Six Degrees of Black Sabbath

[undyingking]

A fairly self-explanatory web app toy that does the connectivity thing with musical collaborations. Who would have thought that the shortest path from Pink Floyd to Men at Work passed through Roxy Music and Jethro Tull?

It's powered by the excellent MusicBrainz database, which I thoroughly recommend in its own right.

So far, after a handful of queries, the longest shortest chain I've found is 16, from the aforementioned Floyd to The Knife (which goes via Motorhead...). But I'm sure you can do much better.

The author's interesting (to me, at least) blog post about it is here.

Comments

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning, I had also been wondering.

[gbsteve.livejournal.com]

But Duane Denison, member of Pigface, was the brilliant guitarist in Jesus Lizard. Well, if you don't like the classics ...

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Loads of great people have been in it, they just seem to have made the most unholy racket at the time. Fun if you were there, no doubt...