Friday 20 May 2011

Are friends eclectic?

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
You will need to have a last fm account for this to work.

My super-eclectic score is currently

749/1000


As this number is larger, you have a more eclectic musical preference. People with scores over 700 have bragging rights. People whose score is below 400 should consider more musical styles!

The following are the artists with the most occurences in your list
  • Julian Cope (7)
  • Half Man Half Biscuit (6)
  • The Wonder Stuff (6)
  • The Wedding Present (6)
  • The House of Love (5)
  • The Fall (5)
  • The Who (4)
  • Ride (4)
  • Roxy Music (4)
  • The Rolling Stones (4)
  • Magazine (4)
  • Brian Eno (4)
  • The Soft Boys (4)
  • XTC (4)
  • The Teardrop Explodes (4)
  • The Blue Aeroplanes (4)
  • Close Lobsters (4)
  • Throwing Muses (3)
  • David Bowie (3)
  • Talking Heads (3)

Close lobsters? Never heard of them.

    1 comment:

    John said...

    Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land

    get with the plan

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dha_-B9grlc

    btw I got 790/1000 pretty much split between classic rock a la Zep/Who/Purple & goff, seems about right