Non-proggy odd time songs! GO!!

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Steech said:
Thanks for sharing these!

IMO Nem o mar sabía is VERY reminiscent of Take 5. Almost eerily so.
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Yep, that's probably where they got it-- there are half dozen more like that I could probably dig up.
 
Pentangle's Light Flight single had shifting bars of 5 and 7 at points if I remember rightly. I'm quite sure they did a bunch of other odd time stuff, but I'd need to revisit the albums to pinpoint it.

Don Ellis and some of the British big band/orchestral lineups of the late 60/70s from guys like Mike Westbrook and Michael Gibbs were doing a lot of odd-time.
 
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The "Mother Superior Jumped the Gun" section of "Happiness is a Warm Gun," and the instrumental bridge in "Here Comes the Sun," by those kids from Liverpool.
Actually, the Lads had loads of songs with changing meter, and dropped/added beats, but those are the first two to come to mind. Someone already mentioned "All you Need is Love."
 
Steech said:
Some of you may know that I love old prog rock.

And that means I love odd time.
And that also means I love anything in 7. And yes, anything in 5, 9, 11, etc too for that matter.

But I really do love 7s.

But I don’t recall hearing a lot of that in the general pop/rock/indie/etc world.

So I’m kicking off this non-proggy odd time songs thread with the one and only Linda Ronstadt and “Get Closer”. As an aside, she had some serious pipes, too!!


Would anyone like to share any more odd time songs to this thread?

Tip of the hat to @Houndog for reminding me of this one!
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Angela Bofill, one of my favorite singers singing one of my favorite songs. Hope you dig it as much as I do.

PS: Forgot to mention, check out the high notes at the very end. Crikey!

 
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DSDrummer said:
The "Mother Superior Jumped the Gun" section of "Happiness is a Warm Gun," and the instrumental bridge in "Here Comes the Sun," by those kids from Liverpool.
Actually, the Lads had loads of songs with changing meter, and dropped/added beats, but those are the first two to come to mind. Someone already mentioned "All you Need is Love."
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In my weird book, the Beatles count as prog. YMMV.
 
Diles Mavis said:
Pentangle's Light Flight single had shifting bars of 5 and 7 at points if I remember rightly. I'm quite sure they did a bunch of other odd time stuff, but I'd need to revisit the albums to pinpoint it.

Don Ellis and some of the British big band/orchestral lineups of the late 60/70s from guys like Mike Westbrook and Michael Gibbs were doing a lot of odd-time.
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Any group with a name like Pentangle automatically counts as prog. And British jazz folk from the 1970s? Quadruple prog.
 
bpaluzzi said:
This is 4/4 the whole way through, no?
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Good catch. Yeah, all straight up 4/4.
Except for maybe the 1-2 or so added counts in the silent part that starts around 0:55. I can’t figure out how to count that.
 
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