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List the Top 25 from your Overall Artists list

1 Red Hot Chili Peppers
2 Sufjan Stevens
3 Feist
4 Death Cab for Cutie
5 Coldplay (really? number 5?)
6 blink-182
7 Iron & Wine
8 The Weakerthans
9 The Kooks
10 Ani Difranco
11 Bright Eyes
12 Bob Dylan
13 Dashboard Confessional
14 John Mayer
15 Boards of Canada
16 Maroon 5
17 Jack Johnson
18 Fiona Apple
19 Norah Jones
20 Broken Social Scene
21 Ben Folds Five
22 Dave Matthews Band
23 Elliott Smith
24 Stars
25 Pearl Jam

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
Probably All The Small Things or something on the radio when I was in middle school.

What is your favorite album by 2?
Come on Feel the Illinoise. Although its a toss-up between that and Michigan. I listen to only like 4 songs of each album, but a million times.

What is your favorite lyric that 1 has sung?
"i heard a little girl / and what she said was something beautiful / to give your love no matter what / is what she said"

How many times have you seen 11 live? once.. at UB

What is your favorite song by 7?
bah! Sodom, South Georgia wins over Sunset Soon Forgotten by play count alone.

What is a good memory you have involving 20?
hmmm. listening to any of the earlier stuff reminds me of freshmen year college. so that's a good memory sort of.

Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad?
Let It Dieor lover's spit with broken social scene?

What is your favorite lyric that 14 has sung?
john mayer.. ugh, i'm embarrassed he's so high up on my list. probably something about "she keeps a toothbrush at my place, as if i had the extra space" because its something nate would say.

What is your favorite song by 19?
ugh another embarrassment.. i didn't realize how much i listen to sappy "easy listening" music until i looked at this. i don't even have a song in iTunes by her rated over a 3 star. no favorite song.

How did you first get into 22?
DMB concerts were a summer tradition in high school.

What was the first song you heard by 21?
Probably Brick. then whatever songs were on the same album as Brick

What is your favorite song by 4?
Oooh tough one. I Will Follow You Into The Darkprobably.

What is a good memory you have involving 13?
The concert at U of R definitely.

Is there a song by 23 that makes you sad?
God, all of Elliott Smith's songs are sad.

What is your favorite album of 15?
meh.. this is another one that i haven't listened to in a very long time... don't think i even have that many songs in my library anymore... no comment.

What is your favorite lyric that 9 has sung?
Nothing sticks out - probably because i can't understand half the words they say with their accent.

What is your favorite song by 8?
my favorite chords

How many times have you seen 5 live?
Zero!

What is your favorite album by 12?
Can I pick "The Essential Bob Dylan"? because i think that's cheating. i know that's cheating.

What is a good memory you have involving 25?
Pearl Jam... freshmen year again.

What was the first song you heard by 18?
Criminal. another high school event where i bought the album because i liked one song.

What is your favorite song by 17?
Its All Understood? I'm so indecisive its sickening.

What is your favorite album by 24?
Set Yourself On Fire. gahh i am in love with Stars.

How many of your top 25 have you seen live?
let's see... four and in august it will be five. this list is unrepresentative. this is ridiculous. can i speak to a manager?

necessary disclaimer: i don't know if these songs came out in 2008, but that is when i added them to my library.. so that's what this is - songs that were new to me in 2008. so deal with it.

