Time Out

And I want to talk about Take Five for a little while.

It's from the album Time Out by Dave Brubeck.

And the way I put it in the Returning Watch article of mine, during that breakfast scene, we hear Dave Brubeck's Take Five, which is another point of nostalgia slash misdirection, like the Marlon Brando references in the Wally Brando scene.

Take Five is close in percussion style to typical Twin Peaks music.

A fine example of things we expect to happen, but in ways we'd never fathom seeing them.

Now, from me, your podcast host today, I want to talk a little bit about Time Signature.

Time Out is a jazz album that's focused on time and avant-garde time signatures throughout the songs on the album.

I'm thinking of Three to Get Ready, which Lynch used in Inland Empire.

We were getting into a lot of different time signatures.

There's a great album called Time Out by Dave Brubeck.

And every single song on that album was a different time signature.

Then there was another album after that was called Time Out Again or something like that.

But he had a few albums where every song was a different time.

freaking rhythmic way of playing music in a different like five over four and you know like nine time and all this weird type of stuff and that helped my scratching a whole lot

It was all live.

When the album Time Out shipped in September of 59, it hit the charts modestly.

No single dominated the pop list.

But radio DJs began looping the track on late-night jazz shows because its syncopated feel kept listeners intrigued.

On either side of the line, some people love Dave Brubeck and some people couldn't stand Dave Brubeck.

But he was remarkably popular, especially, of course, after his 1959 record Time Out sold a kajillion copies.

Probably still is.

I mean, I'm sure it's still.

It still sounds relevant today because...

Because it borrows from so many different traditions and it explores concepts of polytonality, where you're playing in two keys at once.

Or, as we said with Time Out, all these kind of odd meter songs.

So to my ear anyway, it still sounds relevant even today, all these years later.