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January 19, 2010 By Graham English

This word cloud is based on Bob Dylan’s self-titled album.

It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover. Large version is here.

The story: I regularly analyze Bob Dylan’s lyrics and thought it would be a cool exercise to see what words he uses most often. It helps to get in the mind of the writer.

You can find them all here: Bob Dylan Word Clouds

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Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: albums, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Word Clouds, desktop backgrounds, lyric writing, lyricists, lyrics, songs, Songwriting, tag clouds, word choice, word cloud, words, writing, writing lyrics

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  1. steve says

    January 20, 2010 at 5:26 AM

    nice project. i’m looking forward to seeing the rest of the albums.
    the popularity of “Well”, both here and on freewheelin surprises me. i’ll have to listen for it.

    • Graham English says

      January 20, 2010 at 12:14 PM

      Thanks. Glad you like it. The whole “well” thing is interesting. It’s mainly filler but occurs in natural spotlight areas so I kept it in (Wordle removes other common words like “and”). Here’s some examples:

      Well, I don’t mind dying

      Well I’d do anything in this god almighty world

      Well I never been to heaven, but I’ve been told, streets up there are lined with gold

      Well, I know that highway like I know my hand

      Well, in my time of dyin’

      They practically all occur in the beginning of his lines.

      • steve says

        January 21, 2010 at 8:10 PM

        ahh, yes. thanks for the reminder. this reminds me of a program i played with once. i fed in dylan lyrics and it generated text with the same word and word-pair frequencies. it was nonsense, but sounded almost like it meant something, and definitely sounded like dylan.

        • Graham English says

          January 21, 2010 at 10:32 PM

          I’ve got an app like that. I never use it but it’s fun to see what comes out the other end. In this case, the word clouds are actually useful. One, I can use it for inspiration. Two, I can make sure I don’t use these words, just to differentiate my writing. Three, it simply supplements my enjoyment of his music.

          I’ve got about a dozen of them now rotating as my desktop wallpaper on a 15 minute interval. It’s a sight to see.

  2. Merle says

    July 27, 2010 at 7:43 PM

    Hey,
    very nice. I love it.
    I was looking at the picture, before I read your text and I was like: “House of the Rising sun?”

    But when I looked closer, and read your text, I got it. But yeah, Thanks!

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