This is a bit different than your normal poll/survivor. For no other reason than for shits and giggles, can we think of songs that reference being each age from newborn to 30 years old? NOT the numbers alone...but actually reference either the song's singer or someone else being sung about as being one of these ages? I've filled in some that immediately come to my mind. 0 - Tool, "Lateralus" 1 - The Ames Brothers, "Pussy Cat" 2 - Dixie Chicks, "You Were Mine" 3 - Johnny Cash, "A Boy Named Sue" 4 - Minus the Bear, "El Torrente" 5 - Steve Martin, "Daddy Played The Banjo" 6 - The Mountain Goats, "Dance Music" 7 - Cartel, "Wasted" 8 - Martina McBride, "Independence Day" 9 - Paul Simon, "Graceland" 10 - Pain of Salvation, "Of Two Beginnings" 11 - Brand New - "Seventy Times 7" 12 - Eminem, "My Name Is" 13 - Pink, "Conversations with My 13 Year Old Self" 14 - Mineral, "Palisade" 15 - Taylor Swift, "Fifteen" 16 - Red House Painters, "24" - 17 - ABBA, "Dancing Queen" 18 - from Grease, "Summer Nights" 19 - Sun Kil Moon, "Glenn Tipton" 20 - Reba McEntire, "Is There Life Out There?" 21 - Lil Wayne, "Stuntin" (Drake's verse) 22 - Five For Fighting, "100 Years" 23 - Blink 182, "What's My Age Again?" 24 - Neil Young, "Old Man" 25 - Why?, "Simeon's Dilemma" 26 - Nine Inch Nails, "Wish" 27 - Jeffrey Lewis, "Don't Be Upset" 28 - Steppenwolf, "28" 29 - The National, "Slow Show" 30 - Extra Life, "One Of Your Whores"
Five for Fighting's "100 Years" mentions 15, 22, 23, and other ages beyond 30: http://www.lyrics007.com/Five For Fighting Lyrics/100 Years Lyrics.html
cool i used it for 22. i'd like to keep it to only using a song one time and ideally only using a band one time as well
5 - The Mountain Goats "Dance Music" 6 - The Mountain Goats "Dance Music" 17 - The Mountain Goats "Dance Music"
Jimmy Eat World - 23 You Me At Six - The Truth is a Terrible Thing (she's only seventeen) Letlive. - Renegade '86 (You said it was the boy that bears your name, but 18's a man)
As soon as I figured out what this thread was about I was going to post this too. Winger > ABBA, although I hate myself for having to make that comparison. I also like the newborn in Rush's "Fountain of Lamneth" better than Lateralus, especially considering that the latter may just be about an acid trip and not actual infancy.
Or Sinatra,"When I was seventeen, It was a very good year" . Also would work for 21. 25: Sugar Ray - Fly
Every Time I Die - INRIhab (And in my 27th year I was dragged kicking and screaming in to the light) Nine Inch Nails - Wish (26 years and on my way to hell) mewithoutYou - C-minor (I'm still technically a virgin after 27 years)
7 years old - Cartel - Wasted http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/wasted-lyrics-cartel/c61d8320cd36c26b48257332001425a3
9 - paul simon - graceland ("my traveling companion is nine years old") 14 - mineral - palisade ("there i was, fourteen, spinning with my arms out like a scarecrow") 25 - why? - simeon's dilemma ("today you're 25, i made you something fine, it's in the palm of my new hand")