“What is your favourite song with a number in the title?”
“1979, easy.”
For the next few days I couldn’t stop thinking of other
songs with numbers in the title, some of them better than 1979, some much
worse. Here is a list of them, ordered by number, of course.
0 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
1 Garbage - #1 Crush
2 Blur - Song 2
3 Courtney Barnett - Three Packs a Day
4 Sharon Van Etten - Jupiter 4
5 Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
6 Dune Rats - 6 Pack
7 The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
8 Violent Soho - Eightfold
9 Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
10 The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night
11 La Dispute - Eleven
12 The Strokes - 12:51
13 Garbage - 13x Forever
14 Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
15 Radiohead - 15 Step
16 The National - Conversation 16
17 Ladytron - Seventeen
18 Cherubs - 18 the Number
19 Gorillaz - 19-2000
20 T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
21 Green Day - 21 Guns
22 The Flaming Lips - When Yer Twenty-Two
23 Four Tet - Twenty Three
24 Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People
25 Johnny Cash - 25 Minutes to Go
26 A.B. Original, Dan Sultan - Jan-26
27 IDLES - 26/27
28 Methyl Ethel - No. 28
29 Bon Iver - 29 #Strafford APTS
30 Kanye West - 30 Hours
31 Future - 31 DAYS
32 Ani DiFranco - 32 Flavors
33 The Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-Three
34 Nine Inch Nails - 34 Ghosts IV
35 La Dispute - 35
36 Placebo - 36 Degrees
37 DMA'S - Feels Like 37
38 High Contrast, Underworld - Two Hundred & Thirty Eight Days
39 The Cure - 39
40 Paul Kelly, The Messengers - Forty Miles To Saturday Night
41 Tame Impala - 41 Mosquitoes Flying In Formation
42 Coldplay - 42
43 The Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt
44 The Zombies - Care Of Cell 44
45 Mary Lou Williams - Forty-Five Degree Angle
46 TOOL - Forty Six & 2
47 Boards of Canada - Seven Forty Seven
48 Mariachi El Bronx - 48 Roses
49 Missy Higgins - 49 Candles
50 Cocteau Twins - Fifty-fifty Clown
51 Jimi Hendrix - 51st Anniversary
52 The B-52's - 52 Girls
53 Ramones - 53rd & 3rd
54 Jungle - Beat 54 (All Good Now)
55 Tom Waits - Ol' 55
56 Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté - 56
57 Bruce Springsteen - 57 Channels (And Nothin' On)
58 New Order - 586
59 The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
60 New Order - 60 Miles an Hour
61 Liz Phair - 6'1"
62 Doves - M62 Song
63 Sigur Rós - 63º32'43.7N 19º43'46.3"W"
64 The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four
65 White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65
66 Chuck Berry - Route 66
67 Chicago - Questions 67 and 68
68 Gorillaz - 68 State
69 Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69
70 Amyl and The Sniffers - 70's Street Munchies
71 Gary Clark Jr. - Highway 71
72 NOFX - 72 Hookers
73 James Lavelle - Seventy Three
74 Giorgio Moroder - 74 Is the New 24
75 Stereolab - Melochord Seventy-Five
76 Ween - Freedom Of '76
77 The Herd - 77%
78 Gomez - 78 Stone Wobble
79 The Magnetic Fields - '79: Rock'n'Roll Will Ruin Your Life
80 Calvin Harris - Acceptable in the 80's
81 Miles Davis - Eighty-One
82 The Shins - Fall Of '82
83 Wafia - 83 Days
84 Boards of Canada - 84 Pontiac Dream
85 Mew - 85 Videos
86 Green Day - 86
87 The Bouncing Souls - '87
88 MØ (feat. Diplo) - XXX 88
89 R.E.M. - Pop Song 89
90 Kimbra - 90s Music
91 Public Enemy - 911 Is A Joke
92 Low Life - 92
93 Souls Of Mischief - 93 'Til Infinity
94 As I Lay Dying - 94 Hours
95 Brian Eno - Windows 95 Startup Sound (Slowed 4000%)
96 DJ Shadow - Why Hip-Hop Sucks In '96
97 Eminem - '97 Bonnie & Clyde
98 Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds - Three Lions '98
99 Nena - 99 Luftballons
100 The Cure - One Hundred Years