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Ed Roach
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« on: December 12, 2009, 11:15:47 AM »

Found this interesting, but I'm posting it w/o having gone there yet:

ALBUM ANALYZER

Get to the bottom of lyrics with Wordle


By Randall Roberts

In an ongoing effort to better understand the many classic albums of L.A., we’ve come upon an equation that gets to the heart of the matter without much thinking, analysis, verbiage or any of those other “old-model” music criticism techniques. Specifically, we’ve been enjoying Wordle.net, the “word cloud”–generating Web site that analyzes words based on the frequency of occurrence. The process is shockingly simple: Just cut and paste a bunch of text into a box at the site, and within moments a word cloud appears, and adjusts font size to coincide with the number of appearances.

A few weeks ago we input the entirety of the Beach Boys’ classic Pet Sounds into the software, and came up with a revealing glimpse at the melancholy within one of the most important albums of the 1960s. This past week we had fun with N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton. (For up-to-the-minute West Coast Sound word clouds of classic L.A. albums, check our Web site for this regular feature.)

For this installment, we’ve moved into 1980s punk-rock L.A. and tossed all the confusing, depressed, drunken, hardcore lyrics of Black Flag’s Damaged into Wordle. With songs such as “Rise Above,” “T.V. Party” and “Gimme Gimme Gimme,” the 1981 album is a touchstone of rock & roll angst.

http://www.laweekly.com/2009-12-10/music/cloud-of-depression/

http://www.wordle.net/create
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2009, 10:00:03 PM »

Ed, it never showed the actual results of what they did. I personally think you need to spend more time at the beach or somewhere else besides that particular website. Just a thought.........!

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« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2009, 02:54:00 AM »

Not to be contrary, but I went there after posting this, and it's phenomenal!  Just go to http://www.wordle.net/create  cut & paste anything, and you'll be amazed.  I did try a few from Pet Sounds, then went to POB.  Here's the lyrics to Farewell My Friend:

Farewell my friend
My beautiful friend
Farewell
You take the high road
And I'll take the low road
And we'll meet again
Farewell my friend
I love you
In a funny way
You take the high road
I'll take the low road
And we will meet again
Farewell my friend
Oh I want to see you again
Oh farewell
Farewell
Oh I want to see you again
Farewell
Oh I'm on the mountain again
Oh farewell
Oh I want to see you again
Oh my friend
Oh that's when I'll see you again
Farewell
Oh I want to see you again

Paste them in the wordle box & hit go - then try things like Randomize...
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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2009, 08:34:16 AM »

I tried it with his song, and you're right, it is cool!!!! Thanks!
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« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2009, 11:51:20 AM »

Cool, right?  Also, if you click the link to the article in the L.A.Weekly, it does show one example, Black Flag's "Damaged". 
(Must admit, I can't find the papers link to the "Pet Sounds" album, either.  But again, I did start with some "Pet Sounds" myself.  Check out something like "That's Not Me":  http://www.wordle.net/create

I had to prove that I could make it alone
But that's not me
I wanted to show how independent I'd grown now
But that's not me

I could try to be big in the eyes of the world
What matters to me is what I could be to just one girl

I'm a little bit scared
Cause I haven't been home in a long time
You needed my love
And I know that I left at the wrong time
My folks when I wrote them
Told 'em what I was up to said that's not me

I went through all kinds of changes
Took a look at myself and said that's not me
I miss my pad and the places I've known
And every night as I lay there alone I will dream

I once had a dream
So I packed up and split for the city
I soon found out that my lonely life wasn't so pretty
I'm glad I went now I'm that much more sure that we're ready

I once had a dream
So I packed up and split for the city
I soon found out that my lonely life wasn't so pretty

I once had a dream
So I packed up and split for the city
I soon found out that my lonely life wasn't so pretty


And again, the coolest part I've found is to hit RANDOMIZE after you've got it up
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« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2009, 12:09:31 PM »

Check the gallery.  Grin
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