Do you have an open mind for music?
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Topic: Do you have an open mind for music?
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Subject: Do you have an open mind for music?
Date Posted: October 25 2007 at 00:39
This website calculates an open mind index given your last.fm data using records of tags and playcounts. It's pretty interesting and gives nice graphs if you're interested in that. For example. here is mine: http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=brightstripes77">
This means that I am a bit closed minded and only listen to some genres (which I guess is true) and then lists my most popular. Anyone else find this interesting?
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: October 25 2007 at 00:52
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=WalterDigsTunes">
Hmm... that looks about right.
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Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: October 25 2007 at 01:19
I don't think this program is very accurate.. I'm open to listen to just about anything, however, that doesn't mean I enjoy everything. It should be called a taste-diversity index or something lol. Whatever, it's still interesting. http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=WalterDigsTunes">
Hmm.. I'm surprised theres so much rock
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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: October 25 2007 at 09:36
You got me by one, Dan.
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: October 25 2007 at 09:46
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=Tuomu">
Doesn't quite look as I would like it to :/ Must be because the Finnish part there consists of only one band :)
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: October 25 2007 at 11:01
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=Wigu">
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 25 2007 at 11:31
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 25 2007 at 11:41
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=MikeEnRegalia">
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: October 25 2007 at 11:47
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=ohmsweetohm">
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: October 25 2007 at 11:54
Haven't used last.fm much though...
Oh and I got 97, forgot to copy that.
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Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: October 27 2007 at 16:28
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: October 27 2007 at 17:26
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=bluesaga">
Kind of misleading because I used the computer a lot more for music when I was new to prog, but whatever. I think I'm more open minded than the chart would lead you to believe, but not extremely.
To quote Howard Devoto from Magazine: "My mind ain't so open so that anything could crawl in," or something along those lines. The fact that I love post-punk in addition to prog probably says a bit about my music tastes.
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: October 27 2007 at 19:28
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=AngeloH">
90 - 99: a balanced bandwidth of tags; the golden mean
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: October 27 2007 at 21:36
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: October 27 2007 at 21:41
Chameleon wrote:
You got me by one, Dan. |
But it was close. But thinking of the scopes of genres like "progressive rock" or "indie", I think I'm a bit more open minded than this thing gives me credit for.
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Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: October 27 2007 at 21:49
I'm right about the average
I bet most people who listen to popular music (ie the actual "average') would get about a 20 though, so I dont know what they mean by "average" that isn't to say I'm not limiting, most of what I listen to falls within some realm of "rock"
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: October 27 2007 at 21:51
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=chamberry">
Wow. No Prog...
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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: October 27 2007 at 22:15
If you think about it, this is kind of flawed. I mean, somebody could only listen to really popular bands that are from totally different genres, like 50 cent, the beatles, RHCP, linkin park, rammstein, etc. requiring little open-mindedness as compared to somebody who specializes in an unpopular genre, for example avant jazz.
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 02:16
Bluesaga wrote:
If you think about it, this is kind of flawed. I mean, somebody could only listen to really popular bands that are from totally different genres, like 50 cent, the beatles, RHCP, linkin park, rammstein, etc. requiring little open-mindedness as compared to somebody who specializes in an unpopular genre, for example avant jazz.
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I don't think that someone who specializes in any particular genre could be called open minded. Popular or unpopular ... doesn't matter IMO, the more narrow your bandwidth of acceptable styles is, the more narrow/closed minded you are IMO.
And don't you think that Avant Jazz is any better than Rap!
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 02:47
[url=http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=pseudo_koo]
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Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 02:48
Screw open mindedness. All I wanna do is listen to Perry Como!
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 02:58
So, if I have an undefined taste and like Rap, Hip Hop, Disco, Trance, Raeggeton and Boys/Girls bands I'm less open minded than if i like Prog specially, but listen other genres ocassionally?
Absurd.
Iván
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 03:14
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
So, if I have an undefined taste and like Rap, Hip Hop, Disco, Trance, Raeggeton and Boys/Girls bands I'm less open minded than if i like Prog specially, but listen other genres ocassionally?
Absurd.
Iván |
This is an interesting point which I have often thought about. The more genres someone listens to the more likely some people could assume that the person has an "undefined" taste. Of course this is wrong ... it might be undefined, it might be carefully chosen, there's no way to tell just from the list of genres.
