Take your top 50 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 20 similar artists (where the artist itself is the #1 most similar). The resulting number of unique artists is your super-eclectic score. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/supereclectic.php

My super-eclectic score is currently

783/1000

The most similar artists for my profile are Madeleine Peyroux (6), Norah Jones (5), Diana Krall (5), Melody Gardot (4), Jane Monheit (4), Chet Baker (4), Cassandra Wilson (4), Ella Fitzgerald (4), The Waifs (4), Lizz Wright (4)

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I pause and listen, its a very simple melody, a flash back flashes as I listen to songs from my past, and I loose myself down memory lane, …in a sentimental phase, …it makes me sad… isn't it strange how a song can trigger such emotion. The memory can seam just like yesterday, light happy and full of fun and laughter, healing those deep wounds. I often wonder how you could begin to paint such emotion, does an image or a photo have to be personal, before you experience the moment, unlike a music which is likely to find…

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pastel sketch loosely based on a great photo by Lifemusicmedia
I love my newest CD Little Eve and paticlarly the song don't let go but the whole CD is wonderful

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I saw the band my friend the chocolate cake live up in diane cilento's karnak playhouse http://www.karnakplayhouse.com.au/diane%20cilento.htm and really loved the quirky instrumentals, with very unusual names (eg Jimmy Stynes)

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I particularly like the infectious dancing feet of their new violinist

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Do you listen to the same song over & over … worse still do you listen to that same song by different artist … if so join the same song group and share your obsession.misty

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This is a bit of a jazz classic, so it is a good one to kick of the same song group challenge.

Just how many version of this are scrobbled onto last.fm already?
Which is your favourite?
Do you have a better tune to play?

my funny valentine Frank Sinatra
my funny valentine Ella Fitzgerald
my funny valentine gerry mulligan
my funny valentine michael buble
my funny valentine stan getz
my funny valentine chet baker

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 (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 alanis morissette ana carolina aretha franklin astrud gilberto australian crawl barbara ben harper bill evans billie holiday billy joel billy thorpe &…

Are there any twits (or is that twitterers) in here.. if not why not?
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my newest passion … is to listen to the same songs it was a simple enough discovery, if you sort your itunes library or playlist by name (or title in monkey media), there they are all side by side … just waiting to be played one after the other … I have several version of take 5 by Dabe Bruebeck .. there is a long one, a short one a mid length one but my favourite is the Dave Brubeck trio with gerry mulligan, recorded live in Berlin, which last over 9 minutes … anyway the weaving of the…

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I think I might have the hang of this now… (inserting my illustrations that is)

This is a song tha george bush needs to listen to. Love the cat emopire work, but better still thay are such a great fun band to listen to live.

the chariot