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greenMonkey:
Mine would have to be

5-4=Unity - Pavement

Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet

and

The Uruk-Hai - Howard Shore; London Philharmonic Orchestra

So.  In order to make this a true topic, what are your favorite songs in 5/4?

Kai:
I don't really pay attention enough/know enough to distinguish time signatures much. As in "At all, unless it's really weird*"




*See Zappa's The Black Page.

Bastardous Bassist:
-Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is in 5/4, occasionally, and it's awesome.
-Chris Potter's Megalopolis off of his Traveling Mercies CD is bad ass.  It's in phrases of four bars, and after three phrases, it has a bar of 9/4 for the A theme.  The bridge is just in 4/4.  It's hot.  Potter is my favorite sax player ever and Scofield can play the guitar like a motherfucker.
-I know some people who play Charles Mingus' "Nostalgia in Times Square" in 5, and it's awesome.  I'm more partial to 7/4 myself, but that's because I'm more comfortable soloing in that signature.

PhunkieBehaveYer:
A lot of Sufjan songs fit this category. "All Good Naysayers . . ." "Come on feel the Illinoise" "They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black". Parts of "The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders" are in 5, though the main groove is in "5+6" or 11, whichever way you prefer to think about it . . .

neighborhood socialist:
i don't actually pay attention to time signatures. maybe i should. i'll post back here when i finally find one. or not.

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