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 04:14
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=cozfunkel">
Awesome thread and website,my isnt accurate cuz i only listen to downloaded music and the occasional cd on my computer,otherwise i listen to stereo.
I like to think im open minded,my theory is you hate what you don't understand.But i'm pretty sure ignore the odd genre *cough EMO *cough
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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 10:44
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
Bluesaga wrote:
If you think about it, this is kind of flawed. I mean, somebody could only listen to really popular bands that are from totally different genres, like 50 cent, the beatles, RHCP, linkin park, rammstein, etc. requiring little open-mindedness as compared to somebody who specializes in an unpopular genre, for example avant jazz.
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I don't think that someone who specializes in any particular genre could be called open minded. Popular or unpopular ... doesn't matter IMO, the more narrow your bandwidth of acceptable styles is, the more narrow/closed minded you are IMO.
And don't you think that Avant Jazz is any better than Rap!
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Well, as many things, what qualifies one as being open-minded is truly subjective and varies based on how one defines open-mindedness. These charts reflect a user's palette of musical genres, but if you consider open-minded to be the dictionary.com definition of "having or showing a mind receptive to new ideas or arguments," then open-mindness is how unique or unconventional one's tastes are. Regardless, the statistics are an interesting way to see music habits by genre breakdown, but I just don't entirely agree with the open/closed minded graph.
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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 10:48
mrcozdude wrote:
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=cozfunkel">
Awesome thread and website,my isnt accurate cuz i only listen to downloaded music and the occasional cd on my computer,otherwise i listen to stereo.
I like to think im open minded,my theory is you hate what you don't understand.But i'm pretty sure ignore the odd genre *cough EMO *cough |
I'm pretty sure I'd like something in virtually any genre, it's just that I have a preference to certain styles and sticking to them yields a higher percentage chance of me really loving the album. I do like to experiment with genres and mix it up as much as possible, but I could never go into a store and buy a random rap album just for the sake of being 100% open minded, because chances are I won't enjoy it even if there is some rap I do like.
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 13:13
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
This is an interesting point which I have often thought about. The more genres someone listens to the more likely some people could assume that the person has an "undefined" taste. Of course this is wrong ... it might be undefined, it might be carefully chosen, there's no way to tell just from the list of genres.
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Well then it's not wrong Mike, not necesarilly correct will be more accurate.
I still believe that the averahge listener has an undefioned taste and listens whatever is popular.
Iván
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 14:37
^ So do I have a undefined taste simply because I just listened to The Eagles, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Secret Chiefs 3 and Le Orme?
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 15:10
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
^ So do I have a undefined taste simply because I just listened to The Eagles, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Secret Chiefs 3 and Le Orme? |
Of course not, neither dio I for just listening Cat Stevens, Mercedes Sosa and Cranberries, but we are not the average listener that buys what their favorite DJ tells them to buy and listen.
We don't care of popularity, we know what we like, we may have a versatile taste, but lets admit it, not all the people is like us, we're not better, not worst, only more obsessed and different.
Iván
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 15:26
^ I just said it was wrong to tell from a diverse playlist that the person has an undefined taste. Still don't understand why you want to replace "wrong" with "not necessarily correct" here. The deduction is simply not valid. You can't tell from the playlist why the person chose these particular albums - could be random, could be very carefully chosen.
Uh ... what was the subject again?
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Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: October 28 2007 at 21:44
Typical OMI values: |
Below 20: | an extremely small bandwidth of tags; a faker or fanatic of an artist |
20 - 39: | a small bandwidth of tags; a fanatic of a specific tag |
40 - 59: | a small bandwidth of tags; a fanatic of a few types of music |
60 - 79: | a substandard of bandwidth of tags |
80 - 89: | a balanced bandwidth of tags; a little below the average |
90 - 99: | a balanced bandwidth of tags; the golden mean |
100 - 109: | a balanced bandwidth of tags; a little above the average |
110 - 129: | a high bandwidth of tags |
130 - 149: | a very high bandwidth of tags; truly open minded |
above 150: | an extremely high bandwidth of tags; an absolute freethinker and freak | http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=tardis">
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 03:50
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 04:07
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=tgoose">
Do I win a prize?
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 04:22
goose wrote:
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=tgoose - Do I win a prize?
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Elephant 6?! You really are open minded.
What's power pop?
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 14:27
I seriously think all of this is utter bullsh*t. Being "open minded" doesn't mean you have to hear a small percentage of every genre known to man and not specialized into a genre. On the contrary, being "narrow minded" is not the same as listening a lot of your favorite genre and just a little of others.
