# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/81 "2014-02-15T22:03:12Z")
“Tempted” by Squeeze ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/82 "2014-02-15T23:39:30Z")
Sorry if I missed this in an earlier post. Re: cities \*\*Heart of Rock and Roll \*\*by Huey Lewis and the News [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/M7JVlpm0eRs/maxresdefault.jpg "Huey Lewis & The News - The Heart Of Rock & Roll") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JVlpm0eRs) ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/83 "2014-02-16T00:14:22Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Allan Sherman’s “Holiday for States” Allan Sherman’s “[Hungarian Goulash](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIwvsj40sBY)” and “[Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q--smUiF_6g)”! ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/84 "2014-02-16T23:17:52Z")
Things that you can do to me as long as you don’t step on my footwear: “Blue Suede Shoes” ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/85 "2014-02-16T23:22:55Z")
Alice Cooper, “[It’s The Little Things](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/alicecooper/itsthelittlethings.html)” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/86 "2014-02-17T00:40:19Z")
[Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer](http://youtu.be/JuhOqpMu5hI) - Gene Autry ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/87 "2014-02-17T00:51:30Z")
“Hush Little Baby” ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/88 "2014-02-17T02:07:45Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > There’s a background singer on the Kingsmen’s “The Jolly Green Giant” who is randomly naming vegetables. Along the same lines, at the end of “Make It Funky,” James Brown starts shouting out types of soul food. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/89 "2014-02-17T03:57:01Z")
Let’s Do It - another by Cole Porter They Can’t Take That Away from Me - George and Ira Gershwin Manhattan - Rogers and Hart ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/90 "2014-02-17T03:57:04Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Along the same lines, at the end of “Make It Funky,” James Brown starts shouting out types of soul food. That reminds me of “Colored Spade” from _Hair_ – a list of racial epithets followed by a list of stereotypical “black” foods. Other “list” songs from _Hair_: “Sodomy” and the chant “Hashish”. Oh yeah, and the Beatles’ “Dig It”… “Like the FBI and the CIA and the BBC… B.B. King… and Doris Day…” ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/91 "2014-02-17T04:56:00Z")
[Girls, Girls, Girls](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIM4gmho8P0) by Motley Crue lists the names of strip clubs. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/92 "2014-02-17T05:27:46Z")
[Tubthumping](http://youtu.be/2H5uWRjFsGc) - Chumbawamba ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/93 "2014-02-17T08:27:27Z")
> [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](#): > > It’s the End of the World, REM There’s also a little list in _The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite_ ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/94 "2014-02-17T13:30:08Z")
Todd Rundgren - _[Onomotopoeia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rGbPtzEB9c)_ ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/95 "2014-02-17T13:40:41Z")
[Barenaked Ladies - Another Postcard](http://youtu.be/Gt3R6oTDt44) lists the different types of chimps on the postcards. _Some chimps in swimsuits, some chimps are swinging from a vine Some chimps in jackboots, some chimps that wish they could be mine. Starsky and Hutch chimps, a chimp who’s sitting on the can A pair of Dutch chimps who send their love from Amsterdam._ [Weird Al Yankovic - One More Minute](http://youtu.be/yWhpk-8QLFQ) lists things he’d rather do than spend one more minute with you. _Yes, I’d rather jump naked on a huge pile of thumbtacks Or stick my nostrils together with crazy glue I’d rather dive into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades Than spend one more minute with you_ ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/96 "2014-02-17T14:33:03Z")
Old 97s “Living In A State of Texas” lists a bunch of cities, places, and stuff in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/97 "2014-02-17T17:11:26Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > That reminds me of “Colored Spade” from _Hair_ – a list of racial epithets followed by a list of stereotypical “black” foods. Other “list” songs from _Hair_: “Sodomy” and the chant “Hashish”. Or for that matter, “Hair”: I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty Oily, greasy, fleecy Shining, gleaming, streaming Flaxen, waxen Knotted, polka-dotted Twisted, beaded, braided Powdered, flowered, and confettied Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied! ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/98 "2014-02-17T17:31:47Z")
The Ramones listed four rules in [Commando](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xmRt_2Aia0): _ **First rule is:** _ The laws of Germany _ **Second rule is:** _ Be nice to mommy _ **Third rule is:** _ Don’t talk to commies _ **Fourth rule is:** _ Eat kosher salamis ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/99 "2014-02-20T14:17:54Z")
Antonio Carlos Jobim’s classic [Waters of March](http://connectbrazil.com/news/me-watersofmarch-03052006.html). The Portugese original Águas de Março is considered one of the best songs written in the language. I absolutely love Jobim’s work. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/100 "2014-02-20T14:21:10Z")
My wife’s friends made her a “mix tape” of songs with lists many years ago, including many in this thread. I can’t recall everything that’s on it, but it includes Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I’ve Got A Little List”, the list of the people to be killed from _Sweeney Todd_, and Michael Palin’s song from _Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251.md?page=6)