Re^2: R or B?

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Re^3: R or B? by Tux (Canon) on Dec 01, 2021 at 14:50 UTC
True, but they also do not have a lot of words at all, making the words more unique: 72 distinct words in 94 total (76.6%) - Earth and Fire : Storm and T +hunder 108 distinct words in 154 total (70.1%) - Genesis : Firth of Fi +fth 133 distinct words in 202 total (65.8%) - Mike Oldfield : Tubular Bel +ls pt II 80 distinct words in 142 total (56.3%) - Novalis : Wer Schmett +erlinge lachen hört 67 distinct words in 129 total (51.9%) - Pink Floyd : Shine on yo +u crazy diamond 24 distinct words in 48 total (50.0%) - Kraftwerk : Autobahn 101 distinct words in 202 total (50.0%) - Mary Black : Columbus 70 distinct words in 157 total (44.6%) - Supertramp : Breakfast i +n America 151 distinct words in 448 total (33.7%) - Marillion : Script for +a Jesters Tear 108 distinct words in 327 total (33.0%) - 2 Unlimited : No Limit 134 distinct words in 662 total (20.2%) - Roling Stones : Going Home 31 distinct words in 248 total (12.5%) - The Beatles : Hello, Good +bye 19 distinct words in 376 total ( 5.1%) - Mo-Do : Eins zwei P +olizei [download] counted with this script. Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: R or B? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 01, 2021 at 15:25 UTC
You realize you sound utterly ridiculous, trying to argue that the Stones are better than the Beatles on the basis of the ratio of unique words within a song, right? And also that you've blatantly cherry-picked your data.	[reply]
Re^5: R or B? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 01, 2021 at 20:54 UTC
It still has no bearing on how great the songs are nor how great the band was, but here are some other songs by the Beatles — the point being to show that you chose a "bad" song in a vain attempt to make the Beatles look "bad" by comparison: Read more... (17 kB) — all of them "better" than your Marillion exemplar. lol	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: R or B? by LanX (Saint) on Dec 01, 2021 at 18:18 UTC
Maybe I should have made the irony more obvious or you are trying to top me? :) The link I gave lists Beatles and Kraftwerk as most influential bands in music business. ;-) > "'The Beatles and Kraftwerk' may not have the ring of 'the Beatles and the Stones', but nonetheless, these are the two most important bands in music history". Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^3: R or B? by bliako (Abbot) on Dec 03, 2021 at 10:15 UTC
good point generally, but Kraftwerk belongs to a different genre. A genre which often strives for sparsity and mantra-like lyrics. bw, the operator with my pocket calculator	[reply]
Re^4: R or B? by LanX (Saint) on Dec 03, 2021 at 18:50 UTC
They are heavily sampled, for instance my "favorite" ColdPlay song (yuck) shines because they "borrowed" from Kraftwerk. Lyrics are overrated, I heard statistics that 60% of Americans struggle to understand the lyrics of English songs. Most people only catch the chorus. Believe it or not Rammstein has quite deep lyrics on multiple levels. But the biggest part of there fan-base doesn't even speak basic German. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^5: R or B? by bliako (Abbot) on Dec 04, 2021 at 06:51 UTC
`Lyrics are overrated, ... struggle ...` That's definetely a dichotomy (i.e. "there are two kind of people") a sociologist should re-visit often. That's where the existence of Pop and Kitsch emanates from, AFAIC. Why do they exist at all? re: Rammstein, I guess that crowns German as the language of heavy metal?	[reply] [d/l]