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Wednesday Coffee Break: Let's Make A List

Posted at 8:53 AM on July 28, 2010 by Steve Seel (50 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

Everyday for the 9:30 Coffee Break, we ask you to help us put together a list of songs that adhere to a different specific topic. Today, we want to make a list of lists: songs that contain a listing of items in their lyrics. Need an example?

Songs played:
Johnny Cash "I've Been Everywhere"
Pixies "Monkey Gone To Heaven"
Fishbone "? (Modern Industry)"
Violent Femmes "Kiss Off"
Mylo "Destroy Rock and Roll"
Bob Dylan "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

Comments (50)

Billy Joel: We Didn't Start the Fire. One of the dumbest songs ever recorded. Which is pretty great, actually.

Posted by Andy | July 28, 2010 9:05 AM

Johnny Cash - 25 Minutes To Go or I've Been Everywhere

Atmosphere - Shhh

Huey Lewis & The News - Heart of Rock 'N Roll

Posted by Oj | July 28, 2010 9:06 AM

We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
End of the World as We Know It - REM
I am the Girl of 100 Lists- Go-Go's
27 Jennifers - Mike Doughty

Posted by phyghy | July 28, 2010 9:06 AM

Take a Bow- Muse
Fitter Happier- Radiohead
A Day in the Life- Beatles

Posted by marty | July 28, 2010 9:07 AM

It's the End of the World as We Know It - R.E.M.

Handlebars - Flobots

Sliver - Nirvana

Can't Stop Partying - Weezer

Posted by Nick | July 28, 2010 9:07 AM

I’ve Been Everywhere -- Johnny Cash

Thou Shalt Always Kill -- Dan La Sac vs Scroobius Pip

We Didn’t Start the Fire -- that Billy Joel guy

Reasons to Be Cheerful -- Ian Dury & the Blockheads

Posted by lou | July 28, 2010 9:08 AM

NUMB ~ U2

Posted by Annie | July 28, 2010 9:08 AM

"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel

"Shhh" by Atmosphere

Posted by Cat | July 28, 2010 9:08 AM

REM-End of the world as we know it

Posted by Eric | July 28, 2010 9:09 AM

Step Right Up - Tom Waits

Posted by Krista | July 28, 2010 9:09 AM

"I've Been Everywhere" by Johnny Cash

Posted by Cat | July 28, 2010 9:09 AM

52 Girls - The B-52s

Posted by Lyndee | July 28, 2010 9:09 AM

88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails

Posted by Ira Rosen | July 28, 2010 9:10 AM

Dylan-"Highway 61"

Posted by Adam | July 28, 2010 9:10 AM

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon

Posted by Molly | July 28, 2010 9:10 AM

Kiss Off by the Violent Femmes

Posted by Shane | July 28, 2010 9:10 AM

The Things You Left Behind-The Nails (this would
be great to hear)

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover-Paul Simon

We Care A Lot-Faith No More

People Who Died- Jim Carrol

Posted by wellst | July 28, 2010 9:11 AM

Manu Chao's "Me Gustas Tu"

Posted by Kelly | July 28, 2010 9:11 AM

violent femmes "kiss off"

Posted by Ann | July 28, 2010 9:11 AM

Kiss Off - Violent Femmes

All Together Now - The Beatles

Granted- there is counting in both songs.

Posted by DMM | July 28, 2010 9:11 AM

Violent Femmes, Kiss Off

Posted by Susan Kelley | July 28, 2010 9:11 AM

All I Need - Martin Zellar

Posted by M | July 28, 2010 9:12 AM

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Heart Problems

Posted by Nathan | July 28, 2010 9:12 AM

Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You

Posted by Mike | July 28, 2010 9:12 AM

50 Ways to Leave your Lover - Paul Simon

One Week - Barenaked Ladies

Valentine's Day in Juarez - Ike Reilly Assisnation

Posted by Becky | July 28, 2010 9:13 AM

Always On the Run - Lenny Kravitz

Posted by DMM | July 28, 2010 9:13 AM

"Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Angry Balled Fists" - Against Me!

