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    Posted: November 12 2006 at 11:03

Has any one checked out Music Map?

http://www.music-map.com/

You put in the name of a band and it gives you back a constellation of bands. Supposedly the closer the bands are the greater the likelihood that you will like both.
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Points: 20033 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2006 at 11:35
Interesting, but the nearest band to Yes is Blue Oyster Cult.

Hmm.
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Yeah, and Caravan is closest to VdGG.
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Nice, but a bit incomplete (hard to get it complete I guess). It's a bit strange to not see Eroc listed when typing Grobschnitt Wink

Still - it's good input for finding new music, next to PA of course.
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Points: 20033 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2006 at 11:42
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Interesting, but the nearest band to Yes is Blue Oyster Cult.

Hmm.

Ah, I see, it keeps moving all the time. Now Yngwie Malmsteen is closest.
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Foo Fighters with Yes too. I don't think this site is too good really.
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Its a really great idea, but it deffintely needs to be worked on. You can tell some bands just aren't in there yet. IQ should definitely be put closest to Genesis, but its not even there in the constalation...
I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Interesting, but the nearest band to Yes is Blue Oyster Cult.

Hmm.
Mine was Van Halen..............................................................
And for some reason Foo Fighters were on there, too.
 
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Not exactly accurate, but fun to fiddle around with
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Originally posted by Paradox Paradox wrote:

Foo Fighters with Yes too. I don't think this site is too good really.


The idea is to discover new bands? I really don't care which bands they put near Genesis etc. But this site really kicks ass.
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Originally posted by BePinkTheater BePinkTheater wrote:

Its a really great idea, but it deffintely needs to be worked on. You can tell some bands just aren't in there yet. IQ should definitely be put closest to Genesis, but its not even there in the constalation...
 
I got Steve Vai closest to Genesis.
 
 
 
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Here's an alternative one:

http://www.liveplasma.com/
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Maybe it's based on Factor Analysis, and it's the plot of the first two factorial scores compared to the band you choose (or something like that....) but I think before something like that can give any reasonable results you need a lot of data (people's estimation of a number of aspects of the music of the bands) and clearly there's not enough of them...and then there's always another dimension, so bands who have really very little in common still look like scoring in the same place. Still it's fun...but not very accurate...
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Soft Machine and James Blunt - comeon now. Back to the logic of Pete Frame's Rock Family Trees'
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How come In The Woods... are surrounded by Funeral Doom and Alternative Rock bands?
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oh wow, that Liveplasma one was actually pretty good....
 
http://www.liveplasma.com/
I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
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Originally posted by BePinkTheater BePinkTheater wrote:

oh wow, that Liveplasma one was actually pretty good....
 
http://www.liveplasma.com/
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Points: 974 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 14 2006 at 18:16
Quite a weird map. Just looked up Steve Hackett, and the nearest two to him were Chopin and Anthony Phillips. So it looks like they got that right. But then looked up Genesis, and one of the closest to them was Joe Satriani!Confused
Strange, but interesting!LOL
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     I put in John Martyn (British folkie friend of Nick Drake who later went kind of MOR jazz-funk) and got Spinal Tap.    yyyyyyyeah...
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Points: 7113 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 15 2006 at 02:17
Okay, Led Zep gets no Tull, but it does get Genesis? It also gets King Crimson, which gets no Pink Floyd, but it does get Syd Barrett...who gets no Pink Floyd, but does get Roger Waters...who finally gets Pink Floyd, who, in turn, get King Crimson. Que?
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