RationalWiki: The Musical

	Time to put on some; Music
	Soundtrack
	Straight edge; National anthem; George Craige Lewis; Paul is dead; Jerry Springer: The Opera; Goth;
	Musicians
	The Beatles; Ian Stuart Donaldson; Tupac Shakur; Insane Clown Posse; Pat Boone; 27 Club; v - t - e

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]

Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon's "Will the Fetus be Aborted"[1]
Great Beethoven fallacy: Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven"[2]

Animals[edit]

Bird: The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird"[3]
Chordata: Sam Hinton's "It's a Long Way From Amphioxus"[4]
Goat: Pearl Jam's "Evil Little Goat"[5]
Mammal: They Might Be Giants' "Mammal" [6]
Platypus: Randy Crenshaw's "Perry The Platypus" from Phineas & Ferb[7]
Reptile: Al Wilson's "The Snake"[8]
Sheep: Cake's "Sheep Go To Heaven"[9]
Sheeple: J. S.Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze"[10]

Primate[edit]

The Dickies' "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)"[11]
Viagra Boys' "Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis"[12]
The Monkees' "{Theme From} The Monkees"[13]
Louis Prima & Phil Harris' "I Wan'na Be Like You" ("The Monkey Song") from Disney's The Jungle Book [14]
Australopithecus: The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"[15]

Humans, miscellaneous[edit]

Nudity: Ray Stevens' "The Streak"[16]
African American: James Brown's "Say it Loud — I'm Black and Proud"[17]
Glenn Beck: King Missile's "Sensitive Artist"[18]
David Bellamy: David Bellamy sings "Brontosaurus, Will You Wait for Me?"[19]
Tony Blair: D:Ream's "Things Can Only Get Better"[20]^{[note 1]}
Napoleon Bonaparte: Abba's "Waterloo"[21]
Julius Caesar: Robert Schumann's overture "Julius Caesar"[22]
Charlemagne: Christopher Lee's symphonic metal albums Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross[23] and Charlemagne: The Omens of Death[24]
Charles III: The Three Degrees' "Givin' Up, Givin' In"[25]^{[note 2]}
Children: Tom Waits' "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"[26] (covered by The Ramones)
Winston Churchill: The Kinks' "Mr. Churchill Says"[27]
Ray Comfort and his banana argument: The Dickies version of The Banana Splits' theme song[28]
Michael Coombs: Bob Marley & The Wailers' "Crazy Baldhead"[29]
Princess Diana: Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997"[30]
Ian Stuart Donaldson: MDC's "Nazis Shouldn't Drive"[31]
Albert Einstein: Ian Dury & the Blockheads "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards"[32]^{[note 3]}
Elizabeth II: Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen"[33]
Guy Fawkes: "Guy Fawkes, Fireworks and Gunpowder Plot Song" from the BBC's Horrible Histories [34]
Nick Fuentes: Dead Kennedys' "Kill the Poor"[35]
Newt Gingrich: "You're a Mean One, Newt Gingrich"[36]
Rudy Giuliani: The Specials' "A Message To You Rudy"[37]
Che Guevara: Carlos Puebla's "Hasta siempre, Comandante" [38] (More commercial and sexier version by Nathalie Cardone)
Alexander Hamilton: "Alexander Hamilton"[39] from the musical Hamilton
Kamala Harris: Randy Rainbow's "Kamala"[40]
Stephen Hawking: MC Hawking's "What We Need More of is Science" [41]
Jim Jones: The Brian Jonestown Massacre's "The Ballad of Jim Jones"[42]
Anatoly Karlin: The Ramones' "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue"[43]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Allen Ginsberg sings William Blake's "The Sick Rose"[44] ("The invisible worm…")
Henry Kissinger: Monty Python's "Henry Kissinger" [45]
Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy: Dion's "Abraham, Martin and John" [46] (covered by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Moms Mabley, Marvin Gaye and Beverley Knight)
Graham Linehan: The Divine Comedy's "Songs Of Love" [47], theme tune to Father Ted, the Channel 4 sitcom that Linehan wrote
Charles Manson: Sonic Youth's "Death Valley '69"[48]
Eugene M. McCarthy: Wild Man Fischer's "Monkeys vs Donkeys"[49]
Patrick Moore: Patrick Moore plays his own composition "Penguin Parade" on the xylophone [50]
Elon Musk: Dawn of Correction's "Shadows"[51] The drummer, Richard Tornetta, a minor Tesla stockholder, caused Musk to lose a $56 billion compensation package.[52]
- Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's co-heading of DOGE: Roky Erickson's "Two Headed Dog"[53] — "I've been working in the Kremlin With a two-headed dog"
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]
Mike Pence: Remix of Kamala Harris' "You Have a Fly on Your Head."[57]
Pol Pot: Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia"[58]
Grigori Rasputin: Boney M's "Rasputin"[59]
Ronald Reagan: Jerry Harrison & Bootsy Collins' "Bonzo Goes To Washington" "[We Start Bombing in] 5 Minutes"[60]
Ben Shapiro: Cardi B's "WAP" with the words that Shapiro is unable to utter[61]
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[62]
Harry Truman: Chicago's "Harry Truman" [63]
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu: Disturbed's "Bad Man"[64]
- Trump's Pissgate: Circle Jerk's "Golden Shower of Hits"[65]
Donald Trump Jr.: Frank Zappa's (The Mothers of Invention) "The Idiot Bastard Son"[66]
J. D. Vance stars as the villain in the 'family values' postmodern horror-comedy Too Many Cooks[67]
Vikings: Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song"[68]
Harold Wilson and Edward Heath: The Beatles' "Taxman"[69]
Xi Jinping: "Heffalumps and Woozles"[70] from Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

Jack Chick[edit]

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]

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]

The Kunts' "Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt"[75]
Boots Randolph's Yakety Sax,[76] played outside Parliament, as requested by Hugh Grant at the time of Johnson's resignation[77]

Nelson Mandela[edit]

Simple Minds' "Mandela Day"[78]
The Specials' "Nelson Mandela"[79]

Astrology[edit]

They Might Be Giants' "See the Constellation"[80]

Astronomy[edit]

Nicolaus Copernicus: Henryk Górecki's "Copernican Symphony"[81]

