We may be onto something...

Hey guys. So here's the thrid installment of my research on Blink 182. By far, Enema of the State was there most popular album. If you remember from their previous albums, i found only a couple fibonacci songs on each. On this one, however, i found four of them. And with the album being only twelve tracks long, that is a fairly high percentage in my opinion.

Track 3, "aliens exist" is 192 seconds long. the climax is 120 seconds in for a ratio of 1.6.

"Whats My Age Again" , Blink's most popular song is 148 seconds long. With the climax coming at 92 seconds in. this gives a ratio of 1.608, very close to the exact fibonacci number.

"Dystentary Gary" is 165 seconds long with the climax coming 102 seconds in. thats a 1.617 ratio.

"All the small things" is another song which got a lot of radio time from this album. at 168 seconds long and a climax at 105, is has a 1.6 ratio.

honorable mention goes to track 10, "Mutt". this song was made famous in American Pie. while its playing there is also a breif cameo by blink (they are the guys in the room with the monkey if you wanna check it out). At 203 seconds long and a climax at 124 seconds in, it has a ratio of 1.63, alittle outside of our range, but still pretty close.

As for the album as a whole, it is 2123 seconds long. at 1312 seconds in nothing particularly noteworth happens, so i dont see any fibonacci relationship there.

I find this very interesting for a couple of reasons. I think this makes a strong case that popular music and fibonacci songs are somehow related. i just think it would be too weird if such a high percentage of their hit songs showed the relationship, and there was zero correlation. The question to ask though, i think, is whether the public more or less picks these songs because they like them, or if they were sort of destined to be popular when they were produced because they contained the fibonacci ratio. of course this is way too small a sample to make any definative statements, but we are certainly getting into something here...

next up will be the Mark Tom and Travis Show, Blinks live CD.