# 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:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8581 "2026-10-07T18:10:44Z")

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**Songs where the title is neither sung nor spoken in the song**

1. Baba O’Riley - The Who
2. Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
3. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
4. For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
5. Art Carney’s Dream - The Swirling Eddies
6. Rockaria! - Electric Light Orchestra
7. Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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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:** [October 7, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8582 "2026-10-07T19:28:26Z")

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**Songs where the title is neither sung nor spoken in the song**

1. Baba O’Riley - The Who
2. Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
3. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
4. For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
5. Art Carney’s Dream - The Swirling Eddies
6. Rockaria! - Electric Light Orchestra
7. Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
8. Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group

Yes, I’m cheating - it’s an instramental.  
Would “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” count? That phrase is whispered… just before the screaming starts.

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8583 "2026-10-07T19:58:56Z")

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Maybe we should axe Eugene.

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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:** [October 7, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8584 "2026-10-07T20:16:31Z")

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**Songs where the title is neither sung nor spoken in the song**

1. Baba O’Riley - The Who
2. Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
3. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
4. For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
5. Art Carney’s Dream - The Swirling Eddies
6. Rockaria! - Electric Light Orchestra
7. Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
8. Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
9. Legend of a Mind - The Moody Blues

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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:** [October 7, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8585 "2026-10-07T20:32:31Z")

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**Songs where the title is neither sung nor spoken in the song**

1. Baba O’Riley - The Who
2. Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
3. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
4. For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield
5. Art Carney’s Dream - The Swirling Eddies
6. Rockaria! - Electric Light Orchestra
7. Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
8. Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
9. Legend of a Mind - The Moody Blues
10. Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

pass.

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8586 "2026-10-07T23:24:12Z")

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**Song titles referencing a specific planet**

1. Life on Mars? – David Bowie

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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:** [October 8, 2026, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8587 "2026-10-08T04:11:35Z")

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**Song titles referencing a specific planet**

1. Life on Mars? – David Bowie
2. Mercury Blues - The Steve Miller Band

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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:** [October 8, 2026, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8588 "2026-10-08T04:14:17Z")

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**Song titles referencing a specific planet**

1. Life on Mars? – David Bowie
2. Mercury Blues - The Steve Miller Band
3. Planet Earth - Duran Duran

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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:** [October 8, 2026, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8589 "2026-10-08T09:59:45Z")

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**Song titles referencing a specific planet**

1. Life on Mars? – David Bowie
2. Mercury Blues - The Steve Miller Band
3. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
4. Mars Needs Women - Tonio K

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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:** [October 8, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8590 "2026-10-08T12:31:03Z")

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**Song titles referencing a specific planet**

1. Life on Mars? – David Bowie
2. Mercury Blues - The Steve Miller Band
3. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
4. Mars Needs Women - Tonio K
5. Planet Claire - The B-52’s

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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:** [October 8, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8591 "2026-10-08T13:50:40Z")

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**Song titles referencing a specific planet**

1. Life on Mars? – David Bowie
2. Mercury Blues - The Steve Miller Band
3. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
4. Mars Needs Women - Tonio K
5. Planet Claire - The B-52’s
6. Venus - Shocking Blue

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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:** [October 8, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8592 "2026-10-08T14:59:05Z")

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**Song titles referencing a specific planet**

1. Life on Mars? – David Bowie
2. Mercury Blues - The Steve Miller Band
3. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
4. Mars Needs Women - Tonio K
5. Planet Claire - The B-52’s
6. Venus - Shocking Blue
7. Anus of Uranus - Klaatu

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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:** [October 8, 2026, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8593 "2026-10-08T15:53:02Z")

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**Song titles referencing a specific planet**

1. Life on Mars? – David Bowie
2. Mercury Blues - The Steve Miller Band
3. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
4. Mars Needs Women - Tonio K
5. Planet Claire - The B-52’s
6. Venus - Shocking Blue
7. Anus of Uranus - Klaatu
8. Drops of Jupiter - Train

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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:** [October 8, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8594 "2026-10-08T18:00:04Z")

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**Song titles referencing a specific planet**

1. Life on Mars? – David Bowie
2. Mercury Blues - The Steve Miller Band
3. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
4. Mars Needs Women - Tonio K
5. Planet Claire - The B-52’s
6. Venus - Shocking Blue
7. Anus of Uranus - Klaatu
8. Drops of Jupiter - Train
9. Morning on Barsoom - Sten Hensen

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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:** [October 8, 2026, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8595 "2026-10-08T20:42:19Z")

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**Song titles referencing a specific planet**

1. Life on Mars? – David Bowie
2. Mercury Blues - The Steve Miller Band
3. Planet Earth - Duran Duran
4. Mars Needs Women - Tonio K
5. Planet Claire - The B-52’s
6. Venus - Shocking Blue
7. Anus of Uranus - Klaatu
8. Drops of Jupiter - Train
9. Morning on Barsoom - Sten Hensen
10. Sirius - the Alan Parsons Project

**“Outlaw” country-rock bands of the 70s**

1. Bad Company

This is meant for country/rock bands of the 70s which (occasionally or often) presented themselves as relics of the Old West.

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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:** [October 8, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8596 "2026-10-08T22:07:12Z")

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_@knoodler, in keeping with the playlist theme, OK to include a song with each band named?_

**“Outlaw” country-rock bands of the 70s**

1. Bad Company - “Young Blood”
2. Molly Hatchet - “Dreams I’ll Never See”

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8597 "2026-10-09T00:53:03Z")

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**“Outlaw” country-rock bands of the 70s**

1. Bad Company - “Young Blood”
2. Molly Hatchet - “Dreams I’ll Never See”
3. Marshall Tucker Band - “Fire on the Mountain”

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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:** [October 9, 2026, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8598 "2026-10-09T03:08:29Z")

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@bordelond: Absolutely!

In play:

**“Outlaw” country-rock bands of the 70s**

1. Bad Company - “Young Blood”
2. Molly Hatchet - “Dreams I’ll Never See”
3. Marshall Tucker Band - “Fire on the Mountain”
4. The Doobie Brothers - “I Cheat the Hangman”

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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:** [October 9, 2026, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8599 "2026-10-09T04:14:58Z")

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**“Outlaw” country-rock bands of the 70s**

1. Bad Company - “Young Blood”
2. Molly Hatchet - “Dreams I’ll Never See”
3. Marshall Tucker Band - “Fire on the Mountain”
4. The Doobie Brothers - “I Cheat the Hangman”
5. The Outlaws - “Ghost Riders in the Sky”

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/8600 "2026-10-09T10:31:11Z")

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**“Outlaw” country-rock bands of the 70s**

1. Bad Company - “Young Blood”
2. Molly Hatchet - “Dreams I’ll Never See”
3. Marshall Tucker Band - “Fire on the Mountain”
4. The Doobie Brothers - “I Cheat the Hangman”
5. The Outlaws - “Ghost Riders in the Sky”
6. The Allman Brothers Band - “Midnight Rider”

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