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Post by jk on Jan 24, 2022 22:53:13 GMT
Can't leave this one out! Possibly making its debut on this forum, it's "96 Tears":
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Post by jk on Jan 25, 2022 11:51:44 GMT
"They give him his orders at Monroe, Virginia Sayin', 'Steve, you're way behind time This is not '38, this is old '97 Put her into Spencer on time'"
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Post by jk on Jan 25, 2022 22:46:36 GMT
Keith ~ "98.6":
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 25, 2022 23:44:50 GMT
A classic from my youth, "99 Red Balloons" (in English, anyway).
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Post by jk on Jan 26, 2022 20:48:25 GMT
I can rattle off the names of three members of U2 but often get stumped when it comes to their bassist, Adam Clayton. I've often spent entire walks with my son's dog racking my brain to remember it. It came to me again on a recent walk, which is when I stumbled on the perfect mnemonic:
According to the Scriptures, Adam was the first man and the first person to be created. In his 1961 hit "A Hundred Pounds Of Clay", Gene McDaniels celebrates the fact that God then "created a woman and-a lots of lovin' for a man".
OK, a ton isn't 100 lbs but it's a measure of weight and close enough in combination with Adam and clay to jog even the sluggish jk memory...
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 26, 2022 20:55:46 GMT
"Waltz of the 101st Lightborne," by Joanna Newsom ... which I think is the second time I've used Ms. Newsom's work in this thread, so thanks to her for offering numbers in songs, thus allowing me to not entirely lean on the Magnetic Fields and the Mountain Goats (both of whom uses an inordinate number of numbers in their songs!).
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Post by jk on Jan 27, 2022 11:57:06 GMT
This verse from English band The 1975's "102" made me smile when I saw it:
"And when I knock At a hundred and two And I see your pajamas I can't stop smiling at you"
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Post by jk on Jan 27, 2022 20:12:09 GMT
The further we venture into three figures, the more creative we are going to have to be. These are BabyMetal with "Tales Of The Destinies", a track from their 2016 album Metal Resistance:
"Set me free! Three, two, one, three, two, one, zero? Three, two, one, three, two, one, zero?"
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 27, 2022 20:14:43 GMT
"Psalm 104," from Nathan Salsburg's excellent Psalms.
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Post by jk on Jan 28, 2022 10:02:58 GMT
"A hundred and five is the number that comes to my head When I think of all the years I wanna be with you Wake up every morning with you in my bed That's precisely what I plan to do"
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Post by carllove on Jan 29, 2022 1:48:45 GMT
I love some Jay Z (American Gangster is the Bomb!), but not so much this song. Somewhere about 100 words in - it mentions 106th and Park. Not a lot of choices here, so at least it’s an artist I like.
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Post by lonelysummer on Jan 29, 2022 3:08:22 GMT
"They give him his orders at Monroe, Virginia Sayin', 'Steve, you're way behind time This is not '38, this is old ' 97Put her into Spencer on time'" Just had that one on last night - although I think the San Quentin version beats it.
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Post by lonelysummer on Jan 29, 2022 3:09:37 GMT
A classic from my youth, "99 Red Balloons" (in English, anyway).
I had a crush on Nena.
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Post by jk on Jan 29, 2022 10:32:15 GMT
I love some Jay Z (American Gangster is the Bomb!), but not so much this song. Somewhere about 100 words in - it mentions 106th and Park. Not a lot of choices here, so at least it’s an artist I like. I'm not much of a rap person (when the words become more important than the music -- most rap, protest songs, "The Ballad Of"s, etc -- I'm out of there). That said, I thought Jay-Z did a fabulous job with the soundtrack of the 2013 filming of The Great Gatsby:
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Post by jk on Jan 29, 2022 10:47:31 GMT
"107 pulled out of the station You said it would be on time this time Father Jim said leaving was our choice Sure hope things will be different this time"
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