Numerology: The best song for each number

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F'r instance, The Nails' "88 Lines about 44 Women" is probably the best song for 88, whereas the competition for 99 is tough: "99 Problems," "Johnny 99," "99 Year Blues"...

And the toughest? #1, clearly, though at this point I'm leaning toward The Sparks' "#1 Song In Heaven."

You?

(At least give us a 1-20)

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 03:39 (twenty years ago)

1 thing - amerie
2 become 1 - spice girls
3 cheers for our side - orange juice
i'm a slave 4 u - britney
transona 5 - stereolab
5-8-6 - new order
the 7th seal - scott walker
activ8 - altern8
9 to 5 - dolly parton
10 dollar - m.i.a.
nitsa is 11 - ferenc
the 12 days of christmas

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 04:23 (twenty years ago)

13 stumped me

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

big star, "thirteen," son.

― awful bliss (awful bliss), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 04:33 (twenty years ago)

#1 Hit Song (Minutemen)
1-2, Crush on You (The Clash)
The Three Bells (The Browns)
Four (Miles Davis)
five-Five-FIVE (Zappa)
Six Pack (Black Flag)
Seven Steps to Heaven (Miles Davis)
Eight Miles High (Byrds)
Cloud Nine (Temptations)
10 Seconds of Forever (Hawkwind)
11:59 (Blondie)
12XU (Wire)
Thirteen (Big Star)
Fourteen (Sonny Sharrock)
Fifteen Keys (Uncle Tupelo)
(too many sixteen songs to count)

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 04:46 (twenty years ago)

Other ideas here:
Numbers Songs

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

"17" - winger
"18 and life" - skid row
"hey nineteen" - steely dan

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

867-5309 - Tommy Tutone
Did he know this was a prime?

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:28 (twenty years ago)

One - Three Dog Night
Two Divided By Love - Grass Roots
Three Is a Magic Number - De La Soul
Four to the Floor - Starsailor
5-7-0-5 - City Boy
Band 6 - Monkees
Seven More Days - Terence Trent D'Arby
Eight Days a Week - Beatles
#9 Dream - John Lennon
Ten Little Kids - Jayhawks

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:33 (twenty years ago)

I think 12XU has to count for 1 or 2 instead of 12 since it is pronounced "one, two, x, u!"

xpost

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:39 (twenty years ago)

Lionel Richie: "Three Times a Lady"
Little Axe: "15 to 4"
Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Take Five"
Sneaker Pimps: "6 Underground"
Airto: "Tombo in 7/4" / John Barry: "007"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 09:26 (twenty years ago)

abba one of us,two for the price of one,you owe me one.
chicago 25 or 6 to 4
terence trent darby SRR 636
air supply two less lonely people in the world

― retrogurl, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

don't forget nothing. Dylan's Love Minus Zero (No Limit)?

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:46 (twenty years ago)

1. Number One - The Rutles
2. too much - Elvis presley
3. The Magic Number - DelaSoul
4. For your love - Yardbirds
5. 5 4 3 2 1 - Manfreed Mann
6. six becomes two - Spicers
7. and 7 is - Love
8. eight and war - Clash
9. Nine Nine Nine, emergency - Girlschool
10. Ten is the magic number -

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:46 (twenty years ago)

i have a great old album by mavis rivers called Take A Number, where she does 1 to 12:

Side 1: One minute to One, Two Loves Have I, Three Coins in the Fountain, Four AM, Five O'Clock Whistle, Six Lessons from Madam La Zonga. Side 2: Seven League Boots, Dinner at Eight, About a Quarter to Nine, On the 10-0-10, At the Eleventh Hour, It's Twelve O'Clock.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh hell, change my #5 to "Five O'Clock World" and my #6 to "25 or 6 to 4."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

i can't believe the obvious hasn't been posted:

? Mark and the Mysterians - 96 Tears

― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

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