Friday random ten: 25 and up

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.

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6 Responses to Friday random ten: 25 and up

  1. Linkmeister says:

    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

  2. Greg Wythe says:

    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

  3. Linkmeister says:

    “In the year 2525. . .”

    Sadly, my collection does not include Zager & Evans.

  4. 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!

  5. Linkmeister says:

    Forgot. I have Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture in the Classical section of my iTunes library.

  6. Patrick says:

    What no “Rainy Day Women 12 & 35” by Bob Dylan?

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