Prog rock bands do like to experiment with odd time signatures, though even in prog rock they tend to use [peculiar number]/4 or /8. 11th notes just aren’t a thing (ridiculously hard to play, but even harder to listen to in a song).
Speaking of odd time signatures, they’re not just for prog rock, Penguin Cafe Orchestra used them to great effect like this 15/8 piece:
But it’s still a /8 since it has to be played by mortal musicians.
Heh. That’s not in your defense.
I beg to differ:
Ratt were a hell of a lot better than they needed to be.
Plus, I’m gonna look like exactly like this in a decade or two:
You’re right, Shannon is about the worst (in a good way). Sadder even than Mr. Bojangle’s dog up and dyin’. (My dog’s always wear life vests because of that song.)
To this day I think I still know ever word to “Seasons in the Sun”. Not to mention “Billy Don’t be a Hero” and"The Night Chicago Died" and “Cat’s Cradle” and “Alone again, naturally” and “Wildfire” and “Mandy”…
Ahhh… the immortal classics!
I wonder though if, in these instances the accessibility originated from the visuals being (initially at least) bound so inseparably to the song–the Numa Numa lip sync kid, and PSY’s fantastic video, were the first exposure I think most people had to them. Had I heard either on the radio, cold, I don’t know I’d have found them so engaging.
Couldn’t say. But they both work for me as pure earworms (the kind I don’t feel the need to immediately squash).
Wait–that’s news to me–what’s the source on that?
I love the Richard Harris version–and while I’ll admit it is indeed perhaps a tad overwrought, and full of purple (but fantastic) prose, I’ve never heard that it was some self aware parody of the genre.
I remember a late-80s thrash version of “Seasons in the Sun.” Can’t find it, though.
But I did find this from the same era:
Or this:
Not to diminish Brubeck, but Paul Desmond wrote it.
Two more examples of that in my mind…
Speaking of, this was apparently recorded 60 years ago today.
Yes, you’re right, my bad. Desmond was also a super-genius. Everyone in the Quartet when they recorded Time Out was a super-genius, really.
Wow. I haven’t heard that one since college!
But… if they had stuck to Airplanes, they never would have gotten to a galaxy far, far away… and the stormtroopers wouldn’t have been distracted by their performance long enough for Lumpy to build a translator and… Chewie’s family wouldn’t have been able to celebrate Life Day!
I bet you feel pretty silly about your “no Starship for me” stance now, don’t you?
Nope.
So if someone happened to have a time machine and managed to break up Jefferson Starship in time, they could have prevented the Star Wars Holiday Special. Added to the list of things to take care of once I have my time Machine. Bonus effect: no “We Built This City.”
What, how can you talk about dead dogs and not mention this song?
Also wasn’t NIN’s song Hurt about his dog dying?
According to George Avakian, Desmond "was the most unbelievable guy for having women fall at his feet that I ever met in my life. And I always said to [George’s wife] Ani, ‘My God, he is so homely.’ She said, “No, he’s not homely, he’s very attractive.’” (2009 interview, published in Cadence in 2011)
This is LIFE DAY we’re talking about! How can you be so glib???
Sigh. Maybe you don’t understand the significance.
I guess I’ll just have to chalk it up to a wookie mistake.
