Aug 022012
I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the Beach Boy’s “When I grow up to be a man.” It’s sentimental and good-vibey at the same time. And I dig the drums on this. But my favorite part is how they include the counting up of the ages throughout … especially at the end. ” 22 .. 23 … 24 …
So as a Last Man Standing Challenge … what other great songs use this counting technique?
I’ll take this song and Bowie’s Space Oddity off the board to start.
Violent Femmes “Kiss Off” jumped to mind….
Senses Working Overtime
5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years Of Love) by The Presidents.
Tom Robinson, “2-4-6-8 Motorway”
Space Oddity
Zager and Evans, In the Year 2525
Oops! I missed that Space Oddity was already off the board. How about the Ten Commandments of Love?
The Royal Guardsmen — “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The Bloody Red Baron kept rollin’ up the score
Everyday I Write The Book
Chapter 1, chapter 2 and so on….
Very important to 20 Flight Rock, wasn’t it?
i-feel-like-i’m-fixin’-to-die rag
Great topic, Machinery, but When I Grow Up to Be A Man is a cream-puff muffin turd.
I had the chorus of this song jump into mind but I had to look up who sang it.
“1-2-3” by Len Barry
it was a very good year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0GAjK64VZg
Maybe the most recent in this cannon — the unlikely hit by Feist — 1234
http://youtu.be/ABYnqp-bxvg
Edwin Starr — “25 Miles”
“25 Minutes To Go” from the Man in Black and Uncle Shel.
Just happened to hear one – 1, 2, 3, 4 by the “Plain White T’s”
Blindingly obvious example not cited so far: Manfred Mann, “5-4-3-2-1”.
1, 2, 3, Red Light by the 1910 Fruitgum Company
Three times a lady?
Does “Alice’s Restaurant” count? “They got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one police car…”
“1 banana, 2 banana, 3 banana, 4 / 4 bananas make a bunch and so do many more / 4 banana, 3 banana, 2 banana, 1 / all bananas playing in the bright warn sun”.
I would have like to started with a rock song but I’ve got a Liz Phair version of this that won’t leave my head.
Is it as hard to get out of your head as the Dickies’ version?
Tra la la, tra la la laaa!
“Twelve Days of Christmas.” It’s the bass solo of caroling
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LD
Jimmie Rodgers — “Oh Oh I’m Falling in Love Again”
“The Numbers Song” by DJ Shadow is full of countdowns.
Delicious AND disgusting?
Beach Boys – “Little Honda”
http://youtu.be/rqUtCx9iJoQ
“4, 3, 2, 1
Earth below us, drifting, falling.
Floating weightless, calling, calling home.” – PSchilling, “Major Tom”
Sorry ’bout that, but being the LMS is a dirty business sometimes.
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LD
Stuck In The Middle by the Replacements has that counting bit 17,18, 19, 21. Funny that he leaves out twenty to make it work.
Ooh, ooh. That comment about leaving a number out made me think of a song where the opposite happens and they have to do one number twice to make it fit: “Pretty Fly For A White Guy”. Uno dos tres quatro cinquo cinquo seis!
“Uno, dos, tres, catorce!”
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LD
The Beatles incredibly tossed-off kiddie song, “All Together Now”, is chock full of counting: http://youtu.be/sDdo7T9BkxM
“1-2-3 Red Light” – LAST MAN STANDING!
See No. 20, Mr. Mod…
I know we’re all youngsters here, but five days in and no one’s popped “One, two, three o’clock, four o’clock rock! Five, six, seven o’clock, eight o’clock rock! Nine, ten, eleven o’clock, twelve o’clock rock!” Come on! From “Happy Days”! Ayyyyyyy!
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LD
Shame on us! Thank you for getting that one off the board. Also, my apologies for playing a hand that had already been dealt. Thank you, BobbyB.
Chuck Berry – “13 Question Method”
Can’t find Chuck doing it, but here’s Ry Cooder & David Lindley doing a slide-tastic live version:
Oops! Here it is: http://youtu.be/KHpAxp9PO4s
12345 sixers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEKK3GVd150&feature=related
1-32
Cheap Trick’s “Invaders of the Heart”
http://youtu.be/47I6EFnAyoc
“One, two, three, four, five against one.” – Pearl Jam, “Animal”
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LD