# 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\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7661 "2026-06-16T14:27:50Z")

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**Songs by Artists Who Performed at Woodstock 99 Festival (does not need to be songs which they played at Woodstock 99)**

1. New Orleans is Sinking - The Tragically Hip
2. All Summer Long - Kid Rock
3. Pump It Up - Elvis Costello
4. Ironic - Alanis Morisette
5. In My Room - Insane Clown Posse
6. Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
7. Rockafeller Skank - Fatboy Slim
8. Ball and Chain - Mike Ness
9. Steve McQueen - Sheryl Crow
10. Freak on a Leash - Korn

**Songs about a disaster (impending or already happened)**

1. London Calling - The Clash; it’s about many things, including climate change potentially drowning London

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**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7662 "2026-06-16T14:29:55Z")

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**Songs about a disaster (impending or already happened)**

1. London Calling - The Clash; it’s about many things, including climate change potentially drowning London
2. Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills, and Nash; nuclear war

(had to look up if it was with Young

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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:** [June 16, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7663 "2026-06-16T14:38:25Z")

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**Songs about a disaster (impending or already happened)**

1. London Calling - The Clash; it’s about many things, including climate change potentially drowning London
2. Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills, and Nash; nuclear war
3. Mickey Brennan’s Lament - The Water Runners  
  
The July 1902 Mt Kembla coal mine disaster where 96 were killed. 19yo Michael Brennan had started work in the mine just four days earlier and his was the only body never recovered.

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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:** [June 16, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7664 "2026-06-16T14:41:59Z")

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**Songs about a disaster (impending or already happened)**

1. London Calling - The Clash; it’s about many things, including climate change potentially drowning London
2. Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills, and Nash; nuclear war
3. Mickey Brennan’s Lament - The Water Runners
4. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin; Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

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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:** [June 16, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7665 "2026-06-16T14:44:36Z")

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**Songs about a disaster (impending or already happened)**

1. London Calling - The Clash; it’s about many things, including climate change potentially drowning London
2. Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills, and Nash; nuclear war
3. Mickey Brennan’s Lament - The Water Runners
4. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin; Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
5. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker; Chernobyl disaster

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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:** [June 16, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7666 "2026-06-16T15:48:44Z")

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**Songs about a disaster (impending or already happened)**

1. London Calling - The Clash; it’s about many things, including climate change potentially drowning London
2. Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills, and Nash; nuclear war
3. Mickey Brennan’s Lament - The Water Runners
4. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin; Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
5. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker; Chernobyl disaster
6. [The Saints Are Coming (Live)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYJCwYHP6k) - Green Day, U2, and Trombone Shorty with the Rebirth Brass Band; Hurricane Katrina

**[Billy Joe Armstrong and Bono collaborated on new lyrics](https://genius.com/U2-the-saints-are-coming-live-from-new-orleans-lyrics)** for The Skids’ 1978 original. The first verse of The Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun”, with slightly modified lyrics, is used as the intro.

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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:** [June 16, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7667 "2026-06-16T19:56:21Z")

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**Songs about a disaster (impending or already happened)**

1. London Calling - The Clash; it’s about many things, including climate change potentially drowning London
2. Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills, and Nash; nuclear war
3. Mickey Brennan’s Lament - The Water Runners
4. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin; Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
5. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker; Chernobyl disaster
6. [The Saints Are Coming (Live)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYJCwYHP6k) - Green Day, U2, and Trombone Shorty with the Rebirth Brass Band; Hurricane Katrina
7. [Mighty Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNrTqUWl58I) – Bob Gibson _(re-recorded by [the Chad Mitchell Trio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGgVAfy7p3U))_ — about the 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston, TX

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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:** [June 16, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7668 "2026-06-16T20:17:12Z")

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**Songs about a disaster (impending or already happened)**

1. London Calling - The Clash; it’s about many things, including climate change potentially drowning London
2. Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills, and Nash; nuclear war
3. Mickey Brennan’s Lament - The Water Runners
4. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin; Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
5. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker; Chernobyl disaster
6. [The Saints Are Coming (Live)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYJCwYHP6k) - Green Day, U2, and Trombone Shorty with the Rebirth Brass Band; Hurricane Katrina
7. [Mighty Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNrTqUWl58I) – Bob Gibson _(re-recorded by [the Chad Mitchell Trio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGgVAfy7p3U))_ — about the 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston, TX
8. Los Angeles is Burning - Bad Religion; climate change, as well as climate denial and sensationalized media

