Fine Young Cannibals

A game I used to play with my friends: ask them to name any two bands, artists, etc., and I'd try to find a link, a la the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.  One interesting thing about this game is that it gets easier as time goes on - first, because you learn more connections between bands, and second, because longstanding artists tend to do sideprojects, and collaborate more.  Mark Lanegan for example, can now be used as a linking move for everyone from REM (through Screaming Trees bandmate Barrett Martin who played in a side group with Peter Buck) to Belle and Sebastian (through the terrific Isobel Campbell-Mark Lanegan albums - check them out.)

So today, through my compulsive Youtube video viewing I learned a new connection - Fine Young Cannibals, to the Clash.  But I'm not going to take you there right away.