# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Arhat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@Arhat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arhat)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/21 "2005-05-18T23:33:22Z")
_Waitin’ for a Superman_ - **Flaming Lips** _Tarmac_ - **Hazeldine** > [@](#): > > Hold me close > And kiss me low > And f\*ck me like Batman _Life on Mars?_ - **David Bowie** > [@](#): > > It’s on Amerika’s tortured brow > That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow ---
**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 19, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/22 "2005-05-19T01:59:38Z")
Well, if Mickey Mouse counts as a superhero (and there is a case to be made for it), then add _Mickey’s Son and Daughter_\* by the Bonzo Dog Band. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/23 "2005-05-19T03:06:20Z")
A friend of mine who has time on his hands that I could only wish for created an internet radio station devoted to superhero songs. [Superhero Radio](http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi?membername=absorbascon&clientType=&playlist=undefined&tm=1115895533921) ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/24 "2005-05-19T03:09:00Z")
Do non-existant superheroes count? If so, there’s The Fall’s [“How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’.”](http://home.worldonline.dk/mattias/fall/lyrics_singl/how_wrote.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/25 "2005-05-19T17:20:28Z")
Whoa, I’m looking back over this thread and _no one_ mentioned Laurie Anderson’s [“O Superman”](http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Songs/O/OS.html). ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/26 "2005-05-19T19:12:14Z")
Would Joe Satriani’s “Surfing with the Alien” from _Surf on This Earth_ count, since the alien in question (based on the album cover) is the Silver Surfer? ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/27 "2005-05-20T18:27:17Z")
Well, there’s always “Superman” by the Atlanta Rhythm Section, but it would seem the album “Back Up Against the Wall” is out of print. Too bad – it’s a good song. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/28 "2005-05-20T20:09:57Z")
I have one! I have one! Except I don’t know the name of it or who sings it :smack: It came out in early 2000s / late 90s(maybe earlier on the east/west coasts)and it was a nifty little pop ditty. The singer is female and part of the lyrics are " I don’t ever want to (leave this place?)… I am a super hero. At least I think that’s what they are. I’ve googled it aplenty; waaaay before this thread came up. I sure would like to know what it is as I remember liking it a lot (so much so that I can’t remember anything else about it). ---
**Author:** ![user\_v1.05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/5daacb/32.png) [@user\_v1.05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_v1.05)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/29 "2005-05-20T20:52:57Z")
I Whipped Superman’s Ass I Wupped Batman’s Ass both by Wesley Willis. I’m so glad I got to see him live before he died. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/30 "2005-05-20T21:24:22Z")
How soon we forget: **Iron Man** by Black Sabbath! ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/31 "2005-05-20T21:51:55Z")
“Save Me” by Aretha Franklin: “Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too/I’m in such a world of trouble I don’t know what to do…” ---
**Author:** ![Imbrium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Imbrium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imbrium)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/32 "2005-05-20T22:59:31Z")
Our Lady Peace: Superman’s Dead Frank Black: Man of Steel ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/33 "2005-05-21T00:15:27Z")
I know the OP said no theme songs, but the Ramones did a really cool cover of _Spiderman_. Spiderman, Spiderman Does whatever a spider can ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/34 "2005-05-31T21:57:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Spiderman, Spiderman > Does whatever a spider can Ah, so THAT’S what “Particle Man” was parodying. > [@](#): > > Particle man, particle man, > doing the things a particle can… ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/35 "2005-05-31T22:15:35Z")
Comic Books by Deborah Harry from her album Def, Dumb, and Blonde ---
**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 31, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/36 "2005-05-31T22:24:47Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > XTC also has “Brainiac’s Daughter” and “You’re Really Super, Supergirl.” And “Sgt Rock Is Going to Save Me.” Pink Floyd’s “Cymbeline” has a passing mention of Doctor Strange. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/37 "2005-05-31T22:30:47Z")
Queen’s “Bicycle Race” contains the line, “I don’t believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman…” ---
**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 31, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/38 "2005-05-31T22:46:42Z")
Frank Zappa’s “Metal Man Has Won His Wings” mentions the Metal Men and Hawkman. The lyrics were improvised by Captain Beefheart from a Metal Men comic pinned up on the studio wall. [More than you care to know about this song here](http://members.aol.com/biffyshrew/metal.html). ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-song-grouping-superheroes/304450/39 "2005-06-01T21:15:01Z")
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