# Superman songs of the 1990's

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 11, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-songs-of-the-1990s/289590 "2005-02-11T15:38:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-songs-of-the-1990s/289590/21 "2005-02-22T20:47:14Z")

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**Matchbox 20** was on my radio with **“Real World”** today, and I was reminded that we must add this to the list of 90s songs with Superman references (though this reference is indirect):

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> _I wonder what it’s like to be a super hero  
> I wonder where I’d go if I could fly around downtown  
> From some other planet, I get this funky high on the yellow sun  
> Boy I bet my friends will all be…stunned, they’re stunned_

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**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-songs-of-the-1990s/289590/22 "2005-02-22T20:54:02Z")

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Wasn’t there a band from the late 1800’s called **The Nietzsches** that wrote something about Superman?

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-songs-of-the-1990s/289590/23 "2005-02-22T21:19:11Z")

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I actually saw **It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman** on Broadway. 🆒

If we’re expanding our horizons to other superheroes, there is Scaffold’s “Goodbat Nightman” from 1966, the only rock song to have its lyrics reprinted in the Oxford Book of Modern English Verse.

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-songs-of-the-1990s/289590/24 "2005-02-22T21:42:36Z")

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> [@Gangster Octopus](#):
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> Wasn’t there a band from the late 1800’s called **The Nietzsches** that wrote something about Superman?

You may be thinking of the singing duo, Falco and Nena, who did Übermensch in German. It was After the Incandescent Bulb who did the English-language version.

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