Playlist Challenge

A couple of months ago I posted on the traditional theme of "Songs Named After Girls", and today after a discussion with Chrissi this evening I was working on composing a new playlist of songs with numbers in them. This was in part inspired by a radio show this morning which was asking for inspiration on songs with numbers in them, although they did go with some rather traditional options too (Bryan Adams' Summer of '69, The Proclaimers' 500 Miles).

Suitably inspired, this evening I set out to create a playlist with all the songs containing numbers that I have in my collection. This included some surprising and entertaining entries - Green Day manage to rack up 13 entries including four from my favourite album, Kerplunk!, Feeder's Sweet16 and Seven Days In The Sun was a strong showing, The Clash's The Magnificent Seven is a superb entry and you have 5:15 by The Who to top the list off (as well as a clear tribute effort of 8:18 by Feeder also making the list).

Credit goes to the double-entries of Lost Prophets' Five Is A Four Letter Word and The Ataris' Eight Of Nine. You can also mix genres - songs with girls' / boys' names or placenames also get hypothetical bonus points, so The Stereophonics' Vegas Two Times is worth a useful number of points - although whether the permenently-referenced 867-5309 (Jenny) technically counts as eight themes as each number is said independently as well as a girl's name I'm not sure.

Final playlist reckoning was 68 tracks with 3.3 hours worth of music. A good effort.