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Thought this might turn out interesting. xD This is what I do when I get bored.

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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.

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(Artists aren't in a particular order)..
This is so hard because this is constantly changing!! >.>

1. Cinema Bizarre
~Tokio Hotel
~Lovex
~Negative
~LeFee
~Panik
~Killerpilze
~Fräulein Wunder

2. Green Day
~Foxboro Hot Tubs
~Pinhead Gunpowder
~The Network
~Sum 41
~The Offspring
~blink-182
~Good Charlotte

3. The Hush Sound
~Forgive Durden
~Panic at the Disco
~Charlotte Somtimes
~The Academy Is...
~This Providence
~Phantom Planet
~Eisley

4. Owl City
~Swimming With Dolphins
~Lights
~A Rocket To The Moon
~Breathe Carolina
~nevershoutnever!
~The Secret Handshake
~Breathe Electric

5. Tori Amos
~Charlotte Martin
~Kate Bush
~Alanis Morrisette
~PJ Harvey
~Poe
~Sarah Slean
~Fiona Apple

6. Flyleaf
~Fireflight
~Three Days Grace
~Sick Puppies
~Red
~Breaking Benjamin

7. Evanescence
~Amy Lee
~Within Temptation
~Lacuna Coil
~Ben Moody
~Nightwish
~Epica

8. Basshunter
~Cascada
~Tune Up!
~Special D
~DJ Splash
~Dj Satomi
~Groove Coverage

9. t.A.T.u.
~Serebro
~Юлия Савичева
~МакSим
~Линда
~Ничья
~Сергей Лазарев
~Britney Spears

10. The Fratellis
~Kaiser Chiefs
~Dirty Pretty Things
~The Pigeon Detectives
~Franz Ferdinand
~Arctic Monkeys
~The Wombats
~The Kooks

11. Gackt
~HYDE
~MALICE MIZER
~L'Arc~en~Ciel
~Chachamaru
~VAMPS
~-Miyavi-
~Acid Black Cherry

12. Utada Hikaru
~Utada
~Cubic U
~BoA
(There were 4 artists here whose names couldn't translate).

13. Hey Monday
~All Time Low
~We The Kings
~The Cab
~Boys Like Girls
~The Friday Night Boys
~Automatic Loveletter

14. Jimmy Eat World
~The Get Up Kids
~Dashboard Confessional
~Brand New
~Taking Back Sunday
~Something Corporate
~The Early November
~The Ataris

15. Meg & Dia
~VersaEmerge
~Daphne Loves Derby
~New Years Day
~Brighten

16. Muse
~Kasabian
~The Killers
~Keane

17. Radiohead
~Thom Yorke
~Jonny Greenwood
~Interpol
~Blur

18. Paramore
~Hayley Williams

19. Stream of Passion
~Delain
~Elfonía
~Ayreon
~Star One
~Ambeon
~Leaves' Eyes

20. Coldplay
~Snow Patrol
~Travis
~The Fray
~Oasis

I counted 121 but I have a feeling that's way off. :3
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nicklesslanding's top albums (3 months) 1. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place (304) 2. Brand New - Deja Entendu (239) 3. Crime in Stereo - The Troubled Stateside (189) 4. blink-182 - blink-182 (185) 5. Crime in Stereo - Is Dead (185) 6. August Burns Red - Messengers (148) 7. Jimmy Eat World - Futures (127) 8. Explosions in the Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (127) 9. Polar Bear Club - Sometimes Things Just Disappear (116) 10. This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain (109) 11. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (109) 12. Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue (106) 13. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (101) 14. Strike Anywhere - Iron Front (97) 15. Life Long Tragedy - Runaways (92) 16. God Is an Astronaut - All Is Violent All Is Bright (91) 17. Title Fight - The Last Thing You Forget (90) 18. Break Even - The Bright Side (90) 19. Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (85) 20. Lifetime - Lifetime (85)

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. Protest the Hero
-The Human Abstract
-Between the Buried and Me
-SikTh
-The Fall of Troy
-The Dillinger Escape Plan
-August Burns Red
-The Number Twelve Looks
-The Arusha Accord

2. Brand New
-Manchester Orchestra
-Kevin Devine
-Taking Back Sunday
-Straylight Run
-Say Anything
-Bayside
-Thrice
-The Early November

