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This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
4 time, an unorthodox meter which the band would also later use in "Spoonman". [2] Guitarist Kim Thayil has said that Soundgarden usually did not consider the time signature of a song until after the band had written it, and said that the use of odd meters was "a total accident."
(2003) "She's My Rushmore" by Every Time I Die - alternates with 9/8 and 4/4. (2002) "Gravity Eyelids" by Porcupine Tree - the second half of the instrumental part starting at 5:12 is partially in 10/8 timing as well as a few other time signatures. (2005) "Music for a Nurse" by Oceansize (2003) "III Ways to Epica" by Kamelot
With regards to which time signatures are unusual, the Time signature article already mentions a number of time signatures (3/4, 4/4, 6/8 et al.) as 'most common', leading to the implication that other time sigs are unusual. Moreover, a number of time signatures is explicitly mentioned as being unusual afterwards, again without sourcing.
It seems to me that there are three categories: (A) all time signatures involved are common (e.g. 2/4 vs 3/4), and the inclusion of such works here is debatable; (B) only one is uncommon (e.g. 4/4 vs 24/16), and it is clear that these should go under their uncommon time signature; (C) more than one is uncommon (e.g. 11/8 vs 13/8), and it's not ...
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I agree that some of these examples are groupings of phrases, as opposed to time signatures; I can't imagine that any sheet music of "Hey Ya" would actually be in 22/4, for example (and yes, the 7/4 analogy wasn't very good; a better analogy would be that you can categorize a waltz as 12/4 - musically valid, but pointless).