Although the theme of "Time Out" is non-common-time signatures, things are not quite so simple. "Blue Rondo à la Turk" starts in , with a typically Balkan subdivision into short and long beats (the rhythm of the Turkish "zeybek", equivalent of the Greek "zeibekiko") as opposed to the more typical way of subdividing as , but the saxophone and piano solos are in . The title is a play on Mozart's "Rondo alla Turca" from his Piano Sonata No. 11, and reflects the fact that the band heard the rhythm while traveling in Turkey.