Comments on: Six Degrees of Black Sabbath

By: Samir

Samir — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:21:20 +0000

How can I contribute with you sending informations of some artists?

By: letterstothelabel

letterstothelabel — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:06:53 +0000

I liked this better the first time when it was called:

http://www.bandtoband.com/

By: tasso

tasso — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:18:25 +0000

Hi, very cool application! How did you stored the graph? Did you considered to use Neo4j (http://neo4j.org/)?

By: dj empirical

dj empirical — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:55:13 +0000

looks like it’s having trouble finding Jandek.

By: media

media — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:58:53 +0000

Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:14:38 +0000

Here’s another odd one:

http://labs.echonest.com/SixDegrees/?start=guy+sebastian&end=otis+redding

guy sebastian covered three otis redding songs on his memphis album, but you’ve got nine steps between them.

cheers

Anthony

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:08:06 +0000

Hi,

this is fun. most steps I’ve found so far was 20, between Kristina Olsen and The Waifs, who I have seen perform consecutively on the same stage. which is kind of fun.

I’ve found a little anomaly for you. Doc Neeson who is/was the lead singer of the Aussie band The Angels, is almost certainly not connected to the girl group Angels this search found – unless he’s had some cosmetic and other surgery recently!

singerhttp://labs.echonest.com/SixDegrees/?start=roy+orbison&end=doc+neeson

cheers

Anthony

By: Paul Babiak

Paul Babiak — Sat, 29 May 2010 03:00:02 +0000

Had a lot of fun with this site.
But I found some very convoluted paths for Aynsley Dunbar to various members of the Mothers of Invention, of which he was also a member. But there were so many incarnations of the Mothers, I suppose it’s difficult to get them all.

By: Alex Dupuy

Alex Dupuy — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:37:35 +0000

You wrote:
> We can learn a little bit about music by looking at some of
> the properties of the graph. First of all, the average
> distance in the graph between any two artists in the graph
> chosen at random is 7.

I just did a search (Wire to Black 47) which gave me “no path”. I’m curious if you gathered any statistics on the number of non-trivial isolated enclaves (groups of artists connected to at least one other artist, but not connected to the largest group (which we could define as “connected to Pigface”).

Also, it seems to me that using “Various Artists” or “[traditional]” as one of the steps is a bit of a cheat. While two artists both appearing on a particular VA album is a reasonable step, the fact that two artists both appear on (different) albums by the artist “Various Artists” really doesn’t mean anything (much).

By: Bill Mayan

Bill Mayan — Mon, 24 May 2010 02:56:17 +0000

Nicely done, a fun tool. Black Sabbath and Jay-Z?