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This article is about one-to-one correlation between songs and RationalWiki articles. If you're looking for a more broadly-selected "greatest hits" list for the whole political spectrum, see Fun:Greatest songs, liberal, leftist, and conservative.
John Coltrane's A Love Supreme
The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus
Eartha Kitt's album That Bad Eartha, including both "I Want to be Evil" and "Santa Baby"
L7's Bricks Are Heavy
An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music: Abandon all hope, ye who enter.
Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
Frank Zappa's Apostrophe (')

RationalWiki: The Musical is a jukebox musical of choice, cutting music that matches RationalWiki mainspace pages: no crapola ("Kill Ugly Radio" — Frank Zappa), please!

Abortion[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Abortion

Miscarriage[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Spontaneous abortion in humans
  • Sinead O'Connor's "Three Babies"[4]

Animals[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Animal
  • Amphibian: Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" ("Jeremiah was a bullfrog")[5]
  • Bird: The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird"[6] The Pee-wee Herman version[7]
  • Chordata: Sam Hinton's "It's a Long Way From Amphioxus"[8]
  • Goat: Pearl Jam's "Evil Little Goat"[9]
  • Mammal: They Might Be Giants' "Mammal" [10]
  • Platypus: Randy Crenshaw's "Perry The Platypus" from Phineas & Ferb[11]
  • Reptile: Al Wilson's "The Snake"[12]
  • Sheep: Cake's "Sheep Go To Heaven"[13]
  • Sheeple: J. S.Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze"[14]

Primate[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Primates
  • The Dickies' "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)"[15]
  • Viagra Boys' "Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis"[16]
  • The Monkees' "{Theme From} The Monkees"[17]
  • Louis Prima & Phil Harris' "I Wan'na Be Like You" ("The Monkey Song") from Disney's The Jungle Book [18]
  • Australopithecus: The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"[19]

Humans, miscellaneous[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Human
Jack Chick[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Jack Chick
  • Alice Donut's "Lisa's Father"[71]
  • Dead Kennedys' "I Kill Children" (extracted lyrics from Chick's comic "Why No Revival")[72]
Adolf Hitler[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Adolf Hitler
  • Mel Brooks' "Springtime for Hitler", from the 1968 version of The Producers[73]
  • Spike Jones and His City Slickers' "Der Fuehrer's Face"[74]
Boris Johnson[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Boris Johnson
Jim Jones[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Jim Jones
  • The Brian Jonestown Massacre's "The Ballad of Jim Jones"[78]
  • Jim Jones' "I will Fight!" — a sermon by Jones at the peak of his cult[79]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  • Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain" (instrumental)[80]
  • Allen Ginsberg sings William Blake's "The Sick Rose"[81] ("The invisible worm…")
Nelson Mandela[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Nelson Mandela
  • Simple Minds' "Mandela Day"[82]
  • The Specials' "Nelson Mandela"[83]
Elon Musk[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Elon Musk
  • Frank Zappa's "Yo' Mama"[84] for his mother's peculiarly public preoccupation with touting him
  • Dawn of Correction's "Shadows"[85] The drummer, Richard Tornetta, a minor Tesla stockholder, caused Musk to lose a $56 billion compensation package.[86]
  • Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's co-heading of DOGE: Roky Erickson's "Two Headed Dog"[87] — "I've been working in the Kremlin With a two-headed dog"
Ronald Reagan[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Ronald Reagan
  • Jerry Harrison & Bootsy Collins' "Bonzo Goes To Washington: [We Start Bombing in] 5 Minutes"[88]
  • W.A.S.P.'s "The Neutron Bomber"[89]
  • Weirdo's "We Got the Neutron Bomb"[90]
Margaret Thatcher[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Margaret Thatcher
Donald Trump[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Donald Trump

Astrology[edit]

See the main article on this topic: astrology
  • They Might Be Giants' "See the Constellation"[98]

Astronomy[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Astronomy

The Cosmos[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Universe

Solar System[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Solar System

Moon[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Moon

Business[edit]