I'd say being "open minded" is just allowing yourself to listen to any kind of music before giving an opinion on it instead of dismissing ir beforehand. Narrow minded would be the person who is presented with a new style of music and says "I don't need that, I have my prog (or jazz or whatever)".
So the person that listens 70% of prog and 30% of everything else is narrow minded...Because that stupid "chart" only takes anglo-european genres into considerations (and not even all of them)... where are all the other genres?
How many of you wise masters of prog have heard latin music? Oh, you're all so narrow minded!
No, you're not. You just haven't had the exposure.
But if you think this stupid chart says anything, well, congratulations...
... for allowing stupid internet devices tell you who you are.
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 14:38
^^^^ Don't take this too seriously Teo. It's just a silly chart and I don't think any of us is taking this seriously.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 14:41
I know...I drunk too much caffeine today....
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 15:36
The T wrote:
I seriously think all of this is utter bullsh*t. Being "open minded" doesn't mean you have to hear a small percentage of every genre known to man and not specialized into a genre. On the contrary, being "narrow minded" is not the same as listening a lot of your favorite genre and just a little of others.
I'd say being "open minded" is just allowing yourself to listen to any kind of music before giving an opinion on it instead of dismissing ir beforehand. Narrow minded would be the person who is presented with a new style of music and says "I don't need that, I have my prog (or jazz or whatever)".
So the person that listens 70% of prog and 30% of everything else is narrow minded...Because that stupid "chart" only takes anglo-european genres into considerations (and not even all of them)... where are all the other genres?
How many of you wise masters of prog have heard latin music? Oh, you're all so narrow minded!
No, you're not. You just haven't had the exposure.
But if you think this stupid chart says anything, well, congratulations...
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That's my definition as well.
I already said this in some other thread, but open-mindedness has more to do with being honest with yourself and giving the artists/genres you happen to encounter during your lifetime an honest chance to impress you than it has about actually enjoying them. Imho, of course. Sorry about the awkward sentence, I hope I got my point across.
As chamberry said though, these charts are just for fun, not to be taken too literally/seriously. I don't think open-mindedness can be calculated in any way.
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 17:22
I actually like this service ... and please don't take it so seriously, they have to work with the data which last.fm provides, and that's the tags which the user create.
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: December 18 2007 at 18:15
Bob Greece wrote:
goose wrote:
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=tgoose - Do I win a prize?
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Elephant 6?! You really are open minded.
What's power pop? |
I'm pretty sure of the Elephant 6 bands I've only listened to Olivia Tremor Control consistently, and since I own everything they've released on CD now it's unlikely to get listened to on my computer again
As for power pop, I have no idea what's coming up as that. Ohh... Teenage Fanclub? Maybe I shouldn't admit to that
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: March 04 2008 at 04:46
Does anyone know if the genre rating is taken from genres on last.fm or your personal audio player?
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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: March 04 2008 at 05:02
i think just last fm. i have so many more artists not on my computer. any more its rare i listen to music on the computer at all and do so mostly through my iPod and its various audio outlets (oooooo, fancey) Last.fm hasnt updated my playlist for any of those songs/artists played via iPod or portable device. . . might have a completely different outcome. for example. my lastfm page says i like jimi hendrix and eric clapton MUCH more than i do. its almost embarassing.
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: March 04 2008 at 08:35
I don't know... I've never seen my own mind.
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 03:28
If anyone wondered the sites back up again and better! And my mind has become more open!
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=cozfunkel&skin=1">
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 04:34
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=WalterDigsTunes&skin=1">
Sounds about right.
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 10:12
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=Equality7-2521&skin=11">
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 10:22
Mine's quite high, which is pleasing:
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=thegeck0&skin=8">
Bare in mind too, that a lot of the obscure stuff I listen to, probably hasn't been tagged by me yet. I have tried to personally tag as many of the bands I listen to as possible, though.
Also, a lot of the music I listen to is on CD and CDs don't always like my PC (my computer doesn't have enough RAM really, plus I have a lot of applications open), so therefore much of my avant-jazz/Canterbury/fusion isn't listed.
A band like Magma, for instance, seems to be tagged as Progressive Rock and secondly as Zeuhl, which means that the Zeuhl tag won't get any votes on this system.
So it is flawed if the band is tagged incorrectly.
