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'List' Songs
'List Songs' - Here are some lists of songs about a particular subject.
I can get a bit sad about creating these lists.
However, there are some rules - I have to actually LIKE the song AND it has to be GOOD enough to get on the list.
Some of these lists are still in their early days!
Space Songs:
Space race is over – billy bragg
Another Girl another planet – only ones
Set the controls for the heart of the sun - Pink Floyd
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Starman – David Bowie
Rocket Man – Elton John
Space – Pulp
A Trip Into Space - Spearmint
Ballboy - A Day In Space
All Seeing I (Featuring Phil Oakey) - 1st Man In Space
Astromine Domine - Pink Floyd
The Moon and The Mothership - Animals That Swim
Drinking Songs:
Junkyard - Blooze
Love/Hate - One More Round
Love/Hate - Fuel To Run
Child's Play - My Bottle
The Dogs d'amour - Back On The Juice
The Dogs d'amour - Satellite Kid
Bad Manners - Special Brew
The 4 Of Us - She Hits Me
Hardcore Superstar - Last Call For Alcohol
Vampire Songs
The Vampire Song - Concrete Blonde (The Extended version is even better!)
I Love The Night (The Ecstasy Of Flight) - Chris De Burgh
Vampire - L.A. Guns (not necessarilly about vampires per se, but a great song)
Vampires Will Never Hurt You - My Chemical Romance
Dressed Up Vamp - Bang Tango
Monthlys:
January's Little Joke - Trash Can Sinatras
14th of February - Billy Bragg
Sometimes It Snows In April - Prince
April Skies - The Jesus & Mary Chain
July - Mundy
August & Everyting After - Counting Crows
September - Swim
September - David Sylvian
Lucy September - The Dream Academy
October - A-Ha
October Symphony - Pet Shop Boys
5th Of November - Carter The Unstoppable Sex machine
A Long December - Counting Crows
Summer Songs
The Barracudas - Summer Fun
Buffalo Tom - Summer
The Undertones - Here Comes The Summer
Fun Boy Three - Summertime
Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime
Don Henley - Boys Of Summer
The Ataris - Boys Of Summer
Street Songs - (to come)
Suicide songs
Spoken songs -
(They have to be spoken throughout, I allow the ODD bit of singing, even a chorus, but they have to be basically the majority spoken):
A House – Endless Art
A House – Why ME?!
All seeing i – First Man in space
Animals That Swim
Arab Strap – Weekend never starts
Arab Strap – New Bird
At the drive in – Dead Letter department
Ballboy – A day in space
Belle & Sebastian -
Billy Bragg – Walk away renee
Black Box Recorder – Child Psychology
Blameless - Nan
Blumfeld – Verstaaker
Bruce Cockburn – Youv’e Never Seen Everything
Bruce Cockburn – Use Me While You Can
Bruce Cockburn - Charity Of Night
Deacon Blue _ Let your hearts be Troubled
Disposable Heroes – Music And Politics
Dogs d’amour – Heading for the target of insanity
Dogs d’amour – Hard To leave this world
Drive By Truckers – World of Hurt
Fish -
Glasvegas – Stabbed
Groove Corporation – World of Twist & Turn
It’s Immaterial – Driving Away From Home
John Cooper Clark – Beasley Street
Jonathan Richman - Twilight In Boston
Levellers - Dance Before The Storm
Lords Of The New Church - Dreams And Desires
Matthew Good Band – Every Name Is
Paul Weller - God
Plastic Gator Music - Letters From The Inside
Police – Be my girl (sally)
Prolapse – Burgundy Spine
Prolapse - Chill Blues
Rage Against The Machine – Hadda Be playing on the Jukebox
REM – Belong
Richmond Fontaine -
Shangri las – past present Future
Sonic Youth - Tunic
Spearmint – First Time Music
Spearmint -
U2 – Walk to the water
Vowel Movement - Las Vegas
Wah – Talking Blues
Warrior Soul – 4 More years
Whipping Boy – When we were young 2
Whipping boy – a natural
Wheat – That’s exactly what i
Whistler -
Happiest Songs:
Zumpano - I Dig You
Things Of Stone & Wood - Happy Birthday Helen
The Proclaimers - Then I Met You
29 Palms - Mad To be Saved
Mundy Pardon Me (Single version)
Pele - Fair Blows The Wind For France
Brainpool - Every Day
The Canyskins - Wembley
60ft Dolls - Hair (single version)
Jellyfish - Baby's Coming Back
Bon Jovi - 99 In The Shade
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Songs that sample the Shipping Forecast:
Justin Sullivan - Ocean Rising
Tears For Fears - Pharaohs
Andy White - The Whole Love Story
The Young Punx - Rockall
Thomas Dolby - Windpower
Rob Overseer - Heligoland
Beck - The Horrible Fanfare, Landslide, Exoskeleton
Rapoon - Falling More Slowly
New Model Army - Ocean Rising
Lolita Songs - (seemed to be a fascination amongst 80's "Hair" Metal!):
Travis - U16 Girls
Extreme - Little Girls
Love/Hate - Rock Queen
Vain - Laws Against Love
Winger - Seventeen
The Boomtown Rats - Mary Of The 4th Form
The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me