Day # 2 of the 30 day Music Meme
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shadowkat"A song you like with a number in the title..."
Figure 8 from Schoolhouse Rock and "The Squid & the Whale" soundtrack. I love this song.
Here's the Squid and the Whale version.
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It brings back memories of childhood - I watched Schoolhouse Rock as a small child, also the melody has a kind of nostalgic soft feel to it. It also reminds me of ice skating as a child - although I was never quite that talented.
There's a weirdly melancholy but comforting feel to it. Also the last two lyrics of the song always send a chill up my spine.
Figure 8 from Schoolhouse Rock and "The Squid & the Whale" soundtrack. I love this song.
Here's the Squid and the Whale version.
And
It brings back memories of childhood - I watched Schoolhouse Rock as a small child, also the melody has a kind of nostalgic soft feel to it. It also reminds me of ice skating as a child - although I was never quite that talented.
There's a weirdly melancholy but comforting feel to it. Also the last two lyrics of the song always send a chill up my spine.
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Date: 2020-08-06 12:54 am (UTC)My selection: "Take Five"
Just the biggest selling jazz single of all time...
https://youtu.be/vmDDOFXSgAs
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Date: 2020-08-06 01:47 am (UTC)My difficulty with this meme - is I can't remember the names or titles of songs. For instance? Yes, of course I've heard Take Five numerous times, but I didn't know it was called that. I honestly had no idea what the title was.
Figure 8 on the other hand - I can remember, because the title is endemic to the song. Kind of like 8 Days a Week or the other one I considered, "One is the Loneliest Number" - which is a song I don't really like - so it won't work, since "like" is kind of important.
For me? This is less about picking great songs, and more about picking song titles I can remember. I had to google the first one, because I was drawing a blank and could only think of the one everyone else had chosen - Tangled Up in Blue.
I strongly considered Whiter Shade of Pale. But I'm not sure that really counts.
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Date: 2020-08-06 02:31 am (UTC)Actually, "Take Five" is descriptive of the track, because it refers to the time signature--5/4, or five beats per measure instead of the usual four.
Dave Brubeck was the first jazz artist to explore unusual time signatures in a way that was still accessible to the general audience. Many others have taken that baton and run with it to wild new vistas. (But you should talk to beer_good_foamy about those guys. He knows much more about this than I do...)