List song

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.

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
• "A Sheltered Life" Carter USM
• "A Well-Dressed Hobbit" (Rie Sheridan Rose, Marc Gunn)
• "Ain't Got No" (from the musical Hair)
• "All My Exes Live in Texas" (George Strait)
• "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.
• "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)
• "Bush" (Two-Gun Smokey) lists herbs
• "Can U Dig It" (Pop Will Eat Itself)
• "Coded Language" (Krust)
• "Come Together" (The Beatles)
• "Come To the Supermarket In Old Peking" (Cole Porter)
• "Datura" (Tori Amos)
• "Destroy Rock & Roll" (Mylo)
• "Done Too Soon" (Neil Diamond)

E to J

• "Eclipse" (Pink Floyd)
• "Eight Easy Steps" (Alanis Morissette)
• "The Elements" (Tom Lehrer)
• "Elephant Talk" (King Crimson)
• "Endless Art" (A House)
• "Forever Young" (Bob Dylan)
• "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" (The Bloodhound Gang)
• "Girl of 100 Lists" (Go-Go's)
• "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)
• "God" (John Lennon)
• "Hello" (The Beloved)
• "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" (Geoff Mack/Lucky Starr)
• "Imperfect List" (Big Hard Excellent Fish)
• "It's Grim Up North" (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu)
• "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'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)
• "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" (Mozart) ("The Catalogue Aria" from Don Giovanni)
• "Mambo No. 5" (performed by Lou Bega and Perez Prado)
• "Manhattan", (Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart)
• "MfG" (Die Fantastischen Vier)
• "Mr. Goldstone" (music, Jule Styne; lyrics, Stephen Sondheim)
• "Moments to Remember" (Robert Allen and Al Stillman)
• "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)
• "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)

P to S

• "People Who Died" (Jim Carroll)
• "Pennsylvania" (The Bloodhound Gang)
• "Pepper" (Butthole Surfers)
• "Plane Too" (Loudon Wainwright III)
• "Portobello Road" (from Walt Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
• "The Rattl'n Bog" (Traditional)
• "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
• "Rock & Roll Heaven" (Righteous Brothers)
• "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" (Bobby Troup)
• "Said the Hobbit to the Horse" (Marc Gunn)
• "Seven Curses" (Bob Dylan)
• "Sixteen Reasons"(Bill and Doree Post) (#3 hit for Connie Stevens in 1960)
• "Sodomy" (from the musical Hair)
• "Song for Whoever" (The Beautiful South)
• "Start Button" (Private Thoughts in Public Places featuring Streamer, on As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2)
• "State Song"
• "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (Bob Dylan)

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.
• "Telefonbuchpolka" (Georg Kreisler)
• "These Foolish Things" (Eric Maschwitz and Jack Strachey)
• "They All Fall In Love" (Cole Porter)
• "To Kokoraki" (the Cockerel) (Flanders and Swann)
• "Thou Shalt Always Kill" (Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip)
• "The Pride" (Five Finger Death Punch)
• "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Traditional)
• "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
• "Wishlist", Pearl Jam
• "Who's Next" (Tom Lehrer) lists countries acquiring nuclear weapons.
• "The Whole World Lost its Head" (Go-Go's)
• "Vogue" (Madonna)
• "White Boys" (from the musical Hair)
• "You're the Top" (Cole Porter)
• "Zip" (Rodgers and Hart)

0 to 9

• "21 Things I Want in a Lover" (Alanis Morissette)
• "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (Paul Simon)
• "88 Lines About 44 Women" (The Nails)

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)
• "The Major-General's Song" (Gilbert and Sullivan)