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Been meaning to do this for years - here's an incomplete list of bands I've seen at least once. Good or absolutely shite, they all make the list. Bold type denotes artists that I've had the pleasure of seeing more than once.

A
Adem
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alabama 3
The Aliens
All About Eve
Lily Allen
Dot Allison
Alpha
Amusement Parks on Fire
Annuals
Arab Strap
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
Arrested Development
Asian Dub Foundation
B
Badly Drawn Boy
Banco de Gaia
Basement Jaxx
Bat for Lashes
The Bays
The Beat
The Beastie Boys
The Beautiful South
Beck
Beep Beep
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
Bent
The Besnard Lakes
Big Country
Black Kids
Blondie
Blur
The Bodines
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Boy Least Likely To
Billy Bragg
Brainiac
Bright Eyes
The Brilliant Corners
Broken Spindles
Ian Brown
Tim Burgess
Bernard Butler
C
Terry Callier
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Carrie
Carter USM
Martin Carthy
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Cast
Caterwaul
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Charlatans
The Charlottes
Chas N Dave
Cherry Ghost
The Cinematic Orchestra
Ross Clark & the Scarfs Go Missing
The Clerks
Clinic
The Close Lobsters
Coldcut
Coldplay
John Cooper Clarke
The Cooper Temple Clause
The Coral
Elvis Costello
Cousteau
Cranebuilders
Crazyhead
The Creatures
CUD
The Cure
D
The Darling Buds
The Datsuns
Death in Vegas
The Delgados
Delphic
Dodgy
Doves
Dreadzone
Dub Pistols
Dubtribe Sound System
Durutti Column
Bob Dylan
E
Steve Earle
Echo and the Bunnymen
Echoboy
The Eighteenth Day of May
Elbow
Electrafixion
Electric Soft Parade
Electric Sound Of Joy
Embrace
F
Fairport Convention
Th' Faith Healers
Faithless
Faith No More
The Fall
Fields of the Nephilim
Five Thirty
The Flaming Lips
Florence & The Machine
Foo Fighters
Four Tet
The Free Association
Friendly Fires
Frightened Rabbit
Fun Loving Criminals
The Futureheads
G
Ganger
Gaye Bykers on Acid
Ghost Dance
Glasvegas
Global Communication
Godflesh
Goldrush
Gomez
Jose Gonzalez
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci
The Go! Team
Grand Drive
Grass-Show
The Grave Architects
Gravenhurst
Al Green
Green on Red
Groove Armada
Guillemots
Guns N' Roses
H
Nick Harper
Rolf Harris
The Heart-throbs
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid
The Matthew Herbert Big Band
Kristin Hersh
The Hidden Cameras
Micah P. Hinson
Hole
Jools Holland
Holy Fuck
House of Brothers
The House of Love
The Housemartins
Howlin' Rain
The Hunters Club
I
I Am Kloot
Idlewild
Interpol
Iron And Wine
It Bites
J
The Jack Rubies
Matthew Jay
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jesus Jones
Johnny Domino
Joolz
K
Keane
The Killers
David Kitt
Kula Shaker
L
Lambchop
Leatherface
Leaves
The Levellers
The Libertines
Loop
Low
Lowgold
Lush
M
The Magic Numbers
Magnolia Electric Co.
The Majesticons
Manic Street Preachers
Mansun
Maps
Marillion
Marion
J Mascis
Massive Attack
Mega City Four
The Memory Band
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Mercury Rev
MGMT
Mia Doi Todd
The Mighty Lemon Drops
The Mission
Modest Mouse
Mono
The Montrose Avenue
John Moore And The Expressway
Morrissey
The Motorcycle Boy
Bob Mould
Mudhoney
My Bloody Valentine
Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
Mylo
N
The National
The Necks
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The New Folk Implosion
New Model Army
New Order
Joanna Newsom
Scout Niblett
Nirvana
Now It's Overhead
O
Oasis
Okkervil River
Ooberman
Orbital
Beth Orton
P
The Pale Saints
The Parkinsons
Pavement
Penthouse
Pitman
The Pixies
The Pogues
Emma Pollock
Polytechnic
Pond
Pop Will Eat Itself
Primal Scream
The Primitives
The Prodigy
The Prudes
Public Enemy
Pulp
Q
Finlay Quaye
Queens of the Stone Age
R
Radiohead
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Red Snapper
REM
Reverend and The Makers
Ride
Rival Schools
RJD2
Roots Manuva
Tim Rose
Run DMC
S
Saint Etienne
Saint Joan
Salvation
Samamidon
Ulrich Schnauss
Scott 4
DJ Scotch Egg
Mr Scruff
The Sea and Cake
Seafood
Shack
DJ Shadow
The Shins
Michelle Shocked
The Shortwave Set
Silver Sun
Simian
Six.by Seven
The Sleepy Jackson
Elliott Smith
The Smiths
Snuff
Sonic Youth
Soul II Soul
The Soup Dragons
Space
Spacemen 3
Sparklehorse
Spear of Destiny
Spin Spin The Dogs
Spiritualized
Spring Heel Jack
Starsailor
St. Germain
The Stills
The Stone Roses
The Streets
Joe Strummer
Subkicks
Sugar
The Sugarcubes
Sun Kil Moon
Swans
T
Tapes N Tapes
Teenage Fanclub
The Telescopes
Texas
That Petrol Emotion
Them Crooked Vultures
Richard Thompson
Throwing Muses
Glenn Tilbrook
Tindersticks
The Ting-Tings
Travis
Tricky
Tunng
Turin Brakes
The Twilight Sad
U
Ultrasound
Under Neath What
Underworld
V
The Verve
Voice of the Beehive
W
Martha Wainwright
The Walking Seeds
The Walkmen
The Waterboys
The Wedding Present
We Show Up On Radar
Whistler
White Lies
The White Stripes
Wilco
Robbie Williams
The Wisdom of Harry
Witness
The Wonder Stuff
World Domination Enterprises
The Wurzels
X
X-Press 2
Y
Yam Who
James Yorkston and The Athletes
Z
Zero 7
The Zutons

