egg - same,1970 - Seven Is A Jolly Good Time

nice strange song :)

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[Bassoonandsax]

I love music Written In odd time signatures. Its cool That someone else thought so too,and wrote a song about it. This is Awesome.

Highly Original ! 5*

[PabzGLRP]

Egg were such a creative group, too bad their career didn't take off - blame poor marketing I suppose.

[hudent]

I'm looking for Seven is A Jolly Good Time cd,this is a great album

[Kitarasti]

Oh my god I love it...

[GaryXGomes]

Zappa was an influence on English musicians (see Hugh Hopper's Facelift, in 7/4) as was Dave Brubeck (The NIce's Rondo. anyone?) The English added a particular tilt to it.

[tekalynn]

Brilliant and funny.

[timeabstract]

What a great song!!!!!!!

[dharmaseed]

@NeilThompson30 I have to disagree, Sir. Ever listen to National Health? There were two former members of Egg and they did some really crazy things with time signatures, like 25/8.

[whoopjohn]

@NeilThompson30 I think Zappa exceeded the complexity of Egg, especially with different time signatures playing at the same time. Quite capable at changing signature from one bar to the next also.

[NeilThompson30]

@whoopjohn - fairplay but Take Five is a hell of a lot easier to play than any Egg track. It's in 5 time all the way. The mad thing about Egg is that every bar would be in a different time to the one before and no other group has done that. I personally think they got all their influences - Bartok, Holst, Stravinsky, Soft Machine, The Nice and (for Mont's vocal tracks, especially I will be absorbed) The Peddlers (who they used to gig with) - mixed this all up and added their madness to it.

[whoopjohn]

@NeilThompson30 How about the Dave Brubeck quartet, with Take 5 and a host of other songs in 9/8, 7/4, 11/4, 13/4 etc. Once you start to count dinga-diggety, dinga-dinga-diggety, diggety-diggety-dinga you can stack up any combinations.

[NeilThompson30]

@whoopjohn - Hmmm - don't know about the time signature thing being easy - I thought they were a really clever band and no other band has attempted what they did with the time signatures. I love Soft Machine - and they did have strange time signatures - but they were a lot easier to rock along to on the drums and nowhere near the nightmare that Clive Brooks had to face with this lot.