"one two three four!" vs. "one two three" vs "one two three four [mumble and count more] 13 MONSTERS! 13 MONSTERS!"

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COULDN'T RESIST THE LIGHTNING BOLT REFERENCE IN THE TOPIC

But yea, counting in songs is the coolest thing ever.

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Slint - Rhoda
Lightning Bolt - 13 Monsters

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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― gygax!, Monday, 16 December 2002 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Modest Mouse - A life of arctic sounds

― , Monday, 16 December 2002 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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I WILL MISS LISTENING TO ARAB ON RADAR ON COLORED VINYL IN JAIL.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Jonathan Richman's "ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX" is the best.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Jonathan, I think should know that you have made me cry from laughing too hard.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor Buddy.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 16 December 2002 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Desparacidos "Manana": we get to compare how Conor Oberst's shout of "one two three" differs from a less hysterical bandmember's.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 16 December 2002 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Arab on Radar live always count off their songs. Used to anyway.

AND THE RAMONES, CLEARLY, OWN THIS THREAD.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 16 December 2002 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

One, Two, FIVE!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 16 December 2002 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

CLEARLY. The best part about the Ramones count-off is that it would be "one two onetwothreefo!" and then the song would sometimes start in a different tempo entirely.

I also like the random number count-off ("five, nine, seven, two!") though I can't think of any examples on record right now.

Destory: the high school jazz band director "one, two, ah-you-know-what-to-do"

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 16 December 2002 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"Alpha, beta, gamma, hubbadubba" -Gong

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 16 December 2002 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Jordan re that random number countoff I used to think it was so cool when a teenager how Warsaw started that song (was it called Warsaw?) 1 3 5 4 9 5 go or something like that. Ian Curtis was a really funny guy.

As to which count is better, I think it would be really cool if a band went 'one!' and started the song because that would show they were the fastest thinkers.

― maryann (maryann), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Warsaw's intro is great. Also: Mclusky going 'ONE! TWO! THREE!FOUR!' during the end of WhiteLiberalOnWhiteLiberalAction just as Rice Is Nice is about to start; Wire doing 'WAN-TOO-EX-YU' and also 'UHDUHTWAHCAT!' because they were like, so arty they were singing in a WHOLE NUTHA LANGUAGE.

― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"12XU!"

― Jen (nstop), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone have that Great Pop Things Ramones strip including John Cage Ramone that they could scan in? This thread (or at least the other one) is really reminding me of it but I lent my book to someone and never got it back. But then I never found anyone else who thought it was as hilarious as I did anyway.

― Rebecca (reb), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Onetwothreeshe'sarealleftwingercosshebeendownsouth"

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

pop punk bands that do "1,2,fuck you" rule this thread
bands that play in time signatures other than 4/4 have no place here

― ddd, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Guitar Wolf - "One Two Sree Hoa!"

― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't The Plasmatics do "One, Two, OneTwoFuckYou" or something like that?

― Dave Fischer, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

1) "One, two, three, seventeen, forty-two"
-- Colin Newman, "Truculent Yet"

3) After the vocals have finished in MBV's "Feed Me With Your Kiss", the instruments count upwards from four to ten.

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

How about Cornelius, "Count Five Or Six"?

Rebecca: I bet I find Great Pop Things funnier than you do. Sadly I have no scanner.

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Variant: "one two x u" - wire, minor threat, etc

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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