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Abortion[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Abortion
- Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon's "Will the Fetus be Aborted"[1]
Animals[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Animal
- Bird: The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird"[2]
- Chordata: Sam Hinton's "It's a Long Way From Amphioxus"[3]
- Goat: Pearl Jam's "Evil Little Goat"[4]
- Mammal: They Might Be Giants' "Mammal" [5]
- Platypus: Randy Crenshaw's "Perry The Platypus" from Phineas & Ferb[6]
- Reptile: Al Wilson's "The Snake"[7]
- Sheep: Cake's "Sheep Go To Heaven"[8]
- Sheeple: J. S.Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze"[9]
Primate[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Primates
- The Dickies' "You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)"[10]
- Viagra Boys' "Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis"[11]
- The Monkees' "{Theme From} The Monkees"[12]
- Australopithecus: The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"[13]
Humans, miscellaneous[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Human
- Nudity: Ray Stevens' "The Streak"[14]
- African American: James Brown's "Say it Loud — I'm Black and Proud"[15]
- Glenn Beck: King Missile's "Sensitive Artist"[16]
- Napoleon Bonaparte: Abba's "Waterloo"[17]
- Julius Caesar: Robert Schumann's overture "Julius Caesar"[18]
- Charlemagne: Christopher Lee's symphonic metal albums Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross[19] and Charlemagne: The Omens of Death[20]
- Children: Tom Waits' "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"[21] (covered by The Ramones)
- Winston Churchill: The Kinks' "Mr. Churchill Says"[22]
- Michael Coombs: Bob Marley & The Wailers' "Crazy Baldhead"[23]
- Princess Diana: Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997"[24]
- Albert Einstein: Ian Dury & the Blockheads "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards"[25][note 1]
- Elizabeth II: Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen"[26]
- Newt Gingrich: "You're a Mean One, Newt Gingrich"[27]
- Rudy Giuliani: The Specials' "A Message To You Rudy"[28]
- Che Guevara: Carlos Puebla's "Hasta siempre, Comandante" [29] (More commercial and sexier version by Nathalie Cardone)
- Alexander Hamilton: "Alexander Hamilton"[30] from the musical Hamilton
- Stephen Hawking: MC Hawking's "What We Need More of is Science" [31]
- Boris Johnson: The Kunts' "Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt"[32]
- Jim Jones: The Brian Jonestown Massacre's "The Ballad of Jim Jones"[33]
- Anatoly Karlin: The Ramones' "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue"[34]
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Allen Ginsberg sings William Blake's "The Sick Rose"[35] ("The invisible worm…")
- Henry Kissinger: Monty Python's "Henry Kissinger" [36]
- Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy: Dion's "Abraham, Martin and John" [37] (covered by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Moms Mabley, Marvin Gaye and Beverley Knight)
- Eugene M. McCarthy: Wild Man Fischer's "Monkeys vs Donkeys"[38]
- Elon Musk: Dawn of Correction's "Shadows"[39] The drummer, Richard Tornetta, a minor Tesla stockholder, caused Musk to lose a $56 billion compensation package.[40]
- Kristi Noem: Bill Frenzer/Ogden Edsl's "Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun"[41]
- Barack Obama: White Pegacorn's "Barack Your World"[42]
- Viktor Orbán: "Dés László - Rossz pénz (Üvegtigris Filmzene)"[43]
- Mike Pence: Remix of Kamala Harris' "You Have a Fly on Your Head."[44]
- Pol Pot: Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia"[45]
- Grigori Rasputin: Boney M's "Rasputin"[46]
- Margaret Thatcher: Renaud's "Miss Maggie" (available in the original French and English version)
- Death of Margaret Thatcher: "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" from the film The Wizard of Oz[47]
- Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu: Disturbed's "Bad Man"[48]
- Donald Trump Jr.: Frank Zappa's (The Mothers of Invention) "The Idiot Bastard Son"[50]
- Vikings: Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song"[51]
- Harold Wilson and Edward Heath: The Beatles' "Taxman"[52]
- Xi Jinping: "Heffalumps and Woozles"[53] from Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
Jack Chick[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Jack Chick
- Alice Donut's "Lisa's Father"[54]
- Dead Kennedys' "I Kill Children" (extracted lyrics from the comic "Why No Revival")[55]
Adolf Hitler[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Adolf Hitler
- Mel Brooks' "Springtime for Hitler", from the 1968 version of The Producers[56]
- Spike Jones and His City Slickers' "Der Fuehrer's Face"[57]
Nelson Mandela[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Nelson Mandela
Astronomy[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Astronomy
- Nicolaus Copernicus: Henryk Górecki's "Copernican Symphony"[60]
The Cosmos[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Universe
- Charles Ives' incomplete "Universe Symphony"[61]
- Milky Way: Stephen Hawking sings Monty Python's "Galaxy Song"[62]
Solar System[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Solar System
Business[edit]
Conspiracy theories[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Conspiracy theory
- 9/11: Martin Noakes "9/11 Building 7"[71]
- Freemason: The Simpsons' Stonecutters' Song "We Do"[72]
- Jake Angeli, the "QAnon shaman": The Incredible String Band's "Minotaur's Song"[73] ("I'm the original discriminating buffalo man. And I'll do what's wrong as long as I can!")
