thablkpanda's Last.fm Journal

en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices thablkpanda's Last.fm Journal http://www.last.fm/user/thablkpanda/journal The Last.fm journal for thablkpanda. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. Something about pop... http://www.last.fm/user/thablkpanda/journal/2008/04/22/2sca_something_about_pop... Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:46:20 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thablkpanda/journal/2008/04/22/2sca_something_about_pop... Maybe not pop as a whole, but Rihanna in general. Bear with me, since my charts [or at least my old charts] don't reflect my eclectic taste.

I'm a metalhead, obviously not concerned with how 'Trve' [which isn't a word, by the way, kids] my metal taste is, but I love metal. Mostly death metal and the sub-genres it spawned [see: deathcore melodic death metal metalcore]. I tend to shift from more 'heavy' metal like In Flames Children of Bodom and Dark Tranquillity to more recent and more 'core' based metal like The Black Dahlia Murder All Shall Perish As Blood Runs Black and Bullet For My Valentine. I'm a huge fan of jazz like Diana Krall, I love britpop and modern English/Welsh rock like Toploader and Los Campesinos!. vocal artists like David Gray and Holly Brook have a place in my heart of music as well. Then my guilty pleasure is Fall Out Boy.

This is all really interesting, but just by viewing the artist connections I've spawned, you can see I have slightly conflicting taste. God forbid any true metalhead admit listening to Fall Out Boy! Please note my sarcasm.

Hence, my newfound obsessions with Rihanna's Don't Stop The Music and Umbrella are unexpected, but not out of place. I dance like a raving fool so dance music and I tend not to mesh well. But I'm as much of a headbanger as anyone, so at any Rihanna concert, I wouldn't be too out of place windmilling and cranking the Soulja Boy [my rant about popular rap and how it's detrimental to society and all other music is saved for a later date, along with my rant about how hardcore dancing is best kept to your living room or kitchen, where people don't have to see you act like an idiot].

I digress. [If you're not fond of digressions, I suggest leaving now. It only gets worse. :)]]]> Archive.... http://www.last.fm/user/thablkpanda/journal/2008/03/25/2sc9_archive.... Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:54:02 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thablkpanda/journal/2008/03/25/2sc9_archive.... This is my fancy, American way to archive my music history prior to the reset I'm about to do. I figure my taste has evolved enough in the past year that I can wipe and re-scrobble... y'know?