  • Chiquita: Monica Lewis sings the "Chiquita Banana Song" in the original 1947 commercial shown in movie theaters[115]
  • Nestlé: "The Milkybar Kid" jingle[116]
  • Walmart: "People of Walmart", the original[117]

Climate change[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Climate change

Conspiracy theories[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Conspiracy theory

List of predictions of the end of the world[edit]

See the main article on this topic: List of predictions of the end of the world
  • Mose Allison's "Ever Since The World Ended"[129]
  • R.E.M.'s "It’s the End of the World as We Know It"[130]
  • Skeeter Davis' "The End of the World" [131]
  • Zager & Evans' "In the Year 2525" [132]

Denialism[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Denialism

Drugs[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Drug
  • Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life"[139]
  • The Cramps' "New Kind of Kick"[140]
  • The Fall's "Mr Pharmacist"[141]
  • The Fall's "Totally Wired"[142]
  • Spacemen 3's "Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To…"[143]
  • The Fugs' "I Couldn't Get High"[144] — the song was condemned by the then-future president of the Mormons[145]
  • The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work"[146]
  • Purported legal highs: The Dead Milkmen's "Smokin' Banana Peels"[147]

Alcohol[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Alcohol
  • George Thorogood & The Destroyers' "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"[148]
  • Barenaked Ladies' "Alcohol" [149]
  • Refreshments' "Mekong" [150]
  • Buddy Guy's "Whiskey, Beer and Wine"[151]
  • Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra sing "Mister Booze"[152]
  • Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" [153] ("He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink/He drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink")
  • Hollywood Vampires' "My Dead Drunk Friends" [154]
  • Beartooth's "I Have a Problem"[155]
  • Prohibition: Prince Buster's "Al Capone"[156]

Alcoholics Anonymous[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Dream Theater's "Twelve-step Suite"[157]
  • Dilly Dally's "Sober Motel"[158]

Beer[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Beer
  • Frank Yankovic & Friends' "In Heaven There Is No Beer"[159]
  • Reel Big Fish's "Beer" [160]

Cannabis[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Cannabis
  • Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf"[161]
  • Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg's "The Next Episode"[162]
  • Afroman's "Because I Got High"[163]
  • Sonic Youth & Cyprus Hill's "I Love You Mary Jane"[164]
  • The Beatles' "Got To Get You Into My Life"[165]

Cocaine[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Cocaine
  • Eric Clapton's "Cocaine"[166]
    • The original J. J. Cale version[167] — if you don't want to give advertising money to that asshole Clapton
  • The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ten Crack Commandments"[168]

Heroin[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Heroin
  • Forgotten Rebels' "Surfin' On Heroin"[169]
  • The Stranglers' "Golden Brown"[170]
  • John Prine's "Sam Stone"[171]
  • W.A.S.P.'s "Thunderhead"[172]
  • Black Sabbath's "Hand of Doom"[173]

Ketamine[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Near-death experience

LSD[edit]

See the main article on this topic: LSD

Tobacco smoking[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Tobacco smoking
  • Tex Ritter's "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)"[177]
  • Princess Chelsea's "The Cigarette Duet"[178]

War on Drugs[edit]

See the main article on this topic: War on Drugs
  • System Of A Down's "Prison Song"[179]
  • The Black Crowes' "Remedy"[180]

Economics[edit]

See the main article on this topic: economics

Corporation[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Corporation
  • Desaparacidos "Golden Parachutes" [189]
  • The Evens' "No Money" [190]
  • Pink Lincolns' "I've Got My Tie On" [191]

Gambling[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Gambling
  • Dead Kennedys' "Viva Las Vegas"[192]
  • Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler"[193]

Money[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Money

United States dollar[edit]

See the main article on this topic: United States dollar
  • U.S. Girls "4 American Dollars"[198]
  • Aloe Blacc's "I Need a Dollar"[199]
  • Lord Invader's "Rum and Coca-Cola"[200] ("Both mother and daughter working for the Yankee dollar")

Folklore, history and pseudohistory[edit]

See the main articles on this topic: FolkloreHistory, and Pseudohistory

27 Club[edit]

See the main article on this topic: 27 Club
  • The Jim Carroll Band's "People Who Died"[214]
  • The Who's "My Generation"[215] — Roger Daltry (1944–) will always be a failure.

