The table below lists all A-listed songs by artists beginning with T. Some artists are also linked to their own individual pages.
Artist | Song Title | Topic |
T-Bones | No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In) | stomach & guts |
T. Rex | 20th Century Boy | toys |
Children of the Revolution | revolution | |
Debora (as Tyrannosaurus Rex) | debut songs | |
Deboraarobed (as Tyrannosaurus Rex) | regressing & reversing | |
Life’s a Gas | gases | |
Mambo Sun | stars | |
New York City | amphibians | |
She Was Born to Be My Unicorn (as Tyrannosaurus Rex) | fantasy | |
Telegram Sam | male names | |
Think Zinc | silver & non-ferrous metals | |
Table | Do the Standing Still | dance styles |
Tabor, June | The Brean Lament | tides |
The Cloud Factory | clouds | |
The Dark Eyed Sailor (with the Oyster Band) | eavesdropping | |
Elephant | elephants & mammoths | |
The King of Rome | victory | |
Mrs. Rita | anti-work songs | |
Pull Down Lads | itinerants & migration | |
Seven Curses (with Oysterband) | judges & trials | |
Susie Clelland (with the Oyster Band) | gripping or intriguing narrative | |
Tackhead | For the Love of Money | banks & banking |
Stealing | preachers, priests & religious leaders | |
Tacocat | The Crimson Wave | bodily fluids |
Tagaq, Tanya | Sivulivinivut | frozen north |
Teeth Agape | teeth | |
Uja | wordless vocals | |
Taha, Rachid | Medina | Asian cities |
Rock el Casbah | unlikely cover songs | |
Taïeb, Jacqueline | 7 Heures du matin | morning |
Le Printemps à Paris | Paris | |
Taikonauts | Zombie Prophecies | zombies |
Taj Mahal | Ain’t Gwine Whistle Dixie Anymo’ | whistling |
Six Days on the Road | travelling | |
Take 6 | O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion (with Stevie Wonder) | a cappella |
Take That | Back for Good | missing someone |
Up All Night | fictional adverts | |
Taken by Trees | Sweet Child o’ Mine | unlikely cover songs |
Talk Talk | April 5th | dates |
Eden | fictional places | |
I Believe in You | adversity | |
I Don’t Believe in You | choosing & using words | |
It’s My Life (12″ Extended) | songs to start the morning | |
Life’s What You Make It | fate & destiny | |
Talk Talk | tautonyms | |
Talking Heads | The Book I Read | reading |
Burning Down the House | fire | |
Cities | urban environment | |
Found a Job | using your imagination | |
The Great Curve | genre switch | |
Happy Day | innocence | |
Heaven | heaven & hell | |
I Zimbra | misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics | |
Life During Wartime | ears & hearing | |
(Nothing But) Flowers | the future | |
Once in a Lifetime | mistaken identity | |
Psycho Killer | illusions | |
Road to Nowhere | knowledge | |
Road to Nowhere | spirit of 2021 | |
Seen and Not Seen | spoken word | |
Seen and Not Seen | tattoos & piercings | |
Slippery People | funk | |
Stay Up Late | babies & childbirth | |
Stay Up Late | family | |
Tentative Decisions | indecision | |
Totally Nude | nudity | |
Tall, Tom | Stack-A-Records | hearing, choosing & playing records |
Tallis, Thomas | Spem in alium | a cappella |
Tame Impala | Elephant | elephants & mammoths |
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards | indecision | |
Solitude Is Bliss | COVID-19 lockdown | |
Tamia | Chaise Lounge | furniture |
Tammys | Egyptian Shumba | ancient history |
Tampa Red | Witchin’ Hour Blues | witches |
Tams | Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy | innocence |
Tams, John | Over the Hills and Far Away | kings |
Unity Raise Your Banners High | unity | |
Tamurapan | New World | Japan |
Tanega, Norma | Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog | famous or notable animals |
Tangana, C. | Oliveira Dos Cen Anos | football |
Un Veneno (with El Niño de Elche) | poison | |
Tangerine Dream | Birth of Liquid Plejades | without percussion |
Breath Kissing Matter’s Mouth | breathing | |
Gaudi Park | parks | |
Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares | mysterious & puzzling | |
Tangerine Kitty | Dumb Ways to Die | safety & danger |
