why is it that unusual time signatures make music so interesting?

@Felthry I think I like the way you have accents at a nonuniform rhythm? Like in Led Zeppelin's "The Ocean", you have every other measure ending an eighth-note earlier and it's nonuniform but consistent in a way I can lock into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w2kLS4gkks

@packbat I hope you don't mind that I don't watch your example--listening to music with lyrics is something we avoid at the best of times and right now it seems harder than usual

but yeah, I can see what you mean I think?

But not all music has that--look at the Marx battle music from kirby for instance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NmGBbzHDjc

there's no discernable overall structure at all

@packbat though, the marx battle music is designed to be disorienting and awkward

we've heard it described as "like a carnival ride that's gone completely off the rails"

@Felthry Yeah, the rapid changes in pattern definitely fit right into a "this is disorienting" feel

@packbat you see unusual time signatures fairly frequently in battle music, stuff that's supposed to make you feel a bit overwhelmed--see for example the 23/8 ganondorf battle music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thomsF5OY_g or the "28-and-change/16" Strong One (Masked Man) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgIRaLHLug0

Or, it's used in a less overwhelming and more just "urgent" manner in the 5/4 battle theme Don't Be Afraid, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbORjWw_6No