A close reading
Go
by The Chemical BrothersBorn in the Echoes (2015)
431 words · 160 distinct · 63 lines · 4:21
The first word waits 0:33.
The lead
×9
one line comes back
“we're only here to make you”
The text
63 lines
Read from the stored text. Another transcription would change the count a little; the shape would hold.
I. The hook
One line keeps coming back.
“we're only here to make you”
times, word for word
It lands at lines 22, 23, 24, 45, 46, 47, 60, 61 and 62. 37% of the lines repeat one already sung, and 48% belong to lines sung three times or more.
II. The clock
The first word waits 0:33.
- Words a minute
- 99
- First word
- 0:33
- Longest silence
- 36 s
- from 3:20
- Busiest 15 seconds
- 67
- words
III. The vocabulary
Most-used words
20 words- 01make14
- 02we're12
- 03only12
- 04here12
- 05can't11
- 06go11
- 07everybody8
- 08out8
- 09get5
- 10think4
- 11no4
- 12time4
- 13what4
- 14sleep3
- 15breathe3
- 16jumpin3
- 17mind3
- 18going3
- 19skins3
- 20where3
Stopwords set aside. The bar beneath each word is its share of the most-used.
Variety
160 distinct words in 431
IV. In the catalogue
The 8th longest of 100 songs The Chemical Brothers has recorded.
Every mark is one of The Chemical Brothers’s 100 songs, placed by its figure. The rule is the catalogue’s median; the oxblood mark is this song.
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