Tangle Eye | Early in the Mornin’ (with Alan Lomax, ’22’, Little Red & Hard Hair) | odd noises & instruments |
Tankus the Henge | Recurring Dream | gravity |
Tanner, Gid & the Skillet Lickers | You Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dog Around | dogs |
Tartan Horde (see Lowe, Nick) | ||
Tarwater | Otomo | itching & scratching |
The Water Sample | the coast | |
Tata Pound | Badala | urban environment |
Tate Gallery | Newspaper Man | newspapers |
t.A.T.u. | Prostye Dvizhen’ya | songs that build |
Tatum, Art | Get Happy | energizing songs |
Night and Day (with Ben Webster) | songs with special guests | |
Tea for Two | two – part 2 | |
Tea for Two | tea | |
Tavares | It Only Takes a Minute | brevity |
Tavener, John | Mother of God, Here I Stand | prayer |
Tawney, Cyril | The Grey Funnel Line | the sea |
Taylor, Chip | Refugee Children | migrants & refugees |
Taylor, James | Enough to Be On Your Way | brothers & sisters |
Fire and Rain | melancholy songs | |
The Frozen Man | Liverpool & Merseyside | |
Summer’s Here | footwear | |
Sweet Baby James | male names | |
Traffic Jam | crowds | |
You Can Close Your Eyes | adult lullabies | |
Taylor, Johnnie | I Am Somebody | songs that capture the zeitgeist |
I Can Read Between the Lines | reading | |
It’s September | September | |
I’ve Been Born Again | starting over | |
Separation Line | immaturity | |
Who’s Making Love | ironic songs | |
Taylor, Koko | I’m a Woman | deep voices |
Insane Asylum | hospitals | |
Voodoo Woman | witches | |
Wang Dang Doodle | fun | |
What Came First, the Egg or the Hen? | chicken and egg | |
Taylor, Maria | Song Beneath the Song | songwriting |
Taylor, Otis | 500 Roses | roses |
Coming with Crosses | crosses | |
He Never Raced on Sunday | competition | |
Taylor, R. Dean | Indiana Wants Me | crime |
There’s a Ghost in My House | Halloween | |
Taylor, Roger | Dear Mr. Murdoch | news & media |
Taylor, Steve | Meltdown (At Madame Tussaud’s) | museums, galleries & exhibitions |
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilylich | 1812 Overture | songs that build |
Waltz of the Snowflakes | snow & ice | |
Teagarden, Jack | Basin Street Blues | trombone |
Teardo, Teho | Axolotl (with Blixa Bargeld) | amphibians |
Teardrop Explodes | The Great Dominions | out-of-tune songs |
Reward | idioms & common expressions | |
Sleeping Gas (Live at Zoo Club 1981) | adult lullabies | |
Tears for Fears | Badman’s Song | songs that fit every topic |
Shout | start with the chorus | |
Tech N9ne | Delusional (ft Nikkiya) | confusion & delusion |
Techniques | Queen Majesty | honorific titles |
Techno Sound Group | People of the Snow | frozen north |
Technotronic | Pump Up the Jam | synth pop 1980-2000 |
Teddy Bears | To Know Him Is to Love Him | songs that make you cry |
Tedeschi Trucks Band | Don’t Know What It Means | ambiguity |
Teenage Fanclub | Ain’t That Enough | simple pleasures |
Behold the Miracle (with Jad Fair) | miracles | |
Born Under a Good Sign | omens & prophecies | |
Dumb Dumb Dumb | tautonyms | |
Everything Flows | everything | |
Fallin’ (with De La Soul) | recorded for movies | |
Mellow Doubt | humming | |
Star Sign | fate & destiny | |
Star Sign | star signs | |
Verisimilitude | strange, rare or unlikely words | |
Teenagers | Fuck Nicole | teenagers |
Tegan and Sara | Everything Is Awesome!!! (ft the Lonely Island) | everything |
TEKEYÉ | La Gallera (with Sofia Rei) | finger snaps & toe taps |
Teitur | The Singer | sound like other songs |
Telescopes | In Every Sense | drone music |
Television | Foxhole | holes |
Guiding Light | lighthouses & guiding lights | |
Marquee Moon | long songs | |
Venus | the impossible | |
Television Personalities | Dali’s Garden Party | gardens |
Part Time Punks | hobbies | |
Temper Trap | Fader | one word titles |
Tempest, Kae | Circles | spinning |
Europe Is Lost | doom | |
Europe Is Lost | crisis | |
Hold Your Own | songs offering advice | |
Temptations | Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today) | chaos |
Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today) | crisis | |
