# 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\
**Page:** 249

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**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4961 "2020-02-24T12:59:12Z")

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Heavy rotation on the local classic rock radio station:

1. Aerosmith
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Rolling Stones
4. The Beatles
5. Rush
6. Pink Floyd
7. Chicago
8. ZZ Top
9. Lynyrd Skynyrd
10. Queen

This was mine; so I’ll pass.

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4962 "2020-02-24T13:02:36Z")

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Songs by John, Jack or Johnny

1. Authority Song by John Mellencamp

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4963 "2020-02-24T13:34:33Z")

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Songs by John, Jack or Johnny

1. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
2. All Of Me by John Legend

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4964 "2020-02-24T14:12:26Z")

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Songs by John, Jack or Johnny

1. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
2. All Of Me by John Legend
3. Crocodile Rock - Elton John

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4965 "2020-02-24T15:00:16Z")

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Songs by John, Jack or Johnny

1. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
2. All Of Me by John Legend
3. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
4. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4966 "2020-02-24T15:04:44Z")

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Songs by John, Jack or Johnny

1. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
2. All Of Me by John Legend
3. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
4. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson
5. North to Alaska - Johnny Horton

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4967 "2020-02-24T15:05:13Z")

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Songs by John, Jack or Johnny

1. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
2. All Of Me by John Legend
3. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
4. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson
5. North to Alaska - Johnny Horton
6. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

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**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:** [February 24, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4968 "2020-02-24T15:31:36Z")

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Songs by John, Jack or Johnny

1. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
2. All Of Me by John Legend
3. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
4. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson
5. North to Alaska - Johnny Horton
6. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
7. There Goes My Everything - Jack Greene

Aka the Jolly Greene Giant

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**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:** [February 24, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4969 "2020-02-24T17:12:19Z")

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Songs by John, Jack or Johnny

1. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
2. All Of Me by John Legend
3. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
4. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson
5. North to Alaska - Johnny Horton
6. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
7. There Goes My Everything - Jack Greene
8. My Size - John Entwistle

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4970 "2020-02-24T17:37:39Z")

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Songs by John, Jack or Johnny

1. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
2. All Of Me by John Legend
3. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
4. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson
5. North to Alaska - Johnny Horton
6. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
7. There Goes My Everything - Jack Greene
8. My Size - John Entwistle
9. Fifteen Years in Indiana - Jack Logan

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4971 "2020-02-24T17:43:48Z")

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Songs by John, Jack or Johnny

1. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
2. All Of Me by John Legend
3. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
4. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson
5. North to Alaska - Johnny Horton
6. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
7. There Goes My Everything - Jack Greene
8. My Size - John Entwistle
9. Fifteen Years in Indiana - Jack Logan
10. Image - John Lennon

It’s Leap Year. Substitute “leap” for the word in the title of any song that has “year” come next.

1. Leap Year’s Man (Last Year’s Man by Leonard Cohen)

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4972 "2020-02-24T17:56:22Z")

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It’s Leap Year. Substitute “leap” for the word in the title of any song that has “year” come next.

1. Leap Year’s Man (Last Year’s Man by Leonard Cohen)
2. Leap Year of tha Boomerang - Rage Against the Machine

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**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:** [February 24, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4973 "2020-02-24T17:57:35Z")

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It’s Leap Year. Substitute “leap” for the word in the title of any song that has “year” come next.

1. Leap Year’s Man (Last Year’s Man by Leonard Cohen)
2. Leap Year of tha Boomerang - Rage Against the Machine
3. The Leaping Years (Mike + The Mechanics)

I think I caught his spirit  
Later that leap year  
I’m sure I heard his echo  
In my baby’s new born tears  
I just wish I could have told him in the leaping years

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4974 "2020-02-24T18:03:26Z")

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It’s Leap Year. Substitute “leap” for the word in the title of any song that has “year” come next.

1. Leap Year’s Man (Last Year’s Man by Leonard Cohen)
2. Leap Year of tha Boomerang - Rage Against the Machine
3. The Leaping Years (Mike + The Mechanics)
4. The Happy Leap Year Blues - Happy New Year Blues by Vicki Lewis

The twenty-ninth of each February  
Keeps getting worst cause I have to carry  
Four more years with nobody near  
Who feels just the same as I.

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4975 "2020-02-24T18:05:38Z")

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It’s Leap Year. Substitute “leap” for the word in the title of any song that has “year” come next.

1. Leap Year’s Man (Last Year’s Man by Leonard Cohen)
2. Leap Year of tha Boomerang - Rage Against the Machine
3. The Leaping Years (Mike + The Mechanics)
4. The Happy Leap Year Blues - Happy New Year Blues by Vicki Lewis
5. Leapin’ in the Years - Steely Dan

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**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:** [February 24, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4976 "2020-02-24T18:08:25Z")

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1. Leap Year’s Man (Last Year’s Man by Leonard Cohen)
2. Leap Year of tha Boomerang - Rage Against the Machine
3. The Leaping Years (Mike + The Mechanics)
4. The Happy Leap Year Blues - Happy New Year Blues by Vicki Lewis
5. Leapin’ in the Years - Steely Dan
6. Leap Year’s Day - U2

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4977 "2020-02-24T18:38:41Z")

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1. Leap Year’s Man (Last Year’s Man by Leonard Cohen)
2. Leap Year of tha Boomerang - Rage Against the Machine
3. The Leaping Years (Mike + The Mechanics)
4. The Happy Leap Year Blues - Happy New Year Blues by Vicki Lewis
5. Leapin’ in the Years - Steely Dan
6. Leap Year’s Day - U2
7. All Leap Years Ago - George Harrison

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4978 "2020-02-24T18:39:52Z")

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1. Leap Year’s Man (Last Year’s Man by Leonard Cohen)
2. Leap Year of tha Boomerang - Rage Against the Machine
3. The Leaping Years (Mike + The Mechanics)
4. The Happy Leap Year Blues - Happy New Year Blues by Vicki Lewis
5. Leapin’ in the Years - Steely Dan
6. Leap Year’s Day - U2
7. All Leap Years Ago - George Harrison
8. Another Leap Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow

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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:** [February 24, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4979 "2020-02-24T20:09:28Z")

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It’s Leap Year. Substitute “leap” for the word in the title of any song that has “year” come next.

1. Leap Year’s Man (Last Year’s Man by Leonard Cohen)
2. Leap Year of tha Boomerang - Rage Against the Machine
3. The Leaping Years (Mike + The Mechanics)
4. The Happy Leap Year Blues - Happy New Year Blues by Vicki Lewis
5. Leapin’ in the Years - Steely Dan
6. Leap Year’s Day - U2
7. All Leap Years Ago - George Harrison
8. Another Leap Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow
9. Holding Back Leap Years - Simply Red

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-1/839647/4980 "2020-02-24T20:19:12Z")

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It’s Leap Year. Substitute “leap” for the word in the title of any song that has “year” come next.

1. Leap Year’s Man (Last Year’s Man by Leonard Cohen)
2. Leap Year of tha Boomerang - Rage Against the Machine
3. The Leaping Years (Mike + The Mechanics)
4. The Happy Leap Year Blues - Happy New Year Blues by Vicki Lewis
5. Leapin’ in the Years - Steely Dan
6. Leap Year’s Day - U2
7. All Leap Years Ago - George Harrison
8. Another Leap Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow
9. Holding Back Leap Years - Simply Red
10. As the Leap Years Go Passing By - Albert King

Don’t I know your father?

1. One Headlight - Jakob Dylan

Musicians with famous fathers.

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