The Marconium – The Complete Index to the Song Bar

Songs About Unrequited Love (2)

Aug. 5, 2026
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Column
Writer: Paul Hayes (DiscoMonster)

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Dancing on My Own	Robyn	tincanman
2	Dreams Burn Down	Ride	ParaMhor
3	Walk Away Renee	The Four Tops	amylee
4	You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)	Dawn Penn	severin
5	Passin' Me By	The Pharcyde	pejepeine
6	You On My Mind	Swing Out Sister	nosuchzone
7	Kim the Waitress	Green Pajamas	ShivSidecar
8	You Don't Know My Name	Alicia Keys	amylee
9	Yumeji's Theme	Shigeru Umebayashi	ParaMhor
10	I Can't Make You Love Me	Bonnie Raitt	amylee
11	Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)	Buzzcocks	TarquinSpodd
12	If I Can't Have You	Yvonne Elliman	amylee
13	Cupid	Sam Cooke	ParaMhor
14	You Belong Wih Me	Taylor Swift	Marconius7
15	Cruel	Prefab Sprout	vanwolf2
16	I Keep It Hide	Alice Clark	pejepeine
17	Bad Religion	Frank Ocean	Uncleben
18	Never Be Mine	Angel Olsen	TarquinSpodd
19	Peggy Sue	Buddy Holly & the Crickets	TarquinSpodd
20	White Flag	Dido	tincanman

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Songs About Tourists & Tourism

July 29, 2026
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Writer: Loud Atlas

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Magical Mystery Tour	The Beatles	vastariner
2	VACATION	Connie Francis	Marconius7
3	The Tourist	Radiohead	Maki
4	Camino del Sol	Antena	pejepeine
5	Tourist Take Over	Lord Kitchener	TatankaYotanka
6	Lovely Money	The Damned	ShivSidecar
7	Club Tropicana	Wham!	ParaMhor
8	TURiSTA	Bad Bunny	Maki
9	Summer Here Kids	Grandaddy	happyclapper
10	I Ran All the Way Home	Black Box Recorder	tincanman
11	Tourist Leggo	King Short Shirt	Nicko
12	Postcard	Frida Hyvönen	barbryn
13	Makin' Wicky-Wacky Down in Waikiki	Al Bowlly	Nicko
14	Safe European Home	The Clash	pejepeine
15	Ysabel's Table Dance	Charles Mingus	TatankaYotanka

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Run Run Run to the Centre Pompidou	Grant Hart	happyclapper
2	Our Last Summer	ABBA	Vikingchild
3	Every Fucking City	Paul Kelly	Nicko
4	Hoteles, Sol y Playa	Maria Jaume (fy. Pau Debon	Maki
5	You Belong to Me	Jo Stafford	TarquinSpodd
6	Luton Airport	Cats U.K.	pejepeine
7	Jumbo Jet	The Addy Flor Orchestra	pejepeine
8	Hotel Mini Bar	Jackie Leven	TatankaYotanka
9	Tourista	Toussou N'Dour	Uncleben
10	The Village of St. Bernadette	Andy Williams	SweetHomeAlabama
11	Magic America	Blur	Noodsy
12	Postcard	The Bonzo Dog Band	nosuchzone
13	Makudonarudo	Namewee ft. Meu Ninomiya	ajostu
14	The Weekend of a Private Secretary	Red Norvo's Orchestra & Mildred Bailey	Nicko
15	So Good to Be Home Again	The Tourists	vastariner

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Songs About Summers of Love

July 22, 2026
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Column
Writer: ParaMhor

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Do You Believe in Magic	The Lovin' Spoonful	Marconius7
2	Get Together	The Youngbloods	SweetHomeAlabama
3	Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In	The 5th Dimension	Marconius7
4	The Happening	The Supremes	magicman
5	Somebody to Love	Jefferson Airplane	Marconius7
6	Girl from New York	Billy Nicholls	Uncleben
7	California Soul	The Messengers	Nilpferd
8	Nature	The Fourmyula	Nilpferd
9	The Red Telephone	Love	TarquinSpodd
10	London Social Degree	Dana Gillespie	ShivSidecar
11	I Wanna Come Back (From the World of LSD)	The Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2	Max Visconta Nuclerosea
12	Indian Summer	The Doors	Nicko
13	Slip Inside This House	The 13th Floor Elevators	TarquinSpodd
14	The Other One	Grateful Dead	Chris7572

