THE NUMBER OF THE...

[Zzzptm]

You can hear that Karen Carpenter influence in the way Nicko McBrain slings the skins on this Maiden tune with a number in the title:

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Sticking with Iron Maiden...

Pick Number 6

Iron Maiden - 22 Acacia Avenue

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
Ouch. That one came right off my list! You stinker!

Oops, sorry!

"A STINKER!!!" and I'd just had a bath too!

[Vyn]

[Vyn]

Number 9 from me:

In 1973 the album Tyranny and Mutation by The Blue Oyster Cult hit the shelves of record stores around the world. Side one wraps up with a tune titled, "7 Screaming Diz-Busters".

I didn't know what the fuck a Diz-Buster was back in the day, and I still don't. But the music works, so I don't care )

[Zzzptm]

I once didn't know, and then I found out. Now I want to un-know.

NEVER dig deep into a Blue Oyster Cult lyric is what I learned from that.

And then I had to re-learn that lesson after digging into what a bungo pony was and how one hornswoops it. Yikes.
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Staying on BOC, I could use ME 262, but I've cited it before in other lists, so I'll pass over it here. I've put forth my Iron Maiden track for my listings, so it's on to another artiste with numerals in titles... and that would be...

Little Richard's version of "Land of 1000 Dances"

I like Wilson Pickett's version - a classic - but Little Richard has his band crank up the speed and really blasts this one out.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick number 7

The Macc Lads - Twenty Pints

Hopefully no one is offended by the language!! 

[Charger]

My number 7 comes from MEGADETH's thirteenth album...which contains a track called...well you guessed it 13!!!

[Vyn]

Number 10. How can this not be in a list like this?

Tommy Tutone finds a phone number in a bathroom stall and sings about it!

867-5309/Jenny, from 1981:

[Zzzptm]

From the Oldies chest - Wynonie Harris doing "Grandma Plays the Numbers" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m136JOv3z6w

And in the hard-rockin' vein, Glenn Hughes doing "I Got Your Number" live in Japan, great version of this track:

[Charger]

How did Vyn get to the finish line already? 

Anyways...my number 8 comes from ALICE COOPER and about some really really REALLY expensive shoes!


This is 1000$ High Heel Shoes!!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

My 8th pick is...

Hawkwind - Valium 10

Originally a B-Side, this finally saw an album release on the Atomhenge reissue of their Levitation album from 1980.

I imagine this is quite good to listen to whilst drunk/stoned!

[Vyn]

Since I ended on a pop song, here's another bonus pop song, popular about the same time:

At the time, I thought this had to be Dennis DeYoung's dream fulfilled. The guy was so theatrical. I mean, this is the same band that cranked out Witch Wolf and Man of Miracles.

And he just took them straight down the path of big money and no soul.

I was wrong, though. About this being Mr. DeYoung's epitome of self-indulgence. That was yet to come...

However, the chicks liked that stuff. I'd be on a date and ask if they liked Styx. Invariably the answer was "Oh yes!". I'd say, "Great! I've got some, here, let's listen." She'd be all beaming smiles, and I'd pop in The Serpent is Rising and their expression changed dramatically...like I just smacked them with a wet pickle. I was an asshole

But then one day, I found a girl that smiled even wider, said she never heard that before, and it was awesome. I married her.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick number 9

The Who - 5:15

I think the 70s were the The Who at their best.

[Ted Sallis]

However, the chicks liked that stuff. I'd be on a date and ask if they liked Styx. Invariably the answer was "Oh yes!". I'd say, "Great! I've got some, here, let's listen." She'd be all beaming smiles, and I'd pop in The Serpent is Rising and their expression changed dramatically...like I just smacked them with a wet pickle. I was an asshole
But then one day, I found a girl that smiled even wider, said she never heard that before, and it was awesome. I married her.

The Serpent is Rising is my favourite Styx album.

Ted