A List of 'List' Songs

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Prompted by Hierbas’ mention of Billy Joel’s ‘We didn’t start the fire’ earlier today, how many TP adjacent list songs are out there?

#1 - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - It’s Grim Up North

‘The lyrics to “It’s Grim Up North” list towns and cities in the North of England, set to a pounding industrial techno beat and percussion reminiscent of steam whistles. The 1991 version segues into an orchestral instrumental of the hymn “Jerusalem”. A recurring theme of “It’s Grim Up North” was drab greyness, representing the dreary, overcast skies of the “grim” North’

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#2 - The Beloved - Hello

Peter, Paul, Tommy Cannon, Bobby Ball, Little Richard, Little Nell, Willy Wonka, William Tell, Salman Rushdie, Kym Mazelle, Mork and Mindy, Bryan Hayes, Barry Humphries, Paris Grey, Little Neepsie, Chris, Do, Billy Corkhill, Vince Hilaire, Freddy Flintstone, Fred Astaire, Desmond Tutu, Steve, Claire, Charlie Parker, Charlie Brown, Leslie Crowther, Mary Wilson, Di and Flo, Sir Bufton Tufton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Zippy, Bungle, Jeffrey Archer, André Previn and LSO.

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Wings - Let Em In
LCD - Losing My Edge

*There’s also a track which lists the name of loads of classic house producers, which lifts the tune from Busta Rhymes New York Shit (not sure if ever released or just someone goofing around. The Busta Rhymes sample is apparently SSO Orchestra Faded Lady but doesn’t sound like it to me)

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adolf hitler. the dentist. terry & june. fucking bastard thatcher. scouse impersonator. silly pathetic girlies. silly pathetic woman. macho dickhead. bonnie langford. neighbours. lost keys. phoney friend. ungrateful accusing mate. the royal family. stock aitken & waterman. heartbreaking lying friend. smiling judas. myra hindley. acid rain. stinking rich female in furs. disloyal lover. wife & childbeater. drunken abuser. racist. bully. the sun newspaper. aids inventor. leon brittan. all nonsense. massive massive oilslick. jimmy tarbuck. loneliness. cancer. hunger. greed. gut wrenching disappointment. evil gossiping fashion bastard. tasteless a&r wanker. hard cold fish. overdraft like a mountain. the jimmy swaggart show. the tory invention of the non-working class. poll tax. commie bashers. mister jesse helms. hillsborough. weird british judges. apartheid. john lennon’s murder. anyone’s murder. the breakdown of the nhs. the death of the rain forest. heysel stadium. rednecks. rape. homelessness. the all-american way. clause 28. tiananmen square. sexual harrassment. nelson mandela’s imprisonment. nancy’s term. ronnie’s term. miscarriage. where were you?

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St Anthony, St Anthony, please come round
Because something is lost that cannot be found

Talk to me of Albion of Anderton and of art
Of the Arndale, Alan Turing, Acid House, Alexandra Park
Of Bez, the Buzzcocks, the bouncing bombs and the beautiful Busby Babes
Of Curtis, Cancer, Christies, Catholicism, Crack and Kurt Cobain
Talk to me of all these things and there’s one thing that’s for certain
That I’ll see the face and I’ll hear the voice of Anthony H. Wilson
Dance, Design, Durutti, Devoto, development of a dirty Northern City
De La Salle, Dignity, how in the end you hated all the pity
Elvis, Engels and ecstasy, and a girl called Emmeline
And the hours that I spent watching you on me black and white TV
From So It Goes to Sunday Roast,
You’re enchanting, you’re endearing, you’re extreme
I saw you with elephants hosing down some dwarves on black and white TV

