Tasks / Six (or More) Degrees Of Kevin Bacon's Rock Band
Choose two highly contrasting bands/musicians/composers. Go to allmusic.com, and start on the page of the first - explore "similar artists" until you reach the second. To prove your achievment, list all artists in the chain from the first to the second.
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10 points
Level 1
Created by g k
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I love it Lincoln, I've decided to try my own. I have gone from one of my favourite bands to one of my least favourite, 21 links in all. And I still fail to believe My Chemical Romance list Morrisey as one of their influences, bollocks!
1. Ocean Colour Scene
2. Paul Weller
3. Billy Bragg
4. The Beatles
5. George Harrison
6. The Travelling Wilburys
7. Electric Light Orchestra
8. Supertramp
9. Styx
10. Def Leppard
11. TNT
12. Van Halen
13. Smashing Pumpkins
14. Nirvana
15. Black Sabbath
16. Led Zeppelin
17. Guns n Roses
18. Avenged Sevenfold
19. Bullet for my Valentine
20. Funeral for a Friend
21. My Chemical Romance
The woman on the cover of that My Chemical Romance album is a really good friend of mine (and Lank and C.M.).
Here we go - these are, as far as I know, the two most disparate artists in my collection (despite being next to each other alphabetically):
1. Mindless Self Indulgence
2. Tom Morello
3. Korn
4. Rob Zombie
5. Primus
6. David Byrne
7. Peter Gabriel
8. Roxy Music
9. Bauhaus
10. Joy Division
11. The Cure
12. Ultravox
13. Japan
14. Robert Fripp
15. Brian Eno
16. Kraftwerk
17. Mike Oldfield
Nice bit of fun during a dull lesson, if anyone comes, my code's compiling!
(and sorry I can't add album covers, right click's disabled here...)
1 - Gary Numan
2 - The Human League
3 - Duran Duran
4 - Adam Ant
5 - Siouxsie and the Banshees
6 - Public Image Ltd
7 - Wire
8 - Buzzcocks
9 - The Clash
10 - The Damned
11 - Stiff Little Fingers
12 - The Jam
13 - Billy Bragg
14 - The Pogues!
Hurrah! That was quicker than expected.
I also have all of these in my own music collection.
Yeah, this looks like fun, but I don't think I want to add this to Level Zero. Sticking to Lincoln's conditions, this is what happened:
1. Oingo Boingo
2. Blue Peter
3. A Flock of Seagulls
4. Bronski Beat
5. Depeche Mode
6. Siouxsie and the Banshees
7. Love and Rockets
8. Nick Cave
9. Mark Lanegan
10. Grant Lee Buffalo
11. American Music Club
12. PJ Harvey
13. Tori Amos
14. Suzzane Vega
15. Edie Brickell
16. Shawn Colvin
17. Travy Chapman
18. Natalie Merchant
19. Paula Cole
20. Texas
21. The Mutton Birds
22. Neil Finn
23. Bic Runga
24. Aimee Mann
25. Elvis Costello
26. T Bone Burnett
27. Buddy Holly
28. Gene Vincent
29. Jerry Lee Lewis
30. Ray Charles
31. Johnny Otis
32. Big Jay McNeely
33. Louis Jordan
34. Cab Calloway
35. Teddy Wilson
36. Ralph Sutton
37. Earl Hines
38. Willie "The Lion" Smith
39. Hoagy Carmichael
Yikes, this took longer than I expected.
This image of Bo Diddley is here just because it cracks me up.
I own that album. I believe it's up in the booth actually.
Hey, why not. Let's start in a genre I know nothing about, so I get to click links aimlessly for a while. And of course the aimlessness will continue as I try to find my way from rock that isn't remotely folk-influenced to rock that is, which actually seems to be the hardest connection to find.
GWAR to the Tannahill Weavers:
GWAR
Lordi
King Diamond
Megadeth
Celtic Frost
Metallica
Soundgarden
Nirvana
Everclear
Foo Fighters
Pearl Jam
Creed - hey, wait a minute, apparently nothing is similar to Creed. Dead end, back up.
Pearl Jam
Matchbox 20
Sugar Ray
Sublime
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
No Doubt
Supergrass
Oasis
The Boo Radleys
Super Furry Animals
Blur (can you tell I'm clicking randomly at this point due to not knowing this genre at all?)
Strangelove
Manic Street Preachers
The Smashing Pumpkins (finally, back to using groups I've heard of!)
Catherine Wheel
The Cure (Just because I've heard of these folks doesn't mean I've made any progress!)
Morrissey
Sinead O'Connor
Melissa Etheridge
Indigo Girls
Billy Bragg
Pete Seeger
The Clancy Brothers (getting closer...)
The Chieftans
Natalie MacMaster
Beolach
Solas (almost there!)
The Tannahill Weavers
That's some solid Link-Fu there, Dok.
