30 day music meme #2
Jul. 19th, 2020 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beer_good_foamy2. A song you like with a number in the title
The Don Ellis Orchestra - 33 222 1 222
We have a song here in what we call the "traditional 19", 19 beats to the bar... Let me give you the subdivision here, it's 3-3-2-2-2-1-2-2-2. Of course, that's just the area code.
Don Ellis was a complete madman, writing big band jazz tunes 20 years too late, in time signatures that should be nigh-unplayable and certainly undanceable, like this one in 19/8. (To non-musicians: like 80% of popular music is in 4/4, ONE-two-three-four, ONE-two-three-four, a few are in 3/4, ONE-two-three, ONE-two-three - 19/8, ie you count to NINETEEN in each bar, is ridiculous.) And yet it's so incredibly groovy and catchy that you might not notice until you try to clap along. Irony of ironies: Ellis died of heart arrhythmia at 44.
The Don Ellis Orchestra - 33 222 1 222
We have a song here in what we call the "traditional 19", 19 beats to the bar... Let me give you the subdivision here, it's 3-3-2-2-2-1-2-2-2. Of course, that's just the area code.
Don Ellis was a complete madman, writing big band jazz tunes 20 years too late, in time signatures that should be nigh-unplayable and certainly undanceable, like this one in 19/8. (To non-musicians: like 80% of popular music is in 4/4, ONE-two-three-four, ONE-two-three-four, a few are in 3/4, ONE-two-three, ONE-two-three - 19/8, ie you count to NINETEEN in each bar, is ridiculous.) And yet it's so incredibly groovy and catchy that you might not notice until you try to clap along. Irony of ironies: Ellis died of heart arrhythmia at 44.
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Date: 2020-07-19 02:10 pm (UTC)Let's get cardinal!
One - Three Dog Night
Two of Us - The Beatles
We Three Kings - The Roches
4 Minutes - Madonna
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
If 6 was 9 - Jimi Hendrix
Seven Chinese Brothers - REM
Eight Miles High- The Byrds
#9 Dream - John Lennon
Big Ten Inch Record - Aerosmith
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Date: 2020-07-19 02:41 pm (UTC)An ordered list off the top of my head:
One - Metallica
2+2=5 - Radiohead
Those Three Days - Lucinda Williams
Four Horsemen - The Clash
Five Years - David Bowie
The Number of The Beast - Iron Maiden
The Seventh Seal - Scott Walker
Eight Days A Week - Beatles
Apollo 9 - Adam & The Ants
10th Ave. Freeze-Out - Bruce Springsteen
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Date: 2020-07-19 03:18 pm (UTC)That is absolutely perverse. I love it.
Love Lucinda. (Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is one of my all time favorite albums.)
BTw, I just thought of another "rainbow" set:
Red - King Crimson
Bruised Orange - John Prine
Yellow - Coldplay
Green Tambourine - Lemon Pipers
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Turbulent Indigo - Joni Mitchell
Violet - Miles Davis
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