3. Alexisonfire
-Dance Gavin Dance
-A Day to Remember
-We Are The Ocean
-The Ghost of a Thousand
-Emarosa
-Saosin
-Cancer Bats

4. The Legion of Doom
-Senses Fail
-Dead Poetic
-Boys Night Out
-Aiden vs. The Legion of Doom
-A Thorn for Every Heart
-Armor for Sleep
-Matchbook Romance

5. Circa Survive
-Anthony Green
-The Sound of Animals Fighting
-Audience of One
-High and Driving
-The Receiving End of Sirens

6. Anti-Flag
-The Unseen
-Justin Sane
-Pennywise
-NOFX
-Strike Anywhere
-Rise Against
-Rancid
-Bad Religion

7. Vanna
-Therefore I Am
-Our Last Night
-Lions Lions
-Oceana
-Burden of a Day
-Agraceful
-We Came As Romans
-Of Machines

8. DON"T CONT IT Senses Fail
-Silverstein
-Hawthorne Heights
-Scary Kids Scaring Kids
-A Static Lullaby
-Chiodos
-Finch
-From First to Last

9. The Used
-My Chemical Romance
-Escape the Fate
-Aiden

10. United Nations
-Thursday
-Glassjaw
-Fear Before the March of Flames
-Hot Cross
-Circle Takes the Square
-Transistor Transistor
-Converge
-The Jonbenet

11. dont count it A Day to Remember
-The Devil Wears Prada
-Attack Attack!
-Four Year Strong
-A Skylit Drive
-Set Your Goals
-Asking Alexandria
-I See Stars

12. Sum 41
-blink-182
-Zebrahead
-Simple Plan
-The Offspring
-Yellowcard
-+44
-Good Charlotte

13. don't count it Fear Before the March of Flames
-Heavy Heavy Low Low
-Trophy Scars
-The Bled
-The Chariot
-The Blood Brothers
-Norma Jean

14. don't count it Trophy Scars
-La Dispute
-Anatomy of a Ghost
-As Cities Burn

15. dont count it The Blood Brothers
-Neon Blonde
-Jaguar Love
-Past Lives
-Head Wound City
-The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower

16. Bionic Ghost Kids
-Helia
-Enter Ghost
-Dying Diva
-I Explode Like
-Abandon All Ships!
-One Morning Left
-This Romantic Tragedy
-Marilyn is Dead

17. Leathermouth
-Pencey Prep
-Gallows
-The Ghost of a Thousand
-The Color Of Violence

screw it i'm only doing 17

119/136

well i blame it on the unlimited number of post-hardcore bands that people are listening to these days.otherwise i would have like 25/136

Fri 14 Aug – RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL 2009 in EZO

Considering I slept on the floor of a train from Tokyo all the way to Sapporo to come to this, I had set high expectations for this festival to be great, or otherwise I would have been pissed off that I slept 20 hours on the floor of a train to come to something I didn't have fun at.

Well let me tell you something. For the amount of fun I had at this place, I would have WALKED from Tokyo to Sapporo to go see this festival. Seriously, I have NEVER in my life had so much fun at a concert. The people I met, the bands I got to see, you cannot put a price tag on what I experienced at Rising Sun Rock Festival.

Now I'm only going to review the bands I actually saw live because well...how can I review a band I didn't see live?

The first group I saw was Ken Yokoyama. I hadn't listened to Ken Yokoyama prior to coming to this event, but what I got was a rush of Japanese punk that I never expected. I honestly cannot imagine any other group to kick off Rising Sun Rock then Ken's band.

I also have to give Mr. Yokoyama a thank you. My futile attempts at the Japanese language made me bite off more than I can chew, and let to an awkward situation where he more or less tried speaking to me in Japanese, to which I looked like a deer in the headlights. Other festival goers would call me by "Ken" after that show. People would run up to me and take photos with me, and I even made some great friends from that embarrassing moment. But by that point, I embraced it. I was thousands and thousands of miles away from home, and I loved my new title as "Ken".

