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Just to clarify something...  On Facebook as well as my other blog but mostly Facebook, the main reason I put stuff like this on is because, well my uncle is a staunch republican supporter and hates Obama with a passion.. You ask him why he hates him and he says he just doesn't like the guy.. So he puts all sorts of hate Obama bullshit on his Facebook and I put all sorts of reasons to do the exact opposite, not because I necessarily believe Obama is that great but because I think a republican being in the white house scares me beyond belief.. 

Here in this video we have a group playing a song.. The song title isn't important (Kew Mission), what is important, to those who are into music, music theory and the lot.. Is .. this.. This song starts out in the customary 4/4 time signature and you think.  "so what.."  Wait for the instrumentation to come in.. That's right.. This is in 5/4 time signature??  Listen closely, that's right.. Not what you were expecting.. Hell it still blows me away to this day..  The time signature is reversed..  The rhythm is exactly WRONG.. And yet it works.. They did this so much in the early days, they started it out, as you listen and think, what a nice dance song and then they reverse the rhythm and you think, this can't be danced to because of that very reason..  But you listen because there could be another switch.. There isn't.. But it intrigues you..  So the question is, is this in an odd time signature, 5/4 or something like that?? No, the time signature is 4/4 but the rhythm is just reversed..  Cool song.. Thanks for sharing.. You're welcome..

Badge Henry

(P.S. When I say the rhythm is reversed I mean when you hear the "snare" drum being hit, that is one in the count of four.. So it goes Snare 1 2  3  4  snare... Where regular beat in the way most people recognize it is 1 snare 3  snare... in the 1 2 3 4 count of regular time.. it is reversed.. one of several songs from their vast catalog of music that messes with time signatures )

(P.P.S.  For all those who have been trying to count it the way in the P.S. above.. It's funky isn't it??  But for those who think I am full of shit.. How to find out if I am right.. When the keyboard starts the main theme, it comes in on one.. Right at the snare hitting, that is one, in the count of four and it remains that way throughout the song.. There are times it sounds like it is in 5/4 but it never veers off from the 4/4 inversion rhythm...)