Smells Like Teen Spirit is the most iconic song ever according to science

[Max Power]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3246427/Nirvana-s-Smells-like-Teen-Spirit-iconic-song-Computer-analysis-reveals-track-ticks-boxes-needed-hit.html

Computer scientist and musician Dr Mick Grierson, from Goldsmiths, University of London, examined 50 of the greatest themes to see what features they shared.
His work was then used to produce a list of the top 50 iconic songs ever created.

He then used analytical software to examine what is that appears to make these tracks iconic, including their key, the number of beats per minute, chord variety, lyrical content, timbral variety and sonic variance.

The top 10:

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
2. Imagine, John Lennon
3. One, U2
4. Billie Jean, Michael Jackson
5. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
6. Hey Jude, The Beatles
7. Like A Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan
8. I Can’t Get No Satisfaction, Rolling Stones
9. God Save The Queen, Sex Pistols
10. Sweet Child O’Mine, Guns N’ Roses

What say you Mayberry?

 

[Shael]

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Science eh

What about math, what does math say?

 

[Max Power]

Science eh

What about math, what does math say?

Math says that it is number 1.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Wow

such icon

much importance

less dangerous

 

[Andy Capp]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3246427/Nirvana-s-Smells-like-Teen-Spirit-iconic-song-Computer-analysis-reveals-track-ticks-boxes-needed-hit.html



The top 10:

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
2. Imagine, John Lennon
3. One, U2
4. Billie Jean, Michael Jackson
5. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
6. Hey Jude, The Beatles
7. Like A Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan
8. I Can’t Get No Satisfaction, Rolling Stones
9. God Save The Queen, Sex Pistols
10. Sweet Child O’Mine, Guns N’ Roses

What say you Mayberry?

While I doubt you will have any 2 people who agree on the same top 10, I would agree those songs are iconic. I think there may be other songs that belong on that list. I note also they seem to think a song can only be iconic if it's Rock and Roll and I disagree, so that opens the field up a lot.

 

[KneeDestroyer]

I would of guessed some Pink Floyd or some shit.

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Eh, I'm more of an alice in chains kinda guy

 

[Natty Dread]

no bob marley one love?

 

[DeToxx]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3246427/Nirvana-s-Smells-like-Teen-Spirit-iconic-song-Computer-analysis-reveals-track-ticks-boxes-needed-hit.html



The top 10:

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
2. Imagine, John Lennon
3. One, U2
4. Billie Jean, Michael Jackson
5. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
6. Hey Jude, The Beatles
7. Like A Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan
8. I Can’t Get No Satisfaction, Rolling Stones
9. God Save The Queen, Sex Pistols
10. Sweet Child O’Mine, Guns N’ Roses

What say you Mayberry?

Notice Johnny B Goode isnt on the list


It stands alone as the blueprint for Rock music , the foundation upon which all rock that followed would be built.

If we were to appreciate this in terms of Mandelbrot's fractal geometry...

Johnny B Goode is the initial equation , the result of which is present in the subsequent implicate order of all ensuing music.

This is the base genetic code for rock music . Iconic would be an understatement.

But Regardless it's missing from the list , so the list is meaningless.


EDIT : For those that can't quit figure out what I'm saying. It was Chuck Berry who popularized the basic 12 bar blues , the essential riff in Johnny B Goode. At one point, someone actually tried to copyright the chord progression. It was Berry that brought this to the fore , and it would be copied, duplicated, imitated and rehashed Ad infinitum.

 

[DeepCover]

Azalea Banks compiled this list, right?

 

[Tamriel Terror]

I hate nirvana

 

[the can]

Eh, I'm more of an alice in chains kinda guy

wow, totally had me fooled... all this time i had you pegged as a mcgoober nut hugger.

 

[fightdonttweet]

And yet no one knows what the lyrics mean.

 

[HelloJapan]

Science eh

What about math, what does math say?

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[Metal_Daze]

Smells Like Teen Spirit smells like teen spirit.

 

[zackryder]

thought thriller would make it

 

[Jermei]

Science can determine opinion if you want it to.

 

[Codpiece]

No Rainbow Connection?

List is broken, science or no.

 

[Bee Smart]

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