The Cosmos[edit]

Charles Ives' incomplete "Universe Symphony"[82]
Betelgeuse: Harry Belafonte's "Day O (Banana Boat Song)"[83], as featured in the 1988 film Beetlejuice[84]
Milky Way: Stephen Hawking sings Monty Python's "Galaxy Song"[85]

Solar System[edit]

Gustav Holst's suite "The Planets"[86]
John Coltrane's Interstellar Space album[87]
Earth: Duran Duran's "Planet Earth" [88]
Mars: David Bowie's "Life on Mars?"[89]
Pluto: Pluto's theme [90] and Pluto's other theme [91] from the Walt Disney cartoons
The Sun: Smash Mouth's "Walkin' on the Sun"[92]
Uranus: Klaatu's "Hanus of Uranus"[93]
Venus: Lady Gaga's "Venus"[94]

Moon[edit]

Gil Scott Heron's "Whitey on the Moon"[95]
Hollow Moon: Ella Fitzgerald's "It's Only A Paper Moon"[96]

Business[edit]

Chiquita: Monica Lewis sings the "Chiquita Banana Song" in the original 1947 commercial shown in movie theaters[97]
Walmart: "People of Walmart", the original[98]

Conspiracy theories[edit]

9/11: Martin Noakes "9/11 Building 7"[99]
Debt slavery#Actual debt slavery: Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons"[100]
Freemason: The Simpsons' Stonecutters' Song "We Do"[101]
Jake Angeli, the "QAnon shaman": The Incredible String Band's "Minotaur's Song"[102] ("I'm the original discriminating buffalo man. And I'll do what's wrong as long as I can!")
Big Pharma: Exodus' "Chemi-Kill"[103]
HAARP: Clues' "HAARP" [104]

Persecution complex: Disturbed's "The Curse"[105]
QAnon: Disturbed's "Deify"[106]^{[note 4]}
RMS Titanic: Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"[107]^{[note 5]}
Tinfoil hat: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Foil"[108]

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

Mose Allison's "Ever Since The World Ended"[109]
R.E.M.'s "It’s the End of the World as We Know It"[110]
Skeeter Davis' "The End of the World" [111]
Zager & Evans' "In the Year 2525" [112]

Denialism[edit]

Men With Day Jobs' "Denial Tango"[113]
Armenian genocide denial: System of a Down's "P.L.U.C.K."[114] & "Holy Mountains"[115]
Climate change denial: Midnight Oil's "Rising Seas"[116]
Crank: Groucho Marx's "Whatever it is, I'm against it!" in the film Horse Feathers[117]
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")[118]

Drugs[edit]

Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life"[119]
The Cramps' "New Kind of Kick"[120]
The Fall's "Mr Pharmacist"[121]
The Fall's "Totally Wired"[122]
Spacemen 3's "Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To…"[123]
The Fugs' "I Couldn't Get High"[124] — the song was condemned by the then-future president of the Mormons [125]
The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work"[126]
Purported legal highs: The Dead Milkmen's "Smokin' Banana Peels"[127]

Alcohol[edit]

George Thorogood & The Destroyers' "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"[128]
Barenaked Ladies' "Alcohol" [129]
Refreshments' "Mekong" [130]
Buddy Guy's "Whiskey, Beer and Wine"[131]
Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra sing "Mister Booze"[132]
Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" [133] ("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" [134]
Beartooth's "I Have a Problem"[135]
Prohibition: Prince Buster's "Al Capone"[136]

Alcoholics Anonymous[edit]

Dream Theater's "Twelve-step Suite"[137]
Dilly Dally's "Sober Motel"[138]

Beer[edit]

Frank Yankovic & Friends' "In Heaven There Is No Beer"[139]
Reel Big Fish's "Beer" [140]

Cannabis[edit]

Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf"[141]
Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg's "The Next Episode"[142]
Afroman's "Because I Got High"[143]
Sonic Youth & Cyprus Hill's "I Love You Mary Jane"[144]
The Beatles' "Got To Get You Into My Life"[145]

Cocaine[edit]

Eric Clapton's "Cocaine"[146]
- The original J. J. Cale version[147] — if you don't want to give advertising money to that asshole Clapton

Heroin[edit]

Forgotten Rebels' "Surfin' On Heroin"[148]
The Stranglers' "Golden Brown"[149]
John Prine's "Sam Stone"[150]
W.A.S.P.'s "Thunderhead"[151]
Black Sabbath's "Hand of Doom"[152]

LSD[edit]

The Beatles' "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" from the film Yellow Submarine[153] — not actually about LSD according to John Lennon and Paul McCartney despite everyone thinking it was
The Beatles' "A Day in the Life"[154] — the more likely LSD-inspired song

Tobacco smoking[edit]

Tex Ritter's "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)"[155]
Princess Chelsea's "The Cigarette Duet"[156]

War on Drugs[edit]

System Of A Down's "Prison Song"[157]
The Black Crowes' "Remedy"[158]

Economics[edit]

Corporation: Pink Lincolns' "I've Got My Tie On"[159]
Economic inequality: Motörhead's "Eat The Rich", excerpted from the film of the same name[160]
Gold: Dan Fogelberg's "The Power of Gold"[161]
Great Depression: Bing Crosby's "Brother Can You Spare A Dime?"[162]
Laissez-faire: Digital Underground's "Doowutchyalike"[163]
Marketing: The Clash's "Koka Kola"[164]^{[note 6]}
Money: John Lee Hooker's "Money"[165]
Supply-side economics: John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses"[166]
Trade union: Pete Seeger's "Solidarity Forever"[167]

Gambling[edit]

Dead Kennedys' "Viva Las Vegas"[168]
Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler"[169]

Folklore, history and pseudohistory[edit]

27 Club: The Jim Carroll Band's "People Who Died"[170]
- The retort to Jim Carroll: Detention's "Dead Rock-N-Rollers"[171]
Dwarf: "Heigh-Ho" from Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [172]
Easter Bunny: Gene Autry's "Peter Cottontail" [173]
Fairy tales: Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs' "Li'l Red Riding Hood"[174]
Feral child: The Troggs' "Wild Thing"[175]
Giant: PJ Harvey's "50 Ft Queenie"[176]
Great man theory: The Stranglers' "No More Heroes"[177]
Human–dinosaur coexistence: Was (Not Was)'s "Walk the Dinosaur"[178]
Kent State: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Ohio"[179]
Pagan survivals: PJ Harvey's "Sheela-na-gig"[180]
Shakespeare authorship: Lord Buckley's "Willie The Shake"[181]
Stonehenge: Spinal Tap's "Stonehenge"[182]

