For the third and final entry in my numeric theme list, here are ten more songs with numbers in the title, starting with the number 25:
1. When I’m 25 or 64 – Jonathan Coulton
2. Section 29 – The Polyphonic Spree
3. Smells Like Thirty-Something – Asylum Street Spankers
4. 36 Lovers – Ready For The World
5. 40 – U2
6. Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon
7. 52 Girls – The B-52’s
8. 57 Channels (And Nothin’ On) – Bruce Springsteen
9. Route 66 – Lager Rhythms
10. Texas 71 – Magnolia Electric Co.
Needless to say, it starts to get tougher the higher you go. How high can you count on your iPod?
Entire song list report: Started with “Light Up My Room”, by the Barenaked Ladies. Finished with “Locomotive Breath”, by Jethro Tull, song #2976, for a total of 94 tunes this week.
Ripping vinyl report: This week I went old school, literally. I have in my collection a pair of early-80s records by the Rice University Marching Owl Band, a/k/a The MOB, featuring halftime and timeout music they’d play on the field and in the stands for football games. Back then, the selections leaned heavily towards show and movie tunes – the two albums have excerpts from things like “The Wiz”, “Porgy and Bess”, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”, “E.T.”, and “Fame”. Today’s MOB draws much more heavily from popular music, though some of these oldies still pop up occasionally. It was a trip listening to it all, that’s for sure.
25 or 6 to 4 – Chicago
#34 – Dave Matthews Band
44 Stories – Rosanne Cash
5:15 A.M. – Mark Knopfler
7 Deadly Sins – The Traveling Wilburys
A sampling of my own …
32 Pennies – Warrant
I Can’t Drive 55 – Sammy Hagar
Summer of ’69 – Bryan Adams
87 – Bouncing Souls
99 Luftballons – Nena
935 Lies – Harry Shearer
1985 – Roper
2000 Man – KISS
5150 – Van Halen
Sixteenth Century Greensleeves – Rainbow
21st Century – Nick Gilder
One in a Million – Trixter
“In the year 2525. . .”
Sadly, my collection does not include Zager & Evans.
21 @ 12 – Hot Hot Heat
2112 Overture – Rush
Catch 22 – A Bad Think
23 – Blonde Redhead
24 Hour Party People – Happy Mondays
3030 – Deltron 3030
Fire Breathing ’32 – The Untamed Youth
Calling All Units To Broccolino – Calibro 35
We Do What We’re Told (Milgram’s 37) – Peter Gabriel
The Assman 640 Speaks – Deltron 3030
Yes, all these songs are in my library!
Forgot. I have Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture in the Classical section of my iTunes library.
What no “Rainy Day Women 12 & 35” by Bob Dylan?