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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
- Book of Knots' "View from the Watertower" [1]
- Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon's "Will the Fetus be Aborted"[2]
- Great Beethoven fallacy: Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven"[3]
- Pro-life: Monty Python's "Every Sperm is Sacred" [4]
Miscarriage[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Spontaneous abortion in humans
- Sinead O'Connors 'Three Babies'[5]
Animals[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Animal
- Bird: The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird"[6]
- Chordata: Sam Hinton's "It's a Long Way From Amphioxus"[7]
- Goat: Pearl Jam's "Evil Little Goat"[8]
- Mammal: They Might Be Giants' "Mammal" [9]
- Platypus: Randy Crenshaw's "Perry The Platypus" from Phineas & Ferb[10]
- Reptile: Al Wilson's "The Snake"[11]
- Sheep: Cake's "Sheep Go To Heaven"[12]
- Sheeple: J. S.Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze"[13]
Primate[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Primates
- The Dickies' "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)"[14]
- Viagra Boys' "Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis"[15]
- The Monkees' "{Theme From} The Monkees"[16]
- Louis Prima & Phil Harris' "I Wan'na Be Like You" ("The Monkey Song") from Disney's The Jungle Book [17]
- Australopithecus: The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"[18]
Humans, miscellaneous[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Human
- Nudity: Ray Stevens' "The Streak"[19]
- African American: James Brown's "Say it Loud — I'm Black and Proud"[20]
- Jake Angeli: Yngwie Malmsteen's "I am a Viking"[21]
- Glenn Beck: King Missile's "Sensitive Artist"[22]
- David Bellamy: David Bellamy sings "Brontosaurus, Will You Wait for Me?"[23]
- Tony Blair: D:Ream's "Things Can Only Get Better"[24][note 1]
- Napoleon Bonaparte: Abba's "Waterloo"[25]
- Julius Caesar: Robert Schumann's overture "Julius Caesar"[26]
- Charlemagne: Christopher Lee's symphonic metal albums Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross[27] and Charlemagne: The Omens of Death[28]
- Charles III: The Three Degrees' "Givin' Up, Givin' In"[29][note 2]
- Children: Tom Waits' "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"[30] (covered by The Ramones)
- Winston Churchill: The Kinks' "Mr. Churchill Says"[31]
- Ray Comfort and his banana argument: The Dickies version of The Banana Splits' theme song[32]
- Michael Coombs: Bob Marley & The Wailers' "Crazy Baldhead"[33]
- Princess Diana: Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997"[34]
- Ian Stuart Donaldson: MDC's "Nazis Shouldn't Drive"[35]
- Albert Einstein: Ian Dury & the Blockheads "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards"[36][note 3]
- Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I Like Ike" 1952 campaign jingle[37] (also available right here)
- Elizabeth II: Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen"[38]
- Guy Fawkes: "Guy Fawkes, Fireworks and Gunpowder Plot Song" from the BBC's Horrible Histories [39]
- Nick Fuentes: Dead Kennedys' "Kill the Poor"[40]
- Newt Gingrich: "You're a Mean One, Newt Gingrich"[41]
- Rudy Giuliani: The Specials' "A Message To You Rudy"[42]
- Che Guevara: Carlos Puebla's "Hasta siempre, Comandante" [43] (More commercial and sexier version by Nathalie Cardone)
- Alexander Hamilton: "Alexander Hamilton"[44] from the musical Hamilton
- Kamala Harris: Randy Rainbow's "Kamala"[45]
- Stephen Hawking: MC Hawking's "What We Need More of is Science" [46]
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Allen Ginsberg sings William Blake's "The Sick Rose"[47] ("The invisible worm…")
- Henry Kissinger: Monty Python's "Henry Kissinger" [48]
- Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy: Dion's "Abraham, Martin and John" [49] (covered by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Moms Mabley, Marvin Gaye and Beverley Knight)
- Graham Linehan: The Divine Comedy's "Songs Of Love" [50], theme tune to Father Ted, the Channel 4 sitcom that Linehan wrote
- Charles Manson: Sonic Youth's "Death Valley '69"[51]
- Eugene M. McCarthy: Wild Man Fischer's "Monkeys vs Donkeys"[52]
- Patrick Moore: Patrick Moore plays his own composition "Penguin Parade" on the xylophone [53]
- Kristi Noem: Bill Frenzer/Ogden Edsl's "Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun"[54]
- Barack Obama: White Pegacorn's "Barack Your World"[55]
- Viktor Orbán: "Dés László - Rossz pénz (Üvegtigris Filmzene)"[56]
- Beto O'Rourke: playing in his band "Foss" on local TV[57]
- Mike Pence: Remix of Kamala Harris' "You Have a Fly on Your Head."[58]
- Pocahontas: "Colors of the Wind" from the 1995 Disney film[59]
- Pol Pot: Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia"[60]
- Grigori Rasputin: Boney M's "Rasputin"[61]
- Ben Shapiro: Cardi B's "WAP" with the words that Shapiro is unable to utter[62]
- Margaret Thatcher: Renaud's "Miss Maggie" (available in the original French and English version)
- Death of Margaret Thatcher: "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead"
from the film The Wizard of Oz[63]
- Death of Margaret Thatcher: "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead"
- Harry Truman: Chicago's "Harry Truman" [64]
- Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu: Disturbed's "Bad Man"[65]
- Donald Trump Jr.: Frank Zappa's (The Mothers of Invention) "The Idiot Bastard Son"[67]
- J. D. Vance stars as the villain in the 'family values' postmodern horror-comedy Too Many Cooks[68]
- Vikings: Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song"[69]
- Harold Wilson and Edward Heath: The Beatles' "Taxman"[70]
- Xi Jinping: "Heffalumps and Woozles"[71] from Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
Jack Chick[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Jack Chick
- Alice Donut's "Lisa's Father"[72]
- Dead Kennedys' "I Kill Children" (extracted lyrics from Chick's comic "Why No Revival")[73]
Adolf Hitler[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Adolf Hitler
- Mel Brooks' "Springtime for Hitler", from the 1968 version of The Producers[74]
- Spike Jones and His City Slickers' "Der Fuehrer's Face"[75]
Boris Johnson[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Boris Johnson
- The Kunts' "Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt"
[76]
- Boots Randolph's Yakety Sax,
[77] played outside Parliament, as requested by Hugh Grant at the time of Johnson's resignation[78]
Jim Jones[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Jim Jones
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre's "The Ballad of Jim Jones"[79]
- Jim Jones' "I will Fight!" — a sermon by Jones at the peak of his cult[80]
Nelson Mandela[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Nelson Mandela
Elon Musk[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Elon Musk
- Frank Zappa's "Yo' Mama"[83] for his mother's peculiarly public preoccupation with touting him
- Dawn of Correction's "Shadows"[84] The drummer, Richard Tornetta, a minor Tesla stockholder, caused Musk to lose a $56 billion compensation package.[85]
- Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's co-heading of DOGE:
Roky Erickson's "Two Headed Dog"[86] — "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"[87]
- W.A.S.P.'s "The Neutron Bomber"[88]
- Weirdo's "We Got the Neutron Bomb"[89]
Astrology[edit]
- They Might Be Giants' "See the Constellation"[90]
