Numbers

I was listening to U2 today, to “Achtung Baby” (which -after Joshua Tree- is their best album) and the song “One” started to sound. I remember the first time I heard this album. I was in Primero de BUP (equivalent to Year 8 or 9, more or less) and I had very recently started to listen to rockier music (from Phil Collins and Madonna to Manic Street Preachers and REM – quite a change). That album was quite a breakthrough for me.

But that’s not what I wanted to talk about. I simply want to list out some songs with numbers in their title that I love. Just because I heard “One” today …

Here it is, in no particular order.

- One – U2
- 156 – Mew
- 1973 – The Smashing Pumpkins
- 33 – The Smashing Pumpkins
- Zero – The Smashing Pumpkins
- 27 – Biffy Clyro
- 57 – Biffy Clyro
- 12:51 – The Strokes
- 8 – Sunny Day Real Estate
- One – Sunny Day Real Estate
- 47 – Sunny Day Real Estate
- 1/80 by summer – Taking Back Sunday
- Seventy times 7 – Brand New
- 33 – Coheed and Cambria
- 46 and 2 – Tool

Interestingly, some of those songs are also included among my favourite ones from those bands, for example “One eighty by summer” by Taking Back Sunday is more than probably my favourite song by them (and they have LOTS of songs that I love!)

So, in the same fashion of other blogs that have “musical Fridays” entries, here I leave (on Thursday still) a little piece of inspiration for whoever wants to listen. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you a very young Biffy Clyro and one of the best tunes they’ve ever come up with.

Enjoy.