American tall tales[edit]

Dennis Day sings "The Lord is Good to Me" from the 1948 Disney cartoon Johnny Appleseed [183]
Fess Parker's "The Ballad of Daniel Boone" [184]
George Bruns & Tom Adair's "Hey, Paul" from the 1958 Disney cartoon Paul Bunyan [185]
Doris Day sings "Secret Love" from the 1953 film Calamity Jane [186]
Fess Parker's "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" [187]
Harry Belafonte sings "John Henry" [188]
Johnny Cash sings "The Ballad of Casey Jones" [189]
Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee" [190]
Roy Rogers' "Pecos Bill" [191]
Bing Crosby sings "The Headless Horseman" from the 1949 Disney cartoon The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad [192]

Classical mythology[edit]

Cream's "Tales of Brave Ulysses"[193]
Iron Maiden's "Flight of Icarus"[194]
Jacques Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld"[195]
Led Zeppelin's "Achilles Last Stand"[196]
Symphony X's "The Odyssey"[197]
Vyacheslav Artyomov's "Way to Olympus"[198]

Halloween[edit]

Marilyn Manson's version of "This is Halloween"[199] from The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Shaggs' "It's Halloween"[200]
John Carpenter's theme for his 1978 movie Halloween[201]
Helloween's "Halloween"[202]

King Arthur[edit]

Rick Wakeman's concept album The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur[203]
"Knights of the Round Table"[204] from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Luck[edit]

Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number"[205]
Daft Punk's "Get Lucky"[206]

Internet[edit]

Furries: The Banana Splits' theme song (Tra-La-La song)[207]
Porn: "The Internet Is For Porn" from the Broadway musical Avenue Q[208]
Spam: Monty Python's "Spam", the original[209]
Wolf Parade's 'Lazarus Online' [210]
Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham[211]

Law and pseudolaw[edit]

Civil disobedience: Malvina Reynolds' "It Isn't nice"[212]
Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association: Bob Marley & The Wailers' "I Shot the Sheriff"[213]
Copyright: John Oswald's "DAB" from the Plunderphonics EP, a masterpiece of audio piracy[214]
Corporal punishment: The Smiths' "The Headmaster Ritual"[215]
Genocide: Judas Priest's "Genocide"[216]
Health and safety: Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance"[217]
Hearsay: Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"[218]
NAACP: "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (once promoted by the NAACP as a "Negro national anthem")[219]
Vigilante: Woody Guthrie's "Vigilante Man"[220]

Capital punishment[edit]

L7's "Gas Chamber" (performing as the band 'Camel Toe') from John Waters' film Serial Mom[221]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seed's "The Mercy Seat"[222]

Crime[edit]

Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law"[223]
Dead Kennedys' "Stealing People's Mail"[224]
The Clash's "Bankrobber" [225]
Boney M's "Ma Baker" [226]
Extrajudicial punishment: Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"[227]
Gang: Link Wray's "Rumble"[228] — caused a minor moral panic by being the only instrumental song banned from US radio for the title's perceived meaning as "gang fight"[229] (e.g. as in West Side Story)
Nazi human experimentation: Slayer's "Angel of Death"[230]
Organ theft: John Prine's "Please Don't Bury Me"[231]
Rape: Nirvana's "Rape Me"[232]

Native American genocide[edit]

The Dave Matthews Band's "Don't Drink The Water"[233]
Neil Young and Crazy Horse's "Cortez the Killer"[234]

Police brutality[edit]

Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name"[235]
Run The Jewels' "Walking in the Snow"[236]
Madison McFerrin's "That Motherfucker's Guilty" (recorded at the time of the conviction of the police officer who murdered George Floyd)[237]
The Dicks' "The Dicks Hate the Police"[238] — warning: the lyrics contain the n-word
N.W.A's "Fuck Tha Police"[239]

Prison[edit]

Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues"[240]
Nina Simone's "Work Song"[241]
Toots and the Maytals' "54-46 That's My Number"[242]

Language[edit]

Kikagagu Moyo's "Kodama" [243] - probably a good idea to translate the lyrics if you don't understand them.
"Weird Al" Yankovic's "Word Crimes"[244]
Esperanto: "La Espero", the anthem of the Esperanto movement, samba style![245]
Hebrew: Harry Belafonte sings "Hava Nagila"[246]
Latin: "Gaudeamus igitur"[247]
No Cussing Club: Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream"[248]

Good old days[edit]

Dr. Dog's "The Old Days" [249]

Magic and the paranormal[edit]

Aleister Crowley: Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley"[250]
Curse of Tutankhamun: Steve Martin & the Toot Uncommons' "King Tut"[251]
Ghost: "When the Night Wind Howls"[252] from Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore
Near-death experience: L7's "Pretend We're Dead"[253]
Out-of-body experience: Frank Zappa and the Mothers' "Absolutely Free"[254]

Zombies: The Zombies' "She's Not There"[255]

Superstition[edit]

Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"[256]
Howlin' Wolf's "I Ain't Superstitious"[257]

Vampire[edit]

Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"[258]
Bill Buchanan's "Beware"[259]
Toto Coelo's "Dracula's Tango (Sucker For Your Love)" [260]
Marilyn Manson's "If I Was Your Vampire"[261]
Annie Lennox's "Love Song for a Vampire"[262]
Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "The Power of Love"[263] ("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"[264] (covered by 45 Grave)
Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" [265]^{[note 7]}
Olivia Rodrigo's "Vampire"[266]
Godsmack's "Vampires"[267]
My Chemical Romance's "Vampires Will Never Hurt You"[268]

Witchcraft[edit]

Screamin Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You"[269]
Frank Sinatra's "Witchcraft"[270]

Media[edit]