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep | proverbs | |
Cloud Nine | numbered 1 to 10 | |
Don’t Let the Joneses Get You Down | neighbours | |
Get Ready | great album or mixtape openers | |
He Who Picks a Rose | roses | |
I Can’t Get Next to You | boastful songs | |
(I Know) I’m Losing You | jealousy | |
I Wish It Would Rain | bad weather | |
I’m Gonna Make You Love Me (with Diana Ross & the Supremes) | ambition | |
Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) | secret admirers | |
Law of the Land | idioms & common expressions | |
Ma | biography & autobiography | |
My Girl | bees | |
Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone | fathers | |
Smiling Faces Sometimes | body language | |
Witchcraft (For Your Love) | witches | |
Ten City | That’s the Way Love Is (Acieed Remix) | 1980s 12” singles |
Ten Years After | 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain | volume changes |
I’m Going Home | favourite live versions | |
Tenacious D | Tribute | songs that express excess |
Teng, Vienna | Flyweight Love | long-distance relationships |
Level Up | motivation | |
Tennessee Mountaineers | Standing on the Promise | promises & choices |
Tennors | Ride Your Donkey | animals |
Tenor, Jimi | Backbone of Night (with the Riga Symphony Orchestra) | spine & neck |
My Mind | from Nordic countries | |
Tenor Saw | Golden Hen | poultry |
Tenpole Tudor | Swords of a Thousand Men | iron & steel |
Tequila Mockingbyrd | Jagerbomb | cocktails & spirits |
Terfel, Bryn | Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyr | Gaelic songs |
Terminal Heads | B.Y.C. | offensive, insulting songs |
Walking on the Ceiling | inversions | |
Terrell, Tammi | All I Do Is Think About You | secret admirers |
The Onion Song (with Marvin Gaye) | vegetables | |
Terry, Sonny | Fox Hunt (with Brownie McGhee) | hunting |
Terry, Todd | Dreams of Santa Anna (Extended Club Mix) (as Orange Lemon) | startling songs |
Thackray, Jake | Bantam Cock | poultry |
The Blacksmith and the Toffee-Maker | chance & coincidence | |
The Brigadier | honorific titles | |
The Castleford Ladies’ Magic Circle | magic | |
Country Bus | buses | |
Go Little Swale | Yorkshire | |
The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington | neighbours | |
Isobel Makes Love Upon National Monuments | fetishes | |
Jumble Sale | sales, selling & bargains | |
Lah-Di-Dah | stiff upper lip | |
The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray | leaving or being left behind | |
Leopold Alcox | strange, rare or unlikely words | |
The Lodger | sisters | |
My Roly Poly Girl | bread, cakes, pastry & biscuits | |
Old Molly Metcalfe | tradition | |
On the Shelf | being single | |
Personal Column | advertising | |
Scallywag | bad boys & bad girls | |
Sister Josephine | funny songs | |
Ulysses | dogs | |
Worried Brown Eyes | brown | |
Thaikkudam Bridge | Aarachar | hanging |
Tharpe, Sister Rosetta | Can’t No Grave Hold My Body Down | resurrection |
Didn’t It Rain | Manchester | |
Every Time I Feel the Spirit | repetition | |
This Train | trains | |
Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread | miracles | |
That Petrol Emotion | Big Decision | left wing politics |
The The | Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) | apocalypse |
The Beat(en) Generation | confusion & delusion | |
Giant | great keyboards | |
Gravitate to Me | lighthouses & guiding lights | |
I’ve Been Waitin’ for Tomorrow (All of My Life) | crisis | |
Perfect | different 7″ versions | |
Sodium Light Baby | silver & non-ferrous metals | |
This Is the Day | hope | |
Uncertain Smile | smiling & laughing | |
Uncertain Smile (12” Remix) | 1980s 12” singles | |
Thee Faction | Deft Left | left & right |
Thee More Shallows | A History of Sport Fishing | misleading or incongruous titles |
I Can’t Get Next to You | boastful songs | |
Proud Turkeys | poultry | |
Theessink, Hans | Wings | wings |
Them | Baby Please Don’t Go | songs of desperation |
Don’t Look Back | pragmatism | |
Gloria | B sides | |
I Can Only Give You Everything | everything | |
