# Songs that lists things **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251 "2014-02-13T15:23:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/41 "2014-02-13T23:47:04Z")
John Hartford’s “Tater Tate and Alan Mundy” ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/42 "2014-02-13T23:53:01Z")
Dale Watson’s “I Hate These Songs” lists, oddly enough, songs. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/43 "2014-02-14T00:21:59Z")
Geez, \*\*\*\*anyone ever heard a song called _Eclipse_ from Pink Floyd’s _Dark Side of the Moon_? Also, _Love is a Stranger_, Eurythmics (qualities of love) _Wishing the Days Away_, Billy Bragg (days of the week) _Lay My Love_, Eno/Cale (characteristics of the first person character) and _Fairbanks, Alaska_, Joe Walsh (everywhere else – “… I’ve never shot 18 under par, and I still don’t know where all those balls are, except the one that went in one doctor’s car, in Lincoln Nebraska …”) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/44 "2014-02-14T00:56:28Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > “List” songs always make me think of Cole Porter (as does anyone carrying a hod of coal) **You’re The Top** being a top one. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/45 "2014-02-14T01:09:10Z")
Well, you should try to smile, dear Get yourself a pet deer Dog Cat Bird Pig Lamb Horse Cow Fox Wolf Snake Ox Fish A goldfish! Mouse Sparks - “Mickey Mouse” ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/46 "2014-02-14T01:21:56Z")
Dances: “Nobody But Me”, Human Beinz (“Nobody can do the SHING-A-LING! like I do/Nobody can do the SKATE! like I do…”) Girls: “Travelin’ Man”, Ricky Nelson (“Oh my sweet Fraulein down in Berlin town makes my heart start to yearn, and my China doll in old Hong Kong waits for my return…”) Girls: “California Girls”, Beach Boys (“East Coast girls are hip, I really dig those styles they wear/And the Southern girls with the way they talk they knock me out when I’m down there…”) Bands: “Monterey”, Eric Burdon & the Animals (“The Byrds and the Airplane did fly/Ravi Shankar’s music made me cry/The Who exploded into fired light/Hugh Masekela’s music was black as night…”) Beliefs: “God”, John Lennon (“I don’t believe in magic/I don’t believe in I Ching/I don’t believe in tarot/I don’t believe in Hitler…”) Professions: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor”, Yardbirds (“Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief…”) Archetypes: “Atlantis”, Donovan (“On board were the twelve: The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist…”) Everything: “Third Uncle”, Brian Eno (“There are tins, there was pork, there are legs, there are sharks, there was John, there are cliffs, there was mother, there’s a poker, there was you…”) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/47 "2014-02-14T01:59:13Z")
“The Na-Na Song” by Sheryl Crow ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/48 "2014-02-14T02:03:20Z")
Van Lingle Mungo ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/49 "2014-02-14T02:03:44Z")
[“Achy Breaky Song”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xqw_aBW9Fs) by Weird Al Yankovic. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/50 "2014-02-14T03:45:14Z")
[Babe I’m On Fire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsBJ62jSCl0) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/51 "2014-02-14T03:55:22Z")
Step one, slit my throat Step two, play in my blood Step three, cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house Step four, stop by Lake Michigan and rinse your crimson hands… “This Could Be Love” by Alkoline Trio ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/52 "2014-02-14T03:59:06Z")
In the same vein as the aforementioned “Kiss off” is Beyoncé’s “Countdown”: _My baby is a 10 We dressing to the 9 He pick me up we 8 Make me feel so lucky 7 He kiss me in his 6 We be making love in 5 Still the one I do this 4 I’m trying to make a 3 From that 2 He still the 1_ ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/53 "2014-02-14T04:24:39Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > [Sweet Little Sixteen](http://youtu.be/ZLV4NGpoy_E) (Cities) - Chuck Berry > > [Dancing in the Streets](http://youtu.be/CdvITn5cAVc) (Cities) - Martha and the Vandellas [Cities](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB9W8St1pDc) (Cities) - Talking Heads. 😃 CMC ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/54 "2014-02-14T04:28:54Z")
Book chapters: [Book of Love](http://youtu.be/qIfuNPbBaaA) - The Monotones [Everyday I Write the Book](http://youtu.be/lhLztdvgpFY) - Elvis Costello ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/55 "2014-02-14T04:42:23Z")
Soul Coughing-“Casiotone Nation” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vUF19MJWowM/hqdefault.jpg "SOUL COUGHING-Casiotone Nation") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUF19MJWowM) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/56 "2014-02-14T06:56:22Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Oh yeah, and I expected one of the first three posts to mention Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements”! I expected it to be in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/57 "2014-02-14T07:02:20Z")
Kind of borderline listy songs: _Free Falling_, Tom Petty (qualities and tendencies of the girl) _Industrial Disease_, Dire Straits (symptoms, maladies and angstinesses) _Nothing But Flowers_, Talking Heads (modern things sloughed off by the apocalypse) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/58 "2014-02-14T11:38:25Z")
Days: Lady Madonna - Beatles Days: Here Comes the Weekend - Dave Edmunds Body parts: Please Don’t Bury Me - John Prine Girls of different nationalities: Back in the USSR - Beatles Ingested animals: I know an old woman who swallowed a fly - ? Honeymoon events: The Ballad of John and Yoko - Beatles Musicians: Garden Party - Ricky Nelson Drugs: The No No Song - Hoyt Axton (alleged) ironies: Ironic - Alanis Morissett Things that affect you/things that you affect: Andy’s Chest - Lou Reed mmm ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/59 "2014-02-14T15:35:47Z")
Don’t know much about biology trigonometry science book French I took ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/60 "2014-02-14T16:08:10Z")
[Wha Me Eat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kHhhg8exIY) by Macka B. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251.md?page=4)