Topic Playlist! (Part 1)

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Songs Featuring Unusual Instruments

  1. Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys (Hal Blaine playing percussion on ashtrays)
  2. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz (The “harmonica” sounds are actually a Hohner’s melodica, a sort of mouth piano)
  3. Wild Thing - The Troggs (ocarina)
  4. Spoonman - Soundgarden (spoons)
  5. Theme from 2000 Maniacs -The Amazing Pink Holes with Herschell Gordon Lewis (Jew’s harp, kazoo, AND slide tin whistle)
  6. Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts (toy piano)
  7. Take A Pebble - ELP (Emerson strums grand piano strings w/guitar pick)
  8. Baba O’Riley - Blue Man Group (Tuned PVC pipe contraptions; large mallet striking (tuned?) piano harp)
  9. Star Trek Theme - Alexander Courage (theremin)
  10. No Surprises - Radiohead (glockenspiel )

Bands with a song titled exactly “Hold On”

  1. Commodores

There are at least 16 such songs that have charted on Billboard’s “Hot 100,” and no doubt dozens if not hundreds more that never charted. It’s one of, if not the, most common song titles in English.

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Bands with a song titled exactly “Hold On”

  1. Commodores
  2. Wilson Phillips
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Bands with a song titled exactly “Hold On”

  1. Commodores
  2. Wilson Phillips
  3. En Vogue
    Just bands or do solo artists count?
984

Whatever

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Bands with a song titled exactly “Hold On”

  1. Commodores
  2. Wilson Phillips
  3. En Vogue
  4. Rain
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Bands with a song titled exactly “Hold On”

  1. Commodores
  2. Wilson Phillips
  3. En Vogue
  4. Rain
  5. KT Tunstall
987

Bands with a song titled exactly “Hold On”

  1. Commodores
  2. Wilson Phillips
  3. En Vogue
  4. Rain
  5. KT Tunstall
  6. Ian Gomm
988

Bands with a song titled exactly “Hold On”

  1. Commodores
  2. Wilson Phillips
  3. En Vogue
  4. Rain
  5. KT Tunstall
  6. Ian Gomm
  7. Yes
989

Bands with a song titled exactly “Hold On”

  1. Commodores
  2. Wilson Phillips
  3. En Vogue
  4. Rain
  5. KT Tunstall
  6. Ian Gomm
  7. Yes
  8. Skepta
    Man, pity it has to be exact. On Hold by the XX is one of my current favorites…
990

Bands with a song titled exactly “Hold On”

  1. Commodores
  2. Wilson Phillips
  3. En Vogue
  4. Rain
  5. KT Tunstall
  6. Ian Gomm
  7. Yes
  8. Skepta
  9. Tom Waits
991

Bands with a song titled exactly “Hold On”

  1. Commodores
  2. Wilson Phillips
  3. En Vogue
  4. Rain
  5. KT Tunstall
  6. Ian Gomm
  7. Yes
  8. Skepta
  9. Tom Waits
  10. Herman’s Hermits

Songs with foreign countries in the title

  1. Morocco - Moon Taxi
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Songs with foreign countries in the title

  1. Morocco - Moon Taxi
  2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
993

Songs with foreign countries in the title

  1. Morocco - Moon Taxi
  2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
  3. Australia - The Shins

Except for Australian dopers, I guess.

994

Songs with foreign countries in the title

  1. Morocco - Moon Taxi
  2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
  3. Australia - The Shins
  4. Mexican Moon - Concrete Blonde
995

Songs with foreign countries in the title

  1. Morocco - Moon Taxi
  2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
  3. Australia - The Shins
  4. Mexican Moon - Concrete Blonde
  5. China Girl - David Bowie
996

Songs with foreign countries in the title

  1. Morocco - Moon Taxi
  2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
  3. Australia - The Shins
  4. Mexican Moon - Concrete Blonde
  5. China Girl - David Bowie
  6. Back in the USSR - The Beatles
997

Songs with foreign countries in the title

  1. Morocco - Moon Taxi
  2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
  3. Australia - The Shins
  4. Mexican Moon - Concrete Blonde
  5. China Girl - David Bowie
  6. Back in the USSR - The Beatles
  7. England Swings - Roger Miller
998

Songs with foreign countries in the title

  1. Morocco - Moon Taxi
  2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
  3. Australia - The Shins
  4. Mexican Moon - Concrete Blonde
  5. China Girl - David Bowie
  6. Back in the USSR - The Beatles
  7. England Swings - Roger Miller
  8. Never Been to Spain - 3 Dog Night
999

Songs with foreign countries in the title

  1. Morocco - Moon Taxi
  2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
  3. Australia - The Shins
  4. Mexican Moon - Concrete Blonde
  5. China Girl - David Bowie
  6. Back in the USSR - The Beatles
  7. England Swings - Roger Miller
  8. Never Been to Spain - 3 Dog Night
  9. Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina - Madonna
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Songs with foreign countries in the title

  1. Morocco - Moon Taxi
  2. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
  3. Australia - The Shins
  4. Mexican Moon - Concrete Blonde
  5. China Girl - David Bowie
  6. Back in the USSR - The Beatles
  7. England Swings - Roger Miller
  8. Never Been to Spain - 3 Dog Night
  9. Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina - Madonna
  10. Finland Song - Monty Python

Songs with names of U.S. Cities:

  1. New York, New York - Frank Sinatra