Thanks for last week's feedback. A shame the weather was not on our (by which I mean British-based readers') side. If you're posting from somewhere hot, keep it under your hat.
For some reason, this week's list virtually compiled itself. Perhaps I was feeling uncommonly decisive. Without further ado, the B-list: Noel Coward (Mad Dogs and Englishmen), Ella Fitzgerald (Too Darn Hot), Nelly (Hot In Herre), Billy "The Kid" Emerson (Red Hot), the Trammps (Disco Inferno), The Cure (Hot Hot Hot!!!), Mobb Deep (Temperature's Rising), Bruce Springsteen (I'm On Fire), Suzanne Vega (99.9F), Ray Charles (In the Heat of the Night) and Kool & the Gang (Summer Madness).
I appreciated all your suggestions for the 100th playlist. Some were appropriate but too narrow or too broad to work, and others were worth keeping back for future weeks. Eventually I opted for a variation on murphsup's numerological idea, with a twist to the usual rules. Every week I have to choose 10 songs so I want songs with titles featuring the numbers one through 10, which will be presented in the form of a countdown, after which party streamers will fall from the sky across the land and there will be dancing in the street (budget permitting).
The twist is that each reader can only pick one song for each number. Don't worry if you can't come up with the full 10, but no doubling up. The upside is that everyone gets to compose their own personal playlist. The downside is that it's hard deciding what to leave out, but I have to do that all the time - let's have some empathy here. This isn't about how many songs you know, but which ones you're passionate about. If you absolutely, positively have to suggest additional songs, feel free, but I'm going to disregard all duplications of numbers, so only the first choices will be considered. No complaining at the back there.
Other rules: foreign languages, variations (eg, fifth) and repetitions of the same number are allowed; the digit must be a whole number between one and 10, and not part of a larger number or word (so not Nine Million Rainy Days); and it must be the only number in the title (so not 9 to 5, One In Ten or 2 + 2 = 5). We've already had One Night Stand, One's On the Way, Love the One You're With, Eat For Two, Party Fears Two, Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray, 4th of July, April 5th, Sonnet to Hank Cinq, Jacob Street 7am, 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night, 7 Heures Du Matin, The Seventh Seal and Eight Miles High.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go!... to the RR archive and the world-famous A-Z. Deadline is midday on Monday.
