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All-throughout, prominently, or otherwyz

Also, I searched for about 10 minutes before posting this b/c it seemed like such an obvious "already been done" kinda thread so forgive me if another actually exists.

that said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZSHr5E7fZY
nun yalls songs can top this

― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:15 (fifteen years ago)

ash wednesday - love by numbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxsXt1_9iXU

― esteban and the witch (electricsound), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:19 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdOX2mnMeUQ

― xhuxk, Friday, 7 January 2011 02:20 (fifteen years ago)

Cornelius - Count Five or Six

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREZSl94Zy8

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 January 2011 02:20 (fifteen years ago)

I never heard that kate bush song...amazing! thanks

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 7 January 2011 02:20 (fifteen years ago)

nun yalls songs can top this

it's close, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgWbgtjVow

― http://i26.tinypic.com/2ajucf4.jpg (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:21 (fifteen years ago)

She Came In through the Bathroom Window

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 7 January 2011 02:21 (fifteen years ago)

ah man, Cornelius! :D

― http://i26.tinypic.com/2ajucf4.jpg (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:21 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDm0PqjAF78

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 January 2011 02:23 (fifteen years ago)

^^^^^^^^^^^^ok, threadwinnah

― http://i26.tinypic.com/2ajucf4.jpg (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:23 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGXHDMIJw4

― Dans la Bot (seandalai), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:26 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e7yYBDHOgg

― Dans la Bot (seandalai), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:28 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ClYcS_mmXE

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 January 2011 02:28 (fifteen years ago)

A bunch of the schoolhouse rock math ones too - "3 is the Magic Number", etc.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 January 2011 02:30 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdeCxJmcAo

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 7 January 2011 02:36 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qP79rRzzh4

― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 January 2011 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg-iKP0zI9Q&fmt=18

― Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Friday, 7 January 2011 03:08 (fifteen years ago)

I never heard that kate bush song...amazing! thanks

― Iago Galdston, Thursday, January 6, 2011 7:20 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Yeah, it's great. From her latest album, in 2005, Aerial... which, with a lot of people, is being heralded as her 2nd best behind Hounds of Love. The divergence of styles between the two is totally polarized... she makes the most of her lessened exuberance since old age.

Anyways, I still swear I posted in a thread super similar to this. Was it about arithmetic in music...?

― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 03:28 (fifteen years ago)

If youre doing the Sesame Street pinball counting song then you better not sleep on the Ladybug's Picnic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9J7WcYtxI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 03:28 (fifteen years ago)

that isn't very laser precise, laser precise purpose maker era

― http://i26.tinypic.com/2ajucf4.jpg (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 January 2011 03:30 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK7gg8gbMxE

From Einstein on the Beach. Excellent user vid, too.

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 7 January 2011 04:29 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChSHqmOUe8E

― bing, Friday, 7 January 2011 05:35 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r1pg28XZfE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koiI0C00eTA&feature=related

Brian McKnight is the king of counting, numbered instructions on the cycles of romantic relationships and how many months, days and hours since his girlfriend went away.

― Rotating & Blunders (MintIce), Sunday, 9 January 2011 05:44 (fifteen years ago)

Spiritualized - "200 Bars"/"100 Bars"

― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Sunday, 9 January 2011 05:48 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqaoxxsN7Q

― The Amy Misto Family Knife (Plasmon), Sunday, 9 January 2011 06:31 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbHBYGY2fs0

― van smack, Sunday, 9 January 2011 07:36 (fifteen years ago)

^beats all

― van smack, Sunday, 9 January 2011 07:37 (fifteen years ago)

On the other hand:

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― The Dutch of Dukes, Sunday, 9 January 2011 09:11 (fifteen years ago)

Fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWyKysFJck

― The Dutch of Dukes, Sunday, 9 January 2011 09:12 (fifteen years ago)

Man! That (sesame street?) pinball video eleven twelve! Haven't seen that in like 35 years (and I'm 38). Instant flashback.

― StanM, Sunday, 9 January 2011 09:21 (fifteen years ago)

That's the Pointer Sisters.

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:04 (fifteen years ago)

Trama, "Numbers Game":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB2LNnfS4lg

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:06 (fifteen years ago)

Everything on They Might Be Giants' Here Come the 123s, but this is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs_D8dC0uwc

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:09 (fifteen years ago)

Manfred Mann's Stones-lite song '5-4-3-2-1'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9CAPrEG5sM

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:09 (fifteen years ago)

Moondog w/ the London Saxophonic - "Blast Off"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxAW_a4FbaU

― Satantango! (Matt #2), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:13 (fifteen years ago)

The count-off sampled in Public Enemy's "Night of the Living Baseheads"--don't know the original source.

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:14 (fifteen years ago)

Bowie, 'Space Oddity'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

"Inch Worm," though I guess this isn't exactly counting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIzN8qVjX2Y

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gproa6vzgws

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

Goldfrapp, "Rocket" (@3m04s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJppnG1tflU

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:26 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArFBnajSOjg

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

"12345678910" by Human Sexual Response from their forgotten treasure of an album, "In A Roman Mood."

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:50 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELkKXkCgFB0

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udj1E7muOdg

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

So it's not how high you can count, it's knowing when to stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBHNgV6_znU

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:56 (fifteen years ago)

Steps, '5 6 7 8'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_CwtYNKWc

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsd4IubweU

― Siegbran, Sunday, 9 January 2011 20:01 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjnIK_4A2MM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IhJxh4TXAw

― your mum, Sunday, 9 January 2011 20:02 (fifteen years ago)

bah, i just realised the second one's already had a mention. oh well, as you were.

― your mum, Sunday, 9 January 2011 20:03 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxFFJu7RVuk

it goes ONE ONE ONE ONE for many measures and then TRICKS THE LISTENER by switching to ONE TWO THREE FOUR right before the chorus and invariably blows every single person's mind

― teledyldonix, Sunday, 9 January 2011 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

The Feist song is better here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9WiuJPnNA

― dlp9001, Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:13 (fifteen years ago)

The Count video is better here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM

― dlp9001, Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:13 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mGkXIyY_cw&feature=related

― dlp9001, Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

(Which is actually my favorite opening track on any Swans-related album, FWIW.)

― dlp9001, Sunday, 9 January 2011 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

The Mountain Goats - Counting Song for Bitter Children

― bing, Monday, 10 January 2011 02:53 (fifteen years ago)

lil wayne - six foot seven foot
big - ten crack commandments
violent femmes - add it up
pixies - monkey gone to heaven

― symsymsym, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:09 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grlOImCXqW0

(granted, the counting doesn't get any higher than 1 ;)

― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Monday, 10 January 2011 04:10 (fifteen years ago)


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