Obsessed with time
March 16, 2010 2:55 PM Subscribe
Ask.Music : Is there a way to tell how many times a certain band or artist uses a specific word? (my google fu fails me, there has to be a website for this)
Linkin Park in there first album uses the word time quite a bit. I was wondering how many times they use the word time per album, and over the entire discography.
Linkin Park in there first album uses the word time quite a bit. I was wondering how many times they use the word time per album, and over the entire discography.
Best answer: I'm really, really glad I didn't have to put any on or actually read the lyrics to figure this one out. Took about 30 seconds:
Lyrics site with all 12 tracks. Check each track, click, CTRL-F, t-i-m-e, scroll and count.
'time' (or times) appear a total of 17 times on the full-length album Hybrid Theory and in only 3 of the tracks. It appears in track one, "Papercut", six times; six times on "In the End"; and five times on the final track, "Pushing Me Away".
According to wikipedia, Chad Bennington wrote all the lyrics for Hybrid Theory.
OK, now it's time for a shower.
posted by carsonb at 4:14 PM on March 16, 2010 [2 favorites]
Lyrics site with all 12 tracks. Check each track, click, CTRL-F, t-i-m-e, scroll and count.
'time' (or times) appear a total of 17 times on the full-length album Hybrid Theory and in only 3 of the tracks. It appears in track one, "Papercut", six times; six times on "In the End"; and five times on the final track, "Pushing Me Away".
According to wikipedia, Chad Bennington wrote all the lyrics for Hybrid Theory.
OK, now it's time for a shower.
posted by carsonb at 4:14 PM on March 16, 2010 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: Thank you carsonb for doing the dirty work. I'm not so sure it was Chester Bennington that was the only one writing. A lot of the the use of the word time I found was from Mike Shinoda and his rap. Now for the sequel question, what about Fort Minor? (Mike Shinodas side project)
FatherDagon, I was going to do a similar method but using MS Word. I was just wondering if there was a good method besides that.
Thank you for the help.
posted by MechEng at 7:11 PM on March 16, 2010
FatherDagon, I was going to do a similar method but using MS Word. I was just wondering if there was a good method besides that.
Thank you for the help.
posted by MechEng at 7:11 PM on March 16, 2010
Mod note: Heya, I'm glad you got some help on your actual question, but askme's not really a place to start going into general chat on a subject once the question's been answered, so I've removed a couple comments. That's more something for your own blog, etc.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:10 AM on March 17, 2010
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:10 AM on March 17, 2010
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Which, now that I think about it, would also be a good way to find out how many times Raymond Watts has managed to sing a song without using the words 'sordid' or 'inebriate'.
posted by FatherDagon at 3:06 PM on March 16, 2010