The next group was Polysics. It was like getting slammed into a wall of electro-rock at Mach 5. I considered their performance as one of the best performances of the festival. The amount of energy that came out of this band was INCREDIBLE. At first, it's the most ridiculous sounding music ever, but it quickly becomes addicting, and you cannot stop listening. Plus, it was a treat to see Polysics rock the pilot outfits instead of the traditional orange jumpsuits they normally wear when they tour outside of Japan.

My buddy and I grabbed dinner at this point, but we managed to catch the tail end of Straightener's performance. Maybe it was only because of the songs I managed to catch, but this group reminded me of a 90's college rock group. Since I was far enough away from the stage that everyone wasn't rushing to the stage, there was actually room to dance (to which I got my groove on with some other festival goers).

So after that show, me and some "Ken" fans headed over to see 9mm Parabellum Bullet. This group is probably the group I listened to the most leading up to my trip to Japan and Rising Sun Rock Festival. I heard them on Nano-Mugen Compilations and seen various performances on YouTube.

I give this band the award for worth the research. This group put on a FANTASTIC show. The show's energy just spiked in the beginning, and never came down. I went and bought all their studio albums at the merch counter the next day cause of this performance.

Then we got to Guitar Wolf

Some may not agree with me here, and I might be saying this just because I'm such a hard rock aficionado, but I've often had fantasies about what the perfect rock 'n roll show would be like. I no longer have these dreams because now I just point to Guitar Wolf's performance at Rising Sun Rock Festival this year and say "This is my idea of a perfect rock show".

I would also like to thank the bass player for punching out the drunken dick-head in front of me one song into the performance. Thanks to you, I moved up to the barricade and got to see you guys, front row.

These guys are the epitome of bad ass rock 'n roll. And they pushed themselves to the limit to entertain us (lead singer collapsed after the last song). To which I salute you.

I'm STILL having a hard time deciding who put on a better show between Polysics and Guitar Wolf.

The last show of the day for me ended with 10-FEET, it was originally supposed to be Maximum the Hormone but they had apparently canceled.

10-FEET's performance was something akin to seeing Sum 41 or blink-182, only without the suck part of those bands. What amazed me though was that people acted crazier for 10 FEET than they did for Guitar Wolf.

Also this is the only show I've been to where I was crowd-surfed...BACKWARDS. I got separated from my friend at this point, and when we met up after the show, he looked like he just got out of the shower. He was covered in THAT much sweat (since he was still up at the barricade).

Despite our desire to go see Yoshinori Sunihara at the techno stage (read: offer from friends my friend and I met), we simply did not have the energy to go to one more concert. We barely made it back to our tent that night.

The next morning, we woke up and saw BEAT CRUSADERS. I think this is the only time in my life I've ever said "Lets go to the concert first, then grab breakfast".

Next to the pillows, BEAT CRUSADERS were the band I knew the most about going into this Festival. And my reaction? Disappointment.

Maybe it's because I was still riding the energy high from the previous night, or maybe I just expected too much from them. It was still a great show, but I felt something was missing.

With our friends from the night before, we saw Dragon Ash, Unicorn, and The Birthday from the area away from the general standing area by the Sun Stage. Just simply enjoying the weather and each others company. When it hit me.

I was experiencing what most tourists NEVER experience when they come to Japan. And I just felt so blessed by this experience. Yes back in Tokyo I had gone clubbing, met gorgeous women, and was staying in a four and a half star hotel, but that all can have a price tag put on it. This cannot.

At midnight, Asai Kenichi came on. At first my friend and I thought he was a member from the legendary group BOOWY but later found out he was from BLANKEY JET CITY. The time slot RSR gave to Asai Kenichi was PERFECT. His blues-y rock sound was PERFECT for midnight.

Finally, the last band I saw was the pillows. Now, the pillows are the only band at this event I saw in the United States. And comparing the two concerts are like night and day. The US show had crazy FLCL fans bum-rushing the stage. This show, everyone was chilled out (though that may or may not have been due to the fact they went on stage @ 0430). But most importantly, they played practically NOTHING from FLCL.

It was great to see a band in their element, and not just cater to what the audience wants to hear (in some ways, Polysics did this too).

Perhaps the defining moment of this festival was when the sun rised up over the stage. It was amazing, and I will never forget it as long as I live. That image of the sun rising over the stage as the pillows played Hybrid Rainbow will be permanently emblazoned in my memory.