1 As I Lay Dying
1,005
2 In Flames
761
3 Bullet For My Valentine
624
4 Evanescence
507
5 All Shall Perish
505
6 KT Tunstall
478
7 All That Remains
463
8 Fall Out Boy
424
9 MC Lars
421
10 Maroon 5
386
11 Into Eternity
361
12 Hoobastank
356
12 Killswitch Engage
356
14 As Blood Runs Black
340
15 Children of Bodom
337
16 Diana Krall
334
17 Dave Matthews Band
298
18 The Fray
277
19 Dark Tranquillity
230
20 Linkin Park
228
21 Los Campesinos!
217
22 Breaking Benjamin
211
23 Staind
197
24 Tech N9ne
183
25 Taking Back Sunday
167
26 Fivespeed
156
27 Light This City
155
28 3 Doors Down
140
29 The Cardigans
131
30 Barenaked Ladies
109
31 Bitter:Sweet
108
32 Eminem
107
33 Three Days Grace
105
34 Job for a Cowboy
101
35 311
98
36 Dane Cook
92
37 David Gray
84
38 Goo Goo Dolls
81
39 Nickelback
79
40 Flyleaf
64
41 Clint Mansell
63
42 Crime Mob
60
43 Holly Brook
59
44 Metallica
56
45 Jedi Mind Tricks
53
46 Soilwork
42
47 Alanis Morissette
41
48 Apocalyptica
40
49 2Pac
39
49 Switchfoot
39
51 Cansei de Ser Sexy
38
51 Beck
38
53 Kanye West
36
53 Bic Runga
36
55 Daniel Tosh
34
55 Dido
34
55 Earth Wind & Fire
34
55 Anna Nalick
34
55 John Mayer
34
60 Purple Ribbon All Starz
33
61 Three 6 Mafia
30
61 Timbaland
30
61 Avenged Sevenfold
30
64 Toploader
27
64 James Morrison
27
66 Puddle of Mudd
26
66 John Legend
26
68 Arch Enemy
25
68 Rage Against the Machine
25
68 Atreyu
25
68 Shaggy
25
72 Bury Your Dead
23
73 Earth, Wind & Fire
22
74 Mandy Moore
21
74 Juvenile
21
74 KT Tunstall
21
77 Papa Roach
20
77 Mariah Carey
20
77 System S.F.
20
77 Nonpoint
20
81 Comedy Central
18
81 Gym Class Heroes
18
81 Coheed and Cambria
18
81 Slipknot
18
81 Notorious B.I.G.
18
81 Mudvayne
18
87 Omnium Gatherum
16
87 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
16
89 Fantasia Barrino
15
90 The Onion
14
90 Lifehouse
14
92 Vanessa Carlton
13
93 Jay-Z and Linkin Park
12
93 Lacuna Coil
12
95 Michael Jackson
11
95 Hinder
11
97 OutKast
10
97 Green Day
10
97 Chingy
10
97 Pitbull
10
97 Cat Power
10
97 Will Smith
10
103 Jay-Z
9
103 The Black Dahlia Murder
9
105 Sarah McLachlan
8
105 Birdman
8
105 David Bowie
8
105 Foo Fighters
8
109 Ludacris
7
109 Supergrass
7
109 Despised Icon
7
109 30 Seconds to Mars
7
109 GLaDOS
7
109 Lil' Wayne
7
115 Dirty Vegas
6
115 Jin
6
115 Yellowcard
6
115 Sara Bareilles
6
115 Acceptance
6
120 Cold
5
120 "Weird Al" Yankovic
5
120 Matchbox Twenty
5
120 The Temptations
5
120 Stevie Wonder
5
120 Ja Rule
5
120 Scar Symmetry
5
120 Nelly
5
120 Nas
5
120 Garbage
5
120 Big Boi ft. Purple Ribbon All Starz
5
131 Billboard Top 100 - 2002
4
131 Shadows Fall
4
131 T.I.
4
131 Bleeding Through
4
131 Cascada
4
131 YoungBloodZ
4
131 Crossfade
4
131 Suicide Silence
4
131 Story of the Year
4
140 Nine Inch Nails
3
140 Seal
3
140 Luther Vandross
3
140 Nine Days
3
140 From Autumn to Ashes
3
140 Body Count
3
140 Sota Fujimori
3
140 The Isley Brothers
3
140 Ellen Mclain
3
140 Moby
3
150 Santana
2
150 Al Green
2
150 Eldagalmk
2
150 The Wallflowers
2
150 It Dies Today
2
150 The Fall of Troy
2
150 Crime Mobb; Lil' Scrappy
2
150 Sevendust
2
150 Earth, Wind and Fire
2
150 Deadlock
2
150 Hall & Oates
2
150 Twista
2
150 Jim Jones
2
150 Ray J
2
150 Circus Maximus
2
150 My Chemical Romance
2
150 Barbra Streisand
2
150 Crime Mobb
2
150 Rich Boy
2
150 Immortal Technique
2
170 Jonathan Coulton (Portal)
1
170 lil jon
1
170 The Police
1
170 Kelly Clarkson
1
170 G-Unit
1
170 Lisa Miskovsky
1
170 Rob Zombie
1
170 The Strokes
1
170 Rihanna
1
170 Young Joc
1
170 V.G. Stout
1
170 August Burns Red
1
170 Barry Louis Polisar
1
170 R. Kelly
1
170 The Moldy Peaches
1
170 Juelz Santana
1
170 Big Krizz Kaliko
1
170 DMX
1
170 Ne-Yo
1
170 James Blunt
1
170 Young Jeezy
1
170 Michael Cera and Ellen Page
1
170 Los Campesinos
1
170 Dave Chappelle
1
170 India.Arie
1
170 Dimmu Borgir
1
170 Weezer
1
170 The Brothers Creeggan
1
170 Suffocation
1
170 Jibbs
1
170 Adam Sandler
1
170 Ruff Endz
1
170 R.E.M.
1
170 50 Cent
1
170 Black Sabbath
1
170 Yeah Yeah Yeahs
1
170 Webbie
1
170 killwhitneydead
1
170 Massive Attack
1
170 Missy Elliott
1
170 The Hives
1
170 Nelly Furtado
1
170 Don Davis
1
170 Feff
1
170 Nirvana
1
170 Crime Mobb; Lil' Scrappy; Lil' Wayne
1
170 Bow Wow
1
170 Beyoncé
1
170 DJ Unk
1
170 Carpenters
1
170 Victims Of Science
1
170 Josh Ritter
1
170 Mitch Hedberg
1
170 Rob Dougan
1
170 Sean Paul
1
170 Mountain
1
170 Adam and Andrew
1
170 Young Buck
1
170 The London Philharmonic Strings
1

Here's to the coming year in music! Cheers, Last.FM]]> Eclectic? Guess not. http://www.last.fm/user/thablkpanda/journal/2007/05/14/2sc8_eclectic%3F_guess_not. Mon, 14 May 2007 03:02:13 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/thablkpanda/journal/2007/05/14/2sc8_eclectic%3F_guess_not. 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

70/100