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Songs with Numbers in the Title 1-13

The Count.

The Count.

Cristy and I are collecting songs with numbers in the title for a sixty-minute radio show from eight to nine (CST) tomorrow morning on WEFT ninety point one FM (streaming on http://weft.org). Our challenge is to have sequential numbers from one to infinity, with the help of School House Rock and Here Come the 123s. We are a long way from our goal, as you can see from our list so far:

17 days, prince
thirteen, big star
1%, janes addiction
splash one, 13th floor elevators
year one, X
five to one, doors
the four horsemen, aphrodite’s child (mind blowing)
25 o’clock, dukes
that Chicago song (25 or …)
16 Military Wives
7 x 7 Is
1 is the Loneliest Number
Two of Us
12XU
From a Buick 6
8 Miles High
1000 Umbrellas

I don’t know whether those arbitrarily-numbered Bob Dylan songs should be allowed to count. Your assistance is needed.

Listen to it loud. This one goes up to 13.

Songs About Summer

Today Cristy and I will be waking you up to songs about summer on Rock Geek F.M.

Ain't it beautiful?

Ain’t it beautiful?

Mosh Geek F.M.

He wouldn’t let me wear a helmet.

On June 29 Rock Geek F.M. hosted an introduction to heavy metal featuring resident expert Jason Greenly. Here’s the entire show, blood, pus, and all (uploaded temporarily, as I don’t want the heavy metal copyright lawyers leaving a bloody axe impaled in my front door).

Listen and worry about the kids of today.

Independence Day

Here’s Cristy and William rocking out, providing an alternative soundtrack to the local fireworks display, celebrating this nation’s great composers. These songs don’t run!

Light fuse and get away!

Light fuse and get away!

The Rock Inbox

Cristy and William’s first Rock Inbox, meeting WEFT’s mission to play new music in order to get more new music, and our own mission to get past the music we listened to in high school. It doesn’t all suck. Judge for yourself.

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Women Making Waves: Marianne Faithfull

Cristy tells the story and plays the music of Marianne Faithfull, and rounds out the broadcast with punk-leaning songs by other women artists.

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Pete and Teresa Getting Married

Here’s a show we broadcast the morning of our dear friends’ wedding, for them to pump on the backyard speakers while they set up for the ceremony, hog roast, and trampoline theft. Sincere, romantic, folky: an hour of our best wishes.

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Women Making Waves: Nico

Cristy hostesses two hours of women in music with a punk edge, featuring the story of Nico.

Nico. Just Nico.

Nico. Just Nico.

 

LA Paisley Underground / The Great Philosophers


Our work with Anderson doing a show dedicated to the LA Paisley Underground scene, featuring David Roback, Hope Sandoval, and Kendra Smith, is posted here.

Know of any songs that preach ways to live and think (“You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” “If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free”)? We’re looking for songs for a radio show called The Great Philosophers. Suggestions are welcome, and pretentious songs are okay if not unavoidable… Well, here’s what we came up with: a heavy, thoughtful MP3.

And always remember—wise man sing:

one thing leads to another

you can’t always get what you want

if you love somebody, set them free

people will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with welcome written on it

life’s like a jigsaw: you get the straight bits, but there’s something missing in the middle; life’s like a firework: you’re only lit once, and you must stand and radiate correctly

arrive without traveling, see all without looking

 

Bands Named After Urban Construction Material

 

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