Factory fame, financial muck ups, Poetic Form and The Fall
The 4th of June 1976 at the lesser Free Trade hall
Oh talk to me, oh talk to me of Gretton, God and Granada
And of Hooky and of Hannett, and how the fighting just got harder
Hamlet, Ibsen, The IRA, Jesus, Mary, and Keith Joseph
Joy Division, Judaism, the importance of the moment
Of Liam, London, Lust for Life, of Louie Louie and Linneas Banks
Of Manchester, Music, Marijuana, Majesty, and Karl Marx
Of nightclubs, new bands, New Order, Oppenheimer, Orchesteral Manoeuvres in the Dark
And all those topical late night intellectual chat shows like The Other Side of Midnight and After Dark
Come and talk to me of all these things and there’s one thing that’s for certain
That I’ll see the face and I’ll hear the voice of Anthony H. Wilson
That I’ll see the face and I’ll hear the voice of Anthony H. Wilson
Talk to me of Peterloo, of Praxis, police and pride
Talk to me of Pontius Pilate, of Power, Corruption and Lies
Of the Queens and the queers and the quiet ones all shy and self effacing
Just like Morrissey but not Mark E. Smith or Shaun Ryder when he’s been freebasing
Johnny Rotten, Regeneration, Richard and Judy, And Vini Reilly
That stupid yellow circular face now known simply as a smiley
Righteous, red, rebellious, ridiculous, down Rochdale and Regent road
You see I want to hear the sound of the Salford soft boy moan
Tony talk to me in the sacristy of a school called De La Salle
Of the poets, preachers, philosophers Tony, talk to me I’m feeling sad
Of Saville, Shaw, the Smiths, Stone Roses, that smile so smug the swagger
I want to hear it from the mouth of an honest northern blagger
Tony talk to me of the Sex Pistols, of Substance, the streets, the sounds
The sniffed and snorted stolen swigged multi million pounds
Then talk to me of the greatest ever Man United team
Greg, Burns, Jones, Edwards, Robson and Roy Keane
Was it Best, Law, Charlton, Stiles and Eric Cantona
All the Unknown Pleasures of the doubles and the trebles, incantations from the stars, Tony
Talk to me half pissed, talk to me half stoned
Talk to me as a boy when I’m sat in my Fallowfield council home
Talk to me on the telly then talk to me on the radio
Talk to me at the opening of some arty farty show
Talk to me of vision, virgin, victory and violence
But don’t leave me sat in the Hidden Gem listening to the buzz of the silence
and talk to me of Warsaw, drug wars, trendy flats within warehouses
But when it comes to footy Tony don’t talk to me about the scousers
And all the X-Ray Spex and all the X Ray tests, and X Ray therapies
And all the ex-wife chats on Xfm, the best youth worker I ever dreamed
You’re me yin and yang, you’re me master plan of an independent Northern scene
Talk to me of Yorick, Yonkers, Youth club banter, Yeats, come and talk to me
Wilson talk to me, Yeats talk to me
Zeitgeist talk to me, Tony talk to me
Wilson talk to me, zeitgeist talk to me
Tony Talk to Me, Tony Talk to Me,
Come on Talk to me, Wilson talk to me
Won’t you talk to me, Come on talk to me
Talk to me of all these things and one thing is for certain
I’ll hear the Salford Cambridge tones of Anthony H. Wilson
Talk to Me

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Mylo ‘Destroy rock’n’roll’

All perversions of the third eye through distorted and exaggerated images, perverted movements of the body and breakdancing, and other forms of dancing, and we especially call for the judgement in this hour and the destroying of rock music directed specifically against children through the videos that were portrayed, and working specifically through these individuals, for whom we call for the judgement of the sacred fire of this hour, before the throne of almighty god,

Michael Jackson,
Prince,
Bruce Springsteen,
Tina Turner,
David Bowie,
Van Halen,
Madonna,
Huey Lewis & The News,
The Cars,
Herbie Hancock,
Bonnie Tyler,
Stevie Nicks,
Men At Work,
ZZ Top,
Paul MCartney & Michael Jackson,
Weird Al Yankovic,
Cyndi Lauper,
Pink Floyd,
The Pretenders,
Billy Joel,
Billy Idol,
Elton John,
Neil Young,
Sheena Easton,
Patty Smith & Scandal,
Fashion,
Big Country,
Morris Day & The Time,
John Lennon,
Apollonia Six
REO Speedwagon,
David Gilmour,
The Rolling Stones,
Pat Benetar,
Hall & Oats,
Wham,
Randy Jackson,
Adam Ant,
Bananarama,
Christine Lavin,
Queen,
John Cougar Mellencamp
U2,
Spheres,
Fleetwood Mac,
The Alan Parsons Project,
Rick Springfield,
The Thompson Twins,
Missing Persons,
Duran Duran,
Breathe,
Eurythmics,
Culture Club including Boy George,
Band Aid,
Relax,

it’s Missing Persons,
Duran Duran,
it’s Missing Persons,
Duran Duran,

Duran Duran
Duran Duran
Duran Duran

Culture Club including Boy George,
Band Aid,
Relax,
Stevie Wonder…

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this track by legendary graff writer Al Diaz (SAMO©) lists SO many people

John, you’ve been on the go ever since you were born
And I imagine few people in the world today have travelled as much as you have
Now why?

