“I was living with a bunch of hippies up above Sunset Strip. One of the advantages of this particular house was that it was in the Hollywood Hills and I could look out over the city late at night. I wanted to try to describe the process of writing the song that I was writing. So, ‘waiting for the break of day, searching for something to say, flashing lights against the sky’ -- there was a neon sign across the city. That song came from the fact that it was 25 or 6 to 4 a.m. in the morning when I looked at my watch -- I was looking for a line to finish the chorus.
Most songs that were written, especially in the early days, whenever I got them to the band and we started rehearsing them, that’s when the songs took shape -- once these guys got hold of them. There was definitely a lot of raw material, I thought it was a song when I wrote the words down, I wrote the changes down and I brought the charts to rehearsal, but it wasn’t really a song until they all played it.”
I really wish the writers of “Office Space” (US version) would have had the characters mention this incident in passing at the water cooler at Dunder Mifflin.
Kelly Sucy
Hello. I saw you. I know you. I knew you. I think that I remember your name… … … … Should we talk about the government? …
Kelly Sucy
(how’d I do on lyrics recall? I didn’t play the video -- lol -- huge REM fan but it’s been a few years since I heard that one)
Rob Wynne
That’s the one.
Linda Walsh
Here is one from my childhood-Zager and Evans, “In The Year 2525:
https://youtu.be/yesyhQkYrQM
Kelly Sucy
OMG -- this was a real song before that show Cleopatra 2525???
Kelly Sucy
this is the only way I’d ever heard it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ZRSwul7cE
Laura Gallagher
This song popped up in my head earlier, when my daughter was mentioning that she graduates in 2020.
Laura Gallagher
Kelly Sucy I had never heard of that show. Gina Torres, huh.
Rob Wynne
I loved that show. it was paired with a Bruce Campbell show called Jack of All Trades, that I also loved.
Peter D Fisher
Rob Wynne it was the theme of Jack of All Trades sister show Cleopatra 2525
Rob Wynne
I know. I was saying that I loved both of htem, and they aired together.
Kelly Sucy
Yeah -- that was on Fox late -- I remember watching both after closing shifts at Starbucks 15-ish years ago, so about midnight or 12:30?
Laura Gallagher
Gotta be this one for me -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWBvcJAXwu4
Angela Margitan
I think this is the ultimate number song 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUAYeN3Rp2E
Deborah A Baudoin
My entire life. My. Entire. Life. I have NOT been able to figure out mathematically the title of that song. It drives me batty.
Rob Wynne
Deborah: According to Robert Lamm, who wrote it:
“I was living with a bunch of hippies up above Sunset Strip. One of the advantages of this particular house was that it was in the Hollywood Hills and I could look out over the city late at night. I wanted to try to describe the process of writing the song that I was writing. So, ‘waiting for the break of day, searching for something to say, flashing lights against the sky’ -- there was a neon sign across the city. That song came from the fact that it was 25 or 6 to 4 a.m. in the morning when I looked at my watch -- I was looking for a line to finish the chorus.
Most songs that were written, especially in the early days, whenever I got them to the band and we started rehearsing them, that’s when the songs took shape -- once these guys got hold of them. There was definitely a lot of raw material, I thought it was a song when I wrote the words down, I wrote the changes down and I brought the charts to rehearsal, but it wasn’t really a song until they all played it.”
Angela Margitan
Rob beat me to it -yep, it’s the time of day. 25 or 26 minutes to 4:00. Basically he’s so tired he can’t tell if it’s 3:35 or 3:36am. XD
Deborah A Baudoin
Angela Margitan My brain can’t process this right now. I think I need some chocolate to adjust. 😀
Garrett Fitzgerald
Analog watch, it’s not that much difference between the times -- especially if the hands are a bit misaligned. 🙂
Pat Var
https://youtu.be/La4Dcd1aUcE
Iain Muir
Neun und nuenzig luftballons
Duane Elms
867-5309 Jenny
Amelia Edwards
http://youtu.be/d5ab8BOu4LE
Phil Rood
Peter D Fisher
https://g.co/kgs/tc3qRk
Peter D Fisher
What’s with FB not allowing me to edit posts?
Peter D Fisher
Here’s one that’s hopeful not messed up like the last one https://youtu.be/FJhWdaE69LI
David Peek
Have acouple of Tull tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxak1EJ4CW0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5_AGxor8Ek
January Ford
Jeff Williams
What is this challenge?
