King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic

 

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What an odd question. Again. You make odd meters sound like uncommon thing.

I can go on until the forum engine crashes. It's like asking "Any of the songs you like that have drums in them?"
Yeah dude, quite a lot.

EDIT: Okay, people seem to play along. Huh. Am I missing something again?

 

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Yes - Changes (1983)

Nearly any Meshuggah-Song

 

Dream theatre song of eternity

 

@EEOC How aren't you banned yet?

Most of Meshuggah songs are actually 4/4 but with polyrhythms.

 

Most pieces from 70's prog rock are in complex time signature, and changing often within the track. That could seem difficult to play at first but in my relatively limited experience not that much.

For example, in Firth of Fifth you have recurring 2/4, 13/16, 15/16, just think to play a sequence of semiquavers (sixteenth) that are the time base tick, ignoring bars.


A more complex piece is Tarkus - Eruption, while not having the previous complex time signatures (recurring 5/4, 3/4, 2/4, 7/8 6/8,), is more syncopated and in general more tecnically demanding.

 

I think there is a grey zone of interpretation, even if the signature is 4/4 straight.
For example, Pyramid Song /Radiohead, could be seen as 3-2-3 or counting together as a straight 8, if i remember right.
But i have to admit, i never saw any notation of any of these songs, just judging by ear / memories, so you might be right as well, ofc.

 

As an avid listener of prog, too many to list, but since nobody has mentioned Rush I'll do it, their early stuff is chock full of varied time signatures and changes.

Natural Science

Cygnus X-1

The intro section already goes through 3/4, 7/8, 3/4, and 4/4

And for those who like a harder, noisier stuff try Deep Turtle, a Finnish band that's been described as "Latin Prog Punk", sadly disbanded and did only one album + a couple of EPs and 7"s. The album, "There's a vomitsprinkler in my liverriver" is a masterpiece.

I couldn't do a personal top-10 list to save my life, but if I tried, this album would be in top 3 certainly

 

Take Five - 5/4

 

Two of my favorites too

 

Love - Stephanie Knows Who. Shifts from 3/4 to 5/8

 

My fave songs with odd Time Signatures...
Sting - Seven Days (7/8)
Genesis - Turn It On Again (13/4)??
Sting - I Hung My Head (9/8)
Radiohead - Paranoid Android (7/8 and 4/4 flips all the time)!!
Kate Bush - Sat In Your Lap ??
The Beatles - All You Need Is Love (7/4)?
Lalo Schifrin - Mission Impossible Theme (5/4)

 

I got the original single (Blue Rondo, B side)- MONO!

 

The Beatles Happiness Is A Warm Gun has like 7 or 8 time signature changes.

 

There is a pretty dangerous gravitational field in there... Keep off

 

Does it really count if they just remove a beat from a regular 4/4 every now and then?
EDIT: Or half a beat every other now and then. Oh NVM, guess it's odd enough.

 

Probably most of them. If you're into tech death and similar genres it's harder to find song that's in 4/4 than anything else

In more pop oriented music, one song that quickly comes to mind is MGMT - Electric Feel. Amazingly catchy song that's in 5/4.

 

Isn't that what the song is really about...?