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undyingking ([personal profile] undyingking) wrote2010-05-21 12:03 pm
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Six Degrees of Black Sabbath

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.

[identity profile] mr-malk.livejournal.com 2010-05-21 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Bah! Stoopid database has neither Bernard Cribbins nor Tom Lehrer! (The Sweet to the Scissor Sisters is 17 steps by the way, but others have already whupped that as a chain)

[identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com 2010-05-21 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
They're both in the database, but neither has any relationships defined. Clearly their collaborations, if any existed, have not yet been logged...

[identity profile] mr-malk.livejournal.com 2010-05-21 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, OK. Fair enough!