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January 12, 2009
Three Fifths
While we all anxiously await the first 2009 installment of Dave Klein's Numerology column, we now take a moment to recap the last twenty entries in the man's continuing search. For those of you who are just now visiting our fair shores to plunder this impressive list of mp3s, here's how it works: There are lots of songs vaguely about numbers, and a smaller subset of those songs which feature numbers in their titles. Not just the obvious, meaningful, and easy to rhyme numbers like 2 or 50 either. Prof. Klein takes each digit from 1 to 100 in turn, sussing out the musical monuments to each, and eventual declaring a definitive winner. He's done 60 so far. That's, like, a lot. Below, you'll find winners 41 to 60. Click on the digit for the essay, on the song for the song*. Then, when "61" drops sometime soon (and I think we probably have a good idea what the eventual winner for that numeral might be), you'll be totally up to speed. Maybe you should clear out your schedule a bit...
41: Wire - “Map Ref. 41°N 93°W”
42: East River Pipe - "Down 42nd Street to the Light"
43: Guillemots - "Made Up Love Song #43"
44: The Zombies - "Care of Cell 44"
45: Elvis Costello & the Imposters - "45"
46: The Showmen - "39-21-46"
47: Dwight Twilley - "47 Moons"
48: The Clash - "48 Hours"
49: The James Gang - "Funk # 49"
50: PJ Harvey - "50 Ft. Queenie"
51: New Model Army - "51st State"
52: The B-52's - "52 Girls"
53: The Ramones - "53rd and 3rd"
54: Toots & the Maytalls - "54-46 Was My Number"
55: Tom Waits - "Ol' 55"
56: Gene Vincent - "Five Feet of Lovin' '56"
57: Man Sized Action - "57"
58: Mott the Hoople - "Born Late '58"
59: Simon & Garfunkel - "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy)"
60: Billy Ward and the Dominoes - "Sixty Minute Man"
* except for ol' Elvis Costello's "45", which oddly continues to elude me. The link there is to a You Tube'd live performance.
Posted by Jeff Klingman at January 12, 2009 12:35 PM
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