A List of 'List' Songs

This cracks me up every time I hear it. Not sure it’s massively Balearic, but it’s so funny.

Don’t stick your hand in the blender.

Don’t use the hairdryer while you’re in the bath.

Unplug the electric saw before you try to fix it.

Don’t point the crossbow at your friends.

Don’t trim your toenails with a carving knife.

Don’t climb inside old freezers at the junkyard.

Don’t put your nephew in the microwave.

Don’t summon demons with the ouija board.

Don’t try to make new holes in your belt while you are still wearing it.

Don’t try to swim to the island.

Don’t throw darts at people.

Don’t climb on the roof.

Don’t throw stones at me to try to attract my attention.

Don’t shut your eyes while you’re driving.

Don’t drink the grey wine.

Don’t swallow pills that you find in the street.

Don’t stab people with old syringes.

Don’t make your own fireworks.

Don’t drop slabs from motorway bridges.

Don’t take the batteries out of the smoke alarm.

Don’t throw grit at the driver.

Don’t make your own flame thrower.

Stay out of the chemistry labs when the supervisor is absent.

Don’t throw ammunition on the campfire.

Don’t play games with poisonous snakes.

Don’t eat glass.

Don’t smoke in the refueling depot.

Be careful with the nail-gun, and the air rifle, and circular saw.

Don’t glue razorblades onto things.

Don’t pick fights with known psychopaths.

Don’t touch the hot plate.

Don’t hang-glide over the volcano.

Don’t lean out the window while the bullet train is in motion.

Don’t put old car batteries in the furnace.

Don’t play chicken.

Don’t fly a kite beneath the electricity pylons.

Don’t be dared to do dangerous things by people with missing limbs.

Don’t make roadblocks on the bobsleigh run.

Don’t pretend to be a doctor.

Don’t tamper with the braking system.

Don’t shout at old people.

Don’t liberate zoo animals.

Don’t use the lawnmower to trim the hedge.

Don’t give bayonets to children.

Don’t hide the fire extinguisher.

Don’t run in the hospital.

Don’t stick metal coathangers in the toaster while it’s still on.

Don’t buy bomb making equipment.

Don’t slash my tyres while I’m driving.

Don’t play war in the electricity sub-station.

Don’t stage mock executions.

Stay away from the ski jump and the cable car and the funicular railway.

Don’t volunteer for the drugs testing.

Don’t go in hot air balloons.

Don’t press the red buttons.

Obey the stop signs, and the no entry sign, and the speed limit.

Don’t jump over the barriers.

There is no such thing as a metal frisbee.

Don’t try to perform surgery on yourself.

Don’t stick kebab skewers up your nose.

Don’t join the army.

Keep your hands off the gas tap and the welding equipment and the railway signals.

Don’t break into people’s houses and climb up their chimneys.

Don’t park in the fast lane.

Don’t steal police cars.

Don’t pretend to be an acupuncturist or a pilot or a back specialist.

Don’t try to grow biological weapons.

Wash your hands after using pesticides and attempting to grow biological weapons.

And above all, don’t eat scorpions

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Public Enemy - Show 'Em Watcha Got

Public Enemy Number One
Show 'Em Whatcha Got

The same God that gave wisdom to Marcus Garvey
The same God that gave wisdom to Adam Clayton Powell
The same God that gave wisdom to Stephen Biko Stephen Biko
The same God that gave wisdom to Rosa Parks
Gave strength to Martin Luther King, to Malcolm X
The same God that gave wisdom to Nelson Mandela
The same God
The same God that gave wisdom to Winnie Mandela
Stay strong sister
Brothers and sisters, please, join with me to welcome, and listen here

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South Bronx - BDP

KRS listing hip hop originators and his crew:

Now way back in the days when hip-hop began
With Coke LaRock, Kool Herc, and then Bam
Beat boys ran to the latest jam
But when it got shot up they went home and said “Damn
There’s got to be a better way to hear our music every day
B-boys getting blown away but coming outside anyway”
They tried again outside in Cedar Park
Power from a street light made the place dark
But yo, they didn’t care, they turned it out
I know a few understand what I’m talking about
Remember Bronx River, rolling thick
With Kool DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout on the mix
When Afrika Islam was rocking the jams
And on the other side of town was a kid named Flash
Patterson and Millbrook projects
Casanova all over, ya couldn’t stop it
The Nine Lives Crew, the Cypress Boys
The real Rock Steady taking out these toys
As odd as it looked, as wild as it seems
I didn’t hear a peep from a place called Queens
It was seventy-six to 1980
The dreads in Brooklyn was crazy
You couldn’t bring out your set with no hip-hop
Because the pistols would go
So why don’t you wise up, show all the people in the place that you are wack
Instead of tryna take out LL, you need to take your homeboys off the crack
Cause if you don’t, well, then their nerves will become shot
And that would leave the job up to my own Scott La Rock
And he’s from

South Bronx, the South South Bronx

The human TR-808, D-Nice
The poet, the Blastmaster KRS-ONE
The Grand Incredible DJ Scott La Rock
Boogie Down Productions
Fresh for '86, you suckers!

