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    Posted: December 18 2016 at 03:04
What is the most famous song in 7/4 or 7/8 time signature?

Pink Floyd - Money
Radiohead - Paranoid Android (partly in 7/8)

I guess most people nowadays would be more familiar with the Radiohead one, being a lead single from the well-known OK Computer album. Is there any other song as famous as that?
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"Dance on a Volcano" by Genesis. One of my favourite songs to dance to.

I listened to the "O.K. Computer" album but find it way overrated.


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Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel (verses in 7/4), Rendezvous 6:02 by UK has 7/16 time signatures, plus the ones mentioned above. And, to go proto, All You Need is Love by The Beatles.
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Good Day Sunshine has some bars in 7.
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Paul Simon - Have a good time
The Police - Mother
Stephen Stills - Cherokee

Most famous? Money by Punk Flute.
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So I was thinking of hits and odd time signatures when I finally started humming What's New Pussycat Wuoooouooouooouooouoo
Madness. I don't know how any drummer manages to stay on beat for the duration of that song.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

So I was thinking of hits and odd time signatures when I finally started humming What's New Pussycat Wuoooouooouooouooouoo
Madness. I don't know how any drummer manages to stay on beat for the duration of that song.

Isn't that just 3/4 all the way through?
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http://theeviljam.co.uk/2014/07/31/famous-songs-in-slightly-odd-time-signatures-a-guide-to-rhythms/

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Some good answers here.  For a pop/rock-oriented crowd, I'd say the most popular is probably Floyd's "Money".  Re "Good Day Sunshine", I wouldn't count something that only has a couple bars in 7.  "Solsbury Hill" is probably the close runner-up to "Money", unless we're overlooking something obvious.  "Solsbury Hill's" 7 is also far more subtle than "Money's" 7 (which isn't a good or bad thing . . . although I'd probably say it makes "Money" a better example of a popular tune in 7, since its odd time is so overt.)

Re "What's New Pussycat", yeah, that's just in 3 for the whole tune.  What makes it sound unusual rhythmically is that it has some pretty unique phrasing in terms of how many bars various phrases are.  Phrases/cadences wind up alternately crunched or drawn out relative to each other.


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The verses of "All You Need is Love" by the Beatles are in 7/4. That's almost certainly more famous than any song mentioned here, even "Money" which is a plausible runner-up.
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It has to be Money or Solsbury Hill.
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$ and SoHill are the correct answers. As far as odd-metered hits go, don't forget "Turn It On Again" is 13/4 and "Misunderstanding" is 12/8.
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Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

$ and SoHill are the correct answers. As far as odd-metered hits go, don't forget "Turn It On Again" is 13/4 and "Misunderstanding" is 12/8.


Misunderstanding 12/8? I always counted it as 4/4.
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

$ and SoHill are the correct answers. As far as odd-metered hits go, don't forget "Turn It On Again" is 13/4 and "Misunderstanding" is 12/8.


Misunderstanding 12/8? I always counted it as 4/4.

I count it 12/8 as well, but not odd-metered. Speaking of an odd-metered 12/8, I think of In Trance as Mission by the Simple Minds (5/8 + 7/8, great song):



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