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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.

#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

Wed 2 Dec – Megadeth, Machine Head, Suicide Silence, Arcanium

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Band's I've seen :) [In no order]

Velvet Revolver x6

Backyard Babies x5

Megadeth x4

Trivium x6

Iron Maiden x2

Guns N' Roses

Slipknot x2

Slayer x3

System of a Down

AC/DC

Deep Purple x2

Black Sabbath

Anthrax

Machine Head x3

Metallica x2

Seether

The Offspring

Disturbed

Judas Priest x3

Scorpions x2

Bullet For My Valentine x2

Wednesday 13 x4

Whitesnake

Def Leppard

Black Stone Cherry

Duff McKagan's Loaded

H.I.M x2

Hellyeah

Iced Earth

Lamb of God x2

Arch Enemy x2

DevilDriver x2 (biggest pit I have EVER seen!!)

Heaven & Hell

Lost Prophets x2

My Chemical Romance

Korn

Deathstars

3 Doors Down

SOiL

Bullet For My Valentine x3

In Flames

Nightwish

Within Temptation x2

Lacuna Coil

DragonForce x3

Alter Bridge

Evanescence

Motley Crue

Thin Lizzy

Styx

Zico chain

The Crave

Crucified Barbara

Buckcherry x2

Bullets and Octane x2

Stone Sour x3

Papa Roach x3

Hanoi Rocks x2

The Wildhearts x2

Motorhead

Airbourne x2

Children of Bodom x2

Towers of London

Testament

Amen x2

Imperial Vipers x2

The Cult

Lauren Harris

The Answer x2

Garbage

Zebrahead

McQueen x2

Tokyo Dragons

The Glitterati

Pendulum x2

Wolfmother

Bowling for Soup x2

Biffy Clyro x4

ShadowsFall

Turisas

KISS

Alice in Chains

Shinedown

Opeth

3 Inches of Blood

Stone Gods

Evile

Hinder

Killswitch Engage

The Ga*Ga*s

Mastadon

There's probably some I've forgot...

1. How did you get into 29? Steve Vai
Many of my friends love his work so I figured I should give him a try. He's great.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Joe Satriani
Hmm..Super Colossal, I think.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33? Novembers Doom
The lyrics of the song Swallowed by the Moon is pretty awesome.

4. What is your favorite album by 49? Evergrey
That would have to be The Inner Circle.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Arch Enemy
None, at the moment.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? Skid Row
Monkey Business. Great band overall.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? Rotting Christ
Heh, not really.

8. What is your favorite album by 15? Diabolical Masquerade
Death's Design or Nightwork, I'm not sure.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? Megadeth
Wow, um..Holy Wars...The Punishment Due, I guess.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? Draconian
The cover for Forever My Queen, haha.
A pretty gloomy band besides that.

11. What is your favorite album by 40? Got no 40, so I'll pick Rotting Christ again.
Theogonia, no doubt.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? Eric Clapton
Tears In Heaven

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? Death
I remember me and my ex listened to Death sometimes when got together.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? Liquid Tension Experiment
Universal Mind. Great track.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Nightingale
Steal the Moon is pretty fun.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? Warrel Dane
Well, I've seen him once performing with Nevermore if that counts.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? Swallow the Sun
No Light, No Hope, I think.

18. What is your favorite album by 11? Meshuggah
obZen or Chaosphere, can't really decide.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? Nevermore
Jeff Loomis, although Warrel Dane is great too. They're all a bunch of ass kickers, though.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Septic Flesh
Unfortunately - no. But I think they're about to book a concert here soon, so I hope to see them in 2010.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? Paradise Lost
Nothing really happened involving them.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? Beyond Twilight
The Path of Darkness.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Dragonlord
Until the End, I think.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? Pantera
Vulgar Display of Power, hands down.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? Buckethead
I've seriously got no idea.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? Porcupine Tree
Blackest Eyes, which is great.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? Bloodbath
Nightmares Made Flesh. Yup.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? Opeth
A tough one, but I'll go with Serenity Painted Death.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? Orphaned Land
Norra El Norra (Entering the Ark), hehe.

