6/8

[throatybeard]

A few years ago, back when the board was on James' software, I started a thread in which I asked what everyone's favorite meter was. It was an experiment to see who'd answer with verse, who'd answer with music, who'd answer with math/science things, &c.

Snowden responded with (IMO) the "correct" answer, "6/8"

Shalay and I are compiling a mixed CD of popular music that is in 6/8, or once in a while 12/8. I'm seeking other suggestions. I keep thinking I've overlooked some Pink Floyd, for one thing. Here's the list so far:

House of the Rising Sun – Animals/Trad.
Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
Your Precious Love – Jerry Butler
Strange Currencies – REM
Shadowboxer - Fiona Apple
Confessions of a Guilty Bystander – Over the Rhine (12/8)
When I Go – Over the Rhine
When You’re Gone - Cranberries
I put a Spell on You – Screaming Jay Hawkins/CCR
Take You Home – Garbage
You Don’t Own Me –Lesley Gore
She’s Got You – Patsy Cline/Hank Cochran
Crazy – Patsy Cline
Never Tear Us Apart – INXS
Beauty and the Beast – Stevie Nicks
My 1st Song – Jay-Z (that's right, a rap song in 6/8)
Last of the Mohicans film score, tracks “The Kiss” and “Promontory” – Trevor Jones

[2535Miles]

Blue Rondo A La Turk - Dave Brubeck Quarter (Starts 9/8, then goes 3/4, then back to 9/8) Brilliant song though I'm not sure if it fits into your popular music, but yeah, it's good.

[Lavabe]

Beauty and the Beast – Stevie Nicks

No, there cannot be any trace of Fleetwood Mac on this board.

[Bostondevil]

You really should include at least one version of the classic song that teaches piano students everywhere about 6/8 time - Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

[blazindw]

My 1st Song – Jay-Z (that's right, a rap song in 6/8)

It's my life - it's my pain and my struggle
The song that I sing to you it's my ev-ery-thing
Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first
And my thirst is the same as - when I came
It's my joy and my tears and the laughter it brings to me
It's my ev-ery-thing

[Jarhead]

Blue Rondo A La Turk - Dave Brubeck Quarter (Starts 9/8, then goes 3/4, then back to 9/8) Brilliant song though I'm not sure if it fits into your popular music, but yeah, it's good.

It's popular with me. One of my favorite jazz pieces. I whip out my vinyl LP every so often and give it a spin. I heard it in the background music played in the local Panera Bread as I enjoyed my summer strawberry salad with soup in a bread bowl.

[OldPhiKap]

This doesn't necessarily fit your question, but the Grateful Dead were notorious for using odd time signatures.

"Playin' in the Band" -- 10/4
"Uncle John's Band" -- 4/4, with the break being 7/4
"The Eleven" -- 11/4
"Estimated Prophet" -- 14/4
"Dark Star" -- ?/?

And my favorite -- "The Other One" -- half the band plays 3/4 and half plays 4/4 at the same time. It hits you from all sides.

[Fish80]

I am a music idiot. I very much enjoy a variety of music, but have no idea what 6/8 means.

I thought this was a thread about favorite fractions.

[throatybeard]

6/8 means you've got six eighth-notes in a measure. Its great attraction is that it is paradoxically both duple and triple; the secondary stress on the fourth beat allows you to count it in two.

Got some more, from a variety of suggesters:

Crazy - Aerosmith
New Test Leper - REM
Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
In My Room - Beach Boys
Diamonds and Gold - Tom Waits

[throatybeard]

The wife has come thru strong with three Nick Cave songs in 6/8:

Nobody's Baby Now
Henry Lee
Where the Wild Roses Grow

[2535Miles]

The wife has come thru strong with three Nick Cave songs in 6/8:

Nobody's Baby Now
Henry Lee
Where the Wild Roses Grow

Kudos to the wife. Nick Cave (and the Bad Seeds) are the jam!

[throatybeard]

This is a brilliant rehabilitation of a grease fire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYWDtXbBB0

[theAlaskanBear]

This is a brilliant rehabilitation of a grease fire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYWDtXbBB0

Throaty is there a sight that tells you what meter certain songs are in?

[Tom B.]

I think Queen did several songs in 6/8 or 12/8. "We Are The Champions" and "Somebody To Love" come to mind.

Also, how about "I Only Have Eyes For You" by The Flamingos, and "Unchained Melody" by The Righteous Brothers?

[Indoor66]

I think Queen did several songs in 6/8 or 12/8. "We Are The Champions" and "Somebody To Love" come to mind.

Also, how about "I Only Have Eyes For You" by The Flamingos, and "Unchained Melody" by The Righteous Brothers?

I always preferred Al Hibbler's cover of the original version from the 1955 movie Unchained with Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsh.

[throatybeard]

Throaty is there a sight that tells you what meter certain songs are in?

Not that I'm aware of, but I think guitartabs tells you what key things are in.

The cover of Miley's song that makes it so much better is in 6/8.

Also, I love the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ime_signatures

[snowdenscold]

Also, I love the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ime_signatures

Ha, when I first saw the URL I thought, "I wonder if Pat Metheny Groups' First Circle will be in there," and sure enough, it was.

[throatybeard]

Unchained Melody is mos def in 6/8

[Lavabe]

Umm, if you get a chance, check out Bernstein's Overture to Candide. The 7/8 part is relatively normal (), and then it just goes NUTS! My wife and I were left to try and figure it all out in the field, away from everyone, and we just died laughing each time we tried to figure it out.

[throatybeard]

Umm, if you get a chance, check out Bernstein's Overture to Candide. The 7/8 part is relatively normal (), and then it just goes NUTS! My wife and I were left to try and figure it all out in the field, away from everyone, and we just died laughing each time we tried to figure it out.

Johnboy pointed out a while back that Lenny's "America" demonstrates the difference between 3/4 and 6/8. Lenny knew what he was doing.