Well, I dunno
I suppose some of us are cave dwellers, some of us live in houses
Some of us like to be loose footed
I’m a ramblin’ man

I’m a ramblin’ man

Paris
Tibet
Sydney
Naxos

Rangu
Rotterdam
Runcton
The Cayman Islands

Malawi
Mauritius
Haight-ashbury
Patagonia

Kingston
Kentish Town
Codrington
Koh Samui

Felixstowe
Fingrinhoe
Valmorel
The North Pole

Brixton
Antwerp
Gujarat
Prawle

Uganda
Shennington
Sudbury
Sri Lanka

Ecuador
Edinburgh
Stockholm
Abu Dhabi

Lexington
Lindos
Tokyo
Harlem

Ipanema
Nicosia
Granada
San Jose

Damascus
Mandalay
San Frandisco
Atlantis

Adelaide
Angmering
Arumpo
Amsterdam

New York
Kabul
Rwanda
Kyoto

Manchester
Prague
Mendhurst
Toronto

Madrid
Melbourne
Dublin
Dakar

Boston
Oslo
Tooting
Belfast

Botswana
Tonga
Rayburn

I’m a ramblin’ man
And you’re going to keep on rambling?
Oh yes, he he, have to

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Passion and love and sex and money
Violence, religion, injustice and death

Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh

Girls, boys, art, pleasure
Girls, boys, art, pleasure

Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh

Food, cars, travel
Food, cars, travel, travel
New York, New York, New York
New York

Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh

Armani, Armani, ah-ah-Armani
Versace, cinque

Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh

Armani, Armani, ah-ah-Armani
Versace, cinque

Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh

I don’t like country-and-western
I don’t like rock music
I don’t like, I don’t like rockabilly or rock ’n’ roll particularly
Don’t like much really, do I?
But what I do like I love passionately

Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh

You, you’re my lover, you’re my hope, you’re my dreams
my life, my passion, my love, my sex, my money
violence, religion, injustice and death

Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Don’t like much really, do I?
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
But what I do like I love passionately
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh

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Madge ‘Vogue’

Greta Garbo and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean
On the cover of a magazine

Grace Kelly, Harlow, Jean
Picture of a beauty queen
Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers, dance on air
They had style, they had grace
Rita Hayworth gave good face
Lauren, Katherine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you

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Well if you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
Take the A road, the okay road that’s the best
Go motorin’ on the A13

Well, if you’re looking for a thrill that’s new
Take in Fords, Dartford Tunnel and the river too
Go motorin’ on the A13

It starts down in Wapping
There ain’t no stopping
By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock
And rather near Basildon
Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea
Chalkwell, Prittlewell
Southend’s the end
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
Take the A road, the okay road that’s the best
Go motorin’ on the A13

It starts down in Wapping
There ain’t no stopping
By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock
And rather near Basildon
Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea
Chalkwell, Prittlewell
Southend’s the end

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Effie
Madge and Mabel
Biddie, see them on the beach
Or in New
York City, Tina Louise
And there’s Hazel and Mavis

Can you name, name, name
Name 'em today?
Can you name, name, name
Name 'em today?

Wanda and Janet
And Ronnie and Reba, oh, oh, oh

These are the girls of the U.S.A.
The principal girls of the U.S.A.

Can you name, name, name
Name 'em today?
Can you name, name, name
Name 'em today?

Oh, oh, oh

Kate
Kate and Cindy
And Crystal and Candy

Mercedes and Joan, Betty and Brenda
Suzie and Anita
And Pheobe and Jack, Jackie-O

These are the girls of the U.S.A.
The principal girls of the U.S.A.