30. What is your favorite song by 8? Edge of Sanity
Crimson II. Does that count? heh

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Marty Friedman
Once. Back in 2006, I think.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
Not really. It's a pretty bizzare project, But I love it.

33. What is your favorite album by 12? Jeff Loomis
Zero Order Phase, which is his only album as a solo artist.

34. What is the worst song by 45? Symphony X
Nothing I can think of. All songs are great.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Haggard
All'inizio E La Morte. Simply amazing.

36. What is your favorite album by 48? Aborted
Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture, I guess.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? The Beatles
Haha.

38. What is your favorite song by 36? One Man Army and the Undead Quartet
Make them die slowly

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Scale The Summit
The Great Plains. Beautiful.

40. What is your favorite album by 7? Deep Purple
I'll go with Machine Head, but I really like In Rock too.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? Dio
Rainbow In The Dark, hehe.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? Katatonia
Brave Murder Day. Love Mikael.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? Dark Tranquillity
Of all I've heard from them, I'll go with The Endless Feed.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? I got no 46, so I'll pick Ensiferum
Well, nothing really.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? Again, no 35 so I'll pick Wintersun
A hard choice, but I think Death and the Healing takes the pie.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? Gojira
Nah.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? Hypocrisy
Virus. A masterpiece.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? Naglfar
Wrath, the vocalist.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? Therion
Gothic Kabbalah, I think.

50. How many albums do you own by 20? Carcass
None, at the moment.

What I consider to be the best album released each year, starting from 1987 (my birth year). I forgot where I got this idea from.

1987: Scream Bloody Gore by Death
1988: Leprosy by Death
1989: Doolittle by Pixies
1990: Rust in Peace by Megadeth
1991: Human by Death
1992: The IVth Crusade by Bolt Thrower
1993: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan
1994: Transilvanian Hunger by Darkthrone
1995: Symbolic by Death
1996: Sublime by Sublime
1997: Something Wild by Children of Bodom
1998: The Sound of Perseverance by Death
1999: Bloody Blasphemy by God Dethroned
2000: Elvenfris by Lykathea Aflame
2001: Ensiferum by Ensiferum
2002: They Will Return by Kalmah
2003: Revolutionary Vol. 2 by Immortal Technique
2004: Wintersun by Wintersun
2005: Řád a trest by !T.O.O.H.!
2006: Leading Vision by Gorod
2007: Colors by Between the Buried and Me
2008: In Hatred's Flame by Exmortus
2009: ...A Splendid Chaos by Coram Lethe

So what does this say about my taste in music? My favorite artist Death got top billing for four of their six releases, which is no real surprise (although they just narrowly edged out Gorguts in '98). Besides the past couple of years, for which my opinions are still solidifying, the hardest choices were in 1993 (the other contenders were Atheist, Death, and Pestilence) and 2004 (which had releases by Deathspell Omega, Disillusion, Ensiferum, The Fiery Furnaces, Mastodon, and Necrophagist. Whew!).

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. Rise Against
Strike Anywhere,
Anti-Flag,
Billy Talent,
Sum 41,
The Offspring,
Ignite,
Zebrahead,
Strung Out

2. Nine Inch Nails
Modwheelmood,
Trent Reznor,
Marylin Manson,
Tweaker,
Halo 33,
Black Light Burns,
Puscifer,
KMFDM

3. Slayer
Kreator,
Exodus,
Testament,
Sepultura,
Anthrax,
Megadeth,
Pantera,
Sodom

4. Paramore
Hey Monday,
Hayley Williams,
VersaEmerge,
Flyleaf,
Boys Like Girls,
Automatic Loveletter,
All Time Low,
Fake Number

5. Bullet For My Valentine
Atreyu,
Avenged Sevenfold,
Trivium,
All That Remains,
Killswitch Engage,
As I Lay Dying,
Sonic Syndicate,
Escape the Fate

6. The Black Dahlia Murder
Job For A Cowboy,
All Shall Perish,
Despised Icon,
Suicide Silence,
Whitechapel,
As Blood Runs Black,
Carnifex,
Born of Osiris

7. Linkin Park
Fort Minor,
Jay-Z and Linkin Park,
Chester Bennington,
Xero,
Dead By Sunrise,
Papa Roach,
Limp Bizkit,
Adema