- Big Pharma: Exodus' "Chemi-Kill"[74]
- HAARP: Clues' "HAARP" [75]
- Persecution complex: Disturbed's "The Curse"[76]
- QAnon: Disturbed's "Deify"[77][note 2]
- RMS Titanic: Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"[78][note 3]
- Tinfoil hat: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Foil"[79]
Denialism[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Denialism
- Men With Day Jobs' "Denial Tango"[80]
- Armenian genocide denial: System of a Down's "P.L.U.C.K."[81] & "Holy Mountains"[82]
- Climate change denial: Midnight Oil's "Rising Seas"[83]
- Crank: Groucho Marx's "Whatever it is, I'm against it!" in the film Horse Feathers[84]
- Willful ignorance: The scene from Judgment at Nuremberg where the war crimes prosecutor confronts Mrs. Bertholt with intercuts from the song "Du, du liegst mir im Herzen" ("You, You're in My Heart")[85]
Drugs[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Drug
- Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life"[86]
- The Cramps' "New Kind of Kick"[87]
- The Fall's "Mr Pharmacist"[88]
- The Fall's "Totally Wired"[89]
- Spacemen 3's "Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To…"[90]
- The Fugs' "I Couldn't Get High"[91] — the song was condemned by the future president of the Mormons[92]
- The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work"[93]
- Purported legal highs: The Ramones' "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue"[94]]
Alcohol[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Alcohol
- George Thorogood & The Destroyers' "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"[95]
- Barenaked Ladies' "Alcohol" [96]
- Refreshments' "Mekong" [97]
- Buddy Guy's "Whiskey, Beer and Wine"[98]
- Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" [99] ("He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink/He drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink")
- Hollywood Vampires' "My Dead Drunk Friends" [100]
- Prohibition: Prince Buster's "Al Capone"[101]
Alcoholics Anonymous[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Alcoholics Anonymous
Beer[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Beer
Cannabis[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Cannabis
Cocaine[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Cocaine
- Eric Clapton's "Cocaine"[111]
- The original J. J. Cale version[112] — if you don't want to give advertising money to that asshole Clapton
Heroin[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Heroin
- Forgotten Rebels' "Surfin' On Heroin"[113]
- The Stranglers' "Golden Brown"[114]
- John Prine's "Sam Stone"[115]
LSD[edit]
See the main article on this topic: LSD
- The Beatles' "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" from the film Yellow Submarine[116] — not actually about LSD according to John Lennon and Paul McCartney despite everyone thinking it was
- The Beatles' "A Day in the Life"[117] — the more likely LSD-inspired song
Tobacco smoking[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Tobacco smoking
- Tex Ritter's "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)"[118]
- Princess Chelsea's "The Cigarette Duet"[119]
War on Drugs[edit]
See the main article on this topic: War on Drugs
Economics[edit]
- Corporation: Pink Lincolns' "I've Got My Tie On"[122]
- Economic inequality: Motörhead's "Eat The Rich", excerpted from the film of the same name[123]
- Gold: "The Power of Gold" by Dan Fogelberg
- Great Depression: Bing Crosby's "Brother Can You Spare A Dime?"[124]
- Laissez-faire: Digital Underground's Doowutchyalike[125]
- Marketing: "Koka Kola" by The Clash[note 4]
- Money: John Lee Hooker's "Money"[126]
- Supply-side economics: John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses"[127]
- Trade union: Pete Seeger's Solidarity Forever[128]
Gambling[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Gambling
Folklore, history and pseudohistory[edit]
- 27 Club: The Jim Carroll Band's "People Who Died"[131]
- The retort to Jim Carroll: Detention's "Dead Rock-N-Rollers"[132]
- Easter Bunny: Gene Autry's "Peter Cottontail" [133]
- Fairy tales: Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs' "Li'l Red Riding Hood"[134]
- Feral child: The Troggs' "Wild Thing"[135]
- Giant: PJ Harvey's "50 Ft Queenie"[136]
- Great man theory: The Stranglers' "No More Heroes"[137]
- Human–dinosaur coexistence: Was (Not Was)'s "Walk the Dinosaur"[138]
- Kent State: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Ohio"[139]
- Pagan survivals: PJ Harvey's "Sheela-na-gig"[140]
- Shakespeare authorship: Lord Buckley's "Willie The Shake"[141]
- Stonehenge: Spinal Tap's "Stonehenge"[142]
Halloween[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Halloween
- Marilyn Manson's version of "This is Halloween"[143] from The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Shaggs' "It's Halloween"[144]
- John Carpenter's theme for his 1978 movie Halloween[145]
King Arthur[edit]
See the main article on this topic: King Arthur
- Rick Wakeman's concept album "The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur"[146]
- "Knights of the Round Table"[147] from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Luck[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Luck
Internet[edit]
- Porn: "The Internet Is For Porn" from the Broadway musical Avenue Q[150]
- Spam: Monty Python's "Spam", the original[151]
- Wolf Parade's 'Lazarus Online' [152]
- Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham[153]
Law and pseudolaw[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Pseudolaw
- Capital punishment: L7's "Gas Chamber" (performing as the band 'Camel Toe') from John Waters' film Serial Mom[154]
- Civil disobedience: Malvina Reynolds' "It Isn't nice"[155]
- Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association: Bob Marley & The Wailers' "I Shot the Sheriff"[156]
- Copyright: John Oswald's "DAB" from the Plunderphonics EP, a masterpiece of audio piracy[157]
- Corporal punishment: The Smiths' "The Headmaster Ritual"[158]
- Genocide: Judas Priest's "Genocide"[159]
- Health and safety: Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance"[160]
