42 Jack White
43 The Dead Weather
44 The Black Keys
45 The Kills
46 The Greenhornes

Soldout
47 Superlux
48 Sharko
49 Sexy Sushi
50 Hollywood Porn Stars
51 Terry Poison
Lesbians on Ecstasy

Fatboy Slim
52 Deeds Plus Thoughts
53 Psychedeliasmith
54 The Chemical Brothers
55 Beats International
56 Mighty Dub Katz
57 Christopher Just

Ladytron
58 Client
59 Fischerspooner
60 Vive la Fête
61 The Knife
62 Miss Kittin
63 Miss Kittin & The Hacker

Black Eyed Peas
64 Fergie
65 The Pussycat Dolls
66 Ciara
67 will.i.am
68 Flo Rida
Lady GaGa

Radiohead
69 Thom Yorke
70 Jonny Greenwood
71 Muse
72 Placebo
73 Coldplay
Interpol

Lily Allen
74 Kate Nash
75 Katy Perry
Lady GaGa
76 The Ting Tings
77 Girls Aloud
78 Mika

Daft Punk
79 Thomas Bangalter
80 Justice
81 Le Knight Club
82 Stardust
83 Digitalism
84 Boys Noize

Thievery Corporation
85 Thunderball
86 Indian Vibes
87 The 13th Sign
88 Da Lata
89 Tosca
90 Nightmares on Wax

Bloc Party
91 Foals
92 Editors
93 Pin Me Down
94 The Maccabees
95 The Cribs
96 Maxïmo Park

Massive Attack
Tricky
97 Portishead
Lamb
98 UNKLE
Morcheeba
Hooverphonic

Air
99 Air and Alessandro Baricco
100 Zero 7
101 Darkel
102 Röyksopp
103 Télépopmusik
104 Goldfrapp
105 Thievery Corporation

Sleater-Kinney
106 Heavens to Betsy
107 Cadallaca
108 Excuse 17
Bikini Kill
Bratmobile
109 Team Dresch


My score is 109

This took way long to add the numbers and tags. Excel helped but ahh!

