Links to play fully streamable albums in the last.fm software. Will be updated whenever I feel like it.
Enjoy, and a big thanks to all the labels and/or artists for making their music available this way!

dashed = (partially) dead

Transmission0 - Memory of a Dream <> album page (sludge/post metal)

Booka Shade - Memento <> album page (minimal/electro/house)

Vetiver - Tight Knit <> album page (pop/folk/alt country)

Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology <> album page (emo)

Cryptic Slaughter - Convicted <> album page (thrash metal/crossover thrash)

Extreme Noise Terror - Phonopobia <> album page (crust/grind)

Merzbow - Pulse Demon <>…

Going on from here:

Here's the idea.
Grab someone's personal radio, let it play and note the first five songs along with what you think about them.

Well, here it goes:

distortzion's radio:

1. Sonata Arctica - weballergy:

Sonata Arctica is one of a large bunch of power metal bands, bands I tend to ignore. I don't hate power metal, but I've just found they look fairly lot alike. This song is okay, save for the vocals. Nothing special, though. 6/10.

2. santana - el nicoya:

Santana is a band I've known and liked since I…

So I found this little forum game on the dutch group nederlanders! to be quite entertaining.

Here's the idea.
Grab someone's personal radio, let it play and note the first five songs along with what you think about them.

Well, here it goes:

and3y's radio

1. sigur rós - sé lest:

A great track on a great album (Takk...). Very calm atmosphere, but it becomes somewhat dull at times. The trumpets (or what are they?) in this track are quite a good twist. 7.5/10.

2. Swallow the Sun - Deadly Nightshade:

One of my…

mixing one (drum and bass album)

Here's a second go, after a long time. The album for this time, Black Ships Ate the Sky is by apocalyptic folk/neofolk artist Current 93.
I put in the following styles:
hip hop, black metal, rnb, blues rock, bollywood soundtrack, rap, techno, crust punk, metalcore, vocal jazz, mathcore, punk rock, noise, industrial rock, rock, (bluesy/folky?) soundtrack, classical, ska, screamo, grunge, sid/power metal (in that order).

Listening is still in process at the time of writing, but here's the list (numbers are track numbers, grouped per combination for easier reading):

#1 Idumæa (feat. Marc…

Hi.
Here's a list of new discoveries (upper is newest), starting today (17/06/08). They're graded on a 1-10 scale. I'm not going to write down any comments because then I'll mess up the whole layout. Bands/artists of which I hear one or two tracks won't go on here. I can't judge a band on one track anyway.

edit: I kicked out grading and credits, that really kept my from updaating this list properly.

* = didn't get any of their stuff, usually because I didn't really like it.
UM = Unknown Metal group forum link.
RE = rediscovered.
F =…

If you're seeing my plays going down from this day, that's because I got my old stereo back. Just playin' my CDs, you know, so I didn't buy em for just the feeling and the looks.

Also, it might be my recent bleach addiction. If ya like anime and you happen to not know it (you fail, and) check it out! ;).

That is, the 'classic' version:

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

100/100

The 100 related artists for my profile are A Perfect Circle, Adnan Sami, Aman Hayer, Amon Amarth, Anathema, Army Of The Pharaohs,…

Okay, so, I thought making random playlists was fun. Of course, it shouldn't be totally random, that's where shuffle is for (or, if you use winamp, queue music and randomize the queue is a very useful option apart from the standard shuffle function).

So, I made a playlist out of an album. Here's what I did: I picked an album and put one (semi-)random song between every track.
I picked Rufige Kru's album, Malice In Wonderland, which I found as a free (and legal) download on vuze.com (legal-only torrentsite).
Here's the playlist (at the time of writing I'm…

Well yeah, here's what have been my #1's for all the weeks I've been on last.fm (newest/latest on top).
More artists for one week obviously means there was a tie. I might later add the full top 10 or calculate some fancy number for each artist.

For example: for every week that <artist> was in the top10, sum the amount of players for <artist> in that week. Divide that by the amount of weeks that artist was listed. That'll give an average, but perhaps it needs some correction for weeks I've barely listened, so it would be: sum ( for…

Just to keep track of what I did, starting today (07/april/08)
Ted Hawkins (blues/soul)
Totalt Jävla Mörker (crust punk)
Atomizer (2 bands: blackened thrash metal and electroclash)
Duende (2 groups: trance and grunge)

minor edits (grammar, tags, ect):
Flogging Molly (folk/punk)
Alexisonfire (screamo/hardcore)
Guns N' Roses (hard rock)