Haven't posted anything in ages so why the hell not
"Post your top fifteen bands/artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, and your current favorite."

1. The Beatles
a) I Want To Hold Your Hand (honestly don't know for sure, I was played Beatles music in the womb)
b) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (really could be anything, I just have a strong childhood memory of this song in particular)
c) While My Guitar Gently Weeps

2. The New Pornographers
a) Sing Me Spanish Techno
b) Mass Romantic
c) All For Swinging You Around

3. Beck
a) Loser (pretty obvious I guess)
b) Lord Only Knows
c) Golden Age

4. Super Furry Animals
a) Juxtaposed With U
b) Something 4 The Weekend
c) Do or Die

5. The Kinks
a) Waterloo Sunset
b) Victoria
c) Do You Remember Walter

6. Bob Dylan
a) Blowin' In The Wind
b) Simple Twist Of Fate
c) I Shall Be Free

7. Belle and Sebastian
a) Step Into My Office, Baby
b) The Blues Are Still Blue
c) Me And The Major

8. Pavement
a) Cut Your Hair
b) Gold Soundz
c) Folk Jam

9. The Smiths
a) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
b) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
c) The Queen Is Dead

10. Arcade Fire
a) Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
b) Wake Up
c) Keep The Car Running

11. Elliott Smith
a) Needle In The Hay
b) Ballad Of Big Nothing
c) Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands

12 Pixies
a) Monkey Gone To Heaven
b) Bone Machine
c) Velouria

13 Wilco
a) Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)
b) Forget The Flowers
c) Pot Kettle Black

14. Radiohead
a) The Bends
b) Subterranean Homesick Alien
c) No Surprises

15 The Shins
a) So Says I
b) Know Your Onion
c) Turn On Me

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 Darren Hayes

1 Savage Garden
2 We Are Smug
3 Delta Goodrem
4 Daniel Bedingfield
5 Will Young
6 JC Chasez
7 Dannii Minogue
8 Kylie Minogue

#2 En Vogue

9 SWV
10 Janet Jackson
11 TLC
12 Monica
13 Toni Braxton
14 Xscape
15 Faith Evans
16 Brownstone

#3 Savage Garden

17 Darren Hayes
18 Boyzone
19 Backstreet Boys
20 Matchbox Twenty
Delta Goodrem
21 Ronan Keating
22 Natalie Imbruglia
23 Roxette

#4 Mika

24 Lily Allen
25 Scissor Sisters
26 Pixie Lott
27 Lady GaGa
28 Robbie Williams
29 Alphabeat
30 Little Boots
31 Frankmusik

#5 Jay-Jay Johanson

32 Perry Blake
33 Oi Va Voi
34 Baxter
35 Ilya
36 Bedük
37 Wax Poetic
38 Elsiane
39 Bang Gang

#6 Måns Zelmerlöw

40 E.M.D.
41 Ola
42 Sarah Dawn Finer
43 Danny
44 Charlotte Perrelli
45 Jonathan Fagerlund
46 Darin
47 Kevin Borg

#7 Girls Aloud

48 The Saturdays
49 Sugababes
50 Rachel Stevens
51 Cheryl Cole
52 Annie
53 Girls Aloud vs. Sugababes
54 Victoria Beckham
55 Emma Bunton

