Journal

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.

I skipped non-artists (NOS, Radio Veronica and Ny I Norge), artists pages that show me as the only listener (Claire van Duijvenbode/artist]), artists of which Last.fm displays no similar artists (Acda en De Munnik - that's weird, as they have over 66,000 listeners) and duplicates (BLØF).

* Bløf
1. Acda en de Munnik
2. Marco Borsato
3. Guus Meeuwis
4. De Dijk
5. Racoon
6. Ilse DeLange
7. Kane
8. Veldhuis & Kemper

* De Dijk
9. Van Dik Hout
10. Het Goede Doel
11. De Poema's
12. Frank Boeijen
13. The Scene
14. Frank Boeijen Groep
15. Bløf
16. Solomon Burke & De Dijk

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Has seen live during Concerts & Festivals:

A
- A Day To Remember
- A Silent Express
- Adept
- American Steel
- Alain Clark 2x
- All American Rejects
- All Time Low
- Arctic Monkeys
- Armin Van Buuren 2x
- Attack! Attack!
- Avril Lavigne

B
- Babylon Circus
- Bad Candy
- Baskerville
- Bayside
- Beyoncé
- Big Brovaz
- Billy the Klit 3x
- Black Sheep
- Bon Jovi
- Bonnie St. Claire 2x

C
- Campus
- Canterbury
- Captain Hollywood
- Cascada
- Ch!pz
- Chuckie 2x
- Crown Jewel Defense
- C-Mon & Kypski

D
- Danny Plezier
- Darkraver
- Deaf Havana
- De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig 3x
- De Sjonnies
- Deurzakkers
- Destine
- Dewi (idols)
- DI-RECT 3x
- DJ Flo 2x
- DJ Paul Elstak 2x
- DJ Skeet Skeet
- DJ TOMMY
- Don Diablo
- Double Vision
- Dries Roelvink

E
- Epica
- Erik E
- Esmeé Denters
- Evanescence

F
- Failsafe
- Fat Angel
- Fedde Le Grand
- Framing Hanley
- Frans Duijts 2x
- Frank van Etten
- Francesqa
- Futures

G
- Gebroeders Ko
…

Found this question list by accident and thought, well let's try it.

1. How did you get into 29? (Trijntje Oosterhuis)
She was part of Total Touch, and later she started to sing solo songs, some of which I listen to.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Frank Boeijen)
I don't remember. I have known him since my childhood. Maybe Kronenburg Park or Zwart wit.

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Krezip)
From Promise

Sometimes, somewhere
you try to hide your mind for good
You know it ain't fair
but you're just misunderstood
Now try, just try to say
What's on your mind

4. How did you get into 49? (Snap!)
I listened a lot to them in the 1990s and I still like them.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (2 Unlimited)
One or two.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Secret Garden)
The winning song of Eurovision Song Contest 1995, Nocturne. I once have heard other tracks of them, but I can't remember actually.

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Vor langer, langer Zeit sagte ein weiter Mann "When you reach the monumental play count of 100.000 songs, you should celebrate it." und kaum Jemand wusste, dass dieses Zitat noch weiterging: "... but when you reach the even more monumental play count of 200.000 - you are the shits!"

Zwei Jahre und zwei Monate habe ich gebraucht um von 100.000 auf 200.000 gespielte Tracks bei last.fm zu kommen. Und um die letzten 51 fehlenden Titel ausgiebig zu feiern, durften sich ein paar Personen ein paar Lieder wünschen. Diese werden hier nun festgehalten:

199.950: Dredg - "Quotes“
gewünscht von July

199.951: Feist - "1234“

199.952: Colin Hay - "Overkill“

199.953: 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor - "Dreams (Will Come Alive)“
gewünscht von Knuckles

199.954: Peter Fox - "Der letzte Tag“
gewünscht von July

199.955: Vengaboys - "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!“
gewünscht von Gala

199.956: Kid Cudi - "Day 'N' Nite“

199.957: I Haunt Wizards - "Let's Break Hearts For Laughs“
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I recently started a new blog on dance-music. Here you will find writings on everything from eurodance, house, trance, electro, bubblegum etc.

Find the blog here:
Base Unlimited

Weekly updates, so keep coming back!

So far I've written about acts like:

2 Unlimited
Ace of Base
Haddaway
2 Brothers On The 4th Floor
Yves Larock
Bob Sinclar
DJ Encore
The Attic
Culture Beat
Basic Element
Cascada
Whigfield
David Guetta
Lucky Twice
Akcent
Infernal
Corona
Snap!
Dr. Alban
Fedde Le Grand
Eric Prydz
Armand Van Helden
Fashion Victims
Da Buzz
Cappella
Morandi
O-Zone
Activ
Pharao
E-Type
Scooter
Gina G
Dee Dee
Ian Van Dahl
Catch
Kate Ryan
Double N
BWO
Maria Rubia
Fragma
Páll Óskar
Copenhagen Bass

[19:15] Uninterpretative: it honestly does look like discogs for retarded people

It wasn't too long ago that I started seeing lots of folks on last.fm linking to pages on a site called "Rate Your Music," primarily for things like favorite album lists, but also in their profiles for no specific reason. Now, of course, for the longest time, I never followed or payed mind to these links at all. But as I started seeing more and more of them, I became embarrassingly intrigued as to why users on a music-oriented social networking site (of sorts) would be feverishly linking to another music-oriented social networking site. So, one day I pointed my Firefox to www.rateyourmusic.com and set up an account to see what it was all about.

After using many of the site's features, I can say with total conviction that I'm not at all sure what it is all about.

Rate Your Music ("RYM") appears to be a poorly conceived, unpleasant chimera of MySpace, last.fm and Discogs. It encourages the same sort of music discussion as last. …