List song
A list song is a song based wholly or in part on a list. List songs typically develop by working through a list, sometimes using items of escalating absurdity.
Examples of list songs (and their composers/performers) include the following. Songs are in alphabetical order by title (omitting the definite article where not important to the title).
A to D
- "'A' - You're Adorable" (Sid Lippman, Buddy Kaye and Fred Wise)
- "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" (Bob Dylan)
- "A Little Priest" (Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler From Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
- "A Little Something Refreshing" (Eric Stefani), performed by No Doubt
- "Area Codes" (Ludacris)
- "Around the World" (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- "A Sheltered Life" Carter USM
- "A Well-Dressed Hobbit" (Rie Sheridan Rose, Marc Gunn)
- "Ain't Got No" (from the musical Hair)
- "All My Ex's Live in Texas" (George Strait and Whitey Shafer)
- "American Bad-ass" (Kid Rock)
- "All the Words in the English Language" from Animaniacs
- "As Some Day It May Happen" (from The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan)
- "At the Hop" (Danny and the Juniors) lists many popular dances of the late 1950s.
- "The Bad Touch" (Bloodhound Gang) lists many euphemisms for sexual acts.
- "Bahay Kubo" (traditional) lists vegetables found in the surrounding of a farm.
- "Bike" (Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd)
- "The Begat" (Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg)
- "Better Than Anything" (David "Buck" Wheat & Bill Loughborough) lists all the things love is better than.
- "Black Boys" (from the musical Hair)
- "The Booklovers" (The Divine Comedy)
- "Brothers and Sisters" (Blur)
- "California Girls" (The Beach Boys)
- "Can U Dig It" (Pop Will Eat Itself)
- "Chop Suey," music by Richard Rodgers, words by Oscar Hammerstein II, introduced by Juanita Hall and Patrick Adiarte in Flower Drum Song
- "Coded Language" (Krust / Saul Williams)
- "Come Together" (The Beatles)
- "Come To the Supermarket In Old Peking" (Cole Porter)
- "Conga!", music by Leonard Bernstein, words by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, introduced by Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town
- "Datura" (Tori Amos)
- "Destroy Rock & Roll" (Mylo)
- "DJ Bombay" (Michael V.) list down things that are sold by Indian nationals in the Philippines.
- "Done Too Soon" (Neil Diamond)
E to J
- "Eclipse" (Pink Floyd)
- "Eight Easy Steps" (Alanis Morissette)
- "88 Lines About 44 Women" (The Nails)
- "The Elements" (Tom Lehrer)
- "Elephant Talk" (King Crimson)
- "Endless Art" (A House)
- "Porn Star Dancing" (My Darkest Days featuring Zakk Wylde and Chad Kroeger)
- "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (Paul Simon)
- "F.E.A.R." (Ian Brown)
- "Forever Young" (Bob Dylan)
- "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" (The Bloodhound Gang)
- "Girl of 100 Lists" (Go-Go's)
- "Gin Soaked Boy" (The Divine Comedy)
- "God" (John Lennon)
- "Going Nowhere Slow" (The Bloodhound Gang) lists cities across the USA
- "Good Doctor" (Robbie Williams)
- "The Green Grass Grows All Around" (Traditional)
- "Green Grow the Rushes, O" (Traditional)
- "Hair" (from the musical Hair)
- "Hank Williams Said it Best" (Guy Clark)
- "Hardware Store" ("Weird Al" Yankovic)
- "Hashish" (from the musical Hair)
- "Hello" (The Beloved)
- "Hot Topic" (Le Tigre)
- "I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven" (Tex Ritter)
- "I Can't Get Started (With You)" (Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke)
- "I Got Life" (from the musical Hair)
- "I'm Black/Colored Spade" (from the musical Hair)
- "I'm Still Here" (Stephen Sondheim)
- "I Started a Blog Nobody Read" (Sprites)
- "I've Been Everywhere" (Lucky Starr (original), Geoff Mack (U.S.A. adaptation))
- "Imperfect List" (Big Hard Excellent Fish)
- "It's Grim Up North" (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu)
- "Isang Linggong Pag-Ibig" (Imelda Papin)
- "It's the End of the World As We Know It" (R.E.M.)
- "Jung Talent Time" (TISM)
K to O
- "La Vie Bohème" (Jonathan Larson)
- "Let 'em In" (Wings)
- "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" ("George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin)
- "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (Cole Porter)
- "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" (Reunion)
- "Losing My Edge" (LCD Soundsystem)
- "Lost Property" (The Divine Comedy)
- "Love Your Love the Most" Eric Church Lists everything he loves
- "Lower 48" The Gourds
- "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" (Mozart) ("The Catalogue Aria" from Don Giovanni)
- "Mambo No. 5" (performed by Lou Bega and Perez Prado)
- "Man on the Moon (R.E.M.)
