Okay, here’s one of the many songs that feature the lyrics “number one with a bullet”, and in my view the best one:
AC/DC - Back In Black
NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist:
One
I've been doing this for a year, so let's celebrate the show's first birthday* in style. Let me know what songs the word 'one' conjures up in your mind at #ThePlaylistSuggestion.
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Just one, for envy:
Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?
@DJDarren At the risk of offending many I'm going to suggest Jealousy by Stereophonics - I love them and I don't care who knows it.
OR - bringing out the Cov Kid in me and memories of spray painting Doc Martens Love and Pride by King.
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@DJDarren My wife's current fave tune. The title is "Eat Eat Eat", the artist is Sandy Yanisa. Lyrics are something like "Forget all the bitterness, let sweets heal everything / Yummy Yummy Yummy ah ah ah Eat Eat Eat Eat / Creamy Creamy Creamy Cream Eat Eat Eat Eat" Bon appetit! ;-) #ThePlaylistSuggestion #Gluttony #Thailand #ThaiPop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wxOa-rJis
NEXT WEEK'S THEME ON #ThePlaylist:
The Seven Deadly Sins
Have you thought lustful thoughts? Have you thought lustfully about scoffing Far Too Much Chocolate, you glutton?
Well, use those thoughts (and the tag #ThePlaylistSuggestion) to sling some tunes at me and once again we'll build another excellent radio show.
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I’ve not done one yet so I’m going for this, tied closely to the big JC’s comeback but also itself a minor comeback for XTC/Andy Partridge:
XTC - Easter Theatre
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Overnight thoughts were of a couple of comeback albums by musicians who spent a long time having a quiet life in the countryside, thoroughly disillusioned with the music business, before eventually being persuaded to give it another go.
And in true Playlist style, they have a slightly different kind of sound to one another:
Scott Walker - Farmer in the City (from 1995's Tilt, his first release for eleven years)
Vashti Bunyan - Wayward (from 2005's Lookaftering, her first release for all of 35 years)
Also, I have a handful of much more straightforwardly literal suggestions:
Lord Kitchener - Come Back in the Morning
The Magnetic Fields - Come Back from San Francisco
Aretha Franklin - Come Back Baby (there are many, many versions of this song, but Aretha's upbeat dance-oriented take is unsurprisingly my favourite)
Elvis - That's Alright (specifically, the live version from the '68 Comeback Special, because if it's not from the Comeback Special then it doesn't fit the theme and I've just suggested a random song for no reason)
- Slight Return by the Bluetones
- Guess who’s back…Without me by Eminem.
- Get Back by The Beatles
- The Green, Green Grass of Home by Tom Jones
- Back for Good by Take That
- Homeward Bound by Simon & Garfunkel
- Shake it off by TayTay. Cos it’s all about getting back out there, y’know?
NEXT WEEK on #ThePlaylist:
Comeback
It's Easter, so zombie Jesus and all that. Use the hashtag #ThePlaylistSuggestion to fire whatever the word "comeback" conjures in your mind, and together, #Fediverse, we'll build YET ANOTHER banger of a radio show.
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And if you have a shortage of covers of TV themes, can I recommend the band Dream Themes (one of Rhodri Marsden’s projects) which does belter versions of loads of them, eg The Antiques Roadshow. There’s lots of short, fun ones on this album.
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Balls! (This week's theme)
I was going to suggest for next week
Television Personalities - La Grande Illusion
but I see two people have already suggested I know where Syd Barret lives.
Next suggestion is
Sorry theme tune - Gaynor Colbourn and Hugh Wisdom
It has no right to be this funky.
@DJDarren @labr #NinaHagen "TV Glotzer" 
"I turn on the tube / Happiness! Splish splash! Fun, fun! / I gawk from East to West 2, 5, 4 / I can't make up my mind / Everything is so beautifully colorful here!"
And for extremely literal, why not Kojak Columbo by Harry Nilsson:
“You got nineteen inches, baby, that's a real good size
I could lie there on the floor and just look at you all night long
I could twist your knobs right off, fool around with you
I don't need no TV guide tell me what to do”
I’d suggest anything off the Matt Berry Television Themes album, but particularly World In Action because it Goes Hard.
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I do have some other suggestions, now that I'm marginally awake.
Television Personalities - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
The Mighty Terror - TV Calypso
(surprisingly, given that calypso's commercial peak and the mainstream adoption of television happened around the same time, this is the only TV-related calypso I'm aware of)
Anything by the Undertones. Let's say Teenage Kicks, shall we? This is because - tenuous link ahoy! - Feargal Sharkey was a TV delivery man for Radio Rentals in the band's early days (they used his van to get to gigs). One day, he heard that they'd been invited to perform Teenage Kicks on Top of the Pops. He told his Radio Rentals colleagues that he was popping out to get some lunch, and never returned.
The Cure - Close to Me. I was trying to think of tv themes, but could only come up with either sports programmes (which we've already done) or things I wouldn't particularly want to recommend. But the mid-00s BBC sitcom The Smoking Room had Close to Me as its theme. So there.
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First thought - well, apart from Marquee Moon, obviously (they did release a four minute radio edit some years back for the whateverth anniversary) - is the magnificent TV Party by Black Flag. I couldn't forgive myself if I didn't suggest that. Although someone else probably would've done. But what if they didn't?
I should have some other suggestions, although I've already suggested TV Party and Marquee Moon so I'm not sure where I can go from here.
