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Cafe Society
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One two, great to be here! Sure is! three four*

Give it to the Soft Boys by (der) The Soft Boys

  • I think they were being a tad sarcastic here since they were a psychedelic pop/rock/folk/do-wop/metal band** playing to punk crowds at the time. [Robyn Hitchcock]“If they like you they spit, if they don’t like you they throw cans, if they really like you they do both”[/RH]

** that’s roughly how Robyn described them at that time.

42

I love that bit at the start of “Theme from S-Express”:

countdown is progressing
uno
dos
uno, dos, tres, cuatro
DA-DA-DA-DA-DA DA-DA-DA-DA-DA

43

1…2…3…4
Tell the people what she wore

44

Supertramp, The Logical Song. It’s so gleeful… “One, two, three, FIVE!”

45

Tenacious D: “Rock Your Socks Off” …

… “One, two, three, four, five, six-six-six”

46

Also … nothing remarkable about it when you type it out, but the “1 - 2, 1 -2 -3 -4” at the beginning of “Just Another Night” by Ian Hunter always grabbed me by the boo-boo.

47

Great one!

I also like “Song for the Dumped” by Ben Folds.

48

J. Geils Band.
Musta got lost.
Lengthy very cool dialog - 1-2-3…into song

49

That was what I thought of before I even opened the thread!

50

I don’t really think that’s a countdown, just mid-song counting. The count-in at the beginning of the song is the “gunter gleiben glauten globen” from Rock of Ages by Def Leppard.

How about the “1… 2… 1-2-3-4” in A Matter Of Trust by Billy Joel (can’t link to these from work).

51

It’s not just a count-off, but the first song I thought of when reading the title was Feist’s “1,2,3,4”.

The Sesame street version is fun (though it doesn’t have the 1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10 part).
Here’s the the original single-take video.

52

Speaking of Sesame Street, I remembered “Born To Add”, which was all about “making one and one make two”. It has the count-off included, but it’s “one and two and … three policepersons spring out of the shadows”

53

I’ve got three that really grab me.

The count off at the beginning of Ride My See-Saw by the Moody Blues. Something about hearing it over the drumbeat just gives me a shot of adrenaline.

The Rolling Stones’ Sway gets me, too.

10,000 Maniacs’ cover of Don’t Go Back to Rockville has a count off, too.

54

Is it just me, or does U2’s Vertigo have (in spanish) “one, two, three, fourteen!”?

S^G

55

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s Déjà Vu.

56

Tank!

Three, two, one, let’s jam!

57

What no love for Def Leppard’s Rock of Ages?

Oontow, Gleeben, Gloutain, Globen. (or however one would spell it.)

58

Psst. Check post 50 (though it seems to be mentioned only in passing).

And, FWIW, I’ve always heard it as “unta, glieben, glauben, globen.”

59

Oops. I started skimming at that point, and missed it.

60

Invisible Sun by the Police. (the one that starts with a very slow One … two … three … four … five … six … seven … eight over the background music)

I really think someone should do a joke remix that carries the slow count-up out to forty or sixty or so.