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Unusual timing songs

PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 5:52 am
by Warrior4Christ
There's something intriguing/different about songs that aren't in the usual 4/4 timing. I like 6/8 and the similar 3/4, and ones other than that are rare.

So what songs with unusual timing to do you like/have? (I'm generally talking about modern songs - countless hymns are 3/4 or whatever..)

Brooke Fraser - Love, Where Is Your Fire? (6/8)
Paramore - That's What You Get (verse is 3/4)
Sundance Kids - Taken By Storm (6/8)
Sundance Kids - Stay With Me (6/8)
House Of Heroes - Metaphor in Parentheses (6/8)
House Of Heroes - Suicide Baby (verse 7/4 or something?)
House Of Heroes - Angels In Top Hats (verse is 3/4, chorus is 6/8)

I'm sure there's more that I can't find right now...

PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:06 pm
by Tancos
Progressive rock is full of musicians who like playing in odd time signatures.

A few familiar tunes in 5/4 (or 5/8): "Living in the Past" (Jethro Tull), "Take Five" (Dave Brubeck), the theme to "Mission Impossible."

PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:27 pm
by shooraijin
Pink Floyd did this routinely. I think Mother was 5/4 and Money, famously, was 7/4.

Tancos brings up the M:I theme, which is 5/4 (Lalo Schifrin), but the techno version from the first movie butchered it back to 4/4.

PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:50 pm
by Cognitive Gear
Hold Fast Hope by Thrice is 5/4

2+2=5 by Radiohead is 7/4

Everything in It's Right Place by Radiohead is 10/4

Go to Sleep by Radiohead is also 10/4

Obviously, I like Radiohead. XD

EDIT: How could I forget?

All You Need is Love by The Beatles is 7/4, 8/4, and 6/4

PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:00 pm
by Htom Sirveaux
Nine Inch Nails comes to mind, especially the stuff on the album The Downward Spiral. As does a lot of Flaming Lips stuff. Also Akira Yamaoka, Emery, and undoubtedly Frank Zappa.