Related Topics

There have been over 150 topics covered by Readers Recommend since it was created.  Sometimes these topics overlap or are similar in theme. Below you'll find a list of related topics. Some of the topics appear in more than one category. Email me if you think I should add a new category or add a topic to an existing category or even to suggest splitting a category into smaller categories.

Recently Chris 7572 sent me his own compilation of related songs and you can see that here:  Chris's Related Songs Table

• Alcohol and Drugs - beer, cocaine & heroin, drinking, hangovers, "high" songs, pubs and bars, recovery, whisky, wine

• Animals - animals, birds, cats, chicken and egg songs, dogs, fish, horses, insects, mammals, pets, rabbits, reptiles, rodents

• Apparel - clothes, crowns, fashion, glamour & style, hats, shoes

• Arts - ambition, art & photography, books, books (2), classical songs,  inspired by poetry, literary songs, painters, Shakespeare, songwriting, theatre, tragedy & comedy

• Beatles - Beatles, Beatles covers, solo Beatle songs

• Body Parts - blood, bodily fluids, ears and hearing, eyes and sight, faces, feet, hair, hands, skin, stiff upper lip

• Buildings and Structures - borders, barriers, walls & fences, bridges, buildings, doors, hospitals, hotels, iron and steel, keys and locks, nightclubs, pubs and bars, restaurants & cafés, school

• Business and Work - advertising, ambition, anti-work, austerity, aviation, brands, companies and corporations, farming, hotels, hunting, iron and steel, machinery, industry & technology, making things, manual labour, money, multitasking, newspapers, prostitution, restaurants & cafés, safety and danger, shopping, taxis, tools, volunteering, wealth, work

• Careers - ambition, army, aviation, art & photography, doctors, farming, hotels, journalism, law enforcement, painters, philosophers, police,  spying, superheroes, teachers, theatre, wealth, work

• Chance and Coincidence - coincidence, gambling, luck, prophets

• Colours - black, blue, colours, green, purple, red, shadows, yellow

• Communication and the Media - ambiguous songs, accents, advertising, arguments, bells, books, books (2), heated arguments, call & response, comics and cartoons, commands, deception, dialogue, eavesdropping, eccentric songs, false endings, famous last words, goodbyes, gossip, great opening lines, hello, indecipherable songs, innuendo, inspired by poetry, insulting songs, internet, intriguing narratives, jokes, journalism, letters, emails, etc., lies, long titles, magazines, misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics, mistaken identity, misunderstanding, news & the media,  newspapers, one word titles, opening album tracks, photographs, please & thank you, propaganda, proverbs, questions, radio, recipe songs, refusal, repetition, Shakespeare, songs that contain talking, songwriting, spoken word, storytelling, superheroes, teenage self, telephones, television, ten words or fewer, theatre, tragedy & comedy, TV themes, unusual rhymes, warnings, welcoming, whispering songs, words

• Conflict - anger, arguments, army, austerity, bad decisions, borders, barriers, walls & fences, broken promises, heated arguments, change of mind, chaos, cheating, commands, confusion and delusion, control, criminals, cruel songs, deception, decisive songs, desperation, disappointment, disbelief, divorce, eavesdropping, elections, end of the world, exile, failure, feminism, fighting, forgiveness, futility, gambling, gossip, greed, homelessness, immigrants & refugees, insulting songs, interlopers, ironic songs, justice, left wing politics, lies, losers, mistaken identity, mistakes, misunderstanding, murder, never, nuclear war, obstacles, opposites, pain, peace, police, procrastination, queens, reckless consumption, refusal, regrets, repression, resistance, royalty, safety and danger, schadenfreude, scandal, separation, shyness, sinners, smuggling and stealing, spying, stick it to the man, stuck or trapped, stupidity, surveillance, the truth, uncertainty, US Presidents, victory, villains, violence, visitors, war, warnings, winners, with or without you songs

• Cover Songs - Beatles covers, covers better than the originals, covers by the opposite sex, unlikely cover songs

• Death - apocalypse, bereavement, death, doom, funerals, remembrance, songs and music to play at funerals