Them Bird Things | Saint Jerome in the Desert Observes Hunting Hawks | raptors |
Themselves | Death of a Thespian | theatre |
Therapy? | Diane | orchestral string instruments |
Therion | Kali Yuga Part 3 (Autumn of Aeons) | end of the world |
These New Puritans | Fragment 2 | piano songs |
Organ Eternal | eternity | |
They Might Be Giants | Birdhouse in Your Soul | unusual narrators |
The Bloodmobile | blood | |
Dead | procrastination | |
Dinner Bell | bells | |
The Edison Museum | museums, galleries & exhibitions | |
Good to Be Alive | channelling pain | |
I Can Add | mathematics | |
I Palindrome I | provocative, strange or humorous titles | |
James K. Polk | elections | |
My Man | bodily motion & exercise | |
New York City | New York | |
Photosynthesis | power | |
(She Was a) Hotel Detective | detectives | |
Why Does the Sun Shine? | knowledge | |
Thin Lizzy | The Boys Are Back in Town | reunions |
Don’t Believe a Word | choosing & using words | |
Fighting My Way Back | recovery | |
Hollywood (Down on Your Luck) | luck | |
The Rocker | stereotypes | |
Whiskey in the Jar | whiskey | |
Think Tank | A Knife and a Fork (The Massively Parallel Mix) | tools |
Third Bardo | I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time | using your imagination |
Third Eye Blind | Semi-Charmed Kind of Life | addiction |
Third Rail | Run, Run, Run | anxiety |
Third World | 1865 (96 Degrees in the Shade) | heat #2 |
Now That We’ve Found Love | 12″ singles to 1979 | |
Thirty Pounds of Bone | All for Me Grogg | pathos |
The Glass of an Iris | eyes | |
This Heat | The Fall of Saigon | strange & surreal |
This Mortal Coil | Kangaroo | similes |
Song to the Siren | covers better than the original | |
You and Your Sister | siblings | |
Thomas, B. J. | Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head | resilience |
Thomas, Carla | Tramp (with Otis Redding) | duets |
Thomas, David | Billy Ate My Pocket (with Jackie Leven) | pockets |
Monster Walks the Winter Lake (with the Wooden Birds) | monsters | |
Morbid Sky (with Two Pale Boys) | sky | |
Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening (with Jackie Leven) | winter sports | |
Thomas, Irma | Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) | defined or redefined by television |
Be You | from New Orleans | |
It’s Raining | rain | |
We Won’t Be in Your Way Anymore | divorce | |
Wish Someone Would Care | indifference | |
You Can Have My Husband (But Please Don’t Mess with My Man) | infidelity | |
Thomas, Jah | Cricket Lovely Cricket | cricket |
Thomas, Jamo | I Spy (For the FBI) | spying |
Thomas, Leon | The Creator Has a Master Plan (with Pharaoh Sanders) | optimistic songs |
Thomas, Mick | Bright Sunshine (as Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission) | museums, galleries & exhibitions |
Thomas, Nicky | Love of the Common People | adversity |
Thomas, Rufus | Tiger Man | tigers |
Thomas, Timmy | Why Can’t We Live Together | great riffs |
Thompson, Danny | Haitian Fight Song | double bass |
Thompson, Linda (see also Thompson, Richard & Linda) | Beauty | beauty |
I’m a Dreamer | staying | |
Thompson, Richard (see also Thompson, Richard & Linda) | 1952 Vincent Black Lightning | motorbikes |
Al Bowlly’s in Heaven | limbo | |
Alexander Graham Bell | telephones | |
Bathsheba Smiles | charisma | |
Beeswing | itinerants & migration | |
Don’t Sit on My Jimmy Shands | sitting & standing | |
From Galway to Graceland | kings | |
Hand of Kindness | kindness | |
Here Comes Geordie | North East England | |
Hots for the Smarts | the brain | |
I Misunderstood | embarrassment | |
Killing Jar | unsettling songs | |
Little Blue Number | pirates | |
Mingulay Boat Song | islands | |
The Money Shuffle | banks & banking | |
Oh I Swear | can’t live with or without you | |
One More Breath | breathing | |
Put It There Pal | physical gestures | |
Sumer Is Icumen In | old meets new | |
Two Left Feet | two – part 2 | |
Walking Through a Wasted Land | wastelands | |
Woods of Darney | substitutions | |
Thompson, Richard & Linda | The Calvary Cross | Jesus |
The Great Valerio | jobs | |
