To Cry You A Song - Numbers

With so many songs to choose from, the themes for these posts are limited only to my imagination (and I have a great imagination)! For this compilation, I gathered songs with numbers in their titles and began listing them consecutively, intending to stop when I couldn't find a number. I honestly expected to compile a single CD ending around the number 14, but instead I found songs that included numbers up to 22*. Rather than ignoring anything that wouldn't find on a single disc, I included all 22 songs on two CDs.

*If anyone knows of a song with the number 23 in it, please let me know and I'll add it to the list. I already have songs with "24" and "25" in their titles, so I can take this a bit further if possible.

As before, this is actually a good collection of songs wrapped around a theme. I really like all but one song, and even included a few Desert Island songs (marked with an *).

Number Tracks:
Disc 1
1. Fates Warning - One (4:27)
2. Doors - Love Me Two Times (3:16)
3. Three Man Army - Three Man Army (5:23)
4. Aphrodite's Child - Four Horsemen (5:53)*
5. Megadeth - Five Magics (5:39)
6. Silent Force - Six Past the Hour (4:44)*
7. Helloween - The Bells of the Seven Hells (5:22)*
8. The Beatles - Eight Days a Week (2:46)
9. Aerosmith - Nine Lives (4:1)
10. Mötley Crüe - Ten Seconds to Love (4:17)
11. Yngwie Malmsteen - Eleventh Hour (8:03)
Disc length - 54:51

Disc 2
12. Goddo - Twelve Days (3:24)
13. Anvil - This is Thirteen (6:40)
14. Guns 'n' Roses - 14 Years (4:17)
15. Highway Robbery - Fifteen (2:58)
16. Kiss - Christine Sixteen (3:14)
17. Kingdom Come - 17 (5:26)
18. Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen (3:0)
19. Angel Witch - Flight Nineteen (5:55)
20. BillyLee Janey - 20 Miles Bad Road (3:27)
21. Annihilator - 21 (4:25)
22. Iron Maiden - 22 Acacia Avenue (6:37)
Disc length - 49:23

Albums:
Fates Warning - Disconnected (2000)
Doors - Strange Days (1967)
Three Man Army - A Third of A Lifetime (1971)
Aphrodite's Child - 666 (1972)
Megadeth - Rust In Peace (1990)
Silent Force - The Empire of Future (2000)
Helloween - Gambling with the Devil (2007)
The Beatles - Beatles for Sale (U.K.) (1964)
Aerosmith - Nine Lives (1997)
Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil (1983)
Yngwie Malmsteen - Perpetual Flame (2008)
Goddo - Goddo (1977)
Anvil - This is Thirteen (2007)
Guns 'n' Roses - Use Your Illusion II (1991)
Highway Robbery - For Love or Money (1972)
Kiss - Love Gun (1977)
Kingdom Come - Kingdom Come (1988)
Alice Cooper - Love It to Death (1971)
Angel Witch - Angel Witch (1980)
BillyLee Janey - Soul Driver (2008)
Annihilator - King of the Kill (1994)
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (1982)

Rock Island - Chapter Eight

Early one morning, you decide to take a walk around the island. As the sun rises, you see what looks like a meteor heading directly for the island. You run to the edge of a cliff to look for it. Instead, you see a space capsule. An astronaut is rubbing sand from what looks like a bottle. When he opens it, smoke pours out and suddenly a beautiful girl is standing in front of him. You rub your eyes and pinch yourself, thinking you're still in bed dreaming. When you open your eyes again, the pair is flying off in a helicopter. Confused, you walk back to your hut.

You tell Roy about your story, and he is curious about it, but Ann Marie clearly thinks you were hallucinating. She tries to change the subject, but nothing works until she asks you about other songs on your MP3 player. You pick up where you left off:

• Deep Purple - Hush; Kentucky Woman; Bird has Flown; Child In Time; Flight of the Rat; Hard Lovin' Man; Fireball; No One Came; Highway Star; Pictures of Home; Smoke On the Water; Space Truckin'; Rat Bat Blue; Burn; Sail Away; Stormbringer; This Time Around - Owed to 'G'; Knocking at Your Back Door; Perfect Strangers; The Spanish Archer; Strangeways; Anya; Soon Forgotten; Sun Goes Down
• Doors - Break on Through (To the Other Side); Light My Fire; Strange Days; When the Music's Over; Not to Touch the Earth; Love Her Madly; L.A. Woman; L'America; Riders on the Storm; Ships w/Sails
• Dust - Love Me Hard; From a Dry Camel; Pull Away/So Many Times
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Barbarian
• Foghat - I Just Want to Make Love to You; Slow Ride
• Food Brain - That Will Do
• Foreigner - Long, Long Way From Home
• Fuzzy Duck - Mrs. Prout
• Gillan - Mr. Universe; Are You Sure?; Sleeping On the Job; On the Rocks; Running, White Face, City Boy; For Your Dreams; I'll Rip Your Spine Out; Driving Me Wild; Demon Driver
• Golden Earring - Radar Love; Kill Me (Ce Soir); Twilight Zone
• Grand Funk - Heartbreaker; Inside Looking Out; We're an American Band; Shinin' On; Bad Time; Dues; Out to Get You
• Granicus - Prayer
• Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Talking about music is a good distraction from the day's events, but it's time to stop, knowing that there are other songs for another day.

Rock Island - Chapter Four

You realize the snobby couple isn't so bad (even though the guy sounds strangely like Mr. Magoo, who you never really cared for). His wife (her name is Dovey) appears to be a bit tipsy more often than not, and more than once you've helped walk her back to her hut, wondering where she hides the alcohol.

"Do you play any instruments?" Ann Marie asks the next day. "Only air guitar," you lamely answer. She laughs (a little too politely, you think), but you recover well after you tell her that Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, The Doors, Cream, Kiss, Led Zeppelin and The Who are on your MP3 player. You also mention you have obscure bands like Buffalo, Captain Beyond, Dust, Toad and Warhorse. She's interested in hearing them. "Maybe being stuck here isn't so bad," you think.