# Yet another song grouping (superheroes)! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450 "2005-05-18T18:54:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/1 "2005-05-18T18:54:09Z")
Songs that mention superheroes (but not theme songs). So far, I have: -“Jimmy Olsen’s Blues” by Spin Doctors (“I’ve been competing with the Man of Steel”) -“Kryptonite” by Three Doors Down (“If I go crazy, will you still call me Superman?”) -“Superman” by Five for Fighting (No need to quote lyrics, as the title is the reference) I’ve determined that most will be a reference to Superman, but I’m sure there are others. There are also some that I just can’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/2 "2005-05-18T19:00:19Z")
“Don’t Mess Around with Jim” - Jim Croce (“You don’t tug on Superman’s cape”) Bonus for “You don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger” I always loved that song, mainly because my dad’s name is Jim Walker. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/3 "2005-05-18T19:05:52Z")
Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman” mentions Superman and Green Lantern. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/4 "2005-05-18T19:06:29Z")
Robyn Hitchcock: “Superman” The Kinks: “(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman” Donovan: “Sunshine Superman” (also mentions Green Lantern) Ides of March: “Superman” (Notice a pattern emerging here? Not so many songs about Martian Manhunter.) I posted about the Ides of March song in the recent “One-Hit Wonders…but it’s the wrong hit!” thread: > [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Not really what you’re asking for, but I want to mention a 24-year-old song I just recently heard for the first time: “Superman” by one-hit-wonders the Ides of March (of “Vehicle” fame). The freaking thing is roll-on-the-floor hilarious, combining a knowingly ludicrous extended Superman metaphor with a blatant attempt to repeat the formula of the hit. So it’s got exactly the same faux-Blood Sweat & Tears sound with swaggering lead vocal, complete with the break at the end of each chorus where the band stops and the singer shouts out the hook–only instead of “Great God in Heaven, you know I love you!” he bellows “Great Caesar’s ghost, I’m Superman!” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/5 "2005-05-18T19:07:50Z")
Springsteen’s “I’m A Rocker” mentions the Batmobile. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/6 "2005-05-18T19:08:00Z")
Isn’t there also a Crash Test Dummies song about Superman? –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/7 "2005-05-18T19:08:12Z")
“Superman Can’t Walk” by Good Charlotte ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/8 "2005-05-18T19:09:19Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > Isn’t there also a Crash Test Dummies song about Superman? > > –Cliffy Yes. “Superman’s Song”. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/9 "2005-05-18T19:10:10Z")
“Sunshine Superman” by Donovan (contains the immortal line "Superman and Green Lantern don’t got nothing on me) “Pocketful of Kryptonite” by the Spin Doctors “Superman” by REM “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugar Hill Gang (featuring an extended section about Superman and Lois Lane) “Aquaman” by Skavoovie and the Epitones “Batman” by Skavoovie and the Epitones (actually a big-band ska cover of Danny Elfman’s orchestral Batman theme, if that counts) “Captain” by MU330 (a ska-punk epic about Captain America coming out of retirement and getting back into shape to face the Red Skull one last time) “The Joker” by Steve Miller Band (OK, that’s pushing it) The band Ookla the Mok has several, including “Secret Origins,” “Arthur Curry” (a song about Aquaman), and “Stop Talking About Comic Books Or I’ll Kill You,” as well as similar fanboy-friendly tunes like “View Master” and “Tiberius Rising” (about Captain James Tiberius Kirk). ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/10 "2005-05-18T19:11:32Z")
XTC also has “Brainiac’s Daughter” and “You’re Really Super, Supergirl.” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/11 "2005-05-18T19:12:28Z")
**Big Bad Voodoo Lou** , you remined me that Guns & Roses mention Captain America in “Paradise City.” (“Captain America’s been torn apart”) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/12 "2005-05-18T19:12:54Z")
Louise Goffin’s _"Sometimes A Circle_" - “You’ve got spurs on your boots and Spiderman eyes” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/13 "2005-05-18T19:22:40Z")
Paul McCartney bucks the trend with “Magneto and Titanium Man,” a song about three Marvel super _villains_ (the third is the Crimson Dynamo). ---
**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:** [May 18, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/14 "2005-05-18T19:26:17Z")
“The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill” – The Beatles (“Then Captain Marvel came and zapped him in the eyes.”) “[Goodbat Nightman](http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6667&poem=28633)” – [The Scaffold](http://www.iankitching.me.uk/music/scaffold/discography.html) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/15 "2005-05-18T19:31:36Z")
There’s some song in the current generation of pop-tarts that mentions something about a wish to be like Supergirl. I think it’s the one with “…catch me right before I hit the ground…” in the chorus. Do we count the Bat-tusi? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/16 "2005-05-18T19:35:34Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > There’s some song in the current generation of pop-tarts that mentions something about a wish to be like Supergirl. I think it’s the one with “…catch me right before I hit the ground…” in the chorus. Jessica Simpson sings that song, but I don’t know the name of it. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/17 "2005-05-18T20:03:03Z")
Barenaked Ladies sang about how they were > [@](#): > > Gonna get in toon with Sailor Moon > 'Cause that cartoon has got the boom > Anime babes that make me think the wrong thing ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/18 "2005-05-18T20:09:09Z")
That same Barenaked Ladies song, “One Week,” also mentions Aquaman, come to think of it. The Wu-Tang Clan are all big comic book fans, but I’m afraid I don’t know their stuff well enough to list references in songs. I do know that Method Man also uses the name Johnny Blaze (the original Ghost Rider’s secret identity), and another ex-Wu member has gone by Tony Starks (aka Iron Man in the comics). A more recent underground rapper, D-Bugg, has used the alias Ted Chord, which is a reference to the late Blue Beetle’s secret identity of Ted Kord plus a musical pun. Then there’s MF Doom aka Viktor Vaughn (referencing Dr. Doom) and a former “split personality” of rapper Kool Keith, Dr. Dooooooom (who killed another one of Keith’s personas, Dr. Octagon). ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/19 "2005-05-18T21:00:19Z")
Lois Lane - Uncle Bonsai If only Lois knew Clark Kent could see through her dress She would have flown to his arms And uncovered his “S” ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/20 "2005-05-18T21:13:29Z")
[Land of Confusion](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/genesis/land_of_confusion.html) – Genesis > [@Genesis](#): > > Ooh Superman where are you now > When everything’s gone wrong somehow > The men of steel, the men of power > Are losing control by the hour. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450.md?page=2)