Looking for songs that slide into 3/4 as a surprise psychedelic ending.
Such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRaXhxMG5uE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj_s37sG1RM
I'm also interested the know earliest instances of this, in rock and roll terms at least.
― MaresNest, Monday, 25 April 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
If you go away - Jacques brel / terry jacks / whoever..
― Mark G, Monday, 25 April 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Blur - Star Shaped
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Monday, 25 April 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Love - 7 and 7 Is is this, right?
― city worker, Monday, 25 April 2016 19:50 (eight years ago) link
Erasure - Spiralling
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Monday, 25 April 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
Is that Love is for fools part of Deep In The Woods by the Birthday Party that?
― Stevolende, Monday, 25 April 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
I Want To Hold Your Hand is where this comes from I think.
― everything, Monday, 25 April 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
Is BS&T's "Spinning Wheel" eligible for this?
― Tom Violence, Monday, 25 April 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
"We Can Work It Out"
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 April 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Wait, r we talking about "waltz time" or "4/4 with a triplet feel" here? They sound similar but they aren't the same!
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Monday, 25 April 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link
Morrisey - Tomorrow
― daavid, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 05:35 (eight years ago) link
I think of gybe's "Dead Flag Blues" as doing this, but I can't remember whether the last section (with slide guitar and glockenspiel) is actually in waltz time or not.
― one way street, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 08:54 (eight years ago) link
from memory, it is
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 09:08 (eight years ago) link
Crash Test Dummies' An Old Scab does this, but with a crackly piano recording that has nothing to do with the rest of the song, so idk I think the best examples are when the main song itself shifts gears
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 09:10 (eight years ago) link
Good call on We Can Work It Out, that may be the very first instance in this particular context, unless there's some garage band that got there first.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 09:46 (eight years ago) link