Do you frequent near empty basement rooms listening to bands no one has ever heard of? Do you often (grudgingly) introduce your friends to hot new Swedish bands you find in the back of the cupboards of the internet? Do you wish there was a programme that proved just how special and unique you were so that everyone could congratulate you on the obscurity of your music tastes? Well you lucky so-and-so because now there is – The Obscurometer!

Perhaps you will post the information to your Facebook account and then your friends will start to do the same and then a friendly rivalry will begin – a new social order where Tibetan Folktronica listeners become the pallid and smug top dogs and poor kids still listening to American Dream Pop get laughed at and poked. People will spend all their time trawling the internet finding new bands only to drop them as 'sellouts' as soon as they play a gig. Then eventually there will be no new music left and someone will decide that they are so obscure and special and unique that they have decided to give up on 'music' (and they will say it like that, so you can hear the quote marks dangling in the air). Then everyone will decide that this was all a bit ridiculous and just start listening to music because they like it, and not because it was composed by a troupe of mute Albino sisters that live in a cave.

The interesting paradox about The Obscurometer is that, on posting your music tastes, you are introducing them to a wider audience, so what was obscure will no longer be so. This leads me to believe that the brains behind the website belong to an evil genius with a hatred for indie kids. Banking on them wanting to proudly show off their pigeon chest of musical knowledge they will enter their Last FM information and then, when they realise that they have left their prized, secret, favourite bands exposed to be picked up by the baying masses in – eurgh! – Topman, a beautifully non-challant asymetrical haircut will fly into the air as the little head below it explodes.

Have I done The Obscurometer? Well, purely for research purposes. My obscurity rating?...uummm, I'll tell you mine after you tell me yours. A hypocrite....moi?