Posted by Patrick | July 28, 2010 9:15 AM

Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Carries On
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls
Minnesota Gurls (It's a hilarious cover of California Girls by locals! Look it up on youtube, you can download the song) Dime & Peppimoo
The Magnetic Fields - The Book of Love
Ween - Pollo Asado
Soul Coughing - Casiotone Nation
Dresden Dolls - Truce

Posted by Jenna | July 28, 2010 9:15 AM

Billy Joel, for Mac!

"Kiss Off" - Violent Femmes

Posted by Justin | July 28, 2010 9:15 AM

"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" by Paul Simon

Posted by Cat | July 28, 2010 9:17 AM

88 lines about 44 women - The Nails

Posted by Steve White | July 28, 2010 9:17 AM

Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer
http://lyrics.wikia.com/Queens_Of_The_Stone_Age:Feel_Good_Hit_Of_The_Summer

Posted by Erik | July 28, 2010 9:18 AM

Kiss Off – Violent Femmes (numbering pills)
Goodbye, Goodbye – Oingo Boingo
Cape Cod Kwassa – Vampire Weekend (to-do list)
Cold Beverages – G. Love & Special Sauce (beverages)
Conjunction Junction – Better than Ezra
Dance this Mess Around – B-52s (dances)
Disco Infiltrator – LCD Soundsystem (party prep)
Do Wacka Do – Roger Miller (things in the good life)
I Don’t Know – Replacements (what not to do)
I got rhythm – Bobby Darin (who could ask for anything more)

Posted by loran | July 28, 2010 9:18 AM

instinct blues - white stripes
I want a cookie - evolution control committee

Posted by Christian | July 28, 2010 9:18 AM

OBVIOUSLY...

Foux Du Fafa by Flight of the Concords. They list off different fruits and produce items... en francais!

Posted by Maddy | July 28, 2010 9:18 AM

one more for Flobots - Handlebars!! Love it!!

also White Stripes - Take, Take, Take

Posted by Jenna | July 28, 2010 9:19 AM

88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails
27 Jennifers - Mike Doughty
I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash

Posted by jason | July 28, 2010 9:19 AM

You could also play Outkast's cover My Favorite Things (it's instrumental, though)

Posted by wellst | July 28, 2010 9:19 AM

50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon

Posted by Jim | July 28, 2010 9:21 AM

Life So Far by Billy Jonas
La Vie Boheme from Rent

Posted by Dawn Baker | July 28, 2010 9:21 AM

Tubthumper- Chumbawamba
Mambo No. 5 -Lou Bega

Posted by m | July 28, 2010 9:23 AM

Mambo #5 by Lou Bega

Posted by Meghan | July 28, 2010 9:23 AM

Soul Coughing - Casiotone Nation
Sharon Jones - Mama Don't Like My Man

Posted by Ryan Siverson | July 28, 2010 9:24 AM

Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Posted by Chai | July 28, 2010 9:25 AM

Reasons to be Cheerful part 3 - Ian Dury

Let's Call the Whole Thing Off - Ella & Louis

Rotterdam (or Anywhere) - Beautiful South

All of Me - willie nelson

All Four Seasons - sting

Posted by cris | July 28, 2010 9:27 AM

Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Posted by Suki | July 28, 2010 9:28 AM

Marc Cohn, 29 ways to make it to my babys door.

Posted by Monica | July 28, 2010 9:39 AM

King Crimson
Elephant Talk

Posted by Don Schneider | July 28, 2010 9:48 AM

Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke - a list of great Jazz Legends
"you can feel it all over"

Posted by mon | July 28, 2010 10:05 AM

Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon
Know Your Rights - The Clash
Lady Madonna - The Beatles

Posted by Tom | July 28, 2010 11:52 AM

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