At the ‘Spill, we are concerned about global warming. So to do our bit we would like you to post your bids from 250 to infinity here to keep processors cool.
“Somehow we found ourselves on the Sunset Strip playing songs for the highest bidder”
“My first job is to follow the musical course. Relationships, projects…there’s going to be a lot of collateral damage.”
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Rats! Just signed in to enable follow-ups and had a warning I’m hitting my data limit for the month.
The 300s will have to wait til tomorrow.
Now, can I find my way back to the motorway without the phone’s satnav?
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Apologies if I’m jumping the gun with this, but here’s a 300: 300 miles (From Memphis to New Orleans) by Bill Starks.
I had White Stripes – 300 mph Torrential Outpour Blues
I’m out till 3:10 and that’ll be a shoehorn.
Feist – Flight #303
Out of order but here’s a 250:
Randy Houser – Route 3 Box 250D
Whoa whoa whoa…
Down The Street To 301 by Johnny Cash
Cheers TFD
Ooooh a bit over excited with Feist and forgot about Craig Morgan – 302 South Maple Avenue
No video link.
Take care with whoever nominates 304 as I’ve just found to my surprise it’s slang for a “hoe” – *shocked face*. What a sheltered life I lead.
A really good answer, full of rattnoaliiy!
Well so much for enabling follow-up comments: none gave come through, which means I missed bidding both some –
300 Pound Shoes
(Please find the studio version of David Gogo’s blues stunner, nothing I found on YouTube does it justice)
and a [Ford] Mustang, a 302 Mach One in green
on the back seat of which is Jason Isbell’s dad says Jason was conceived in
DBT’s Outfit
* sigh *
1. “have”, not gave; and
2. Delete the redundant “is”.
Sorry, not properly awake yet.
Because infinity is quite a long way off, I have a suggestionette. Why don’t we cap this game at 999. That way we can save all the numbers that are dates for another game, another time. Whaddayareckon? (ghe)
Sounds sensible to me. Suggestion donded.
Well, RR doesn’t return until 5th September and I have 900,000 all backed up and ready to roll……
btw, years don’t count unless they’re expressed as a number, surely? (e.g. 1945: no; Nineteen hundred and forty-five: yes)
rats .. status quo have 45hundred times .. i was waiting for me chance to throw it in
Except there are a few 1000+ numbers that aren’t dates..that
sorry, typo
why not wait and see whether we get anywhere near 999?
I don’t understand why 1945 wouldn’t count but nineteen hundred and forty-five would….have I missed something?
I was just trying to say that, imho, dates are different from numbers, suzi, but I elected to do so in a confusing way. Nineteen forty-five is how I express a date, but not a number. Our American friends probably undermine my argument, however.
Consensus prevails, of course, but the original idea is it should be things you could theoretically actually bid. A year woould be hard to bid.
Good idea! There are several classics after 101 but there are a few that are ho hum and could be left out of the playlist (most of mine actually).
For those saving up numbers over 999 that ARE NOT dates, maybe we could allow those, if there is still an appetite by the time we reach 999? What does our exam setter think, Tinnie?
Has dates been an RRSA topic? And even so, we could have the same type of game with dates only … starting with DsD’s birthday, moving through the birth of Christ and into the realms of science fiction.
Why are my ears burning?
@ tinny – yes we’ve had RRSA Dates, back in Dorian’s day. Resulted in my very first A-lister!
http://rrindex.com/topics/dates.htm
ok, a virtual prize to the first person to identify this non-date number – 1352
hint – another, larger number also appears in this song but neither number appears in the title
I’m certain you are not referring to the refurbishment of a steam locomotive in San Fran (Project 1352) or the House Bill amending Titles 24 (Education) and 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes so I give up.
You are right, it isn’t those!
As this is Readers RECOMMEND, I am sparing you Evol’s ‘Three Hundred Grams of Latex and Steel in One Day’!!
Happy to exclude dates as not being in the spirit of numbers.
I’ve got some songs at various points between now and 999 plus a couple in the thousands that are “true” numbers, not dates plus at least two ‘biggies’ that I’ve mentioned in passing during the weekend.
If as Tinny original suggested the auction closes at noon tomorrow we’d better get our figurative skates on.
On with the game: the 3:10 I was referring to this morning was the Train to Yuma (recorded by various artists).
totally missed the party here, i was still hanging around wiht the crickets on the last one. But i still have nada for the 300s, so i’ll jump in at the 400s.
The way things are going I’d suggest jumping in with some 400’s just in case no one else turns up.
Ok.