American tall tales[edit]

See the main article on this topic: American tall tales
  • Dennis Day sings "The Lord is Good to Me" from the 1948 Disney cartoon Johnny Appleseed [216]
  • Fess Parker's "The Ballad of Daniel Boone" [217]
  • George Bruns & Tom Adair's "Hey, Paul" from the 1958 Disney cartoon Paul Bunyan [218]
  • Doris Day sings "Secret Love" from the 1953 film Calamity Jane [219]
  • Fess Parker's "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" [220]
  • Harry Belafonte sings "John Henry" [221]
  • Book of Knots' "John Henry" [222]
  • Johnny Cash sings "The Ballad of Casey Jones" [223]
  • Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee" [224]
  • Roy Rogers' "Pecos Bill" [225]
  • Bing Crosby sings "The Headless Horseman" from the 1949 Disney cartoon The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad [226]
  • Astronautalis' "Secrets of the Undersea Bell" [227]

Classical mythology[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Classical mythology
  • Cream's "Tales of Brave Ulysses"[228]
  • Iron Maiden's "Flight of Icarus"[229]
  • Jacques Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld"[230]
  • Led Zeppelin's "Achilles Last Stand"[231]
  • Symphony X's "The Odyssey"[232]
  • Vyacheslav Artyomov's "Way to Olympus"[233]

Halloween[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Halloween
  • Marilyn Manson's version of "This is Halloween"[234] from The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • The Shaggs' "It's Halloween"[235]
  • John Carpenter's theme for his 1978 movie Halloween[236]
  • Helloween's "Halloween"[237]

King Arthur[edit]

See the main article on this topic: King Arthur

Luck[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Luck
  • Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number"[240]
  • Daft Punk's "Get Lucky"[241]
  • Joan Baez's "There but for Fortune" [242]

Internet[edit]

See the main article on this topic: internet
  • Wolf Parade's 'Lazarus Online' [243]
  • Bo Burnham's "Welcome to the Internet"[244]
  • Furries: The Banana Splits' theme song (Tra-La-La song)[245]
  • Porn: "The Internet Is For Porn" from the Broadway musical Avenue Q[246]
  • Spam: Monty Python's "Spam", the original[247]
  • Scam: Hop Alongs' "Tibetan Pop Stars" [248] the studio version [249] is cleaner and easier to hear the lyrics, but I think a live version is in the spirit.

Law and pseudolaw[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Pseudolaw

Capital punishment[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Capital punishment
  • L7's "Gas Chamber" (performing as the band 'Camel Toe') from John Waters' film Serial Mom[261]
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seed's "The Mercy Seat"[262]

Crime[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Crime

Native American genocide[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Native American genocide
  • The Dave Matthews Band's "Don't Drink The Water"[277]
  • Neil Young and Crazy Horse's "Cortez the Killer"[278]

Police brutality[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Police brutality
  • Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name"[279]
  • Run The Jewels' "Walking in the Snow"[280]
  • Madison McFerrin's "That Motherfucker's Guilty" (recorded at the time of the conviction of the police officer who murdered George Floyd)[281]
  • The Dicks' "The Dicks Hate the Police"[282] — warning: the lyrics contain the n-word
  • N.W.A's "Fuck Tha Police"[283]

Prison[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Prison
  • Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues"[284]
  • Nina Simone's "Work Song"[285]
  • Toots and the Maytals' "54-46 That's My Number"[286]

Language[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Language
  • Kikagagu Moyo's "Kodama" [287] - probably a good idea to translate the lyrics if you don't understand them.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Word Crimes"[288]
  • [Crazification factor]: Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train"[289]
  • Esperanto: "La Espero", the anthem of the Esperanto movement, samba style![290]
  • Hebrew: Harry Belafonte sings "Hava Nagila"[291]
  • Latin: "Gaudeamus igitur"[292]
  • No Cussing Club: Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream"[293]

