Okay. Another survey/meme to clog up your recommendations page and waste both my time and yours. Anyway.

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.

Okay. After slightly more than 1 year and four months, I'm finally clearing my listening data. A couple of simple reasons.

1. Honestly, after 25,085 plays it's getting more and more difficult to care about your charts.
2. I'm listening to much more new music now, and the music I listen to on a daily basis is very different from what I used to have on heavy repeat a year ago.
3. This might be fun.

So for the sake of remembering what my old charts, here's a screenshot of my top 50 overall artists on last.fm on 5th April…

I finally convinced myself I should write a new entry. Okay. Here it goes: I've been listening to quite a fair bit of new music lately, and I need to say something about them… right?

Massive Attack
House introduced me to "Teardrop", which in turn introduced me to Massive Attack. I went to get Mezzanine and I couldn't stop playing the album for an entire week. Their music really has this wonderful mixture of sweetness, darkness and claustrophobia. Favourites so far include "Angel", "A Prayer For England", "Group Four" and, of course, "Teardrop".

Zero 7
House also introduced me to…

This post is about our favourite crossover diva, Charlotte Church.

Oops. I mean, our favourite crossover little girl, Charlotte Church.

In case you haven't heard of what Church's been up to, she has done everything from calling the Pope a "Nazi" to releasing a bubblegum pop album called Tissues and Issues. Yes, I know, this is really old news, but I love old news.

Crazy Chick

Believe me, the first thing I did when I heard this song was to check the 30-second sample on Amazon to make sure I wasn't listening to Lindsay Lohan by mistake. Oh…

Oh dear, how could I have forgotten! Yesterday was 26th November, which happened to be my last.fm account's birthday. *sings "Happy Birthday"*

I must say that my musical tastes have changed drastically over the past year or so. Want proof? Just compare my overall charts with my rolling three-months charts.

Overall Charts
1. Tori Amos
2. Sarah Brightman
3. Delerium
4. Vanessa-Mae
5. Franz Ferdinand
6. Itzhak Perlman
7. Secret Garden
8. Gustav Mahler
9. Evanescence
10. Enya

Rolling 3-Months Charts
1. Gustav Mahler
2. Evanescence
3. Nigel Kennedy
4. Magdalena Kožená
5. Itzhak Perlman
6. Delerium
7. Sir Edward…

Finally got down to listening to Loreena McKennitt's new album. Her first studio album in… 9 years?

Okay. I've fallen in love with McKennitt's music all over again. There used to be a time when I listened to nothing but Loreena McKennitt. Then I stopped listening to her songs because I got a little sick of them. But since there's a nwe album now, there's new music!

I must say that Loreena McKennitt's musical style hasn't changed much in 9 years. So while the standard of her music hasn't dropped, it hasn't improved much either. But I think her…

Hey, this game's pointless, but fun. :) First lines from 30 random songs in my iTunes. If you've got it right, I'll strike out the lyrics. Let's go.

1. You can cry a million tears, you can wait a million years
2. As I took a step number four into the close of your tenement
What You Meant

3. Don't let those precious moments fool you, happiness is getting you down
4. I love you like a whisper, I love you all alone
5. I used to put my faith in worship, but then my chance to get to heaven…

My weekly top ten charts are getting more and more interesting by the week. And more neurotic, perhaps.

8. Gustav Mahler
Oh, Mahler. I've rediscovered a new love for his 4th Symphony, as well as for Das Lied Von Erde. Sadly, though, you can listen to a lot of Mahler on your computer and yet your playcounts for his music still remains low because his symphonies are so long.

8. Itzhak Perlman
I've recently listened to Perlman's recording of Sergei Prokofiev's 2nd Violin Concerto in G minor. It's the live recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by…

Oh dear, I've just realised I haven't written anything on last.fm in almost 3 months!

I just listened to Bjork's Vespertine again this morning, after something like 3 months since I last listened to the whole album. When I first heard the CD, I didn't really think much of it. Somehow, it didn't make that same kind of emotional effect that Homogenic had on me. But I think I've changed my mind about a lot of the songs on the album, like "Hidden Place", "Undo". And I still like "Pagan Poetry" a lot.

I know everyone has said a…

I got this idea from this journal here. So much kudos to the guy who thought this up.

Basically, you take 5 of your Top 10 artists (or all 10 of them if you want, which is exactly what I'm going to do) and write about what you don't like about them. What irritates you, basically.

I'll be referring to my rolling 3-month charts here, because I took a look at my Top 10 and realised how much of it didn't make sense.

10. Secret Garden
The most annoying thing about Secret Garden is that they seem to alternate between…