# Songs with "Under the Sea" or "Ocean" theme **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152 "2006-08-03T05:14:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/41 "2006-08-03T20:35:28Z")
Plus, toward the end of the party, when you want people to clear out, you can put this on: “Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl)” by Looking Glass. This one will have them running out in droves, screaming in horror, their hands covering their ears. I personally kinda like it, but most people … don’t. and for those really pesky guests whom you wouldn’t mind never seeing again “Captain of Her Heart” by Double. The piano interlude is especially effective. They won’t be back. And I dunno what kind of parties SOME of us go to, but “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” isn’t a party tune. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/42 "2006-08-03T21:02:27Z")
I’ll echo Great Big Sea. Not yet mentioned: Rod Stewart’s “Rhythm of My Heart” which has always sounded like a sea shanty to me. It’s the one with the lyrics: The rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum. With the words “I love you” rolling off my tongue. No never will I roam for I know my place is home. Where the ocean meets the sky I’ll be sailing." ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/43 "2006-08-03T21:25:00Z")
Don’t laugh, but there are a couple good songs on the Spongebob Squarepants Movie sountrack. One by The Flaming Lips, and one by Ween. I forget their names, but they are both great. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/44 "2006-08-03T22:34:08Z")
A jaunty sea shanty by the Decemberists “The Mariner’s Revenge Song” “We are two mariners our ships’ sole survivors trapped in the belly of a whale its ribs are ceiling beams its guts are carpeting I guess we have some time to kill” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/45 "2006-08-04T01:00:29Z")
[“Leah”](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/roy+orbison/leah_20118982.html) - Roy Orbison: _Uh huh! I gotta go diving in the bay Gotta get a lot of oysters Find some pearls today To make a pretty necklace for leah Leah_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/46 "2006-08-04T01:03:24Z")
[“Fins”](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimmy+buffett/fins_10150088.html) - Jimmy Buffet: _Can’t you feel ‘em circlin’, honey Can’t you feel ‘em schoolin’ around You got fins to the left, fins to the right And you’re the only bait in town_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/47 "2006-08-04T01:23:57Z")
[“CAn’t Get It Out of My Head”](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/electric+light+orchestra/cant+get+it+out+of+my+head_20045361.html) - ELO: _Midnight on the water. I saw the ocean’s daughter. Walking on a wave’s chicane staring as she called my name._ ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/48 "2006-08-04T04:54:25Z")
Ah, you guys rock! Lots of GREAT suggestions here, thank you! For some reason I didn’t get email notification on this thread and thought no one had replied to it - good thing I came in to check! **Evil Captor** : i love “Brandy” :o To all those suggesting songs for a “Makeout Room”: BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!! We’re not exactly geezers, but I doubt that there will be sufficent making out to warrant a designated _room_… I can’t wait to give some of these a listen! > [@](#): > > Well, as a movie reference, you could throw in Earth Angel and Johnny B. Goode **robardin** , you’re going to have to spoil this one for me 😕 **Ranchoth** , your seafarin’ goths are killin’ me! 😃 They’re TOTALLY invited! Oh, and to hijack my own thread: anyone who wants to toss in an ocean-themed cocktail suggestion to go with their tune, go right ahead 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/49 "2006-08-04T05:06:20Z")
[QUOTE=jellyblue] **robardin** , you’re going to have to spoil this one for me 😕 [/QUOTE] I’ll supply the spoiler since I just missed supplying the reference. 😉 It’s from **Back to the Future**. At the “Enchantment Under the Sea” prom towards the end of the movie there are memorable renditions of these two songs. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/50 "2006-08-04T05:21:58Z")
[QUOTE=Rodgers01] I’ll supply the spoiler since I just missed supplying the reference. 😉 It’s from **Back to the Future**. At the “Enchantment Under the Sea” prom towards the end of the movie there are memorable renditions of these two songs. [/QUOTE] :smack: I saw that movie and everything! Thanks for the contribution, **Rodgers01** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/51 "2006-08-04T06:53:38Z")
I’d also suggest: [“Sailing,”](http://www.reallyrics.com/lyrics/C005300010028.asp) by Christopher Cross, and [“Cool Change,”](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/little_river_band/cool_change.html) by Little River Band, and [url=[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002LRR/102-4956010-3875339?v=glance&n=5174](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002LRR/102-4956010-3875339?v=glance&n=5174)]“Orinoco Flow(Sail Away),” by Enya. About a fourth of the way down from the Amazon page, there are options to play a short clip of this. BEAUTIFUL song! ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/52 "2006-08-04T06:57:20Z")
\*&%#%!!! Hit Submit instead of Preview again… "Orinoco Flow(Sail Away)," by Enya. About a fourth of the way down from the Amazon page, there are options to play a short clip of this. BEAUTIFUL song! ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/53 "2006-08-04T07:08:07Z")
Also, don’t know where to find this, but if you can find the Hawaiian song, “When the humuhumunukunukuapua’a goes swimming by,” I thin it would be favorably received, also. Other thoughts, but possibly not meeting the theme of your OP: “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” “Down On the Bayou” and "Proud Mary,"Creedence Clearwater Revival “Shrimp Boats Are Coming,” by ?? “Blue Bayou,” by Linda Rondstadt ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/54 "2006-08-04T07:18:48Z")
[QUOTE=miss elizabeth] Don’t laugh, but there are a couple good songs on the Spongebob Squarepants Movie sountrack. One by The Flaming Lips, and one by Ween. I forget their names, but they are both great. [/QUOTE] Don’t forget the theme song! ♫_Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?_♫ ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/55 "2006-08-04T07:36:00Z")
What the hell… _Holy Diver_—Dio ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/56 "2006-08-04T12:47:01Z")
“A Pirate Looks at 40” by Jimmy Buffet. In fact, I’d just play his entire Live album. “Kokomo” by the Beach Boys. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/57 "2006-08-04T13:03:51Z")
[QUOTE=LiveOnAPlane] [“Cool Change,”](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/little_river_band/cool_change.html) by Little River Band [/QUOTE] OOOhh! You’ve just sent me on an all expenses paid nostalgia trip! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/58 "2006-08-04T13:29:56Z")
I guess you don’t want to have a “Barnacle Bill the Sailor” theme, do you? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/59 "2006-08-04T14:44:34Z")
Oh yeah! **Diver Dan** , by the Silver Surfers. Here’s a cocktail for you: **Ocean View** 1 oz vodka 1/3 oz dry vermouth 1/3 oz melon liqueur 1/3 oz blue curaçao Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Decorate with a lemon twist. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/60 "2006-08-04T14:57:57Z")
_Down by the Seaside_ by Led Zeppelin _Walk on the Ocean_ by Toad the Wet Sprocket _Down by the Water_ by PJ Harvey (although you might find that a little grim for a party. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152.md?page=4)