Animal Farm: Pink Floyd's concept album Animals[271]
Barbie (film): Aqua's "Barbie Girl"[272]
BBC: "Lilliburlero" [273], known as the theme to the BBC World Service
Billy Jack: The Original Caste's "One Tin Soldier"[274]
Lewis Carroll: Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"[275]
Channel 4: The Airwaves Orchestra's "Fourscore" [276]
Cops (TV show): Inner Circle's "Bad Boys" [277]
Noel Edmonds: Brown Sauce's^{[note 8]} "I Wanna be a Winner"[278]
Fantasy: Leonard Nimoy's "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"[279]
Fahrenheit 451: Hawkwind's "Fahrenheit 451" [280]
Frozen: Idina Menzel's "Let It Go"[281]
Green ink: Kermit the Frog's "Its Not Easy Being Green"[282]
Jurassic Park: John Williams & Vienna Philharmonic's "Theme from Jurassic Park"[283]
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Theme tune to the TV series[284]
Nineteen Eighty-Four: David Bowie's "1984"[285]
The Simpsons: The Simpsons' "Do the Bartman"[286]
South Park: Isaac Hayes as Chef's "Chocolate Salty Balls"[287]
Shirley Temple: Shirley Temple sings "On the Good Ship Lollipop" [288]
P. L. Travers: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" [289] from Mary Poppins
Mark Twain: Theme tune from the 1979 TV series Huckleberry Finn and his Friends [290]
The Twilight Zone: Rush's "The Twilight Zone" [291]
The Washington Post: John Philip Sousa's "The Washington Post March"[292]
Oscar Wilde: Sir John Betjeman & Jim Parker's "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"[293]

Blazing Saddles[edit]

Ella Fitzgerald performs Cole Porter's "I Get a Kick Out of You"[294]
- The Blazing Saddles version[295]
The original Count Basie version of "April in Paris"[296]
- The Blazing Saddles version[297]
Marlene Dietrich singing "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" from Der Blaue Engel[298]
- Madeleine Kahn's "I'm So Tired",[299] the parody of Dietrich's song

Censorship[edit]

Eric Idle's "Fuck the FCC"[300]
Yeastie Girlz' "FCC"[301]
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)[302]

A Clockwork Orange[edit]

Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture" as heard in the film's original theatrical trailer [303]
"A Clockwork Orange Soundtrack"[304]

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

Emerson Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9"[305]

Dr. Strangelove[edit]

Peter Sellers (as Dr. Strangelove) performs The Beatles' "She Loves You"[306]
The Offspring's "Slim Pickens Does The Right Thing And Rides The Bomb To Hell"[307]

Frankenstein[edit]

Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" [308]
Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction's "Feed my Frankenstein"[309]
The Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Over at the Frankenstein Place" [310]
The Diamonds' "Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula" [311]
Helloween's "Dr. Stein" [312]
Sam Cooke's "Another Saturday Night" [313] ("Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance/To a cat named Frankenstein")

Music[edit]

Heptones' (with Lee Scratch Perry) "Play on Mr Music"[314]
Hip-hop: The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"[315]
Mozart effect: Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos in D, K. 448"[316]

Rock music[edit]

AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock"[317]
Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music"[318]
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'N Roll"[319]
The Kids' "This Is Rock 'N Roll"[320]
Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll"[321]
Rainbow's "Long Live Rock 'n' Roll"[322]
Christian rock: Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit In The Sky"[323] — 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"[324]

"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[edit]

"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[325] from the original 1966 Broadway cast recording of Cabaret
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[326] from the soundtrack album of the 1972 film Cabaret
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[327] from a 1993 double CD studio recording of Cabaret
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[328] and its reprise[329] from the 1994 Channel 4 UK TV version of Cabaret based on the 1993 West End production
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[330] and its reprise[331] from the 2021 West End cast recording of Cabaret
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me" [332] 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]

Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Science Fiction/Double Feature"[333]
Built to Spill's "Randy Described Eternity"[334]
Ayn Rand: Rush's "2112"[335] (loosely based on her science fiction novella Anthem)
The X-Files: Catatonia's "Mulder and Scully" [336]

Philosophy and logic[edit]

Monty Python's "The Philosophers' Song"[337]
Argumentum ad cellarium: "Weird Al" Yankovic's It's All About The Pentiums[338]
Argument by gibberish: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica[339]
Argumentum ad nauseam: Mose Allison's "Your Mind Is on Vacation"[340]
Argumentum ad populum: Sophie Tucker's "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong"[341]
- "The French Mistake" from Blazing Saddles[342]
Bumblebee argument: Rimsky Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee"[343]
Credentialism: Lou Reed's album Metal Machine Music, which inspired his credentialism quote[344]^{(listen at your own risk)}
Didit fallacy: Ella Fitzgerald's "Let's Do It"[345]
Free will: Rush's "Free Will"[346]
Golden hammer: Pete Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer"[347]
Infinite regress/Solipsism: Jimi Hendrix's "Room Full Of Mirrors"[348]
Nihilism: The Fugs' "Nothing"[349]
Pacifism: Pete Seeger's "Study War No More (Down by the Riverside)"[350]
PIDOOMA: Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom"[351]
Spider-Man fallacy: Theme tune for the 1967 animated TV series Spider-Man [352]
Time travel: Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Time Warp"[353]

Death[edit]

Rev. Gary Davis' "Death Don't Have No Mercy"[354]
The Fugs' "Carpe Diem"[355]
Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper"[356]
Led Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying"[357]
Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette"[358]
They Might Be Giants' "Dead" [359]
Blanche's "Someday..." [360]
Jay Reatard's "It's So Easy" [361]
Barenaked Ladies' "Am I the Only One" [362]

Human rights[edit]

The Clash's "Know Your Rights"[363]
Bob Marley & The Wailers' "Get Up, Stand Up"[364]

Physics[edit]

Faster-than-light travel: Yngwie Malmsteen's "Faster Than Speed Of Light" [365]

Politics[edit]

