Four for my headache

[cyrano]

Home, finally. Sore, tired, and not sleepy. My head hurts but my stomach is better now.
And I'm poking at my music library, considering weird ideas for mix discs. Most of these are far better put together on paper than actually burned.
Albums based on commonalities in band or song names, for instance.
And so now I'm idly working on a CD called 'Add It Up' where every track relates to a number. Starting out with "Nothing" by Depeche Mode, or "I Got Plenty of Nothing" by Sinatra, or "Party at Ground Zero" by Fishbone, or something like that. It's a project that reminds me of Tahnan.
If I consider Bob and Doug McKenzie doing the Twelve Days of Christmas Eric Clapton doing After Midnight or Bond doing 1812 to be cheating, then I can't get past eleven. Elvis Costello saves me twice, with Thirteen Steps Lead Down and Fifteen Petals. (Unless I count the Cure's 10:15 Saturday Night. Oh wait, Depeche Mode's Little Fifteen.) And as I refuse to include the Goldberg Variations as counting, Sexy + 17 is the end of my list. Oddly, I find no 18s at all. I suppose I could use Bond and the 1812 here.... In which case Elvis saves me again with 20% Amnesia, but there's no 21s in my library.

Comments

[hunterxtc.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of doing a numbers related mix as well. Mine was going to be totally random numbers, like In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans or 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago.

If you are looking for an 18, Alice Cooper had a pretty famous song back in the day called I'm Eighteen. (http://www.dongrays.com/alice-cooper/litd.html)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kept looking longingly at stuff like Erasure's "Sixty-Five Thousand" and then thinking "Oh yeah. Like *that's* gonna happen on this battle plan."

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

I can think of a 21, but it is not of reasonable size. (2112 by Rush)

You could do all sorts of other strange themes (not that I actually know if anyone wrote songs about these subjects):

Food (tons of sub-categories)
Furniture
Days of the Week
Drinks (alcoholic or non)
Body Parts
Colors (strictly limit blue songs)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yep, people wrote songs about those. (: And at least some of them, people have contemplated mix discs about.
I Don't Like Mondays. Ruby Tuesday. Friday I'm in Love. Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting. Every Day Is Like Sunday. Having an Average Weekend. The Worst Day Since Yesterday.
Alas, the middle of the week gets very short shrift. (:

[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

Thursday Afternoon by the Indigo Girls? David Bowie, Thursday's Child?

Tori Amos has a song called Wednesday

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hunh. I have never heard of these songs.

[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

Well! Now you have ;-)