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A new game

Bored? I invented a new game today. It's 6 degrees of allmusic.com. If you're familiar with 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, then you have an idea where I'm going with this. Except in my game you don't have to complete a loop. The challenge is to find the shortest distant between two bands using the "Related Artists" (bonus points for only using Similar Artists) links between the two bands at allmusic.com. It works like this, pick two bands. Like, Moxy FrŸvous and Radiohead. I visit the Moxy FrŸvous page and scan the similar artists... Great Big Sea, Too Much Joy, Size 14, blah blah, Ben Folds Cake, Ween. Let's see where Ween takes us. Similar artists here include Moistboyz, They Might Be Giants, ah The Flaming Lips. Clicking on The Flaming Lips and I see Radiohead in the Similar artist list. So that was 3 hops to get from FrŸvous to Radiohead. Can anyone do better? How about a real challenge like oh, Jim Nabors to Marilyn Manson. That should be interesting. Let me know if you can make that connection.

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