Love that video. I'd visit my local greasy spoon more if Chrissie Hynde worked there.
2. Weather breeder, like Prince Albert.
I'm sure I've probably used Prince Albert before, although this time it has nothing to do with piercings... just the old "Have you got Prince Albert in a can?" joke.
This week proved to be most problematic. Normally, I just put a number into the Search Title box on my music player and it gives me a clear list of all songs with that number in the title. When I did that for 19 though, I got thousands of songs - including all the year songs from the 20th Century, from 1901 to 1999, plus any Live recordings that featured a date (Live 1987) or similarly dated remixes (1996 remix). As such, finding songs that featured the number nineteen in the title became an impossible task. I kinda gave up and went by ones I could remember off the top of my head and your suggestions. Luckily, there were some crackers among those.
Bandwise, it proved similarly tricky. The 1975, 1990s and 1910 Fruitgum Company were all disqualified for having their 19 in the wrong place, and the only caveat I allowed for a dated 19 was that I would allow the year 1919. Fortunately, there was a postpunk band from Bradford with just that name...
Girl -19
Sadly, John, I couldn't find that anywhere on the internet, since putting the words "girl" and "19" into
a search engine led me nowhere. The only info I have is what you gave me...
I used to love this when I was, er, 19. It was their riposte to Alice Cooper's 18. Speaking of which...
Hold your horses, John, we'll get to next week soon enough.
OK, still before we get to the obvious choices, here's the few leftovers I managed to scrape from my hard-drive before the exercise became too futile...
To be honest, all three of those were in contention this week... along with the above-mentioned belter by The Courteeners... but it's Martin who takes the prize this week for recalling one of my favourite minor hits from the post-Britpop era, although lyrically it owes a debt to 70s singer songwriters such as Rupert Holmes... and a splash of Scott Walker to boot.
Next week we become adults at last... or do we? Your 18 suggestions are welcomed... and yes, I will allow the 18th Century to get a look in, as I'm hoping there are far fewer songs with dates in from that century than this one... and not many 18th century remixes or live recordings either.
Last week, I said there were two obvious contenders for #59 in our countdown, and fortunately you all seemed to agree with me... although I was also reminded of a third which I should have remembered off the top of my head, pre-research.
There were some other fine suggestions too... over to you guys for those.
Lynchie wanted to add to his list of maudlin country songs, with John Anderson - 1959...
And Baby I'm yours I'll love you always I'm gonna stand by you until the end of time Remember all of the good things That we shared together Signed,
Love Betty,
1959
You can never have too many maudlin country songs!
I'm no really sure that last one qualifies as a 59 song, if only because feet and inches aren't decimal, but I'll let it pass.
The Swede, after reprising Lynchie's earlier suggestion of Johnny Cash - One Piece At A Time, which features every number from 49 to 70 (as well as number 1!), offered Sir Fab Macca's ditty entitled Summer of '59 tucked away on an old b-side. Hardly Bryan Adams though, is it?
Alternatively he also had the glorious Jaki Liebezeit tribal racket that is Smoke (E.F.S. No. 59) by Can. Can't link to that though as the record company appear to have blocked it on youtube. Can I hazard a guess and say it's hardly Bryan Adams though too?
All of which brings us to this week's Top 3, and first Rigid Digit supplies us with a song I'm ashamed to say I forgot, because it's a classic...
As for the two I did remember, I've been torn over which one to choose because I love them both in different ways. And you guys were no help, as an equal number of you voted for each. In the end then, I went for the underdogs, meaning this became the runner-up...
Paul and Art had many fine moments, of which that was just one. The Gaslight Anthem though... well, I don't think they've ever bettered this belter from 2008...
58 next week. Nothing quite so obvious. What do you reckon?