Has He Got a Friend for Me? | asking, begging & pleading | |
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight | Friday & Saturday | |
I’ll Regret It in the Morning | whiskey | |
Shoot Out the Lights | shooting | |
The Sun Never Shines on the Poor | poverty | |
Wall of Death | carnivals & funfairs | |
Thompson Twins | Lay Your Hands on Me | touch |
You Take Me Up | industry & manufacturing | |
Thorn, Tracey | Hormones | opposites |
Oh, the Divorces! | divorce | |
The Paris Match (with the Style Council) | Paris | |
Swimming | swimming & bathing | |
Thornton, Big Mama | Gimme a Penny | coins |
Hound Dog | lesser known originals | |
One Black Rat | rodents | |
Thorogood, George & the Destroyers | Bad to the Bone | bones |
Get a Haircut and Get a Real Job | songs that command or instruct | |
Three 6 Mafia | Who Gives a Fuck Where You From | compass points |
Three City Four | Tim McGuire | starting fires |
Three Days Grace | I Hate Everything About You | can’t live with or without you |
Three Dog Night | Mama Told Me (Not to Come) | parties & going out |
Three Suns | Beyond the Blue Horizon | hope & resilience |
Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats | misleading or incongruous titles |
Hamburger Lady | scary songs | |
Walkabout | being lost | |
We Hate You (Little Girls) | unsettling songs | |
Throwing Muses | Dizzy | spinning |
Dragon Head | monsters | |
Thunder | An Englishman on Holiday | holidays |
Low Life in High Places | leadership | |
Thunderheist | Jerk It | songs that command or instruct |
Thunders, Johnny & the Heartbreakers | Chinese Rocks | cocaine & heroin |
Thursday | Time’s Arrow | reversing |
Thylacine | Versailles | castles |
Tickell, Kathryn | Air Moving (as the Kathryn Tickell Band) | drone music |
Tidal Wave | Spider Spider | spiders |
Tiersen, Yann | Meteorites | mixtape closers |
Tiga | Shoes | shoes |
Tiger Lillies | Snip Snip | sharp objects |
Tijoux, Ana | Somos Sur (ft Shadia Mansour) | unity |
Tikaram, Tanita | Good Tradition | brothers & sisters |
’Til Tuesday | Voices Carry | quiet |
Tilston, Steve | I’m Going to the West | compass points |
Timbuk 3 | The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades | higher education |
Time Zone | World Destruction | apocalypse |
Times | I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape | escape |
Manchester | Manchester | |
Tin Hat Trio | Daisy Bell | two – part 1 |
Tinariwen | Afours Afours | tautonyms |
Amassakoul ’n’ Ténéré | Africa | |
Amassakoul ’n’ Ténéré | deserts | |
Mano Dayak | assassination | |
Oualahila Ar Tesninam | call and response | |
Tindersticks | 4:48 Psychosis | mental illness |
Ballad of Tindersticks | ironic songs | |
Cherry Blossoms | flowers | |
Milky Teeth | teeth | |
Mistakes | pedantry | |
My Sister | siblings | |
My Sister | tragedy & comedy | |
Sweet Memory | skin | |
Tiny Tears | crying | |
Yesterdays Tomorrows | tomorrow | |
Ting Tings | Fruit Machine | gambling |
That’s Not My Name | sound like other songs | |
Tiny Ruins | Me at the Museum, You in the Wintergardens | museums, galleries & exhibitions |
Tiny Tim | People Are Strange | high-pitched vocals |
Tio | Black Butterfly | butterflies & moths |
Tipanya, Prahlad | Kahaan Se Aaya, Kahaan Jaaoge? | positive songs |
TISM | (He’ll Never Be An) Old Man River | tragedy & comedy |
Titus Andronicus | A More Perfect Union | US presidents |
Tivel, Anna | Before Machines | machinery, industry & technology |
TLC | Unpretty | tattoos & piercings |
Waterfalls | advice | |
Toby Twirl | Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare |
Togawa, Jun | Konchugun | onomatopoeia |
Mushi no Onna | persistence | |
Suki Suki Daisuki | bright songs about dark subjects | |
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra | Pride of Lions | brass songs |
Tom Robinson Band (see Robinson, Tom) | ||
Tom Tom Club | Genius of Love | intelligence |
L’éléphant | elephants & mammoths | |
Wordy Rappinghood | choosing & using words | |
Tomita, Isao | Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells | poultry |