Another thing: there are often several bands with the same name. Egg, for example. Now if you listen to the Canterbury Scene Egg, it will likely be tagged as something completely different, because there is another band/artist called Egg that is more popular than the Canterbury Scene Egg. Until last.fm can find a way of separating such bands, then this problem will remain.
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Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 13:53
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=Avantgardian&skin=1">
Go me!
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 18:46
something like
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=zanzanzawaveia&skin=13">
I don't think this bit of software is smart enough to tell how open-minded you already are since a lot of these tags are very similar. you can't really say you're open-minded if all you listen to is rock, even if you span alt, math, goth, hard, prog and punk ;P
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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 18:57
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=Novograd&skin=13">
This is from the 5 or 6 bands I've listened to since making a new account.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 19:40
It seems the majority of us listen to music that has "other last.fm-tags", which is understandable, especially if you have mislabelled tags for Canterbury and Zeuhl bands.
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 19:42
the top artist on my charts literally only has "other" last.fm tags
lol
blame random members of STC basically
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 19:46
Well I did have tags like So Bern and Bluesaga is a n00b, until I deleted the majority of them earlier.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 19:48
My review isn't really even started yet and it's longer than most n00b's reviews... but not as long as a Laplace review. I'll try and make it as lengthy as your Ayreon one.
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 19:57
lol @ geck0 in wrong thread
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 20:00
Closed - yeah, like I'm going to listen to my Sweet and Bucks Fizz albums through LastFM
5.4% Norwegian!!!
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Posted By: Reverie
Date Posted: May 01 2008 at 20:04
I don't use last.fm anymore, but these are my old accounts.
My first last.fm account http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=ReveriePA&skin=1">
My second last.fm account http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=SelbyMercer&skin=1">
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 11:29
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 13:51
I am now more open-minded!
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 13:54
James wrote:
Well I did have tags like So Bern and Bluesaga is a n00b, until I deleted the majority of them earlier.
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I have "sonic happiness" applied only once.
To "Surge."
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 14:07
I'm proud to be a closed minded prog addict!
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=callback&skin=11">
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Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 15:40
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=Bluesaga&skin=10">
This would be more aptly named as an eclectic test, but interesting nonetheless.
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 16:23
ghost_of_morphy wrote:
I'm proud to be a closed minded prog addict!
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=callback&skin=11"> |
Mine is almost exactly like yours. Guess I'm proud as well! Couldn't care less as long as I listen to what I love. "Open-mindedness" would be more accurate described by "you try everything at least once, and respect other peoples taste". That's what I consider important anyway.
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 17:35
^
I'd probably be worse: I think I'd come to about 75% prog, 10% classical, 10% rock/pop and 5% others (this is being optimistic :p). The issue with calling that not 'open-minded' is that the progressive music I listen to will have influences, features and styles incorporated from a *lot* of other genres and often sound *nothing alike*.
Compare Islands to Pictures At An Exhibition (Live from Works Live). I'll listen to and love both, but I'd find it hard to point out any direct relationship between them.
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 17:39
TGM: Orb wrote:
^
I'd probably be worse: I think I'd come to about 75% prog, 10% classical, 10% rock/pop and 5% others (this is being optimistic :p). The issue with calling that not 'open-minded' is that the progressive music I listen to will have influences, features and styles incorporated from a *lot* of other genres and often sound *nothing alike*.
Compare Islands to Pictures At An Exhibition (Live from Works Live). I'll listen to and love both, but I'd find it hard to point out any direct relationship between them.
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I'm at 7%...
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 17:48
Hm. I don't know about me. You'd have some Blues Rock (probably labelled Blues), a tad of Sam Cooke or Sinatra or something like that, a little world, a couple of Prog things that'd get called 'other' for no apparent reason.
Should sign up to Last.fm, sometime.
Question: does it only work on things you play on ye 'computer', since I listen mostly to CDs on a CD player or MP3s on the MP3 majiggy, so?
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 17:49
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 17:55
I think there's some kind of add-on that enables tracking what you listen to in your I-Pod. But I don't know...
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 18:03
I can't work out how to use this properly. I feel like I should be in the Grey Room
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Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 20:23
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
So, if I have an undefined taste and like Rap, Hip Hop, Disco, Trance, Raeggeton and Boys/Girls bands I'm less open minded than if i like Prog specially, but listen other genres ocassionally?
Absurd.