Astronomy[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Astronomy
- Nicolaus Copernicus: Henryk Górecki's "Copernican Symphony"[91]
The Cosmos[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Universe
- Charles Ives' incomplete "Universe Symphony"[92]
- Betelgeuse: Harry Belafonte's "Day O (Banana Boat Song)"[93], as featured in the 1988 film Beetlejuice[94]
- Milky Way: Stephen Hawking sings Monty Python's "Galaxy Song"[95]
Solar System[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Solar System
- Gustav Holst's suite "The Planets"[96]
- John Coltrane's Interstellar Space album[97]
- Earth: Duran Duran's "Planet Earth" [98]
- Mars: David Bowie's "Life on Mars?"[99]
- Pluto: Pluto's theme [100] and Pluto's other theme [101] from the Walt Disney cartoons
- The Sun: Smash Mouth's "Walkin' on the Sun"[102]
- Uranus: Klaatu's "Hanus of Uranus"[103]
- Venus: Lady Gaga's "Venus"[104]
Moon[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Moon
- Gil Scott Heron's "Whitey on the Moon"[105]
- Hollow Moon: Ella Fitzgerald's "It's Only A Paper Moon"[106]
Business[edit]
- Chiquita: Monica Lewis sings the "Chiquita Banana Song" in the original 1947 commercial shown in movie theaters[107]
- Nestlé: "The Milkybar Kid" jingle[108]
- Walmart: "People of Walmart", the original[109]
Climate change[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Climate change
- Tool's "Aenema"[110]
Conspiracy theories[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Conspiracy theory
- 9/11: Martin Noakes "9/11 Building 7"[111]
- Debt slavery#Actual debt slavery: Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons"[112]
- Freemason: The Simpsons' Stonecutters' Song "We Do"[113]
- Jake Angeli, the "QAnon shaman": The Incredible String Band's "Minotaur's Song"[114] ("I'm the original discriminating buffalo man. And I'll do what's wrong as long as I can!")
- Big Pharma: Exodus' "Chemi-Kill"[115]
- HAARP: Clues' "HAARP" [116]
- Persecution complex: Disturbed's "The Curse"[117]
- QAnon: Disturbed's "Deify"[118][note 4]
- RMS Titanic: Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"[119][note 5]
- Tinfoil hat: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Foil"[120]
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
Denialism[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Denialism
- Men With Day Jobs' "Denial Tango"[125]
- Armenian genocide denial: System of a Down's "P.L.U.C.K."[126] & "Holy Mountains"[127]
- Climate change denial: Midnight Oil's "Rising Seas"[128]
- Crank: Groucho Marx's "Whatever it is, I'm against it!" in the film Horse Feathers[129]
- Willful ignorance: The scene from Judgment at Nuremberg
where the war crimes prosecutor confronts Mrs. Bertholt with intercuts from the song "Du, du liegst mir im Herzen"
("You, You're in My Heart")[130]
Drugs[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Drug
- Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life"[131]
- The Cramps' "New Kind of Kick"[132]
- The Fall's "Mr Pharmacist"[133]
- The Fall's "Totally Wired"[134]
- Spacemen 3's "Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To…"[135]
- The Fugs' "I Couldn't Get High"[136] — the song was condemned by the then-future president of the Mormons[137]
- The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work"[138]
- Purported legal highs: The Dead Milkmen's "Smokin' Banana Peels"[139]
Alcohol[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Alcohol
- George Thorogood & The Destroyers' "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"[140]
- Barenaked Ladies' "Alcohol" [141]
- Refreshments' "Mekong" [142]
- Buddy Guy's "Whiskey, Beer and Wine"[143]
- Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra sing "Mister Booze"[144]
- Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" [145] ("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" [146]
- Beartooth's "I Have a Problem"[147]
- Prohibition: Prince Buster's "Al Capone"[148]
Alcoholics Anonymous[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Alcoholics Anonymous
Beer[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Beer
Cannabis[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Cannabis
Cocaine[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Cocaine
- Eric Clapton's "Cocaine"[158]
- The original J. J. Cale version[159] — if you don't want to give advertising money to that asshole Clapton
- The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ten Crack Commandments"[160]
Heroin[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Heroin
LSD[edit]
See the main article on this topic: LSD
- The Beatles' "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
from the film Yellow Submarine[166] — not actually about LSD according to John Lennon and Paul McCartney despite everyone thinking it was
- The Beatles' "A Day in the Life"
[167] — the more likely LSD-inspired song
Tobacco smoking[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Tobacco smoking
- Tex Ritter's "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)"[168]
- Princess Chelsea's "The Cigarette Duet"[169]
War on Drugs[edit]
See the main article on this topic: War on Drugs
Economics[edit]
- The Refreshments' "Buy American"[172]
- Corporation: Pink Lincolns' "I've Got My Tie On"[173]
- Economic inequality: Motörhead's "Eat The Rich", excerpted from the film of the same name[174]
- Gold: Dan Fogelberg's "The Power of Gold"[175]
- Great Depression: Bing Crosby's "Brother Can You Spare A Dime?"[176]
- Laissez-faire: Digital Underground's "Doowutchyalike"[177]
- Marketing: The Clash's "Koka Kola"[178][note 6]
- Money: John Lee Hooker's "Money"[179]
- Supply-side economics: John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses"[180]
- Trade union: Pete Seeger's "Solidarity Forever"[181]
- U.S. Girls "4 American Dollars" [182]
Gambling[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Gambling
Folklore, history and pseudohistory[edit]
- 27 Club: The Jim Carroll Band's "People Who Died"[185]
- The retort to Jim Carroll: Detention's "Dead Rock-N-Rollers"[186]
- Dwarf: "Heigh-Ho" from Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [187]
- Easter Bunny: Gene Autry's "Peter Cottontail" [188]
- Fairy tales: Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs' "Li'l Red Riding Hood"[189]
- Feral child: The Troggs' "Wild Thing"[190]
- Giant: PJ Harvey's "50 Ft Queenie"[191]
- Great man theory: The Stranglers' "No More Heroes"[192]
- Human–dinosaur coexistence: Was (Not Was)'s "Walk the Dinosaur"[193]
- Kent State: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Ohio"[194]
- Nationalism in history textbooks: Pete Seeger's "What Did You Learn In School Today?"[195]
- Pagan survivals: PJ Harvey's "Sheela-na-gig"[196]
- Shakespeare authorship: Lord Buckley's "Willie The Shake"[197]
- Stonehenge: Spinal Tap's "Stonehenge"[198]
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 [199]
- Fess Parker's "The Ballad of Daniel Boone" [200]
- George Bruns & Tom Adair's "Hey, Paul" from the 1958 Disney cartoon Paul Bunyan [201]
- Doris Day sings "Secret Love" from the 1953 film Calamity Jane [202]
- Fess Parker's "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" [203]
- Harry Belafonte sings "John Henry" [204]
- Book of Knots' "John Henry" [205]
- Johnny Cash sings "The Ballad of Casey Jones" [206]
- Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee" [207]
- Roy Rogers' "Pecos Bill" [208]
- Bing Crosby sings "The Headless Horseman" from the 1949 Disney cartoon The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad [209]
- Astronautalis' "Secrets of the Undersea Bell" [210]