#8 OK Go

56 Hot Hot Heat
57 We Are Scientists
58 Rooney
59 The Bravery
60 The Fratellis
61 Phantom Planet
62 Louis XIV
63 Boy Kill Boy

#9 The Pipettes

64 Lucky Soul
65 The Long Blondes
66 The Indelicates
67 Camera Obscura
68 Rose Elinor Dougall
69 Kate Nash
70 Those Dancing Days
71 Tilly and the Wall

#10 The Indelicates

72 Hefner
The Long Blondes
73 Helen Love
74 The Pipettes
Lucky Soul
75 Emmy the Great
76 Tullycraft
Yeti

#11 Zazie

77 Calogero
78 Christophe Willem
79 Mylène Farmer
80 Pascal Obispo
81 La Grande Sophie
82 Les Enfoirés
83 Anaïs
84 Marc Lavoine

#12 Little Boots

85 La Roux
86 Marina & the Diamonds
Annie
87 VV Brown
88 Ladyhawke
Frankmusik
89 Dragonette
90 Florence + The Machine

#13 The Hoosiers

91 Scouting for Girls
92 The Feeling
93 The Pigeon Detectives
94 The Holloways
95 Air Traffic
The Fratellis
96 One Night Only
97 The Wombats

#14 Maroon 5

98 OneRepublic
99 Rob Thomas
Matchbox Twenty
100 James Morrison
101 James Blunt
102 Jason Mraz
103 Gavin DeGraw
104 Jesse McCartney

#15 Darin

105 Måns Zelmerlöw
Danny
E.M.D.
Ola
Kevin Borg
106 Erik Segerstedt
107 Agnes
108 Luigi Masi

#16 Kylie Minogue

Dannii Minogue
109 Madonna
110 Sophie Ellis-Bextor
111 Girls Aloud
Rachel Stevens
Annie
Emma Bunton
112 Geri Halliwell

#17 Tahiti 80

113 Axe Riverboy
114 Cloudberry Jam
115 Phoenix
116 Mocca
117 Swan Dive
118 Armchair
119 Fugu
120 Club 8

#18 The Boy Least Likely To

121 I'm From Barcelona
122 Bishop Allen
123 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
124 Architecture in Helsinki
125 Camera Obscura
126 Voxtrot
127 Belle and Sebastian
128 Math and Physics Club

#19 Amy Winehouse

129 Adele
130 Duffy
131 Joss Stone
132 Corinne Bailey Rae
Lily Allen
133 Macy Gray
134 Erykah Badu
135 Alicia Keys

#20 Alphabeat

Little Boots
136 Private
Cheryl Cole
The Saturdays
Annie
VV Brown
Sugababes
137 Robyn

Final Score:

137 / 160

Wow, after like over a year, I finally found my last.fm password!!! LOL...

01. What's your favorite song by Neutral Milk Hotel?
"Two-Headed Boy, Part Two".

02. How did you get into Felt?
Kathrin put "All the People I Like Are Those That Are Dead" on a mixtape for me, and I fell hard for Lawrence.

03. Who is your favorite member in Orange Juice?
I'm probably contractually obliged to say Edwyn Collins, but I do have a soft spot for the songs by James Kirk.

04. What's your favorite lyric by The Magnetic Fields?
this is an unreasonably difficult question. actually, no:
"I could dress in black and read Camus / Smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth / Like I was seventeen, that would be a scream / But I Don't Want to Get Over You."

05. Have you ever seen Sufjan Stevens live?
yes, in fact!

06. What's your favorite album from The Shins?
Wincing the Night Away.

07. Do you own any merchandise from The National?
nothing, sadly. (not even a tote bag from Wicker Park.)

08. What is a good memory you have of The New Pornographers?
dancing around my room to "Graceland" while packing for college.

09. Is there a member of the same age as you in Belle and Sebastian?
hahaha, no. they are all much older.

10. When did you first get into The Shins?
2003, right after Chutes Too Narrow was released. I heard "New Slang" on the college radio station and it was downhill from there.

11. Who likes The Smiths along with you?
many, many people. on my last.fm friends list, primarily Kathrin.

12. Which song did you first hear from of Montreal?
"So Begins Our Alabee", on a Polyvinyl sampler.

13. What song made you fall in love with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah?
I believe it was "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood", after some blog described it as "David Byrne fronting The Cure".