Not a big fave, but an obvious one –
Beah Boys – 409
Mary J Bilge – What’s the 411
don’t think you need a linky for this one –
John Cage – 4’33
And jumping a bit ahead again –
Peter Paul and Mary – 500 Miles
nice typing there. That’s *Beach and *Blige
Happy to go along with “Bilge” 😉
She has some pipes though. Although missing enough of the charisma to go with it to pull off Gimme Shelter with the Stones.
She did a pretty good job in that duet with U2 on One.
The Seekers do a version of 500 Miles too. Similar arrangement but I prefer Judith’s voice.
nobody able to identify the song in which the number 1352 appears in the lyrics? Getting ahead of myself, anyway.
We’re very much in the world of music here.
Badly phrased there.
‘In the lyrics of which song does the number 1352 appear?’
We’re very much in the world of music here.
If no-one has the answer by 10 p,m, tonight I shall be forced to give you another clue, but the value of your virtual prize is bound to be reduced, sorry. 🙂
don’t wanna own it, Suzi?
On the contrary, this is quite a classic song and certainly nothing that I would be ashamed to nominate for an over 1000 non-date list! It’s just a small diversion, that’s all. 🙂
Is it folk?
Nope!
Listening to the first playlist now – lovely tunes so far. Elbow, and the Bunnymen of course. but seeing the winner for 12, i’m so sorry i didn’t get 12XU in 🙂
Sabotage! I might sneakily alter parts of that list once people stop listening to it. 🙂
I didn’t put it up though. Like Panth, i have a list of tunes that i’m gutted that i forgot. Right now Tuunderkiss ’65 (but i love the Band and plannd to put it up myself). Magnificent Seven, but still, i like the Bunnymen better anyway.
Huskers Eight Miles High…
If we’re jumping to 500, then I’ll suggest The Proclaimers ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 miles)’.
That is so donded.
I’ve also got a 600+ number, but I’m sure lots of you know this one as well.
Baggsie 600!
pounds of sin, i reckon…
missed the 20 hounds though…
Well, if I’m not around at the right moment, please come on in…
ok, probably time for another clue – try saying the number to yourself, maybe more than one way. if it still doesn’t ring any bells, I’ll be back later to give you a couple more
Lovin’ Spoonful – Nashville Cats. What have I won?
A virtual pressie of your choice!
That will still be my nom when we get to the 1000s! Sadly can’t think of anything in the 100s that hasn’t already been mentioned – I was going to go for the Proclaimers too but thought we were still in the lower 100s. when somebody nommed it!
Thirteen hundred and fifty two guitar pickers in Nashville – classic song.
Well done, leaveitallbehind, especially if you remembered without Googling….!
Oh no, The Spill rocked by ‘Googlegate’!
I’ll have to give my prize back as I did need a little help.
Had a 405 instrumental way back when. 405 Lines – The Monochrome Set
Dond – did they do 625 too?
Debbie won’t come out (washing her hair…), but I’ve brought:
Blondie: “Detroit 442” – cool curled lip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIkXaHGY7Bc
Merle Haggard 5:01 Blues.
That was in response to Tempusfugit’s bid of 500 Miles.
I’ll avoid the Stones and go with Arctic Monkeys at 505
ooh, dond for the Monkeys. Never heard that Stones song before. (you have something against the Stones?)
Sorry amylee but I’ve never been a Stones fun. Sacriligious I know but just one of those bands I’ve never got in to. Am I banned from RR and The Spill?
nah, i’ll just mark you as not sexy enough to appreciate them 😉
It’s never too late to see the light though.
I was waiting for Amy’s flight to land…
Serves me right for never having Aftermath. I’ll have a listen later – maybe it’s one i didn’t know i knew….
It must have slipped your mind, Amy. Fabulous album (I still have the original first release, but they crammed so much on the grooves are shallow and close together, and it skips easily). But you must know Lady Jane, Under my thumb, Out of time, Mothers little helper, etc – there’s so many. Stand out for me is Going home. Brill album. I’m talking about the UK version – the US one had different tracks. But both had Flight 505.
That’s exactly why i never had that album – or many other old Stones albums – they all had the same songs on them! First Stones albums i had were Hot Rocks and More Hot Rocks, which had a few of those. All of those songs that you mentioned i knew from the radio. I’m pretty sure i had Flowers, i know i had Through the Past Darkly. Not entirely what else, if anything, i had before Satanic Majesties.
Well, you’re forgiven. I’m sure you weren’t even born when I bought my copy! And it’s only in the US that they messed about with tracks – the original Stones albums never had duplicates this side of the pond, till the compilations started. In the mid sixties, even singles weren’t on albums, like strawberry fields with the fabs, and paint it black with the stones.