- "Manhattan", (Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart)
- "Matangi", (M.I.A.)
- "MfG" (Die Fantastischen Vier)
- "Mr. Goldstone" (music, Jule Styne; lyrics, Stephen Sondheim)
- "Moments to Remember" (Robert Allen and Al Stillman)
- "Mope" (The Bloodhound Gang)
- "My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)" (Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn) Big hit for Frank Sinatra extolling the virtues of Chicago.
- "My Favorite Things" (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
- "My Favorite Things (Conservative version)" (a political parody, with lyrics by Don Smith)
- "Name Game" (Shirley Ellis)
- "New Direction" (Sugar Ray) (lists things you can do to make yourself a better person)
- "Nunal" (Vincent Daffalong)
- "One Hundred Easy Ways (To Lose a Man)" (music, Leonard Bernstein; lyrics, Betty Comden and Adolph Green)
- "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (Rudy Toombs)
- "Ordertaker" (Parokya ni Edgar) list down Filipino foods sold in eatery.
- "Overdrive" (Eraserheads) mentions places in the Philippines.
P to S
- "Pencil Full of Lead" (Paolo Nutini)
- "People Who Died" (Jim Carroll)
- "Pennsylvania" (The Bloodhound Gang)
- "Pepper" (Butthole Surfers)
- "Plane Too" (Loudon Wainwright III)
- "Play with Me" (Extreme (band))
- "Pokerap" (Pokemon)
- "Portobello Road" (from Walt Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
- "The Pride" (Five Finger Death Punch)
- "Questions and Answers (The Three B's)" from the musical On Your Toes (Rodgers and Hart)
- "Raise Up" (Petey Pablo)
- "Ramblin' Man" (Lemon Jelly)
- "The Rattlin' Bog" (Traditional)
- "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
- "Rickets" (Deftones)
- "Rock & Roll Heaven" (The Righteous Brothers)
- "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" (Bobby Troup)
- "Royals" Lorde lists subjects of modern pop songs
- "Said the Hobbit to the Horse" (Marc Gunn)
- "Sample Song" (Dorothy Shay)
- "Short Memory" (Midnight Oil)
- "Show Me What You Got" (Limp Bizkit)
- "Seven Curses" (Bob Dylan)
- "7 Things" (Miley Cyrus)
- "Sinaktan mo ang puso ko" (Michael V.) lists down the hurtful things that his lover did
- "Sixteen Reasons"(Bill and Doree Post) (#3 hit for Connie Stevens in 1960)
- "Sodomy" (from the musical Hair)
- "Song for Whoever" (The Beautiful South)
- "Stars on 45" (Stars on 45)
- "Start Button" (Private Thoughts in Public Places featuring Streamer, on As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
- "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (Bob Dylan)
- "Super Supper March" (Nigel Pilkington)
T to Z
- "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" (Ira Gershwin & Kurt Weill)
- The chorus of "Tam Pierce" (Widdecombe Fair) lists all the people accompanying the narrator to the fair.
- "Teachers" (Daft Punk)
- "Telefonbuchpolka" (Georg Kreisler)
- "Ten Commandments of Love" (The Moonglows)
- "Ten Crack Commandments" (The Notorious B.I.G.)
- "These Foolish Things" (Eric Maschwitz and Jack Strachey)
- "They All Fall In Love" (Cole Porter)
- "To Kokoraki" (the Cockerel) (Flanders and Swann)
- "Thou Shalt Always Kill" (Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip)
- "Transmetropolitan" (The Pogues)
- "Turn a Blind Eye" (Half Man Half Biscuit)
- "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Traditional)
- "21 Things I Want in a Lover" (Alanis Morissette)
- "The Unthinkable" (Boom Bip)
- "Van Lingle Mungo" (Dave Frishberg)
- "Vogue" (Madonna)
- "Wakko's America" from Animaniacs
- "Waters of March" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
- "We Care a Lot" (Faith No More)
- "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Billy Joel)
- "What Shall We Do Now?", (Pink Floyd) in the film of Pink Floyd—The Wall
- "Who's Next" (Tom Lehrer) lists countries acquiring nuclear weapons.
- "The Whole World Lost its Head" (Go-Go's)
- "White Boys" (from the musical Hair)
- "Wish (Komm Zu Mir)", From the film Run Lola Run (Thomas D)
- "Wishlist", Pearl Jam
- "Yakko's World" from Animaniacs
- "You're the Top" (Cole Porter)
- "Zip" (Rodgers and Hart)
Many patter songs fall into this genre such as:
- KoKo's List Song from The Mikado (see "As Some Day It May Happen" above)
- "Tchaikovsky" (Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin) (see "Tschaikowsky" above)
- "The Major-General's Song" (Gilbert and Sullivan)
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