Good old days[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Good old days
  • Dr. Dog's "The Old Days" [294]
  • Wolf Parade's "Modern World" [295]

Magic and the paranormal[edit]

See the main articles on this topic: Magic and Paranormal

Superstition[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Superstition
  • Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"[303]
  • Howlin' Wolf's "I Ain't Superstitious"[304]

Vampire[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Vampire
  • Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"[305]
  • Bill Buchanan's "Beware"[306]
  • Toto Coelo's "Dracula's Tango (Sucker For Your Love)" [307]
  • Marilyn Manson's "If I Was Your Vampire"[308]
  • Annie Lennox's "Love Song for a Vampire"[309]
  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "The Power of Love"[310] ("I'll protect you from the Hooded Claw/Keep the vampires from your door")
  • Don Hinson & the Rigamortician's "Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood"[311] (covered by 45 Grave)
  • Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" [312][note 8]
  • Olivia Rodrigo's "Vampire"[313]
  • Godsmack's "Vampires"[314]
  • My Chemical Romance's "Vampires Will Never Hurt You"[315]
  • Man Man's "Van Helsing Boombox" [316]

Witchcraft[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Witchcraft
  • Screamin Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You"[317]
  • Frank Sinatra's "Witchcraft"[318]

Media[edit]

Blazing Saddles[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Blazing Saddles
  • "The Ballad of Rock Ridge"[346]

The originals vs. the Blazing Saddles versions:

  • Ella Fitzgerald performs Cole Porter's "I Get a Kick Out of You"[347]
    • The Blazing Saddles version[348]
  • The original Count Basie version of "April in Paris"[349]
    • The Blazing Saddles version[350]
  • Marlene Dietrich singing "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" from Der Blaue Engel[351]
    • Madeleine Kahn's "I'm So Tired",[352] the parody of Dietrich's song

Censorship[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Censorship

A Clockwork Orange[edit]

See the main article on this topic: A Clockwork Orange
  • Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture", as heard in the film's original trailer [357] (also available right here)
  • "A Clockwork Orange Soundtrack"[358]

Cybernetic revolt (also known as the "Terminator argument")[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Cybernetic revolt
  • Emerson Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9"[359]

Dr. Strangelove[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Dr. Strangelove
  • Peter Sellers (as Dr. Strangelove) performs The Beatles' "She Loves You"[360]
  • The Offspring's "Slim Pickens Does The Right Thing And Rides The Bomb To Hell"[361]

Frankenstein[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Frankenstein
  • Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" [362]
  • Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction's "Feed my Frankenstein"[363]
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Over at the Frankenstein Place" [364]
  • The Diamonds' "Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula" [365]
  • Helloween's "Dr. Stein" [366]
  • Sam Cooke's "Another Saturday Night" [367] ("Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance/To a cat named Frankenstein")

Music[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Music

Rock music[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Rock music

"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Tomorrow Belongs to Me
  • "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[385] from the original 1966 Broadway cast recording of Cabaret
  • "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[386] from the soundtrack album of the 1972 film Cabaret
  • "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[387] and its reprise[388] from the 1994 Channel 4 UK TV version of Cabaret based on the 1993 West End production
  • "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[389] and its reprise[390] from the 2021 West End cast recording of Cabaret
  • "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" [391] from the soundtrack album of the TV series The Man in the High Castle

Please don't add any of the many recordings by Neo-Nazi dickhead bands of this song written for a 1966 American musical by two Jews, at least one of whom was gay.