I was born in 1960, but i was still a young kid when those albums came out, although i knew the hit tunes from the radio. After the Hot Rocks 1 and 2, i bought Exile, which was basically current in real time.
I’m listening to The Beautiful South now, it’s fucking gorgeous. That was yours, wasn’t it.
OK, so here’s State of Bengal, IC408
Surprised – unless I missed it – that we didn’t get Bob Marley’s 400 years
Of course. Dond
Good job you got in with that one because I was just about to attempt a bit of a shoehorn.
Theme music from the film 400 Blows
And as we seem to have reached the 500’s already, how about some jangle pop from Boats – 500%
My next one is 900! So I’m off duty for bit…
My next one is in the 900’s too. I think Dsd might have a few in the 600s. Then Shoey with the biblical chapters might have a run of it until then.
See my comment re Aftermath upthread, Amy…
I wonder if wheel think of anything for 801?
*boom tish*
What’s the view like from Tiger Mountain?
Oblique.
Looks like we’re just going for it now – so to stake me claim:
Brian Eno – The True Wheel
We are the 801 – we are the central shaft
No but we are though aren’t we?
Backtracking a bit:
Tom Waits – Big Joe and Phantom 309
Just listening to Beautiful South (36B) – and I notice it also checks 365, as in “You’re just another 365 night stand”
Kent – 747 (English version: We Ran Out of Time)
Kent – 747 Svensk
Kent – 999
Field Music – Choosing Numbers
Today’s bids:
Savage Garden – A Thousand Words
The Big Pink – 1313
The Pretenders – 2000 Miles
Doris Day – 10,432 Sheep
Razzy Bailey – 9,999,999 Tears
Going out for the day now, but The O’Jays are booked all day to stand in the wings and only emerge if the bidding goes past 991.
(How many disputes could that cause…?)
Sorry, Shiv, but I’ve already gone for 999 by Kent. I was going to nom a Finnish one but I couldn’t imagine you all pronouncing yhdeksänsataayhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän (999).
Just nom songs that you really like and someday soon I’ll assemble them into an RR playlist from 101 to 999.
Cheerio.
Oh! RTJ should be able to draw even as well. Main offender!
I’m really confused now. Are we in the 900s?
No I was just jumping gun. I could list loads of songs (including more Kent – my band of the day), but looking back I think we should have just left it alone for a classic one to 101 list. It’s just confusing when we’re making these rules up on the fly because there aren’t great songs for certain numbers and because people are joining in at different times. Still anything that gets me listening to Kent again has to worthwhile. BTW. Keith’s 999 is pretty good.
OK, if we’re going all out, then ‘666, the Number of the Beast’ by Iron Maiden is an offer, and I’ll up the ante by biddng ‘Land of a Thousand Dances’ by Wilson Pickett, even though the table is capped at 999.
I see we’re way past the three hundreds now, but this just popped up in my iPod. It’s of no consequence, since I don’t think this is anywhere in the internet, anyway, but needs to be mentioned, all the same
Redemption Thong – Thinking about “God” on Room 335 while the guys next door are “getting” blowjobs.
So there.
I have two 600 songs, and I’ll post them now before the whole system collapses in a mountain of unruly digits.
As amy knew, Dire Wolf – six hundred pounds of sin – was my immediate thought.
But then my memory glimpsed something from even further back: Manfred Mann’s 5-4-3-2-1: Onwards, onwards rode the six hundred. The weekend used to start here…..
guess i owe you a beer.
I’m still confused. I have to be productive here so i’ll drop my last one.
Chris baggsied this one
Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf
600 pounds of sin
Severin has 909 / 910, and i’ll grab
Public Enemy – 911 Is a Joke
Which is a goodun. And probably my last shot.
But if we’re stopping at 999, i may well do a list dump of songs from the upper reaches.
Looks like we’re in a kind of post modern situation – experiencing all eras at once – so from the 700s – in fact at 700…………….
Steeleye Span – Seven Hundred Elves
666 From genesis Supper’s Ready .. 666 is no longer alone .. digging out something in you backbone
In the home straight now, and coming up on the rails is the wonderful and underrated Barbara Dane with Nine hundred miles
Oh, good we’re still having fun with this ( though slightly adrift apparently). Surely this needs to be plugged into the stream somewhere
634-5789 – Wilson Pickett
I was going to defer to you for Gram Parsons…
ok i’ll do a frigging list dump now.
$1000 – Fintan
Millenium – Killing Joke (shoehorn) – yeah, i know it’s supposed to be Y2K. But a millenium is 100 years, innit.