- Hearsay: Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"[161]
- NAACP: "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (once promoted by the NAACP as a "Negro national anthem")[162]
- Prison: Toots and the Maytals' "54-46 That's My Number"[163]
- Secret police: Judas Priest's "Electric Eye"[164]
- Vigilante: Woody Guthrie's "Vigilante Man"[165]
Crime[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Crime
- Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law"[166]
- Dead Kennedys' "Stealing People's Mail"[167]
- Extrajudicial punishment: Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"[168]
- Gang: Link Wray's "Rumble"[169] — caused a minor moral panic by being the only instrumental song banned from US radio for the title's perceived meaning as "gang fight"[170] (e.g. as in West Side Story)
- Nazi human experimentation: Slayer's "Angel of Death"[171]
- Organ theft: John Prine's "Please Don't Bury Me"[172]
- Rape: Nirvana's "Rape Me"[173]
Native American genocide[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Native American genocide
- The Dave Matthews Band's "Don't Drink The Water"[174]
- Neil Young and Crazy Horse's "Cortez the Killer"[175]
Police brutality[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Police brutality
- Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name"[176]
- Run The Jewels' "Walking in the Snow"[177]
- Madison McFerrin's "That Motherfucker's Guilty" (recorded at the time of the conviction of the police officer who murdered George Floyd)[178]
Language[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Language
- Akron/Family's "Phenomena" [179] absolutely not. The entire phenomenon of language needs an anthem. Replace it or let it ride
- Kikagagu Moyo's "Kodama" [180] - probably a good idea to translate the lyrics if you don't understand them.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Word Crimes"[181]
- Esperanto: "La Espero", the anthem of the Esperanto movement, samba style![182]
- Hebrew: Harry Belafonte sings "Hava Nagila"[183]
- Latin: "Gaudeamus igitur"[184]
Good old days[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Good old days
- Dr. Dog's "The Old Days" [185]
Magic and the paranormal[edit]
See the main articles on this topic: Magic and Paranormal
- Aleister Crowley: Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley"[186]
- Curse of Tutankhamun: Steve Martin & the Toot Uncommons' "King Tut"[187]
- Ghost: "When the Night Wind Howls"[188] from Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore
- Near-death experience: L7's "Pretend We're Dead"[189]
- Superstition: Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"[190]
- Zombies: The Zombies' "She's Not There"[191]
Vampire[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Vampire
- Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"[192]
- Bill Buchanan's "Beware"[193]
- Marilyn Manson's "If I Was Your Vampire"[194]
- Annie Lennox's "Love Song for a Vampire"[195]
- Don Hinson & the Rigamortician's "Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood"[196] (covered by 45 Grave)
- Olivia Rodrigo's "Vampire"[197]
- Godsmack's "Vampires"[198]
- My Chemical Romance's "Vampires Will Never Hurt You"[199]
Witchcraft[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Witchcraft
Media[edit]
- Animal Farm: Pink Floyd's concept album Animals[202]
- Barbie (film): Aqua's "Barbie Girl"[203]
- Billy Jack: The Original Caste's "One Tin Soldier"[204]
- Censorship: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, which Russians most associate with state censorship of TV (Brezhnev's death, Andropov's death, Chernenko's death, 1991 coup attempt, 2022 invasion of Ukraine)[205]
- Lewis Carroll: Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"[206]
- Fantasy: Leonard Nimoy's "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"[207]
- Frozen: Idina Menzel's "Let It Go"[208]
- The Simpsons: The Simpsons' "Do the Bartman"[209]
- South Park: Isaac Hayes as Chef's "Chocolate Salty Balls"[210]
- P. L. Travers: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" [211] from Mary Poppins
- The Washington Post: John Philip Sousa's "The Washington Post March"[212]
- Oscar Wilde: Sir John Betjeman & Jim Parker's "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"[213]
Blazing Saddles[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Blazing Saddles
A Clockwork Orange[edit]
See the main article on this topic: A Clockwork Orange
- Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture" as heard in the film's original theatrical trailer[218]
Cybernetic revolt (also known as the "Terminator argument")[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Cybernetic revolt
- Emerson Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9"[219]
Dr. Strangelove[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Dr. Strangelove
- Peter Sellers (as Dr. Strangelove) performs The Beatles' "She Loves You"[220]
- The Offspring's "Slim Pickens Does The Right Thing And Rides The Bomb To Hell"[221]
Frankenstein[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Frankenstein
- Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction's "Feed my Frankenstein"[222]
- Sam Cooke's "Another Saturday Night" [223] ("Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance/To a cat named Frankenstein")
Music[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Music
- Heptones' (with Lee Scratch Perry) "Play on Mr Music"[224]
- Hip-hop: The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"[225]
- Mozart effect: Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos in D, K. 448"[226]
Rock music[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Rock music
- AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock"[227]
- Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music"[228]
- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'N Roll"[229]
- The Kids' "This Is Rock 'N Roll"[230]
- Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll"[231]
- Rainbow's "Long Live Rock 'n' Roll"[232]
- Christian rock: Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit In The Sky"[233] — Yes, it's Christian-themed. Yes, he's Jewish. No, he's not one those types of Jews.
