Ben Folds Five, One Chord Blues
Fever Tree's "Imitation Situation" (not the short version on the first album, the full-length version on their third album "Creation") has lyrics about the time signature(s) of the song...
Seven maids move in seven time
Have the lads up ready in a line
Seven druids dance in seven time
Sing the song the bells call, loudly chiming
Ian ("Ring Out Solstice Bells")
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
Not sure if Iamthemorning's 5/4 is actually about the time signature, but the title certainly is. The song's not exclusively in 5/4 though. https://youtu.be/JRlvqyjuxiM
Yeah, I've always heard Supper's Ready as being essentially four different songs, as it were, with a few little bits connecting, with the first two being reprised at the end.
I remember Steve Howe saying that a lot of times, in Yes, one person would bring something they'd written, and then you'd look at everything you'd been playing recently, and you'd say "Well, maybe if we changed the tempo of this, or the change the key of that, we can insert into the middle". So a lot of times, I gather, let's say Jon ANderson or Chris Squire would have a song, and Steve or one of the others might say, "I have a bit we can stick into the middle", then someone else might say "I have a bit we can stick on the front of it", then someone else would say "I have a bit would stick at the end of Steve's bit", and so on.
"Take Five"...titled so because it is in 5/4. But perhaps I'm just Living in the Past.
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
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Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Pat Metheny Group 5-5-7 and 45/8
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
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Frank Zappa's "Five-Five-FIVE":
There are dozens, possibly hundreds on instrumentals called "Six-Ate Suite" or "Raga in 7" or along those lines. I thought the list of lyrical songs referencing the actual structure of the song itself might be a more manageable topic.
I can't believe I didn't think of this earlier, The Eleven by the Dead, which is of course in 11/8 time (starting around 3 1/2 minutes in). Not sure what the lyrics have to do with anything though.
That 10 CC piece back there in the first post is fantastic, very clever and funny!
I'm reminded it was by HALF of 10cc only, 5cc, or Godley & Creme.
Chris Squire's "Lucky Seven" is in 7/8.
"Arf." -- Frank Zappa, "Beauty Knows No Pain" (live version)
Faithfully complying with its title, which translates to The One-Note Song, most of the song is sung on one note, i.e. C or Do.
Living an existence of exertion
tailing the chimera of a composite melody,
extolled by exquisite exceptionalities.
And then you eventually find out
you were but missing that one note,
that one beautiful note.
How silly not to have come up before
with the one-note song!
A little-known song
that you make with one note,
and that note is this.
It's the one-note song:
you can change the rhythm;
you can change the tempo;
you can change the ambiance;
you can change the chords;
you can play it as major, minor, augmented, diminished.
You can change the singer;
you can change the subject;
you can sing it on your own,
you can sing it together with the choir.
You can have the orchestra play it
while you take a little break.
You can change the language:
per esempio la puoi cantare in italiano,
auf Deutsch, en français, en español,
in Chinese: "wang, twong, threeng..."
You can do so many things
without changing the note!
You can change the octave,
you can sing an octave down.
You can pretend... that it... is over.
But if you're not even good enough
to sing the one-note song,
we suggest you relinquish your singing dreams.
If you're a virtuoso singer,
beware,
for here, if you sing like "aeahah",
you're out.
The one-note song,
which does not make compromises,
and if it does, the compromise is tiny,
like: this.
The one-note song
has had its own forefathers:
above all, Rossini, and Bob Dylan, Tintarella di Luna.
It's even easy to whistle,
democratic, opposed by dictatorships.
Have you noticed? The Cuban anthem is full of notes!
Then there's the one-note samba,
but if you listen carefully, it changes after a while.
Jobim didn't have enough balls to carry out a goal;
he didn't believe it to the end.
But we... did.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
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