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These are the bands I have seen live (and can remember the dates):

Adem 3/3/07
The Album Leaf 5/1/10
Badly Drawn Boy 3/3/07
Beach House 2/24/11
Ben Folds 2/14/09
Ben Gibbard 5/9/07
Biffy Clyro 4/3/10
The Black Keys 7/30/10
Bushwalla 4/13/08
Coheed and Cambria 11/28/07
David Bazan 5/9/07
David Ford 2/22/08
The Dears 1/17/07 - 3/29/11
Death Cab for Cutie 7/1/06 - 10/26/06
Dustin Kensrue 12/10/10
Frightened Rabbit 4/30/10 - 10/30/10
Ingrid Michaelson 2/22/08- 6/1/08 - 11/23/08 - 10/15/10
Jason Mraz 4/13/08
JBM 11/23/08
John Mayer 7/10/08
Johnathan Rice 5/9/07
Kevin Devine 6/23/10
Local Natives 10/27/10
Mae 2006
Manchester Orchestra 4/3/10
O' brother 4/3/10
Okkervil River 9/24/11
Old 97's 2004
Ra Ra Riot 10/2/10
Radiohead 8/12/08
Sondre Lerche 9/5/09
The Spill Canvas 2006
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Seen in the flesh.
Adam Stafford
Adem
Air Traffic
Ambulances x2
Amy Winehouse
Animal Magic Tricks
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Astrid & Quinn
Babyshambles x2
The Barents Sea
Beatnic Prestige x2
Biffy Clyro x3
Big Country
The Big Pink x2
Black arrows
Black Power
The Black Rats
The Bluebells
Blur
Bombay Bicycle Club x4
Bright Eyes
The Brogues
Captain
The Changes
Cold Seeds
Conquering Animal Sound
The Courteeners x2
Crayons x2
Cynthia Gentle & The Truetones
Devendra Banhart
The Displacements
Django Django
Dormant Figure
The Draymin x3
The Drums x2
Dutch Uncles
The Dykeenies x2
Eagleowl
Echo & The Bunnymen
Endor
The Enemy x2
Errors
Esben And The Witch
Esser
Everything Everything
Fatherson
Figure 5 x2
Findo Gask x4
The Fire and I
Flashguns
Foals x3
For a Minor Reflection
FOUND
The Foundling Wheel
Four Tet
Friendly Fires x3
Frightened Rabbit x5
Funeral Party
The Futureheads
Fuzzy Lights
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Meursault work in HMV. Well, some of them do. And it turns out that’s a pretty good way of making sure your second album is prominently displayed around the ground floor, which in turn is a good way of persuading myself and abgb to buy it on impulse.

I won’t lie, Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues was a pretty excellent debut to have to follow. But All Creatures Make Merry defiantly refuses to conform to the ‘difficult second album’ stereotype. Unless you don’t like low-fi, reverby guitars layered together with strings, electronica and folky vocals.* But if you don’t like those, why are you even listening to this band in the first place? Fewl.

Actually, listening now as I am to What You Don’t Have, Meursault would provide you with a great segue if for some reason you were trying to surreptitiously get someone into post rock. You could sort of lull them in with this, then get your Mogwai on, then bob’s your uncle. Red Sparowes and Yndi Halda for all.

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Bands I've seen since around 2006.
Includes support acts so just because I have seen them, doesn't mean I actually like them.

Adem
Aiden
Alkaline Trio
All Or Nothing
All Time Low (x2)
Aloe Blacc
Amy can flyy
The Answering Machine (x5)
Anti-Flag
Apologies, I Have None
Arctic Monkeys
Asobi Seksu
Attack! Attack! (x8)
The Audition (x2)
The Automatic
Balance and Composure
Bayside
Biffy Clyro
Big Country
The Blackout (x3)
Bloc Party
Brand New (x2)
British Sea Power
Broadway Calls (x2)
Bruno Mars
Bullet For My Valentine
Cancer Bats
Capdown
Charlie Simpson
Chase & Status
Cherry Ghost (x4)
Chiddy Bang
City and Colour (x2)
Clare Maguire (x2)
Cobra Starship
Coldplay
The Cooper Temple Clause
Cord
The Cribs
Crime In Stereo
D12
A Day To Remember
The dead formats
The Dears
Delays (x3)
The Devil Wears Prada
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Dirty Pretty Things
Elbow
Elliot Minor
Eminem
The Enemy (x2)
Enter Shikari (x2)
Every Time I Die
Example
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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.