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Here Comes the Summer	The Undertones	Uncleben
2	Seven Days in the Summer	Feeder	happyclapper
3	Summer Rain	The Primitives	vastariner
4	Solar Power	Lorde	barbryn
5	Summertime	The Sundays	SweetHomeAlabama
6	Summer of Love	Jess Ribeiro	severin
7	Summer	War	SweetHomeAlabama
8	Summer (The First Time)	Millie Jackson	TatankaYotanka
9	NUEVAYoL	Bad Bunny	pejepeine
10	Friends in Time	The Golden Horde	Max Visconta Nuclerosea
11	Johnny Was a Good Boy	The Mystery Trend	Vikingchild
12	One Blood	Junior Reid	MussoliniHeadkick
13	Girls of Summer	Arab Strap	barbryn

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Songs With or About Summer Insect Sounds

July 15, 2026
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Column
Writer: severin

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	The Cicada Song	The Dimen Dong Folk Chorus	SongBarLandlord
2	I Think We're Alone Now	Tommy James & the Shondells	SweetHomeAlabama
3	Grasshoppers in My Pillow	Lead Belly	Nicko
4	Cigarra	Simone	pejepeine
5	I Know Sometimes a Man is Wrong	David Byrne	SongBarLandlord
6	Crickets in Moonlight	Lee "Scratch" Perry	Shoegazer
7	Hard Times	Ethel Cain	magicman
8	Baby Bug	Samm Bennett	SongBarLandlord
9	The Ant and the Grasshopper	Leon Rosselson & Roy Bailey	TatankaYotanka
10	Cicada	La Luz	vanwolf2
11	Grasshopper	The Mamas & the Papas	ShivSidecar
12	You Are the Everything	R.E.M.	Vikingchild
13	Green Arrow	Yo La Tengo	magicman

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Grasshopper Baby	Marie Knight	Nicko
2	A Great Grey Grasshopper	Ivor Cutler Trio	TarquinSpodd
3	The Cricket Song	Ella Fitzgerald	Loud Atlas
4	When the Day Is Clear	The Grasshoppers	pejepeine
5	The Hissing of Summer Lawns	Joni Mitchell	SongBarLandlord
6	Crickets	Peter Cowap	ShivSidecar
7	Summer's Cauldron	XTC	Maki
8	Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation	Santana	Fred Erickson
9	Kiếp Ve Sầu	Nhật Thiên Lan	Nicko
10	Harvest Moon	Cassandra Wilson	nosuchzone
11	Cow, Crickets and Clay	Minilogue	Shoegazer

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Songs About Umbrellas

July 8, 2026
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Column
Writer: TatankaYotanka

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg	Monique Leyrac	Uncleben
2	My Umbrella	Iraina Mancini	barbryn
3	Little Umbrellas	Frank Zappa	Nicko
4	Hiding Neath My Umbrella	God Help the Girl	vastariner
5	Rosie	Joan Armatrading	severin
6	Cinderella	Eric Donaldson	Nicko
7	Loraine	Linton Kwesi Johnson	Nicko
8	It's Raining Men	The Weather Girls	Vikingchild
9	Parasol	Tori Amos	severin
10	Fiddler in the Rain	Robb Johnson	treefrogdemon
11	Bus Stop	The Hollies	barbryn
12	Ballet for a Rainy Day + 1000 Umbrellas	XTC	ShivSidecar

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Umbrella	Manic Street Preachers	Shoegazer
2	Monsters in the Parasol	Queens of the Stone Age	happyclapper
3	Umbrella Man	The Searchers	ShivSidecar
4	All the Umbrellas in London	The Magnetic Fields	barbryn
5	Umbrella	The Baseballs	Marconius7
6	Maracatu Atômico	Gilberto Gil	Nicko
7	Little Umbrellas	Kristian Bush	BanazirGalbasi
8	Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella	Lee Morse	Nicko
9	Blue Umbrella	John Prine	Fred Erickson
10	Manchester	The Beautiful South	DiscoMonster
11	One Nation Under a Brolly	Trixie's Big Red Motorbike	pejepeine
12	Hotel Yorba	The White Stripes	ShivSidecar

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Songs on the “Art” of Drinking

July 1, 2026
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Column
Writer: Nicko

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	I'm Not to Blame	Sun Ra & his Orkestra	SongBarLandlord
2	Absinthe	Beth Orton	severin
3	All I Ever Am	The Cure	tincanman
4	Big Louise	Scott Walker	TarquinSpodd
5	Autoclave	The Mountain Goats	Shoegazer
6	She Moves Among Men (The Barmaid's Song)	June Tabor	ShivSidecar
7	Queen of the Silver Dollar	Emmylou Harris	treefrogdemon
8	Hell in a Bucket	Grateful Dead	Chris7572
9	Baudelaire	...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead	happyclapper
10	The Fits Come on Me Now or the Bishop of Chester's Jigg	The Broadside Band	ParaMhor
11	Medieval	James	DiscoMonster
12	La Taberna del Buda	Café Quijano	Maki
13	I Want You	Marvin Gaye	pejepeine
14	I Got Loaded	Peppermint Harris	AltraEgo
15	Boulevard of Broken Dreams	Green Day	Marconius7
16	Between the Bars	Elliott Smith	Uncleben
17	It's Been a Long, Long Time	Yoshiko Shinkura	Jamesowen475
18	Nighthawk Postcards (from Easy Street)	Tom Waits	BanazirGalbasi