1234 – Cretin Hop (Ramones)
12:51 – try for the Strokes again
18:05 – watches are synchronized in Wire’s Pink Flag in 1955
1970’s – Alfie’s Neil Young After the Gold Rush
1979 – Smashing Pumpkins
1984 – Bowie
1989 – Another try for Fight the Power
2000 – Miles, Pretenders
2000 – Light Years From Home (Stones)
2000 – Man (Stones)
2120 – reserved for Fintan (or Suzi, tfd)
2140 – Jim Morrison’s address in Mayall’s Laurel Canyon Home
12345 – Senses Working Overtime (XTC)
20000 – grandmas waving hankies in Jigsaw Puzzle
32000 – pounds in 16 Tons
40000 – Headmen (Traffic)
40000 – years, funk of, in Thriller (MJ)
36-24-36 – another try for Brickhouse (Commodores)
500,000 – kw of P-Funk power
8675309 – Jenny
Billion – Dollar Babies (Alice Cooper)
For some reason my list of post 999 songs didn’t get past the moderator and has been removed. WTF!
Any way it comprised:
Savage Garden – Thousand Words
Creed – Thousand Faces
Big Pink – 1313
Prentenders – 2000 miles
Doris Day – 10,432 Sheep
Razzy Bailey – 9,999,999 Tears
It was all of the links, Leavey. I saw it in there, but Tinny has to approve it, i can’t. That happens with posts that have too many links sometimes.
It hasn’t been removed, he just has to approve it.
Ah, I see. When I logged on a while ago it wasn’t showing but it is now. See we both had the perennial Christmas tune from The Pretenders
And i rated it above both of the Stones too.
Just saw it and approved it
600 comments combined for this game. Well done peeps
I’d better make my bid of 909 (or possibly 910) official now we’re venturing into the thousands and beyond.
Oh god, sorry, I meant to just post a link in the prose.
ok we’re into the thousands now?
Restating Nashville Cats – the Lovin’ Spoonful (1352 guitar pickers in Nashville)
My Love is Like a Red Red Rose – Eddi Reader ‘though I go ten thousand mile…’
if dates are allowed…??
1643 – Seth Lakeman
The World Turned Upside Down – Billy Bragg – ‘In 1649’ (or Oysterband)
The Battle of New Orleans – the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – ‘In 1814 we took a little trip…’
Pennsylvania 65000.
A quick note to say thank you for taking the time to look at the Fuel-skewed playlists. I was going to update them today, but a combination of work and feverish child (he’ll be fine with a little rest) means I won’t get that chance for a while.
Keep up the good work.
I suggest we recommend this topic to Adam Boult: RR Songs from Zero to Eleven or, if you prefer, One to Twelve.
It would be a fun mega-topic, though I wouldn’t want to be guru.
Cheerio.
We’ve had Numbers and Numbers 1-10 already, though.
If the topic is still running, I bid one million rubber skeletons.
Back When I Was 4 by Jeffery Lewis
Also contains other numbers.
Lovely thinking. A perfect song for this topic.
Hi all. Sorry I’m VERY late back into this.
Had a bit of a numpty moment with my list; I wrote it into Word with all the song links copied over from The Graun, but after I’d printed a copy (that I took with me to the wedding on Sat) I apparently closed the document without saving it, and now I’ve lost my bit of paper.
The 300-999 ones I can remember were:
360º – Timex Social Club
400 Boys – Hoggboy
441 – Miwa, which I assume I have Sakurachan to thank for.
464 – Microdisney
600 – Thin Lizzy Massacre about the charge of the Light Brigade
666 – The Number Of The Beast – Iron Maiden, which I think I saw nominated anyway.
But there’s also the excellent 666 Conducer by BRMC.
678 – King Creosote, although as that’s a reference to being either 6, 7 or 8 feet tall, I’m not sure there’s a tangible ‘thing’ to bid.
Did TFD not get in with 700 – In & Outlaws?
And if we don’t have an 800, we can always slot in Kyuss 90sec mini song.
Gotta go now: got the gordonimmel, saneshane and DaddyPig families coming round later, and a shedload of prep to do first.
D’OH! The I&O tune is 700 MILES.
I said I would leave 700 Miles for you.
This still going?
Ok then:
Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around
featuring 100 million angels singing.
Which is a lot of angels however you badge it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA
Posting here so we can still end with the songs about numbers.
6,000 Crazy – Spizz Oil
Not 92.4% what’s been going on here but maybe Cult With No Name can bring you closure with ‘Numbers’.
Here be numbers transcendental,
on an imaginary axis spun,
decimal places without limit
and zero and one.
Mathematics, simply pure beyond belief.
e to the power of i times pi plus 1 is 0.
e to the power of i times pi is -1.
A single function, exponential,
just one addition must be done…
multiplication in completion
of zero, of one.
Mathematics, just so “wow” it brooks belief.