. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 11.

Published in final edited form as: Music Percept. 2012 Dec;30(2):161–185. doi: 10.1525/mp.2012.30.2.161

Table 5.

Five Varimax-Rotated Principal Components Derived from 50 Rock Music Excerpts

Artist	Piece	Principal component
Artist	Piece	M	U	S	I	C
Radiohead	No Surprises	*.81*	.12	.04	.00	.08
Radiohead	Fake Plastic Trees	*.79*	.11	.02	.01	.13
Radiohead	Reckoner	*.73*	.09	.18	.12	.08
Radiohead	Back Drifts	*.72*	−.03	.02	.22	−.03
Radiohead	Nude	*.66*	.11	.29	−.05	.11
Jeff Buckley	Dream Brother	*.65*	.02	.13	.20	.19
Radiohead	Weird Fishes/Arpeggi	*.64*	.07	.38	.00	.06
Death in Vegas	Girls^a	*.62*	.12	.18	−.06	.17
Arcade Fire	Deep Blue	*.60*	.16	.18	.04	.24
Radiohead	15 Step	*.58*	.10	.35	.03	.05
Jeff Buckley	Hallelujah^a	*.53*	.19	−.01	−.08	.29
Beck	Guess I’m Doing Fine	*.46*	.18	.10	.17	.38
The Beatles	Eleanor Rigby^a	*.40*	.30	.03	.02	.38
The Beatles	Honey Don’t^a	.13	*.81*	.08	−.02	.19
Led Zeppelin	Hot Dog^a	.00	*.78*	.22	.07	.10
The Beatles	Act Naturally	.09	*.77*	.03	−.03	.14
Jeff Buckley	Parchman Farm Blues^a	.33	*.76*	.03	.00	.05
Led Zeppelin	Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp^a	.23	*.75*	.07	.06	.10
Simon & Garfunkel	Kodachrome/Maybellene	.11	*.68*	.17	.13	.19
Led Zeppelin	Boogie with Stu	.11	*.63*	.18	.11	.30
The RH Factor	Rich Man’s Welfare^a	.23	.15	*.74*	.06	−.01
Hall & Oates	One on One^a	.11	.06	*.70*	−.18	.35
Dave Mathews Band	Lover Lay Down^a	.29	.12	*.65*	−.17	.24
Frank Zappa	Inca Roads^a	.32	.11	*.63*	.06	−.03
Phish	You Enjoy Myself	.12	.21	*.59*	.20	.27
Led Zeppelin	Black Mountain Side	.39	.28	*.43*	.12	−.05
Mark Ronson	L.S.F. ^a	.31	.31	*.41*	.21	.20
Queens of the Stone Age	Tension Head^a	−.01	−.11	.06	*.81*	.03
Queens of the Stone Age	Battery Acid	.08	.07	−.01	*.80*	−.02
Ministry	Burning Inside	−.10	−.08	.00	*.80*	−.06
Jeff Buckley	Eternal Life^a	.03	.04	.08	*.80*	.05
Jeff Buckley	Kick Out the Jams	.02	.10	.02	*.79*	.01
Queens of the Stone Age	Quick & to the Pointless^a	.00	−.04	−.08	*.78*	−.13
Queens of the Stone Age	Misfit Love	.07	.01	.08	*.78*	.02
Radiohead	Body Snatchers^a	.20	.12	.02	*.73*	−.13
Queen	The Invisible Man^a	−.06	.04	.24	*.71*	.06
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Higher Ground^a	−.04	.05	.00	*.71*	.26
Rage Against the Machine	Bombtrack	.05	.04	−.12	*.64*	.10
Beastie Boys	Sabotage^a	.12	−.02	−.19	*.63*	.09
The Stooges	Down on the Street^a	.07	.38	.13	*.56*	.30
Radiohead	Electioneering	.45	.12	−.06	*.52*	−.03
Primus	Jerry was a Race Car Driver^a	.18	.27	.08	.39	.03
Ozomatli	Saturday Night	.04	.03	.12	.26	.19
The Police	Wrapped Around Your Finger^a	.19	.06	.28	.04	*.68*
Queen	Under Pressure	.24	.15	−.07	.12	*.64*
Queen	Crazy Little Thing Called Love	.16	.40	−.01	−.03	*.64*
Prince	When Doves Cry^a	.15	.05	.11	−.01	*.63*
The Doobie Brothers	Listen to the Music^a	.06	.42	.24	−.07	*.59*
Lynyrd Skynyrd	Gimmie Three Steps^a	−.09	.43	.07	.26	*.54*
Pink Floyd	Comfortably Numb	.31	.20	.11	.09	*.53*

Note. M = Mellow; U = Unpretentious; S = Sophisticated; I = Intense; C = Contemporary.

Piece was among the 25 administered to the undergraduate-student sample.

Each piece’s largest factor loading is in italics.

Factor loadings ≥ |.40| are in bold typeface.