Are there any Joy Division songs that are not in a 4/4 time signature?

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I can't think of any.

― makeena, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

"The Only Mistake" is in either 6/8 or 12/8.

― Declan Zimmerman, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Good call. Still, JD might the 4/4-est band of all time.

― makeena, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

um, might be, I meant.

― makeena, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

For a moment I thought 'Atrocity Exhibition' might be in some weird time signature, but no, when I tap it out to the beat it seems like it's 4/4. Plenty of songs sound more 2/4 than 4/4 though.

― jz, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

xpost: Ramones, dood, Ramones.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Plenty of songs sound more 2/4 than 4/4 though.

i wanted to say this, but i thought i'd get shouted down. i was always absolutely pathetic with time signatures.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

'Colony' doesn't sound very 4/4, although I can't work out what it is.

― jz, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

parts of '24 Hours' are in a really odd rhythm that might be 4/4 but hell if I can work out where the first beat of the bar is. i'm talking about the opening section with the prominent bass melody, and the recapitualations of this section.

(other sections have a regular 4/4 beat tho')

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Those bits of 24 hrs are in 6/4 I reckon.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Still, JD might the 4/4-est band of all time.

I don't know why they're more 4/4 than every other band that only uses 4/4 (like 99% of all Western pop music).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

The fact that they actually used something other than 4/4 for at least one song seems to make them absolutely *not* the 4/4-est band of all time.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

'Colony' doesn't sound very 4/4, although I can't work out what it is.

Tap it out ... it's four beats to the bar, just an unusual syncopation.

But this lead me to think "are there any Joy Division songs with no minor chords?" and immediately I thought yeah, Shadowplay, Transmission, Dead Souls yeah a whole bunch of them and it suddenly seemed award-worthy to be widely revered as "the most depressing band of all time" and have used mostly major chords.

You know, d-minor "the saddest chord' and all.

― declan zimmerman, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Not to be nit-picky, but although the third chord in Shadowplay is E-Major, the melody is definitely in the minor key.

― ajlee, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

um, good point. relevant, therefore not nit-picky.

― declan zimmerman, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

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