List of Songs That Contain Lists

Posted Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:28pm PDT by Robert of the Radish in The Y! Music Playlist Blog

For a guy who loves putting lists together this was an inevitable experiment. This playlist features 31 songs, and each one of them contains a list somewhere in the lyrics. For example, the playlist kicks off with “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover” by Paul Simon. If we were to write it out in list form it would look like this:

50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

1. Slip out the back
2. Make a new plan
3. Hop on the bus
4. Drop off the Key
5. Set yourself free

I think you get the idea. Well done lists within songs have created some of Rock and Roll’s most memorable lyrics, and this playlist has them.

The Violent Femmes “Add It Up”, Jim Carroll counts off the “People Who Died”, Hank Snow gives us a geography lesson in “I’ve Been Everywhere”, Wilson Pickett gives us the “Land of 1000 Dances” and Steve Miller describes himself as a picker, a grinner, a lover, a sinner, a Joker, a smoker, and a midnight toker.

There's something about a list of connected things that's appealing and pure. If you find solace in structure as I do, take this playlist to bed with you. It’s just shy of two hours, and it’s way more fun than counting sheep.

List of Songs With Lists in The Lyrics Playlist


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	Rock's Backpages by The Goodfoot Posse	79

	Rolling Stone Song Of The Day by Chuck Eddy	73

	Stop The Presses! by Billy Altman	19

	That's Really Week by Dave DiMartino	68

	The ARTHUR Blog by Paul Krassner	42

	The Blender Burner by Blender Magazine	6

	The Lefsetz Letter by Bob Lefsetz	213

	The MOJO Blog by Stevie Chick	41

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List of Songs That Contain Lists

50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon

Kiss Off - The Violent Femmes

People Who Died - Jim Carroll

88 Lines About 44 Women - Original - Nails

Living In America - James Brown

Forever Young - Bob Dylan

Land Of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett

All My Ex’s Live In Texas - George Strait

I’ve Been Everywhere - Hank Snow

The Joker - Steve Miller Band

What I Like About You - The Romantics

Pepper - Butthole Surfers

The Have Nots - X

My Favorite Things - Julie Andrews

We Didn’t Start The Fire - Billy Joel

Bad - Big Audio Dynamite

99 Problems - Trick Daddy

California Girls - The Beach Boys

Hardware Store - Weird Al Yankovic

Dancing In The Streets - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

Turn - Travis

Close To Home - Concrete Blonde

Shitlist - L7

Mikado: As Some Day It May Happen - D’Oyly Carte Opera Company & Orchestra

Girls, Girls, Girls - Jay-Z

Comin’ To Your City - Big & Rich

Car Bomb - Negativland

20 Questions - Amy Rigby

21 Things I Want In A Lover - Alanis Morissette

Gay/Not Gay - King Missile III

Please Come To Boston - David Allan Coe

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