# Topic Playlist (Part 3)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [January 26, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687 "2024-01-26T15:37:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 345

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6881 "2026-04-04T01:56:10Z")

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**Advice**

1. Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
2. Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
3. Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
4. How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly

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**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6882 "2026-04-04T02:12:39Z")

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**Advice**

1. Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
2. Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
3. Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
4. How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly
5. If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6883 "2026-04-04T02:51:19Z")

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**Advice**

1. Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
2. Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
3. Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
4. How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly
5. If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
6. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6884 "2026-04-04T02:59:09Z")

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**Advice**

1. Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
2. Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
3. Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
4. How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly
5. If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
6. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
7. This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6885 "2026-04-04T03:44:43Z")

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**Advice**

1. Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
2. Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
3. Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
4. How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly
5. If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
6. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
7. This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan
8. Grow Some Funk of Your Own - Elton John

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6886 "2026-04-04T04:18:56Z")

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**Advice**

1. Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
2. Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
3. Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
4. How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly
5. If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
6. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
7. This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan
8. Grow Some Funk of Your Own - Elton John
9. New York Minute - Don Henley

“In these days, when darkness falls early, and people rush home to the ones they love, you’d better take a fool’s advice - take care of your own. Cuz one day they’re here, the next day, they’re gone.”

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6887 "2026-04-04T18:38:02Z")

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**Advice**

1. Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band
2. Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
3. Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
4. How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly
5. If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul
6. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
7. This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan
8. Grow Some Funk of Your Own - Elton John
9. New York Minute - Don Henley
10. Take a Chance – ABBA

**More Advice**

1. Make Your Own Kind of Music – Cass Elliot

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6888 "2026-04-04T19:09:09Z")

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**More Advice**

1. Make Your Own Kind of Music – Cass Elliot
2. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6889 "2026-04-04T19:50:47Z")

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**More Advice**

1. Make Your Own Kind of Music – Cass Elliot
2. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan
3. Be True to Your School - The Beach Boys

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6890 "2026-04-04T21:28:55Z")

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**More Advice**

1. Make Your Own Kind of Music – Cass Elliot
2. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan
3. Be True to Your School - The Beach Boys
4. Love the One You’re With - Stephen Stills

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6891 "2026-04-04T21:54:21Z")

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**More Advice**

1. Make Your Own Kind of Music – Cass Elliot
2. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan
3. Be True to Your School - The Beach Boys
4. Love the One You’re With - Stephen Stills
5. Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann  
  
"_Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s._ "

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**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:** [April 4, 2026, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6892 "2026-04-04T22:03:22Z")

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**More Advice**

1. Make Your Own Kind of Music – Cass Elliot
2. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan
3. Be True to Your School - The Beach Boys
4. Love the One You’re With - Stephen Stills
5. Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann
6. Don’t Look Back - Boston

Fun trivia: The lyrics to “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” came from [a newspaper column in the Chicago Tribune, written by columnist Mary Schmich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen), which went viral, and was widely misattributed to Kurt Vonnegut.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6893 "2026-04-04T22:15:42Z")

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**More Advice**

1. Make Your Own Kind of Music – Cass Elliot
2. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan
3. Be True to Your School - The Beach Boys
4. Love the One You’re With - Stephen Stills
5. Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann
6. Don’t Look Back - Boston
7. Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paycheck

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6894 "2026-04-04T22:22:59Z")

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**More Advice**

1. Make Your Own Kind of Music – Cass Elliot
2. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan
3. Be True to Your School - The Beach Boys
4. Love the One You’re With - Stephen Stills
5. Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann
6. Don’t Look Back - Boston
7. Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paycheck
8. Pray Naked - The 77s

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2026, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6895 "2026-04-04T22:42:25Z")

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**More Advice**

1. Make Your Own Kind of Music – Cass Elliot
2. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan
3. Be True to Your School - The Beach Boys
4. Love the One You’re With - Stephen Stills
5. Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann
6. Don’t Look Back - Boston
7. Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paycheck
8. Pray Naked - The 77s
9. Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6896 "2026-04-05T02:09:13Z")

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**More Advice**

1. Make Your Own Kind of Music – Cass Elliot
2. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus and Chaka Khan
3. Be True to Your School - The Beach Boys
4. Love the One You’re With - Stephen Stills
5. Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann
6. Don’t Look Back - Boston
7. Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny Paycheck
8. Pray Naked - The 77s
9. Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
10. Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

**Go, Going, Gone**

1. Gone Shooting - AC/DC

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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:** [April 5, 2026, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6897 "2026-04-05T02:41:38Z")

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**Go, Going, Gone**

1. Gone Shooting - AC/DC
2. Gone Fishin’ - Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong

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**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:** [April 5, 2026, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6898 "2026-04-05T02:53:22Z")

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**Go, Going, Gone**

1. Gone Shooting - AC/DC
2. Gone Fishin’ - Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong
3. I Know There’s Something Going on - Frida

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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2026, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6899 "2026-04-05T03:04:12Z")

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**Go, Going, Gone**

1. Gone Shooting - AC/DC
2. Gone Fishin’ - Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong
3. I Know There’s Something Going on - Frida
4. I’ll Be Gone - Spectrum  
( inc an iconic harmonica introduction)

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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:** [April 5, 2026, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/6900 "2026-04-05T03:21:49Z")

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**Go, Going, Gone**

1. Gone Shooting - AC/DC
2. Gone Fishin’ - Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong
3. I Know There’s Something Going on - Frida
4. I’ll Be Gone - Spectrum
5. Gone, Gone, Gone - Trip Shakespeare

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