Anarchy: Sex Pistols' "Anarchy In The U.K."[366]
Antifa/Neo-Nazism: Dead Kennedy's "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"[367]
Apartheid: Spitting Image's "I've Never Met A Nice South African" [368]
British monarchy: Wee German Lairdie - Scottish Jacobite song [369]
Robert Byrd: Senator Robert Byrd's "Cumberland Gap"[370]
Class War: The Dils' "Class War"[371]
Conservatism: Ozzy Osbourne's "I Don't Wanna Change the World"[372]
Conservapedia: The Stooges' "No Fun"[373]
Democracy: Leonard Cohen's "Democracy" [374]
Fascism: Sonic Youth's "Youth Against Fascism"[375]
Freedom: Richie Havens' "Freedom"[376]
Gun nuts: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Trigger Happy"[377]
Imperialism: Fela Kuti's "Colonial Mentality"[378]
Incel: Frank Zappa's "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?"[379]
Jingoism: John Prine's "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore"[380]
Labour Party: "The Red Flag"[381]
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?)[382]
Middle East: Spike Jones & His City Slickers do "The Sheik of Araby" [383]
Personality cult: Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" [384]
Skinheads: Camper Van Beethoven's "Take the Skinheads Bowling"[385]
The South: Tom Lehrer's "Dixie"[386]
Undocumented immigration: Phil Ochs "Bracero"[387]

Alt-right[edit]

Marjorie Taylor Greene ("Jewish space lasers"): "Jews in Space" from Mel Brooks' film History of the World: Part I[388]
Neoreactionary movement: The Mutants' "New Dark Ages"[389]
Proud Boys: Adam Jacobs singing "Proud of Your Boy" from the film Aladdin[390] — 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]

L7's "American Society"[391]
Rammstein's "Amerika" [392]

CIA[edit]

Alice Cooper's "Halo of Flies"[393]
The Fugs' "CIA Man"[394]

Communism[edit]

Arturo Toscanini conducts "The Internationale"[395]
The Eat's "Communist Radio"[396]
Red-baiting: Bob Dylan's "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues"[397]

Dictatorship[edit]

The Bobs' "Dictator in a Polo Shirt"[398]
Judas Priest's "Tyrant"[399]
Groucho Marx's "These Are the Laws of My Administration" from the film Duck Soup[400]

European Union[edit]

Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"[401]

Nations[edit]

Funkadelic's "One Nation Under A Groove"[402]
Australia: Men at Work's "Down Under"[403]
Austria: Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" [404]
Canada: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Canadian Idiot"[405]
Cuba: Desi Arnaz & His Orchestra perform "Cuban Pete" [406]
Denmark: Danny Kaye sings "Wonderful Copenhagen" [407]
East Germany: IFA Wartburg's "The free German youth" [408]
Ecuador: Sash! "Ecuador"[409]
Egypt: Madness' "Night Boat to Cairo"[410]
England: Linton Kwesi Johnson's "Inglan Is a Bitch"[411]
Finland: Jean Sibelius' tone poem "Finlandia"[412]
France: Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin's "Je t'aime... moi non plus"[413]
Germany: The Beatles' "Komm gib mir deine Hand" [414]
Kingdom of Hawaiʻi: Liliʻuokalani's "Aloha ʻOe"[415]
Iceland: Björk's "It's Oh So Quiet" [416]
Ireland: Pete St. John's "The Fields of Athenry" [417]
Israel: Esther & Abi Ofarim's "Cinderella Rockefella" [418]
Israel & Palestine: The Dave Matthews Band's "The Last Stop"[419]
Italy: Sabrina's "Boys (Summertime Love)" [420]
Japan: Shonen Knife's version of "Top of the World" [421]
The Netherlands: Doop's "Doop" [422]
Northern Ireland: Loudon Wainwright III sings "Carrickfergus" [423]
North Korea: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" — North Korean Edition[424]
Norway: A-Ha's "Take on Me" [425]
Palestine: Sharon Shannon's "An Phailistín" [426]
The Philippines: Sexbomb Girls' "The Spaghetti Song" [427]
Poland: Frédéric Chopin's "Heroic Polonaise (Op. 53 in A Flat Major)" [428]
Scotland: "Scotland the Brave" [429]
South Africa: Miriam Makeba's "Pata Pata" [430]
Soviet Union: The Beatles' "Back in the USSR" [431]
Spain: Baccara's "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie"[432]
Sweden: Ace of Base's "All That She Wants" [433]
Switzerland: Yello's "Oh Yeah" [434]
Taiwan: S.H.E.'s version of "I've Never Been to Me" [435]
Turkey: The Four Lads' "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" [436] (covered by They Might Be Giants)
United States: Green Day's "American Idiot"[437] and Razorlight's "America"[438]
- The South: Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam"[439]
Vatican City Tom Lehrer's "The Vatican Rag"[440]
Wales: Paul Robeson sings "Land of My Fathers" [441]

Police state[edit]

Dead Kennedy's "Police Truck"[442]
Pharcyde's "Officer" [443]

Ruling class[edit]

Leadbelly's "The Bourgeois Blues"[444]
Motörhead's "Eat The Rich" (from the film of the same title)[445]

Futurism[edit]

Fun:Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus[446]
Sun Ra's "Space Is the Place"[447]

Pseudoscience[edit]

Cryonics: L7's "Pretend We're Dead"[448]
Penis enlargement: Speed Queen's "I Wish I Had A Big Cock Just Like Iggy Pop"[449]
Spontaneous human combustion: The Bobs' "Spontaneous Human Combustion"[450]
Wind turbine syndrome: Rufus Harley's bagpipe version of "Windy"[451]

Alternative medicine[edit]

Dental woo: "Dentist!" from Little Shop of Horrors with Steve Martin[452]
Enema: Buck Naked & The Bare Bottom Boys' "Enema Party"[453] NSFW
Sound healing: Len Chandler & Pete Seeger's "Beans In My Ears"[454]
Trepanation: Malvina Reynolds' "No Hole In My Head"[455]
Urine therapy: Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow"[456]

Cryptids[edit]

The Cramps' "Human Fly"[457]
The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck"[458]
Loch Ness Monster: "You'll Never Find a Nessie in the Zoo" [459] from the final episode of the UK animated TV series The Family Ness
- Kelpie: Jethro Tull's "Kelpie" [460]

Lycanthropy[edit]

Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London"[461]
Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark at the Moon"[462]
TV on the Radio's "Wolf Like Me"[463]
The Cramps' "I Was A Teenage Werewolf"[464]

Food woo[edit]