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Tomorrow Belongs to Me
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[234] from the original 1966 Broadway cast recording of Cabaret
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[235] from the soundtrack album of the 1972 film Cabaret
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[236] from a 1993 double CD studio recording of Cabaret
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[237] and its reprise[238] from the 1994 Channel 4 UK TV version of Cabaret based on the 1993 West End production
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"[239] and its reprise[240] from the 2021 West End cast recording of Cabaret
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" [241] from the soundtrack album of the TV series The Man in the High Castle
Please don't add any of the many recordings by Neo-Nazi dickhead bands of this song written for a 1966 American musical by two Jews, at least one of whom was gay.
Science fiction[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Science fiction
- Ayn Rand: Rush's "2112"[242] (loosely based on her science fiction novella Anthem)
- Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Science Fiction/Double Feature"[243]
- Built to Spill's "Randy Described Eternity"[244]
Philosophy and logic[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Philosophy
- Monty Python's "The Philosophers' Song"[245]
- Argument by gibberish: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica[246]
- Argumentum ad populum: Sophie Tucker's "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong"[247]
- "The French Mistake" from Blazing Saddles[248]
- Credentialism: Lou Reed's album Metal Machine Music, which inspired his credentialism quote[249](listen at your own risk)
- Didit fallacy: Ella Fitzgerald's "Let's Do It"[250]
- Golden hammer: Pete Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer"[251]
- Infinite regress/Solipsism: Jimi Hendrix's "Room Full Of Mirrors"[252]
- Nihilism: The Fugs' "Nothing"[253]
- Pacifism: Pete Seeger's "Study War No More (Down by the Riverside)"[254]
- PIDOOMA: Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom"[255]
- Spider-Man fallacy: Theme tune for the 1967 animated TV series Spider-Man [256]
- Time travel: Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Time Warp"[257]
Death[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Death
- Rev. Gary Davis' "Death Don't Have No Mercy"[258]
- The Fugs' "Carpe Diem"[259]
- Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper"[260]
- Led Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying"[261]
- Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette"[262]
- They Might Be Giants' "Dead" [263]
- Blanche's "Someday..." [264]
- Jay Reatard's "It's So Easy" [265]
- Barenaked Ladies' "Am I the Only One" [266]
Human rights[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Human rights
Politics[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Politics
- Anarchy: Sex Pistols' "Anarchy In The U.K."[269]
- Antifa/Neo-Nazism: Dead Kennedy's "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"[270]
- British monarchy: Wee German Lairdie - Scottish Jacobite song [271]
- Robert Byrd: Senator Robert Byrd's "Cumberland Gap"[272]
- CIA: The Fugs' "CIA Man"[273]
- Class War: The Dils' "Class War"[274]
- Conservapedia: The Stooges' "No Fun"[275]
- Democracy: Leonard Cohen's "Democracy" [276]
- Fascism: Sonic Youth's "Youth Against Fascism"[277]
- Freedom: Richie Havens' "Freedom"[278]
- Gun nuts: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Trigger Happy"[279]
- Imperialism: Fela Kuti's "Colonial Mentality"[280]
- Incel: Frank Zappa's "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?"[281]
- Jingoism: John Prine's "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore"[282]
- Labour Party: "The Red Flag"[283]
- List of former heads of democratic countries charged with crimes: Jimmie Rodgers' "In The Jailhouse Now" (version from the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?)[284]
- Personality cult: Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" [285]
- Skinheads: Camper Van Beethoven's "Take the Skinheads Bowling"[286]
- The South: Tom Lehrer's "Dixie"[287]
- Undocumented immigration: Phil Ochs "Bracero"[288]
Alt-right[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Alt-right
- Marjorie Taylor Greene ("Jewish space lasers"): "Jews in Space" from Mel Brooks' film History of the World: Part I[289]
- Neoreactionary movement: The Mutants' "New Dark Ages"[290]
- Proud Boys: Adam Jacobs singing "Proud of Your Boy" from the film Aladdin[291] — a rather syrupy ode to "Mom", which was required listening before every PB meeting during the Gavin McInnes era. It was probably used to weed-out critical thinkers just like intentionally poorly-written spam email but was also an expression of McInnes' passive aggression against his wife.