This was my first rock festival, and hopefully, not my last. I would give anything to relive that weekend over and over again. Hopefully, I will get a chance to return to see Rising Sun Rock Festival in the future.

Instruções:
1. Abra sua tabela e selecione a paleta 'Geral'

Lista:
1. Como você conheceu 29?
Cine. Conheci em 2008, quando eles fizeram a Launch Party do DVD Greatest Hits do McFly aqui no Brasil.

2. Qual foi a primeira música que você ouviu de 22?
The Maine. Que eu me lembre foi I Must Be Dreaming.

3. Quantos álbuns de 13 você possui?
The All-American Rejects. Três albums, mas somente no pc: The All-American Rejects, Move Along e o último, When The World Comes Down.

4. Qual é sua música favorita de 15?
Britney Spears. Difícil... Vale a mais escutada? I'm A Slave 4 U.

5. Qual é sua música favorita de 5?
Boys Like Girls. E com certeza, a minha favortia é Dance Hall Drug.

6. Há alguma de 6 que o faça feliz?
The Used. Não sei ao certo hm Acho que Lunacy Fringe me deixa animada.

7. Qual é sua música favorita de 10?
Cobra Starship. Dá para pular? Só essa :(

8. Há alguma boa lembrança relacionada a 30?
Busted. Ter conhecido a May em Junho!

9. Há alguma de 19 que o faça feliz?
Lifehouse. Acho que não, escuto mais quando estou na fossa hahaha

10. Quantas vezes você viu 25 ao vivo?
Arctic Monkeys. Nenhuma!

11. Qual foi a primeira música que você ouviu de 23?
The Saturdays. issues, sem dúvidas.

12. Qual é seu álbum favorito de 11?
Rooney. Calling The World certo, primeiro e único.

13. Qual é seu integrante favorito de 1?
McFly. Danny Jones com certeza absoluta!

14. Você já viu 14 ao vivo?
Britney Spears, não no Rock In Rio 2000 eu era apenas eu criança feliz :(

15. Há alguma boa lembrança relacionada a 27?
Lily Allen, haaan, talvez tenha...

16. Qual é sua música favorita de 16?
All Time Low - Remembering Sunday

17. Qual é seu álbum favorito de 18?
ForFun - Teoria Dinâmica Gastativa

18. Qual é sua música favorita de 21?
blink-182 - Down, por alguns muitos momentos felizes que ela me proporcionou.

19. Qual foi a primeira música que você ouviu de 26?
Arctic Monkeys, acho que foi Dancing Shoes.

20. Qual é seu álbum favorito de 2?
Paramore, uma luta digna entre todos eles! Mas fico com o All We Know Is Falling.

21. Qual é sua música favorita de 3?
Coldplay. Desculpa, mas não consigo escolher. A que tem mais execuções é Don't Panic.

22. Qual é sua música favorita de 8?
Placebo, o mesmo da anterior: a com mais execuções é a Special K, do FNAC Acoustic Gig.

23. Quantas vezes você viu 17 ao vivo?
The Killers. Nenhuma, perdi as duas vezes que eles vieram para o Brasil por não ter dinheiro para viajar.

24. Qual é a pior música de 12?
Fall Out Boy. Hãaãn, ajuda dos universitários?

25. Qual foi a primeira música que você ouviu de 28?
Cine UAHUAHAUHAU Foi Prometa, eu acho.

26. Qual é seu álbum favorito de 7?
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

27. Qual é sua música favorita de 24?
Dashboard Confessional - As Lovers Go

28. Há alguma de 9 que o faça feliz?
Christina Aguilera, ai tem várias, mas a principal é Lady Marmalade, que não é só dela, mas... vale pelos momentos!