8. All That Remains ,
Shadows Fall,
Still Remains,
Unearth

9. Metallica
Slayer,
Iron Maiden,
Machine Head,
Motörhead

10. Machine Head
Chimaira,
DevilDriver,
Lamb of God,
Soulfly,
Roadrunner United,

11. A Perfect Circle
Tool,
ASHES dIVIDE,
Deftones,
Nine Inch Nails,
Rishloo,
Peach,
Chevelle

12. Tool
A Perfect Circle,
Riverside,
Porcupine Tree

13. In This Moment
The Agonist,
Straight Line Stitch,
Light This City,
UnSun,
Deadlock,
Walls of Jericho,
Kittie,
Otep

14. Maria Mena
Lene Marlin,
Anna Nalick,
Lucie Silvas,
Marit Larsen,
A Fine Frenzy,
Vanessa Carlton,
Krezip,
KT Tunstall

15. Rage Against the Machine
One Day As A Lion,
Audioslave,
Zack De La Rocha,
Street Sweeper Social Club,
The Nightwatchman,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Incubus

16. Megadeth
MD.45,
Annihilator

17. System of a Down
Serj Tankian,
Scars on Broadway,
Slipknot,
Disturbed,
Korn,
Static-X,
Mudvayne,
Drowning Pool

18. Thrice
Thursday,
The Receiving End of Sirens,
Alexisonfire,
As Cities Burn,
Brand New,
Emery,
Saosin,
Finch

19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Metric,
The Kills,
Be Your Own Pet,
Interpol,
Arcade Fire,
Florence + The Machine,
The Gossip,
Bat For Lashes

20. Taylor Swift
Kellie Pickler,
Carrie Underwood,
Gloriana,
Ashley Tisdale,
Colbie Caillat,
Selena Gomez,
Jullianne Hough,
Kelly Clarkson

The result... 135.

(135-9)/(160-9) * 100 = 83.4%
That's very varied (Y).

1. Behemoth - Evangelion
2. Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
3. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
4. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
5. Redemption - Snowfall On Judgement Day
6. Insomnium - Across the Dark
7. Slayer - World Painted Blood
8. Andre Matos - Mentalize
9. Epica - Design Your Universe
10. Immortal - All Shall Fall

11. Amorphis - Skyforger
12. Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
13. Crimfall - As The Path Unfolds...
14. Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro pro Eternus
15. Celesty - Vendetta
16. The Chasm - Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm
17. Primal Fear - 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
18. Lamb of God - Wrath
19. Necrophobic - Death to All
20. Urgehal - Ikonoklast

21. Dream Theater - Black Clouds And Silver Linings
22. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
23. Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Children Of The Dark Waters
24. Powerwolf - Bible of the Beast
25. Azaghal - Teraphim
26. Mantic Ritual - Executioner
27. SuidAkrA - Crógacht
28. Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way
29. Strandhogg - Ritualistic Plague (Evangelical Death Apotheosis)
30. National Suicide - The Old Family is Still Alive
31. Brainstorm - Memorial Roots
32. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars
33. PANTHEON I - Worlds I Create
34. Ex Deo - Romulus
35. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
36. God Dethroned - Passiondale
37. Suffocation - Blood Oath
38. Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmare
39. Marduk - Wormwood
40. ChthoniC - Mirror of Retribution
41. Finsterforst - ...zum Tode hin
42. Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts
43. Blackguard - Profugus Mortis
44. Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre
45. Code - Resplendent Grotesque
46. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
47. Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
48. Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I
49. Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel
50. Swallow the Sun - New Moon

