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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest Next -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rock List: Songs By the Numbers 2/19/08, 4:28 pm EST Last week, we asked you to name the best songs that feature numbers in their titles. Since the seemingly-infinite number of picks were all over the spectrum, we decided to break down down this Rock List “March Madness”-style. To see your picks for the “Best Songs With Numbers,” hit the jump. Division One U2 – “One” Metallica – “One” Harry Nilsson – “One” Nas – “One Love” R.E.M. – “The One I Love” The Rest of the Single Digits Blur – “Song 2″ Modest Mouse – “3rd Planet” Led Zeppelin – “Four Sticks” The Doors – “Five To One” Black Flag – “Six Pack” White Stripes – “Seven Nation Army” The Beatles – “Eight Days a Week” John Lennon “#9 Dream” Math Division Radiohead – “2+2=5″ Deerhoof – “+81″ Chicago – “25 or 6 to 4″ Jimi Hendrix – “If 6 Was 9″ Queens of the Stone Age – “3’s and 7’s” Best of the Years Prince – “1999″ Neutral Milk Hotel – “Holland, 1945″ Smashing Pumpkins – “1979″ The Stooges – “1969″ Jimi Hendrix – “1983… (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)” Songs Divisible By Three Bryan Adams – “Summer of ‘69″ Jay-Z – “99 Problems” ? and the Mysterians – “96 Tears” David Bowie – “TVC15″ Radiohead – “15 Step” Sixteen Songs KISS – “Christine Sixteen” The Replacements – “Sixteen Blue” The Crests – “Sixteen Candles” Tom Waits – “16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six” The Buzzcocks – “Sixteen Again” Random Numbers Tommy Tutone – “867-5309 (Jenny)” The Strokes – “12:51″ The Beatles – “When I’m Sixty-Four” Arctic Monkeys – “505″ Public Enemy – “911 Is A Joke” Daniel Kreps Share Email AIM Del.icio.us DiggThis Fark It! 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BuzzMore Rock Lists, Rock Daily Latest Next Commentsdon't worry about it | 2/26/2008, 12:00 am EST Tool - forty-six & 2 Joe | 2/22/2008, 6:50 pm EST Just thinking of some number songs off the top of my head… Radiohead, “4 Minute Warning” Metallica, “The Four Horsemen” Queens Of The Stone Age, “Six Shooter” Bob Dylan, “From A Buick 6″ The Wallflowers, “Three Marlenas” The Pretenders, “2000 Miles” At The Drive-In, “One-Armed Scissor,” “Non-Zero Possibility” Green Day, “86,” “2000 Light-Years Away” REM, “Star 69″ The Horrors, “Count In Fives” Red Hot Chili Peppers, “She’s Only 18″ Eagles Of Death Metal, “I Gotta Feeling (Just Nineteen)” Schram | 2/22/2008, 2:28 pm EST “7 and 7 is”-Love rzzzzz | 2/22/2008, 1:54 pm EST rocket #9 (takes off for the planet Venus) Sun Ra you know my name (look up the number) Beatles robly | 2/22/2008, 4:23 am EST 14 years-GUNS N ROSES one in a million-GUNS N ROSES you ain’t the first-GUNS N ROSES double talkin’ jive- GUNS N F*CKING ROSES j | 2/21/2008, 9:59 pm EST Apologies if this has been posted before, but check out Okkervil River’s song “Plus Ones.” It cleverly references a number of these songs’ lyrics/titles. Dr. Flanders | 2/21/2008, 8:01 pm EST Glad to see tom waits on there. DT | 2/21/2008, 6:55 pm EST 0+2=1-nomeansno 1,2,3,4-Feist 1970-the stooges 5:15-the who Seven and Seven Is-Love Gorno Music | 2/21/2008, 4:34 pm EST 1 million bottlebage-PE 1,000 ft hands-Flaming Lips $1,000 Wedding-Gram Parsons 1,000,000-REM 100%-Son ic Youth 7 chinese bros.-REM 9-9-REM 9 of disks-CVB 19th nervous breakdown-RS 51-7-CVB 53rd & 3rd-Ramones 100,000 fireflies-Superchunk 107 steps-Bjork 100 fpm-Cracker 1975-Spoon 1989-Cl em Snide 18,000 Lira-Art Brut 409-Beach Boys Gorno Music | 2/21/2008, 4:25 pm EST 905 My name is 905, And I’ve just become alive I’m the newest populator Of the planet we call Earth -the who pablo escobar | 2/21/2008, 3:12 pm EST one of these nights - the eagles two step - dmb just the two of us - bill withers smoke two joints - sublime gimme three steps - lynyrd skynyrd edge of seventeen - stevie nicks four kicks - kings of leon and how could anyone forget i’m eighteen - alice cooper phill rudd | 2/21/2008, 2:52 pm EST 14 years-guns n roses Dogonroof | 2/21/2008, 7:58 am EST noo 100% by Sonic Youth?!!?!?!? sintro | 2/21/2008, 4:02 am EST unforgiven 2 10,000 fists hangar 18 how about next time we name bands or songs with colors in the title? anonymous | 2/20/2008, 10:01 pm EST Shiny Toy Guns- “Starts with One” AFI- “Prelude 12/21″ Barenaked Ladies- “One Week” Big Bad Voodoo Daddy- “You & Me & a Bottle Makes 3″ Foo Fighters- “The One” Incubus- “11 AM” No Doubt- “Sixteen” Silversun Pickups- “Dream at Tempo 119″ Smashing Pumpkins- “Zero” 30 Seconds to Mars- “Battle of One” The Proclaimers- “I would Walk 500 Miles” Sneaker Pimps- “6 Underground” Jack | 2/20/2008, 7:04 pm EST Simon and Garfunkel - Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (actually