# Topic Playlist! (Part 1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [September 3, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647 "2019-09-03T22:39:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3821 "2020-01-07T02:01:34Z")

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Songs that were originally/always acoustic.

1. Give a Little Bit - Supertramp
2. Dust in the Wind - Kansas
3. Time Song - The Kinks
4. You Are The New Day - King’s Singers
5. Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
6. Hole Hearted - Extreme

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**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3822 "2020-01-07T03:57:25Z")

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Songs that were originally/always acoustic.

1. Give a Little Bit - Supertramp
2. Dust in the Wind - Kansas
3. Time Song - The Kinks
4. You Are The New Day - King’s Singers
5. Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
6. Hole Hearted - Extreme
7. The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3823 "2020-01-07T07:18:40Z")

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Songs that were originally/always acoustic.

1. Give a Little Bit - Supertramp
2. Dust in the Wind - Kansas
3. Time Song - The Kinks
4. You Are The New Day - King’s Singers
5. Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
6. Hole Hearted - Extreme
7. The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
8. Blackbird - The Beatles

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3824 "2020-01-07T13:19:48Z")

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Songs that were originally/always acoustic.

1. Give a Little Bit - Supertramp
2. Dust in the Wind - Kansas
3. Time Song - The Kinks
4. You Are The New Day - King’s Singers
5. Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
6. Hole Hearted - Extreme
7. The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
8. Blackbird - The Beatles
9. American Pie - Don McLean

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3825 "2020-01-07T14:58:01Z")

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Songs that were originally/always acoustic.

1. Give a Little Bit - Supertramp
2. Dust in the Wind - Kansas
3. Time Song - The Kinks
4. You Are The New Day - King’s Singers
5. Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
6. Hole Hearted - Extreme
7. The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
8. Blackbird - The Beatles
9. American Pie - Don McLean
10. Me and Bobby McGee - Kris Kristofferson

Next up: Songs with US state capitals in the lyrics

`. Please come to Boston - Kenny Loggins

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3826 "2020-01-07T15:02:01Z")

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Songs with US state capitals in the lyrics

1. Please Come to Boston - David Loggins
2. Austin - Blake Shelton

David Loggins, not Kenny

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**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3827 "2020-01-07T15:11:16Z")

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Songs with US state capitals in the lyrics

1. Please Come to Boston - David Loggins
2. Austin - Blake Shelton
3. Madison Blues - Elmore James

Later covered by both Fleetwood Mac and George Thorogood

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3828 "2020-01-07T15:14:21Z")

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Songs with US state capitals in the lyrics

1. Please Come to Boston - David Loggins
2. Austin - Blake Shelton
3. Madison Blues - Elmore James
4. I Lost My Heart on a 747 - Tom Paxton  
(halfway to heaven passing over Des Moines (Iowa)

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**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3829 "2020-01-07T15:49:21Z")

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Songs with US state capitals in the lyrics

1. Please Come to Boston - David Loggins
2. Austin - Blake Shelton
3. Madison Blues - Elmore James
4. I Lost My Heart on a 747 - Tom Paxton
5. What’s Your Name? - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Well, its eight o’clock in Boise, Idaho

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3830 "2020-01-07T16:01:25Z")

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Songs with US state capitals in the lyrics

1. Please Come to Boston - David Loggins
2. Austin - Blake Shelton
3. Madison Blues - Elmore James
4. I Lost My Heart on a 747 - Tom Paxton
5. What’s Your Name? - Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Little Green Apples - O. C. Smith

“…And it don’t rain in Indianapolis in the summertime”

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3831 "2020-01-07T16:03:29Z")

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Songs with US state capitals in the lyrics

1. Please Come to Boston - David Loggins
2. Austin - Blake Shelton
3. Madison Blues - Elmore James
4. I Lost My Heart on a 747 - Tom Paxton
5. What’s Your Name? - Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Little Green Apples - O. C. Smith
7. I’ve Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash

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**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3832 "2020-01-07T17:30:07Z")

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Songs with US state capitals in the lyrics

1. Please Come to Boston - David Loggins
2. Austin - Blake Shelton
3. Madison Blues - Elmore James
4. I Lost My Heart on a 747 - Tom Paxton
5. What’s Your Name? - Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Little Green Apples - O. C. Smith
7. I’ve Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash
8. Midnight In Montgomery - Alan Jackson

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3833 "2020-01-07T17:37:03Z")

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Songs with US state capitals in the lyrics

1. Please Come to Boston - David Loggins
2. Austin - Blake Shelton
3. Madison Blues - Elmore James
4. I Lost My Heart on a 747 - Tom Paxton
5. What’s Your Name? - Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Little Green Apples - O. C. Smith
7. I’ve Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash
8. Midnight In Montgomery - Alan Jackson
9. Midnight in Richmond - Young Gun Silver Fox

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**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3834 "2020-01-07T17:53:50Z")

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Songs with US state capitals in the lyrics

1. Please Come to Boston - David Loggins

2. Austin - Blake Shelton

3. Madison Blues - Elmore James

4. I Lost My Heart on a 747 - Tom Paxton

5. What’s Your Name? - Lynyrd Skynyrd

6. Little Green Apples - O. C. Smith

7. I’ve Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash

8. Midnight In Montgomery - Alan Jackson

9. Midnight in Richmond - Young Gun Silver Fox

10. Hello Seattle - Owl City  
Songs of or about Australia

11. Waltzing Matilda - traditional

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**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3835 "2020-01-07T17:56:28Z")

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Songs of or about Australia

1. Waltzing Matilda - traditional
2. [Australia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FKOzZwODO8) - The Kinks

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**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3836 "2020-01-07T17:57:12Z")

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Songs of or about Australia

1. Waltzing Matilda - traditional
2. Australia - The Kinks
3. Advance Australia Fair

The national anthem: [National Anthem: Australia - Advance Australia Fair - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyrUEm9D0TY)

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**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3837 "2020-01-07T17:58:46Z")

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Songs of or about Australia

1. Waltzing Matilda - traditional
2. [Australia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FKOzZwODO8) - The Kinks
3. Four Seasons In One Day - Crowded House

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3838 "2020-01-07T18:13:23Z")

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Songs of or about Australia

1. Waltzing Matilda - traditional
2. Australia - The Kinks
3. Advance Australia Fair
4. Four Seasons In One Day - Crowded House
5. Down Under - Men at Work

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3839 "2020-01-07T18:20:30Z")

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Songs of or about Australia

1. Waltzing Matilda - traditional
2. Australia - The Kinks
3. Advance Australia Fair
4. Four Seasons In One Day - Crowded House
5. Down Under - Men at Work
6. Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil

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**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/3840 "2020-01-07T18:39:12Z")

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Songs of or about Australia

1. Waltzing Matilda - traditional
2. Australia - The Kinks
3. Advance Australia Fair
4. Four Seasons In One Day - Crowded House
5. Down Under - Men at Work
6. Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil
7. Carnival of the Animals: Kangaroos - Camille Saint-Saëns

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