Songs with lists in them

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21 Sep 2010, 7:33 pm

I like lists. I want to list songs with lists in them.

We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel
That's Entertainment - The Jam
Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3 - Ian Dury and The Blockheads

What others can you think of?

Also, what makes lists so compelling? I think there's a certain poetry in how one item relates to the next one. Items on a list can be a trip from one end of a thought sequence to another. They can show contrasts and different shades of the same thing. They be surreal. They can also tell a story in fragments, leaving you to fill in the gaps.

George Orwell liked making lists. It's an AS thing, I think. My bf carries a notepad with him all the time; we've sat together making spontaneous lists many times.

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21 Sep 2010, 7:36 pm

"It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" - R.E.M.

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21 Sep 2010, 7:45 pm

Let 'Em In--Paul McCartney/Wings

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21 Sep 2010, 10:00 pm

The prototypical song with a list!! !
Written in 1885 and still fresh today (partly because of the tradition of writing new verses for it every time it's performed):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJzGoyK ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlOb0XMxt84

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21 Sep 2010, 11:59 pm

"You Get What You Give" by the New Radicals. They were one hit wonders but I remember rather liking this song when it came out. It sounded so different from the other crap that was popular at the time.

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22 Sep 2010, 1:19 am

Here's a few song with list. I could add a lot more :arrow:

"Weird Al" Yankovic~ Hardware Store
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBbDcyqnqHE[/youtube]

Robert Lund~ 99 Words For Boobs
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jospyoIUgOQ[/youtube]

Possible Oscar~ Dead Again
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaPeDWPr-e4[/youtube]

The Great Luke Ski~ Too Much Stuff
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKbKU9hmng[/youtube]

Steve Goodie~ The Twelve Signs of Swine Flu
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JATVfIQqSm0[/youtube]

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22 Sep 2010, 9:27 am

"88 Lines About 44 Women" by The Nails.

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22 Sep 2010, 10:54 am

The Elements Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8

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22 Sep 2010, 4:18 pm

Sparrowrose wrote:

^ this.

"Bob" by Weird Al is a list of random palindromes pretty much.

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22 Sep 2010, 6:33 pm

He says on whom he declares a war:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e6jE4Hupnc[/youtube]

A list of things he does/not need:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba7jmsnHybE[/youtube]

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22 Sep 2010, 6:42 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3ic6OOXns[/youtube]

The list part of the song starts about 1:02 or so

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22 Sep 2010, 7:04 pm

List of "againsts":
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLakCWOV6KI[/youtube]

And great list by great EN:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ya0-gmoKXQ[/youtube]

My this, my that...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Agxi21STJY[/youtube]

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23 Sep 2010, 12:13 am

Faithless - Mass Destruction
Supertramp - Logical Song
Led Zeppelin - Trampled Underfoot
Nine Black Alps - Not Everyone
Who - Substitute
Nick Cave - Breathless

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11 Oct 2010, 4:11 pm

O.N.A. (S.H.E.) - Białe Ściany (White Walls)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQa36MunWys[/youtube]

It's a letter from a patient of psychiatric clinic.
First verse - list of human organs and tissues
Second - food
Third - drugs.

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13 Oct 2010, 12:46 am

[i did it] one piece at a time - johnny cash
i've been everywhere - hank snow
one more minute - weird al

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15 Oct 2010, 5:46 pm

The Twelve Days of Christmas.

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