S/D: Songs that go abruptly into half-time and then gradually speed back up to the original tempo

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A la "Come on Eileen." I've long wondered how many songs there are that do this.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Zamla Mammaz Manna do it in "With Right of Veto", and it's awesome

― Dominique (dleone), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard it in yonks, but I have a feeling that Fatboy Slim's 'The Rockafeller Skank' might do something along these lines, the only issue being whether the slow-down is abrupt enough.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, here comes me to give a good exmple of this:

Clinic - "IPC Subeditors dictate our Youth" (i.e their first single)

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Lil' Louis - French Kiss (Original Mix)

― Grell (Grell), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Radio/Video - System of a Down.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Smog - "bloodflow"

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Best breakdown ever: Zorba the Greek (Herb Alpert version).

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

doesn't "Come On, Eileen" end up going noticeably faster than it was before the breakdown? or does it just seem that way?

also: The Replacements - "We're Coming Out", kind of

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 25 September 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

doesn't "Come On, Eileen" end up going noticeably faster than it was before the breakdown? or does it just seem that way?

Possibly. Now that I'm re-listening to it, it does seem that way.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 25 September 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

Moody Blues - "Question"

― Sean Robison (yaratnam), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

squirrel nut zippers - ghost of stephen foster ?
and by extension, possibly many other klezmer & klezmer-influenced songs?

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Weezer - "The Good Life"

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Monday, 25 September 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

Doors, "L.A. Woman"

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Monday, 25 September 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler"

― andyjack (andyjack), Monday, 25 September 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Blur - Sunday Sunday (or something on MLIR, can't remember?)

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 25 September 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how gradual the speed up is, or if the slowdown is to halftime, but after 24 hours I realize the song I have been hearing on faraway internal radio is "Suspicious Minds."

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Monday, 25 September 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ride "Perfect Time"

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 25 September 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wogan is right re: MLIR; it's Sunday Sunday and what I came to say. :( Instead I will offer Bright Eyes' The Calendar Hung Itself to the Gods.

― his sister pam (hissisterpam), Monday, 25 September 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

If you have half the time to do something, you better be doing it twice as fast

― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

TV on the Radio "Wolf Like Me"

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Dead Kennedys, "California Über Alles" (destroy, except for purpose of inducing pangs of nostalgia)

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I can't remember how that song starts, but the gradual speed-up is there. I think it's a pretty common hardcore punk device.

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

"Come On Eileen"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oops. I should have read more closely.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

quite a few throwing muses songs have this kind of thing...

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

If Fingers Were Xylophones by Gorky's...

― Wax Cat (Wax Cat), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Madness' 'Night Boat to Cairo' does exactly the opposite.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Verlaines "Death And The Maiden"

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Certain live versions of Cardiacs' "In a City Lining"

― ss sleepingbag (sleepingbag), Monday, 25 September 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

among probably dozens of other Cardiacs songs but the version on Cardiacs Live was the first one to come to mind

― ss sleepingbag (sleepingbag), Monday, 25 September 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

ten years pass...

A friend of mine's daughter is a gymnast, and she's looking for an instrumental song that changes tempo radically once or twice, for a floor exercise. Any ideas?

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 October 2016 23:04 (nine years ago)

Lana del Rey - West Coast

verse is on 123bpm and chorus goes down to 100bpm... think it would be a nice dance routine song but I'm not a gymnast so no idea.

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now also does the tempo change I think?

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 7 October 2016 23:44 (nine years ago)

Yeah it goes into overdrive after a slow intro but I don't think it ever comes back down

Good call on West Coast!

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:09 (nine years ago)

I also just remembered MCM 13 - "How To Run A Train"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT1ANwHZaX0

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:29 (nine years ago)

(which I know as the B-side to my copy of Percolator)

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:29 (nine years ago)

Babylon Zoo, Spaceman

― Mark G, Saturday, 8 October 2016 00:35 (nine years ago)

Planet Soul - "Set U Free"

― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:36 (nine years ago)

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