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I know it's not radio-friendly enough for the original question but how do you guys count Sunny Day Real Estate's "Seven?" I hear it as alternating between sections in 4/4 and sections in 5/4 (e.g. the bit that begins at 0:13, switching back to 4/4 around 0:40), but with tempo shifting at the same time so that one bar of 5/4 takes as long as one bar of 4/4 (allowing them to sometimes use similar riffs over both sections.) (I'm a little disappointed that none of it is in 7.) Am I off? -- Sundar, Saturday, 5 May 2007 14:28 (Yesterday)
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― Trayce, Sunday, 6 May 2007 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Revive on the back of Starless being all 13/8 and polyrhythmic and such.
I'll also chuck in Gorillaz's '5/4' just to sound clever.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 25 October 2007 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link
"Wanderlove" by Claudine Longet, which alternates 6/4 with 4/4, I think. Extraordinarily pretty tune, written by Mason Williams though her version is much better.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 25 October 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Not a huge hit, but De La Soul - Stakes is High
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 25 October 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Also it's more of a strange number of bars per phrase for a hip-hop song than a strange time signature
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 25 October 2007 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
50 Cent's "Like My Style" is in 7/8, if I remember correctly.
― Jordan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Genesis: "Turn It On Again". Some of their earlier material with weird time signatures may not be called "pop songs" but that one is, no doubt.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:20 (sixteen years ago) link
oh POP. Bugger. I was about to go on a big Yes fondleftest.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 25 October 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
fest
Ha, some youtube commentator refers to Take Five as being in 2/5.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 20 January 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"Play 'Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries' in 5/4, man."
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 20 January 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I found that while looking for the Al Jarreau vocal version. (xpost)
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 20 January 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Punchline to one of my favourite jazz anecdotes: "Kid, you don't have to play all that Elvin Jones stuff, you're making it too hard on yourself - it's just a simple backbeat on the two and the five."
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 21 January 2008 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link
(Nine Inch Nails') "March of the Pigs" has one of the most unusual meters of any song to enjoy popular radio play, alternating three bars of 7/8 time with one bar of 4/4 time (in effect, a 29/8 time signature). The song has a BPM rate of 269.
― S-, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Andrew Lloyd Webber actually tended to do this: "Memory" does some weird metric stuff during the bridge. "Take That Look Off Your Face" has some strange metric instances during the chorus.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I think everything's a pop song so I'm staying outta this.
― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
National anthem as pop song: Flower of Scotland. It has something odd between the 'when will we see' and 'your likes again' lines. Not sure if it's a bar of 2/4 in a 3/4 song, or just the second vocal line jumping in early. In any case, it's another reason why this is a dreadful choice as a sporting anthem, because crowds can't sing it and immediately go out of time with the band.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 21 January 2008 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
The only song I liked in Once was the one in 5/4.
― jaymc, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Amerie's One Thing has a curious rhythm that always seems to sidestep me.
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 21 January 2008 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
The Who's "Happy Jack" has some strange metric shifts, switching between 4/4 and 5/4. And it was a chart hit in the US (their first), at #24.
― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Amerie's One Thing has a curious rhythm that always seems to sidestep me
It's just 4/4, surely?
― chap, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sure you're right, chap, as I'm no expert, but to a layman's ears the rhythm gallops in a pleasingly fucked up way.
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
It is a good funky beat, I won't contest that.
― chap, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Jona Lewie 'You Will Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties' - 4/4 but the chorus comes in half a bar or so early which is odd, and then there's the bizarre switch to ragtime style (or whatever it is).
― blueski, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Was System of a Down's "Question!" a hit anywhere? Lots of odd stuff going on there.
― chap, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
That was a cool one.
Also, The Music Next Door by The Lucksmiths has verses in 7/4.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, MVB, I posted that joke here once. I'd like to believe that that is where you learned of it.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I love it when people who have no concept of music theory invent little math games in their head. I had someone do this with "Hey Ya" once to me. Tried to tell me it was in 18 or something. I was like "No, there's just a measure of 2/4, guy" If you handed someone a piece of sheet music with 29/8 on it, they'd laugh you out of the room. It would be the dumbest looking piece of music ever.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
"I Will Always Love You" is in 29/8 time.
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
f you handed someone a piece of sheet music with 29/8 on it, they'd laugh you out of the room. It would be the dumbest looking piece of music ever. That's why I thought the 2/5 comment was funny. It would have to come from some bizarro planet where the base case was to assume 5 beats per measure.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that sure would be dumb. But it would still be easier to look at than something in 29/8!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Nope, sorry! I got it from Jazz Anecdotes by Bill Cole. (At least I THINK so - can't say for sure 'cause I just skimmed without buying.) And that bizarro planet was in fact Greece!
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Well
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link