IZIA, Wu-Tang Clan, Suprême NTM, Assassin, Nirvana, IAM, Bob Marley & The Wailers, La Spirale, Django Reinhardt, Squarepusher, The Prodigy, Necro, Ill Bill, Cypress Hill, Craig Armstrong, Heather Nova, La Coka Nostra, Scala & Kolacny Brothers, Keny Arkana, Bérurier Noir, Birdy Nam Nam, System of a Down, dead prez, Le Peuple de l'Herbe, Beastie Boys, Busta Rhymes, Alpha & Omega, House of Pain, Seth Gueko, Aphex Twin, Profecy, DJ Krush, Prefuse 73, R.A. the Rugged Man, Rage Against the Machine, Laurent Garnier, Dead Can Dance, Kool Keith, High Tone, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Erik Truffaz, Portishead, Wax Poetic, Johnny Cash, Foreign Beggars, Lady Sovereign, Sinéad O'Connor, Vitalic, Radikal Dub Kolektiv, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jan Garbarek, Svinkels, Love Spirals Downwards, KRS-One, Dave Clarke, DJ Cam, The Doors, Clint Mansell, Lisa Gerrard, Fat Jon, Les Gourmets, The Beatles, Johannes Heil, KoЯn, Sleater-Kinney, Wax Tailor, B-Real, J Dilla, Filastine, Two Fingers, Asian Dub Foundation, Eminem, Jefferson Airplane, Autumn's Grey Solace, Gym Class Heroes, Shpongle, Herbie Hancock, Radiohead, Rockin' Squat, Mike Patton, Björk, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Waldeck, Millencolin, Massive Attack, This Ascension, Lordz of Brooklyn, Ensemble Badila, Snoop Dogg, The Problemaddicts, Dub Syndicate, Groundation, Wolf Myer Orchestra, Beth Orton, Oh No, Edward "Kid" Ory, The Offspring, Venetian Snares, Alexander Kowalski, Rageous Gratoons, Noir Désir, Ben Harper, Nas, Ideal J, Verbose, Micropoint, The Black Seeds, Metallica, General Elektriks, Buraka Som Sistema, The Chemical Brothers, Thom Yorke, Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke, Ayọ, EZ3kiel, Amon Tobin, Mano Negra, King of Conspiracy, Bob Marley, Moondog, 25G, Jimi Hendrix, Bauchklang, Moderat, Sigur Rós, DJ Muggs & Planet Asia, Louis Armstrong, Son Doobie, Tryo, Kronos Quartet, Iration Steppas, Looptroop, Mysa, Nine Inch Nails, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Olympic Gramofon, Leftfield, Fairy, Joy Division, 2Pac, Peace Orchestra, Eek-A-Mouse, Snowgoons, Heiko Laux, The Temptations, Le Trio Joubran, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Guru, Flunk, Earl Hines, Erykah Badu, Burning Spear, Mary Lou Williams, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Oi Va Voi, 80kidz, Infected Mushroom, Animal Collective, The Quantic Soul Orchestra, NOMAK, Year of No Light, Horace Andy, The Cinematic Orchestra, Red Snapper, Nneka, Leila, NOFX, Lucky Thompson, Cal Tjader, Le Klub des 7, Jeff Buckley, Manu Chao, Wagon Christ, Drummers of the Societe Absolument Guinin, Barney Wilen, Ol' Dirty Bastard, UNKLE, Erik Truffaz & Sly Johnson, The Blue Stars, Underworld, Shurik'N, Arsonists, Madeleine Peyroux, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Nostalgia 77, Terry Callier, Medine, Fingathing, Big Daddy Kane, Macka B, Keith Jarrett Trio, Iration Steppas Meet D. Rootical, De La Soul, Chali 2na, Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters, John Coltrane, DJ Food, Sergent Garcia, Rockamovya, Antonio Vivaldi, Notorious B.I.G., Sidney Bechet et Claude Luter, Tracy Chapman, Angélique Kidjo, EPMD, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, St. Germain, Daft Punk, Fat Freddy's Drop, Fatboy Slim, Johnny Clarke, RJD2, René Thomas, Soul Assassins, Deftones, Kaophonic Tribu, Linkin Park, The Skatalites, Muse, Belleruche, Sunflower Caravan, Les Reines Prochaines, DJ Shadow, Mass Hysteria, múm, Кочани Оркестар, Israel Vibration, Jurassic 5, Gelka, Lionel Hampton, Lost in Hildurness, Hilight Tribe, Shadow Dancer, Elek Bacsik, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Tânia Ârab, Troublemakers, William Orbit, Plastikman, The Specials, CunninLynguists, dead prez & DJ Green Lantern, Mansfield.TYA, Thievery Corporation, Raphael Saadiq, Smooth, Kery James, DJ Muggs vs. GZA/Genius, Love Is Colder Than Death, Miss Kittin & The Hacker, YAS, Chet Baker, Pendulum, Claude Bolling, Hubert Rostaing, Georges Brassens, Refractory, Scarface, Bill Coleman, Funkdoobiest, Telefon Tel Aviv, Lightning Bolt, Morcheeba, DJ Mitsu The Beats, Tricky, Hafdís Huld, Sidsel Endresen & Christian Wallumrød & Helge Sten, Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, Akhenaton, Alif Tree, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Maurice Meunier, TAT, Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald, Stéphane Grappelli, Black Uhuru, Kid Loco, Common, Ellen Allien, Roots Manuva, Joris Voorn, Method Man, Jah'licious, Hux Flux, Toots Thielemans, Blockhead, Rokia Traoré, Max Romeo, Cœur de Pirate, Method Man & Redman, RND, Volta & FX909, Venetian Snares & Speedranch, The Rolling Stones, BHASS Project, Orchestre National de Jazz, Pink Floyd, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Michel Legrand, Sayag Jazz Machine, Emilie Simon, Late Night Fruit, Buddy Banks, Pan•American, Booba, DJ Muggs vs. Planet Asia, The Kumba Mela Experiment, Jeff Mills, Ulytau, ZAMAN 8 & Hafez Modir, Ematom, Harmonic 313, Freestylers, The Gladiators, Control Machete, The Bush Chemists, Twista, Orange Street, The Roots, Michael Jackson, Los Hermanos, Dub Incorporation, RZA, The Ananda Shankar Experience and State of Bengal, Da Taz, Thelonious Monk, Limp Bizkit, Mr. Oizo, 雅-miyavi-, Ella Fitzgerald, Sex Pistols, AC/DC, Minty Fresh Beats, Gus Gus, Gideon, Themselves, Parabellum, K2R Riddim, Easy Star All-Stars, Rhythm & Sound, The Toraia Orchestra Of Algiers, Lee "Scratch" Perry & King Tubby, Keziah Jones, Ataraxia, TTC, Immortal Technique, Coldcut, A Tribe Called Quest, Lali Puna, Rhoda Scott & Kenny Clarke, Iron Maiden, Dizzy Gillespie, Pierre Michelot, Umek, Miles Davis, Gang Starr, DJ Muggs, Orbital, OutKast, Anthony Rother, Donald Byrd Quintet, Diego, Igorrr, Raekwon, Pharoahe Monch, Dream Theater, Anoushka Shankar, Sonny Criss, The Smashing Pumpkins, K's Choice, Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor, The Herbaliser, Blakroc, Lenny Kravitz, Cujo, Cosma, Killarmy, Big Punisher, Jamiroquai, Charles Mingus, Missak, Burial, Bernard Peiffer and his Saint-Germain-des-Prés Orchestra, Albert Nicholas, Édith Piaf, Mix Master Mike, Maceo Parker, Rae & Christian, Steel Pulse, Hocus Pocus, Opeth, Dee Nasty, Tom Waits, DJ Fresh, Manu le Malin, Khoiba, Animaltek, Peter Tosh, Steppenwolf, Alter Ego, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Boards of Canada, Red Hot Chili Peppers9, Bernard Zacharias et ses solistes, Ill Bill & Necro, Sublime, Crystal Distortion, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, GZA/Genius, Salmonella Dub, Harold Nicholas et son Orchestre, Grems, Missy Elliott, Sammy Price & Lucky Thompson, The Herbaliser Band, Ghostface Killah, Cranes, Slaine, Necro & Ill Bill, Lars Klein, Outlines, Saïan Supa Crew, John Dahlbäck, Junior Murvin, Delinquent Habits, Dubians, Arom & Gourmets Beatclub, Afu-Ra, Slide Hampton, Agoria, 2Pac & The Outlawz, Archive, The Alchemist, Somogo, Toots and The Maytals, Philip Glass, Ray Charles, Sia, Marcel et son Orchestre, Trust, Aretha Franklin, Sinsemilia, Public Enemy, Buck Clayton, James Brown, Zenzile & High Tone, The Streets, Adam F, Oscar Peterson, The Abyssinians, Improvisators Dub, Yuksek, Alanis Morissette, Alici, Cake, Up, Bustle and Out, Art Blakey, Scan X, DMX, Etikal Lab, Lady B, Keith Jarrett, David Carretta, Cocteau Twins, Lhasa de Sela, Jacques Brel, Charlie Singleton, Dimitri from Paris, Bonobo, Emmanuel Top, CéU, Kosheen, Jungle Brothers, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Nada Surf, Cercle Rouge, Monolake, Marilyn Manson, Rachid Taha, Alain Goraguer, Dub Pistols, Jimmy Archey, Pat Metheny, Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, Jimmy Riley, Wailing Souls, Taigaz, Air, Triston Palmer, Donald Byrd, Promoe, Ice Cube, Gang Gang Dance, Barbara Morgenstern, Technasia, Dubmood, Josh Wink, Eddy Louiss, Africa Combo & Bugge Wesseltoft.