Classical mythology[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Classical mythology
Halloween[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Halloween
- Marilyn Manson's version of "This is Halloween"[217] from The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Shaggs' "It's Halloween"[218]
- John Carpenter's theme for his 1978 movie Halloween[219]
- Helloween's "Halloween"[220]
King Arthur[edit]
See the main article on this topic: King Arthur
- Rick Wakeman's concept album The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur[221]
- "Knights of the Round Table"[222] from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Luck[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Luck
- Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number"[223]
- Daft Punk's "Get Lucky"[224]
- Joan Baez's "There but for Fortune" [225]
Internet[edit]
Law and pseudolaw[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Pseudolaw
- Civil disobedience: Malvina Reynolds' "It Isn't nice"[231]
- Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association: Bob Marley & The Wailers' "I Shot the Sheriff"[232]
- Copyright: John Oswald's "DAB" from the Plunderphonics EP, a masterpiece of audio piracy[233]
- Corporal punishment: The Smiths' "The Headmaster Ritual"[234]
- Genocide: Judas Priest's "Genocide"[235]
- Health and safety: Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance"[236]
- Hearsay: Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"[237]
- NAACP: "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (once promoted by the NAACP as a "Negro national anthem")[238]
- Vigilante: Woody Guthrie's "Vigilante Man"[239]
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[240]
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seed's "The Mercy Seat"[241]
Crime[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Crime
- Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law"[242]
- Dead Kennedys' "Stealing People's Mail"[243]
- The Clash's "Bankrobber" [244]
- Boney M's "Ma Baker" [245]
- Tom Waits' "16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six" [246]
- Extrajudicial punishment: Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"[247]
- Gang: Link Wray's "Rumble"[248] — caused a minor moral panic by being the only instrumental song banned from US radio for the title's perceived meaning as "gang fight"[249] (e.g. as in West Side Story
)
- ITT Tech: Fela Kuti's "Fela Kuti - I.T.T. (International thief thief)"[250] (different ITT, similar sentiment)
- Nazi human experimentation: Slayer's "Angel of Death"[251]
- Organ theft: John Prine's "Please Don't Bury Me"[252]
- Rape: Nirvana's "Rape Me"[253]
Native American genocide[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Native American genocide
- The Dave Matthews Band's "Don't Drink The Water"[254]
- Neil Young and Crazy Horse's "Cortez the Killer"[255]
Police brutality[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Police brutality
- Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name"[256]
- Run The Jewels' "Walking in the Snow"[257]
- Madison McFerrin's "That Motherfucker's Guilty" (recorded at the time of the conviction of the police officer who murdered George Floyd)[258]
- The Dicks' "The Dicks Hate the Police"[259] — warning: the lyrics contain the n-word
- N.W.A's "Fuck Tha Police"[260]
Prison[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Prison
- Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues"[261]
- Nina Simone's "Work Song"[262]
- Toots and the Maytals' "54-46 That's My Number"[263]
Language[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Language
- Kikagagu Moyo's "Kodama" [264] - probably a good idea to translate the lyrics if you don't understand them.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Word Crimes"[265]
- Esperanto: "La Espero", the anthem of the Esperanto movement, samba style![266]
- Hebrew: Harry Belafonte sings "Hava Nagila"[267]
- Latin: "Gaudeamus igitur"[268]
- No Cussing Club: Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream"[269]
Good old days[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Good old days
- Dr. Dog's "The Old Days" [270]
Magic and the paranormal[edit]
See the main articles on this topic: Magic and Paranormal
- Aleister Crowley: Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley"[271]
- Curse of Tutankhamun: Steve Martin & the Toot Uncommons' "King Tut"[272]
- Ghost: "When the Night Wind Howls"[273] from Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore
- Near-death experience: L7's "Pretend We're Dead"[274]
- Out-of-body experience: Frank Zappa and the Mothers' "Absolutely Free"[275]
- Paul the Octopus: The Beatles' "Octopus's Garden"[276]
- Zombies: The Zombies' "She's Not There"[277]
Superstition[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Superstition
Vampire[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Vampire
- Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"[280]
- Bill Buchanan's "Beware"[281]
- Toto Coelo's "Dracula's Tango (Sucker For Your Love)" [282]
- Marilyn Manson's "If I Was Your Vampire"[283]
- Annie Lennox's "Love Song for a Vampire"[284]
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "The Power of Love"[285] ("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"[286] (covered by 45 Grave)
- Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" [287][note 7]
- Olivia Rodrigo's "Vampire"[288]
- Godsmack's "Vampires"[289]
- My Chemical Romance's "Vampires Will Never Hurt You"[290]
Witchcraft[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Witchcraft
Media[edit]
- Animal Farm: Pink Floyd's concept album Animals[293]
- Barbie (film): Aqua's "Barbie Girl"[294]
- BBC: "Lilliburlero" [295], known as the theme to the BBC World Service
- Billy Jack: The Original Caste's "One Tin Soldier"[296]
- Lewis Carroll: Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"[297]
- Channel 4: The Airwaves Orchestra's "Fourscore" [298]
- Cops (TV show): Inner Circle's "Bad Boys" [299]
- Noel Edmonds: Brown Sauce's[note 8] "I Wanna be a Winner"[300]
- Fantasy: Leonard Nimoy's "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"[301]
- Fahrenheit 451: Hawkwind's "Fahrenheit 451" [302]
- Frozen: Idina Menzel's "Let It Go"[303]
- Green ink: Kermit the Frog's "Its Not Easy Being Green"[304]
- Jurassic Park: John Williams & Vienna Philharmonic's "Theme from Jurassic Park"[305]
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Theme tune to the TV series[306]
- Nineteen Eighty-Four: David Bowie's "1984"[307]
- PBS: Theme song from Sesame Street[308]
- The Simpsons: The Simpsons' "Do the Bartman"[309]
- South Park: Isaac Hayes as Chef's "Chocolate Salty Balls"[310]
- Shirley Temple: Shirley Temple sings "On the Good Ship Lollipop" [311]
- P. L. Travers: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" [312] from Mary Poppins
- Mark Twain: Theme tune from the 1979 TV series Huckleberry Finn and his Friends [313]
- The Twilight Zone: Rush's "The Twilight Zone" [314]
- The Walt Disney Company: Louis Armstrong does "When You Wish Upon a Star"[315]
- The Washington Post: John Philip Sousa's "The Washington Post March"[316]
- Oscar Wilde: Sir John Betjeman & Jim Parker's "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"[317]
Blazing Saddles[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Blazing Saddles
- "The Ballad of Rock Ridge"[318]
The originals vs. the Blazing Saddles versions:
- Ella Fitzgerald performs Cole Porter's "I Get a Kick Out of You"[319]
