"Math Rock" (And/Or Songs Containing Numbers or Math Terms)

[millineutron]

This topic is wide open. Could be actual Math Rock, with complex rhythms or weird time signatures, such as the band American Football with their song Never Meant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_NfnXdXpjL0

OR you could also include songs containing numbers and/or Math terms in either the title or the lyrics, such as Love Minus Zero / No Limit by Bob Dylan.

Whatever! Oh, and no worries if you post something that someone else has already posted here. That would just be Math Rock Squared! 🤓

[mp8908]

                       16 Shades of Blue                  Tori Amos

[vitom712041]

 All Together Now ==== The Beatles 

“One two three four
Can I have a little more
Five six seven eight nine ten
I love you…

All together now... “

[Loulit]

Five to One

-- The Doors

5 to 1, baby

1 in 5, no one here

Gets out alive

[millineutron]

Nothingman -- Pearl Jam

"Once divided...nothing left to subtract..."

[nyadrn]

Two Divided by Love    The Grass Roots  : )  

[Loulit]

8 Days a Week

-- The Beatles

[Loulit]

One After 909

--The Beatles

[vitom712041]

4 + 20 a song by Stephen Stills from Deja Vu

[DED46]

If 6 Was 9 - Jimi Hendrix

[mp8908]

                       24K Magic              Bruno Mars

[millineutron]

Here's one with a math term:

Divide -- by Ed Sheeran

[Loulit]

But I Am A Good Girl

-- Christina Aguilera

Written by  Alain Bernardin, Jaques Morali et B. Vilanch

4/4 to 3/4

Check it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPR5EoYqO

[MaVolta]

One - Three Dog Night

[Loulit]

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@MaVoltawrote:

One - Three Dog Night

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"The Three Dog Night Story, 1964–1975 states that vocalist Danny Hutton's girlfriend, actress June Fairchild suggested the name after reading a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground while embracing a dingo, a native species of feral dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and, if the night were freezing, it was a 'three dog night.'"

No offense to indigenous Australians or dingos, but when I first learned of that I laughed loud and long. Still cracks me up to this day. 

[MaVolta]

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@Loulitwrote:

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@MaVoltawrote:

One - Three Dog Night

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"The Three Dog Night Story, 1964–1975 states that vocalist Danny Hutton's girlfriend, actress June Fairchild suggested the name after reading a magazine article about indigenous Australians, in which it was explained that on cold nights they would customarily sleep in a hole in the ground while embracing a dingo, a native species of feral dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and, if the night were freezing, it was a 'three dog night.'"

No offense to indigenous Australians or dingos, but when I first learned of that I laughed loud and long. Still cracks me up to this day. 

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Yes, I remember hearing that, too. It's a great story! 

[l483260l]

IT IS A GREAT STORY & ONE WORTH RELIVING FOR US
"DOG PEOPLE"! THESE DAYS IT'S A ONE(VERY SMALL& SCRAWNY) DOG NIGHT FOR ME! BUT SHE FITS LARGE IN MY LIFE.-16 YEARS & COUNTING- A HEART CONDITION, LOSING SIGHT & HEARING, BUT STILL A SWEETHEART.

[mp8908]

                     It All Adds Up To Us              Trace Adkins

[millineutron]

400 Years -- Bob Marley & the Wailers 

[nyadrn]

Grease  (I Got Chills, they're Multiplying)  Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta

[millineutron]

9 to 5 -- Dolly Parton

[GordonBordon]

25 to Life -Eminem 

[mp8908]

                       110%             Jessie Ware

[nyadrn]

One Less Bell to Answer   The 5th Dimension

[GordonBordon]

From the Album, "One More For From the Road"/ I Ain't the One / Lynyrd Skynyrd

[GordonBordon]

I saw them on Playboy After Dark back in '69 and they told that story. Since then, every time it's cold, which is often in Wisconsin, I say it's a "three dog night" and tell the story. Everybody I know is sick of me telling it for the last 50 years. I tell it anyway, just to drive them nuts... It's one of the few pleasures I have left at my age...driving them nuts, I mean.

[vitom712041]

MaV - you’re right about how The Beatles changed time signatures in their music. I had a math teacher in 9th grade and he always said “do the problem, work it out”

The best example of changing time I know of in The Beatles catalog is in We Can Work It Out.  It’s 4/4 until the middle 8.  You know the part where they sing “fussing and fighting my friend”. Stop there and listen; it goes 123, 123, 123.  Then back to 4/4.  Then back to 123, 123, 123 for “So I will ask you once again”.  Then back to common time.

Whenever I think about math I think about Mr. Kelly.

[Cirice]

Good topic! I love math rock

Bubble Dream - CHON

[millineutron]

@Cirice Wow! So beautiful! Thanks for sharing that! Was not familiar with CHON. 

@MaVolta @vitom712041

Yeah the Beatles most definitely! I think Strawberry Fields is mostly 4/4 but then goes to 2/4 in the "nothing to get hung about" part, then 3/4 in the "strawberry fields forever" parts. Been reading up on George Harrison, the sitar & the complex polyrhythms of Indian music. More about that later. I think one of the most rhythmically complex Beatles songs is Happiness is a Warm Gun. Haven't "worked out the problem" on that one yet though. 🤓

@Loulit Couldn't get the link to open on the Christina Aguilera song but will have to search for that one a little later. 

[Cirice]

@millineutronwrote:

@Cirice Wow! So beautiful! Thanks for sharing that! Was not familiar with CHON.

So glad you liked it!

I first heard CHON a few years ago when they appeared in my Tumblr feed. I thought they were amazing musicians so I subscribed to their Youtube channel. Bubble Dream is from CHON's first self-released EP Newborn Sun (2013). Since then, they've signed with a record label and released two albums.

Here's another guitar playthrough from Newborn Sun, a little more "jazzy" than Bubble Dream, but just as good.

Dew - CHON

[millineutron]

@Cirice Another nice one!

Here's a classic ... & the only song I can think of that mentions slide rules (anybody else remember those?):

(What a) Wonderful World  by Sam Cooke, who co-wrote it with Lou Adler & Herb Alpert. Later covered by Otis Redding, "Art Garfunkel with James Taylor & Paul Simon" (who added a verse about the Middle Ages), and Herman's Hermits, who changed the "geography" line to:

"Don't know much about geometry,
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra,
Don't know what a slide rule is for
But I do know that 1 and 1 is 2,
And if this one could be with you,
What a wonderful world this would be!"