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[jfb]

This (found on Virtual Turntable) is great. The author did a statistical analysis of the words used in Pitchfork music reviews, used the positive and negative scores to "generate a set of compositional guidelines," and wrote some songs.

The “sadness” group is by far the highest-scoring mood, beating the next mood (“dark”) by over 1100 points. As a response to that, I've tried to make these songs as sad as possible.

In other news, I did the "frequent commenters" and "mindmap" memes, and the results weren't very interesting.

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Sad Songs Praised So Much

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I wanted to do the frequent commenters thing, but didn't feel like downloading some random piece of software to do it. Alas.

Re: Sad Songs Praised So Much

[jfb.livejournal.com]

(Ladies and Gentlemen, #1 on my list.)

That's why I didn't do it at first, but then enough people ran it and survived that I decided okay. Also, it's only my work machine.

Re: Sad Songs Praised So Much

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

What, I'm #1? Hey, cool.

Oh, as long as it's only the work machine... I still haven't gotten the nerve to install a Livejournal client on my work machine. Maybe I'm a wuss, but they came down on e-mail clients, so I didn't feel like risking it.

amusing

[talking-sock.livejournal.com]

I sent that link on to a couple music lovers at work... seems right up their mathematical alley.

[michaelpop.livejournal.com]

so, number 36 erik, where do i stand on your list? this is my favorite meme of all time, so i'm dying to know.

i'm going to bookmark that pitchformula link and really sit down and read and analyze it some day. interesting stuff.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

You're #6--which sounds okay until you realize you're being trounced by Anonymous. Let's step up the pace here.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

It's cool if you're a fan of The Prisoner, too.

I just beat anonymous on another friend's list, which is pretty impressive when you consider that her journal was going for a couple of years before I got an account.