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This band simply kills it, every song is better than the one they did before it.

Beautiful basses, played beautifully :)

If you're into odd time sigs then I guess you're already all over the three albums released by 'The Smile' over the last few years!

Great Work Dave !!

And he went on to do a second list, all of them great songs, and none of them (except for a couple of the Soundgarden songs) stands up and screams "Hey, I'm in 7/8! Get it?" These are all songs in which the signature antics serve the song value, not make you sound like Genesis. And in all this, he forgot Get Closer, by the flower child Linda Ronstadt, which is in a solid, unmistakable 7/4. It is by far the most pop-oriented song in this category. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKOUpKBvpamXbdE&ab_channel=LindaRonstadt-Topic

Rusty Cage... Back in the days i would count it as 6 + 7 + (4 + 2).

Genesis "Turn it on Again" in 13/8.

Zappa's advice on counting odd meters: break it all up into 2s and 3s.

Steve Hunter played the acoustic part on Solisbury Hill.

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Part 2 ! Yay ! Still vote for Light Flight but I’ll take it !

I think you'd enjoy the chorus of 'The House Jack Built' by Metallica. Some interesting time signature changes that sound so natural.

Yo Dave!!!! Nice see you on. I hope all is well.

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I've just uploaded "part 2" and I hope you'll check it out!kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5DTmWZ_hKumZposi=9MZHlMn8eht1MGrR

Damn man that is an ace work of art and played very well. Im a Stingray man but still a happy camper

Legend describes an instrument made by hippie geniuses ,played only by the coolest of cool, the name......Alembic

Very nice bass brother!!

Was surprised not to hear "Living in the Past" on this list until I checked to see that it only reached #11. Not bad for a song that was intentionally written in 5/4 time as a reaction to being requested to write a hit single.

In 1968, when White Room was written, Holst's composition was 49 years old. Today, White Room is 56 years old. So The Planets was closer in time to White Room than we are today.

i didn't hear a mention about "changes" inspiration to compose it. you may be just young enough to not be exposed as I think the toy was not as popular and less ubiquitous in your age of awareness. that intro musical as well as the odd time signature is originally a musical box feature that was built into the toy jack-in-box that boomers and genX are very familiar with. this is actually the main reason that the songwriter felt it would work as an amusing riff many of us recognize immediately . well, iam assuming as such . btw, heart's barracuda would be a great measure exercise. And tool's 46 and 2 return break when drums solo locks in with main lowend full melody . by band always had difficulty knowing when to land together . i didn't . but i know by feel . i don't count...ever. i have an inner metronome and counting makes things too mechanical for me. but i can play their instruments too. this is me on bass.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/enXIfmesrbx-pNksi=qCdtAk6tl0Ba58l6

Great playing didn't know Alembic made 8 string.

Eric Clapton musically pilfering? Well I never!

Surprise Solsbury Hill and Black Dog didn't get a mention.

Another great example of the 5/4 Bolero is in 'The Devil's Triangle' by King Crimson.

I do perform ‘Turn it on again’ on my gigs - vocals and drums - but I never count…probably loose track if I do. Another great odd signature song is She’s always a woman by Billy Joel. Originally without drums but hey, I’m a drummer so I play drums on it.

Check out Mother Russia by Renaissance. 4/4 3/8 9/8.

I'm a classical singer, the wackiest thing I've ever performed is by Britten, rejoice in the lamb. There's a movement that alternates every other bar, 5/8, 7/8 a couple of 3/8 ad nauseum... Also Alan Parsons had some funky passages in his orchestral stuff!

You'll love the intro to "Ghost Love Score" (Nightwish). The vocals been reacted to to death, but few people notice all the time (and key) shifts.

In non-rock genres theres "Hey Ya" by Outkast in 20, How can something so danceable be not in 4/4?

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Good show. Greetings from Parkville.

You really need to visit Burt Bacharach's back catalogue for dozens of other examples of major hits with odd time sigs. A surprising number of Burt's most famous songs feature individual measures with a different time sig to the rest of the song, including "I Say a Little Prayer" ("before I put on my makeup"), "The Look of Love" ("so much more than just words could ever say") and you can take a deep bath in the complexity of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" which has uneven measures in the verse, and (as Dionne Warwick pointed out to him during its recording) has a coda section in 13/8.

I was amused by the interview Gilmour gave where he was thankful that Waters agreed to switch to 4/4 for the guitar solo in Money.

Get Closer, Linda Ronstadt 7/8

Unusual time signatures always tickle my ears, which is one of the reasons I love prog-rock so much. I get a nerdy pleasure out of working out the phrases for myself. I remember figuring out that riff from "Rusty Cage" and getting all excited about it. No one in my house shared my enthusiasm, sadly. Also, I miss the days of DJs. The need for corporate micro-control over everything has taken so much creativity out of the musical creative process. I'm probably about your age -- I know they say that people fixate on music from their youth, but honestly I just find very little out there today that grabs my interest. So much of the good stuff happened in the '60s and '70s (and some into the '80s). Nice video. New subscriber.

A couple of tunes that came to mind was Best I Can by Queensryche and Hey Ya by Outkast.

Sting's Seven Days was in the top 30 in the UK, don't know how if fared in the US. Despite the title - it's in 5!

Light Flight by Pentangle - it’s all over the place in a brilliant way m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKXch5iwqrqneaM&pp=ygUWcGVudGFuZ2xlIGxpZ2h0IGZsaWdodA%3D%3D

Awesome video. I suspected The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Soundgarden would be on the list. But I never, ever could've predicted The Toadies would be on it! 😂

There's a small section of Live Dazed and Confused on Song Remains the Same where Zeppelin definitely uses that riff and time signature from Gustav Holst's Mars also. It occurs right at the 23 minute mark of that 29+ minute song.

You keep talking over the Holst 5/4 rhythm, which is way too quiet in the first place. I'd kinda like to hear that actually. Without it your comparison wasn't meaningful to me.

Rusty Cage: my one's on your six. Hahaha

Gorillaz has a song called "5/4" where the guitars are in 5/4 but the drums are in 4/4! Also System of a Down has a song called "Question!" that switches between 9/16, 6/8, 5/8, and 4/4.

Regarding counting vs feeling I have a question about the longevity of music that can't (effectively) written down. In a few hundred years or so how much late-20th century music will still be accessible compared with the music of, say, Bach, Beethoven or Joplin? As different media come and go and as file formats and operating systems change, will older recordings become lost to time? Already we see old computer games vanishing because their native hardware is gone and we don't have the source-code, so can't re-impliment them on modern hardware. I'm worried that without sheet music to 'preserve' it in a 'written' format virtually no music past the 1950's will survive more than a hundred years or so. I hope I'm wrong.

I must be the only drummer who doesn't understand time signatures 🥺

Mentioning songs with odd time signatures is not a complete conversation without mentioning Tool. Their drummer Danny Carey is the master of odd time signatures.

And as a bassist I'm sure you know Chris Squire's The Fish in 7/4

And of course, Tubular Bells with its 15/8 intro (I hear it as 7+8)

Interesting how many of these end the odd measure with two strong beats