Popular songs in unusual time signatures

[gmaz]

I've been trying to think of popular songs that are not in 4/4 time (its a hobby of mine ) From my mental prog archive I've come up with

Pink Floyd - Money - 7/8
Jethro Tull - Living In The Past - 5/4

So, are there any others that are not over 40 years old?

[conkerman]

Genesis - Turn it on again. Partly in 13/8 and 9/8 iirc.

The start of Tubular bells 7/8

I can't quite work out Charge by elbow.

[dojo]

The most recent one I can think of is the Hoizer take me to Church song which is a mix of 3/4 and 4/4 - that been said 3/4 is hardly unusual and it says a lot about the state of popular music that it stands out!

[Halmyre]

Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" switches between 7/4 and 4/4.

[ATG]

First track on Mike Oldfield's Tubular Balls has an odd time sig ... 9/8 and 7/8. But that's still ancient prog rocky stuff.

Oops. See it already got mentioned.

[dojo]

ATG said:

First track on Mike Oldfield's Tubular Balls has an odd time sig ... 9/8 and 7/8. But that's still ancient prog rocky stuff.

The main hook of the song? I would never have counted that in compound. Maybe its later in the track - I never get that far - ha

Another one is Spoonman by Soundgarden which in 7 if memory serves me correctly.

[Halmyre]

Some interesting stuff here:

http://theeviljam.co.uk/2014/07/31/famous-songs-in...

[Tom_C76]

Iris by the Googoo Dolls has some very odd timings.

Isn't All you need is love by the Beatles in 7/8 or am I imagining things?

[andyr30]

The Stranglers - Golden Brown - 3/4

[shakotan]

Tom_C76 said:

Iris by the Googoo Dolls has some very odd timings.

All in 3/4 apart from the break in the middle.

[utgjon]

Sting - Seven Days

[counterofbeans]

My favourite song "Starless" by King Crimson has a middle section in 13/4 and a final section in 13/8

[Halmyre]

counterofbeans said:

My favourite song "Starless" by King Crimson has a middle section in 13/4 and a final section in 13/8

Bill Bruford once said of King Crimson that this is a band where you get to play in weird time signatures and still stay in nice hotels.

[conkerman]

Bruford has a lot of interesting stuff to say about crimson.

Just listening to him drumming with Phil Collins from 1976. Groovetastic.

[counterofbeans]

Halmyre said:

Bill Bruford once said of King Crimson that this is a band where you get to play in weird time signatures and still stay in nice hotels.

My favourite drummer, along with Omar Hakim

[schmunk]

andyr30 said:

The Stranglers - Golden Brown - 3/4

Every 4th bar is in 4/4.

[vournikas]

"Walk" by Pantera is in 12/8, which is unusual for a metal group

[CAPP0]

schmunk said:

Every 4th bar is in 4/4.

I was just thinking, aren't some of those mentioned above a mix too? Tubular Bells - 7 then 8 then 7 etc?

[Mastodon2]

I thought this was meant to be "popular songs", not "name your favourite band that use odd time sigs"?

For the above poster who mentioned Mudvayne, practically every song of theirs that I can think of has an odd time sig in at some point, at least on the earlier stuff.

Tool are the same, can't think of a single song that sticks to regular time all the way through.

[OldSkoolRS]

Foo Fighters Times like these is partly in 7/4 with 4/4 sections. We learnt it last term at an evening college guitar class I go to. Took me a while to get my head around it, but seems perfectly natural now.