Making A List, Checking It Twice: Songs In The Form Of Lists

Trickier this one, not so many possibilities or are there?

Usually these are lists of godawfulness, but there are some others.

Kicking off with No 1 in the It’s all gone to sh*t parade, Billy Joel.

 

Note the hand gesture for Jeffrey Archer.

 

Mambo no 5.

Bloke obviously had a memeory problem and lost Mambos 1 through 4 so decided to write a song listing his girlfriends.

 

Ramping up the dystopian nightmare, Zager and Evans, In the year 2525, sadly runing out of rhymes by the time they get to 7575.

 

Sunscreen?

 

Don’t even think about it.

 

Yes! One of the best.

 

Ban?

 

More tales of woe and general misery.

 

Why don’t you like it? One of those oddities that makes pop a great medium.

 

Well, primarily because I associate it with that **** Chris Moyles. But, otherwise not sure - just find it irritating.

 

We can’t cut out everything you find irritating. Where would it end?

 

It would be a much, much happier world, my friend.

 

Possibly tenuous, but:

 

I thought of this but wasn’t sure it was sufficiently “listy”.

 

Taking Billy Joel’s concept forward to the 21st Century, The Living End.

 

50 ways to leave your lover - Paul Simon

 

Can't see it, m8.

 

Why not? Dodgy link ? Standing at hotel reception desk in India.

 

Blocked in our country on copyright grounds.

 

Craig David, 7 Days, works in this and every other music thread.

 

Any good?

 

Not a fan of Pete Doherty, but Albion is a list and on that list is Watford.

 

I remember that as if it was only yesterday….

 

I prefer the extended LP version where he lists all 50…

 

Let me tell you about the ways.

 

Some machine is doing it for you.

 

I prefer the 12 inch version, where he lists 75.

 

There’s a dub version where he lists all 3500.

 

It’s obviously inspired by dystopian fiction and films, but I always particularly had the 1960 adaptation of The Time Machine in mind.

 

Perhaps this