• Disease and Well Being - accidents, addiction, ambition, austerity, bad decisions, beauty, blood, breathing, chaos, cleansing, confusion and delusion, control, desperation, disappointment, doctors, doom, embarrassment, escape, euphoria, falling, fetishes, fools, forgetting, futility,  gambling, hangovers, healing, homelessness, hope and resilience, hospitals, illness, intelligence, kindness, laziness, losers, mental illness, mistakes, old age, pain, peace, positive songs, procrastination, reckless consumption, recovery, regrets, relaxation & leisure, repression, safety and danger, shyness, sleep and insomnia, narcissism, speed, stuck or trapped, stupidity, tiredness, trash, uncertainty, unsettling songs, vim

• Education and Knowledge - ambition, ancient history, books, change of mind, disbelief, discovery, intelligence, internet,  knowledge, nerds and geeks, newspapers, patterns & sequences, philosophers, prophets, proverbs, school, science, Shakespeare, stupidity, teachers, the truth, uncertainty, words, works of art

• Elements and Minerals - earth, soil and dirt, gases, geology, gold, iron and steel, precious stones

• Emotions - ambition, anger, anniversaries, anticipation, anxiety, being alone, being scared, boredom, bravery, bright and beautiful, celebration, coming of age, coming home, confusion and delusion, contentment, songs that make you cry, cruel songs, crying, consolation, decisive songs, devoted love, desperation, disappointment, doom, embarrassment, excess, euphoria,  faces, failure, faith, falling in love, fear, first love, flirting, forgiveness, futility, greed, guilt and apology, heat, heat # 2,  hedonism, hope and resilience, insulting songs, jealousy, jokes, joyous songs, kindness, laughter, loss, love is..., lust, melancholy songs, misanthropic songs, mood-changing music, narcissism,  never, nightmares, nostalgia,  pain, pathos, positive songs, refusal, regrets, relaxation & leisure, remembrance, repression, schadenfreude, scary songs, seduction, separation, shyness, smiling and laughing, songs about love songs, spiritual songs, startling songs, stiff upper lip, stuck or trapped, sweetness, tragedy & comedy, tributes, uncertainty, unrequited love, unsettling songs, Valentine's Day Songs, victory, waiting, wanting to be someone else, weddings, with or without you songs, youth cults, zeitgeist

• Families - adolescence, ages, anniversaries, babies and childbirth, bereavement, birthdays,  brothers and sisters, children, children's songs, children performing, coming of age, coming home, death, domestic songs, fathers, funerals, getting older, holidays, home, inheritance, Jones and Joneses, mothers, odd couples, old age, pets, photographs, roots, royalty, separation, siblings, teenage self, teenagers, weddings

• Food and Drink - austerity, beer, chocolate, coffee, cooking, drinking, farm produce, farming, flavour, food, fruit, meals and mealtimes, meat, pubs and bars, recipe songs, restaurants & cafés, sweet foods, vegetables, water, whisky, wine

• Fun - adventure, anniversaries, bells, birthdays, books, books (2), bright and beautiful, call & response, carnivals & funfairs, celebration, children's songs, chocolate, coming home, concerts, cricket, dance styles, dancing, departures, eccentric songs, escape, euphoria, excess, fairgrounds, fetishes, flirting, fools, funny songs, gambling, games, gardens, gifts and giving, glamour & style, handclaps, hedonism, hobbies, hunting, internet, jokes, joyous songs, songs that go la, laughter, laziness, misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics, na-na-hey-hey songs, so bad they're good, parks, parties and going out, photographs, pubs and bars, relaxation & leisure, shoes, showing off, smiling and laughing, sound effects, speed, sport, toys, theatre, TV themes, unusual rhymes, visitors, weddings, whimsical songs, wine

• Geographical Features - borders, the coast, islands, mountains, parks, rivers, roads and streets, the sea

• Geographical Places - addresses, Africa,  America, American west, Asia, Australia, barriers, walls & fences, Britain, California, Canada, Caribbean,  coming home, Europe, exile, fictional places, France, Ireland, London, Manchester, Mexico & Central America, named after towns, neighbours, New England, New York, Nordic Countries, Northern England, rural songs, Russia, Scotland, South America. specific or obscure places, suburbia, US cities & states, villages, Welsh Songs, Yorkshire

• History - ancient history, army, assassination, Beatles, discovery, elections, Elvis, end of the world, famous people, historical events, historical figures, leadership, left wing politics, memory, modernity, newspapers, philosophers, remembrance, retrospection, roots, royalty,  saints and martyrs, scandal, surveillance, US Presidents, victory, works of art, zeitgeist

• Holidays - anti-Christmas, birthdays, Christmas, escape, gifts and givinggifts and giving, halloween, holidays, hotels, independence, summer, Valentine's Day Songs, visitors, the weekend