14. Which song do you not like by The Only Ones?
there are actually quite a few, shamefully, but my least favorite is probably "Deadly Nightshade".

15. Why do you like Morrissey?
what a question! his stunning voice (even at such an age), his splendid pop sensibilities, his terrific way around a witty, erudite lyric...

16. Where did you first hear Voxtrot?
oh, wow, I don't actually know. I think I heard "Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, and Wives" on a blog somewhere right after it came out, but I didn't really start to love them until I heard "The Start of Something".

17. How long were The Jesus and Mary Chain a band before you liked them?
haha. they were a band for sixteen years and weren't a band for three before I liked them.

18. Does Matthew Sweet have a song that gives you a bad memory?
well, yes. most of his songs are irrevocably linked to certain memories for me, but "Someone to Pull the Trigger" and "Life Without You" are the worst.

19. When did you get into The Cure?
the winter of sixth grade, when my brother burned a copy of Staring at the Sea: The Singles for me.

20. How long have you been into The Jesus and Mary Chain?
seven years.

21. If Jens Lekman had a concert 300 miles away, would you drive there to see them?
well, I can't drive. but if someone else were going, I would certainly consider it.

22. How many The Replacements albums do you own?
christ. nine, not counting bootlegs and unreleased compilations.

23. Do Vampire Weekend have a song that makes you cry?
hahaha, definitely not.

24. Do The Wedding Present have a song that makes you happy?
of course! especially "This Boy Can Wait".

25. Do Wilco have a song that makes you smile?
yes indeed. "Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)" is a guaranteed smile-maker.

26. What's the last song you've listened to of Guided by Voices?
"Twilight Campfighter".

27. Is there a song by Elvis Costello and the Attractions that you've listened to more than 30 times?
"(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes", though my statistics don't show it... that was mostly in seventh grade.

28. What is a song from Joanna Newsom that you've only listened to once?
"Three Little Babes". NEVER AGAIN.

29. Is there a song you are sick of hearing by Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians?
I am not really a fan of "The Fly".

30. What song got you into Echo and the Bunnymen?
"Bring on the Dancing Horses", once again via the local college station.

31. What is your favorite single by Bright Eyes?
single? probably "If The Brakeman Turns My Way".

32. If The Weakerthans hated you, what would you do?
I would be really upset, probably. and regret not seeing them when I could have in September, before I learned of this sad development.

33. What would you say if one of the members from R.E.M. asked you out?
um, accept, obviously!! I don't care that all of them are either over fifty or almost there (yes, Michael, this means you). we would be the May/December romance for the ages.

34. Would you care if Editors had a boyfriend/girlfriend?
of course. I demand that Tom Smith remain perpetually single.

35. Who has the best voice in The Posies?
I prefer Jon Auer's songs.

36. Do you think Elvis Costello and the Attractions are good looking?
haha, I was actually just talking about this today. yes.

37. How many times have you listened to your favorite song by Arcade Fire?
I have apparently only listened to "Intervention" 11 times. this might be wrong.

38. How many CDs do you own of Sparks?
I actually only own Kimono My House, but my mother has most everything else on vinyl.

39. Is there a song from Radiohead that makes you mad?
I don't think so.

40. Which member from Yo La Tengo do you want to see go solo?
I actually really like Dump, a.k.a. James McNew's side project. but I wouldn't want Ira and Georgia to split up.

41. What does your favorite song from The Velvet Underground remind you of?
"Sweet Jane" ... actually, reminds me of standing on the corner with a suitcase in my hand. hahaha. presumably because whenever I find myself in that situation, I start singing that song.

42. Did you hate Hüsker Dü at first?
no, I just thought they were really noisy. and Grant Hart was super cute. whatever, I was a twelve-year-old with priorities.

43. Does your best friend also listen to The Hold Steady?
haha, yes. although not without reservations. (no lyrics about Pringles cans, please.)

44. Do you think your parents would like The Broken West?
both my parents love them, actually.

45. Do Pixies have a song that makes you want to dance?
who doesn't dance to Debaser?

46. Have you ever seen Joy Division live?
yes. that time when I time-travelled.

47. Do you like The Broken West's name?
I guess so. I like it better than their previous name, "The Brokedown".

48. Is there someone in Paul Westerberg that you want to go out with?
this question is adorable. yes, I want to go out with the teenager in Paul Westerberg who wore his heart on his sleeve, rode his bike everywhere, and kissed girls under bridges on autumn nights, as described in "First Glimmer".

49. Do you know anyone that hates Shearwater?
I don't believe so.

50. Have you ever danced to a song from Sigur Rós?
it's probably happened.

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