seagullview Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 November brain: Guns N' Roses statistics reveal anatomy of rockOne developer and statistics pro has turned his eye to what makes up the music of Guns N' Roses, proving that when it comes to 80s rock, the hair was high, but the standard deviations were higher.Guns N' Roses Image by Paul Natkin/Getty For many rock fans, Guns N' Roses will always stand for stadium gigs and the vague scent of hairspray and snakeskin boot wax that brings back memories of '89. But then there are those for whom shredding out gnarly air guitar solos with Slash calls to mind the beauty and purity of statistical analysis.For those that have always wanted to see the golden era of Guns N' Roses graphed in all its glory (and really, who hasn't?) developer and teacher Juan Gabito has broken the lyrics and licks down into bar charts and box plots, with a little help from some nifty Python coding."I just want to know a few things about the songs of the Live Era GnR (1987 - 1993) AKA the real Guns N' Roses," Gabito wrote on his website."What's the average song duration? Is Civil War a long song for GnR standards? What about Perfect Crime, it's too short? And the lyrics... which are the most used words? How many words in average do the songs have? How many F* words have been used? Which is the song with the highest lexical diversity?"The most common words (5 letters or more) used by Guns N' Roses. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET To get lexical with Axl, Gabito analysed 44 songs from "Appetite for Destruction", "G N' R Lies", "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II" and broke them down into common and unique words, as well as song lengths to discover the anatomy of a G N' R song.The most common words in Gunners songs have three letters, ranging down to one 14-letter word. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET The result? Gunners songs have a lexical diversity of 12 percent, meaning 1 out of 8 words are unique (calculated by taking unique words as a percentage of total words) and each song has roughly 39 unique words. The longest word is "sociopsychotic" (appearing in "My World" and, we presume, every unauthorised Steven Adler biography to date) and the most common word is "your".And because Axl is the kind of guy you could take home to meet your mother, f* words and their variants only make up 0.3 percent of words, appearing 42 times in total (though that's more than "patience" and "jungle" combined for those playing at home).While "November Rain" may appear to last longer than time itself (or certainly long enough that you shouldn't be playing it outside a church in the middle of nowhere without an amp, Slash), it's not the longest song. That title is taken by "Coma" (at 10:13 minutes).A box plot showing the duration of G N' R songs. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET While there are no doubt few people who were around in the heady days of hair metal that can actually recall anything much about the era (here's looking at you Nikki Sixx), we're glad someone out there has an appetite for both mathematics and Guns N' Roses. If we could graph that out Juan Gabito, it'd make one pretty sweet Venn diagram.For the rest of us, welcome to the jungle -- hope you brought your calculator.http://www.cnet.com/news/november-brain-guns-n-roses-statistics-reveal-anatomy-of-rock/ Appetite for Stats: Insights on the world's most dangerous bandGuns N' Roses is one of my two favorite bands (the other is The Ramones) and I just want to know a few things about the songs of the Live Era GnR (1987 - 1993) AKA the real Guns N' Roses.What's the average song duration? Is Civil War a long song for GnR standards? What about Perfect Crime, it's too short? And the lyrics... which are the most used words? How many words in average do the songs have? How many F* words have been used? Which is the song with the highest lexical diversity?To answer these questions I analyze 44 songs from Appetite for Destruction, GN'R Lies and Use Your Illusion I and II. All songs that weren't written by GnR where left out of this analysis with a total running time of 3 hours 36 minutes and 20 seconds. Average song durationSo, how long in average does a GnR last? Well, about 4 minutes and 55 seconds (mean) with a standard deviation of about 1 minute and 55 seconds. This means that a regular GnR songs may last something between 3:00 minutes and 6:50 minutes.So, Civil War with a duration of 7:42 minutes it's actually a long song and Perfect Crime with 2:23 it's a short song.Here's a box plot with the duration of the songs. You can see that with a duration of 10:13 minutes Coma is the longest song in the GnR discography. WordsAnd what about the words? How many? How many different words? How many words in average? Here's the data:Total words 13.579Unique words 1.695Avg words per song315,7 Lexical diversity12%But what's the meaning of a 12% lexical diversity? Well that means that 1 out of 8 words is unique. How do you calculate it? Easy: Unique words / Total words. This also means that there are about 39 unique words per song.The song with the highest lexical diversity is Coma with 2,2%.And which is the longest words used: sociopsychotic, 14 characters long. It appears in My World.Now lets talk about the most used words. The two following cloud charts show the 30 most used words that have more that 4 characters long and 5 characters long. Most used words larger than 3 charactersalways (36) baby (40) back (54) been (48) cause (52) could (51) down (51) just (74) know (88) like (50) love (55) more (34) much (40) need (46) never (47) said (62) take (45) that (118) there (38) they (71) think (35) this (59) time (64) tonight (34) well (54) what (51) when (74) with (51) yeah (63) your (146)created at TagCrowd.com Most used words larger than 5 charactersalways (36) another (21) around (14) before (15) believe (11) better (27) everybody (20) forever (12) friends (10) fuckin (13) garden (17) inside (23) jungle (19) little (22) messin (13) nightrain (19) nothin (21) patience (17) please (18) pretty (14) shotgun (16) somethin (14) sometimes (29) talkin (12) things (16) through (10) tonight (34) understand (10) welcome (11) yesterday (16)created at TagCrowd.com One last thing here... what's the distribution of word length? The F* word and related wordsThe F* words and it variations (motherf*) appear 42 times, that means that they only represent the 0,3% of all the words.http://gabitoju.uy/datalab/gnr.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakey Styley Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Hmph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nosaj Thing Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Warchild got nothing on ya, OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Somewhere a child waiting for Chi Dem 2 broke down in tears halfway through reading that post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kater Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 (edited) What is the point of all this ? To many words used to say nothing worth saying :-O Edited December 11, 2014 by Kater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Broue Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 This is a funny tl,drBut i read it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Interesting. Gosh bless ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seagullview Posted December 11, 2014 Author Share Posted December 11, 2014 lolnow where is the GN'R forum for us academics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tentonneskeleton Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 *Flashbacks to my statistics class last semester* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncivil war Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I hate cloud charts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nico_france Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 interesting!! seems serious...reminds me a little bit of a fun paper years ago, which is recognized by the author as a JOKE: "ON THE EFFICIENCY OF AC/DC: BON SCOTT VS BRIAN JOHNSON" (https://www.aeaweb.org/assa/2009/retrieve.php?pdfid=114) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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