Science fiction[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Science fiction
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Science Fiction/Double Feature"[392]
  • Built to Spill's "Randy Described Eternity"[393]
  • Ayn Rand: Rush's "2112"[394] (loosely based on her science fiction novella Anthem)
  • Star Trek: Spizz Energi's "Where's Captain Kirk?"[395]
  • The X-Files: Catatonia's "Mulder and Scully" [396]

Philosophy and logic[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Philosophy

Death[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Death
  • Rev. Gary Davis' "Death Don't Have No Mercy"[416]
  • The Fugs' "Carpe Diem"[417]
  • Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper"[418]
  • Led Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying"[419]
  • Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette"[420]
  • They Might Be Giants' "Dead" [421]
  • Blanche's "Someday..." [422]
  • Jay Reatard's "It's So Easy" [423]
  • Barenaked Ladies' "Am I the Only One" [424]

Epistemology[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Epistemology
  • Meat Wave's "Cosmic Zoo" [425]


Human rights[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Human rights
  • The Clash's "Know Your Rights"[426]
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers' "Get Up, Stand Up"[427]
  • The Book of Knots' "View from the Watertower"[428]

Politics[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Politics

Alt-right[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Alt-right
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene ("Jewish space lasers"): "Jews in Space" from Mel Brooks' film History of the World: Part I[450]
  • Neoreactionary movement: The Mutants' "New Dark Ages"[451]
  • Proud Boys: Adam Jacobs singing "Proud of Your Boy" from the film Aladdin[452] — a rather syrupy ode to "Mom", which was required listening before every PB meeting during the Gavin McInnes era. It was probably used to weed-out critical thinkers just like intentionally poorly-written spam email but was also an expression of McInnes' passive aggression against his wife.

Incel[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Incel
  • The Mr. T Experience's "Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend"[453] "The odds are pretty good. But the goods are pretty odd"
  • Frank Zappa's "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?"[454]

Ameriphobia[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Ameriphobia
  • L7's "American Society"[455]
  • Rammstein's "Amerika" [456]
  • David Bowie's (with Nine Inch Nails) "I'm Afraid of Americans" [457]
  • Mass shooting: Desaparacidos' "Von Mauer Massacre" [458]

Joe Arpaio ICE and who didn't see this coming?[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Joe Arpaio
See the main article on this topic: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Desaparacidos "Marikkkopa" [459]

CIA[edit]

See the main article on this topic: CIA
  • Alice Cooper's "Halo of Flies"[460]
  • The Fugs' "CIA Man"[461]

Communism[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Communism

Dictatorship[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Dictatorship
  • The Bobs' "Dictator in a Polo Shirt"[465]
  • Judas Priest's "Tyrant"[466]
  • Groucho Marx's "These Are the Laws of My Administration" from the film Duck Soup[467]

European Union[edit]

See the main article on this topic: European Union
  • Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"[468]

Freedom[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Freedom
  • Richie Havens' "Freedom"[469]
  • Mavis Staples' "Turn Me Around"[470]

Futurism[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Futurism

Nations[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Nation

Police state[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Police state
  • Dead Kennedy's "Police Truck"[515]
  • Pharcyde's "Officer" [516]

Ruling class[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Ruling class
  • Leadbelly's "The Bourgeois Blues"[517]
  • Motörhead's "Eat The Rich" (from the film of the same title)[518]

Whistleblower[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Whistleblower
See the main article on this topic: Manuel Noriega
  • Man Man's 'Black Mission Goggles' [519] It's not just because of the whistles at the beginning but that's a huge bonus [note 10]

Pseudoscience[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Pseudoscience

Alternative medicine[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Alternative medicine

Cryonics[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Cryonics
  • L7's "Pretend We're Dead"[528]
  • Failure's "Solaris" [529] on the horrifying time capsule of saying you weren't good enough before freezing

Cryptids[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Cryptid
  • The Cramps' "Human Fly"[530]
  • The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck"[531]
  • Bunyip: "The Bunyip Song" from the 1977 Australian animated film Dot and the Kangaroo[532]
  • Dragon: Peter, Paul & Mary's "Puff, the Magic Dragon"[533]
  • Loch Ness Monster: "You'll Never Find a Nessie in the Zoo" [534] from the final episode of the UK animated TV series The Family Ness
  • Mermaid: David Mallet, Thomas Arne & Lord Bolingbroke's "Married to a Mermaid"[536]
  • Unicorn: The Irish Rovers' "The Unicorn"[537]

