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30 Day Music Challenge: Day 2 – A Song With a Number In the Title

Today’s challenge is to post a song with a number in the title.  So here’s R.E.M.’s “Pop Song 89”

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90 Comments

  1. Kelly Sucy

    Hello. I saw you. I know you. I knew you. I think that I remember your name… … … … Should we talk about the government? …

  2. Linda Walsh

    Here is one from my childhood-Zager and Evans, “In The Year 2525:
    https://youtu.be/yesyhQkYrQM

    • Deborah A Baudoin

      My entire life. My. Entire. Life. I have NOT been able to figure out mathematically the title of that song. It drives me batty.

    • Rob Wynne

      Deborah: According to Robert Lamm, who wrote it:

      “I was living with a bunch of hippies up above Sunset Strip. One of the advantages of this particular house was that it was in the Hollywood Hills and I could look out over the city late at night. I wanted to try to describe the process of writing the song that I was writing. So, ‘waiting for the break of day, searching for something to say, flashing lights against the sky’ -- there was a neon sign across the city. That song came from the fact that it was 25 or 6 to 4 a.m. in the morning when I looked at my watch -- I was looking for a line to finish the chorus.

      Most songs that were written, especially in the early days, whenever I got them to the band and we started rehearsing them, that’s when the songs took shape -- once these guys got hold of them. There was definitely a lot of raw material, I thought it was a song when I wrote the words down, I wrote the changes down and I brought the charts to rehearsal, but it wasn’t really a song until they all played it.”

    • Angela Margitan

      Rob beat me to it -yep, it’s the time of day. 25 or 26 minutes to 4:00. Basically he’s so tired he can’t tell if it’s 3:35 or 3:36am. XD

    • Deborah A Baudoin

      Angela Margitan My brain can’t process this right now. I think I need some chocolate to adjust. 😀

    • Garrett Fitzgerald

      Analog watch, it’s not that much difference between the times -- especially if the hands are a bit misaligned. 🙂

  3. Iain Muir

    Neun und nuenzig luftballons

  4. Peter D Fisher

    Here’s one that’s hopeful not messed up like the last one https://youtu.be/FJhWdaE69LI

  5. Jeff Williams

    What is this challenge?

  6. Jim Poltrone

    (Trying again.) The Moody Blues, “22,000 Days”. A song about human mortality. I did the math; that’s about 60 years and 3 months.

  7. Alexander Arce

    U2 -- Hawkmoon 269 (I Need Your Love)

  8. Elaine Roberson

    Love Potion #9 -- The Searchers

  9. Stephanie Weippert

    Kind of surprised this wasn’t here already.
    https://youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo

  10. T J Burnside Clapp

    Oh, and of course … Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9

  11. T J Burnside Clapp

    Oh wait, I remembered another one! 🙂

  12. JT Traub

    John Cage. 4’33

  13. David Weingart

    Still can’t sing this one without choking up

    https://youtu.be/ondboIwZSdQ

  14. Jim Poltrone

    If we’re not gonna limit ourselves to integers…..

  15. David Weingart

    (I’ll stop now 😉 )

  16. Mike Whitaker

    Has to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0kJdrfzjAg -- “A simple boy meets girl song… complicated by the presence of a motorcycle.”

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