Songs with Time Signatures: 7/4

Knee V

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I also don't know of any Christian songs in 7/4. However, my favorite Rock band, Rush, uses lots of 7/4. They don't necessarily do lots of WHOLE songs in 7/4, but they do alternate between time signatures, will small or large segments of songs in 7/4.

La Villa Strangiato, Natural Science, Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions, Marathon (and in Marathon, the part that is in 7/4 switches between two approaches to 7/4 - 3 beats followed by 4 beats, and then 4 beats followed by 3 beats), Superconductor. All those songs have a good bit of 7/4. There are others, but those come to mind immediately.

They also do 5/4, 11/8, and other odd ones.
 
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This song is called "Subdivisions", track 1 from their 1982 album "Signals". The song starts out in 7/4, and the intro alternates between 7/4 and 4/4. The whole song alternates between those two as well as 6/8, and all pretty seamlessly. The musically uninitiated might not know they change time signatures at all.

The song is about the futility and meaninglessness of cookie-cutter suburban life.

 
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