Thank Fifi it’s Friday.
It’s been two long weeks since our last tango. How did you all cope?
This week, reader Verbatim suggested the theme for our voucherless music banter: what’s your favourite song with a number in the title/lyrics?
Here’s mine.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines close on Saturday at Midnight.
Two weeks ago, I asked for your favourite song about or mentioning an animal. You answered in your tens.
Eamonn won my esteem with this entry:
Gil Scott-Heron – Delta Man
Eamonn writes:
“‘The hooded crows, make me smile with their waist coats and gnarly smiles…'”
Nick says: Congratulations Eamonn. Thanks to everyone who entered.
Previously: Win Nick’s Esteem
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99 Red Balloons.
…nobody I’d rather be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvMsp7s78Do
‘The one’ is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZH-emehxA
Only one or Two…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE
Gyal, you deep
Thanks Nick, much appreciated.
That was so ulful eamonn!
blackberry smoke, lucky seven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvgwToALbbo
“to
reel
a
deeper
meaning
feeling
from
seas
where
schools
of
fools
be
first”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp4GdI_bTD4
(Top one Eamonn..!)
Fleetwood Mac – Seven Wonders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wHzigL_y8
Great choice
Well done eamonn!
For me, I think it has to be the wonderfully quirky Johnny Cash song that also names pretty much every year for a decade :-) One Piece At A Time
Where I learned to say ‘Ay-Dapterr Kit’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=060A15ELz00
For the weather that’s in it – Desmond Dekker, & The Aces, – “007”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpVxwWQjIy0
twenty flight ska
junior dell & the delights
https://youtu.be/8wayXS9WLFI
always the right weather for Ska
How about a Party For One?
Okay, you can bring Amy Adams!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9RCrmOOkI
Elliot Smith – Waltz #2 (XO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWn9ocrMhlE
55 Degrees north 3 degrees west
https://youtu.be/jvU1AzV2iX4
Shirley Ellis – Soul Time
2,4,6,8,10
https://youtu.be/NVOj6l_g-FI
One of Northern Souls finest.
Here you go kid, have some Wilson Pickett
https://youtu.be/TSGuaVAufV0
Given the month Ukraine has endured at the hands of you know who – I’d suggest
King Crimson “21st Century Man”
Blood rack, barbed wire
Politicians funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
21st century schizoid man
Death seed, blind man’s greed
Poets starving, children bleed
Nothing he’s got, he really needs
21st century schizoid man
the full 9 yards 3 drummer version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3028oDEKZo4
radio edit for the more sensitive souls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWCV9LLTHx0
that should of course have read “21st Century Schizoid Man” by King Crimson – the Schizoid bit is important when considering employee of the month here
Mandatory Beatles entry
8 Days a week
https://youtu.be/kle2xHhRHg4
When I’m 64
https://youtu.be/HCTunqv1Xt4
Phoenix. 1901
Perfect French indie pop.
https://youtu.be/HL548cHH3OY
The absolute legend that is Dolly Parton gave us 9 to 5.
The song was certainly more successful than the movie for which it was written.
https://youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4
Well I’m glad someone remembered Dolly.
“ Rise up this morning, smile with the rising sun, 3 little birds pitch by my doorstep”
https://youtu.be/HNBCVM4KbUM
It’s a bit early to tell what the average age of the Russian cannon fodder conscript dead si going to be but maybe we can reprise
Paul Hardcastle “19”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sajngb0W6I
16/15/14
“You just slip out the back Jack”
50 Ways To Leave your lover. Paul Simon
https://youtu.be/ABXtWqmArUU
Shur i’ts only ‘The number 1 song all over in heaven’ from Sparks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6I6yr7WDeg
At Seventeen – Janis Ian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZQyoiXzUrY
Great pick. Love this song.
Great choice (2)
Paul Desmond – Take Ten (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7finO1huMZw
Same saxophonist who played with Dave Brubeck on that other one
Connie Allen – Rocket 69 (1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpFB6vXkmg
Inspired by Rocket 88 of the same year
Perez Prado – Mambo No. 8 (1950)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWQqpzOhEks
The best of all the Mambo numbers, in my opinion
https://youtube/thXqAY6RMTs
A little Joe Walsh before got all eagles-y?
James Gang, funk 49
https://youtu.be/U_qHU_6Ofc0
Toots and The Maytals – 54-46 was my number
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxNwvjzGM0
Surprised nobody’s thrown this classic up, dave brubeck – take five
https://youtu.be/tT9Eh8wNMkw
The Pogues – Thousands are sailing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQNNjXztsI
Susan McKeown & Tartit – Oró mhíle grá
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBehJrPMmc
It’s plain to see Nick’s esteem was meant for me
20th Century Boy
Marc Bolan and T Rex
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rpMa6JADDJM
500 miles
If 6 was 9
Jimi Hendrix
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vZuFq4CfRR8
Early Al Stewart instrumental – Denise At 16 (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nH6f0Q4-zc
David Bowie Five Years – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bcnO3VQ_fc
And all the fat-skinny people
and all the short-tall people
and all the nobody people
and all the somebody people
I never thought I’d need so many people
“7 Seconds” by Youssou N’Dour and Neneh Cherry – as this is currently the life expectancy of a hapless under equipped Russian conscript on the Ukrainian front – a update of the late Rik Mayall’s Lord Flashheart Black Adder classic the “Twenty Minuters” which represented the life expectancy of WW1 pilots (which now applies to those above the rank of Colonel in the invading fascist Russian army)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-uTS0qb7Dw
“7 Seconds” by Youssou N’Dour and Neneh Cherry – topical as it represents the average life expectancy of a hapless Russian conscript on the Ukrainian front – this marks a considerable regression on Lord Flashheart’s (RIck Mayall) “20 Minuters” rule of thumb for WW1 pilots in Blackadder – though this rule still applies for those in the current Russian army from Colonel rank upwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-uTS0qb7Dw
Peter Tosh
Four hundred years
https://youtu.be/q-wBWZm3quQ
loudest is best
Leonard cohens the soldiers song
It’s the most poignant song regarding these events in the world today
Leonard cohens the soldiers song
It’s the most poignant song regarding these events in the world today though a number is not in the title it’s in the lyrics
Actually it says title/lyrics
I assumed title or lyrics and a number 3 is in the lyrics
Kíla – Leath ina dhiadh a hocht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaj4c6s3fMg
Cop Shoot Cop – Ten Dollar Bill
They don’t make music videos like this anymore…
https://youtu.be/eiXtyVhCzLA
In the year of one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight…
Gay & Terry Woods – Dunlavin Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5B78pmKXeQ
Always a keen interest in her here:
Imelda May – 11 past the hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Bvbc8LBnA
The Pretenders
2000 miles
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AEyGZlBdkaA
“It’s 8:15
And that’s the time that it’s always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal, and you’re coming home…”
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Enola Gay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCgIhZUv1fg
You want numbers in the title? I’ll give you numbers in the title.
Tom Waits – 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six.
https://youtu.be/MbJ8HseHIPc
Transcendentally bonkers
Philip King & Peter Browne – Seacht nóiméad déag chun a seacht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehVqHzu33eo
YAS – Get it right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jAHFQp8DuU
Come on over
Break some bread
Close the window
And we’ll lay on the bed
Teenage Fanclub – Norman 3
With bonus non-musical cameo in the video from a few Breeders
https://youtu.be/F6FIxUdlABA
Just gonna try and slip this in quietly
Six blade knife – Dire Straits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHIIivQnIsU