🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[__Nathan1968]

Day 27- a song from the 20s WOC

+1 for a perfect WOC decades week.

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 27: A song from the 2020s

Second generation blues artist (her father was the brilliant guitarist Johnny Copeland) Shemekia Copeland has had a long, powerful career. And unlike many modern blues artists, she is not afraid to get bluntly political. But even with Grammy nominations last year, she is still mostly overlooked. And how the fuck can you overlook that voice?

"Tough Mother," Shemekia Copeland (2024)

(+1 for WoC, for 7 total)

Fan fucking tastic song and artist!!

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 27: A song from the 20s

Vagabond - Can I Talk My Shit?

+7

 

[DannieB]

Day 27: A song from the 20s

Still Bad - Lizzo

I’m still surviving and I’m still bad, baby

 

[Awaywego]

Day 27- a song from the 20s WOC

Fun one...

Jazmine Sullivan...."Pick up Your Feelings"

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

I don’t know a lot about the technicalities of music but I know this song has shifting time signatures. I think like 5 of them?

The Beatles - Happiness Is a Warm Gun

 

[QuietCanadian]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

I'm not going to pretend I didn't Google a couple of songs I thought might be to confirm, and a few of my suspicions were correct, I was going to go with my first thought, but @morelikeasong beat me to it!

So, second choice and an all time fave of mine.

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

I'm not going to pretend I didn't Google a couple of songs I thought might be to confirm, and a few of my suspicions were correct, I was going to go with my first thought, but @morelikeasong beat me to it!

So, second choice and an all time fave of mine.

Love this song so much!

 

[QuietCanadian]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

I don’t know a lot about the technicalities of music but I know this song has shifting time signatures. I think like 5 of them?

The Beatles - Happiness Is a Warm Gun

This was my first choice. Such a great song. And yes, at least five. Maybe six. Might have been the LSD.

 

[EvaLane]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

Pyramid Song - Radio Head

This song was referenced in the discussion of the first episode of Severance and I really liked it. I remembered the first comment on the YouTube video and sure enough, it fits the theme

The comment -

“each bar of this song has two dotted quavers, a crotchet, and two more dotted quavers. if you think about this in 16ths per bar, this equated to the notes equaling 3, 3, 4, 3, 3. a pyramid has four triangles and one square that make up the shape. this rhythm LITERALLY makes this song a pyramid i looooooove it i looooove radiohead”

 

[morelikeasong]

Thanks for another great decades week!
If you posted a song by a woman of color for all 7 days, you earned a second song pass! This is good for one use, expiring at the start of April’s decades week.

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

It's a swing - is it a miss?

It's OH So Quiet - Bjork

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

I don’t know a lot about the technicalities of music but I know this song has shifting time signatures. I think like 5 of them?

The Beatles - Happiness Is a Warm Gun

My fave Beatles song on my fave album of theirs.

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

Pyramid Song - Radio Head

This song was referenced in the discussion of the first episode of Severance and I really liked it. I remembered the first comment on the YouTube video and sure enough, it fits the theme

The comment -

“each bar of this song has two dotted quavers, a crotchet, and two more dotted quavers. if you think about this in 16ths per bar, this equated to the notes equaling 3, 3, 4, 3, 3. a pyramid has four triangles and one square that make up the shape. this rhythm LITERALLY makes this song a pyramid i looooooove it i looooove radiohead”

So haunting. I loooooooove (extra o's to emphasize) Radiohead.

 

[lingus60]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

Genesis: Apocalypse in 9/8

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature


I also had to Google this but I suspected TOOL would hit the mark and I was right.


Schism -TOOL

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

I had to google to make sure... 7/4.

Never Felt Better - Everything Is Recorded (ft. Florence Welch & Sampha)

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature
"House of the Rising Sun" - 6/8 - The Animals

 

[Chloe_Harper]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

Closure - Taylor Swift (7/4)

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

David Gilmore has famously (well, among some people) said that "Money" is 7/8 time. Every band I have played it with has done it in 7/4. Either way, it is a fantastic song. This is a cover by The Dan Reed Network because I need some extra energy this morning, and I love Melvin Brannon's double tap on the bass line.

"Money," Dan Reed Network (7/8 or 7/4, depending on who you ask.)

 

[QuietCanadian]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

Pyramid Song - Radio Head

This song was referenced in the discussion of the first episode of Severance and I really liked it. I remembered the first comment on the YouTube video and sure enough, it fits the theme

The comment -

“each bar of this song has two dotted quavers, a crotchet, and two more dotted quavers. if you think about this in 16ths per bar, this equated to the notes equaling 3, 3, 4, 3, 3. a pyramid has four triangles and one square that make up the shape. this rhythm LITERALLY makes this song a pyramid i looooooove it i looooove radiohead”

Love it. I feel like Radiohead could have a ton of songs on this list.

 

[luvzmature]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

Rush has always been a favorite, and it doesn't get any better than Neil Pert on his kit. RIP Neal.
Rush- Moving Pictures -Tom Sawyer in 7/8 time.

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

I don’t know a lot about the technicalities of music but I know this song has shifting time signatures. I think like 5 of them?

The Beatles - Happiness Is a Warm Gun

I had no idea what time signatures were so googled it. LOL
Basic time signatures: 4/4, also known as common time; 2/2, also known as cut time or cut-common time (cut time); plus 2/4; 3/4; and 6/8.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

I don’t know time signatures but Google tells me this is 29/8 and that that’s wild. And I like this song

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature
Fantastic prompt! Do I have the musical journey for you...

The way he plays with the time signature to convey his message AND to control the audience- the man is a master of his craft!

Dark Side - Tim Minchin

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 28: A song that uses an unconventional time signature

Genesis: Apocalypse in 9/8

Phil Collins doesn't get the recognition he should as a drummer from when Genesis was a prog-rock band. They did some very complicated time changes and signatures on their first albums.