The scary part is, that was almost all aimless wandering until I saw Melissa Etheridge and thought, "I know I can connect her to somebody in folk-pop-rock." And did. After that, every step was something I did knowing it would get closer to real folk, and from there to increasingly-traditional Celtic.
I'm pretty sure there's a faster way, as I know there exists a "folk metal" sub-genre, but I know nothing about it.
I had the same problem, and thought it would be tougher, and went down many wrong roads that led nowhere, but wound up finding a constant link of bands in my collection from new age folk all the way to whatever Rage is (Metal-Punk-Rap?). I tried to get it in as few moves as possible and had to go back quite a few times.
I've heard them mentioned but couldn't possibly tell you anything about them. So, sort of.
The same is true for about half the bands on that list. There's very few names there I'd never heard before - though there are some; who the fuck are The Boo Radleys? - but there's an awful lot where I've never heard their music before or anything.
Blur vs Oasis.
Biggest battle of the 90s.
Blur the founders of Brit Pop.
BLUR!
Except for the minor fact that Blur are better than Oasis. :P
Harmon, have you heard of Gorillaz? Same lead guy.
Also, the Boo Radleys are an English eighties pop band, most famous for their song "Wake Up Boo" - you usually find it on cheesy Summer compilation albums :P
Nineties pop band, I'm sure you mean.
wake up boo. vote [award 5 points]
DragonForce to The Beatles.
1. DragonForce
2. Iron Maiden
3. Scorpions
4. Rainbow
5. Blue Öyster Cult
6. Thin Lizzy
7. Def Leppard
8. Europe
9. Bon Jovi
10. Warrant
11. Cinderella
12. Van Halen
13. Queen
14. Electric Light Orchesta
15. Ringo Starr (YES!)
16. Linda McCartney (shockingly, The Beatles were NOT in the Similar Artists section!)
17. Carly Simon (oh dear.)
18. Eagles
19. Crosby, Stills & Nash
20. The Hollies
21. The Rolling Stones
22. The Beatles
I found The Beatles were really easy to get to, most artists linked to them.
Yeah, see I know nothing about britpop. Or any pop, for that matter. I mostly listen to folk, and sometimes jazz.
But yeah, I've heard of Gorillaz.
FINE! I thought I was being cool, but I guess I'm no longer welcome here!
I come back off hiatus for two seconds to do some Level Zero tasking but NO!
I'll just go then!
I'll go for Norah Jones next time.
The fact that someone was able to connect Dar Williams and Rage Against The Machine is very, very frightening.
Does it ever strike you as weird when you write "someone"? Because it strikes me as weird when I read it.
Third-person-direct-object-subjunctive-tense-reflexive-pronoun.
Yes, I just made that up.
Leadbelly to Enya!
Slim Gaillard to Lemon Demon!
The Aquabats! to Van Clyburn!
Rick Dees to Stereo Total!
And...
GO!
OOIOO to Rick Astley.
Polar opposites, s'far as i'm concerned.
1. OOIOO
2. Psycho-Baba
3. Boredoms
4. Fishbone
5. Jane's Addiction
6. Depeche Mode
7. Duran Duran (here rick-o was listed under "followers")
8. Pet Shop Boys
9. Madonna
10. Kylie Minogue
11. RICK ASTLEY
in exactly 10 moves.
10 moves? Now that's some Link-Fu right there.
yeah, i do this way too often.
also, it feels so weird and rebellious to post a rick astley video in its appropriate context.
1. Francisco López
2. Eric La Casa
3. Ryoji Ikeda
4. Scanner
5. Pan Sonic
6. Matmos
7. Mr Scruff
8. Mark Farina
9. Felix Da Housecat
10. Scissor Sisters
11. Beck
12. Jens Lekman
13. The Magnetic Fields
14. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
15. The Moldy Peaches
16. The Mountain Goats
17. The Weakerthans
18. Clem Snide
19. Lambchop
20. Neko Case
...
FAIL
I wanted to get from Francisco López to James 'Slim' Hand, cause I reckon they're the two furthest points apart in my collection, which is neat since I came into contact with both of them completely by accident. But I got as far as Neko Case (pretty pleased with that), but then lacking obvious leads I thought I'd work my way back. Only to discover that James Hand is like no one else. Literally.
Still well worth checking out.
So much for my Level Ø tasking.
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This is how it worked:
1. Dar Williams
2. Shawn Colvin
3. Sheryl Crow
4. Counting Crows
5. T Bone Burnett
6. Tom Waits
7. Neil Young
8. The Byrds
9. Grateful Dead
10. Big Brother & The Holding Company
11. Iron Butterfly
12. Led Zeppelin
13. Aerosmith
14. Guns N' Roses
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers
16. Beastie Boys
17. Rage Against The Machine
Under twenty moves! Yay!