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So I was noticing that the Hold Steady seem to use the phrases "Shopping Mall" and "Mississippi River" in more than one song (and this Hold Steady Mad Libs post on Idolator only fueled the fire), so I decided to hack together a distinct count of all of the times they use certain words.

Aside from the obvious "the"(510 times), "and"(269), and "she"(178), these are some of the interesting ones:

"high" (32 times)
"kids" (29)
"there" and "there's" (tied at 29 apiece)
"party" (22)
"pretty" (20)
"guys" (20)
"city" (17)
"night" (15)
"gonna" (15)
"kiss"+"kissed"+"kisser"+"kisses"+"kissing" = (13)
"scene" (12)
"white" (12)
"holly" (11)
"band" (10)
"cigarettes" (8)
"gideon" (8)
"jesus" (8)
"boyfriends" (7) and "boyfriend" (5)
"massachusetts" (7)
"hold" (7) and "steady" (6)
"judas" (5)
"kevlar" (5)
"died" (5)
"dealers" (4)
"drug"+"drugs"+druggy" = (8)
"minneapolis" (3)
"ybor" (4)
"walk" (28) "around" (50) "drink" (19)
"hoodrat" (14)
"charlemagne" (13)
"shopping" (1)
"mall"+"malls" = (4)
"river" (9)
"mississippi" (5)

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Thanks sele dist words,cnt(*) FROM holdsteady group by 1 orde by 2 desc

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