Six degrees of Music

Portishead recorded a live album in New York, whilst New York, New New Tork was by...

Frank Sinatra, which was a single by... Cake , who, on the Virgin trains playlist for Winter 2002, were followed by... Lamb

BTW, my own Lamb to Portishead: Portishead remixed UNKLE on "The Time Has Come" EP, which Plaid also did remixes for. Plaid have also remixed Goldfrapp's Utopia; Goldfrapp appear on The Princess + The Warrior soundtrack, on which Lamb singer Lou Rhodes sings. Huzzah!

thanks for playing, the computers have figured it out now.

http://static.echonest.com/SixDegreesOfBlackSabbath/

Not too impressed by that site, at least from the first sets of artists i asked it to link. Like, from this post upthread:

Frank Sinatra, which was a single by... Cake , who, on the Virgin trains playlist for Winter 2002, were followed by... Lamb

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:00 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i asked SixDegreesOfBlackSabbath to find a path from Frank Sinatra to Cake; it came up with:

- Frank Sinatra performed with Bing Crosby on the song Mister Booze and 181 others.
- Bing Crosby performed with David Bowie on the song Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy and 49 others.
- David Bowie performed with Trent Reznor on the song Warszawa and 17 others.
- Trent Reznor was a member of Pigface
- Pigface had member Duane Denison
- Duane Denison was a member of Firewater
- Firewater had member Yuval Gabay
- Yuval Gabay was a member of Homie
- Homie had member Greg Brown
- Greg Brown was a member of Cake

Not too impressive given there's a much more direct route:

- Cake covered "What's Now Is Now", a song originally recorded by Frank Sinatra on Watertown

Likewise, it took eleven links to connect the Eagles to the Velvet Underground, a connection I could make in only three steps (i.e. "Take It Easy" written by Jackson Browne, who also wrote songs for Nico). What's odd is that it could connect the Eagles to Jackson Browne in three steps, and Jackson Browne to VU in three steps, but it couldn't follow its own links to connect Eagles to VU in six degrees or less.

Also, it seems at least 40% of the bands I asked it to link passed through "We Are The World"....

It took 9 connections to connect Weird Al Yankovic to Michael Jackson.

http://static.echonest.com/SixDegreesOfBlackSabbath/?src_id=14245&dest_id=359330

Weezer to Buddy Holly - 11 degrees

Connect any two artists in our 'Six Degrees of Music Separation' game! Can you beat 6-D?

http://www.whosampled.com/six-degrees/

So far the answer is a 'no' from me

Here is how Xasthur and Pink are connected:

'A National Acrobat' by Xasthur is a cover of 'A National Acrobat' by Black Sabbath

'War Pigs' by Black Sabbath was sampled in 'Oh No' by Girl Talk

'Don't Stop' by Girl Talk sampled 'U + Ur Hand' by Pink