Cholesterol denialism, Dietary cholesterol: Lard's "The Power of Lard"[465]
Coffee: The Inkspots' "The Java Jive"[466]
Fast food: Fast Food Rocker's "Fast Food Song"[467]
- Heart Attack Grill: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Eat It"[468]

Ufology[edit]

Babylon Zoo's "Spaceman"[469]
Blink 182's 'Aliens Exist' [470]
Alien invasion: Jeff Wayne's adaptation of "War of the Worlds"[471]
Extraterrestrial: David Bowie's "Starman" [472]
Heaven's Gate: Radiohead's "Subterranean Homesick Alien"[473]
Men in black: Will Smith's "Men In Black"[474]
Roswell: Saxon's "There's Something In Roswell"[475]

Psychology[edit]

ADHD: System of a Down's "Toxicity"[476]
Bullying Robbie Wycoff's "He's a Bully" (from Phineas and Ferb) [477]
Confirmation bias: Todd Snider's "Mission Accomplished (Because You Gotta Have Faith)" [478]
Dancing mania: James Brown's "I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Need To Dance)"[479]
Greed: Queen's "I Want It All"[480]
Illness anxiety disorder: Falling in Reverse's "Voices in My Head"[481]
Paranoia: The Dickies' cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" (because it's harder to hear the sucky lyrics in the cover version)[482]
Schadenfreude: "Schadenfreude" from the musical Avenue Q[483]
PTSD: Dream Theater's "The Enemy Inside"[484]
Transactional Analysis: The Dickies' "I'm OK You're OK"[485]
Wishful thinking: Go West's "King of Wishful Thinking"[486]

Humanistic psychology[edit]

Sudan Archives' " Selfish Soul" [487]

Stockholm syndrome[edit]

Muse's "Stockholm Syndrome" [488]
Yo La Tengo's "Stockholm Syndrome" [489]
John Prine's "I Hate It When That Happens to Me" [490]

Racism, racialism, and bigotry[edit]

Harry Belafonte's "Black and White (Together)"[491]
Tom Lehrer's "National Brotherhood Week"[492]
"Everyone's A Little Bit Racist" from the musical Avenue Q[493]
Antiziganism: Lady Gaga's "Gypsy"[494]
Apartheid: Eddy Grant's "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna"[495]
Bigotry: Tim Minchin's "Prejudice"[496]
Black Lives Matter: Clipping's "Blood of the Fang"[497]
Everyone is racist: "Everybody's a Little Racist" from the Broadway musical Avenue Q[498]
Japanese-American concentration camps: Fort Minor's "Kenji"[499]
Ku Klux Klan: The Ramones' "The KKK Took My Baby Away"[500]
Paradox of tolerance: "Who Taught You How To Hate" by Disturbed

Slavery[edit]

Burning Spear's "Slavery Days"[501]
Rainbow's "Stargazer"[502]

Religion[edit]

Mr. Loco's "Religious Man" [503]
Afterlife: Nick Cave & Friends' "Death is Not the End"[504]
Babylon: The Melodians' "Rivers Of Babylon"[505]
Blasphemy: Public Image Ltd's "Religion"[506]
The Book of Mormon: "Hello!" from the musical The Book of Mormon[507]
Black Hebrew Israelites: Desmond Dekker & The Aces' "Israelites"[508]
Cult: "Blumenkranz" from Kill la Kill^{[note 9]}
Evil: Eartha Kitt's "I Want to Be Evil"[509]
- Voltaire's "When You're Evil"[510]
Fundamentalism: Disturbed's "Liberate"[511]
Human sacrifice: Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited"[512]
Idolatry: The Goldcoast Singers' "Plastic Jesus"[513]
International Society for Krishna Consciousness: Allen Ginsberg sings the Hare Krishna mantra to William F. Buckley [514] — who should have been more embarrassed by this: Ginsberg, Buckley or the Hare Krishas?
Judaism: "Tradition"[515] from Fiddler on the Roof
Just world fallacy: The Shaggs' "Philosophy of the World"[516]
Karma: Toots and the Maytals' "Pressure Drop"[517]
Mormonism: "I Believe" from the Book of Mormon Musical[518]
New Age: Frank Zappa's "Cosmik Debris"[519]
Norse mythology: Richard Wagner's 15 hours "Ring" cycle[520]
Problem of evil: Bad Religion's "God's Love"[521]
Religious leaders: Allen Ginsberg sings William Blake's "Garden of Love"[522]
Rastafarianism: Bob Marley & the Wailers' "Iron Lion Zion"[523]
Sacrifice: Elton John's "Sacrifice" [524]
Saint John Coltrane Church: John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album[525]
Sufism: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's "Mustt Mustt"[526]
Wicca: The Sword's "Maiden, Mother & Crone"[527]
Yogic flying: Black Flag's "Rise Above"[528]

Book of Genesis[edit]

Joseph Haydn's "The Creation"[529]
The "Genesis Suite", conceived by Nathaniel Shilkret, which includes collaborations from some of the greatest composers of the 20^th century, such as Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.[530]
Garden of Eden Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"[531]

Christianity[edit]

Amish: "Weird" Al Yankovic's "Amish Paradise"[532]
Bible Belt: Tyminski's "Southern Gothic"[533]
Jim Bakker: Frank Zappa's "Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk", which is specifically about Bakker[534]
Christophobia: Negativland's "The Mashin' of the Christ"[535]
Crucifiction: Monty Python's "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" from Life of Brian[536]
De-evolution: Devo's "Jocko Homo"[537] ("Are we not men? We are Devo.")
The Divine Comedy: Iced Earth's "Dante's Inferno"[538]
Easter: Bing Crosby sings Irving Berlin's "Easter Parade" [539] and so do Judy Garland & Fred Astaire [540]
God (the Christian version): Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky"[541]
Herod: "Herod's Song"[542] from Jesus Christ Superstar
Kent Hovind: eddygoombah's "Tribute to Kent Hovind"[543]
Judas Iscariot: "Damned for All Time" and "Blood Money"[544] from Jesus Christ Superstar
Book of Judges: Blind Willie Johnson's "If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down"[545]
Limbo: Chubby Checker's "Limbo Rock"[546]
Mary Magdalene: "I Don't Know How to Love Him"[547] from Jesus Christ Superstar
Mary (mother of Jesus) Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria"[548]
Messiah: Georg Friedrich Händel's "Messiah"[549]
Name it and claim it: O'Jay's "For the Love of Money"[550]
Pontius Pilate: "Pilate's Dream" [551] from Jesus Christ Superstar
Book of Revelation: Genesis's "Supper's Ready"[552]
Salem witch trials: Lonewolf's "Words of the Witch"[553]
Spanish Inquisition: "The Inquisition" from Mel Brooks' film History of the World: Part I[554]
Televangelists: Genesis's "Jesus He Knows Me"[555]
YMCA: Village People's "YMCA"[556]

