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A list song is a song based wholly or in part on a list. List songs typically develop by working through a list, sometimes using items of escalating absurdity.

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Examples of list songs (and their composers/performers) include the following. Songs are in alphabetical order by title (omitting the definite article where not important to the title).

A to D

  • "'A' - You're Adorable" (Sid Lippman, Buddy Kaye and Fred Wise)
  • "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" (Bob Dylan)
  • "A Little Priest" (Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler From Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
  • "A Little Something Refreshing" (Eric Stefani), performed by No Doubt
  • "Area Codes" (Ludacris)
  • "Around the World" (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
  • "A Sheltered Life" Carter USM
  • "A Well-Dressed Hobbit" (Rie Sheridan Rose, Marc Gunn)
  • "Ain't Got No" (from the musical Hair)
  • "All My Ex's Live in Texas" (George Strait and Whitey Shafer)
  • "American Bad-ass" (Kid Rock)
  • "All the Words in the English Language" from Animaniacs
  • "As Some Day It May Happen" (from The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan)
  • "At the Hop" (Danny and the Juniors) lists many popular dances of the late 1950s.
  • "The Bad Touch" (Bloodhound Gang) lists many euphemisms for sexual acts.
  • "Bahay Kubo" (traditional) lists vegetables found in the surrounding of a farm.
  • The Big Bamboo (traditional Caribbean).
  • "Bike" (Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd)
  • "The Begat" (Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg)
  • "Better Than Anything" (David "Buck" Wheat & Bill Loughborough) lists all the things love is better than.
  • "Black Boys" (from the musical Hair)
  • "The Booklovers" (The Divine Comedy)
  • "Brothers and Sisters" (Blur)
  • "California Girls" (The Beach Boys)
  • "Can U Dig It" (Pop Will Eat Itself)
  • "Carol Brown" (Flight of the Conchords)
  • "Chop Suey," music by Richard Rodgers, words by Oscar Hammerstein II, introduced by Juanita Hall and Patrick Adiarte in Flower Drum Song
  • "Coded Language" (Krust / Saul Williams)
  • "Come Together" (The Beatles)
  • "Come To the Supermarket In Old Peking" (Cole Porter)
  • "Conga!", music by Leonard Bernstein, words by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, introduced by Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town
  • "Datura" (Tori Amos)
  • "Destroy Rock & Roll" (Mylo)
  • "DJ Bombay" (Michael V.) list down things that are sold by Indian nationals in the Philippines.
  • "Done Too Soon" (Neil Diamond)

    • E to J

  • "Eclipse" (Pink Floyd)
  • "Eight Easy Steps" (Alanis Morissette)
  • "88 Lines About 44 Women" (The Nails)
  • "The Elements" (Tom Lehrer)
  • "Elephant Talk" (King Crimson)
  • "Endless Art" (A House)
  • "Porn Star Dancing" (My Darkest Days featuring Zakk Wylde and Chad Kroeger)
  • "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (Paul Simon)
  • "F.E.A.R." (Ian Brown)
  • "Forever Young" (Bob Dylan)
  • "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" (The Bloodhound Gang)
  • "Girl of 100 Lists" (Go-Go's)
  • "Gin Soaked Boy" (The Divine Comedy)
  • "God" (John Lennon)
  • "Going Nowhere Slow" (The Bloodhound Gang) lists cities across the USA
  • "Good Doctor" (Robbie Williams)
  • "The Green Grass Grows All Around" (Traditional)
  • "Green Grow the Rushes, O" (Traditional)
  • "Hair" (from the musical Hair)
  • "Hank Williams Said it Best" (Guy Clark)
  • "Hardware Store" ("Weird Al" Yankovic)
  • "Hashish" (from the musical Hair)
  • "Hello" (The Beloved)
  • "Hot Topic" (Le Tigre)
  • "I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven" (Tex Ritter)
  • "I Can't Get Started (With You)" (Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke)
  • "I Got Life" (from the musical Hair)
  • "I'm Black/Colored Spade" (from the musical Hair)
  • "I'm Still Here" (Stephen Sondheim)
  • "I Started a Blog Nobody Read" (Sprites)
  • "I've Been Everywhere" (Lucky Starr (original), Geoff Mack (U.S.A. adaptation))
  • "Imperfect List" (Big Hard Excellent Fish)
  • "It's Grim Up North" (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu)
  • "Isang Linggong Pag-Ibig" (Imelda Papin)
  • "It's the End of the World As We Know It" (R.E.M.)
  • "Jung Talent Time" (TISM)