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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:** [June 16, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7669 "2026-06-16T20:24:43Z")

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**Songs about a disaster (impending or already happened)**

1. London Calling - The Clash; it’s about many things, including climate change potentially drowning London
2. Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills, and Nash; nuclear war
3. Mickey Brennan’s Lament - The Water Runners
4. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin; Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
5. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker; Chernobyl disaster
6. [The Saints Are Coming (Live)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYJCwYHP6k) - Green Day, U2, and Trombone Shorty with the Rebirth Brass Band; Hurricane Katrina
7. [Mighty Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNrTqUWl58I) – Bob Gibson _(re-recorded by [the Chad Mitchell Trio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGgVAfy7p3U))_ — about the 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston, TX
8. Los Angeles is Burning - Bad Religion; climate change, as well as climate denial and sensationalized media
9. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot; shipwreck

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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7670 "2026-06-17T16:38:50Z")

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**Songs about a disaster (impending or already happened)**

1. London Calling - The Clash; it’s about many things, including climate change potentially drowning London
2. Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills, and Nash; nuclear war
3. Mickey Brennan’s Lament - The Water Runners
4. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin; Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
5. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker; Chernobyl disaster
6. [The Saints Are Coming (Live)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYJCwYHP6k) - Green Day, U2, and Trombone Shorty with the Rebirth Brass Band; Hurricane Katrina
7. [Mighty Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNrTqUWl58I) – Bob Gibson _(re-recorded by [the Chad Mitchell Trio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGgVAfy7p3U))_ — about the 1900 hurricane that devastated Galveston, TX
8. Los Angeles is Burning - Bad Religion; climate change, as well as climate denial and sensationalized media
9. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot; shipwreck
10. Five Feet High and Rising - Johnny Cash; 1937 Ohio River Flood

**PASS**

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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:** [June 17, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7671 "2026-06-17T17:36:22Z")

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Next: **Chicago (The band) songs**

1. Saturday in the Park

RIP Walter Parazaider, founding member of Chicago

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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7672 "2026-06-17T17:55:43Z")

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**Chicago (The band) songs**

1. Saturday in the Park
2. 25 or 6 to 4

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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:** [June 17, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7673 "2026-06-17T19:19:14Z")

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**Chicago (The band) songs**

1. Saturday in the Park
2. 25 or 6 to 4
3. Colour My World

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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:** [June 17, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7674 "2026-06-17T20:14:05Z")

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**Chicago (The band) songs**

1. Saturday in the Park
2. 25 or 6 to 4
3. Colour My World
4. If You Leave Me Now

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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:** [June 17, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7675 "2026-06-17T20:15:37Z")

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**Chicago (The band) songs**

1. Saturday in the Park
2. 25 or 6 to 4
3. Colour My World
4. If You Leave Me Now
5. Poem 58

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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:** [June 17, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7676 "2026-06-17T20:45:48Z")

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**Chicago (The band) songs**

1. Saturday in the Park
2. 25 or 6 to 4
3. Colour My World
4. If You Leave Me Now
5. Poem 58
6. I’m a Man

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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:** [June 17, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7677 "2026-06-17T20:49:00Z")

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**Chicago (The band) songs**

1. Saturday in the Park
2. 25 or 6 to 4
3. Colour My World
4. If You Leave Me Now
5. Poem 58
6. I’m a Man
7. Stay the Night

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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:** [June 17, 2026, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7678 "2026-06-17T21:47:23Z")

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**Chicago (The band) songs**

1. Saturday in the Park
2. 25 or 6 to 4
3. Colour My World
4. If You Leave Me Now
5. Poem 58
6. I’m a Man
7. Stay the Night
8. Old Days

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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:** [June 18, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7679 "2026-06-18T13:35:20Z")

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**Chicago (The band) songs**

1. Saturday in the Park
2. 25 or 6 to 4
3. Colour My World
4. If You Leave Me Now
5. Poem 58
6. I’m a Man
7. Stay the Night
8. Old Days
9. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

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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:** [June 18, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/7680 "2026-06-18T14:29:34Z")

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**Chicago (The band) songs**

1. Saturday in the Park
2. 25 or 6 to 4
3. Colour My World
4. If You Leave Me Now
5. Poem 58
6. I’m a Man
7. Stay the Night
8. Old Days
9. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
10. Make Me Smile/Now More Then Ever

**'70s one hit wonders**

1. Beach Baby - First Class

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