13: "Teenage Girl" by the Presidents of the United States of America
14: "When I Grow Up to Be a Man" by the Beach Boys
15: "Stray Cat Blues" by the Rolling Stones
16: "Sweet Little Sixteen" by Chuck Berry
17: "I Saw Her Standing There" by the Beatles
18: "I'm Eighteen" by Alice Cooper
19: "The River" by Bruce Springsteen
20: "Between Seventeen and Twenty" by Elton John
21: "Running on Empty" by Jackson Browne
22: "When Yer 22" by the Flaming Lips
23: "What's My Age Again" by Blink 182
24: "Old Man" by Neil Young
25: "All the Young Dudes" by Mott the Hoople
26: ???
27: "Someone Else's Dream" by Faith Hill
28: "She Works Hard for the Money" by Donna Summer
29: "Indefinitely" by the Old 97's
30: "Crackle and Drag" by Paul Westerberg
31: "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" by Bob Seger
32: "I'm the Greatest" by Ringo Starr
33: "Middle of the Road" by the Pretenders
34: "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother" by Jerry Jeff Walker
35: "It Was a Very Good Year" by Frank Sinatra
24 comments:
"Sexy and 26," by Stray Cats?
For decades, I've been holding on to "Good Old Rock and Roll" by Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys for age 23. I guess I can let it go now.
34: "Slit Skirts" by Pete Townshend is a little more "rock" than Jerry Jeff Walker.
That's true, although "Up Against the Wall" is a great song nevertheless.
It's not hard to be more rock than Faith Hill, so other suggestions for 27 are welcome too.
Recount! Clearly should have started with "Thirteen" by Big Star.
Save the Presidents of the United States for your inevitable summer fruit and vegetable list.
"Thirteen" was considered but rejected by the judges because they never actually say "thirteen" in the song.
However, the judges are open to persuasion and/or graft.
I bet you can expand the list in both directions (although the top priority clearly is filling that nasty hole at 26).
If/when you get all the way back to 3, I nominate Led Zeppelin's "The Ocean."
[Silently weighs kicking the judges asses.]
Persuasion? Yes. Bribery? Yes. Threats? Never.
[Silently wondering how the judges are reading his thoughts.]
. . .
[Oh.]
9: "Graceland" by Paul Simon
6: "Memphis, Tennessee" by Chuck Berry
26: "My Fault" by Eminem
A few runners-up:
16: "It's Money That I Love," Randy Newman
17: Janis Ian, "At Seventeen"
21: Sinead O'Connor, "The Emperor's New Clothes"
5: "Four Eyes" by Randy Newman
12. "Fuck and Run" by Liz Phair
10: "Father of Mine" by Everclear
10: "Amazing Journey" by The Who
The old fart end of the spectrum is going to be more difficult to fill in.
64: You already know
65: "Alone Again, Naturally" by Gilbert O'Sullivan
68: "Maggie's Farm" by Bob Dylan
40: "Beautiful Boy" by John Lennon (also 4)
26: Chic's "26" ("My baby's a 26 / on a scale of 1 to 10")
23: Too Much Joy's "Kicking"
22: The Stratford 4's "Telephone"
28 If: Paul McCartney
best songs that came out when I was the age in the song: Paul Hardcastle’s “19,” Stray Cats’ “Sexy and 17,” and any Pavement song that goes “I’m feeling like a fixture set in 1966.”
5/6: "Dance Music" by the Mountain Goats
(also 17, but I figured we were well covered there)
38: "38 Years Old" by The Tragically Hip
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