Armageddon[edit]

Venom's "At War with Satan"[557]
The Dickies' version of "Eve Of Destruction"[558]
Trivium's "Wake (The End Is Nigh)"[559]

Jesus[edit]

King Missile's "Jesus Was Way Cool"[560]
Bobby Bare's "Dropkick Me Jesus"[561]
Johann Sebastian Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" [562] and its groovy derivative Apollo 100's "Joy" [563]
Jesus Christ Superstar: "Superstar"[564] from Jesus Christ Superstar

War on Christmas and Christmas[edit]

Perry Como's "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays"[565] from 1954!
Bing Crosby sings Irving Berlin's "Happy Holiday"[566] 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 [567]
"The World Turned Upside Down", 17^th century protest song against the banning of Christmas celebrations in England by Oliver Cromwell's Puritanical Parliamentary government following the English Civil War [568]
John Lennon with The Plastic Ono Band and The Harlem Community Choir's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"[569]
Jona Lewie's "Stop The Cavalry" [570]

Santa Claus[edit]

Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby"[571]
The Kinks' "Father Christmas"[572]
Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas"[573]
The Damned's "There Ain't No Sanity Clause"[574]

Heaven[edit]

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"[575]

Hell[edit]

Chris Rea's "The Road to Hell"[576]
AC/DC's "Highway to Hell"[577]
Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell"[578]
Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Hell"[579]

Satan[edit]

The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil"[580]
The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"[581]
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"[582]
King Dude's "Lucifer's the Light of the World"[583]
Elvis Presley's "(You're the) Devil in Disguise" [584]
Cliff Richard's "Devil Woman" [585]
Edward Hamilton's "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile!"[586] — 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"[587]

Satanic panic[edit]

Cake's "Pentagram"[588]
Lil Nas X’s "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)",[589] which caused a 21^st century panic[590]

Atheism[edit]

FAQ for the Newly Deconverted: R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion"[591]

Science, technology, environment, and math[edit]

Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science"[592]
They Might Be Giants' "Science Is Real"[593]
Animal Liberation Front — Dana Lyons' "Cows With Guns"[594]
CERN/Large Hadron Collider: Large Hadron Rap[595]
ChatGPT: Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus[596]
Element: Tom Lehrer's "The Elements"[597]
- Gold: Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger"[598]
Enshittification: Too Many Cooks[599]
Global warming: Disturbed's "Another Way to Die"[600]
Greenwashing: The Muppets' Kermit the Frog's "Its Not Easy Being Green"[601]
Holography: Gerry & The Holograms' "Gerry & The Holograms"[602]
Large language model: HAL 9000 sings "Daisy Bell" in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey[603]
Monkey typewriter theory: Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter" performed by Leroy Anderson Martin Breinschmid with Strauß Festival Orchestra[604]
New Math: Tom Lehrer's "New Math"[605]
Nuclear science: Timbuk 3's "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" [606]
Pollution: Tom Lehrer's "Pollution"[607]
Roko's basilisk: Grimes - "We Appreciate Power"[608]
Sleep: Pup's "Totally Fine"[609]
Tree: Clint Eastwood sings "I Talk to the Trees"[610] from Paint Your Wagon

Evolution[edit]

Fossil record: Science with Tom's "Fossil Rock Anthem" [611]
Living fossil#Elvis taxon: Mojo Nixon's "Elvis is Everywhere"[612]

Medicine[edit]

Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine"[613]
Cancer: Joe Jackson's "Cancer"[614]
Dentistry: Little Shop of Horrors' "Dentist!" [615]
Gulf War syndrome: Moxy Fruvous' "Gulf War Song"[616]
HIV/AIDS: Diamanda Galás' "This Is The Law of the Plague"[617]
Stem cell research: Dream Theater's "The Great Debate"[618]

NASA[edit]

Tom Lehrer's "Wernher von Braun"[619]
Elton John's "Rocket Man"[620]
Sam Ryder's "Spaceman"[621]

Radio[edit]

76% Uncertain's "I Hate the Radio"[622]
Stiff Little Fingers' "You Can't Say Crap On The Radio"[623]
Queen's "Radio Ga Ga"[624]
Joy Division's Transmission[625]

Transportation[edit]

Aircraft: Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly"[626]
Automobile: The Dickies' "Manny, Moe and Jack"[627]
Bicycle: Frank Zappa playing music on a bicycle on the Steve Allen TV show[628] and Queen's Bicycle Race [629]

Rail transportation[edit]

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' "Orange Blossom Special"[630]
Keith & Tex's "Stop That Train"[631] — the rocksteady song that launched a thousand reggae songs

Sex and gender[edit]

The Buzzcocks' "Orgasm Addict"[632]
Mousse T's "Horny"[633]
Salt-N-Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex"[634]
Spinal Tap's "Sex Farm"[635]
Tool's "Prison Sex" [636]
Anal sex: Eddie Murphy's "Boogie In Your Butt"[637]
Birth control: Monty Python's "Every Sperm Is Sacred" from The Meaning of Life[638]
Circumcision/Penis enlargement: King Missile's "Detachable Penis"[639]
Cunt: "Cibai Bai"[640]
Feminism: Beyoncé's "Run the World (Girls)" [641]
Marriage: Toots and The Maytals' "Sweet and Dandy"[642]
Masochism: Tom Lehrer's "The Masochism Tango"[643]
Menstruation: The Steriles' "On the Rag"[644]
Open marriage: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' "Swinger from Seville" [645]
Pick-up artist: Britney Spears' "Womanizer"[646]
Pornography: Tom Lehrer's "Smut"[647]
Sexually transmitted disease: Frank Zappa's "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?"[648]
Sodomy: "Sodomy" from the Peter Jackson film Meet the Feebles[649]