Lycanthropy[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Lycanthropy
  • Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London"[538]
  • Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark at the Moon"[539]
  • TV on the Radio's "Wolf Like Me"[540]
  • The Cramps' "I Was A Teenage Werewolf"[541]
  • Frank Zappa's "Zomby Woof"[542] — it's something like a werewolf[1]

Food woo[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Food woo

New Age[edit]

See the main article on this topic: New Age

Earth angels[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Earth angels
  • The Penguins' "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)"[553] (covered by The Crew-Cuts [554] and for the Back to the Future soundtrack [555])
  • Amyl and the Sniffers' "Guided by Angels"[556]

Ufology[edit]

See the main articles on this topic: Ufology and Extraterrestrial

Psychology[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Psychology

Humanistic psychology[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Humanistic psychology
  • Sudan Archives' " Selfish Soul" [577]
  • Parquet Courts "Free Bird II" [578]

Stockholm syndrome[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Stockholm syndrome
  • Muse's "Stockholm Syndrome" [579]
  • Yo La Tengo's "Stockholm Syndrome" [580]
  • John Prine's "I Hate It When That Happens to Me" [581]

Racism, racialism, and bigotry[edit]

See the main articles on this topic: Racism and Racialism

Slavery[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Slavery
  • Burning Spear's "Slavery Days"[595]
  • Rainbow's "Stargazer"[596]
  • Rage Against the Machine's "Down Rodeo"[597]

Religion[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Religion

Angel[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Angel
  • Chip Taylor's "Angel of the Morning"[626], as performed by Evie Sands,[627], Merilee Rush, [628], P. P. Arnold,[629] Juice Newton[630] and The Pretenders [631]

Atheism[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Atheism
  • Modest Mouse's "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine" [633]

Book of Genesis[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Book of Genesis
  • Joseph Haydn's "The Creation"[634]
  • The "Genesis Suite", conceived by Nathaniel Shilkret, which includes collaborations from some of the greatest composers of the 20th century, such as Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.[635]
  • Garden of Eden Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"[636]

Christianity[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Christianity

Armageddon[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Armageddon
  • Venom's "At War with Satan"[664]
  • The Dickies' version of "Eve Of Destruction"[665]
  • Trivium's "Wake (The End Is Nigh)"[666]

Jesus[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Jesus
  • King Missile's "Jesus Was Way Cool"[667]
  • Bobby Bare's "Dropkick Me Jesus"[668]
  • Johann Sebastian Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" [669] and its groovy derivative Apollo 100's "Joy" [670]
  • Jesus Christ Superstar: "Superstar"[671] from Jesus Christ Superstar

War on Christmas and Christmas[edit]

See the main articles on this topic: War on Christmas and Christmas
Santa Claus[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Santa Claus
  • Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby"[678]
  • The Kinks' "Father Christmas"[679]
  • Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas"[680]
  • The Damned's "There Ain't No Sanity Clause"[681]

Heaven[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Heaven

Hell[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Hell
  • Chris Rea's "The Road to Hell"[683]
  • AC/DC's "Highway to Hell"[684]
  • Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell"[685]
  • Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Hell"[686]

Idolatry[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Idolatry
  • Teenage Cool Kids' 'Beyond the Grasp of Guilt' [687]
  • The Goldcoast Singers' "Plastic Jesus"[688]
  • The National's "Mr. November" [689]

Satan[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Satan
  • The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil"[690]
  • The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"[691]
    And the long awaited sequel by Mark O'Connor featuring Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels, Travis Tritt, and Marty Stuart: "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia"[692]
  • King Dude's "Lucifer's the Light of the World"[693]
  • Elvis Presley's "(You're the) Devil in Disguise" [694]
  • Cliff Richard's "Devil Woman" [695]
  • Edward Hamilton's "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile!"[696] — with the original lyrics, "And smile, smile, smile. While you've a lucifer to light your fag"
  • Anton LaVey: Anton LaVey returns to his carnival roots with "Satan Takes a Holiday"[697]

Satanic panic[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Satanic Panic
  • Cake's "Pentagram"[698]
  • Lil Nas X’s "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)",[699] which caused a 21st century panic[700]

Science, technology, environment, and math[edit]