- The Blazing Saddles version[320]
- The original Count Basie version of "April in Paris"[321]
- The Blazing Saddles version[322]
- Marlene Dietrich singing "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" from Der Blaue Engel[323]
- Madeleine Kahn's "I'm So Tired",[324] the parody of Dietrich's song
Censorship[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Censorship
- Eric Idle's "Fuck the FCC"[325]
- Yeastie Girlz' "FCC"[326]
- Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake,
which Russians most associate with state censorship of TV (Brezhnev's death, Andropov's death, Chernenko's death, 1991 coup attempt, 2022 invasion of Ukraine)[327]
- Mary Whitehouse: Theme tune to The Mary Whitehouse Experience[328]
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 theatrical trailer[329]
- "A Clockwork Orange Soundtrack"[330]
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"[331]
Dr. Strangelove[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Dr. Strangelove
- Peter Sellers (as Dr. Strangelove) performs The Beatles' "She Loves You"[332]
- The Offspring's "Slim Pickens Does The Right Thing And Rides The Bomb To Hell"[333]
Frankenstein[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Frankenstein
- Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" [334]
- Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction's "Feed my Frankenstein"[335]
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Over at the Frankenstein Place" [336]
- The Diamonds' "Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula" [337]
- Helloween's "Dr. Stein" [338]
- Sam Cooke's "Another Saturday Night" [339] ("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
- AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock"[345]
- Blue Öyster Cult's "Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll"[346]
- Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music"[347]
- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'N Roll"[348]
- The Kids' "This Is Rock 'N Roll"[349]
- Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll"[350]
- Rainbow's "Long Live Rock 'n' Roll"[351]
- Christian rock: Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit In The Sky"[352] — Yes, it's Christian-themed. Yes, he's Jewish. No, he's not one those types of Jews.
- Punk: The Ramones' "Sheena is a Punk Rocker"[353]
- Straight edge: Minor Threat's "Straight Edge"[354]
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Tomorrow Belongs to Me
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[355] from the original 1966 Broadway cast recording of Cabaret
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[356] from the soundtrack album of the 1972 film Cabaret
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[357] and its reprise[358] from the 1994 Channel 4 UK TV version of Cabaret based on the 1993 West End production
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[359] and its reprise[360] from the 2021 West End cast recording of Cabaret
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" [361] 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"[362]
- Built to Spill's "Randy Described Eternity"[363]
- Failure's "Solaris" [364] or the horrifying time capsule that says you aren't good enough
- Ayn Rand: Rush's "2112"[365] (loosely based on her science fiction novella Anthem
)
- Star Trek: Spizz Energi's "Where's Captain Kirk?"[366]
- The X-Files: Catatonia's "Mulder and Scully" [367]
Philosophy and logic[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Philosophy
- Monty Python's "The Philosophers' Song"[368]
- Argumentum ad cellarium: "Weird Al" Yankovic's It's All About The Pentiums[369]
- Argument by gibberish: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica[370]
- Argumentum ad nauseam: Mose Allison's "Your Mind Is on Vacation"[371]
- Argumentum ad populum: Sophie Tucker's "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong"[372]
- "The French Mistake" from Blazing Saddles[373]
- Bumblebee argument: Rimsky Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee"[374]
- Circular reasoning: Wild Man Fischer's "Merry Go Round"[375]
- Credentialism: Lou Reed's album Metal Machine Music, which inspired his credentialism quote[376](listen at your own risk)
- Didit fallacy: Ella Fitzgerald's "Let's Do It"[377]
- Free will: Rush's "Free Will"[378]
- Hyperbole: Public Enemy's "Don't Believe The Hype"[379]
- Golden hammer: Pete Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer"[380]
- Infinite regress/Solipsism: Jimi Hendrix's "Room Full Of Mirrors"[381]
- Nihilism: The Fugs' "Nothing"[382]
- Pacifism: Pete Seeger's "Study War No More (Down by the Riverside)"[383]
- PIDOOMA: Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom"[384]
- Spider-Man fallacy: Theme tune for the 1967 animated TV series Spider-Man [385]
- Time travel: Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Time Warp"[386]
Death[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Death
- Rev. Gary Davis' "Death Don't Have No Mercy"[387]
- The Fugs' "Carpe Diem"[388]
- Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper"[389]
- Led Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying"[390]
- Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette"[391]
- They Might Be Giants' "Dead" [392]
- Blanche's "Someday..." [393]
- Jay Reatard's "It's So Easy" [394]
- Barenaked Ladies' "Am I the Only One" [395]
Human rights[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Human rights
- The Clash's "Know Your Rights"[396]
- Bob Marley & The Wailers' "Get Up, Stand Up"[397]
- The Book of Knots' "View from the Watertower"[398]
Physics[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Physics
- Faster-than-light travel: Yngwie Malmsteen's "Faster Than Speed Of Light" [399]
Politics[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Politics
- Anarchy: Sex Pistols' "Anarchy In The U.K."[400]
- Antifa/Neo-Nazism: Dead Kennedy's "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"[401]
- Apartheid: Spitting Image's "I've Never Met A Nice South African" [402]
- British monarchy: Wee German Lairdie - Scottish Jacobite song [403]
- Robert Byrd: Senator Robert Byrd's "Cumberland Gap"[404]
- Class War: The Dils' "Class War"[405]
- Conservatism: Ozzy Osbourne's "I Don't Wanna Change the World"[406]
- Conservapedia: The Stooges' "No Fun"[407]
- Democracy: Leonard Cohen's "Democracy" [408]
- Fascism: Sonic Youth's "Youth Against Fascism"[409]
- Gun nuts: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Trigger Happy"[410]
- Imperialism: Fela Kuti's "Colonial Mentality"[411]
- Incel: Frank Zappa's "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?"[412]
- Jingoism: John Prine's "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore"[413]
- Labour Party: "The Red Flag"[414]
- List of former heads of democratic countries charged with crimes: Jimmie Rodgers' "In The Jailhouse Now" (version from the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?)[415]
- Middle East: Spike Jones & His City Slickers do "The Sheik of Araby" [416]
- Personality cult: Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" [417]
- Skinheads: Camper Van Beethoven's "Take the Skinheads Bowling"[418]
- The South: Tom Lehrer's "Dixie"[419]
- Undocumented immigration: Phil Ochs "Bracero"[420]
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[421]
- Neoreactionary movement: The Mutants' "New Dark Ages"[422]
- Proud Boys: Adam Jacobs singing "Proud of Your Boy" from the film Aladdin[423] — 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.
