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memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:07 pm

What are some good bands and or songs that use odd or multiple times signatures? Please post links and info if possible. Otherwise just share stuff you think is cool and is probably in odd time signatures.

This song appears on the 1981 album Discipline. The time signature in the chorus is 7/4 and the bass/drum rhythms (supplied by Tony Levin and Bill Bruford) can also be considered polyrhythmic to each other. At 4:21 Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp are playing in 7/8 until one guitar plays in 6/8 starting at 4:31. The guitars align after 42 beats. This song is well-known for the very fast riff (32nd notes at 155 BPM) that Fripp plays at the beginning and after each chorus.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V0B0SzShgBw

topaz · Post by **topaz** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:09 pm

FROST

Milliontown
Hyperventilate

Turello · Post by **Turello** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:10 pm

One of the best Avant garde Rock Albums ever!

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:11 pm

Any links? I can google. Cool for others.

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 7:11 pm

Turello wrote:One of the best Avant garde Rock Albums ever!

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:15 pm

Trent Reznor once said he was entertained by watching music-theory-less people bobbing their heads to "March of the Pigs" and getting confused when the down beat switches with the up beat. I like the song and the anecdote.

In general, I pay less attention to formal structure than to ear candy production, lyrics, vocalists, sounds, and the general enjoyment of songs, so I've nothing more to offer here

Though I do love a song that sounds like it is almost two different songs after a bridge piece brings about a new theme or tone.

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:23 pm

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (Album)
"Jesus Christ Pose" is in typical 4/4 time, "Outshined" is in 7/4, "New Damage" is in 9/8 and 4/4, "Somewhere" is in 6/4, "Face Pollution" uses 9/8 and 6/4, "Rusty Cage" is in 4/4 and 19/8, and "Holy Water" is in 4/4 with a section of 5/4 at the end.

Soundgarden - Superunknown (Album)
"My Wave" uses 5/4, "Fell On Black Days" is in 6/4, "Limo Wreck" is played in 15/8, "The Day I Tried to Live" and "Spoonman" both alternate between 7/4 and 4/4 sections, and "Black Hole Sun" is in 4/4 and 9/8.