Friday, February 23, 2007

Captain Jack

Track 2 on the Greatest Hits Vol. 1 is another classic, Captain Jack (of "'ll get ya high tonight" fame). The song is balladesque and personifies a drug habit under the clever misnomer of "Captain Jack" and chronicles the problems that many people encounter as a result.\

Anywho, the song is 7:15 in length and the golden section, albeit short, occurs at 4:35 in....

435/275 = 1.582

This is a on the edge of consideration for Fibonacci but I will give old Billy the benefit of the doubt. For a song of this length, I feel the correlation is stronger despite being .029 astray of 1.618, the magic number. For longer songs, the climax and/or golden section could occur, conceivable, at more possible points...so it seems the range we accept should expand a bit to account for this...


So far, I'm going to say GH Vol. 1 is 2 for 2 on having fibonacci's imprint...Go Billy!

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