Making A List, Checking It Twice: Songs In The Form Of Lists

Just in time for Christmas.

 

Get to the back of that long black queue.

 

Fitter Happier .
Like a Pig
In a cage
On antibiotics

( Apparently Yorke wrote this when he had writers block and so just listed all the things that came into his head and turned it into a song )

 

In this classic track Fela starts by listing all the uses of water that man has , but really the allegory is how the Nigerian government needs to rule more in tune with the powers of nature rather than brutality .

Despite being now Felas most famous track it was in fact the B side to Expensive Sh1t which tells the story of how Fela had to stash his hash up his @ss and the police made him sh1t it out .

 

Bit more mainstream but still decent pop music

INXS

 

Not a list in the verse but the chorus/title is a list that is close to my heart .

One Bourbon/One Scotch/One Beer

 

Before My Lovely Horse, there was Dana with her long list of randomised goodness that still stands as a big **** you to Billy Joel type lists of awfulness. All Kinds of Everything.

 

Cyndi Looper