Final Score:
159/160

Blonde Redhead
Electrelane
Sonic Youth
The Black Heart Procession
Enon
Deerhoof
Clinic
Calla
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Gordon Lightfoot
Stan Rogers
Harry Chapin
Dan Fogelberg
Jim Croce
Blue Rodeo
Bruce Cockburn
Arlo Guthrie
John Denver
Ween
Moistboyz
Butthole Surfers
They Might Be Giants
The Flaming Lips
The Frogs
Les Claypool's Frog Brigade
Meat Puppets
Camper Van Beethoven
Belle and Sebastian
God Help the Girl
Camera Obscura
The Magnetic Fields
Jens Lekman
of Montreal
The Gentle Waves
Architecture in Helsinki
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1) Ray LaMontagne 814
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIUSikXex5w
2) Herman Düne 506
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDm9tvNPVp0
3) Fleet Foxes 455
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nLzeHtk-ks&feature=related
4) Sam Baker 443
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ZgZ1jNvEw
5) Band of Horses 427
6) Mumford & Sons 424
7) The Deep Dark Woods 412
8) Joe Henry 409
9) The Cave Singers 404
10) Micah P. Hinson 403
11) The Decemberists 391
12) John Prine 387
13) Madrugada 374
14) Andrew Bird 372
15) Editors 370
16) Alela Diane 366
17) Antony and the Johnsons 363
18) Kings of Convenience 355
19) Cold War Kids 342
20) Teitur 330
21) Mason Jennings 329
22) Luka Bloom 326
23) The Magic Numbers 324
24) Beirut 317
25) Sonic Youth 303
26) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 302
27) Damien Rice 294
28) The Whitest Boy Alive 292
29) Paolo Nutini 290
30) Islands 264
30) Dez Mona 264
30) Mary Gauthier 264
33) Richmond Fontaine 262
34) Pavement 261
35) Travis 256
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Been meaning to do this for years - here's an incomplete list of bands I've seen at least once. Good or absolutely shite, they all make the list. Bold type denotes artists that I've had the pleasure of seeing more than once.

A
Adem
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alabama 3
The Aliens
All About Eve
Lily Allen
Dot Allison
Allo Darlin'
Alpha
Amusement Parks on Fire
Annuals
Arab Strap
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
Arrested Development
Asian Dub Foundation
A Silver Mt. Zion
B
Badly Drawn Boy
Banco de Gaia
Basement Jaxx
Bat for Lashes
The Bays
The Beat
The Beastie Boys
The Beautiful South
Beck
Beep Beep
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
bent
The Besnard Lakes
Big Country
Black Kids
Black Mountain
Blondie
Blur
The Bodines
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Boy Least Likely To
Billy Bragg
Brainiac
Bright Eyes
The Brilliant Corners
Broken Spindles
Ian Brown
Tim Burgess
Bernard Butler
C
Terry Callier
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Caribou
Carrie
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After reading through the Guardian top ten albums of the last decade, - here - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/series/albums-of-the-decade - I thought I would list mine...

Here they are In no order;

Radiohead - Kid A (2000)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
TV on the Radio - Dear Science, (2008)
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (2005)
M Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent (2003)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)
Adem - Homesongs (2004)
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump (2000)
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2005)
The Strokes - Is This It (2001)

Others I love;

Paul Curreri - The Velvet Rut (2007)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ease Down the Road (2001)
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005)
Elbow - Asleep in the Back (2001)
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (2001)

Lots on there that I don't listen to as much as I used to but still have lots of sentimental value.