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This is a good one, apart from some 1-2 particular shoutouts that haven’t aged well. Hon mention to “Vivian Banks the first”, for any Fresh Prince of Bel Air fans from back in the day out there.

Another I like, which is an excuse to mention this to folks here who I think may like: “Incredible album by French singer Pierre Barouh recorded July 1982 at Nippon Columbia Studio in Tokyo and composed, arranged, and played by a monumental cast of legendary musicians and producers including Yasuaki Shimizu, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi, Francis Lai, Kazuhiko Katoh, Motohiko Hamase … and many more.”

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i loved this song for a long time before i ever read lyrics or heard translated versions. i didn’t even realize it was a list song!

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Thank you this is exactly the reason why I love this forum, I’m loving this Pierre Barouh album!

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When I had a ‘job’ I used to ‘teach’ a ‘course’ in happiness every January. This was one of my examples - if you can make your own list like this, you’ll be a happier human.

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Saint Etienne “Girl VII”

I’ll run to you now
From somewhere you won’t find me
A different place
A different time
Together that summer
We raised some hell, yeah
But I couldn’t forget
You’re a kiss and tell

Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend

June 4th, 1989, Primrose Hill, Staten Island
Chalk Farm, Massif Central, Gospel Oak, Sao Paolo
Boston Manor, Costa Rica, Arnos Grove
San Clemente, Tufnell Park, Gracetown, York Way
Videoton, Clerkenwell, Portobello, Maida Vale
Old Ford, Valencia, Kennington, Galveston
Holland Park, Studamer, Dollis Hill, Fougeres
London Fields, Bratislava, Haggerston
Lavinia, Canonbury, Alice Springs
Tooting Graveney, Baffin Island
Pollard’s Hill, Winnepeg, Plumstead Common
Hyderabad, Silvertown, Buffalo

If I hadn’t left you
Suppose we’d still be lovers
Still be the fights
And I’d ladder my tights

Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend
Carrie’s got a boyfriend

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What did God give us, Neil?
God gave us life, Nigel.
Sure did!
God gave us life (4x)
So that we could play with our mates
in the street with the ball that we bought
from the shop just last week
God gave us life (4x)
So that we could take sweets off strange men
In big cars and get driven to the woods to stroke
non - excistent puppies
But he also gave us UNA STUBBS
But he also gave us LITTLE & LARGE
But he also gave us KEITH HARRIS
But he also gave us WENDY CRAIG
But he also gave us THORA HIRD
But he also gave us MATHEW KELLY
But he also gave us EARTHA KITT
But he also gave us LIONEL BLAIR
God gave us life (x4)
God gave us life, Halleluja…
PONTIUS PILATE
God gave us life
BOBBY CHARLTON
God gave us life
GORDON JACKSON
God gave us life
Halleluja…

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REM have a couple…

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Big L - Ebonics (with the Simpsons edit by Mylo the Cat)

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List ish…

The Warning
Phase One

The seed is planted when opposites attract
Can you dig it?
It takes the physical to create the physical

Phase Two
The flower blossoms through what seems to be a concrete surface
I.E. greed, racism, insanity, physical and social handicaps
These are the things that mold the flower
Red rose or black rose, no in between

Phase Three
The judgement
If it were to fall upon you today, which flower would you be?
The red rose or the black?

This is The Warning

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Boston rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Chicago rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Detroit rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
L.A. rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Moscow rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Tokyo rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
London rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Peking rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Trenton rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Brooklyn rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Queens rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Munich rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Dayton rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Paris rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Tripoli rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
Manhattan rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop
The Bronx rocks to the planet rock, don’t stop

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Take it OFF!
Take that suede front off
Take it OFF!
Take those contacts off
Take it OFF!
Take that horsemeat off
Take it OFF!
Take those shell-toes off
Take it OFF!
Take those track fleas off
Take it OFF!
Take that doo-rag off
Take it OFF!
Take that mock neck off
Take it OFF!
Take those fat laces off
Take it OFF!
Take that bomber off
Take it OFF!
Take that BVD off
Take it OFF!
Take those Converse off
Take it OFF!
And those Gazelles too
Take it OFF!
Take that Kangol off
Take it OFF!
Take that Jordache off
Take it OFF!
Take that Afro off
Take it OFF!
Take that jhericurl off
Take it OFF!
Take that Le Tigre off
Take it OFF!
Take those acid-washed jeans, bell-bottomed, designed by your mama…
Off? Please? Please, Please, Please, Please

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Love his spoken word stuff. Houseguest is another favourite.

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This is amazing.
Particularly liked the “an ounce of coke is an onion” part!

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Can’t get a transcript, but it’s a good list…

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