I finished my tour of the alphabet a few weeks ago, and it occurred to me around that time that there was a natural extension of that theme once I got through the Zs. To wit:
1. Going For The One – Yes
2. Breaking Us In Two – Joe Jackson
3. Three Babies – Sinead O’Connor
4. Friend Is A Four Letter Word – CAKE
5. Take Five – Dave Brubeck Quartet
6. Number Six Driver – Eddie From Ohio
7. The Magnificent Seven – Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers
8. Eight Days of Hanukkah – Orrin Hatch and Madeline Stone
9. 9:45 – Mieka Pauley
10. Ten Cents A Dance – Julie Murphy
As you can see, the number 9 almost defeated me, but I pulled it out at the end. Anyone have a song with the word or number 9 in the title? Let me know if you do. I’ve got two more of these lists to follow.
Entire song list report: Started with “Kool Whip”, by the Austin Lounge Lizards. Ended with “Lay All Your Love On Me”, from the “Mamma Mia!” soundtrack. Have I mentioned how much Olivia loves “Mamma Mia!”? Yes, I believe I have. That was song #2778, for a total of 60 this week. The last “K” song was “Kyrie Eleison”, by the Oni Wytars Ensemble. The first “L” song was “L – Y”, by Tom Lehrer.
Ripping vinyl report: Way back when I first got the USB turntable, Greg Wythe ripped a couple of albums for me when he had some free time. Among them was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run”. One thing we learned from that experience was that we needed to set the input volume level higher than the manufacturer’s recommendations, or you’d get a very low-volume playback. That’s not such a big deal if you’re just listening to that album on your iPod, but in any sequence that includes stuff from other sources, it can be painful. So, this week I decided to re-do “Born To Run”. Initial playback in iTunes on my laptop suggests I got the level right, or at least I got it closer, but we’ll see when one of these songs comes up in the rotation. In addition to this, I also did one side of The Boss’ “Darkness On The Edge Of Town”. I have side 2 of that and “Tunnel of Love”, before I can finally say I’ve got all my Springsteen collection ripped.
One – Three Dog Night
Two Hot Girls (On A Hot Summer Night) – Carly Simon
Three Time Loser – Bonnie Raitt
4 + 20 – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Five Feet High And Rising – Johnny Cash
Six O’Clock – The Lovin’ Spoonful
Seven Year Ache – Rosanne Cash
Eight Miles High – The Byrds
Cloud Nine – The Temptations
Ten Feet Off The Ground – Rosemary Clooney & Michael Feinstein
Other Nine songs:
Engine Engine # 9
Love Potion #9
You know, I have “Love Potion No. 9”. I don’t know how I missed it.
One by One – Enya
Two Socks at Play – John Williams, Dances with Wolves Soundtrack
One of the Three – James
St. Nick On the Fourth in a Fervor – Ha Ha Tonka (from SXSW 2008)(http://www.hahatonkamusic.com/)
Five String Serenade – Mazzy Star
Symphony No. 6 – Tchaikovsky (yes, I totally cheated here)
Seven Lonely Days – Petty Booka
Eighth Lit Window – Rachael Davis
Nine Ships – The Voom Blooms (from SXSW 2008)(http://www.myspace.com/thevoomblooms)
10:1 – Friends of Lizzy
– John Williams
+ John Barry
Fun!
Only One – Kylesa
By Two’s – Yo La Tengo
A Three-Legged Workhorse – This Will Destroy You
4th Chamber – GZA
Eight Five – the Magnetic Fields
Six Pack – the Dirty Projectors
Seven Days – the Fastbacks
Eight Days a Week – the Beatles
Be-9 – Versus
Perfect Ten – the Beautiful South
#9 dream – john lennon (from 1974 release “Walls and Bridges”)
Eight was the tough one for me.
1. No One Like You – The Scorpions
2. Two Fat Feet – The Fiery Furnaces
3. Three Strange Days – School Of Fish
4. Twentyfourseven – The Small Stars
5. Five String Serenade – Mazzy Star
6. Six Months In a Leaky Boat – Splitz Enz
7. Seven Steps To Satan – Luna
8. Eight Ball – Sara Hickman
9. A Heart Like Nine – Black Heart Procession
10. 10:1 – Rogue Wave
Modest Mouse, “Interstate 8,” would have been a much better choice.
Grade 9 – Barenaked Ladies
#9 Dream – John Lennon
The only two 9 songs I’ve got…
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