Ameriphobia[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Ameriphobia
Communism[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Communism
Dictatorship[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Dictatorship
- The Bobs' "Dictator in a Polo Shirt"[296]
- Judas Priest's "Tyrant"[297]
- Groucho Marx's "These Are the Laws of My Administration" from the film Duck Soup[298]
European Union[edit]
See the main article on this topic: European Union
- Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"[299]
Nations[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Nation
- Australia: Men at Work's "Down Under"[300]
- Austria: Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" [301]
- Canada: "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Canadian Idiot"[302]
- Cuba: Desi Arnaz & His Orchestra perform "Cuban Pete" [303]
- East Germany: IFA Wartburg's "The free German youth" [304]
- Ecuador: Sash! "Ecuador"[305]
- Egypt: Madness' "Night Boat to Cairo"[306]
- England: Linton Kwesi Johnson's "Inglan Is a Bitch"[307]
- Finland: Jean Sibelius' tone poem "Finlandia"[308]
- France: Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin's "Je t'aime... moi non plus"[309]
- Germany: The Beatles' "Komm gib mir deine Hand" [310]
- Kingdom of Hawaiʻi: Liliʻuokalani's "Aloha ʻOe"[311]
- Ireland: Pete St. John's "The Fields of Athenry" [312]
- Israel & Palestine: the Dave Matthews Band's "The Last Stop"[313]
- Northern Ireland: Loudon Wainright III sings "Carrickfergus" [314]
- North Korea: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" — North Korean Edition[315]
- Palestine: Sharon Shannon's "An Phailistín" [316]
- Scotland: "Scotland the Brave" [317]
- Soviet Union: The Beatles' "Back in the USSR" [318]
- Spain: Baccara's "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie"[319]
- Turkey: The Four Lads' "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" [320] (covered by They Might Be Giants)
- United States: Green Day's "American Idiot"[321] and Razorlight's "America"[322]
- Vatican City Tom Lehrer's "The Vatican Rag"[324]
- Wales: Paul Robeson sings "Land of My Fathers" [325]
Police state[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Police state
Ruling class[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Ruling class
- Leadbelly's "The Bourgeois Blues"[328]
- Motörhead's "Eat The Rich" (from the film of the same title)[329]
Futurism[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Futurism
- Fun:Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus[330]
- Sun Ra's "Space Is the Place"[331]
Pseudoscience[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Pseudoscience
- Cryonics: L7's "Pretend We're Dead"[332]
- Penis enlargement: Speed Queen's "I Wish I Had A Big Cock Just Like Iggy Pop"[333]
- Wind turbine syndrome: Rufus Harley's version of "Windy"[334]
Alternative medicine[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Alternative medicine
- Dental woo: "Dentist!" from Little Shop of Horrors with Steve Martin[335]
- Enema: Buck Naked & The Bare Bottom Boys' "Enema Party"[336] NSFW
- Sound healing: Len Chandler & Pete Seeger's "Beans In My Ears"[337]
- Trepanation: Malvina Reynolds' "No Hole In My Head"[338]
- Urine therapy: Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow"[339]
Cryptids[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Cryptid
- The Cramps' "Human Fly"[340]
- The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck"[341]
- Kelpie: "Kelpie" by Jethro Tull
Lycanthropy[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Lycanthropy
Food woo[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Food woo
- "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Eat It"[346]
- Cholesterol denialism, Dietary cholesterol: Lard's "The Power of Lard"[347]
- Coffee: The Inkspots' "The Java Jive"[348]
- Fast food: Fast Food Rocker's "Fast Food Song"[349]
Ufology[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Ufology
- Babylon Zoo's "Spaceman"[350]
- Blink 182's 'Aliens Exist' [351]
- Alien invasion: Jeff Wayne's adaptation of "War of the Worlds"[352]
- Extraterrestrial: David Bowie's "Starman" [353]
- Heaven's Gate: Radiohead's "Subterranean Homesick Alien"[354]
- Men in black: Will Smith's "Men In Black"[355]
- Roswell: Saxon's "There's Something In Roswell"[356]
Psychology[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Psychology
- ADHD: System of a Down's "Toxicity"[357]
- Confirmation bias: Todd Snider's "Mission Accomplished (Because You Gotta Have Faith)" [358]
- Dancing mania: James Brown's "I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Need To Dance)"[359]
- Greed: Queen's "I Want It All"[360]
- Illness anxiety disorder: Falling in Reverse's "Voices in My Head"[361]
- Paranoia: The Dickies' cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" (because it's harder to hear the sucky lyrics in the cover version)[362]
- Schadenfreude: "Schadenfreude" from the musical Avenue Q[363]
- PTSD: Dream Theater's "The Enemy Inside"[364]
- Transactional Analysis: The Dickies' "I'm OK You're OK"[365]
