This week’s prompt: “Song with a number in the title”
This week’s song is from The Who’s Quadrophenia, a rock opera about a young London mod named Jimmy, who, as his life starts to fall apart, feels fragmented into four different persona. As brilliant as much of the music is1, I can’t listen to it often because it’s so emotionally gut-wrenching. I’m One is one of the more hopeful moments, as Jimmy can, at least for the moment, accept who he is.
Once again, in your responses use a URL like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXctarOxRz8
Youtube’s suggested sharing format
https://youtu.be/KXctarOxRz8
doesn’t appear to work in comments. Also, put the URL on a line by itself.
A number in both the song title, and the band name. A Three Dog Night anecdote… a small teacher’s college in Nebraska had booked a band a year and something in advance for their annual spring fling thing. Between the time they booked the band and the fling, the band turned into Three Dog Night and had at least one top-ten hit. TDN didn’t play the gig at the college, but did arrange for a replacement and paid all the costs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ab8BOu4LEReport
First one that comes to my mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYnqp-bxvgReport
Three hits to
the heart, son
and its pooooooe-etry
in mo-tion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRzPAI6nZKkReport
A go to when working/cooking/chilling out, one of those that lots of folks have heard and many don’t even know the title. Take Five, Dave Brubeck and fun to dig for since they never played it the same way twice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkwReport
I heard a standard version of this once and thought “What? It has words?”Report
it does?Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OsEsDksNawReport
I doubt Brubeck wrote lyrics for it, but that doesn’t mean someone else couldn’t. My son does it all the time, although his lyrics are not quite as refined (we are still working on the mechanics of poetry, through the works of Shel Silverstein).Report
well…if we can thrust “Goin’ Home” on Dvorak I suppose we must be tolerant of such things.Report
Well, actually …
The music was written by Paul Desmond, who played sax in Brubeck’s quartet. The lyrics were written b y Brubeck and his wife.Report
I stand corrected.Report
…”never played it the same way twice”
Wasn’t that kinda the whole point of Jazz?Report
shh…you’ll scare off the uninitiated that don’t know…Report
Case in point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDsyTms4pD4Report
Whiskey Town – 16 days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyMtm8f0BVEReport
New Model Army – 225. Still going strong after 35 years. I took my username from the lead singer.
This golden age of communication
Means everyone talks at the same time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8qPpJIESkReport
Three Girl Rhumba by Wire
Disco 2000 by Pulp
Can’t post videos right nowReport
Courtesy of another Wire fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QykauA8p14Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXZcJojTucgReport
This was a big influence on me, seeing as I was a trumpet player. Also, Terry Kath’s guitar player is still to die for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUAYeN3Rp2EReport
I cannot really say favorite, but not many songs with numbers came into my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVS9sNUqBkwReport
Here’s one from a group you (IIRC) introduced me to on one of the dear departed Glyph’s listening parties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd9TIzdF8SgReport
Re: The OP…
I’m a huge Who fan and this is one of my favorites. I used to imagine this scenario where a school held a Back to School talent show and one of the not-so-cool kids had learned to play guitar and sing over the summer, and maybe grown his hair out a bit. He plays that first stanza with a lone spotlight on him to let the other kids know, they are going to figure out he is cool too. Then that second verse comes in, the drums fire up, spotlight expands to the whole stage and some of the other not-so-cool kids learned to play over the summer too. Suck it popular kids, we rock!
Perhaps I watched too many episodes of Glee…
As for a number song, this one still makes me happy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f06QZCVUHgReport
Remember how long ago and far away Woodstock felt in 1994 at the 25th Anniversary Concert?
Well, the 50th Anniversary is coming up!Report
Ugh. Don’t remind me. That was the summer before my sophomore year of college and the year I became a dad. I’m too young to have a 25 year-old anything.Report
Hey! I’m old enough to remember Woodstock, even if I was a couple years too young to undertake going.
I was talking with my daughter the other day, and she suddenly realized that her daughters have a still-living great-grandmother who remembers when electricity arrived in her small Iowa town.Report
I picture almost any Who song Townshend sings himself that way. When he wants to be cool, he morphs into Roger Daltrey.Report
Not their best, but the best lullaby of all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k2PJFPu57YReport
I changed my mind. Might be a morning vs. evening thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYkKpii1kcReport
this one is fun
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From Jethro Tull’s “Minstrel in the Gallery”, two songs back-to-back: One White Duck, and Zero to the Tenth Power Equals Nothing at All. The latter is clever; the former is as beautiful as anything ever written.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kbjslTAlEReport
And of course this one which has been unfortunately played half to death.
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Oh no, it’s been played all the way to death, resurrected, played to death again, and is currently enjoying Lich status.Report
But it has the huge advantage of having an instantly recognizable, and easy to play, bass line, which I’ve used to my advantage.Report
In honor of May Day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhc55qjHHXsReport
‘A lot of you probably don’t know many songs about coal miners.’ (paraphrased) Well, not many with numbers in them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCen9-RELMReport
“I know a lot of you don’t do songs about coal miners” Number 16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCen9-RELMReport
Good call PD. My favorite:
https://youtu.be/BsV3MW3cSMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsV3MW3cSMU&feature=youtu.beReport
Testing a wide-screen video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OTjFqWcDQYReport
…you couldn’t have tested a wide-screen video with a number in the title?Report
Well, it would probably take a pretty big number to require wide screen.
On Youtube that clip shoots almost all the way to the right margin, which is highly unusual. Not sure why they coded that, but it obviously exists as an option for any artist.Report
While driving home, I remembered my absolute favorite number-in-the-title song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKyBlJ_JN8Report
Tim Buckley’s Phantasmagoria in Two: The non-falsetto version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UusLG4lasIReport
I waited a few days to respond to this one because I could tell my answer wasn’t coming to mind – like other things were coming to mind but not my REAL answer.
This is it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hauYoU2rlY8Report