Music Map
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Topic: Music Map
Posted By: Catholic Flame
Subject: Music Map
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 11:03
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Has any one checked out Music Map? ------------- “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” ~Jack Kerouac |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 11:35
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Interesting, but the nearest band to Yes is Blue Oyster Cult. Hmm. |
Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 11:36
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Yeah, and Caravan is closest to VdGG. ------------- 
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 11:41
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  Still - it's good input for finding new music, next to PA of course. ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 11:42
Ah, I see, it keeps moving all the time. Now Yngwie Malmsteen is closest. |
chopper wrote:Posted By: Paradox
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 11:55
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Foo Fighters with Yes too. I don't think this site is too good really. ------------- 
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Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 12:27
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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. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: The Green Tank
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 12:35
And for some reason Foo Fighters were on there, too.
This things bullsh*t. ------------- 
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Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 12:59
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Not exactly accurate, but fun to fiddle around with
------------- Bassists are deadly 
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Posted By: Ounamahl
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 13:52
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. ------------- This is an electrified fairytale |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 13:57
I got Steve Vai closest to Genesis.
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Posted By: the icon of sin
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 19:12
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Here's an alternative one: http://www.liveplasma.com/ |
Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: November 12 2006 at 19:35
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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... ------------- To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica) |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: November 13 2006 at 12:44
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Soft Machine and James Blunt - comeon now. Back to the logic of Pete Frame's Rock Family Trees' ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: November 13 2006 at 12:53
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How come In The Woods... are surrounded by Funeral Doom and Alternative Rock bands? ------------- sig |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: November 13 2006 at 13:21
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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. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: November 14 2006 at 16:03
 ------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: chessman
Date 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!
Strange, but interesting!
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Posted By: soundsweird
Date Posted: November 15 2006 at 02:00
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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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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: November 15 2006 at 02:17
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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? ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Bilek
Date Posted: November 15 2006 at 04:25
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write Ash Ra Tempel and see what happens ...
[edit]: oh, Brainticket is more interesting; Manowar is closer to it than Can!!!!  ------------- Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret: Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!) |
Posted By: Bilek
Date Posted: November 15 2006 at 04:28
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No Ash Ra Tempel / Schulze relation, for heaven's sake!!!! and Manuel G?ching is not even available!!! (Achim Reichel is there, though...)
[edit: oh, he appears as "Gottsching"... another interesting one
 ][2nd edit: also no Ashra / Ash Ra Tempel relation!!!!!! The site is fun, indeed!] ------------- Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret: Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!) |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 15 2006 at 04:55
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This idea is cool. I suppose we have to let the man expand and correct things, too
Caravan and VdGG is a weird association but so is Caravan and Can.
Needs more time, but let's give the man a big hand.  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 15 2006 at 05:17
I will build something similar on my website ... IMO it only makes sense as an collaborative effort though, based on the input of all users.
------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: November 15 2006 at 05:32
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http://www.last.fm - www.last.fm works quite well in offering similar bands. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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