Can you name, name, name
Name 'em today?
Can you name, name, name
Name 'em today?

Can you name, name, name?

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top thread. keep 'em coming

David Crosby’s ‘Orleans’ list is short and sweet but to the untrained Anglo ear does sound like a hundred different towns

Orléans
Beaugency
Notre-Dame de Cléry
Vendôme
Vendôme

Orléans
Beaugency
Notre-Dame de Cléry
Vendôme
Vendôme

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The list of reasons to be cheerful includes:

Rock ‘n’ Roll singer Buddy Holly
Little Richard’s 1956 hit “Good Golly, Miss Molly”
Hammersmith Palais, London
The Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow, Russia
British automobile company Scammell Lorries (specifically their 18-wheeler truck)
Equal voting rights
Piccadilly Circus, London
Genitalia (‘Fanny Smith and Willy’)
Oatmeal breakfast cereal (‘porridge oats’)
Generosity and politeness
Yellow socks
Carrot juice
Wine (specifically claret)
Elvis (Presley) and Scotty (Moore), his guitarist
Going to the toilet (‘sitting on the potty’)
A cure for smallpox
The National Health Service’s free prescription glasses
Male and female prostitutes (‘Gigolos and Brasses’)[7]
Smoking a bong (‘lighting up the chalice’)
Skiffle singer Wee Willie Harris
Steve Biko
Jamaican trombonist Rico Rodriguez, who would go on to play with Coventry band The Specials the same year as “Reasons to be Cheerful”'s release
The Marx Brothers (‘Harpo, Groucho, Chico’)
Popular British sandwich (‘Cheddar cheese and pickle’)
British motorcycle manufacturer Vincent Motorcycles (pronounced in the song as “motorsickle”, to rhyme with pickle and tickle)
Sex (‘slap and tickle’)
American comedian Woody Allen
Spanish painter Salvador Dalí
Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich
The opera Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti
The popular song Volare
Soul singer Smokey Robinson
Being released from prison (‘Coming out of chokey’)[8]
Saying ‘okey-dokey’
Being naked (‘Being in my nuddy’)
Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, specifically his soprano saxophone playing.
Italian singer-songwriter Adriano Celentano
1940s and 1950s film actor Bonar Colleano
Self-education (“something nice to study”)

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(whether this is TP-adjacent I’ll leave to the grand jury…)

Thou shalt not steal if there is a direct victim.
Thou shalt not worship Pop Idols or follow Lostprophets.
Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer,
Johnny Hartman, Desmond Decker, Jim Morrison,
Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barrett in vain.
Thou shalt not think that any male over the age of 30
that plays with a child that is not their own is a paedophile.
Some people are just nice.
Thou shalt not read NME.
Thou shalt not stop liking a band just because they’ve become popular.
Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
Thou shalt not judge a book by its cover.
Thou shalt not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover.
Thou shalt not buy Coca-Cola products.
Thou shalt not buy Nestle products.
Thou shalt not go into the woods with your boyfriend’s best friend,
take drugs and cheat on him.
Thou shalt not fall in love so easily.
Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants.
Use it to get into their heads.
Thou shalt not watch Hollyoaks.
Thou shalt not attend an open mic and leave
as soon as you’ve done your shitty little poem or song
you self-righteous prick.
Thou shalt not return to the same club or bar week in,
week out just 'cause you once saw a girl there that
you fancied that you’re never gonna fucking talk to anyway.

Thou shalt not put musicians and
recording artists on ridiculous pedestals
no matter how great they are or were.
The Beatles: Were just a band.
Led Zepplin: Just a band.
The Beach Boys: Just a band.
The Sex Pistols: Just a band.
The Clash: Just a band.
Crass: Just a band.
Minor Threat: Just a band.
The Cure: Were just a band.
The Smiths: Just a band.
Nirvana: Just a band.
The Pixies: Just a band.
Oasis: Just a band.
Radiohead: Just a band.
Bloc Party: Just a band.
The Arctic Monkeys: Just a band.
The Next Big Thing… JUST A BAND.