- Wishful thinking: Go West's "King of Wishful Thinking"[366]
Humanistic psychology[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Humanistic psychology
- Sudan Archives' " Selfish Soul" [367]
Stockholm syndrome[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Stockholm syndrome
- Muse's "Stockholm Syndrome" [368]
- Yo La Tengo's "Stockholm Syndrome" [369]
- John Prine's "I Hate It When That Happens to Me" [370]
Racism, racialism and bigotry[edit]
- Harry Belafonte's "Black and White (Together)"[371]
- Tom Lehrer's "National Brotherhood Week"[372]
- "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist" from the musical Avenue Q[373]
- Antiziganism: Lady Gaga's "Gypsy"[374]
- Apartheid: Eddy Grant's "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna"[375]
- Bigotry: Tim Minchin's "Prejudice"[376]
- Black Lives Matter: Clipping's "Blood of the Fang"[377]
- Everyone is racist: "Everybody's a Little Racist" from the Broadway musical Avenue Q[378]
- Japanese-American concentration camps: Fort Minor's "Kenji"[379]
- Ku Klux Klan: The Ramones' "The KKK Took My Baby Away"[380]
Slavery[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Slavery
Religion[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Religion
- Afterlife: Nick Cave & Friends' "Death is Not the End"[383]
- Babylon: The Melodians' "Rivers Of Babylon"[384]
- The Book of Mormon: "Hello!" from the musical The Book of Mormon[385]
- Black Hebrew Israelites: Desmond Dekker & The Aces' "Israelites"[386]
- Cult: "Blumenkranz" from Kill la Kill[note 5]
- Evil: Eartha Kitt's "I Want to Be Evil"[387]
- Voltaire's "When You're Evil"[388]
- Fundamentalism: Disturbed's "Liberate"[389]
- Human sacrifice: Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited"[390]
- Idolatry: The Goldcoast Singers' "Plastic Jesus"[391]
- Judaism: "Tradition"[392] from Fiddler on the Roof
- Just world fallacy: The Shaggs' "Philosophy of the World"[393]
- Karma: Toots and the Maytals' "Pressure Drop"[394]
- Mormonism: "I Believe" from the Book of Mormon Musical[395]
- New Age: Frank Zappa's "Cosmik Debris"[396]
- Norse mythology: Richard Wagner's 15 hours "Ring" cycle[397]
- Problem of evil: Bad Religion's "God's Love"[398]
- Rastafarianism: Bob Marley & the Wailers' "Iron Lion Zion"[399]
- Saint John Coltrane Church: John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album[400]
- Sufism: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's "Mustt Mustt"[401]
- Wicca: The Sword's "Maiden, Mother & Crone"[402]
Book of Genesis[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Book of Genesis
- Joseph Haydn's "The Creation"[403]
- The "Genesis Suite", conceived by Nathaniel Shilkret, which includes collaborations from some of the greatest composers of the 20th century, such as Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.[404]
- Garden of Eden Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"[405]
Christianity[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Christianity
- Amish: "Weird" Al Yankovic's "Amish Paradise"[406]
- Bible Belt: Tyminski's "Southern Gothic"[407]
- Jim Bakker: Frank Zappa's "Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk", which is specifically about Bakker[408]
- De-evolution: Devo's "Jocko Homo"[409] ("Are we not men? We are Devo.")
- The Divine Comedy: Iced Earth's "Dante's Inferno"[410]
- Easter: Bing Crosby sings Irving Berlin's "Easter Parade" [411] and so do Judy Garland & Fred Astaire [412]
- God (the Christian version): Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky"[413]
- Herod: "Herod's Song"[414] from Jesus Christ Superstar
- Kent Hovind: eddygoombah's "Tribute to Kent Hovind"[415]
- Jesus: King Missile's "Jesus Was Way Cool"[416]
- Jesus Christ Superstar: "Superstar"[417] from Jesus Christ Superstar
- Judas Iscariot: "Damned for All Time" and "Blood Money"[418] from Jesus Christ Superstar
- Book of Judges: Blind Willie Johnson's "If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down"[419]
- Limbo: Chubby Checker's "Limbo Rock"[420]
- Mary Magdalene: "I Don't Know How to Love Him"[421] from Jesus Christ Superstar
- Mary (mother of Jesus) Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria"[422]
- Messiah: Georg Friedrich Händel's "Messiah"[423]
- Pontius Pilate: "Pilate's Dream" [424] from Jesus Christ Superstar
- Book of Revelation: Genesis's "Supper's Ready"[425]
- Salem witch trials: Lonewolf's "Words of the Witch"[426]
- Spanish Inquisition: "The Inquisition" from Mel Brooks' film History of the World: Part I[427]
- Televangelists: Genesis's "Jesus He Knows Me"[428]
- YMCA: Village People's "YMCA"[429]
Armageddon[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Armageddon
- Venom's "At War with Satan"[430]
- The Dickies' version of "Eve Of Destruction"[431]
- Trivium's "Wake (The End Is Nigh)"[432]
War on Christmas and Christmas[edit]
See the main articles on this topic: War on Christmas and Christmas
- Perry Como's "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays"[433] from 1954!
