How 'mainstream' are you? (Radiohead, quote, artists, band, last.fm)

acratertocoffin · 10-07-2007, 02:11 PM

13.51 % mainstream

I was 5% last time I took this, and Elliott Smith wasn't my number 1 artist at that time.

~~CAPTAIN CAVEMAN~~ · 10-07-2007, 02:38 PM

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2.70 % mainstream

highest is The Blood Brothers at 3 w/ 14.12%, lowest is Hats Off, Gentlemen at 11 w/ 0.00%

well, for some reason it says "???" for Song of Zarathustra's percent and 0 for listeners. i don't know what that's about.

sleepy jack · 10-07-2007, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

When I get a link then I can find out. I should imagine that I am mainstream, but according to whose rules? To the average Joe on the street I am most certainly not mainstream.

By lastfm standards, which means Radiohead is the most mainstream band ever. So keep that in mind.

=ladyface= · 10-07-2007, 04:26 PM

This thing tells me that I'm 18.98% 'mainstream'. I was actually expecting something far higher than that.

Sound Devastation · 10-07-2007, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by The-Starving-Artless

highest is The Blood Brothers at 3 w/ 14.12%, lowest is Hats Off, Gentlemen at 11 w/ 0.00%

well, for some reason it says "???" for Song of Zarathustra's percent and 0 for listeners. i don't know what that's about.

they're so obscure they dont add anything to the mainstream percentage. good band though

Dr_Rez · 10-07-2007, 06:11 PM

This test suxs for me, because the RHCP are like 105% mainstream now. So i get walloped

sleepy jack · 10-07-2007, 06:13 PM

6.23% my highest being the Beatles my lowest being Owen.

jackhammer · 10-07-2007, 06:18 PM

Is this affiliated by last FM though? And who says what percentage is correct? There is no fúcking formula. If anyone has a couple of beatles tracks in their liste , then we fail? My music tastes are one of the most eclectic on here, BUT many members listen to a lot more obscure stuff than me, albeit within a specified genre.

Mainstream? I still think I am mainstream.

sleepy jack · 10-07-2007, 06:23 PM

Last.fm has linked it fairly frequent, it's accurate. They judge it by your top 15 artists, how much their listened to on lastfm and then they calculate it. It's not really a mainstream-o-meter, more a comparison to last.fm as a wholes taste. For instance if you listened to metal, very mainstream metal like Iron Maiden and Metallica you'd be placed a good deal lower than an alternative fan who listened to Radiohead and Muse. Fans of Britney Spears and such would be very not-mainstream according to this.

jackhammer · 10-07-2007, 06:28 PM

I know the formula, BUT WHO DECIDES WHAT IS MAINSTREAM? that is my question. Crowquill-you for example listen to a lot of artists I don't know and are knowledgeable about them. Yet my tastes are hugely varied to yours and by that equation, my tastes are just as less mainstream as yours!. I just detest the fact that there is an all deciding monitor of music tastes.

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Is this affiliated by last FM though? And who says what percentage is correct? There is no fúcking formula. If anyone has a couple of beatles tracks in their liste , then we fail? My music tastes are one of the most eclectic on here, BUT many members listen to a lot more obscure stuff than me, albeit within a specified genre. Mainstream? I still think I am mainstream. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

10-07-2007, 06:28 PM	#20 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I know the formula, BUT WHO DECIDES WHAT IS MAINSTREAM? that is my question. Crowquill-you for example listen to a lot of artists I don't know and are knowledgeable about them. Yet my tastes are hugely varied to yours and by that equation, my tastes are just as less mainstream as yours!. I just detest the fact that there is an all deciding monitor of music tastes. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

10-07-2007, 04:26 PM	#14 (permalink)
=ladyface= Sounds Like Disco Tetris Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: UK Posts: 346	This thing tells me that I'm 18.98% 'mainstream'. I was actually expecting something far higher than that.