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Posted by loxocele on 2008-12-03 09:07:09 +0000

alphabet soup

so one thing i like doing is making mixes, especially those with unusual themes. for the one whole semester that i thought about getting into college radio, the "weird theme mix" idea was going to be the format of my show - any band ever, any possible genre, but all songs about (say) stalking people one week, all obscure or improbable covers the next week, all songs about the movie Seven the week after that (except i only know of two songs about the movie Seven; that one needed work). it's 4 in the morning my time; i have a final presentation due in 5 hours. am i working on it? um...for the moment, no. i've just thought of a new mix theme, and it is this: songs with three letter song titles (which, ideally, are not words). just off the top of my head, i've come up with this list - and i *know* there's a whole crapton that i'm missing. what else is out there? DLZ - TV on the Radio FNT - Semisonic FOD - Green Day NFS - Campaign for Real-Time [MC: how hard would it be to make a crossword out of nothing but three letter song titles?]

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-12-03 10:10:52 +0000
Would acronyms count? ABBA - SOS Michael Jackson - PYT What about 3-characters including 2 letters and a number? MIA - XR2 And what about letters contained within a chronological series? Jackson 5 - ABC BTW, I see that you and I sit on opposite sides of the "song first vs artist first" track-listing argument. When I first did college radio I was much more vehement about it - now I just think it's interesting. Like listing the date month-day-year (US style) or day-month-year (Euro style).

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-12-03 11:25:50 +0000
If a crossword was nothing but three letter song titles, the grid would have a measly six entries and the pattern would be 3x3. I'm sure if we came up with a list long enough, eventually we could make one. Might be good for my blog, so yeah, if we have any more song titles, fire away.

Posted by tgl on 2008-12-03 13:18:49 +0000
Where is your blog, BTW? (Almost attempted to visist 'mahatmachani.com'...)

Posted by MF DU on 2008-12-03 14:59:50 +0000
TNT - AC/DC TNT - Tortoise FVK - Bad Brains too bad we cant put 12XU by Wire here, it was the first one I thought of, but alas it misses by one.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-12-03 15:06:50 +0000
I *knew* MF DU would have to weigh in on this one... ...I also thought of the (2 characters too long, and an album title, not a song) OU812. Can we expand the list to all song/album titles made up of number/letter strings?

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-12-03 15:48:12 +0000
YYZ -- Rush FFF -- Public Image Ltd.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-12-03 15:59:26 +0000
Holy shit, I can't believe I missed that one.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-12-03 16:01:13 +0000
Seriously.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-12-03 16:04:12 +0000
I was singing letters in my head, and totally missed the instrumental angle. Next time...just you wait...

Posted by tgl on 2008-12-03 16:18:48 +0000
It's "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" Disqualified? The exception that proves the rule?

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-12-03 16:33:23 +0000
Should be launched next week at my real name dot com.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-12-03 16:33:34 +0000
Good question. That makes me wonder if the Shamen's "L.S.I: Love Sex Intelligence" could be included.

Posted by tommy on 2008-12-04 01:00:13 +0000
EMI - Sex Pistols DIY - Peter Gabriel Ace - Descendents GCF - Descendents Amy - Pure Prairie League I Do - J. Geils VFW - Dead Milkmen

Posted by loxocele on 2008-12-04 01:31:57 +0000
hrm...i'm thinking spelling out the acronym on the liner notes disqualifies a track, but i'll revise that if i can't find a full album's worth of non-expanded titles. ;)

Posted by tgl on 2008-12-04 01:35:58 +0000
Nice. Songs titles of three letters that are not TLAs. . . . Am I in charge of the Dead Milkmen Immersion?

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-12-04 02:39:44 +0000
Wow!

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