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sweetcell

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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2008, 08:30:00 am »
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
 Open-minded simply means amorphous and lacking in principles.
funny, not in any dictionary i own.  i thought open-minded meant "accepting of new ideas", not feeble-minded.
 
 i think the flaw with this "open-minded index" is that it confuses wide tastes with open-mindedness.  just because your music collection contains country, indie, glam rock, ska and electronica doesn't mean you can listen to the new panic at the disco album without preconceptions.
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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2008, 09:31:00 am »

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 What are the tags based on?  Your own tagging of music, or the general Last.FM tags?  Just curious...I don't use it enough (beyond just cataloging what I listen to) to know the bells and whistles.

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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #17 on: May 30, 2008, 09:34:00 am »
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  I'm not sure how to get a score for this.
go to the website quoted in the first post, and point it towards your last.fm account (i.e. you need to be a last.fm user to get a score).
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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #18 on: May 30, 2008, 09:39:00 am »
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 What are the tags based on?  Your own tagging of music, or the general Last.FM tags?  Just curious...I don't use it enough (beyond just cataloging what I listen to) to know the bells and whistles.
It's done by the general last.fm tags. Because I know I haven't marked my Jens or my Peter Bjorn and John as Swedish.
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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #19 on: May 30, 2008, 10:14:00 am »
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
 Open-minded simply means amorphous and lacking in principles.
funny, not in any dictionary i own.  i thought open-minded meant "accepting of new ideas", not feeble-minded.
 
 i think the flaw with this "open-minded index" is that it confuses wide tastes with open-mindedness.  just because your music collection contains country, indie, glam rock, ska and electronica doesn't mean you can listen to the new panic at the disco album without preconceptions. [/b]
and i fully concur with this statement as i'm as closed minded as all get out about stuff that i think is crap... i.e. mainstream country  
 
 obviously there are several ways to measure open-mindedness... one could be open minded if they are searching around for music released on net labels or into experimental/fringe music or think Jandek rules the roost.
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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #20 on: May 30, 2008, 10:18:00 am »
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  Well, when kcjones119 asked "If you were a hot dog would you eat yourself?" I thought to myself "if I could get to my junk, I'd definitely give it a try."  That's pretty open minded isn't, it?
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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #21 on: May 30, 2008, 03:36:00 pm »
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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #24 on: June 02, 2008, 03:44:00 am »

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 I'm so curious what the other 17.2% of unmarked lastFM tags are?
 
 AND I'd like to point out:
 
 17.0% Electronic
 3.5%  Electronica
 3.0%  Dance
 2.2%  Disco
 
 Open. Minded.
 
 (I listen to WAY more disco music than that, it's just usually never on my iPod.)
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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #25 on: June 02, 2008, 07:58:00 am »
I never realized how much of a rocker I am...
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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #28 on: June 02, 2008, 10:57:00 pm »
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This does not surprise me in the least! But why are you hiding your genres? Do you have American Idol contestants on there or something? Playschool hits? Teenybopper girl bands? No...wait. That would be Smackie. Barbershop quartets? Polkas with the silver, blue and grey senior set?
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Re: How open minded are your musical tastes
« Reply #29 on: June 02, 2008, 11:04:00 pm »

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 Shouldn't you get bonus points for a high number of other Last.FM tags?
 
 I'm surprised Psychedelic isn't higher on my list. Then again, only a limited number of my songs actually get picked up by Last.FM.
 
 I'm also surprised that Swedish didn't make an appearance but I suspect that's because a whole lot of the Swedish music I listen to is labled just slightly differently such as Scandanavian Dream.
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