Artist/Band

Aerosmith
Alan Parsons
Beach Boys
Beatles
Beatles
Beatles
Brian Wilson
Cars
Cars
Chicago
Depeche Mode
Doobie Brothers
Dream Theater
Earth, Wind and Fire
Fall
Gentle Giant
Hendrix/Dylan
Hoobastank
Magnetic Fields
Magnetic Fields
New Order's
Paula Abdul
Pearl Jam
Police
Police
Radiohead
Radiohead
Rascals
Steppenwolf
Steve Earle
Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears
Who
XTC
Yes
Police
Led Zeppelin
Ani DiFranco

Song Name
Release Date
Janie's Gotta Gun
I Robot
Wendy
Drive My Car
I Want To Hold Your Hand
She's A Woman
Caroline No
Let the Good Times Roll
Since You're Gone
Make Me Smile
See You
Minute by Minute
The Mirror
Serpintine Fire
Deer Park
Just the Same
All Along the Watchtower
The Reason
I Wish I Had an Evil Twin
Parades Go By
Blue Monday
Will You Marry Me
Release
Voices Inside My Head
Murder by Numbers
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
The Pyramid Song
A Beautiful Morning
Magic Carpet Ride
Transcendental Blues
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Shout
I'm Free
Wake Up
Changes
Spirits in the Material World
Black Dog
Amazing Grace

1989
1977
1964
1965
1963
1964
1966
1978
1981
1970
1978
1977
1975
1968
2004
1999
1983
1991
1980
1983

1968
1968
1985
1969

1981
1971
1996

Categories of Metric Ambiguity/Fake Out

V = Rhythmic/Metric Vaguness--no clear pulse, no clear ordering of pulses, no higher le
GP1 = Garden Pathing #1: Establishes the correct meter, but out of phase with "correc
GP2 = Garden Pathing #2: Establishes a clear meter, with common beat period, but dif

GP3 = Garden Pathing #3: Establishes a higher-level period, common to to correct me

GP4 = Gardent Pathing #4: Establishes a clear meter with different beat period and me
Sync = excess syncopation obscures beat and/or measure (similar to GP1)
NonIso = starts with complex beat pattern (e.g., 2+2+3, 3+3+2) that then becomes rhyt
Diss = meter is clear, but other parts are a strong "rhythmic dissonance" against it

Album Title
Pump
I Robot
All Summer Long
Rubber Soul
Meet the Beatles
Past Masters Volume 1
Pet Sounds
The Cars
Shake it Up
Chicago II

Amb. Category
GP4
V, GP3
V
symc
symc
symc
GP1 & Sync

Comment
Slow initial beat supplanted by act
vague, then pulse emerges
Long sustained notes --> 4/4
excess syncopation at start
excess syncopation at start
excess syncopation at start
Initial 8th-Q-Q figure sounds synco

GP2

3/4 +3/4 --> 4/4

Minute by Minute

GP2

establishes "5/4", and then other shennanigans

All n' All

GP2/4
GP2

2/2 initially heard becomes 4/4

3/4 -> 4/4

Free Hand
Electric Ladyland
I
69 Love Songs
Power, Corruption And Lies Diss
Spellbound
GP4

Synchronicity

Steppenwolf The Second

Transcendental Blues
Songs From The Big Chair
Tommy
90210
Ghost in the Machine
Zoso/LZ IV
Dilate

Sync
GP4
GP1
NonIso

6/8 against primary 4/4

Downbeat is really on beat 3

NonIso: 3-3-4-3-3 (2x)
metric "balk"

V
???
Sync
???
???
NonIso

excess syncopation at start--measu

Starts Irregular (2+2+3 alternates

GP4 -> GP3

clear ordering of pulses, no higher level perid

meter, but out of phase with "correct" downbeat location (Brian Robinson's sneaky displacement)
er, with common beat period, but different structure from "correct" meter (e.g. 3/4 that gives way to 4/4)

vel period, common to to correct meter, but internal structure is unclear and/or measure period is out of phase (e.g., 6/8 gives way to 3/4)
ter with different beat period and measure from "correct" meter
measure (similar to GP1)
2+3, 3+3+2) that then becomes rhythmic figure against "correct" meter
rhythmic dissonance" against it

Contributor
???
Mark Spicer
Phil Lambert
Walt Everett
Walt Everett
Walt Everett
Phil Lambert
Kathy Biddick
Kathy Biddick
Wes Flinn
Kathy Biddick
then other shennanigans
???
Ives Chor
Jason Gross
John Covach
Brian Robison
Wes Flinn
Mark Spicer
Brian Robison
Mark Spicer
Peter Vazan/JML
Mark Spicer, "Accumulative Form" Article
???
Walt Everett
Richard Littlefield
JML
Brian Robison
Mark Spicer
Marianne Tatom Letts
Kathy Biddick
Harry Berger & Wes Flinn
Jonathan Bernard
Jonathan Bernard
Brian Robison

These GPs are various forms of Spicer's "Cumulative Beginnings"

d is out of phase (e.g., 6/8 gives way to 3/4)