56 Difficult Times

Difficult Times had 26 listeners at one point, and 20 for most of the show.

Here’s the playlist, and a link to the lyrics for Rush’s Losing It, as requested (click on the track title)

Preshow

Unsquare Dance is possibly the second most famous Dave Brubeck track after Take Five. Klaus Doldinger’s Timesignature is the sleeper here – it is in common time, but has the relevant title…

Title Artists Album Year Time signature
Subdivisions Rush Signals 1982 7/8
Unsquare Dance The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Further Out 1961 7/8
The Tango King Bruce Hornsby Hot House 1995 4/4 + 5/4
Kid Gloves Rush Grace Under Pressure 1984 5/4 alternating 4/4
Timesignature Klaus Doldinger Constellation 1983 4/4
In The Dead Of The Night UK UK 1978 7/4
Take Five Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out 1959 5/4

The Show

I Say A Little Prayer Dionne Warwick The Windows of the World 1967 4/4, 10/4, 11/4
Far More Blue The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Further Out 1961 5/4
Far More Drums The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Further Out 1961 5/4
Living in the Past Jethro Tull Living in the Past 1972 5/4
Here Comes The Sun The Beatles Abbey Road 1969 Chorus 3/4 5/4 2/4
Good Morning Good Morning The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967 5/4, 4/4, 3/4
Happiness Is a Warm Gun The Beatles The White Album 1968 complicated
Nothing Else Matters Metallica single 1992 6/8
Heart of Lothian Marillion Misplaced Childhood 1985 7/4 + 5/4
Dance of the Little Fairies Sky Sky 2 1980 7/4
Solsbury Hill Peter Gabriel Car (Remaster) 1977 7/4
Money Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon 1973 7/4 + 4/4
Superconductor Rush Presto 1989 7/4 alternating 4/4
Rubylove Cat Stevens Teaser And The Firecat 1971 7/8
Wade In The Water CCS Whole Lotta Love 1970 7/4 then 13/8
Blue Rondo a la Turk Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out 1959 9/8
Blue Shadows in the Street The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Further Out 1961 9/8
Losing It Rush Signals 1982 11/8
Golden Brown Stranglers La folie 1981 13/8
Schism Tool Lateralus 2001 12/8 as 5/8+7/8
Turn It On Again Genesis Duke 1980 13/4 – 4/4 – 9/4 – 13/4 – 4/4 – 9/4
Happy Jack The Who A Quick One 1966 13/4
Tubular bells – Intro Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells 1973 15/8
Discipline King Crimson Discipline 1974 Drums 17/16, everyone else all over the place.
Hell’s Bells Bill Bruford One of a Kind 1979 19/16 then 7/4

Postshow

Aretha’s version of Say A Little Prayer is the second best, after the Dionne Warwick original.

Vix 9 is by Bela Fleck and the Wooten brothers, Victor on bass and Roy “Futureman” Wooten on drumitar, his own drum controller made in roughly the shape of a guitar.   Bela Fleck is playing an electric banjo and synth pedals, and the live video of them playing this on Youtube is very impressive to watch.

I Say A Little Prayer Franklin, Aretha The Very Best Of Vol.1 1994 4/4, 10/4, 11/4
Caesar’s Palace Blues UK Danger Money 1979 5/4
The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus) Yes Fragile 1971 7/4
Vix 9 Bela Fleck & The Flecktones Three Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest 1993 9/8
Kashmir Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti 1975 Drums 4/4, all else 3/4 + 9/8
Experience Gentle Giant In A Glass House 1973 9/8
Modern Love Peter Gabriel Car (Remaster) 1977 11/8, 4/4
Night Illusion Gong Gazeuse! 1976 13/8, 17/8