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Bob Dylan Word Clouds

November 19, 2011 By Graham English

Bob Dylan Word Clouds

You a Dylan fan? Yeah, me too.

The problem with really liking, I mean really liking Bob Dylan, is that it’s almost too easy. It’s even more obvious with The Beatles. I LOVE The Beatles. But who doesn’t? Some things are pretty much default and don’t count towards your life experience points.

Still, the reason we love The Beatles and Bob Dylan is because it’s really damn great stuff. Almost undeniable. Or at least, if you do deny it, you look a little out of touch.

It’s the reason I’ve spent so many hours analyzing Dylan’s songwriting. Did it help? Well, not sure. But at least these word clouds I made from his albums are a tangible result.

I made one a day for several weeks. There’s still stones to be unturned. I use them as rotating desktop backgrounds.

Hope you enjoy them.

This zip contains all of them: Bob Dylan Word Clouds

Or you can download them one by one.

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

Another Side of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (Album)

The Times They Are a-Changin’

Bringing It All Back Home

Highway 61 Revisited

Blonde on Blonde

John Wesley Harding

Nashville Skyline

Self Portrait

New Morning

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Dylan

Planet Waves

Blood On The Tracks

The Basement Tapes

Desire

Street Legal

Slow Train Coming

Saved

Shot Of Love

Infidels

Empire Burlesque

Knocked Out Loaded

Down In The Groove

Oh Mercy

Under The Red Sky

Good As I Been To You

World Gone Wrong

Time Out Of Mind

Love And Theft

Modern Times

Together Through Life

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Comments

  1. Francois says

    December 16, 2011 at 8:25 AM

    Great! And nice looking too…
    Can you make a ‘how to read the clouds’?

    • Graham English says

      December 16, 2011 at 11:15 AM

      Thanks! I don’t really “read” them but just notice what words are used most. The bigger the word, the more it’s used. The data can be used or interpreted however you like. Hope that helps.

  2. Fabe says

    December 16, 2011 at 9:00 AM

    Graham,

    Your word clouds are marvelous. Thank you for sharing your appreciation of Dylan in this way.

    Cheers – Fabe

    • Graham English says

      December 16, 2011 at 11:14 AM

      Thanks, Fabe!

  3. Renaldo says

    December 16, 2011 at 10:53 AM

    You’ve made a big mistake on Oh Mercy, using lyrics from Down In The Groove. Pretty sloppy, dude!

    • Graham English says

      December 16, 2011 at 11:16 AM

      How do I sleep at night?!

      • Rob Fulton says

        December 16, 2011 at 1:59 PM

        What gives you the rights Graham! haha

  4. thomaws says

    December 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM

    Well,

  5. Rob Fulton says

    December 16, 2011 at 12:58 PM

    These are great Graham. Pretty sweet dude!

    • Graham English says

      December 16, 2011 at 2:03 PM

      Thanks, man!

  6. Bilbo says

    December 16, 2011 at 5:48 PM

    Why do you Septic Tanks insist on saying:
    Man
    Dude
    Awesome
    ?
    Stop mangling the English language.

    • Graham English says

      December 16, 2011 at 6:29 PM

      Sorry, dude, but those are all English words. Even Dylan used them. Now don’t be a troll and follow my Living Room rules or go back to the septic tank that you seem to know so much about.

  7. Tommy says

    December 17, 2011 at 4:48 AM

    I like the “uh huhs” on Good as I been to you.

    • Graham English says

      December 17, 2011 at 11:31 AM

      uh huh! There’s some other funny ones, like Tweedle Dee and Wiggle.

  8. Alejandro Carrillo says

    December 18, 2011 at 1:57 AM

    great stuff, man, love what’d you’ve done! I’m gonna start using this background right way!

    Thanks for sharing!

  9. Carlo Bacchi says

    January 16, 2012 at 11:20 AM

    Very nice work! Thank you so much!

    • Graham English says

      January 16, 2012 at 12:19 PM

      Thanks and you’re welcome!

  10. Doug says

    May 18, 2012 at 10:42 AM

    Dear Graham
    I stumbled upon your wordclouds, and like them a lot. I have a question: have you ever done a single wordcloud for all Dylan’s album together? That would be truly fascinating.
    I reckon that people would be happy to buy a high-res poster size copy of such a thing…
    Thank you again for all your hard work — it is much appreciated.
    Cheers
    Doug

  11. Greg says

    October 31, 2012 at 10:42 AM

    Any chance of one for Tempest?

    • Graham English says

      October 31, 2012 at 7:50 PM

      I’ll definitely add Tempest when I can get around to it and give you an update when I do.

  12. Philip Black says

    February 17, 2013 at 7:44 AM

    Hello,

    I love your clouds ! It’s possible to make my next Tattoo with your Pictures ?

    Thanks !

    • Graham English says

      February 18, 2013 at 10:01 AM

      Absolutely! If you send me a pic when it’s done. I think it would be kick ass.

  13. Tony Vincent says

    June 25, 2013 at 8:57 AM

    brilliant graham— many thanks mate.
    btw, when constructing your “word clouds”, what application were you using to “fit” the lyrics into the individual cloud formations?
    cheers-
    tv

    • genetwpadmin says

      June 25, 2013 at 11:37 AM

      I use Wordle.net.

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