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Artists beginning with the letter R

R.E.M.

Cuyahoga rivers

Daysleeper

sleep and insomnia

Exhuming McCarthy

politicians

Fall on Me

environment

Half a World Away tiredness

It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)

list songs

Little America

America

Nightswimming

autumn

Radcliffe, Jimmy

Long After Tonight Is All Over

devoted love

Radio 4

Dance to the Underground

dancing

Radiohead

Creep

unrequited love

Electioneering elections

Fitter happier

anxiety

No Surprises

silence

Palo Alto the future

Sail to the Moon

fathers

Raekwon

Heaven and Hell

heaven and hell

Ice Cream

food

Sneakers shoes

Rage Against the Machine

Bullet in the Head

guns

Killing in the Name

sweary songs

RAH Band

Clouds Across the Moon

missing someone

Rakes

Strasbourg

places in Europe

Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep)

work

Rammstein

Amerika

multilingual songs

Ramones

I Got a Lot to Say ten words or fewer

Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)

Christmas

Rockaway Beach

New York

Randy and the Rainbows

Denise

named after women

Rascal, Dizzee I Luv U dialogue
Read, Al You're Seeing Too Much of the Telly television
Red House Painters Dragonflies insects
Rollercoaster coming of age

Redding, Otis

Cigarettes and Coffee

smoking

(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

California

(with Carla Thomas) Tramp

duets

White Christmas

Christmas

Redman

How to Roll a Blunt

smoking

Reed, Blind Alfred

How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?

poverty

Why Do You Bob Your Hair Girls? hair

Reed, Jerry

Guitar Man

instruments

Reed, Jimmy

Bright Lights, Big City

light

Reed, Lou

The Bed beds

Dirty Blvd

New York

The Kids unsettling songs

The Last Shot

drinking

(with John Cale) Trouble With Classicists

art

Vicious cruel songs

What's Good?

bereavement

Reeves, Martha and the Vandellas

(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave

heat

Reflection Eternal

The Human Element

prisons

Regina, Elis

(with Antonio Carlos Jobim) Aguas de Marco (Waters of March)

list songs

Reich, Steve

Clapping Music handclaps

(with Kronos Quartet & Pat Metheny)
Different Trains: Europe During the War

trains

Reinhardt, Django Nuages songs in French

Rekindle

Ice Skating Girl (Linus Loves Remix)

cold

Replacements

Beer for Breakfast

drinking

Election Day elections

Left of the Dial

radio

Shiftless When Idle laziness
Sixteen Blue boredom

Rev. DC Rice and his Sanctified Congregation

He's Got His Eyes on You

eyes and sight

Rezillos

(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures

art

Rhymes, Busta (with Twista) Break Ya Neck indecipherable songs

Rhys, Gruff

Skylon!

flying

Richman, Jonathan

Cornerstore shopping
I'm Just Beginning to Live fresh starts

Velvet Underground

other musicians

Richmond Fontaine

Five Degrees Below Zero

travelling

The Kid from Belmont Street coming of age

Rigby, Amy

Cynically Yours anti-love

We're Stronger Than That

marriage

Riley, Jeannie C.

Harper Valley PTA

arguments

Riperton, Minnie

Inside My Love

sexy songs

Les Fleur

trees, grass and flowers

Robeson, Paul

Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho

biblical songs

No More Auction Block for Me fresh starts

Robinson, Smokey and the Miracles

Going to a Go-Go

parties & going out

Shop Around lessons in life

Tears of a Clown

smiling and laughing

Rock, Pete

(with CL Smooth) The Good Life social class

(with CL Smooth) They Reminisce Over You (TROY)

bereavement

(featuring Dead Prez) War Zone

nightclubs

Rodgers, Jimmie Blue Yodel No 8 (Muleskinner Blues) manual labour
Rogers, CeCe Someday freedom

Rogers, Kenny

Coward of the County violence

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town

jealousy

Rogers, Kenny and the First Edition

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

redefined by films

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) hangovers

Rolling Stones

Angie

named after women

Can't You Hear Me Knocking great middle eights

Factory Girl

work

Gimme Shelter impressive intros
Mother's Little Helper boredom

Paint It Black

bereavement

Salt of the Earth social class
Stupid Girl cruel songs

Sympathy For the Devil

God and the devil

Winter

cold

Romeo, Max

Chase the Devil

God and the devil

Ronettes

Walking in the Rain

bad weather

Roots

Adventures in Wonderland secret vices

Lazy Afternoon

afternoon

Ross, Annie

Twisted

mental illness

Ross, Diana

I'm Coming Out

change

Love Hangover hangovers

Remember Me

upbeat break-up

Ross, Diana & the Supremes

Where Did Our Love Go

questions

Rotary Connection

I Am The Black Gold of the Sun

the sun

Roxy Music

Amazona South America
Avalon myths & legends

Do the Strand

dancing

In Every Dream Home a Heartache

home

Oh Yeah

radio

Song for Europe

multilingual songs

Sunset

the sun

Roy, I. (with Lee Perry) Space Flight adventure
Royksopp Remind Me forgetting
Ruby Suns Tane Mahuta myths & legends

Run DMC

My Adidas

fashion

It's Tricky effects of fame

Runaways

Queens Of Noise

noise

Rush

Freewill star signs

The Spirit of Radio

radio

Subdivisions

suburbia

Xanadu fictional places
Russell, Arthur This is How We Walk on the Moon moon
Rutles Let's Be Natural nature

Ruts

Babylon's Burning

fire

 

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