Best Math-Rock record?

[bbernardini]

You know...the kind of record that has moments that are so rhythmically complicated you have to get out a calculator to figure out how it all lines up.

My personal favorite is King Crimson's "Discipline", probably followed a close second by "Thrak".

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Anything Bach

I don't know how he did it.

--bkl

[NashVegas]

2. To Hell with Calculators

It's what moves your hips and soul that counts.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Zappa's "Jazz From Hell"

and pretty much everyhthing by Stockhausen, Varese, Glass, and Reich.

And really, most every Zappa album has a lot of math-rock to it. Ditto on the King Crimson - and Fripp's other work.

Rush does a fair amount of it, as did (do?) Queensryche.

I love that term "math-rock", by the way. Never heard it before. Did you just come up with it?

[bbernardini]

4. I might have thought of it independently...

...but I think others thought of it as well.

[underpants]

5. Anything by Rush

I always thought of them as the mathmaticians of rock. I like them but all of the hard core fans I knew ended up as engineers or computer programmers.

:shrug:

[alarcojon]

6. or mathematicians, like myself

and YYZ is the most mathematical of their tunes. Also the hardest song to dance to ever written.

[shadu]

7. Airto: Batica Alan Parsons: I Robot

Theme from Kolchak, the Night Stalker
Chick Corea: Tap Tap
Mathu: Siam

[shadu]

8. Jim Krueger: Trinidad

In the solo on the live version he plays a descending Locrian passage that starts 3/64ths before the next measure.
He does it three times in that solo. Each time he continues playing
the next two phrases 3/64ths ahead of the band. Crazy.