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No, not really, but I didn't take any of your comments personally. What you think is what you think.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago) link

To be fair, I can't think of a single person that's > the album Aja.

― Patrick Kinghorn, Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:31 (twenty years ago) link

not even your mom?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago) link

I really need to get that. Neither my mom nor my dad has ever bought it.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago) link

Don't make me choose.

― Patrick Kinghorn, Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago) link

It's a =

― Patrick Kinghorn, Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:34 (twenty years ago) link

if it came down to saving my mom or Aja from a burning building, I'd choose my mom. I mean, the most I'll ever get for Aja is a quarter at a record store.

[rimshot]

Thanks, thanks, I'll be here all night.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:34 (twenty years ago) link

The Rolling stones > ... Fleetwood Mac > ... Bryan Adams > ... Art of Noise > ... XTC

Maybe in Bizarro World.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago) link

hey buddy, write your own damn flowchart.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:36 (twenty years ago) link

woah, that really is how the rank in 'how much i've listened to them' though

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 29 April 2004 04:36 (twenty years ago) link

XTC > Stereolab > Art of Noise > King Crimson > Beatles > Blur > Kinks > Elvis Costello > Elvis Costello & the Attractions > Yello > TISM > They Might Be Giants > Tlot Tlot > Aphex Twin > Autechre > Squarepusher > Pop Will Eat Itself > Kraftwerk > Natacha Atlas > Enya > Macca > Björk > Radiohead > ELO > Big Audio Dynamite > Bowie > Devo > Elliott Smith > Human League > Nine Inch Nails > Posies > Crowded House > Madness > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Ice Cream Hands > Einstürzende Neubauten > ABBA > Pogues > Tori Amos > Pink Floyd > Soup Dragons > Ween > Yes > Talking Heads > Kylie > Duran Duran > Happy Mondays > Smiths > Jesus Jones > Beach Boys > Killing Joke > everything else > Thomas Dolby > hstencil's flowchart > Blink 182

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 April 2004 06:08 (twenty years ago) link

I don't understand how the name link works from the electric prunes to the art of noise: is it terribly obvious?

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 29 April 2004 09:25 (twenty years ago) link

I don't understand how Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass > Philip Glass. Maybe in Bizarro World!

― briania, Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:16 (twenty years ago) link

Suede......Denim
The Birthday Party.......The Wedding Present
The Cure.......The Healers
Family.......Offspring
MC5......U2
Cream......Bread

― Patrick Kinghorn, Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

Motorhead---------Radiohead

Errr....no, Radiohead came from a Talking Heads tune Ë‡

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

Scritti Polliti -----> Milli Vanillii

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

was that an extra i thanks to your keyboard?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

not sureP

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

awesom.e

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

not reallyl

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

not for you, but for us.s.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

Bully for youÂ¡

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

John Cougar Mellencamp ---> John Cougar Concentration Camp
The Primitives (60's) ---> The Primitives (80's)
The Chemical Brothers named themselves after the Dust Brothers originally, no? Then I think they had to change it. What a pair of dorks.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

'Motorhead---------Radiohead

Errr....no, Radiohead came from a Talking Heads tune'

As I said above, these could be hypothetical connections, not real ones. I'm not seriously suggesting that Offspring named themselves after Family either.

'Either in reality (like The Crickets--------The Beatles) or in your brane (like Motorhead---------Radiohead, because of course they named themselves after the Talking Heads song).

You go.

-- Patrick Kinghorn (paddypowe...), April 29th, 2004.'

Ë‡

― Patrick Kinghorn, Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

oh, gotcha. Sorry to be Johnny Pedantic @

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link

Phish + Spoon - Fischerspooner

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago) link

Tim Buckley ---- Jeff Buckley

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Friday, 30 April 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago) link

Does hstencil really rate Bryan Adams that high?

― Sym (shmuel), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:33 (twenty years ago) link

chemichal brothers - chemical brothers.
the charlatans - the charlatans

― thomas, Friday, 30 April 2004 09:02 (twenty years ago) link

A Norwegian one:
Raga Rockers -> Jaga Jazzist
(no idea whether true)

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:43 (twenty years ago) link

Legendary Stardust Cowboy-------------->Ziggy etc.

honorable mention, song-to-band:

Tin Omen------------------------------->Sister Machine Gun

― young bill, Friday, 30 April 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

and i'll bet someone got this already, but:

Ronettes------------------>Ramones

― young bill, Friday, 30 April 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

Reel Big Bad Squirrel Nut Voodoo Cherry-Poppin' Gay Zipper Daddies--------->Reel Big Fish, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Gay Dad

― the burrito that defined a generation, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link

oh wait I did the arrow wrong

― the burrito that defined a generation, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 22:31 (three years ago) link

Tim Buckley & Angelique Kidjo ---- Ugly Kid Joe

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 25 September 2020 05:08 (three years ago) link

Tim Buckley -> Timbuktu -> Timbuk 3

― (peech) or (buht ih-moh-jee) (unregistered), Friday, 25 September 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link

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