Comments on: 14 songs whose lyrics consist mainly or entirely of lists http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/ Help for the listless (and the senseless) Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:04:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: jdzlaw http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-20482 jdzlaw Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:59:08 +0000 http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/#comment-20482 <p>It's the end of the world as we know it. by REM</p> It’s the end of the world as we know it. by REM

]]> By: Moe http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-7470 Moe Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:23:36 +0000 http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/#comment-7470 <p>Savage Garden - Affirmation</p> <p>:-D</p> Savage Garden – Affirmation

:-D

]]> By: Melissa http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Melissa Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:16:15 +0000 http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/#comment-98 <p>Violent Femmes - Kiss Off</p> <p>"i take one one one cause you left me and two two two for my family and three three three for my heartache and four four four for my headaches and five five five for my lonely and six six six for my sorrow and seven seven no tomorrow and eight eight i forget what eight was for but nine nine nine for the lost gods ten ten ten ten for everything everything everything"</p> <p>How was this forgotten?</p> Violent Femmes – Kiss Off

“i take one one one cause you left me and two two two for my family and three three three for my heartache and four four four for my headaches and five five five for my lonely and six six six for my sorrow and seven seven no tomorrow and eight eight i forget what eight was for but nine nine nine for the lost gods ten ten ten ten for everything everything everything”

How was this forgotten?

]]> By: Joe Kissell http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Joe Kissell Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:29:30 +0000 http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/#comment-33 <p>John and Mercury: Thanks for those excellent additions!</p> <p>And John, you'd be...let's see...over 21. Close? :-)</p> John and Mercury: Thanks for those excellent additions!

And John, you’d be…let’s see…over 21. Close? :-)

]]> By: Mercury http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Mercury Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:07:57 +0000 http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/#comment-32 <p>One of the first songs we all learn as kids, is <em>The ABCs</em> : http://www.google.com/search?q=abc+song</p> <p>Tom Lehrer wrote a song with all the names of the elements, that had been discovered, at the time of his composing the piece. <em>The Elements</em> is animated here: http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html whence you can click a link to Amazon, to buy Tom Lehrer CDs.</p> One of the first songs we all learn as kids, is The ABCs : http://www.google.com/search?q=abc+song

Tom Lehrer wrote a song with all the names of the elements, that had been discovered, at the time of his composing the piece. The Elements is animated here: http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html whence you can click a link to Amazon, to buy Tom Lehrer CDs.

]]> By: John Cooper http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-31 John Cooper Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:19:21 +0000 http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/#comment-31 <p>"Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. ("Summer Buddy Holly, the Bolshoi Ballet, Good Golly Miss Molly, and boats...")</p> <p>"People Who Died" by the Jim Carroll Band ("Teddy sniffing glue he was twelve years old / Fell from the roof on east two-nine / Cathy was eleven when she pulled the plug / On twenty-six reds and a bottle of wine...")</p> <p>"88 Lines about 44 Women" by the Nails ("Sarah was a modern dancer / lean pristine transparency / Janet wrote bad poetry / in a crazy kind of urgency...")</p> <p>"Happiness Is" from "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" - Clark Gesner, composer</p> <p>Bonus points to you if you can closely estimate my age from these answers... : )</p> “Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3″ by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. (“Summer Buddy Holly, the Bolshoi Ballet, Good Golly Miss Molly, and boats…”)

“People Who Died” by the Jim Carroll Band (“Teddy sniffing glue he was twelve years old / Fell from the roof on east two-nine / Cathy was eleven when she pulled the plug / On twenty-six reds and a bottle of wine…”)

“88 Lines about 44 Women” by the Nails (“Sarah was a modern dancer / lean pristine transparency / Janet wrote bad poetry / in a crazy kind of urgency…”)

“Happiness Is” from “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” – Clark Gesner, composer

Bonus points to you if you can closely estimate my age from these answers… : )

]]> By: Joe Kissell http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Joe Kissell Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:13:41 +0000 http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/#comment-29 <p>Michelle: Good call! Yes, that certainly counts. I knew when I wrote this list that I could only barely scratch the surface. There must be plenty of other songs that just didn't occur to me. Please feel free to point out others in the comments!</p> Michelle: Good call! Yes, that certainly counts. I knew when I wrote this list that I could only barely scratch the surface. There must be plenty of other songs that just didn’t occur to me. Please feel free to point out others in the comments!

]]> By: Michelle http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Michelle Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:42:57 +0000 http://senselist.com/2006/08/21/14-songs-whose-lyrics-consist-mainly-or-entirely-of-lists/#comment-28 <p>How about Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"?</p> How about Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”?

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