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Zero the Hero by Black Sabbath is the only other one that came to my mind.

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Love this list! The first one I thought of was “Saved By Zero” by the Fixx, so glad to see it made the list!

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What an amazing playlist!!! I love this so much. (I hope you poke around in The Weeknd's song list a bit. He's a much better artist than I realized at first, too.)

I wonder how many artists recorded a tune called "Less Than Zero"? You mentioned two, and I know Nine Inch Nails has a good track with that name, too.

And since I'm sure you're waiting for me to tie it back to Rush--I haven't found a single Rush or Rush-adjacent song with "zero" in the title, although "The Body Electric" has a pretty rad chorus involving lots of zeroes!

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Apr 14·edited Apr 14Liked by Steve Goldberg

Awesome idea, and awesome list! 💡🎶 massive amount of songs completely new to me, and I love it. Did a quick search through my Spotify library and it turned out that I have only 3 songs saved with "0" in title, and absolutely none with a word "zero"

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Apr 13Liked by Steve Goldberg

Some real gems in here Steve! Every once in a while I forget how absolutely amazing Aimee Mann is. She’s just a treasure and I love seeing that track on here.

That 1996 Schoolhouse Rock compilation was incredible! I was a huge fan of Blind Melon’s version of ‘Three is a Magic Number’

Was wondering if I’d see the Smashing Pumpkins track and glad to see you found a spot for it.

A fantastic Zero song is the obscure track ‘Absolute Zero’ from Hoover, which appeared on the 2019 crate-digging compilation (along with an entire batch of incredible obscure and mostly unheard songs) Sad About the Times. Give it a listen, would love to hear your thoughts: https://open.spotify.com/track/04Ant5Uogcp9acKuPRmOm6?si=ElkNnyb1TPKRYDT584EDbg

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Love this! Big fan of the Aimee Mann song and have it on one of my playlists. I think we also have that School House Rock cover album you mentioned, because I often get the Three Is a Magic Number song stuck in my head.

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Apr 12Liked by Steve Goldberg

Great idea, great playlist. Aimee Mann, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello - and others - yay.

‘Hero Ground Zero’ by The Who is worth a listen (from the WHO album).

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Apr 12Liked by Steve Goldberg

Imagine Dragons “Zero” (2018)

“One” was written by Harry Nilsson (made famous by Three Dog Night).

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I'll just say that an album of the month discussion group sounds like a great idea.

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Apr 12Liked by Steve Goldberg

What a great idea, Steve!! Already thinking of what the “One” and “Two” songs might be! Fabulous! But also I’ve got to get your great idea out of my head now….😂🤣🤪

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I'm a particular fan of One (both the Three Dog Night and Aimee Mann versions), 7 Days to Change Your Life by Jamie Cullum, 2AM by Bear Hands, The One by Datarock, and A Thousand Beautiful Things by Annie Lennox. Otherwise this is a great list!

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Apr 12Liked by Steve Goldberg

Well done! Great list.

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Wow, that is an impressive list, not only for the quantity of "zero" songs but for having something thoughtful to say about each of them.

Cue Wayne's World "we're not worthy. "

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Love to see Joan Armatrading getting some love!

Also: It’s always a good time to work Fishbone in.

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Not a song but a band came to mind- Remy Zero https://youtu.be/LYdCzs5uPrI?feature=shared

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