there’s only four or five…) Jack | 2/20/2008, 7:02 pm EST Seven Days - Bob Dylan Jack | 2/20/2008, 6:58 pm EST The Cure - One Hundred Years wetchabs | 2/20/2008, 2:32 pm EST “Thunderstorm 6:54″ Black Crowes smash | 2/20/2008, 1:30 pm EST Rocket 88 smash | 2/20/2008, 1:30 pm EST Rocket 88 k-fed | 2/20/2008, 1:22 pm EST britney? can you take the kids for awhile? I’m outta wife beaters and I have to go buy more. Me | 2/20/2008, 1:02 pm EST Jay-Z – “99 Problems” rock song ? Declan | 2/20/2008, 12:10 pm EST if we’re going for popularity (which it seems we are) “1234″ by Feist britney | 2/20/2008, 10:43 am EST these rock lists are pretty lame RS makes me sad. Puffy | 2/20/2008, 10:37 am EST Johnny Cash - 25 Minutes to Go Rolling Stones -19th Nervous Breakdown Beatles - Eight Days A Week Pink Floyd - One of These Days Mofro - Six Ways from Sunday Ben Harper - With My Two Hands Grateful Dead - One More Saturday Night Allman Bros. - No One Left To Run With, One Way Out Willie Dixon - Third Degree(may not count but good tune) Bob Marley - Three Little Birds, One Love/PeopleGet Ready and of course… Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited jp | 2/20/2008, 10:14 am EST About time Harry Nilsson was shown some respect! Comfort Inn | 2/20/2008, 6:23 am EST 1977, 48 Hours, 1-2 Crush on You all by the Clash. Gilbo | 2/20/2008, 4:56 am EST 6345789.. loads of numbers Gilbo | 2/20/2008, 4:55 am EST 68 Guns….. To blow them all away thia | 2/20/2008, 4:47 am EST How about Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4?? JD | 2/20/2008, 2:38 am EST 20 Flight Rock- Eddie Cochran. How can you forget that one. And by the way it’s 25 OR 6 to 4. jason | 2/19/2008, 11:51 pm EST #34 #40 #41 by DMB Rainy day Woman #12 and 35 by Bob Dylan JR | 2/19/2008, 11:17 pm EST Toots & the Maytals 54-46 That’s My Number! candypants | 2/19/2008, 9:51 pm EST Oh yeah, last one….Funk #49 by the James Gang. candypants | 2/19/2008, 9:50 pm EST what about Tool’s forty-six and two? The infamous 99 luftballoons? Blind Melon’s 2 by 4, or 3 is the magic number? Hands down, though, the best “numeric” song is the supee-funky “1,2,3,4,5..” from Sesame Street. C’mon people, think! James | 2/19/2008, 5:51 pm EST I didn’t know there was a math section, what about Love - Zero / (No Limit) WHOOPS! TYPE-OH!!! | 2/19/2008, 5:00 pm EST red haired goddess | 2/19/2008, 4:55 pm EST James Hetfield’s goatee is absolutely disgusting. If women were to manicure themselves like that (if you know what i mean), there would be a lot of DISGUSTED (rightfully so) men (and women too) out there!!! And a whole population of sexually frustrated women who deserved to be sexually frustrated!!! Gross James, really gross! Eddie Wilson | 2/19/2008, 4:58 pm EST What’s with the proliferation of comments with the word “Yay” in them? How old are you people, 5? red haired goddess | 2/19/2008, 4:55 pm EST James Hetfield’s goatee is absolutely disgusting. If women were to manicure themselves like that (if you know what i mean), there would be a lot of (rightfully so) men (and women too) out there!!! And a whole population of sexually frustrated women who deserved to be sexually frustrated!!! Gross James, really gross! Liquid Feces | 2/19/2008, 4:49 pm EST If you’re really interested in songs that feature numbers in their titles, you can also tune in to Sesame Street every single day as listen to a whole lot of number songs! Also you get to learn how to count!! Yayyy!!! anycolouryoulike | 2/19/2008, 4:48 pm EST i know right? ABE | 2/19/2008, 4:41 pm EST what about 5:15 by The Who?

Public Comments

1. .............what? could you repeat that?
2. 1985 by Bowling for Soup.
3. OK you're good.... pls give me 10 points now!!!! lol
4. Wow.... How bout 1 lil, 2 lil, 3 lil indians???
5. Someone has waaaay to much free time! But here's one not on the list.. Backstreet Boys -10,000 promises
6. okay... here's 2 more. stevie nicks - edge of 16 and dolly parton - 9 to 5
7. Pink Floyd - Free Four
8. My apologies if I repeat any. Public Enemy #1 by Public Enemy 41:19 by Public Enemy 6 In The Morning by Ice-T One In A Million by Pete Rock and CL Smoothe 24 With An L by Ice Cube One Ghostface Killah 3-2-1 Contact by Blood Of Abraham 99 Cent Lighter by Blood Of Abraham and Will I Am Revelations 33 1/3 Revolutions by Public Enemy 54321 Boom by Public Enemy 9 mm Goes Bang by Boogie Down Productions I'm Still #1 by Boogie Down Productions One Love by Whodini 30 Cops Or More by BDP 7 DeeJays by BDP Friday Night August 14th by Funkadelic One Of Those Funky Things by Parliament 3 Days Later by De La Soul 18th Letter by Rakim 4th Chamber by Gza Wu Tang: 7th Chamber by Wu Tang Clan Whoa, I didn't know I could think of so many so quickly.