Hot 100 #43

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 43

Both 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 '43

No 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?