Ameriphobia[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Ameriphobia
CIA[edit]
See the main article on this topic: CIA
Communism[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Communism
- Arturo Toscanini conducts "The Internationale"[430]
- The Eat's "Communist Radio"[431]
- Red-baiting: Bob Dylan's "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues"[432]
Dictatorship[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Dictatorship
- The Bobs' "Dictator in a Polo Shirt"[433]
- Judas Priest's "Tyrant"[434]
- Groucho Marx's "These Are the Laws of My Administration" from the film Duck Soup[435]
European Union[edit]
See the main article on this topic: European Union
- Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"[436]
Freedom[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Freedom
Futurism[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Futurism
- Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus[439]
- Sun Ra's "Space Is the Place"[440]
Nations[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Nation
- Funkadelic's "One Nation Under A Groove"[441]
- Australia: Men at Work's "Down Under"[442]
- Austria: Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" [443]
- Canada: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Canadian Idiot"[444]
- Cuba: Desi Arnaz & His Orchestra perform "Cuban Pete" [445]
- Denmark: Danny Kaye sings "Wonderful Copenhagen" [446]
- East Germany: IFA Wartburg's "The free German youth" [447]
- Ecuador: Sash! "Ecuador"[448]
- Egypt: Madness' "Night Boat to Cairo"[449]
- England: Linton Kwesi Johnson's "Inglan Is a Bitch"[450]
- Finland: Jean Sibelius' tone poem "Finlandia"[451]
- France: Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin's "Je t'aime... moi non plus"[452]
- Germany: The Beatles' "Komm gib mir deine Hand" [453]
- Kingdom of Hawaiʻi: Liliʻuokalani's "Aloha ʻOe"[454]
- Hungary: Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" [455]
- Iceland: Björk's "It's Oh So Quiet" [456]
- Ireland: Pete St. John's "The Fields of Athenry" [457]
- Israel: Esther & Abi Ofarim's "Cinderella Rockefella" [458]
- Israel & Palestine: The Dave Matthews Band's "The Last Stop"[459]
- Italy: Sabrina's "Boys (Summertime Love)" [460]
- Japan: Shonen Knife's version of "Top of the World" [461]
- The Netherlands: Doop's "Doop" [462]
- Northern Ireland: Loudon Wainwright III sings "Carrickfergus" [463]
- North Korea: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" — North Korean Edition[464]
- Norway: A-Ha's "Take on Me" [465]
- Palestine: Sharon Shannon's "An Phailistín" [466]
- The Philippines: Sexbomb Girls' "The Spaghetti Song" [467]
- Poland: Frédéric Chopin's "Heroic Polonaise (Op. 53 in A Flat Major)" [468]
- Scotland: "Scotland the Brave" [469]
- South Africa: Miriam Makeba's "Pata Pata" [470]
- Soviet Union: The Beatles' "Back in the USSR" [471]
- Spain: Baccara's "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie"[472]
- Sweden: Ace of Base's "All That She Wants" [473]
- Switzerland: Yello's "Oh Yeah" [474]
- Taiwan: S.H.E.'s version of "I've Never Been to Me" [475]
- Turkey: The Four Lads' "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" [476] (covered by They Might Be Giants)
- United States: Green Day's "American Idiot"[477] and Razorlight's "America"[478]
- Vatican City Tom Lehrer's "The Vatican Rag"[480]
- Wales: Paul Robeson sings "Land of My Fathers" [481]
Police state[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Police state
Ruling class[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Ruling class
- Leadbelly's "The Bourgeois Blues"[484]
- Motörhead's "Eat The Rich" (from the film of the same title)[485]
Pseudoscience[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Pseudoscience
- Cryonics: L7's "Pretend We're Dead"[486]
- Penis enlargement: Speed Queen's "I Wish I Had A Big Cock Just Like Iggy Pop"[487]
- Spontaneous human combustion: The Bobs' "Spontaneous Human Combustion"[488]
- Wind turbine syndrome: Rufus Harley's bagpipe version of "Windy"[489]
Alternative medicine[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Alternative medicine
- Dental woo: "Dentist!" from Little Shop of Horrors with Steve Martin[490]
- Enema: Buck Naked & The Bare Bottom Boys' "Enema Party"[491] NSFW
- Sound healing: Len Chandler & Pete Seeger's "Beans In My Ears"[492]
- Trepanation: Malvina Reynolds' "No Hole In My Head"[493]
- Urine therapy: Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow"[494]
Cryptids[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Cryptid
Lycanthropy[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Lycanthropy
Food woo[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Food woo
- Cholesterol denialism, Dietary cholesterol: Lard's "The Power of Lard"[504]
- Coffee: The Inkspots' "The Java Jive"[505]
- Fast food: Fast Food Rocker's "Fast Food Song"[506]
- Heart Attack Grill: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Eat It"[507]
Ufology[edit]
See the main articles on this topic: Ufology and Extraterrestrial
- Babylon Zoo's "Spaceman"[508]
- Blink 182's 'Aliens Exist' [509]
- David Bowie's "Starman" [510]
- Burt Bacharach, Mack David & Bernie Knee's "The Blob"[511]
- Alien invasion: Jeff Wayne's adaptation of War of the Worlds[512]
- Heaven's Gate: Radiohead's "Subterranean Homesick Alien"[513]
- Men in black: Will Smith's "Men In Black"[514]
- Roswell: Saxon's "There's Something In Roswell"[515]
Psychology[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Psychology
- ADHD: System of a Down's "Toxicity"[516]
- Bullying Robbie Wycoff's "He's a Bully" (from Phineas and Ferb) [517]
- Confirmation bias: Todd Snider's "Mission Accomplished (Because You Gotta Have Faith)" [518]
- Dancing mania: James Brown's "I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Need To Dance)"[519]
- Delusions of grandeur: Bad Livers' "Delusions of Banjer"[520]
- Greed: Queen's "I Want It All"[521]
- Illness anxiety disorder: Falling in Reverse's "Voices in My Head"[522]
- Paranoia: The Dickies' cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" (because it's harder to hear the sucky lyrics in the cover version)[523]
- Schadenfreude: "Schadenfreude" from the musical Avenue Q[524]
