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Author Topic: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game  (Read 3327 times)

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The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« on: 14 Jun 2007, 18:36 »
Whenever you look up an artist on allmusic.com, you find an whole bunch of artists somehow deemed to be "similar." If you keep clicking, this can lead you to interesting place. So, by clicking on "Similar Artists", "Influenced By," and/or "Followers" I linked the Rolling Stones and Britney Spears thusly:

Rolling Stones - Marianne Faithfull - Zola Moon - Janis Joplin -Melissa Etheridge -Tegan and Sara - Jewel - Alanis Morissette - Poe - Gwen Stefani - Pink - Britney Spears.

Obviously I've got a bit of practice to do to make it only 6 steps.
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Re: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« Reply #1 on: 14 Jun 2007, 18:42 »
britney covered the rolling stones
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Re: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« Reply #2 on: 15 Jun 2007, 02:08 »
Dream Theater --> Joe Satriani --> Steve Vai --> Jeff Beck --> Stevie Ray Vaughan --> Eric Clapton --> Santana --> Cream

So we started at progressive metal and ended up at blues. Not highly surprising.
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Re: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« Reply #3 on: 15 Jun 2007, 06:28 »
Tommy, I tried to link Converge to Britney Spears using the website you provided. Guess which one came up "Band/Artist not found?"
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Re: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« Reply #4 on: 15 Jun 2007, 08:07 »
I'm impressed, I got Brian Eno to Metallica in 5 steps.
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Re: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« Reply #5 on: 15 Jun 2007, 10:05 »
Led Zeppelin
s/t
1971
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Jimmy Page
Coverdale · Page
s/t
1993
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David Coverdale
Whitesnake
Give Me All Your Love
1988
Line-up #2
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Vivian Campbell
Dudes Of Wrath
Shocker
1989
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Tommy Bass : "Tommy Lee"
Rock Star Supernova
s/t
2006
5.
Jason Newsted
Metallica
Harvester Of Sorrow
1988

Ok so mine was pretty simple. And I used tommydyski's website. I still get a prize right?
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Re: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« Reply #6 on: 16 Jun 2007, 08:35 »
After four attempts with none of the 8 bands being found on the site Tommy posted, I have concluded that it is worthless.
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Re: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« Reply #7 on: 16 Jun 2007, 09:02 »
Quote from: tommydski on 15 Jun 2007, 02:44
Hi, I'm here to completely ruin your game.

Does this thing only work with 'cool' bands or something? It had no idea who Maroon 5 were, and it parsed The Killers as Breed The Killers by Earth Crisis. And yet it found Einsturzende Neubauten and even added the umlaut for me.
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Re: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« Reply #8 on: 16 Jun 2007, 09:30 »
"The path between Fugazi and Winger contains 6 steps:"
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Re: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« Reply #9 on: 16 Jun 2007, 09:48 »
"The path between Can and Michael Jackson contains 10 steps."

EDIT: The existance of Robert Fripp makes a lot of these too easy:

"The path between Einstürzende Neubauten and Van Morrison contains 6 steps."
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Re: The Allmusic 6 degrees of seperation game
« Reply #10 on: 16 Jun 2007, 10:47 »
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