Thou shalt give equal worth to tragedies that occur in non-English
speaking countries as to those that occur in English speaking countries.
Thou shalt remember that guns,
bitches and bling were never part of the four elements and never will be.
Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music,
thou shalt not make repetitive generic music,
thou shalt not make repetitive generic music,
thou shalt not make repetitive generic music.
Thou shalt not pimp my ride.
Thou shalt not scream if you wanna go faster.
Thou shalt not move to the sound of the wickedness.
Thou shalt not make some noise for Detroit.
When I say “Hey” thou shalt not say “Ho”.
When I say “Hip” thou shalt not say “Hop”.
When I say, he say, she say, we say, make some noise - kill me.

Ah, I forgot where I was, hang on

Thou shalt not quote me happy.
Thou shalt not shake it like a polaroid picture.
Thou shalt not wish your girlfriend was a freak like me.
Thou shalt spell the word “Pheonix” P-H-E-O-N-I-X
not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you.
Thou shalt not express your shock at the fact that
Sharon got off with Brad at a club last night by saying “Is it”.
Thou shalt think for yourselves.

And thou shalt always…
Thou shalt always kill!

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Rick Holmes - Remember to Remember

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What a banger!

Pass the information
Extend the knowledge

John Coltrane said - A Love Supreme
I interpret that to - All Living Things
Donny Hathaway said - The Ghetto
Woody Shaw said - Why?
John F. Kennedy said - Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

[Chorus]
Pass the information
Extend the knowledge

Martin Luther King said - I have a dream
Stevie Wonder said - Innervisions, interpretation, watch with your ears
Aretha Franklin said - Respect
Barry White said - Love
Nina Simone said - To be young, gifted, and black
James Brown said - Stay in school
Cannonball Adderley said - Sometimes, we are not prepared for adversity, mercy, mercy, mercy
Oliver Nelson said - Stolen moments
Isley Brothers said - Harvest for the world, I know there can be better days

[Chorus x3]
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What’s Up?
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Roger Franklin said - You’ll never know
Hubert Law said - Say it with silence
Ashley Wilson said - Guess who I saw today
Earth, Wind and Fire said - Keep your head to the sky, I know there is a force wiser than I
The creator has a master plan - From the pen of Leon Thomas and Pharaoh Sanders
Alex Haley said - Roots
Gerald Wilson said - You better believe it
Charlie Parker said - Now is the time, wake up!
Billie Holiday said - God bless the child
LTD said - Love, togetherness, and devotion
Bobby Bland - Soon as the weather breaks
Sam Cooke - You Saved Me
Roy Ayers said - Believe in yourself
Gil Scott Heron said - Winter in America
Hugh Masekela said - Grazing in the grass
Richard Pryor said - How long?

How long will it take for us to become one? How long will it take for us to become unified? How long will it take us to understand the meaning of understanding? How long will it take us to do what we have to do that’s most important? How long will it take up our [?] to oversee? How long is how long it will take us. We must see beyond the eyes. Focus in on the soul. Love

Wake up! See beyond the eyes [?]
Remember the past, and begin with the future [?]

Malcolm X
Muhammad Ali
Marcus [?]
Rick Holmes
Miriam Makeba
Richard Pryor
Adam Clayton Powell
Martin Luther King
Elijah Muhammad
W. B. Dubois
Frederick Douglas
Nat Turner
Tom Bradley [?]
Barbara Jordan [?]
Sherry Shism [?]
Ron Doughins [?]
Andrew Young
Anwar Sadat
Clara Holmes
George Washington Carver
Cesar Chavez
Sidney Poitier
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Fats Domino
Art Tatum
Fats Waller
Gil Robinson [?]
Eric Dolphy
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Paul Rogan [?]
Stevie Wonder
Minnie Riperton
Louis Armstrong
Remember

All of these people, and more, have made strong contributions to mankind. Because of their compassion and humanitarianism, even with their simple [?], based around love and unity, peace, [?]
Factor that

These men and women, have made their great contributions to mankind. We are to pass it on for the next generation

We shall never forget

Remember to remember to never forget

How long? How long? How long is how long
How long will it take? How long will it take, man?
How long will it take for us to come together?
It’ll take us as long as you make it
May not prolong your life, life you [?]
Generations do [?]
Focus
Are you computerized?
Are you on time?

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