# Topic Playlist (Part 3) **URL:** \ **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:** 91
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1801 "2024-09-26T12:59:10Z")
**Songs based on historical events (and what they were)** 1. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker (Chernobyl disaster) 2. [The Ballad Of 1891](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pdUZEEXh50) - The Bushwackers (the 1891 shearers strike which lead to the founding of the Australian Labor Party. Waltzing Matilda has the same derivation) 3. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordin Lightfoot 4. Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton (1814 battle) ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1802 "2024-09-26T13:44:12Z")
**Songs based on historical events (and what they were)** 1. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker (Chernobyl disaster) 2. [The Ballad Of 1891](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pdUZEEXh50) - The Bushwackers (the 1891 shearers strike which lead to the founding of the Australian Labor Party. Waltzing Matilda has the same derivation) 3. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton (1814 battle) 5. Ohio - Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young **[(the 1970 Kent State shootings)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings)**. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1803 "2024-09-26T13:48:31Z")
**Songs based on historical events (and what they were)** 1. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker (Chernobyl disaster) 2. [The Ballad Of 1891](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pdUZEEXh50) - The Bushwackers (the 1891 shearers strike which lead to the founding of the Australian Labor Party. Waltzing Matilda has the same derivation) 3. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton (1814 battle) 5. Ohio - Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young **[(the 1970 Kent State shootings)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings)**. 6. I Don’t Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats (the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego) ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1804 "2024-09-26T13:52:29Z")
**Songs based on historical events (and what they were)** 1. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker (Chernobyl disaster) 2. [The Ballad Of 1891](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pdUZEEXh50) - The Bushwackers (the 1891 shearers strike which lead to the founding of the Australian Labor Party. Waltzing Matilda has the same derivation) 3. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton (1814 battle) 5. Ohio - Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young **[(the 1970 Kent State shootings)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings)**. 6. I Don’t Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats (the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego) 7. When the Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd (Battle of Anzio) ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1805 "2024-09-26T13:58:20Z")
**Songs based on historical events (and what they were)** 1. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker (Chernobyl disaster) 2. [The Ballad Of 1891](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pdUZEEXh50) - The Bushwackers (the 1891 shearers strike which lead to the founding of the Australian Labor Party. Waltzing Matilda has the same derivation) 3. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton (1814 battle) 5. Ohio - Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young **[(the 1970 Kent State shootings)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings)**. 6. I Don’t Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats (the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego) 7. When the Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd (Battle of Anzio) 8. Living in a Ghost Town - The Rolling Stones (the COVID pandemic) ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1806 "2024-09-26T14:32:05Z")
**Songs based on historical events (and what they were)** 1. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker (Chernobyl disaster) 2. [The Ballad Of 1891](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pdUZEEXh50) - The Bushwackers (the 1891 shearers strike which lead to the founding of the Australian Labor Party. Waltzing Matilda has the same derivation) 3. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton (1814 battle) 5. Ohio - Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young **[(the 1970 Kent State shootings)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings)**. 6. I Don’t Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats (the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego) 7. When the Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd (Battle of Anzio) 8. Living in a Ghost Town - The Rolling Stones (the COVID pandemic) 9. For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield (curfew riots on LA’s Sunset Strip) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1807 "2024-09-26T15:23:18Z")
**Songs based on historical events (and what they were)** 1. Ghost Town - Huns & Dr. Beeker (Chernobyl disaster) 2. [The Ballad Of 1891](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pdUZEEXh50) - The Bushwackers (the 1891 shearers strike which lead to the founding of the Australian Labor Party. Waltzing Matilda has the same derivation) 3. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton (1814 battle) 5. Ohio - Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young **[(the 1970 Kent State shootings)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings)**. 6. I Don’t Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats (the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego) 7. When the Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd (Battle of Anzio) 8. Living in a Ghost Town - The Rolling Stones (the COVID pandemic) 9. For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield (curfew riots on LA’s Sunset Strip) 10. Hurricane - Bob Dylan ( Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s imprisonment) **Songs about math** 1. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1808 "2024-09-26T15:29:37Z")
**Songs about math** 1. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon 2. New Math - Tom Lehrer ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1809 "2024-09-26T16:26:34Z")
**Songs about math** 1. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon 2. New Math - Tom Lehrer 3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine – Jimmie Rodgers A song which demonstrates exponential expansion … he starts out alone, adds a wife, has four offspring, and ends up as ‘the grandfather of eight’. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1810 "2024-09-26T17:44:58Z")
**Songs about math** 1. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon 2. New Math - Tom Lehrer 3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine – Jimmie Rodgers 4. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino “Just Molly and me, and baby makes three” ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1811 "2024-09-26T17:47:48Z")
**Songs about math** 1. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon 2. New Math - Tom Lehrer 3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine – Jimmie Rodgers 4. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino 5. Nothing From Nothing - Bill Preston ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1812 "2024-09-26T17:56:26Z")
**Songs about math** 1. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon 2. New Math - Tom Lehrer 3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine – Jimmie Rodgers 4. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino 5. Nothing From Nothing - Bill Preston 6. 34 + 9 = 43 - Miriodor ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1813 "2024-09-26T18:31:17Z")
**Songs about math** 1. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon 2. New Math - Tom Lehrer 3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine – Jimmie Rodgers 4. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino 5. Nothing From Nothing - Bill Preston 6. 34 + 9 = 43 - Miriodor 7. One and One Makes Two - Johnny & June Carter Cash ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1814 "2024-09-26T18:35:11Z")
**Songs about math** 1. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon 2. New Math - Tom Lehrer 3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine – Jimmie Rodgers 4. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino 5. Nothing From Nothing - Bill Preston 6. 34 + 9 = 43 - Miriodor 7. One and One Makes Two - Johnny & June Carter Cash 8. Add It Up - Violent Femmes ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1815 "2024-09-26T19:51:18Z")
**Songs about math** 1. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon 2. New Math - Tom Lehrer 3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine – Jimmie Rodgers 4. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino 5. Nothing From Nothing - Bill Preston 6. 34 + 9 = 43 - Miriodor 7. One and One Makes Two - Johnny & June Carter Cash 8. Add It Up - Violent Femmes 9. I Can Add - They Might Be Giants ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1816 "2024-09-26T20:40:10Z")
**Songs about math** 1. My Mathematical Mind - Spoon 2. New Math - Tom Lehrer 3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine – Jimmie Rodgers 4. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino 5. Nothing From Nothing - Bill Preston 6. 34 + 9 = 43 - Miriodor 7. One and One Makes Two - Johnny & June Carter Cash 8. Add It Up - Violent Femmes 9. I Can Add - They Might Be Giants 10. Figure Eight - Multiplication Rock **Songs by Marvin Gaye** 1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1817 "2024-09-26T20:42:04Z")
**Songs by Marvin Gaye** 1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine 2. What’s Going On ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1818 "2024-09-26T21:34:50Z")
**Songs by Marvin Gaye** 1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine 2. What’s Going On 3. Trouble Man ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1819 "2024-09-26T22:12:37Z")
**Songs by Marvin Gaye** 1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine 2. What’s Going On 3. Trouble Man 4. Sexual Healing ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/1820 "2024-09-26T22:48:08Z")
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