29. Qual é seu álbum favorito de 4?
RBD iuahuiahiauh sem comentários! Celestial

30. Quantos álbuns de 20 você possui?
Abril, o primeiro e único O Que Te Faz Feliz.

1. The Rural Alberta Advantage (1830 plays)
2. Brand New (724 plays)
3. The Academy Is... (677 plays)
4. Aiden (673 plays)
5. Bright Eyes (632 plays)
6. Dashboard Confessional (551 plays)
7. 3OH!3 (519 plays)
8. The Veronicas (500 plays)
9. Fall Out Boy (429 plays)
10. The Early November (392 plays)
11. Placebo (367 plays)
12. The Airborne Toxic Event (343 plays)
13. Emmy the Great (342 plays)
14. Atreyu (270 plays)
15. Amateur Transplants (255 plays)
16. Jack's Mannequin (249 plays)
17. Rancid (235 plays)
18. The Good Life (228 plays)
19. My Chemical Romance (221 plays)
20. Paramore (208 plays)
21. Emery (194 plays)
22. Panic at the Disco (192 plays)
23. Something Corporate (187 plays)
24. Taking Back Sunday (185 plays)
25. William Control (181 plays)
26. Two Gallants (179 plays)
27. Adam Gnade (162 plays)
28. Broken Spindles (158 plays)
29. Kate Voegele (145 plays)
29. Hope of the States (145 plays)
31. Underoath (143 plays)
32. Cursive (136 plays)
33. blink-182 (134 plays)
34. Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band (132 plays)
35. Vampire Weekend (124 plays)
36. Weezer (113 plays)
37. Billy Talent (110 plays)
38. Desaparecidos (109 plays)
39. Angels & Airwaves (108 plays)
40. Neutral Milk Hotel (100 plays)

nicklesslanding's top albums (overall) 1. Life Long Tragedy - Runaways (934) 2. Final Fight - Under Attack (505) 3. Carpathian - Isolation (481) 4. Final Fight - Half Head Full Shred (480) 5. A Day to Remember - For Those Who Have Heart (477) 6. Daggermouth - Turf Wars (458) 7. blink-182 - blink-182 (450) 8. Set Your Goals - Mutiny! (446) 9. The Effort - Iconoclasm (416) 10. blink-182 - Dude Ranch (405) 11. We Are the Union - Who We Are (400) 12. Ruiner - Prepare To Be Let Down (398) 13. Comeback Kid - Wake The Dead (392) 14. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place (390) 15. Ruiner - What Could Possibly Go Right... [EP] (374) 16. Comeback Kid - Turn It Around (368) 17. The Carrier - One Year Later (364) 18. Crime in Stereo - Is Dead (362) 19. Defeater - Travels (361) 20. Life Long Tragedy - Destined for Anything (337) 21. Parkway Drive - Horizons (311) 22. Modern Life Is War - My Love My Way (308) 23. The Carrier - No Love Can Save Me [EP] (296) 24. Antagonist A.D. - We are the Dead (295) 25. Polar Bear Club - Sometimes Things Just Disappear (286) 26. blink-182 - Enema Of The State (282) 27. Strike Anywhere - Exit English (280) 28. Crime in Stereo - The Troubled Stateside (275) 29. Have Heart - Songs to Scream at the Sun (272) 30. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (265)

Green Day - The band that took me out of my Hilary Duff and Aaron Carter phase of my childhood. I heard their Dookie album and fell in love at my preteen years. I then proceeded to fall in love with BIllie Joe, mercilessly hate his wife Adrienne, then realize I was an idiot. I've grown disappointed in their most recent music, as well as American Idiot. They are pushing 40 though, perhaps they should call it all quits.

blink-182 - The second band that pulled my further out of my pop phase. Awesome band I will always love. My second love (right behind Billie) was Mark Hoppus. I obsessively listened to his podcasts and dedicated pages to him. Unlike with Billie, I didn't hate his wife. I grew out of that as well. I'm happy to hear the band is back together.

Mindless Self Indulgence - A band I heard about on a Green Day forum. All I heard was Bitches and thought not much of it. In the past 2 years, I've collected a ton of their music and of course, as usual, fell in love with the lead singer, Jimmy Urine. Who would've guessed. I watched and listened to all I could and now they're among my top 5 loves.

The Living End - Possibly the most important band of my life, these guys are badass. I got into them from a Green Day forum, and eventually, I helped turn that forum into a Living End forum. I managed to talk to the band members on myspace, and went to my first concert at Warped Tour 06 just to see them. Took a shitty ass picture with them, got them to autograph my CD as well as my tickets. Then went to see them again at Ventura Theatre way back in December 06. Best night of my life, I will say. I love them with all my being. They are the best thing I've ever heard in my life.

Music is powerful, I'm sure we all know this.