See the main articles on this topic: ScienceTechnology, and Environment

Evolution[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Evolution

Medicine[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Medicine

NASA[edit]

See the main article on this topic: NASA

Physics[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Physics

Rainbow[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Rainbow
  • Judy Garland sings "Over the Rainbow"[740]
  • The Dells' "I Can Sing a Rainbow/Love is Blue"[741]
  • The Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow"[742]
  • Kermit the Frog's "Rainbow Connection"[743][note 13]
  • Telltale's "Rainbow"[744][note 14]
See the main article on this topic: Argument from beauty
  • Akron/Family's "There's So Many Colors" [745] Lyrics eventually I know it's a long one "sunrise, sunset, sun never set and rise to reach." As in a sunrise or sunset is beautiful but not intentional, not some Godly gift, just something very pretty cool we get to see sometimes. Same as a rainbow.

Radio[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Radio
  • 76% Uncertain's "I Hate the Radio"[746]
  • Stiff Little Fingers' "You Can't Say Crap On The Radio"[747]
  • Queen's "Radio Ga Ga"[748]
  • Joy Division's Transmission[749]

Transportation[edit]

Rail transportation[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Rail transportation
  • Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' "Orange Blossom Special"[754]
  • Justin Towns Earle's "Workin' for the MTA" [755]
  • Keith & Tex's "Stop That Train"[756] — the rocksteady song that launched a thousand reggae songs

Y2K[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Y2K

Sex and gender[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Sex

BDSM[edit]

See the main article on this topic: BDSM
  • The Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs"[780]
  • X-Ray Spex's "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!"[781] — banned by Auntie Beeb

LGBT[edit]

See the main article on this topic: LGBT

Cross-dressing[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Cross-dressing

Homosexuality[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Homosexuality
  • Gloria Gaynor sings "I Am What I Am"[788] from La Cage aux Folles
  • Sister Sledge's "We Are Family"[789] — known as a gay anthem
  • Electric Six's "Gay Bar"[790]
  • John Inman's "Are You Being Served, Sir?"[791]
  • Gay sex: Pete Shelley's "Homosapien"[792]
  • Lesbianism: Jill Sobule's "I Kissed a Girl"[793]

Same-sex marriage[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Same-sex marriage
  • The Tanks 'Kirby Loves Dudes' [794]

Transgender[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Transgender

Masturbation[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Masturbation
  • The Who's "Pictures of Lily"[800]
  • Divinyls' "I Touch Myself"[801]
  • Green Day's "All by Myself" [802]
  • Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop"[803] (a PMRC "Filthy Fifteen" hit!)

Men Going Their Own Way[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Men Going Their Own Way
  • Deep Purple's "Rat Bat Blue"[804]
  • Nancy Sinatra "These Boots" [805] This was supposed to be big man Lee Hazelwood's song, but woke bullhonkey said it would be better if a woman sang it
  • Utah Phillips' "Rock Salt and Nails" covered by Tyler Childers [806]. Can't find the original on youtube, probably because it's a song that contains ideations of explicit violence towards all women based on a bad relationship with one, and if it got taken wrong by the wrong people, I'd want to keep my name off of it too.

Social justice[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Social justice

Vegetarianism[edit]

See the main article on this topic: vegetarianism
  • Citi Zeni's "Eat Your Salad" [808]
  • NOFX's 'Clams have feelings' [809]
  • Priests' Appropriate [810]

War[edit]

See the main article on this topic: War

American Civil War[edit]

See the main article on this topic: American Civil War
  • "Marchin' Through Georgia"[824] — a marching song commemorating Sherman's March on Atlanta
  • Vilkas Music's "Union Dixie - Eurobeat Remix"[825]
  • Ennio Morricone's "The Story of a Soldier" [826] from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Chickenhawk[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Chickenhawk
  • Monty Python's "The Tale of Sir Robin"[827] from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Roger Waters' "The Bravery of Being Out of Range"[828]