• Hopes and Dreams - advice, ambition, anticipation, austerity, beauty, bravery, change, change 2, decisive songs, desperation, disappointment, dreams, elections, escape, euphoria,  failure, faith, fate & destiny, flirting, forgiveness, fresh starts, futility, gold, hero worship, holidays, hope and resilience, immigrants & refugees, independence, lessons in life, losers, marriage, mistakes, modernity, new resolutions, new year songs, optimistic songs, peace, positive songs, procrastination,  reckless consumption, regrets, showing off, starting over, teenage self, teenagers. uncertainty,  unity, victory, waiting, wanting to be someone else, wealth, weddings, winners

• Humour - funny songs, ironic songs, jokes, laughter, nonsense or inaudible lyrics, smiling and laughing,  startling songs, tragedy & comedy, whimsical songs

• Instruments - accordion, bells, best bass lines, best brass songs, best piano songs, deep voices, flute, pipe or whistles, handclaps, impressive intros, instrumental soundtracks, instrumentals, musical instruments, odd sounds and instruments, orchestral string instruments, organ, outstanding percussion, riffs, saxophone, super solos

• Languages - accents, foreign language versions,  multilingual songs, na-na-hey-hey songs, songs in French

• Literary Devices - alliteration, arresting opening lines, ironic songs

• Love - devoted love, falling in love, first love, love is..., songs about love songs, unrequited love

• Manufactured Items - beds, glass, keys and locks, machines, robots & computers, machinery, industry & technology,  mirrors, records, sharp objects, telephones

• Movie Business - actors, celebrity, discordant songs, effects of fame, inspired by or about films, movie and TV stars, redefined by films, recorded for films

• Music & the Music Business -  1980s 12" Singles, asafaraes, B sides, Beatles, Beatles covers,  children's songs, children performing, collaborations and side projects, comeback songs, concerts, covers better than the originals, covers by the opposite sex, debuts, deep voices, influenced by dub, duets, eccentric songs,  Elvis, extraordinary vocals, false endings, falsetto, famous last words, favourite live versions, finish where they begin, forgotten follow-ups, genre switch, great middle eights, great opening lines, handclaps, hidden tracks, high pitched vocals, impressive intros, incidental music, indecipherable songs, songs that go la, long songs, long titles, minimalist songs, misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics, mood-changing music, music genres, music industry, musically adventurous, na-na-hey-hey songs, odd sounds and instruments, one hit wonders, one word titles, opening album tracks, other musicians, other songs, out of tune, records, riffs, sampling and recycling, short songs, so bad they're good, solo Beatle songs, songs, songs that build, songs without a chorus, songwriting, sound effects, special guests, stops and starts, super solos, surprising intros, ten words or fewer, unlikely cover songs, vibrato, tremolo or oscillations, whispering songs, youth cults

• Musical Styles and Genres - a capella, call & response, classical songs, favourite live versions, funk, harmonies, krautrock

• Names - girl's names, historical figures, men's names, Mr. and Mrs., named after men, named after women, named after towns

• Nature - animals, birds, climate change, earth, soil and dirt, flowers, forests, fruit, gardens, gold, green, horses, hunting, insects, mammals, monkeys and apes, nature, parks, pets, power, precious stones, rabbits, reptiles, rodents, sky, trees, grass and flowers, wilderness, wind

• Numbers and Sequences - firsts and lasts, list songs, mathematics, numbered 1-10, numbers, one, patterns & sequences, three, two - part 1, two - part 2

• Outer Space - aliens, celestial bodies, moon, sci-fi and space, space, star signs, the sun

• Personal Appearance - beauty, clothes, fashion, glamour & style, hair, hands, hats, mirrors, nerds and geeks, shoes, shopping, showing off

• Personalities - actors, Beatles, celebrity, character songs, effects of fame, fools, historical figures, Jesus, Jones and Joneses, movie and TV stars, narcissism, nerds and geeks, odd couples, self-referential songs, special guests, superheroes, tributes, wanting to be someone else

• Politics and Political Issues - ambition, army, assassination, austerity, borders, barriers, walls & fences, broken promises, capital punishment, climate change, control, crime, criminals, crowns, deception, disbelief, eavesdropping, elections, environment, exile, feminism, freedom, gambling, homelessness, hunting, independence, justice, leadership, left or right, left wing politics, nuclear war, peace, philosophers, police,  politicians, poverty, power, promises and choices, propaganda, protest, queens, rallying cries, reckless consumption, revolution, royalty, safety and danger, scandal, social class, spying, stupidity, surveillance, the truth, unemployment, uncertainty, unity, US Presidents, victory, war, wealth

