Wednesday Coffee Break: Ones and Zeroes
Posted at 7:57 AM on December 30, 2009
by Steve Seel
(60 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break
What the hell was this decade called anyway? Many have opted for "the Oughts," while some have suggested "the Two-Thousands." Then there's the "Naughts," the "Oopses," or just "the decade from hell." Then there's the whole debate over when a decade - or century, or millenium - actually begins. On the "zero" year, or the "one" year? Jill and I are of the mind that a decade begins with the changing second-place digit, and a zero in last place (you know - "the 60's.")
Any way you slice it, we've got zeroes and ones on the brain today. Let's play some songs with either "one" or "zero" in the title. We're tired from all the debating on this topic, so getting creative is your job!
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
There's like a billion songs called "One". Pick one.
The Humans Are Dead - Flight of the Conchords
Doesn't have a 1 or 0 in the title, but they do have a binary solo....
One Thing - Finger Eleven
What about All You Need is Love?
Aimee Mann - One
Feist - One Two Three Four
My Hero Zero by The Lemonheads on the School House Rock, Rocks! Album. Memories of a different decade from my youth.
Metallica- "One"
The Fixx- "Saved by Zero"
I would enjoy Metallica. It's not listed in your catalogue- it's super long. But it rocks!
The Fixx:
One Thing Leads to Another
Less Than Zero
Ones and Zeros by Jawbox
she's the one -- caribou
carry the zero - built to spill
Carry the Zero, Built to Spill!
Geggy Tah - One Zero
It has both and it's about binary. W00t!
she's the one -- caribou
One (Is the loneliest number) - Three Dog night
One - Johnny Cash (U2 Cover - American III)
One (is the lonliest number) by Three dog Night but I like the Filter cover
"Home" or "40 Day Dream" Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
1234 - Feist
One in a Million-The Romantics
Three Dog Night - One (is the loneliest number)
you oughta know -- alanis morissette
1901 - Phoenix
The Fixx - Saved by Zero
INXS - The One Thing
One city pages article dubbed this decade "the oughties" early on - 02 or so. I thought it was cute, and it irritated a co-worker friend just enough that I kept on pushing it, long enough that it finally stuck with just about anyone I talked to regularly.
One is the lonliest number
One hell of a party - Air
Tour de france Etape 1 - kraftwerk
One - Aimee Mann
Zero you're my hero - school house rocks
100000% support Andy's suggestion of The Humans are Dead. Binary solo? Come on, you can't beat that! It was the first thing that popped in my head.
Three Dog Night: One
Bob Dylan: Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Beatles: One After 909 (Anthology 1 version)
"One is The Loneliest Number" by Three Dog Night
Square One / Zero from Outer Space - Tom Petty
One by One - Wilco & Billy Bragg
One --Aimee Mann (Magnolia Soundtrack)
One--U2 featuring Mary J Blige
Zero--Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zero--Suicide Machines
There is something that gives me tingles when I think of Aimee Mann's beautiful cover and the Suicide Machines back to back!
First off loafing is not what some of us do on a daily basis so pls b considerate to those of us who really do work today, tomorrow n even on friday. Second 2010 is the start of the decade not 2011 and whoever came up with this is wrong. Lastly i request something u r not going to play anyway:
Primavera Zero by Soda Stereo
Geez Ramon, someone got coal in his stocking.
Elvis Costello - Less Than Zero
Ramones - Zero Zero UFO
21st Century Breakdown - Green Day
#1 - Animal Collective
Little One - Beck
Jangling - Edward Sharpe and Magnetic Zeroes!!!!
Replacements
20th Centry Boy
Cake
Dime
"One Step Beyond" - Madness
1999 - Prince - yes I know no ones or zeros in the title, but there is the line "two thousand zero zero party over it's out of time"
The New Pornographers - The New Face of Zero and One
One - U2
"The One I Love" -- REM
The Beta Band - Won
One is the loneliest number....
One - U2
Zero - Lamb
505 - Arctic Monkeys
Uno - Muse
How about walking zero by the sneaker pimps?
"Robots" - Flight of the Conchords (Binary solo = awesome)
"Zero" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Just One Cornetto" - Pookiesnackenburger
(I found it on my copy of the Stiff Records Box Set)
Seeing as there was no year "0", the decades are as follows:
1-10
11-20
21-30
31-40
...
1991-2000
2001-2010
2011-2020
So technically the decade doesn't end this year UNLESS you say the first decade was a fluke and only was 9 years long. But it's kind of a silly argument, considering it's basically all arbitrary (like just about every measure of time we have... why 24 hours in a day? or 60 minutes in an hour? or why does the year start on Jan. 1st, instead of the equinox or solstice?). Lots of biblical scholars say Jesus was probably not born in year 1 anyway.
5 to 1 - The Doors
1 way or another - Blondie
Cero y Uno by Cafe Tacuba.
Robots by Flight of the Conchords (listed as Humans are Dead by other people). There isn't a one or a zero in the title but there's a whole binary solo in the song where they repeat 00010110101.
BONUS TRIVIA!!!!!
On New Years Day, it will be 010110 which is binary for the number 22. So I guess we could say happy 22 instead of happy new year.
I work in health care which is not retail. I love your music but hollier than thou djs are such a turn off. The decade ends tomorrow. Thats my two cents
We can celebrate the end of the "Aughts", the beginning of the "Teens". Every decade has a name. Celebrate turning a new leaf.
One thing that always was interesting to me is birthdays. Technically, the day you were born is birthday #1, but your first year. You then celebrate your 1 year birthday (as in1 yr old) on your SECOND birthday... so when you turn 50 you turn 50 on your 51st birth-day!
Zero and Blind Terry-Bruce Springsteen
NUMBER 1 - GOLDFRAPP
.............Im like a dog to get you!!!!!!! yeah yeah yeah yeah!
carry the zero, built to spill
What are we supposed to call the 2000's?
Call them the oh-ohs. As is 00. Or as is uh oh, cause there was plenty of that the past ten years.
one day, bjork
Teens- the word is representative of ten.
Here's a funny concept- humans had two less fingers, we'd all be using base 8. Except, there wouldn't be a number 8.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10
I don't know why that was worth mentioning.
What do we call the decade? I agree with the spirit of Jason and the words of Seel - The Decade from Hell, both personally and as a country. Here's a cheer to the joys and wonders awaiting us in the new year! Happy New Year ya'll!
Jill is partially correct. the decade does end in 2010, only at the end of the year 2010.
people, come on, are we smarter than this or what?
decade #1 is year 1 thru 10. therefore, the 1st decade of this century is 2001 thru 2010. and the 2nd decade starts at the END of 2010. thus, 2011-2020.
What we celebrate on your birthday is the anniversary of your birth, and that's the word used in French and some other languages. Or, if you prefer, you celebrate the number of years you've survived, which was a big deal back when child and infant mortality was measured in double digits.
As for decades, I doubt anyone would argue that "the sixties" didn't start in 1960, or that 1960 was the last year of the 1950s. It has been 10 years since the calendar turned to 2000, so I think it's fair to say that Jan. 2010 is the start of a new decade, even if logically that would mean that once upon a time there should have been a "year zero" that doesn't show up in history.
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