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Can Can Music	Jacques Offenbach	TarquinSpodd
2	Beddy Bye (Strangers in the Night)	Bert Kaempfert	Marconius7
3	L'Absinthe	Barbara	BanazirGalbasi
4	Latin Quarter	Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees	TarquinSpodd
5	En Mi Casa Es el Desorden	Joel Mosquera	pejepeine
6	Nightclubbing	Grace Jones	severin
7	Dream Kitchen	Mark Stewart	Shoegazer
8	Punishment of Luxury	Engine of Excess	Maki
9	Booze Party	Three Aces and a Joker	TarquinSpodd
10	Pieta (La Piccola)	Wire	ShivSidecar
11	Absinthe	The Damned	severin
12	Lonely Crowd	Alice Phoebe Lou	SongBarLandlord
13	I Don't Want the Night to End	Phoebe Snow	Marconius7
14	Pictures of You	The Cure	ParaMhor

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Songs About Solstice, Middles & Halfway

June 24, 2026
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Column
Writer: Maki

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Halfway to Crazy	The Jesus and Mary Chain	happyclapper
2	Mezzanine	Massive Attack	Uncleben
3	Solstice	Björk	severin
4	Riding on the Equator	Felt	ParaMhor
5	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	Cab Calloway & his Orchestra	Uncleben
6	Halftime	Nas	pejepeine
7	Median	Nils Petter Molvær	Uncleben
8	Half Measure	The Weeknd	amylee
9	All or Nothing at All	Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra	Nicko
10	Half Way There	Slapp Happy	Nicko
11	Halfway Home	TV on the Radio	happyclapper
12	Half-Broke Horse	Eilen Jewell	tincanman
13	Middle of the Road	The Pretenders	SweetHomeAlabama

No B List

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Songs About Puzzles

June 17, 2026
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Column
Writer: Marco den Ouden (Marconius7)

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Drift Along Small World	Tom Rosenthal	severin
2	Anagram (for Mongo)	Rush	Uncleben
3	El Crucigrama	Juanita Burbano	Maki
4	Crossword (Steven Wilson Remix)	Jethro Tull	BanazirGalbasi
5	Girl in a Jigsaw Puzzle	Katydids	Fred Erickson
6	Rubik's Cube	Athlete	happyclapper
7	Music at Night	The Coral	ShivSidecar
8	Careless	Paul Kelly	Nicko
9	Riddles Wisely Expounded	Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer	Nicko
10	Whodunit	Tavares	pejepeine
11	Dime Store Mystery	Lou Reed	tincanman
12	Cracking the Code	Mad Professor	Nicko
13	Shape of My Heart	Sting	Noodsy

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Jigsaw Puzzle	The Rolling Stones	TarquinSpodd
2	Jigsaw Falling into Place	Radiohead	happyclapper
3	Crossword Puzzle	Lynsey de Paul	magicman
4	When When When	The Divine Comedy	happyclapper
5	Crossword Mamma You Puzzle Me	Frank Crumit	BanazirGalbasi
6	County Fair	Joe Walsh	magicman
7	Puzzle	NewDad	vanwolf2
8	Puzzle with a Piece Missing	Gotye	Nicko
9	Riddle I This	Dennis Alcapone	Nicko
10	I Gave My Love a Cherry (The Riddle Song)	Josh White	Nicko
11	The Cube	Bo Jenkins (and 3 year old daughter Mandy)	SweetHomeAlabama
12	Jigsaw Puzzle of Life	Kate & Anna McGarrigle	TatankaYotanka
13	Jigsaw Puzzle	of Montreal	Uncleben
14	Jigsaw	Rufus with Chaka Khan	Fred Erickson
15	Four Down and Twelve Across	George Strait	SongBarLandlord

C List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Jigsaw Puzzle Blues	Fleetwood Mac	magicman
2	Puzzle	Passport	BanazirGalbasi
3	New Blues Old Bruise	John McLaughlin	BanazirGalbasi
4	King Solomon's Marbles	Grateful Dead	Chris7572
5	Is Not All One?	Tony Scott, Shinichi Yuize & Hozan Yamamoto	Nicko
6	One Hand Clapping	Paul McCartney & Wings	Nicko
7	Jig Saw Puzzle Blues	Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang's Blue Five	Nicko
8	Nimrod (from Enigma Variations)	Edward Elgar	Uncleben
9	Pick Up the Pieces One by One	A.A.B.B.	Nicko

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12″ Singles & Remixes from the 1990s