• Relationships - anti-love, anniversaries, anticipation, being a man or a woman, broken promises, cheating, coming of age, coming home, community, cruel songs, deception, departures, devoted love, divorce, falling, falling in love, first love, flirting, forgiveness, friendship, gifts and giving, homosexuality, independence, infidelity, insulting songs, jealousy, kindness, kissing, lust, the heart, left or right, marriage, mistaken identity, missing someone, Mr. and Mrs., moving on, narcissism ,neighbours, odd couples, one night stands, promises and choices, refusal, regrets, secrets, secrecy, seduction, separation, sexy songs, shyness, strangers, the truth, uncertainty, unrequited love, upbeat break-up, upbeat breakup # 2, Valentine's Day Songs, visitors, volunteering, waiting, weddings, welcoming, with or without you songs

• Religion - afterlife, angels, ascension, bells, biblical songs, crosses, disbelief, end of the world, faith, forgiveness, God and the Devil, Jesus, heaven and hell, miracles, philosophers, religion, resurrection, saints and martyrs, spiritual songs

• Science - geology, mathematics, science

• Seasons - autumn, spring, summer, winter

• The Senses - beauty, black, blue, breathing, bright and beautiful, classical songs, colours, discordant songs, dynamic volume changes, ears and hearing, eyes and sight, fetishes, fire, flavour, handclaps, glass, heat, heat # 2, light, noise,  odd sounds and instruments, red, rough and smooth, shadows, silence, smells, sound effects,  speed, surveillance, surreal songs, vibrato, tremolo or oscillations, works of art

• Shapes - circles, crosses, curves and spheres, geometrical shapes, holes, small things

• Sounds - dynamic volume changes, laughter, noise,  odd sounds and instruments, screams, howls, grunts & shrieks, sound effects

• Sports - cricket, fighting, running, sport

• Stories - ancient history, books, books (2), fantasy, hatchet jobs, I Am Songs, innuendo, inspired by poetry, literary songs, miracles, monsters, myths & legends, newspapers, Shakespeare, songs with a twist, superheroes, theatre

• Superstition - afterlife, doom, end of the world, fate & destiny, ghosts, luck, magic, miracles, monsters, myths & legends, resurrection,  star signs

• Temperature - cold, fire, heat, heat # 2

• Time - afternoon, ages, autumn, chicken and egg songs, dates, dawn, days of the week, estimates of distance and time, finishing, Friday & Saturday, the future, impermanence, last night, midnight, modernity, morning songs, new year songs, night & darkness, nostalgia, repetition, retrospection, reversing, September, spring, summer, times of day, waiting, the weekend, winter

• Thinking, Logic and Reason - obvious

• Transportation & Travel - ascension, aviation, bicycles, bridges, buses, cars and driving, coming home, departures, estimates of distance and time, exile, flying, horses, immigrants & refugees, itinerants and migration, leaving, motorbikes, moving on, ships and boats, taxis, trains, reversing, rivers, running, shoes, speed, travelling, walking and running

• Vice and Crime - assassination, broken promises, capital punishment, chaos, cheating, cocaine & heroin, crime, criminals, deception, desperation, drinking, eavesdropping, escape, fetishes,  gambling, gossip, greed, guns, hangovers, hunting, justice, law enforcement, lies, losers, mistaken identity, mistakes, murder, narcissism, pirates, police, prisons, procrastination, prostitution, revenge, scandal, secret vices, secrets, secrecy, showing off, sinners, smoking, smuggling and stealing, speed,  superheroes, surveillance, sweary songs, unsettling songs, victory, villains, violence

• Virtues - ambition, austerity, bravery, forgiveness, gifts and giving, hope and resilience, kindness, promises and choices, stiff upper lip, the truth, volunteering

• Vocal Styles - a capella, call & response, deep voices, falsetto, harmonies, high pitched vocals

• Water - cleansing, the coast, crying, rain, rivers, the sea, water

• Weather - bad weather, cold, heat, heat # 2, rain, sky, wind, winter

• Weirdness - eccentric songs, odd sounds and instruments, startling songs, strange and surreal, surreal songs, unsettling songs