- PTSD: Dream Theater's "The Enemy Inside"[525]
- Transactional Analysis: The Dickies' "I'm OK You're OK"[526]
- Wishful thinking: Go West's "King of Wishful Thinking"[527]
Humanistic psychology[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Humanistic psychology
Stockholm syndrome[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Stockholm syndrome
- Muse's "Stockholm Syndrome" [530]
- Yo La Tengo's "Stockholm Syndrome" [531]
- John Prine's "I Hate It When That Happens to Me" [532]
Racism, racialism, and bigotry[edit]
- Harry Belafonte's "Black and White (Together)"[533]
- Tom Lehrer's "National Brotherhood Week"[534]
- "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist" from the musical Avenue Q[535]
- Antiziganism: Lady Gaga's "Gypsy"[536]
- Apartheid: Eddy Grant's "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna"[537]
- Bigotry: Tim Minchin's "Prejudice"[538]
- Black Lives Matter: Clipping's "Blood of the Fang"[539]
- Black supremacy#Afrocentrism: Black Uhuru's "Whole World Is Africa"[540]
- Everyone is racist: "Everybody's a Little Racist" from the Broadway musical Avenue Q[541]
- Japanese-American concentration camps: Fort Minor's "Kenji"[542]
- Ku Klux Klan: The Ramones' "The KKK Took My Baby Away"[543]
- Nigger: Mystikal's "That's the Nigga" [544]
- Paradox of tolerance: Disturbed's "Who Taught You How to Hate"[545]
Slavery[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Slavery
- Burning Spear's "Slavery Days"[546]
- Rainbow's "Stargazer"[547]
- Rage Against the Machine's "Down Rodeo"[548]
Religion[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Religion
- Mr. Loco's "Religious Man" [549]
- Afterlife: Nick Cave & Friends' "Death is Not the End"[550]
- Babylon: The Melodians' "Rivers Of Babylon"[551]
- Blasphemy: Public Image Ltd's "Religion"[552]
- The Book of Mormon: "Hello!" from the musical The Book of Mormon[553]
- Black Hebrew Israelites: Desmond Dekker & The Aces' "Israelites"[554]
- Cult: "Blumenkranz" from Kill la Kill[note 9]
- Evil: Eartha Kitt's "I Want to Be Evil"[555]
- Voltaire's "When You're Evil"[556]
- Fundamentalism: Disturbed's "Liberate"[557]
- Human sacrifice: Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited"[558]
- Idolatry: The Goldcoast Singers' "Plastic Jesus"[559]
- International Society for Krishna Consciousness: Allen Ginsberg sings the Hare Krishna mantra to William F. Buckley[560] — who should have been more embarrassed by this: Ginsberg, Buckley or the Hare Krishas?
- Judaism: "Tradition"[561] from Fiddler on the Roof
- Just world fallacy: The Shaggs' "Philosophy of the World"[562]
- Karma: Toots and the Maytals' "Pressure Drop"[563]
- Mormonism: "I Believe" from the musical The Book of Mormon[564]
- New Age: Frank Zappa's "Cosmik Debris"[565]
- Norse mythology: Richard Wagner's 15 hours "Ring" cycle[566]
- Problem of evil: Bad Religion's "God's Love"[567]
- Religious leaders: Allen Ginsberg sings William Blake's "Garden of Love"[568]
- Rastafarianism: Bob Marley & the Wailers' "Iron Lion Zion"[569]
- Sacrifice: Elton John's "Sacrifice" [570]
- Saint John Coltrane Church: John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album[571]
- Sin: Nina Simone's "Sinnerman"[572]
- Sufism: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's "Mustt Mustt"[573]
- Wicca: The Sword's "Maiden, Mother & Crone"[574]
- Yogic flying: Black Flag's "Rise Above"[575]
Atheism[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Atheism
- FAQ for the Newly Deconverted: R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion"[576]
- Modest Mouse's "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine" [577]
Book of Genesis[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Book of Genesis
- Joseph Haydn's "The Creation"[578]
- 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.[579]
- Garden of Eden Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"[580]
Christianity[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Christianity
- Tom Waits' "Down There by the Train" it covers enough that I'll let you pick [581]
- Amish: "Weird" Al Yankovic's "Amish Paradise"[582]
- Bible Belt: Tyminski's "Southern Gothic"[583]
- Jim Bakker: Frank Zappa's "Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk", which is specifically about Bakker[584]
- Christophobia: Negativland's "The Mashin' of the Christ"[585]
- Crucifiction: Monty Python's "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" from Life of Brian[586]
- De-evolution: Devo's "Jocko Homo"[587] ("Are we not men? We are Devo.")
- The Divine Comedy: Iced Earth's "Dante's Inferno"[588]
- Easter: Bing Crosby sings Irving Berlin's "Easter Parade" [589] and so do Judy Garland & Fred Astaire [590]
- God (the Christian version): Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky"[591]
- Herod: "Herod's Song"[592] from Jesus Christ Superstar
- Kent Hovind: eddygoombah's "Tribute to Kent Hovind"[593]
- Judas Iscariot: "Damned for All Time" and "Blood Money"[594] from Jesus Christ Superstar'
- Book of Judges: Blind Willie Johnson's "If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down"[595]
- Limbo: Chubby Checker's "Limbo Rock"[596]
- Mary Magdalene: "I Don't Know How to Love Him"[597] from Jesus Christ Superstar
- Mary (mother of Jesus) Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria"[598]
- Messiah: Georg Friedrich Händel's "Messiah"[599]
- Name it and claim it: O'Jay's "For the Love of Money"[600]
- Pontius Pilate: "Pilate's Dream" [601] from Jesus Christ Superstar
- Book of Revelation: Genesis's "Supper's Ready"[602]
- Salem witch trials: Lonewolf's "Words of the Witch"[603]
- Spanish Inquisition: "The Inquisition" from Mel Brooks' film History of the World: Part I[604]
- Televangelists: Genesis's "Jesus He Knows Me"[605]
- YMCA: Village People's "YMCA"[606]
Armageddon[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Armageddon
- Venom's "At War with Satan"[607]
- The Dickies' version of "Eve Of Destruction"[608]
- Trivium's "Wake (The End Is Nigh)"[609]
Jesus[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Jesus
War on Christmas and Christmas[edit]
See the main articles on this topic: War on Christmas and Christmas
- Perry Como's "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays"[615] from 1954!