> Parentheses (The Blow) - "something in the deli aisle, that makes you cry"

> Silver Lining (Rilo Kiley)

> Dirty Business (The Dresden Dolls)

> Slow Down (The Academy Is)

> Ring Them Bells (Sufjan Stevens)

> Polite Dance Song (The Bird and the Bee)

> Fairytale (Sara Bareilles)

> Danger (High Voltage) (Electric Six)

> Singing in My Soul (Fly My Pretties)

> L.E.S. Artists (Santogold)

> Chasing Pavements (Adele)

For most of them, they were new artists to me as well! Here's to 2009 and another year filled with awesome songs!

dude i am so much more "eclectic" this year. check it out:

Take your top 20 artists. 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



and now for a ridiculously long music quiz - would have been longer, but i deleted the questions i thought were dumb:

1. What are you listening to right now?
Long Division

2. What song makes you sad?
Juliet

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Bad country music or something by weird al

4. Your all time favorite band?
Red Hot Chili Peppers

5. Your newly discovered band is?
The Hush Sound

6. Best female voice?
Feist

7. Best male voice?
Dashboard Confessional

9. What do you listen to to hype you up?
The City Is At War OR Megalomaniac

10. What do you listen to to calm down?
Ben Harper, Amos Lee, Coldplay, Elliot Smith, John Mayer

11. Last gig/concert you went to?
our school's fallfest - All-American Rejects

12. Band you find yourself listening to the most right now?
The Hush Sound

15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do?
Stars

19. Can you play a musical instrument?
yah - piano and chords on the guitar

21. Are you in a band?
no

23. Ever dated a musician?
yes, but not a famous one

24. If yes, what kind of music did he/she/they play?
rock

31. Last song that you heard on the radio/cd...etc...?
Gunpowder & Lead - country song by Miranda something

32. What do you think of Classical music?
I like to dance ballet to it and listen to it when I'm studying

33. What do you think of Country music?
I like the songs that have stories

34. What do you think of Death metal?
meh

37. Do you listen to music in foreign languages?
yeah - french

39. Worst concert moment?
losing a fight over flea's drumstick from a RHCP concert

40. Funny Concert moment?
crowdsurfing @ all-american rejects. and walking home barefoot.

41. Sad Concert moment?
walking home barefoot

44. Do you listen to the radio?
yeah.. i'm a sucker for the top 40 every now and then

47. Have you met any famous musicians?
not yet!

51. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to?
no - only the RHCP

52. Does a musician’s physical attractiveness play a role in the music that you listen to?
nope

53. What famous musician do you want to marry?
Dashboard Confessional guy

53. Favorite movie sound track?
ooh this is tough... maybe the grey's anatomy soundtracks?

57. What are you listening to right NOW?
John Murphy - In a Heartbeat

58. Do you wear band etc T-shirts?
no

59. What do you think of people who do?
i don't care - to each their own

62. Do you sing in the shower?
Sometimes

64. Would you rather marry a musician or be one yourself?
Be one!

66. How important is your partners taste in music to you?
Somewhat important, although my boyfriend and i have different music tastes right now.

69. Do you cook to music?
Yes

Take your top 20 artists. 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




The 70 related artists for my profile are Alanis Morissette Alice In Chains Arctic Monkeys Beck Belle and Sebastian Ben Harper Bob Dylan Brand New Bright Eyes (2) Broken Social Scene (2) Cake Cat Power (2) Coldplay (3) Counting Crows Dar Williams Dave Matthews Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds David Bowie Death Cab for Cutie (3) Dido Dirty Pretty Things Elliott Smith (2) Fall Out Boy (2) Fiona Apple Foo Fighters Green Day (2) Incubus Indigo Girls Iron & Wine Jack Johnson Jimmy Eat World (2) John Mayer (3) Led Zeppelin Modest Mouse Neil Young Nirvana (2) Oasis Pink Floyd Radiohead (3) Razorlight Red Hot Chili Peppers (3) Regina Spektor (2) Rilo Kiley Sarah McLachlan Sheryl Crow Something Corporate Soundgarden Stars Stone Temple Pilots Sufjan Stevens (2) Sum 41 System of a Down Taking Back Sunday (2) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists The Arcade Fire The Beatles The Decemberists (4) The Fratellis The Get Up Kids The Killers The Postal Service (2) The Rolling Stones (2) The Shins (4) The Smashing Pumpkins The Velvet Underground Tori Amos (2) U2 We Are Scientists Weezer ���