John Hartford’s “Tater Tate and Alan Mundy”
Dale Watson’s “I Hate These Songs” lists, oddly enough, songs.
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 …”)
You’re The Top being a top one.
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”
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…”)
“The Na-Na Song” by Sheryl Crow
Van Lingle Mungo
“Achy Breaky Song” by Weird Al Yankovic.
Babe I’m On Fire by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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
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
Cities (Cities) - Talking Heads.
CMC
Book chapters:
Book of Love - The Monotones
Everyday I Write the Book - Elvis Costello
Soul Coughing-“Casiotone Nation”
I expected it to be in the OP.
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)
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
Don’t know much about biology
trigonometry
science book
French I took
Wha Me Eat by Macka B.