Difference between revisions of "Numbers"

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Songs that mention numbers.

Central theme[edit]

• All songs from Here Come The 123s (except "Heart Of The Band", "Hot Dog!", and " Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme")
• 100 Cars For Good
• 120 Minutes Song
• 123 Band Intro
• 200 Sbemails
• 25 O'Clock
• 3 Chords, 2 Teeth, 1 Eye
• 32 Footsteps
• 4 Years Of Norm Breaking - A Question In Song
• 7-11
• 8 AM
• 9 Secret Steps
• Agent Double-0-Soul
• Broke In Two
• Countdown Intro
• Dimension Six Rock
• Four Of Two
• Lesson 16
• Less Than One
• Meh (We Are Meh) – "Just one item in the store"
• Nixon's The One
• Number Three
• O, Do Not Forsake Me – "One thousand years old"
• One Billion Degrees
• One Man One Vote
• One Two Three Four
• Right Before Showtime – 24 hours each listed individually
• Seven In The Morning
• The Songs Of The 50 States
• Three Might Be Duende
• Too + 3 R One
• Tres Quatro
• Zilch

Briefly mentioned[edit]

• 1999 - Cowtown Medley - "Two thousand zero zero"
• 2082 – "You will meet again, you two"
• '85 Radio Special Thank You - "Until they never let us out a full ten blocks later"
• AKA Driver – "Big hand's on one-twenty"
• Albany – "I'm a number, not a man"
• Alienation's For The Rich - "He's leavin' in three days" , "With a six of Miller High Life"
• All Alone - "For three years it remained undetected on the moon"
• Alphabet Lost And Found - "More than two syllables to the emergency room!", "Prefixes and suffixes, door number two"
• Ampersand - "Shining down on millions more"
• Ana Ng – "80 dolls yelling small girl after all"
• Anaheim – "Death Wish 3"
• Answer – "I came in under 5'4"
• Arkansas – "On a scale of one to one"
• Au Contraire – "Jodie Foster held two pair / Bach had three of a kind"
• Authenticity Trip - "200-proof"
• Become A Robot – "Let's stick together 'cause we're number eight / Let's stick to numbers 'cause we're great"
• Best Regrets - "Ten quarters and five dimes", "Betrayal takes two"
• Birdhouse In Your Soul – "One note, spelled L-I-T-E"
• Black Ops – "A thousand miles from day or night"
• The Bloodboat – "Two days out, three to go", "Forty tons of cutlery"
• Brain Problem Situation - "Twenty nine inches of snow"
• Buckle Down, Winsocki - "They will cover the ground for a number one down or a touch"
• C Is For Conifers - "More than five hundred kinds"
• Canada Haunts Me – "Or I'll just hear the echo of fifty-four forty or fight"
• Can't Keep Johnny Down – "Outnumbered a million to one"
• Chopping Block Testimonial - "...over ten million employees ready to serve..."
• Circular Karate Chop – "Three rules from your sensei...one...two...three..."
• Confusing The Mind - "Well jeepers, we've got two or three children"
• Creepy – "Six million ways to die"
• Cyclops Rock – "I just stare with my one glass eye"
• Dial-A-Song Promo – "25 hours a day, six days a week"
• Employee Of The Month – "It's my number one job", "Number one crumb-making son of a gun"
• The End Of The Tour – "Out on Interstate 91"
• Erase - "The lights start going out one by one"
• Feel Good Sublet – "Let it be this one", "Four flights up and find yourself knowing"
• Fibber Island - "Our dog is 2 miles wide"
• Flansy Stays In The Picture – "He was interviewing fifty people, a hundred people, two hundred people, whatever it took..."
• Gudetama's Busy Days - "So you hit on double zero"
• The Guitar – "Five, three, four, five"
• Hillbilly Drummer Girl - "Playing for a crowd of six"
• Hopeless Bleak Despair – "One day it disappeared"
• Houston – "By the ramp for Interstate 45"
• I Am Alone - "One of us is a double", "three-part folding mirror", "So now it appears the double crossers / Have been too clever by half"
• I Haven't Been Right Yet - "I said the force of 50 million suns"
• I'm All You Can Think About – "That one with the tiny face"
• James K. Polk – "In 1844 the Democrats were split"
• John Lee Supertaster – "It's like a hundred pears (it's like a million pears)". Also, "When I was 39 years old..."
• The King Of Wingo – "Then the two became four"
• Lucky Ball And Chain – "Now she's four years gone / Just five feet tall and sick of me", "And I drink for two"
• McCafferty's Bib – "I used to have eleven problems"
• Meh (They Could Try Harder) – "One thing"
• Memo To Human Resources – "5 4 3 2 2 2 2 2"
• The Mexican Drill – "Eighteen feet or more"
• Mink Car – "When you're 24 karat dead"
• Monsters Of Mud – "Look out there's one right there"
• The Next Plane To London - "Leaving on runway number five"
• Now Is Strange – "Underneath that five would be a six"
• Ohio - "Four dead in Ohio"
• Pencil Rain – "They look out for number two"
• Prepare – "Counting down to zero from one"
• Purple Toupee – "Ten years later they were sharing the same cell / I shouted out, "Free the Expo '67""
• Quit The Circus – "I'll blink once for no / I'll blink twice for no"
• Rhythm Section Want Ad – "There must be hundreds"
• Rock Club – "1 2, Check, 1 2"
• See The Constellation – "1, 2, 3, 4...4...4..." count-off and throughout most of the song
• She's An Angel – "We raced up and down the sidewalk twenty thousand million times"
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future - "She had a hundred mechanical fingers"
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future Commentary - "Three dimensional special effects..." , "...eight months ago..."
• (Since You Joined) The Corporation – "Painful smile, on the 44th floor"
• Snowball In Hell - "I guess 30, 45 minutes maybe."
• Stalk Of Wheat – "...And it felt like a trillion feet"
• Starry Eyes – "Won't you take this number down"
• Swing Is A Word - "Six feet down"
• Tesla (2 4 6 8 Remix)
• Thinking Machine – "Uncle fourteen marching flame"
• This Is Only Going To Go One Way - "Six ways to Sunday," "Too bad my greatest trick can only be performed one time"
• This Microphone – "Nobody's figured out my 12 fatal flaws"
• Till My Head Falls Off – "There were 87 Advil in the bottle now there's 30 left / I ate 47 so what happened to the other 10?"
• Toddler Hiway – "In the mornin' sun 'round seven o'clock"
• Tractor - "Six pack of strong and silent"
• Trucker's Coffee - Highway 17, "...four hitchhikers not making a sound", "In the parking lot stood twenty glowing semis"
• Up The Junction - "I walked eleven hours"
• Violin – "One quarter of George Washington's head"
• Wait Actually Yeah No - "Twenty-car collision"
• We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime – "100 miles an hour "
• Who's Gonna Guess The Dead Guy? – "On Y100"
• Why Does The Sun Shine? – "At a temperature of millions of degrees," "About ninety-three million miles away!"
• Why Does The Sun Really Shine? – "A fourth state of matter"

Honorable mentions[edit]

• 50,000,000 They Might Be Giants Songs Can't Be Wrong
• Apollo 18
• Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants
• Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns)

See also[edit]

• Counting
• Mathematics