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 |