“Tempted” by Squeeze
Sorry if I missed this in an earlier post.
Re: cities
**Heart of Rock and Roll **by Huey Lewis and the News
Allan Sherman’s “Hungarian Goulash” and “Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max”!
Things that you can do to me as long as you don’t step on my footwear: “Blue Suede Shoes”
Alice Cooper, “It’s The Little Things”
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry
“Hush Little Baby”
Along the same lines, at the end of “Make It Funky,” James Brown starts shouting out types of soul food.
Let’s Do It - another by Cole Porter
They Can’t Take That Away from Me - George and Ira Gershwin
Manhattan - Rogers and Hart
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…”
Girls, Girls, Girls by Motley Crue lists the names of strip clubs.
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
There’s also a little list in The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Todd Rundgren - Onomotopoeia
Barenaked Ladies - Another Postcard 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 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
Old 97s “Living In A State of Texas” lists a bunch of cities, places, and stuff in Texas.
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!
The Ramones listed four rules in Commando:
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
Antonio Carlos Jobim’s classic Waters of March. The Portugese original Águas de Março is considered one of the best songs written in the language.
I absolutely love Jobim’s work.
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.