Tuesday, January 8, 2008

last.fm.meme

Calculate how eclectic your musical preferences are.


Take your top 20 artists.
  1. Field Music
  2. R.E.M.
  3. Fountains of Wayne
  4. Teenage Fanclub
  5. Future Clouds And Radar
  6. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
  7. The Beach Boys
  8. Harry Nilsson
  9. Rogue Wave
  10. Flamin' Groovies
  11. Radiohead
  12. The Byrds
  13. The Loud Family
  14. Spoon
  15. Yo La Tengo
  16. The New Pornographers
  17. Bruce Springsteen
  18. The Shins
  19. Game Theory
  20. Robyn Hitchcock
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 84/100

The 84 related artists for my profile are A.C. Newman, Barenaked Ladies, Beck, Belle and Sebastian (2), Ben Folds Five, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Broken Social Scene, Buffalo Springfield, Built to Spill, Camper Van Beethoven, Coldplay, Cotton Mather, Counting Crows, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, David Bowie, Death Cab for Cutie, Donovan, Eagles, Farrah, Future Clouds & Radar, Game Theory, Grand Atlantic, Jarvis Cocker, John Lennon, Julian Cope, Let's Active, Love Tractor, Low vs. Diamond, Maxïmo Park, Modest Mouse, Muse, Neil Young (2), Neutral Milk Hotel, Paul McCartney & Wings, Paula Carino, Pavement, Pixies, Radio Birdman, Rain Parade, Randy Newman, Ride, Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians, Sigur Rós, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Spoon (3), Sufjan Stevens, Teenage Fanclub, Tell-Tale Hearts, The Arcade Fire (3), The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Boo Radleys, The Decemberists (3), The Feelies (2), The Flaming Lips, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Futureheads, The House of Love, The Kinks (2), The Lemonheads, The Loud Family and Anton Barbeau, The Lovin' Spoonful, The New Pornographers, The Paybacks, The Postal Service, The Primary 5, The Raspberries, The Rolling Stones, The Shins (4), The Smashing Pumpkins, The Sonics, The dB's, Thom Yorke, Tommy Keene, U2 (2), Van Morrison, Weezer, Wilco (2), Wolf Parade (2), XTC, matt pond PA, of Montreal

6 comments:

Unknown said...

My eclectic store was 96/100, which got me invited to take the "supereclectic" test, which puts it on a 1000 point scale and apparently makes it much more difficult to get a high (i.e., eclectic) score. On that level, I got a much more pedestrian 676.

2fs said...

77.

2fs said...

I'm hoping that was the shortest comment ever here.

Steve said...

The period was unnecessary, though. Maybe one of my other last.fm friends can weigh in with a two-digit number sans period?

2fs said...

I'm thinking another way of measuring eclecticism is the slope determined by graphing one's most-played artists - probably would work best the deeper you go. Someone who's not all that eclectic would tend to have a steeper slope: they listen to their favorites a lot, and not a lot else. Someone who's very eclectic would have a more level line, indicating that they listen to a lot of different things.

Steve said...

I'm for that measure.. My listening lines are as level as anyone's.