Song Charts
posted by Frank Pasquale
The ELS Blog has continually demonstrated the importance of good charts to the study of law. But what about pop music? Here the “Song Charts” pool on Flickr is filling the gap. Consider the following histogramic analysis of Elvis’s “Ain’t Nothing But a Hound Dog” (by MShades):
M.C. Hammer is on the charts as well. Here’s the full pool; I’m putting some Creative Commons licensed ones below the fold.
Billy Ocean’s Going Gets Tough:
Billy Joel’s heartrending Piano Man:
And, of course, The Cure.
Hat Tip: weather pattern.
March 11, 2008 at 9:49 am
Posted in: Weird
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Responses (3)
The Ace - March 11, 2008 at 3:43 pm
There is a typo in piano man. “Davey,” not “Navy,” should be in the key on the right.
Andrew - March 11, 2008 at 5:04 pm
This reminds me of the famous Powerpoint Gettysburg Address. http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
See esp. slide 5: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/sld005.htm
Mike O'Shea - March 11, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Hmm. Based on the evidence, mightn’t the hound dog have said it was high class (which, admittedly, was just a lie) only once, rather than all the time?
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