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== Driving Tunes ==
 
== Driving Tunes ==
Songs about cars and driving
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Songs about cars and driving - perfect for going on a [[RoadTrip]]
 
* Baby You Can Drive My Car - The Beatles
 
* Baby You Can Drive My Car - The Beatles
 
* Grease Lightning - from the musical Grease
 
* Grease Lightning - from the musical Grease
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== Singalong Songs ==
 
== Singalong Songs ==
''No specific theme, just a collection of those songs which everyone seems to somehow instinctively know and are just plain awesomely fun to sing along to''
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''No specific theme, just a collection of those songs which everyone seems to somehow instinctively know and are just plain awesomely fun to sing along to. ie, also perfect as [[RoadTrip]] material. ''
 
* Love Shack - B52s
 
* Love Shack - B52s
 
* Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - The Beatles
 
* Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - The Beatles

Revision as of 11:21, 3 March 2008

Some compilation CD's in mind...

Contents

Numbers

A compilation CD where the song titles feature numbers.

Ideally, the song title will have as little extra to the number as possible, and be sequential to match track number on the CD...

  • One - John Farnham
  • One Robot - Rocket Science
  • The One - Foo Fighters
  • 1 2 8 - Mighty mighty bosstones
  • Two Months Off - Underworld
  • Two - Cartoon
  • Song Two - Blur
  • 2 x 4 - Metalllica
  • Number Three - They Might Be Giants
  • Lush 3.1 - orbitial
  • Jumpin from six to six - colin james and the little big band II
  • Thirteen O'clock - Labyrinth soundtrack
  • Sweet Sixteen - Billy Idol
  • Sweet Sixteen - BB King
  • 17 Lies - Violent Femmes
  • 25 O'Clock - They Might Be Giants
  • 52 Girls - B-52s
  • Rocket 95 - alien fashion sow
  • A Thousand Years - Sting
  • Two Thousand Years - Billy Joel
  • Pennsylvania 6-5000 - Glenn Miller
  • Infinity - Guru Josh

Count Five Or Six, by Cornelius? 18, by Moby? -- st

Origin of Covers

Songs where the cover is better (or at least as well) known as the original


Title Dopelganger

Songs with identical (or very similar) titles...

  • Learning to Fly - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
  • Is There Anybody Out There - Pink Floyd
  • Is There Anybody In There - Hunters & Collectors
  • Sweet Sixteen - Billy Idol
  • Sweet Sixteen - BB King

New York City

Songs about the City...

  • New York City - They Might Be Giants
  • New York, New York - ?

see also: careers of Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, and other NYC originating artists

Week Days

  • Monday Monday - The Mamas and the Papas
  • Friday on my Mind - The Easybeats
  • Happy Days theme tune

Driving Tunes

Songs about cars and driving - perfect for going on a RoadTrip

  • Baby You Can Drive My Car - The Beatles
  • Grease Lightning - from the musical Grease

see also: refer to half of the Beach Boys Discography

Singalong Songs

No specific theme, just a collection of those songs which everyone seems to somehow instinctively know and are just plain awesomely fun to sing along to. ie, also perfect as RoadTrip material.

  • Love Shack - B52s
  • Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - The Beatles
  • Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
  • Hey Jude - The Beatles
  • YMCA - The Village People
  • American Pie - Don McLean
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