- Bing Crosby sings Irving Berlin's "Happy Holiday"[434] from 1942!
- John Lennon with The Plastic Ono Band and The Harlem Community Choir's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"[435]
Santa Claus[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Santa Claus
Heaven[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Heaven
- Joe Hill's "The Preacher and the Slave" ("You'll get pie in the sky when you die."): Utah Philips version Joe Glazer version
- Monty Python's "Christmas in Heaven"[438]
Hell[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Hell
Satan[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Satan
- The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil"[443]
- The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"[444]
- And the long awaited sequel by Mark O'Connor featuring Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels, Travis Tritt, and Marty Stuart: "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia"[445]
- King Dude's "Lucifer's the Light of the World"[446]
- Edward Hamilton's "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile!"[447] — with the original lyrics, "And smile, smile, smile. While you've a lucifer to light your fag"
- Satanic Panic: Cake's "Pentagram"[448]
Atheism[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Atheism
- FAQ for the Newly Deconverted: R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion"[449]
Science, technology, environment, and math[edit]
- Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science"[450]
- They Might Be Giants' "Science Is Real"[451]
- CERN/Large Hadron Collider: Large Hadron Rap[452]
- ChatGPT: Firesign Theatre's I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus[453]
- Element: Tom Lehrer's "The Elements"[454]
- Global warming: Disturbed's "Another Way to Die"[456]
- Holography: Gerry & The Holograms' "Gerry & The Holograms"[457]
- Large language model: HAL 9000 sings "Daisy Bell" in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey[458]
- New Math: Tom Lehrer's "New Math"[459]
- Nuclear science: Timbuk 3's "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" [460]
- Pollution: Tom Lehrer's "Pollution"[461]
- Roko's basilisk: Grimes - "We Appreciate Power"[462]
- Sleep: Pup's "Totally Fine"[463]
- Tree: Clint Eastwood sings "I Talk to the Trees"[464] from Paint Your Wagon
Evolution[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Evolution
- Fossil record: Science with Tom's "Fossil Rock Anthem" [465]
- Living fossil#Elvis taxon: Mojo Nixon's "Elvis is Everywhere"[466]
Medicine[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Medicine
NASA[edit]
See the main article on this topic: NASA
- Tom Lehrer's "Wernher von Braun"[473]
- Elton John's "Rocket Man"[474]
- Sam Ryder's "Spaceman"[475]
Radio[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Radio
- 76% Uncertain's "I Hate the Radio"[476]
- Stiff Little Fingers' "You Can't Say Crap On The Radio"[477]
- Queen's "Radio Ga Ga"[478]
Transportation[edit]
- Aircraft: Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly"[479]
- Automobile: The Dickies' "Manny, Moe and Jack"[480]
- Bicycle: Frank Zappa playing music on a bicycle on the Steve Allen TV show[481] and Queen's Bicycle Race [482]
- Rail transportation: Keith & Tex's "Stop That Train"[483] — the rocksteady song that launched a thousand reggae songs
Sex and gender[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Sex
- The Buzzcocks' "Orgasm Addict"[484]
- Mousse T's "Horny"[485]
- Salt-N-Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex"[486]
- Spinal Tap's "Sex Farm"[487]
- Tool's "Prison Sex" [488]
- Anal sex: Eddie Murphy's "Boogie In Your Butt"[489]
- Birth control: Monty Python's "Every Sperm Is Sacred" from The Meaning of Life[490]
- Circumcision/Penis enlargement: King Missile's "Detachable Penis"[491]
- Feminism: Beyoncé's "Run the World (Girls)" [492]
- Marriage: Toots and The Maytals' "Sweet and Dandy"[493]
- Masochism: Tom Lehrer's "The Masochism Tango"[494]
- Menstruation: The Steriles' "On the Rag"[495]
- Open marriage: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' "Swinger from Seville" [496]
- Pick-up artist: Britney Spears' "Womanizer"[497]
- Pornography: Tom Lehrer's "Smut"[498]
- Sexually transmitted disease: Frank Zappa's "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?"[499]
- Sodomy: "Sodomy" from the Peter Jackson film Meet the Feebles[500]
BDSM[edit]
See the main article on this topic: BDSM
- The Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs"[501]
- X-Ray Spex's "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!"[502] — banned by Auntie Beeb
LGBT[edit]
See the main article on this topic: LGBT
- Bisexuality: Green Day's "Coming Clean" [503]
- Homophobia: Chumbawumba's "Homophobia"[504]
Cross-dressing[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Cross-dressing
- Rocky Horror Picture Show's "Sweet Transvestite"[505]
- Monty Python's The Lumberjack Song[506]
Homosexuality[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Homosexuality