- Bing Crosby sings Irving Berlin's "Happy Holiday"[616] from 1942!
- Isaac Hayes as Chef's "Christmas Lovin'" song from the Non-Offensive, Non-Denominational Holiday Play in the first season of South Park [617]
- "The World Turned Upside Down
", 17th century protest song against the banning of Christmas celebrations in England by Oliver Cromwell's Puritanical Parliamentary government following the English Civil War [618]
- John Lennon with The Plastic Ono Band and The Harlem Community Choir's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"[619]
- Jona Lewie's "Stop The Cavalry" [620]
Santa Claus[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Santa Claus
Heaven[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Heaven
- Joe Hill's "The Preacher and the Slave" ("You'll get pie in the sky when you die."): Utah Philips version Joe Glazer version
- Monty Python's "Christmas in Heaven"[625]
Hell[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Hell
Satan[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Satan
- The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil"[630]
- The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"[631]
- 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"[632]
- King Dude's "Lucifer's the Light of the World"[633]
- Elvis Presley's "(You're the) Devil in Disguise" [634]
- Cliff Richard's "Devil Woman" [635]
- Edward Hamilton's "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile!"[636] — 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"[637]
Satanic panic[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Satanic Panic
- Cake's "Pentagram"[638]
- Lil Nas X’s "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)",[639] which caused a 21st century panic[640]
Science, technology, environment, and math[edit]
- Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science"[641]
- They Might Be Giants' "Science Is Real"[642]
- Animal Liberation Front — Dana Lyons' "Cows With Guns"[643]
- CERN/Large Hadron Collider: Large Hadron Rap[644]
- ChatGPT: Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus[645]
- Diamond: Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend"[646]
- Element: Tom Lehrer's "The Elements"[647]
- Enshittification: Too Many Cooks[650]
- Global warming: Disturbed's "Another Way to Die"[651]
- Greenwashing: The Muppets' Kermit the Frog's "Its Not Easy Being Green"[652]
- Holography: Gerry & The Holograms' "Gerry & The Holograms"[653]
- Immortality: Alphaville's "Forever Young"[654]
- Large language model: HAL 9000 sings "Daisy Bell" in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey[655]
- Monkey typewriter theory: Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter" performed by Leroy Anderson Martin Breinschmid with Strauß Festival Orchestra[656]
- New Math: Tom Lehrer's "New Math"[657]
- Nuclear science: Timbuk 3's "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" [658]
- Pollution: Tom Lehrer's "Pollution"[659]
- Roko's basilisk: Grimes - "We Appreciate Power"[660]
- Sleep: Pup's "Totally Fine"[661]
- Tree: Clint Eastwood sings "I Talk to the Trees"[662] from Paint Your Wagon
Evolution[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Evolution
- Roomrunner's "Weird" [663] Describe yourself to the strangest animal.
- Fossil record: Science with Tom's "Fossil Rock Anthem" [664]
- Living fossil#Elvis taxon: Mojo Nixon's "Elvis is Everywhere"[665]
Medicine[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Medicine
- Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine"[666]
- Aging: The Beatles' "When I'm 64"[667]
- Cancer: Joe Jackson's "Cancer"[668]
- Dentistry: Little Shop of Horrors' "Dentist!" [669]
- Gulf War syndrome: Moxy Fruvous' "Gulf War Song"[670]
- HIV/AIDS: Diamanda Galás' "This Is The Law of the Plague"[671]
- Stem cell research: Dream Theater's "The Great Debate"[672]
NASA[edit]
See the main article on this topic: NASA
- Tom Lehrer's "Wernher von Braun"[673]
- Elton John's "Rocket Man"[674]
- Sam Ryder's "Spaceman"[675]
Radio[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Radio
Transportation[edit]
- Aircraft: Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly"[680]
- Automobile: The Dickies' "Manny, Moe and Jack"[681]
- Bicycle: Frank Zappa playing music on a bicycle on the Steve Allen TV show[682] and Queen's Bicycle Race [683]
Rail transportation[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Rail transportation
- Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' "Orange Blossom Special"[684]
- Keith & Tex's "Stop That Train"[685] — 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
- The Buzzcocks' "Orgasm Addict"[688]
- Mousse T's "Horny"[689]
- Salt-N-Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex"[690]
- Spinal Tap's "Sex Farm"[691]
- Tool's "Prison Sex" [692]
- Anal sex: Eddie Murphy's "Boogie In Your Butt"[693]
- Birth control: Monty Python's "Every Sperm Is Sacred" from The Meaning of Life[694]
- Circumcision/Penis enlargement: King Missile's "Detachable Penis"[695]
- Cunt: "Cibai Bai"
[696]
- Feminism: Beyoncé's "Run the World (Girls)" [697]
- Marriage: Toots and The Maytals' "Sweet and Dandy"[698]
- Masochism: Tom Lehrer's "The Masochism Tango"[699]
- Menstruation: The Steriles' "On the Rag"[700]
- NoFap: Tool's "Stinkfist"[701]
- Open marriage: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' "Swinger from Seville" [702]
- Pick-up artist: Britney Spears' "Womanizer"[703]
- Pornography: Tom Lehrer's "Smut"[704]
- Sexually transmitted disease: Frank Zappa's "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?"[705]
- Sodomy: "Sodomy" from the Peter Jackson film Meet the Feebles[706]
BDSM[edit]
See the main article on this topic: BDSM
- The Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs"[707]
- X-Ray Spex's "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!"[708] — banned by Auntie Beeb
LGBT[edit]
See the main article on this topic: LGBT
- Belle and Sebatian's "Act of the Apostle" [709]
- Bisexuality: Green Day's "Coming Clean" [710]
- Homophobia: Chumbawumba's "Homophobia"[711]
Cross-dressing[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Cross-dressing
- Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Sweet Transvestite"[712]
- Monty Python's The Lumberjack Song[713]
Homosexuality[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Homosexuality
- Gloria Gaynor sings "I Am What I Am"[714] from La Cage aux Folles
- Sister Sledge's "We Are Family"[715] — known as a gay anthem
- Electric Six's "Gay Bar"[716]
- Lesbianism: Jill Sobule's "I Kissed a Girl"[717]
Same-sex marriage[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Same-sex marriage
