Wednesday, July 01, 2009

if you like that, you should try this...

Run out of ideas of what to listen to? You can't have, surely.

But should it be that you're lacking a bit of inspiration, try music-map. Why, it's "the tourist map of music".

Some searches to try:
1. George Formby
2. Jason Donovan and, best of all...
3. Chas and Dave

Maybe havin' a laff then...

5 comments:

Cocktails said...

What the heck is the algorithm behind that? I typed in Black Box and it suggested Bruce Springsteen, De La Soul, Grandmaster Flash, The Decemberists and the Gossip - which is exactly right.

Wanderer said...

Yeah, impressive.

It sounds like the database was empty when it was first put online. And since then it's collected various data from users. So I guess the searches take into account all the links between the data/bands collected.

Hoops Hooley said...

Yes I apologise for my flippant dismissal of music map. I was in the middle of a particularly long and tedious session at my desk at work when someone e-mailed me the link. We spent the next half an hour trying to come up with hilarious mis-matches hence my original post. It's actually pretty clever...

Cocktails said...

Well, I'm still not actually sure how they got from Black Box to Springsteen...

Wanderer said...

Blackbox and Bruce is very strange!

Trouble is I suppose, like wikipedia, it is open to 'abuse'. But maybe it is just that the algorithm needs adjusting.