    • K to O

  • "La Vie Bohème" (Jonathan Larson)
  • "Let 'em In" (Wings)
  • "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" ("George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin)
  • "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (Cole Porter)
  • "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" (Reunion)
  • "Losing My Edge" (LCD Soundsystem)
  • "Lost Property" (The Divine Comedy)
  • "Love Your Love the Most" Eric Church Lists everything he loves
  • "Lower 48" The Gourds
  • "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" (Mozart) ("The Catalogue Aria" from Don Giovanni)
  • "Mambo No. 5" (performed by Lou Bega and Perez Prado)
  • "Man on the Moon (R.E.M.)
  • "Manhattan", (Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart)
  • "Matangi", (M.I.A.)
  • "MfG" (Die Fantastischen Vier)
  • "Mr. Goldstone" (music, Jule Styne; lyrics, Stephen Sondheim)
  • "Moments to Remember" (Robert Allen and Al Stillman)
  • "Mope" (The Bloodhound Gang)
  • "My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)" (Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn) Big hit for Frank Sinatra extolling the virtues of Chicago.
  • "My Favorite Things" (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
  • "My Favorite Things (Conservative version)" (a political parody, with lyrics by Don Smith)
  • "Name Game" (Shirley Ellis)
  • "New Direction" (Sugar Ray) (lists things you can do to make yourself a better person)
  • "Nunal" (Vincent Daffalong)
  • "One Hundred Easy Ways (To Lose a Man)" (music, Leonard Bernstein; lyrics, Betty Comden and Adolph Green)
  • "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (Rudy Toombs)
  • "Overdrive" (Eraserheads) mentions places in the Philippines.

    • P to S

  • "Pencil Full of Lead" (Paolo Nutini)
  • "People Who Died" (Jim Carroll)
  • "Pennsylvania" (The Bloodhound Gang)
  • "Pepper" (Butthole Surfers)
  • "Plane Too" (Loudon Wainwright III)
  • "Play with Me" (Extreme (band))
  • "Pokerap" (Pokemon)
  • "Portobello Road" (from Walt Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
  • "The Pride" (Five Finger Death Punch)
  • "Questions and Answers (The Three B's)" from the musical On Your Toes (Rodgers and Hart)
  • "Raise Up" (Petey Pablo)
  • "Ramblin' Man" (Lemon Jelly)
  • "The Rattlin' Bog" (Traditional)
  • "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
  • "Rickets" (Deftones)
  • "Rock & Roll Heaven" (The Righteous Brothers)
  • "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" (Bobby Troup)
  • "Royals" Lorde lists subjects of modern pop songs
  • "Said the Hobbit to the Horse" (Marc Gunn)
  • "Sample Song" (Dorothy Shay)
  • "Short Memory" (Midnight Oil)
  • "Show Me What You Got" (Limp Bizkit)
  • "Seven Curses" (Bob Dylan)
  • "7 Things" (Miley Cyrus)
  • "Sinaktan mo ang puso ko" (Michael V.) lists down the hurtful things that his lover did
  • "Sixteen Reasons"(Bill and Doree Post) (#3 hit for Connie Stevens in 1960)
  • "Sodomy" (from the musical Hair)
  • "Song for Whoever" (The Beautiful South)
  • "Stars on 45" (Stars on 45)
  • "Start Button" (Private Thoughts in Public Places featuring Streamer, on As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2
  • "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (Bob Dylan)
  • "Super Supper March" (Nigel Pilkington)

    • T to Z

  • "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" (Ira Gershwin & Kurt Weill)
  • The chorus of "Tam Pierce" (Widdecombe Fair) lists all the people accompanying the narrator to the fair.
  • "Teachers" (Daft Punk)
  • "Technologic" (Daft Punk)
  • "Telefonbuchpolka" (Georg Kreisler)
  • "Ten Commandments of Love" (The Moonglows)
  • "Ten Crack Commandments" (The Notorious B.I.G.)
  • "These Foolish Things" (Eric Maschwitz and Jack Strachey)
  • "They All Fall In Love" (Cole Porter)
  • "They All Laughed" (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin)
  • "To Kokoraki" (the Cockerel) (Flanders and Swann)
  • "Thou Shalt Always Kill" (Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip)
  • "Transmetropolitan" (The Pogues)
  • "Turn a Blind Eye" (Half Man Half Biscuit)
  • "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (Pete Seeger, after King Solomon) (Ecclesiastes)
  • "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Traditional)
  • "21 Things I Want in a Lover" (Alanis Morissette)
  • "The Unthinkable" (Boom Bip)
  • "Van Lingle Mungo" (Dave Frishberg)
  • "Vogue" (Madonna)
  • "Wakko's America" from Animaniacs
  • "Waters of March" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
  • "We Care a Lot" (Faith No More)
  • "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Billy Joel)
  • "What Shall We Do Now?", (Pink Floyd) in the film of Pink Floyd—The Wall
  • "Who's Next" (Tom Lehrer) lists countries acquiring nuclear weapons.
  • "The Whole World Lost its Head" (Go-Go's)
  • "White Boys" (from the musical Hair)
  • "Wish (Komm Zu Mir)", From the film Run Lola Run (Thomas D)
  • "Wishlist", Pearl Jam
  • "Yakko's World" from Animaniacs
  • "You're the Top" (Cole Porter)
  • "Zip" (Rodgers and Hart)

    • Many patter songs fall into this genre such as:

  • KoKo's List Song from The Mikado (see "As Some Day It May Happen" above)
  • "Tchaikovsky" (Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin) (see "Tschaikowsky" above)
  • "The Major-General's Song" (Gilbert and Sullivan)

    • References

    List song Wikipedia
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