BDSM[edit]

The Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs"[650]
X-Ray Spex's "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!"[651] — banned by Auntie Beeb

LGBT[edit]

Belle and Sebatian's "Act of the Apostle" [652]
Bisexuality: Green Day's "Coming Clean" [653]
Homophobia: Chumbawumba's "Homophobia"[654]

Cross-dressing[edit]

Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Sweet Transvestite"[655]
Monty Python's The Lumberjack Song[656]

Homosexuality[edit]

Gloria Gaynor sings "I Am What I Am"[657] from La Cage aux Folles
Sister Sledge's "We Are Family"[658] — known as a gay anthem
Electric Six's "Gay Bar"[659]

Transgender[edit]

Transphobia and public restrooms: Tribe 8's "Wrong Bathroom"[660]
The Who's "I'm a Boy"[661]
Wrabel's "The Village"[662]
The Kinks' "Lola"[663] (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" [664] (while not strictly related, often used as a FTM Trans anthem)

Masturbation[edit]

The Who's "Pictures of Lily"[665]
Divinyls' "I Touch Myself"[666]
Green Day's "All by Myself" [667]
Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop"[668] (a PMRC "Filthy Fifteen" hit!)

Men Going Their Own Way[edit]

Deep Purple's "Rat Bat Blue"[669]

Social justice[edit]

Disability: The Who's Tommy rock opera[670]

Vegetarianism[edit]

Citi Zeni's "Eat your salad"

War[edit]

The Marx Brothers' "The Country's Going to War" from the film Duck Soup[671]
AC/DC "War Machine" [672]
Edwin Starr's "War"[673]
Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"[674]
Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem"[675]
The Fugs' "Kill for Peace"[676]
Pink Floyd's "Us and Them"[677]
Agent Orange: REM's "Orange Crush"[678]
Conscription: Frank Zappa's "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted"[679]
Crusades: Saxon's "Crusader"[680]
English Civil War: Elvis Costello & The Attractions' "Oliver's Army"[681]
Syrian Civil War: Myrath's "Dance"[682]
War of 1812: Jimmy Driftwood's "The Battle of New Orleans" [683] (covered by Johnny Horton and Lonnie Donegan)

American Civil War[edit]

"Marchin' Through Georgia"[684] — a marching song commemorating Sherman's March on Atlanta
Vilkas Music's "Union Dixie - Eurobeat Remix"[685]

Gunboat diplomacy[edit]

Tom Lehrer's "Send the Marines"[686]
Phil Ochs' "Cops of the World"[687] and "Santo Domingo"[688]

Nuclear war[edit]

Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral"[689]
The Weirdos' "We Got The Neutron Bomb"[690]

The Troubles[edit]

Stiff Little Fingers' "Alternative Ulster"[691]
Stiff Little Fingers' "Suspect Device"[692]

Vietnam War[edit]

Country Joe & the Fish's "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag"[693]
Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son"[694]
The Guess Who's "American Woman"[695]
King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man"[696]
Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA"[697]

World War III[edit]

Tom Lehrer's "We Will All Go Together When We Go"[698]
Tom Lehrer's "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)"[699]
Randy Newman's "Political Science (Let's Drop the Big One Now)"[700]
Vera Lynn's admittedly-mawkish "We'll Meet Again", with the visuals from the ending of Dr. Strangelove turning it on its head[701]

Encore: Funspace, Helpspace, and oddments[edit]

Funspace, pro: Flipper's "Ha Ha Ha"[702]
Funspace, con: Hüsker Dü's "It's Not Funny Anymore"[703]
Fun:American football: Bobby Bare's "Drop Kick Me Jesus"[704]
Fun:Asshole: Frank Zappa's "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes"[705]]
Category:Black nationalism: Parliament's "Chocolate City"[706]
RationalWiki:Blocking policy: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments' "Negative Guest List"[707]
Category:Cartoons and comics: Happy Flowers' "I Said I Wanna Watch Cartoons"[708] — rather less irritating than Metal Machine Music
Fun:Cats & Fun:Dogs: The Cramps' "Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?"[709] and Hasil Adkins' "Boo Boo the Cat"[710]
Conservapedia:Conservative: Tool's "The Grudge"[711]
Fun:Dalek: The Timelords' "Doctorin' the Tardis"[712]
Fun:Eurovision Song Contest: Monty Python's Europolice Song Contest with "Sgt. Duckie's Song" and "Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong"[713]
Fun:Fox Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady"[714]
Category:Government surveillance: Judas Priest's "Electric Eye"[715]
Goth: Havergal Brian's "Gothic Symphony"[716]
Fun:Horse: America's "A Horse With No Name"[717]
RationalWiki:Leaving and never coming back: The Mr. T Experience's "So Long Sucker"[718]
Fun:LOLCatistianity: The Bobs' "Fluffy' s Master Plan for World Domination"[719]
Conservapedia:Machismo Village People's "Macho Man"[720]
Monster (fork): Bobby Pickett's "Monster Mash"[721] or The Automatic "Monster"[722]
Fun:Monty Python: Auckland Symphony Orchestra's version of John Phillip Sousa's "Liberty Bell March" (the Monty Python theme song)[723]
RationalWiki:Pissed at us: L7's "Shitlist"[724]
Fun:Planet of the Apes: The musical Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off! from The Simpsons [725]
Fun:Elvis Presley: Mojo Nixon's "Elvis is Everywhere"[726]
Fun:Stupidity: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartment's "You Can't Kill Stupid"[727]
Fun:Shit: Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream"[728]
RationalWiki:Sysops: Suburban Lawns' "Janitor"[729]
WIGO: Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On"[730]
Woke (fork): Snow Tha Product's "Snooze"[731]

Boredom[edit]

The Boredoms' "B for Boredom"[732]
The Buzzcocks' "Boredom"[733]

Fart[edit]

Captain Underpants' "Fart Band"[734]
Spinal Tap's "Break Like the Wind"[735]

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.

[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] There's also some ample references to cocaine usage (natch), but that doesn't really show up until the last quarter of the song.

[7] Word of God (in the TV Tropes sense) on this song is that it's a love song for vampires.

[8] 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.

[9] 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.

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