Farenheit 43 are an Australian rock band who cite their influences as The Eagles, John Mayer and the Goo Goo Dolls.
Quite.
(Except, you know, I like the Eagles. And John Mayer made a couple of good tunes once upon a time. And Iris... Iris was a half-decent song. Still, the cool ones among you are, I'm sure, recoiling in horror despite all that.)
Anyway, Number 43 in our countdown caused a little bit of head-scratching from the gallery... but you still managed to come up with the following...
Lynchie started us off this week with...
The Pretenders - I Hurt You
I been crying like a woman
Because I'm mad, mad, mad like a man
If you'd been in the S.S. in '43
You'd have been kicked out for cruelty
Wow. That Chrissie Hynde. Doesn't pull her punches, does she?
Rigid Digit was up next, offering these...
Jethro Tull - Hymn 43
David Crosby & Graham Nash - Page 43Both acceptable to my ears.
Then came C, with a track that featured on Saturday Snapshots a few weeks back...
Wolf Alice - Bros
Oh
Jump that 43
Are you wild like me?
Raised by wolves and other beasts
The Swede, meanwhile, only managed one suggestion this week...
Shrimp Boat (Sam Prekop's pre-Sea and Cake band) - Drought of '43No link, I'm afraid. Couldn't find that one anywhere. Maybe The Swede made it up... No, I'm sure he wouldn't do that.
Finally, Douglas McClaren offering one of my favourite songs by this particular band, "a timely reminder of a very fine fine group that will sadly record no more." Indeed.
Frightened Rabbit - Old, Old Fashioned
So give me the soft, soft static
Of the open fire and the shuffle of our feet
We can both get old fashioned
Do it like they did in '43
Oh, let's get old fashioned
Back to how things used to be
If I get old, old fashioned
Would you get old, old fashioned with me?
Before we get to this week's clear winner though, here's a couple more my own library threw up...
Country Joe & The Fish - Section 43
Rufus Wainwright (and Bill Shakespeare) - Sonnet 43
Ian McNabb - German Soldier's Helmet Circa 1943
Skint & Demoralised - 43 Degrees(That last one is this week's runner-up - well worth a click.)
However, as I stated at the end of last week's post, there really was only one obvious winner for me this week, and Jim in Dubai was the one to correctly identify it... definitely my favourite song by this band.
Lovely stuff.
Next week... the answer to life, the universe and everything. What might that be?