- The Tanks 'Kirby Loves Dudes' [718]
Transgender[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Transgender
- Transphobia and public restrooms: Tribe 8's "Wrong Bathroom"[719]
- The Who's "I'm a Boy"[720]
- Wrabel's "The Village"[721]
- The Kinks' "Lola"[722] (Had to be partially rerecorded for the BBC. Not because of anything to do with gender or sexuality, but to avoid giving free advertising to Coca-Cola
)
- Beyoncé's "If I Were A Boy" [723] (while not strictly related, often used as a FTM Trans anthem)
Masturbation[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Masturbation
Men Going Their Own Way[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Men Going Their Own Way
- Deep Purple's "Rat Bat Blue"[728]
- Nancy Sinatra "These Boots" [729] This was supposed to be big man Lee Hazelwood's song, but woke bullhonkey said it would be better if a woman sang it
Social justice[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Social justice
- Disability: The Who's Tommy rock opera[730]
Vegetarianism[edit]
See the main article on this topic: vegetarianism
War[edit]
See the main article on this topic: War
- The Marx Brothers' "The Country's Going to War" from the film Duck Soup[734]
- AC/DC "War Machine" [735]
- Edwin Starr's "War"[736]
- Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"[737]
- Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem"[738]
- The Fugs' "Kill for Peace"[739]
- Pink Floyd's "Us and Them"[740]
- Agent Orange: REM's "Orange Crush"[741]
- Conscription: Frank Zappa's "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted"[742]
- Crusades: Saxon's "Crusader"[743]
- English Civil War: Elvis Costello & The Attractions' "Oliver's Army"[744]
- Syrian Civil War: Myrath's "Dance"[745]
- War of 1812: Jimmy Driftwood's "The Battle of New Orleans" [746] (covered by Johnny Horton and Lonnie Donegan)
American Civil War[edit]
See the main article on this topic: American Civil War
- "Marchin' Through Georgia"[747] — a marching song commemorating Sherman's March on Atlanta
- Vilkas Music's "Union Dixie - Eurobeat Remix"[748]
- Ennio Morricone's "The Story of a Soldier" [749] from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Gunboat diplomacy[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Gunboat diplomacy
- Tom Lehrer's "Send the Marines"[750]
- Phil Ochs' "Cops of the World"[751] and "Santo Domingo"[752]
- Neil Young's "Powderfinger" [753]
Nuclear war[edit]
The Troubles[edit]
See the main article on this topic: The Troubles
Vietnam War[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Vietnam War
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"[763]
- Tom Lehrer's "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)"[764]
- Randy Newman's "Political Science (Let's Drop the Big One Now)"[765]
- Vera Lynn's admittedly-mawkish "We'll Meet Again", with the visuals from the ending of Dr. Strangelove turning it on its head[766]
Encore: Funspace, Helpspace, and oddments[edit]
- Funspace, pro: Flipper's "Ha Ha Ha"[767]
- Funspace, con: Hüsker Dü's "It's Not Funny Anymore"[768]
- Fun:American football: Bobby Bare's "Drop Kick Me Jesus"[769]
- Fun:Asshole: Frank Zappa's "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes"[770]]
- RationalWiki:DysLexicon#Banhammer: Devo's "Uncontrollable Urge"[771]
- Category:Black nationalism: Parliament's "Chocolate City"[772]
- RationalWiki:Blocking policy: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments' "Negative Guest List"[773]
- Category:Cartoons and comics: Happy Flowers' "I Said I Wanna Watch Cartoons"[774] — rather less irritating than Metal Machine Music
- Fun:Cats & Fun:Dogs: The Cramps' "Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?"[775] and Hasil Adkins' "Boo Boo the Cat"[776]
- Fun:Cider: The Wurzels' "I am a Cider Drinker"[777]
- Conservapedia:Conservative: Tool's "The Grudge"[778]
- Fun:Dalek: The Timelords' "Doctorin' the Tardis"[779] and its mashup with Green Day's "Holiday" as Dean Gray's "Doctor Who on Holiday"[780]
- Fun:Eurovision Song Contest: Monty Python's Europolice Song Contest with "Sgt. Duckie's Song" and "Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong"[781]
- Fun:Fox Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady"[782]
- Category:Government surveillance: Judas Priest's "Electric Eye"[783]
- Goth: Havergal Brian's "Gothic Symphony"[784]
- Fun:Horse: America's "A Horse With No Name"[785]
- RationalWiki:Leaving and never coming back: The Mr. T Experience's "So Long Sucker"[786]
- Fun:LOLCatistianity: The Bobs' "Fluffy's Master Plan for World Domination"[787]
- Conservapedia:Machismo Village People's "Macho Man"[788]
- Monster (fork): Bobby Pickett's "Monster Mash"[789] or The Automatic "Monster"[790]
- Fun:Monty Python: Auckland Symphony Orchestra's version of John Phillip Sousa's "Liberty Bell March" (the Monty Python theme song)[791]
- RationalWiki:Pissed at us: L7's "Shitlist"[792]
- Fun:Planet of the Apes: The musical Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off! from The Simpsons [793]
- Fun:Elvis Presley: Mojo Nixon's "Elvis is Everywhere"[794]
- Fun:Stupidity: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartment's "You Can't Kill Stupid"[795]
- RationalWiki:Sysops: Suburban Lawns' "Janitor"[796]
- Fun:Whisky: Thin Lizzy's "Whiskey in the Jar"[797]
- WIGO: Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On"[798]
- Woke (fork): Snow Tha Product's "Snooze"[799]
Boredom[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Help:Bored
- The Boredoms' "B for Boredom"[800]
- The Buzzcocks' "Boredom"[801]
- Pavement* Pavement beef with REM "Unseen power of the Picket Fence" [802]
Fart[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Fun:Fart
Shit[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Fun:Shit
See also[edit]
- 2001 Clear Channel memorandum — an attempt at a banned music list after 9/11
Notes[edit]
- ↑ 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
- ↑ According to this 2021 BBC news story, The Three Degrees' "Givin' Up, Givin' In" was the then Prince Charles' favorite song.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ This song was most likely written about George W. Bush, but it's just as applicable to Donald Trump's personality cult.
- ↑ The Titanic sinking has drawn a lot of conspiracy theories.
- ↑ There's also some ample references to cocaine usage (natch), but that doesn't really show up until the last quarter of the song.
- ↑ Word of God (in the TV Tropes sense) on this song is that it's a love song for vampires.
- ↑ 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
.
- ↑ 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.