- Gloria Gaynor sings "I Am What I Am"[507] from La Cage aux Folles
- Sister Sledge's "We Are Family"[508] — known as a gay anthem
- Electric Six's "Gay Bar"[509]
Transgender[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Transgender
- Transphobia and public restrooms: Tribe 8's "Wrong Bathroom"[510]
- The Who's "I'm a Boy"[511]
- The Kinks' "Lola"[512] (Had to be partially rerecorded for the BBC. Not because of anything to do with gender or sexuality, but to avoid giving free advertising to Coca-Cola)
- Wrabel's "The Village"[513]
- Beyoncé's "If I Were A Boy" [514] (while not strictly related, often used as a FTM Trans anthem)
Masturbation[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Masturbation
War[edit]
See the main article on this topic: War
- The Marx Brothers' "The Country's Going to War" from the film Duck Soup[519]
- AC/DC "War Machine" [520]
- Edwin Starr's "War"[521]
- Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"[522]
- Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem"[523]
- The Fugs' "Kill for Peace"[524]
- Pink Floyd's "Us and Them"[525]
- Agent Orange: REM's "Orange Crush"[526]
- American Civil War: "Marchin' Through Georgia"[527] — a marching song commemorating Sherman's March on Atlanta
- Conscription: Frank Zappa's "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted"[528]
- Crusades: Saxon's "Crusader"[529]
- English Civil War: Elvis Costello & The Attractions' "Oliver's Army"[530]
- Syrian Civil War: Myrath's "Dance"[531]
- War of 1812: Jimmy Driftwood's "The Battle of New Orleans" [532] (covered by Johnny Horton and Lonnie Donegan)
Gunboat diplomacy[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Gunboat diplomacy
Nuclear war[edit]
The Troubles[edit]
See the main article on this topic: The Troubles
Vietnam War[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Vietnam War
World War III[edit]
See the main article on this topic: World War III
- Tom Lehrer's "We Will All Go Together When We Go"[545]
- Tom Lehrer's "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)"[546]
- Randy Newman's "Political Science (Let's Drop the Big One Now)"[547]
- Vera Lynn's admittedly-mawkish "We'll Meet Again", with the visuals from the ending of Dr. Strangelove turning it on its head[548]
Encore: Funspace, Helpspace, and oddments[edit]
- Funspace, pro: Flipper's "Ha Ha Ha"[549]
- Funspace, con: Hüsker Dü's "It's Not Funny Anymore"[550]
- Fun:American football: Bobby Bare's "Drop Kick Me Jesus"[551]
- Fun:Asshole: Frank Zappa's "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes"[552]]
- Category:Black nationalism: Parliament's "Chocolate City"[553]
- RationalWiki:Blocking policy: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments' "Negative Guest List"[554]
- Fun:Cats & Fun:Dogs: The Cramps' "Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?"[555] and Hasil Adkins' "Boo Boo the Cat"[556]
- Conservapedia:Conservative: Tool's "The Grudge"[557]
- Fun:Dalek: The Timelords' "Doctorin' the Tardis"[558]
- Fun:Eurovision Song Contest: Monty Python's Europolice Song Contest with "Sgt. Duckie's Song" and "Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong"[559]
- Fun:Fart: Captain Underpants' "Fart Band"[560]
- Fun:Fox Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady"[561]
- Goth: Havergal Brian's "Gothic Symphony"[562]
- Fun:Horse: America's "A Horse With No Name"[563]
- RationalWiki:Leaving and never coming back: The Mr. T Experience's "So Long Sucker"[564]
- Fun:LOLCatistianity: The Bobs' "Fluffy' s Master Plan for World Domination"[565]
- Conservapedia:Machismo Village People's "Macho Man"[566]
- Monster (fork): Bobby Pickett's "Monster Mash"[567] or The Automatic "Monster"[568]
- Fun:Monty Python: Auckland Symphony Orchestra's version of John Phillip Sousa's "Liberty Bell March" (the Monty Python theme song)[569]
- RationalWiki:Pissed at us: L7's "Shitlist"[570]
- Fun:Elvis Presley: Mojo Nixon's "Elvis is Everywhere"[571]
- Fun:Stupidity: Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartment's "You Can't Kill Stupid"[572]
- RationalWiki:Sysops: Suburban Lawns' "Janitor"[573]
- WIGO: Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On"[574]
- Woke (fork): Snow Tha Product's "Snooze"[575]
Boredom[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Help:Bored
See also[edit]
- 2001 Clear Channel memorandum — an attempt at a banned music list after 9/11
Notes[edit]
- ↑ "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards" also references Noël Coward, Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci and Andrés Segovia, but we don't have articles on them.
- ↑ This song was most likely written about George W. Bush, but it's just as applicable to Donald Trump's personality cult.
- ↑ The Titanic sinking has drawn a lot of conspiracy theories.
- ↑ There's also some ample references to cocaine usage (natch), but that doesn't really show up until the last quarter of the song.
- ↑ You might need to be familiar with the anime in question to fully get this one, but the comments in an older upload do helpfully explain it.