Liveplasma.com
I spotted a link to a site called Liveplasma.com on the Textdrive forum, which claimed that it mapped similarities between bands or artists in a linked-node-and-path-type graphic. I like a lot of rather dissimilar bands, but also some who have particular connections to one another (like Mouthmusic and Talitha MacKenzie and Martyn Bennett, as one example), so I decided to check it out.
I problems with it in Safari, but it worked fine in Firefox. At least, I think it did… Off the top of my head, I decided to start with Kate Bush. She’s had some interesting collaborations over the years, and I thought for sure that it would display Peter Gabriel close to her node.
Gabriel did indeed appear close by, as did some other similar artists like Bryan Ferry and David Bowie, but there was also a band called Krokus quite nearby. I’d never heard of them, so I did a search on Krokus out of curiousity. This image shows the result. How—-in the name of Wuthering Heights—-did Kate end up orbiting Iron Maiden and Mettalica like a small lost moon? Is there some bootleg heavy metal version of the Hounds of Love that I’m not aware of? I tell you, it’s keeping me awake at night.
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Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
So if the heuristic is fuzzy enough, that might count as a cover version...
A quick google search also found out that the band seems to be a fand of Kate Bush. And that a interview from 1989 about Kate was titled "Iron Maiden".
BTW, the Brazilian metal band Angra have a pretty decent cover of "Wuthering Heights". Pretty close to the original, but sung by a guy.
Don't know how Metallica fits in there, but if I want them to cover a song, "Sat in your lap" would be my first choice. Quite a workout for faux-angry male vocal chords.----- Liveplasma.com must be using a brain-dead algorithm or an anti-search pattern. Type in bands such as "MotorHead","Sacred Reich", "Nail Bomb", "Hem" and see what you get. Absolute crap. I would have at least thought MotorHead would have Tammy Wynett close. I think if it has no idea about what you are searching for it pulls Madonna out of thin air.
Amazingly if you type in bands like "Angel Witch" or "Venom" the graph is fairly good.
Type in "Sade" and the graph is very dispersed. I just typed in "DiskDamn" for fun and I got....Madonna!
by DiskDamn @ 16/04/2005 6:04 am • Permalink •
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You should try to learn how to read maps of liveplasma...
and find a map that doesn't wokk is not to analyse this website...
on the map of kate bush... did you see a link between kate and krokus? -> no... what is linked to krokus is mothley crue...
to read the maps, you have to use the distance and the links... sometimes there are bugs with the distances...
by liveplasma @ 18/04/2005 1:05 pm • Permalink •
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Michael Dingler: You've boggled my mind: a metal version of 'Wuthering Heights'? Eeek.
DiskDamn: I got Madonna too
But perhaps we've misunderstood how to read the maps (see #3).
liveplasma: I don't think that I claimed to analyse the website, I was just amused by the result I got. Looking again after seeing your comment, I can see that the links are indeed accurate, but at least on the search I did, the distances aren't, which is a little confusing. I was just playing with it and didn't read the instructions, but intuitively I think I would have paid more attention to the distances than the nodes. Anyhow, it's a lot of fun, and it has resulted in me finding out about a metal version of 'Wuthering Heights' (see #1), so that's worthwhile.
by bsag @ 18/04/2005 7:05 pm • Permalink •
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liveplasma,
uuhhh, ok. Then what good is liveplasma? Sounds like a good web advertisement for Madonna.
by DiskDamn @ 19/04/2005 1:05 am • Permalink •
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