June 10, 2026
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Column
Writer: Paul Hayes (DiscoMonster)

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix)	The Sabres of Paradise	MussoliniHeadkick
2	Connected (Full Length)	Stereo MC's	Nicko
3	It's Like That	Run-DMC vs Jason Nevins	Noodsy
4	Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Mix)	Cornershop	Maki
5	Music Sounds Better with You	Stardust	Nicko
6	Mr. Loverman (David Morales Single Version)	Shabba Ranks	pejepeine
7	Hippychick (Extended Vocal)	Soho	Max Visconta Nuclerosea
8	Professional Widow (Armand van Helden Remix)	Tori Amos	MussoliniHeadkick
9	Where Love Lives (Classic Club Mix)	Alison Limerick	Maki
10	You Got the Love (Now Voyager Mix)	The Source ft Candi Staton	magicman
11	Thank You (MAW Mix)	BeBe Winans	magicman
12	I Am the Black Gold of the Sun (4hero Remix)	Nuyorican Soul	Nilpferd
13	Nervous Breakdown (Wit's End Full Length Version)	Carleen Anderson	Nilpferd
14	Circe (Jazzanova Mix)	Ursula Rucker	Nilpferd
15	Pouring Velvet	Grateful Dead	Chris7572
16	Sunshine's Better (Talvin Singh 12" Remix)	John Martyn	ajostu
17	LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix)	LFO	magicman
18	Central Reservation (Spiritual Life - Ibadan Edit)	Beth Orton	Shoegazer
19	Infinity (Full Length 12" Version)	Guru Josh	Maki
20	Sueño Latino (Illusion First Mix by Derrick May)	Sueño Latino	Nilpferd
21	She's the One	The Beta Band	ParaMhor
22	Blue Flowers (Automator Remix)	Dr. Octagon	Shoegazer
23	Caroline (Aeroplane Mix)	MC Solaar	Nilpferd
24	Face à la Mer (Massive Attack Remix)	Les Négresses Vertes	Shoegazer
25	Didi (Funk Club)	Khaled	Nicko
26	Yankaw (Bassino Dub Mix)	Nahawa Doumbia	Nicko
27	Bug Powder Dust (La Funk Mob Mix)	Bomb the Bass	Nicko
28	Jesus Built My Hotrod (Redline/Whiteline Version)	Ministry	happyclapper
29	Radioactivity (Francis Kevorkian Remix)	Kraftwerk	Shoegazer
30	Alpha Wave (Plastikman Acid House Remix)	System 7	pejepeine

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Songs Featuring the Melodica

June 3, 2026
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Column
Writer: ParaMhor

A List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Iggy Iggy	Augustus Pablo	Nicko
2	Counter Punch	Bobby Kalphat	pejepeine
3	Skanking Dub	Augustus Pablo	MussoliniHeadkick
4	Alchemy	Drum Club	MussoliniHeadkick
5	Revolutionary Pilot	Statik Sound System	Nilpferd
6	Huddle Formation	The Go! Team	SongBarLandlord
7	Ice Cream & Suckers No. 1 & 2	Soweto Stokvel Septette	pejepeine
8	And We Danced	The Hooters	SweetHomeAlabama
9	Everything Counts	Depeche Mode	Nicko
10	Muchas Gracias	Medeski Martin & Wood	ajostu
11	Find the River	R.E.M.	SongBarLandlord
12	Melodica	Steve Reich	MussoliniHeadkick

B List

	Song Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Check It Out	John Mellencamp	SweetHomeAlabama
2	Star	Primal Scream	Chris7572
3	Camioux	Boozoo Bajou	Nicko
4	Marunouchi Sadistic	Ringo Sheena	ajostu
5	Will It Go Round in Circles	Billy Preston	AltraEgo
6	I'd Rather Be with You	Bootsy's Rubber Band	pejepeine
7	Slashers Revenge	David Holmes	Uncleben
8	5:45	Gang of Four	Carpgate
9	I Can't Feel My Hand Anymore, It's Alright, Sleep Still	Múm	Uncleben
10	She's a Rainbow	Kotringo	ajostu
11	Weightless Again	The Handsome Family	Fred Erickson
12	British Summertime	Ultramarine	MussoliniHeadkick

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Aug. 5, 2026
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Writer: Paul Hayes (DiscoMonster)

July 29, 2026
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Writer: Loud Atlas

July 22, 2026
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Writer: ParaMhor

July 15, 2026
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Writer: severin

July 8, 2026
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Writer: TatankaYotanka

July 1, 2026
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Writer: Nicko

June 24, 2026
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Writer: Maki

June 17, 2026
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Writer: Marco den Ouden (Marconius7)

June 10, 2026
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Writer: Paul Hayes (DiscoMonster)

June 3, 2026
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Writer: ParaMhor