Gunboat diplomacy[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Gunboat diplomacy
  • Tom Lehrer's "Send the Marines"[829]
  • Phil Ochs' "Cops of the World"[830] and "Santo Domingo"[831]
  • Neil Young's "Powderfinger" [832]

Nuclear war[edit]

  • Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral"[833]
  • The Weirdos' "We Got The Neutron Bomb"[834]
  • Crack The Sky's "All Fly Away"[835]

The Troubles[edit]

See the main article on this topic: The Troubles
  • Stiff Little Fingers' "Alternative Ulster"[836]
  • Stiff Little Fingers' "Suspect Device"[837]

Vietnam War[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Vietnam War
  • Country Joe & the Fish's "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag"[838]
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son"[839]
  • The Guess Who's "American Woman"[840]
  • King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man"[841]
  • Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA"[842]

World War III[edit]

See the main article on this topic: World War III
  • Tom Lehrer's "We Will All Go Together When We Go"[843]
  • Tom Lehrer's "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)"[844]
  • Randy Newman's "Political Science (Let's Drop the Big One Now)"[845]
  • Vera Lynn's admittedly-mawkish "We'll Meet Again", with the visuals from the ending of Dr. Strangelove turning it on its head[846]

Encore: Funspace, Helpspace, and oddments[edit]

Boredom[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Help:Bored
  • The Boredoms' "B for Boredom"[880]
  • The Buzzcocks' "Boredom"[881]
  • Pavement* Pavement beef with REM "Unseen power of the Picket Fence" [882]
  • Tally Hall's 'Banana Man' [883]

Fart[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Fun:Fart
  • Captain Underpants' "Fart Band"[884]
  • Spinal Tap's "Break Like the Wind"[885]

Shit[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Fun:Shit
  • Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream"[886]
  • Bad Livers' "Shit Creek"[887]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. D:Ream's "Things Can Only Get Better" was used by Tony Blair's Labour Party as its campaign song for the 1997 UK general election
  2. According to this 2021 BBC news story, The Three Degrees' "Givin' Up, Givin' In" was the then Prince Charles' favorite song.
  3. "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards" also references Noël Coward, Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci and Andrés Segovia, but we don't have articles on them.
  4. This song was most likely written about George W. Bush, but it's just as applicable to Donald Trump's personality cult.
  5. The Titanic sinking has drawn a lot of conspiracy theories.
  6. It is about hitting a Ketamine high that is so intense you feel powerless and are tripping so hard you think you're dead, called a K-hole. It can happen with a lot of drugs in their own ways, and it's not exactly proven that modern medical anesthesia does much more than just give you a heavy enough dose that both sedates/immobilizes you and makes you unable to form memories, which is fine for horses and dogs but not a great after school activity. It's like being blackout drunk except you can't stand stand up even if you tried, which, okay, is maybe a positive. That's why I only tried Ketamine once, Elon. Micro dosing is pussy shit and you will look like a drunk asshole fighting for his life to just stand up straight and keep his eyes open even on low doses. Go for the K hole in a controlled safe environment if you're truly curious, but do it under the care of a licensed veterinarian at the very least, for legal reasons.
  7. There's also some ample references to cocaine usage (natch), but that doesn't really show up until the last quarter of the song.
  8. Word of God (in the TV Tropes sense) on this song is that it's a love song for vampires.
  9. Brown Sauce was a short-lived 1980s pop band made up of Noel Edmonds and his fellow Multi-Coloured Swap Shop presenters, Keith Chegwin and Maggie Philbin.
  10. I have seen these guys live three times, and can confirm they had tons of this exact energy the first time I saw them. They lost a lot of the chaotic steam by the third time, which, who could blame them, touring endless and sweating through their war paint. But I did see them at peak, climbing all over each other to bang on a pile of household objects and toys and somehow keep it cohesive, just the definition of performing art.
  11. You might need to be familiar with the anime in question to fully get this one, but the comments in an older upload do helpfully explain it.
  12. One of the many Christmas songs written or co-written by Jews.
  13. Funnily enough, in spite of what Kermit says, there aren't that many songs about rainbows.
  14. The theme to the excellent British children's TV series Rainbow
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