my RYM page is always the source.

The Best of 2008



1) Madonna - Hard Candy
2) Acid Black Cherry - BLACK LIST
3) Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules And Love Affair
4) Acid Black Cherry - Recreation
5) Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation
6) 鈴木あみ - Supreme Show
7) Perfume - GAME
8) RENTRER EN SOI - AIN SOPH AUR
9) Asian Dub Foundation - Punkara
10) Does It Offend You, Yeah ? - you have no idea what you're getting yourself into

11) Blood - THE REAPER BEHIND ME
12) BoA - THE FACE
13) Jeniferever - Choose a Bright Morning
14) Swing Out Sister - Beautiful Mess
15) Ayo - Gravity at last
16) Sugarplum Fairy - The Wild One
17) Klimt 1918 - Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again
18) INORAN - apocalypse
19) LOVE PSYCHEDELICO - This Is Love Psychedelico
20) Cansei de Ser Sexy - Donkey


An Extreme Way of 2008



1) Leaviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
2) Heaven In Her Arms - 黒斑の侵蝕
3) Taake - Taake
4) Deathspell Omega/S.V.E.S.T. - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum
5) magdalene - Magdalene
6) Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
7) Carpathian - Isolation
8)Opeth - Watershed
9) Black Shape of Nexus - Microbarome Meetings
10) Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1

11) einna - Les angoisses d'Arcadie
12) Luror - Cease to Live
13) Ofermod - Tiamtü
14) VI - De Praestigiis Daemonum
15) Pyramids - Pyramids
16) Corpus Christii - Carving A Pyramid of Thoughts
17) Orcivus - Consummatum Est
18) Krypt - Preludes to Death
19) Melencolia Estatica - Letum
20) Cradle of Filth - Godspeed On Devil's Thunder

What are the eight tracks recently added to your library?

1 - From Creation
2 - Small
3 - Don't Look Down
4 - I Belong to You
5 - Hoodoo
6 - Sunburn
7 - Soldier's Poem
8 - Apocalypse Please

What four artists is Last.fm currently recommending to you?

1 - Brooke White
2 - Blake Lewis
3 - Suzanne Vega
4 - Kristy Lee Cook

Have you listened/heard of any of them before?
I've heard of all of em but haven't played em

Last loved track?
From Creation

Last five recently listened tracks?