51. Týr - By the Light of the Northern Star
52. Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God
53. Tardy Brothers - Bloodline
54. Amberian Dawn - The Clouds Of Northland Thunder
55. Megadeth - Endgame
56. Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
57. Sepultura - A-Lex
58. Nomans Land - Farnord
59. Marionette - Enemies
60. Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
61. Bloodbound - Tabula Rasa
62. DGM - FrAme
63. Svarttjern - Misanthropic Path Of Madness
64. Аркона - Гой, Роде, Гой!
65. Ulcerate - EIF
66. Månegarm - Nattväsen
67. Obituary - Darkest Day
68. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
69. Gama Bomb - Tales From the Grave in Space
70. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
71. Evil Masquerade - Fade To Black
72. Savage Circus - Of Doom And Death
73. Absu - Absu
74. Aeternam - Disciples of the Unseen
75. W.A.S.P. - Babylon
76. Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
77. The Few Against Many - Sot
78. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
79. Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
80. IXXI - Elect Darkness
81. Orcustus - Orcustus
82. Artillery - When Death Comes
83. Irminsul - Irminsul
84. The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Lustrate Process
85. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
86. Miseration - The Mirroring Shadow
87. Devin Townsend - Ki / Addicted
88. Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign
89. Ad Hominem - Dictator - A Monument of Glory
90. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
91. Susperia - Attitude
92. Deströyer 666 - Defiance
93. Mind Key - Pulse For A Graveheart
94. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
95. Ensiferum - From Afar
96. Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria
97. Lion's Share - Darkest Hours
98. Thanatos - Justified Genocide
99. Vindictiv - Ground Zero
100. Inferno - Black Devotion

Great releases that didn't make it into the list but still worth mentioning:
Saratoga, Flashback of anger, Graveland, Necrodeath, Theodore Ziras, Disparaged, Nightmare, Blood Red Throne, Shining, Skyclad, Unholy Matrimony, Dagon, Veloce Hystoria, Bornholm, Jungle Rot, Soulfallen, HammerFall, Grave Digger, Destroy Destroy Destroy, Napalm Death, Impious, Stratovarius, Vreid, D Creation, Andreas Kisser, Trail of Tears, Gorgoroth, Endstille, This Ending, Graveyard, Trepalium, Bibleblack, Mistur, Sarke, Tyrann, Ashent, Dark the Suns, Inmoria, Nefertum, Paganizer, Tim Ripper Owens, Stormheit, Silent Memorial, Torture Killer, Hammer Horde, Ablaze in Hatred, Conquest, Empires of Eden, Elias Viljanen, Bob Katsionis, Kiko Loureiro, Code For Silence, Old Man's Child, Wretched, Guilt Machine, Leaves' Eyes, Demonical, Kult ov Azazel, Dying Fetus, Gothmog

I haven't had a chance to listen to any of these yet, but I thought it was an interesting mix of music I picked up today. See here. Bon Jovi The Circle, Nirvana Live at Reading, Pearl JamTen, Megadeth Endgame.

I pause to reflect on this selection because it is fairly representative of my thoughts on music. Eddie Van Halen once said "If it sounds good, it is good." It was with this basic and simple tenant that has since ruled my musical tastes. I used to let others dictate what I liked. The radio, friends, family, marketing. Whatever. You couldn't like Megadeth because I was a Metallica fan. You couldn't possibly like Poison and Anthrax. Bon Jovi was for posers. Nirvana sucked because they destroyed...whatever. It is all pretty silly when you think about it.

Once I began liking what I liked because it sounds good, I found myself open to a whole world of new musical worlds. Lyle Lovett was great! I COULD like Anthrax and Nirvana and Faith Hill. It was OK to enjoy, metal, pop, country, pop country, grunge, shoegaze, whatever, if it sounds good it is good.

My iTunes library has 17,000 songs in in from every possibly genre. Mostly rock, hard rock, pop rock, 90's rock, classic rock, modern rock and indie rock. But there is tons of pop, top 40, metal, pop country, classic country, punk, adult contemporary, soundtracks, classical, ect. If it sounds good, it is good.

I refuse to let others dictate what I listen to. I never listen to terrestrial radio, instead I use the internet, iTunes, last.fm, woxy.com, and recommendations from friends to discover new music. When discussing music, I try not to say something I do not like "sucks". All of the music I do not like is played by folks with far more talent than I have, just because I do not like it, does not make it suck. If someone says band X sucks, I do not take that on face, I listen if I am interested and make my own determination. Sometimes I like what I hear, sometimes I dont. I remember the night my cousin Brian told me how much Guns N' Roses sucks. One of my favorite bands for the last twenty years. If it sounds good, it is good.

So I imagine I will probably enjoy all four of these albums and blissfully ignore the ridicule that goes along with liking Bon Jovi. And Megadeth. Everybody likes Pearl Jam.