# Topic Playlist (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 26, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687 "2024-01-26T15:37:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 293
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5841 "2025-11-06T18:00:39Z")
**LGBTQ Anthems** 1. Thank God You Introduced Me to Your Sister - Sarah Barrios 2. Rough Boys - Pete Townshend 3. The Village - WRABEL 4. YMCA - The Village People 5. Born This Way - Lady Gaga 6. Lola - the Kinks 7. I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry 8. I Kissed a Girl - Jill Sobule ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5842 "2025-11-06T18:19:05Z")
**LGBTQ Anthems** 1. Thank God You Introduced Me to Your Sister - Sarah Barrios 2. Rough Boys - Pete Townshend 3. The Village - WRABEL 4. YMCA - The Village People 5. Born This Way - Lady Gaga 6. Lola - the Kinks 7. I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry 8. I Kissed a Girl - Jill Sobule 9. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5843 "2025-11-06T18:28:49Z")
**LGBTQ Anthems** 1. Thank God You Introduced Me to Your Sister - Sarah Barrios 2. Rough Boys - Pete Townshend 3. The Village - WRABEL 4. YMCA - The Village People 5. Born This Way - Lady Gaga 6. Lola - the Kinks 7. I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry 8. I Kissed a Girl - Jill Sobule 9. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman 10. You Must Be Crazy For Me - Melissa Ethridge Gotta ask - how is Fast Car an LGBTQ anthem? It’s about the plight of the poor. Next: **More Songs About Buildings and Food** 1. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffet ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5844 "2025-11-06T18:29:42Z")
**Housekeeping** Not sure about Fast Car either. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5845 "2025-11-06T18:31:52Z")
**More Songs About Buildings and Food** 1. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffet 2. Our House - Madness ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5846 "2025-11-06T18:43:14Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Gotta ask - how is Fast Car an LGBTQ anthem? It’s about the plight of the poor. > [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Not sure about Fast Car either. It’s a lesbian anthem as well as a blue-collar anthem. > [@](#): > > So, how did “Fast Car” become such a massive facet of lesbian culture? > > For one, it was the theme. The way Chapman sings about a genderless couple leaving town to find a home in a city nearby is something all queer people can relate to. We’ve always felt the need to relocate if we wanted to find other [gay](https://www.intomore.com/culture/identity/what-does-it-mean-to-be-gay/) people―San Francisco, New York, Chicago. The nearest metropolis was somehow deemed safer or provided more options for solidarity and community than Cleveland, Ohio, where Chapman was raised. > > Yet that feeling of wanting to leave an undesirable situation isn’t necessarily lesbian-specific. > > “I had so many people come up to me and say that they felt it was their song,” Chapman told the _BBC_ in 2010, “and someone told me at one point that they thought I’ve been reading their mail, they were saying ‘You seem to know my story,’ and people would come up and tell me about a car relationship and some detail that they felt was in the song that represented something that happened in their lives.” > > Chapman said she was partly inspired by a blue-collar background: “Raised by a single mom, I was just watching people, being in a community of people who were struggling. So everyone was really just 1. Working hard 2. hoping that things would get better.” [https://www.intomore.com/culture/how-tracy-chapmans-fast-car-became-a-lesbian-anthem/](https://www.intomore.com/culture/how-tracy-chapmans-fast-car-became-a-lesbian-anthem/) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5847 "2025-11-06T18:58:37Z")
**More Songs About Buildings and Food** 1. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffet 2. Our House - Madness 3. Waffle King - Weird Al Yankovic ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5848 "2025-11-07T00:10:09Z")
**More Songs About Buildings and Food** 1. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffet 2. Our House - Madness 3. Waffle King - Weird Al Yankovic 4. Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5849 "2025-11-07T01:30:17Z")
**More Songs About Buildings and Food** 1. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffet 2. Our House - Madness 3. Waffle King - Weird Al Yankovic 4. Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer 5. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5850 "2025-11-07T01:53:21Z")
**More Songs About Buildings and Food** 1. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffet 2. Our House - Madness 3. Waffle King - Weird Al Yankovic 4. Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer 5. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles 6. Club at the End of the Street - Elton John ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5851 "2025-11-07T02:58:29Z")
**More Songs About Buildings and Food** 1. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffet 2. Our House - Madness 3. Waffle King - Weird Al Yankovic 4. Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer 5. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles 6. Club at the End of the Street - Elton John 7. Waiting for the Ice Cream to Melt - The Pink Fairies ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5852 "2025-11-07T03:16:29Z")
**More Songs About Buildings and Food** 1. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffet 2. Our House - Madness 3. Waffle King - Weird Al Yankovic 4. Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer 5. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles 6. Club at the End of the Street - Elton John 7. Waiting for the Ice Cream to Melt - The Pink Fairies 8. Sneaky Snake - Tom T. Hall About a sneaky little reptile that will slither up to unsuspecting children and drink up all their root beer. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5853 "2025-11-07T05:15:14Z")
**More Songs About Buildings and Food** 1. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffet 2. Our House - Madness 3. Waffle King - Weird Al Yankovic 4. Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer 5. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles 6. Club at the End of the Street - Elton John 7. Waiting for the Ice Cream to Melt - The Pink Fairies 8. Sneaky Snake - Tom T. Hall 9. Breakfast At Sweethearts - Cold Chisel ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5854 "2025-11-07T06:23:07Z")
**More Songs About Buildings and Food** 1. Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffet 2. Our House - Madness 3. Waffle King - Weird Al Yankovic 4. Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer 5. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles 6. Club at the End of the Street - Elton John 7. Waiting for the Ice Cream to Melt - The Pink Fairies 8. Sneaky Snake - Tom T. Hall 9. Breakfast At Sweethearts - Cold Chisel 10. Tom’s Diner - Suzanne Vega **Songs of astral bodies** 1. Drops of Jupiter - Train ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5855 "2025-11-07T06:25:13Z")
**Songs of astral bodies** 1. Drops of Jupiter - Train 2. Man on the Moon - R.E.M. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5856 "2025-11-07T06:33:43Z")
**Songs of astral bodies** 1. Drops of Jupiter - Train 2. Man on the Moon - R.E.M. 3. Venus and Mars - Wings ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5857 "2025-11-07T06:34:04Z")
**Songs of astral bodies** 1. Drops of Jupiter - Train 2. Man on the Moon - R.E.M. 3. Under the Milky Way - The Church ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5858 "2025-11-07T10:58:44Z")
**Songs of astral bodies** 1. Drops of Jupiter - Train 2. Man on the Moon - R.E.M. 3. Venus and Mars - Wings 4. Under the Milky Way - The Church 5. Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In - The Fifth Dimension ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/5859 "2025-11-07T11:35:03Z")
**Songs of astral bodies** 1. Drops of Jupiter - Train 2. Man on the Moon - R.E.M. 3. Venus and Mars - Wings 4. Under the Milky Way - The Church 5. Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In - The Fifth Dimension 6. Mummy was an Asteroid, Daddy was a Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil - Quiet Sun ---
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**Songs of astral bodies** 1. Drops of Jupiter - Train 2. Man on the Moon - R.E.M. 3. Venus and Mars - Wings 4. Under the Milky Way - The Church 5. Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In - The Fifth Dimension 6. Mummy was an Asteroid, Daddy was a Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil - Quiet Sun 7. Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) - They Might Be Giants [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687.md?page=292) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687.md?page=294)