A few months ago I asked my friends on the wonderful world of Facebook for their favourite or most interesting songs with alternative time signatures or something interesting about their rhythms/feel. Here is the list we came up with.
When I say alternative time signatures, I mean ones that aren't just in 4/4 3/4 or 6/8, although some of these may well be with something else quirky about them.
I'm not gonna put links to videos - lazy.
5/4
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
Seven Days - Sting
Mission Impossible - Lalo Schifrin
Everything in it's Right Place - Radiohead - or 10/4
From Eden - Hozier
7/4
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Times Like These - The Foo Fighters - in 4 and 7 later on
7/8
March of the Pigs - Nine Inch Nails - 7/8 for three bars 8/8 for one
Money - Pink Floyd - other than the guitar solo in 4
Them Bones - Alice in Chains
The Sounds of Muzak - Porcupine Tree (count it as 3+3+3+3+2 to make 14, it's easier)
9/8
Blue Rondo à la Turk - Dave Brubeck
I Hung My Head - Sting
Umm...
Postman Pat Theme -Bryan Daly - 3/4 bar within 4/4
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin - 4/4 (drums) vs 34 (everything else) + random bar of 9/8
Black Dog - Drums in 44 guitar and bass in 5/4 - 5 over 4
Golden Brown - The Stranglers - 13/8 - or three bars of 3/4 then one of 4
Heart of Glass Blondie - carefully placed bars of 3/4 within 4/4
Hey Ya - Outkast - sneaky bar of 2/4
Paranoid Android - Radiohead - 4/4 7/8 8/8
Commemorative T-shirt - Oceansize - 9/8 and 11/8
Why Do You Hate Me - Marmozets - 9/8 4/4 3/4 11/8 2/4 - in different orders within the first 15 seconds of the song. Ouch.
The Riverboat Song - Ocean Colour Scene - 6/4
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield - 9/8 7/8
Turn it on Again - Genesis - 6/4 and 7/4 (13/4) for some parts. 4/4 5/4 (9/4) in others.
2+2=5 - 7/4 8/4 4/4
The Pyramid Song - Radiohead - See below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlFWJWk--F8
The Terminator Theme - Brad Fiedel - http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/02/the_time_signature_of_the_terminator_score_is_a_mystery_for_the_ages.html
Random others that are interesting:
Six Ate - Camel
45 - Bearskin
Subdivisions - Rush
It's Indian Tobacco My Friend - Cornershop
To the End - Blur
Dave's Gone skiing - Toto
All Radiohead time signatures in almost mundane detail:
Here's a Spotify link to them all: (there are probably a few missing)
This post is more detailed than mine:
Enjoy.
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