It’s not a typo, although it might not actually be a word… Via Last.fm user WerkshuwTuig I came across a script asking “How eclectic is your musical taste?” Apparently I’m hitting 96/100, which tickles me pink and breathless.1

(Ok, after reading his post about the spread of the meme I’m a bit less breathless. Still pink though.)

It’s a nice idea: take the top 20 artists from your profile, and for each one pull out the five most similar artists. Some of them will be duplicates, so the number of distinct entries in the list tells you something about how dissimilar those first 20 are, with a possible maximum score of 100 (and minimum of 20 I suppose, unless you have a degenerate profile containing less than 20 artists). The author has a few other nice scripts if you’ve got a long compile on the burn…

Notes:

  1. I’ll admit that I’m gaming the stats to try for an increase: having Béla Fleck and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones can’t be helping, and one play-through of my Auktyon album will bump the Fleckster off the bottom of the list… [↪]