Saturday, January 20, 2007

More Than Words

"More Than Words" by Extreme, which sounds very unlike the namesake of the band. It is a very recognizable ballad as well as a song on the guitar that many novice guitarists play to college girls in their freshmen dorms. I'm not saying that I've tried it ;).

All kidding aside, this is definitely what I would consider a hit for 1991. So lets take a closer look. The climax occurs 170 seconds into a 333 second song. The climax is when there is a funky guitar break and the singer says "Won't ever let you go" which leads into the chorus.

333 by 170 equals 1.959 which is far off from the desired 1.618. I guess if we are going to show our successes, we might as well show our failures as well. Hopefully, this is one of the few exceptions to the rule.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i wouldnt call it a failure. its just another piece of information. we are looking for some trends between golden section songs, so finding a non golden section song is just one more piece of the puzzle. and playing that song to freshman girls is like trying to pick them up with a cheesy pickup line, not that ive done either of those...