Saturday, 3 August 2019

The Numbers: List of 100 Songs With Numbers In The Title


A while back I was asked...
 “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


What is your favourite song with a number in the title? 

 Spotify Playlist: The Numbers

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