# Topic Playlist! (Part 1) **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 218
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4341 "2020-01-26T09:22:48Z")
Piano! 1. The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & The Range 2. Brick - Ben Folds Five 3. Scene from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel 4. Blue Monday - Fats Domino 5. Bennie and the Jets - Elton John 6. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters - Elton John 7. Piano in the Dark - Brenda Russell 8. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis 9. Good Golly, Miss Molly - Little Richard 10. Uncertain smile - The The Pass. ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4342 "2020-01-26T11:34:16Z")
No-one? OK, songs about magic (wizards/witches, not magicians) 1. Hocus Pocus - Focus ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4343 "2020-01-26T12:06:12Z")
OK, songs about magic (wizards/witches, not magicians) 1. Hocus Pocus - Focus 1. Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4344 "2020-01-26T12:12:40Z")
OK, songs about magic (wizards/witches, not magicians) 1. Hocus Pocus - Focus 1. Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare 2. Witchy Woman - The Eagles ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4345 "2020-01-26T12:54:52Z")
OK, songs about magic (wizards/witches, not magicians) 1. Hocus Pocus - Focus 1. Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare 2. Witchy Woman - The Eagles 3. Clemency for the Wizard King - The Mountain Goats _“It is a song about how if you are in the tribe that serves and worships the wizard king, and he gets taken prisoner by some evil-minded people who don’t understand what he’s all about, it’s your job to go and demand that he be granted clemency. That’s why this song is called ‘Clemency for the Wizard King’.”_ **– 2019-04-26 - 9:30 Club - Washington, D.C.** ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4346 "2020-01-26T14:29:51Z")
Songs about magic (wizards/witches, not magicians) 1. Hocus Pocus - Focus 1. Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare 2. Witchy Woman - The Eagles 3. Clemency for the Wizard King - The Mountain Goats 4. Season of the Witch - Donovan ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4347 "2020-01-26T14:34:16Z")
Songs about magic (wizards/witches, not magicians) 1. Hocus Pocus - Focus [fixed the aberrant parenthesis] 2. Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare 3. Witchy Woman - The Eagles 4. Clemency for the Wizard King - The Mountain Goats 5. Season of the Witch - Donovan 6. Are You Sitting Comfortably - The Moody Blues [“Let Merlin cast his spell”] ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4348 "2020-01-26T15:39:37Z")
Songs about magic (wizards/witches, not magicians) 1. Hocus Pocus - Focus [fixed the aberrant parenthesis] 2. Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare 3. Witchy Woman - The Eagles 4. Clemency for the Wizard King - The Mountain Goats 5. Season of the Witch - Donovan 6. Are You Sitting Comfortably - The Moody Blues [“Let Merlin cast his spell”] 7. The Magician’s Birthday - Uriah Heep ---
**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 26, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4349 "2020-01-26T15:47:45Z")
Songs about magic (wizards/witches, not magicians) 1. Hocus Pocus - Focus [fixed the aberrant parenthesis] 2. Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare 3. Witchy Woman - The Eagles 4. Clemency for the Wizard King - The Mountain Goats 5. Season of the Witch - Donovan 6. Are You Sitting Comfortably - The Moody Blues [“Let Merlin cast his spell”] 7. The Magician’s Birthday - Uriah Heep 8. [Hoodoo Witch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5NmiFMtLaI) - Webb Wilder ---
**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 26, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4350 "2020-01-26T16:01:06Z")
Songs about magic (wizards/witches, not magicians) 1. Hocus Pocus - Focus 2. Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare 3. Witchy Woman - The Eagles 4. Clemency for the Wizard King - The Mountain Goats 5. Season of the Witch - Donovan 6. Are You Sitting Comfortably - The Moody Blues [“Let Merlin cast his spell”] 7. The Magician’s Birthday - Uriah Heep 8. Hoodoo Witch - Webb Wilder 9. Black Magic Woman - Santana ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4351 "2020-01-26T16:46:22Z")
Songs about magic (wizards/witches, not magicians) 1. Hocus Pocus - Focus 2. Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare 3. Witchy Woman - The Eagles 4. Clemency for the Wizard King - The Mountain Goats 5. Season of the Witch - Donovan 6. Are You Sitting Comfortably - The Moody Blues [“Let Merlin cast his spell”] 7. The Magician’s Birthday - Uriah Heep 8. Hoodoo Witch - Webb Wilder 9. Black Magic Woman - Santana 10. That Old Black Magic - Sammy Davis, Jr. Pass ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4352 "2020-01-26T18:21:29Z")
[apologies for my magician entry in the non-magician specified list…] “Free” songs 1. Freeborn Man - Paul Revere and the Raiders ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4353 "2020-01-26T18:42:47Z")
“Free” songs 1. Freeborn Man - Paul Revere and the Raiders 2. I’m Free - The Who ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4354 "2020-01-26T19:41:23Z")
“Free” songs 1. Freeborn Man - Paul Revere and the Raiders 2. I’m Free - The Who 3. Free Will - Rush ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4355 "2020-01-26T19:41:29Z")
“Free” songs 1. Freeborn Man - Paul Revere and the Raiders 2. I’m Free - The Who 3. Free Will - Rush 4. I’m Free - The Soup Dragons Sorry about using a song with the same exact title as 2. It’s not a cover. ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4356 "2020-01-26T20:20:48Z")
“Free” songs 1. Freeborn Man - Paul Revere and the Raiders 2. I’m Free - The Who 3. Free Will - Rush 4. I’m Free - The Soup Dragons 5. Free Man - South Shore Commission ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4357 "2020-01-26T20:29:56Z")
“Free” songs 1. Freeborn Man - Paul Revere and the Raiders 2. I’m Free - The Who 3. Free Will - Rush 4. I’m Free - The Soup Dragons 5. Free Man - South Shore Commission 6. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd I’m pretty sure I heard somebody yelling “Post Free Bird!” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4358 "2020-01-26T21:50:02Z")
“Free” songs 1. Freeborn Man - Paul Revere and the Raiders 2. I’m Free - The Who 3. Free Will - Rush 4. I’m Free - The Soup Dragons 5. Free Man - South Shore Commission 6. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 7. Freedom for the Stallion - Three Dog Night ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4359 "2020-01-26T21:51:19Z")
“Free” songs 1. Freeborn Man - Paul Revere and the Raiders 2. I’m Free - The Who 3. Free Will - Rush 4. I’m Free - The Soup Dragons 5. Free Man - South Shore Commission 6. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 7. Freedom for the Stallion - Three Dog Night 8. Free As a Bird - The Beatles ---
**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 26, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4360 "2020-01-26T22:19:36Z")
“Free” songs 1. Freeborn Man - Paul Revere and the Raiders 2. I’m Free - The Who 3. Free Will - Rush 4. I’m Free - The Soup Dragons 5. Free Man - South Shore Commission 6. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 7. Freedom for the Stallion - Three Dog Night 8. Free As a Bird - The Beatles 9. [Got To Be Free](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8y1RNCvzw4) - The Kinks [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647.md?page=217) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647.md?page=219)