Iván |
This is an interesting point which I have often thought about. The more genres someone listens to the more likely some people could assume that the person has an "undefined" taste. Of course this is wrong ... it might be undefined, it might be carefully chosen, there's no way to tell just from the list of genres.
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I've always believed the scientific finding that the wider a person musical tastes are, the more intelligent they are. I wasn't sure about this being true, until I tried it on my own self. They match !
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Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: May 04 2008 at 20:27
I have no need for a last.fm diagram. Simply put I like good music, and have an open-mind for the same. What's left of my mind, anyway. Or at least that's how I explain my opinion of Nickelback and Krautrock
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Posted By: Luke. J
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 11:30
I think I have an open mind for music and listen to some really different bands and artist. The only thing I simply cannot understand is why it is mostly tagged "progressive rock" and "metal".
It is funny to see how people have an open-mind index of 1XX with tags like "black metal" "death metal" "thrash metal" and so on, as "rap" "hip-hop" "american hip hop" "deutschrap"..
Let's face it: 40% progressive rock means 5% symhponic prog, 2% progressive electronic, 3% prog folk, 4% eclectic etc.
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 11:41
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=MikeEnRegalia">
I don't remember what this was like a year ago, but I think I'm less open minded these days.
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 12:40
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=praisingfolly&skin=4">
And rising.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 13:21
It may have gone up, I cannot remember!
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=thegeck0&skin=10">
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 13:35
I am impressed James. Also, which color scheme did you choose? I really like it.
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Posted By: Astrodomine
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 13:37
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=Astrodomine&skin=1">
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 14:43
Here's the updated version (it hasn't changed all that much though):
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=wIGU&skin=4">
It's not all that accurate imo, but I suppose it gives some insight to my listening habits. I seriously need to listen to more prog though, this is getting out of hand.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 15:24
Pnoom! wrote:
I am impressed James. Also, which color scheme did you choose? I really like it. |
The second one down in the list, something Light.
Well it's the same as the last one I posted... yet I've played stuff since then, I guess it hasn't been finalised yet. I think last.fm do that on Sundays.
Well I like a lot of different genres. It's a bit inaccurate though, Aaron, as it doesn't indicate Zeuhl as a genre (it's probably under the 30% Other).
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 16:00
James wrote:
Pnoom! wrote:
I am impressed James. Also, which color scheme did you choose? I really like it. |
The second one down in the list, something Light.
Well it's the same as the last one I posted... yet I've played stuff since then, I guess it hasn't been finalised yet. I think last.fm do that on Sundays.
Well I like a lot of different genres. It's a bit inaccurate though, Aaron, as it doesn't indicate Zeuhl as a genre (it's probably under the 30% Other).
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OMI updates a month after you generate your chart.
EDIT: so yours updated last/was created May 01, 2008, so it will next update June 1.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 19:55
considering the sheer amount of recorded music that's available, can anyone truly say they're 'open minded'? The most musically liberal among us only listen to, what, maybe 10% of what's out there? At most.
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 20:01
Atavachron wrote:
considering the sheer amount of recorded music that's available, can anyone truly say they're 'open minded'? The most musically liberal among us only listen to, what, maybe 10% of what's out there? At most. |
Open-minded doesn't mean you do listen to everything, it means you give everything a fair shot. It's not fair to say someone isn't open-minded because nobody has both the time and the money to truly listen to absolutely everything.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 20:08
it may not be fair but it's true-- in reality if one is to claim universal open-mindedness, one must indeed strive to hear everything from Public Domain commercial to Croatian folk music.. further, musical influence may come as much from remote sources as from well-known ones. Just being anal..
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 20:10
Public Domain's 1972 album "Commercial" was very good, actually David.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 20:12
I know, and you'll never let me forget it
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 08 2008 at 20:15
It's one of those mad Norwegian bands led by our man Hrolf Haggis, that's why it's so good.
Anyhow, back on topic we go!
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:36
http://omi.musickum.com/index.php5?username=rushfan4&skin=1">
Interesting. I wonder what effect that there might be on this calculation, if the Progressive Tag was expanded to incorporate all of the sub-genres that we have here as additional categories, instead of all as one category.
Also, I am curious to see how it would calculate if all of my albums were included in the calculation, instead of only what I have listened to in the last 8 months. Much larger selection. Although, admittedly this probably isn't too bad given that I rarely listen to blues, classical or jazz, and never listen to many other categories like country, electronica, rap, dance, etc...
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