1 - Hanging By A Moment
2 - All That We Perceive
3 - You And I
4 - From Creation
5 - Cryin'

Last person you left a shout to?
No one

Last person who left you a shout?
LAST.HQ

Most frequently used tag?
I don't do tags.

Closest event?
I don't know...

How long have you been a member?
June 9, 2009

How many overall plays do you have?
340

How many loved tracks?
177

What are your top 10 overall artists?

1- Adam Lambert
2- Elliott Yamin
3- Portishead
4- Thievery Corporation
5- Will Young
6- Björk
7- Michael Johns
8- Glee Cast
9- Ashanti
10- Goldfrapp

What bands do you find you most have in common with people?
Adam Lambert

What bands do you find you have least in common with people?


What was the last band recommended by Last.fm that you really got into?
I don't remember

Are you a member of any groups?
yep

Now playing?
Tierra Santa

belbelmuse's top albums (overall)
1. Electrelane - The Power Out (73) 2. Bent - Programmed to Love (66) 3. Anja Garbarek - Angel A OST (56) 4. Anja Garbarek - Smiling & Waving (50) 5. Bent - Ariels (49) 6. Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (40) 7. Flunk - Morning Star (40) 8. Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man in Babylon (38) 9. Bat for Lashes - Fur And Gold (38) 10. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema (36) 11. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (36) 12. Tosca - Suzuki In Dub (35) 13. Anja Garbarek - Balloon Mood (34) 14. The Dining Rooms - Ink (34) 15. Anja Garbarek - Briefly Shaking (34) 16. Badly Drawn Boy - One Plus One Is One (33) 17. Badly Drawn Boy - About a Boy (32) 18. Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the Fish? (31) 19. Kaki King - ...Until We Felt Red (29) 20. Love of Diagrams - Mosaic (29)

Here's my list of bands I've seen live. From memory and ticket stubs. There's more than what's on here, for sure. Later on I'll try to include venue and date, but it's not likely any time soon. Actually, it's probably not likely ever.

311
.38 Special
Andrew Bird
Aranka Fabian
Arcade Fire
Armin van Buuren
Asleep at the Wheel
Asobi Seksu
Atmosphere
Bassnectar
Beck
Béla Fleck
Ben Folds
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Benevento-Russo Duo
Billy Cobham
Blackalicious
Blitzen Trapper
Bloc Party
Bon Iver
Broken Social Scene (with Leslie Feist and Emily Haines)
Buffalo Killers
Built to Spill
Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues Band
Chicago
Citizen Cope
Clipse
Clutch
Common
Count Basie Orchestra
Counting Crows
Dave Matthews Band
Death Cab for Cutie
Dickey Betts
Diplo
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Drummer
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Eek-A-Mouse
Ekoostik Hookah
Emily Haines
Eric Clapton
Evangelicals
Everclear
Family of the Year
Feist
Felice Brothers
Flogging Molly
Fujiya & Miyagi
Galactic
Ghostland Observatory
Girl Talk
Gnarls Barkley
Good Charlotte
Gov't Mule
Grizzly Bear
Guster
Guta
Gym Class Heroes
Heartless Bastards
Holiday Shores
Indigenous
Jack Johnson
Jean-Luc Ponty
Joe Lovano
Joey DeFrancesco
John Legend
John Mayer
John Scofield
John Popper
Jose Gonzalez
Juvenile
Kanye West
Keb' Mo'
Klaxons
Ladytron
Larry Coryell
LCD Soundsystem
Leatherbag
Lupe Fiasco
Lyrics Born
Matisyahu
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Mike Doughty
moe.
Mos Def
N.E.R.D.
Nappy Roots
New Found Glory
O.A.R.
of Montreal
Other Girls
Oxford Collapse
Oysterhead
Passion Pit
Patrick Sweany
Paul Van Dyke
Pearl Jam
Phoenix
Prescott Curlywolf
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Ratatat
Rebirth Brass Band
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Wanting Blue
Ron Blake
Roy Hargrove
Royal Bangs
Rufus Wainwright
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Sigur Rós
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Spoon
Stanley Clarke
Stars
Sufjan Stevens
Talib Kweli
Tapes 'n Tapes
The Avett Brothers
The B-52's
The Black Keys
The Charlie Daniels Band
The Dead Weather
The Decemberists
The Flaming Lips
The Go! Team
The New Pornographers
The Raconteurs
The Roots
The Shins
The Virgins
The Walkmen
Toubab Krewe
Thievery Corporation
Trey Anastasio
Twista
Umphrey's McGee
Wilco
Wish You Were Here
Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center Jazz
Yoko Ono