Rob Wynne
Eric Coleman
https://youtu.be/U0xWU7e5yXk
Cordelia Kates
Blink 182
Teresa Kintner Gunderson
https://youtu.be/lu9IQHxsrDU
Elizabeth Barber
One Tin Soldier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKx0tdlxMfY
Rick Genovese
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjOidDgmKjXAhVFwYMKHYhPAAoQyCkIKzAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dlu9IQHxsrDU&usg=AOvVaw19mQDtGDrrV6-9jkwptbFR
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Brad Sloan
Mambo no. 5 by Lou Bega
https://youtu.be/EK_LN3XEcnw
Jim Poltrone
(Trying again.) The Moody Blues, “22,000 Days”. A song about human mortality. I did the math; that’s about 60 years and 3 months.
Will Cain
https://youtu.be/r4rhGf6dWTQ
Kevin Chu
Eric Coleman
https://youtu.be/X_2T43dy_Ew
Adam Bowditch
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son https://youtu.be/PptHWHfnCnY
Manny Jacobowitz
Just to be contrary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBQWsBiM5YY
Adam Bowditch
Tool Forty Six and 2. https://youtu.be/Tja6_h4lT6A
Alexander Arce
U2 -- Hawkmoon 269 (I Need Your Love)
Heather Munn
30000lbs of Bananas:
https://youtu.be/OGldNpngDws
Jim Poltrone
I really wish the writers of “Office Space” (US version) would have had the characters mention this incident in passing at the water cooler at Dunder Mifflin.
Steve Macdonald
oh, and NOW I see that I repeated you… (was lost in the up scroll…) Sorry!
Jennifer Diamond
Tom Jeffers
99 Red Balloons
Elaine Roberson
Love Potion #9 -- The Searchers
Jeff Bohnhoff
https://youtu.be/vmDDOFXSgAs
Steve Macdonald
Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFM4Ilt4Rs
Steve Macdonald
Oops- Heather Munn beat me to it… (but this version has the bonus endings…)
Steve Macdonald
so, I have to come up with another…
Steve Macdonald
Eight Days A Week -- The Beatles
Rob Wynne
That’s okay. It allows us to ask the critical question:
“Harry Chapin: Greatest Stories Live” — great live album, or GREATEST live album? 🙂
Heather Munn
Great minds 🙂
Brad Tidd
From my youth, https://genius.com/The-beatles-revolution-9-lyrics
Stephanie Weippert
Kind of surprised this wasn’t here already.
https://youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo
T J Burnside Clapp
T J Burnside Clapp
Am I seriously the first one to post this? With all of you SF fans out there? 😀
Stephanie Weippert
I’ve never heard *Queen’s* version. Wow. I didn’t know who wrote it.
Rob Wynne
Brian May (guitarist for Queen) wrote the song.
We, of course, are quite familiar with Vixy & Tony’s fantastic cover of it. 🙂
Stephanie Weippert
Rob Wynne, I’ll admit now that my brain went tilt because my 1st thought was that Queen did a cover of a Vixy & Tony song.
T J Burnside Clapp
And Brian May is also an astrophysicist, for those who aren’t aware. 🙂
T J Burnside Clapp
Oh, and of course … Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9
Stephanie Weippert
That *thing* exists?!
T J Burnside Clapp
Also … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dorzcuKlqZk
T J Burnside Clapp
And it figures a performer that goes by “Five for Fighting” would have a few songs with numbers in them.
T J Burnside Clapp
And just so you know I’m not cheating, these all popped into my head without googling “songs with numbers in title”! 🙂
Jim Poltrone
I’ll bet my lunch money that “Five For Fighting” is a hockey fan.
T J Burnside Clapp
Oh wait, I remembered another one! 🙂
Patricia Jones
Patricia Jones
One of my favorite songs of all time.
JT Traub
John Cage. 4’33
Rob Wynne
And you couldn’t be bothered to include a link to a recording? for shame! 🙂
JT Traub
I figured everyone knew it by memory already 🙂
Rob Wynne
I find most people get tripped up by that weird key change at 3:10…
David Weingart
https://youtu.be/NTUcoR8_pyE
David Weingart
Still can’t sing this one without choking up
https://youtu.be/ondboIwZSdQ
David Weingart
David Weingart
Jim Poltrone
If we’re not gonna limit ourselves to integers…..
David Weingart
David Weingart
David Weingart
(I’ll stop now 😉 )
Mike Whitaker
Has to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0kJdrfzjAg -- “A simple boy meets girl song… complicated by the presence of a motorcycle.”
Mike Whitaker
Suzanne Vega looks absolutely spellbound. Either that or is thinking ‘and I have to follow that?’
Paul Kwinn