Snowflakes Are Dancing | snow & ice | |
Tomoyasu Hotei | Battle Without Honor or Humility | Japan |
Tommy and Mary | Unknown Song | songs by buskers |
Tonto’s Expanding Head Band | Timewhys | electronic music to 1983 |
Tony Williams Lifetime | Emergency! | songs by trios |
Tool | Fear Inoculum | COVID-19 lockdown |
Flood | uncertainty | |
Hush | stubbornness | |
Lateralus | great drumming | |
Tools You Can Trust | Show Your Teeth | teeth |
Toots and the Maytals | Black Rose (as the Maytals) | roses |
Funky Kingston | towns | |
Monkey Man | monkeys & apes | |
Pomps and Pride | music as nutrition | |
Pressure Drop | natural disasters | |
Sweet and Dandy | perfection | |
Take Me Home Country Roads | home | |
When I Laugh (as the Maytals) | laughter | |
Topol | If I Were a Rich Man | wealth |
Tradition | tradition | |
Toquiwa | Kennedy | fruit |
Tork, Peter | Milkshake (with James Lee Stanley) | ice cream |
Tormé, Mel | Comin’ Home Baby | coming home |
Tornados | Telstar | sci-fi & space |
Torrini, Emilíana | Gun | murder |
Heartstopper | coffee | |
Telepathy | sixth sense | |
Unemployed in Summertime | summer | |
White Rabbit | surprising intros | |
Tortoise | Djed | long songs |
Tosh, Peter | Glass House | glass |
Legalize It | marijuana | |
Peace Treaty | formal agreements | |
Stepping Razor | great opening lines | |
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band | March of the Tadpoles | amphibians |
Toto | Africa | pedantry |
Touch and Go | Straight to Number One | patterns & sequences |
Would You…? | flirting | |
Touki | Xam Xam | tautonyms |
Touré, Ali Farka | Doudou (with Toumani Diabaté) | songs by duos |
Kala Djula (with Toumani Diabaté) | supergroups | |
Ruby (with Toumani Diabaté) | red | |
Savane | rural songs | |
Toussaint, Allen | I Could Eat Crawfish Every Day | fish & other aquatic life |
Toussaint, Nico Wayne | Mali Mississippi | single-mindedness |
Tower of Power | Don’t Change Horses (In the Middle of a Stream) | proverbs |
Only So Much Oil in the Ground | wells | |
Soul Vaccination | healing | |
What Is Hip? | ensembles, big bands & orchestras | |
Townsend, Ed | Tell Her | indirect messages |
Townshend, Pete | Classified | reading |
Cookin’ | cooking | |
Toy Dolls | Fisticuffs in Frederick Street | North East England |
Nellie the Elephant | the circus | |
Sod the Neighbours | volume | |
Spiders in the Dressing Room | spiders | |
Toys | A Lover’s Concerto | classical songs |
Tozzi, Giorgio | Some Enchanted Evening | close calls |
Tracey, Stan | Starless and Bible Black (as Stan Tracey Quartet) | night & darkness |
Starless and Bible Black (as Stan Tracey Quartet) | stars | |
Tracy, Annie | Clothes Are So Obnoxious | nudity |
Traffic | John Barleycorn | resurrection |
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys | obsolete things | |
Mozambique | the Commonwealth | |
No Face, No Name and No Number | anonymity | |
Paper Sun | made you fall in love with music | |
Traffic Experiment | Once More with Feeling | stuck or trapped |
Tragically Hip | Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park | bears |
Trainor, Meghan | All About That Bass | songs that capture the zeitgeist |
Traoré, Rokia | Château de Sable | castles |
Dounia | tomorrow | |
Mélancolie | personification | |
Né So (Home) | migrants & refugees | |
Trashcan Sinatras | Best Days on Earth | contentment |
Circling the Circumference | intelligence | |
Obscurity Knocks | fractions & portions | |
Weightlifting | kindness | |
Trashmen | Surfin’ Bird | ten words or fewer |
Traum, Happy & Artie | Love Song to a Girl in an Old Photo | photographs |
Traveling Wilburys | End of the Line | collaborations & side projects |
End of the Line | hope & resilience | |
Handle with Care | supergroups | |
Travis | Flowers in the Window | birdsong |
Treacherous Orchestra | Superfly | dance instrumentals |
Trebunia Family Band | Don’t Betray Me (with Twinkle Brothers) | treachery & betrayal |
Trees | Fool | fools |
Streets of Derry | Ireland | |
Trembling Bells | September Is the Month of Death | September |
Trembling Blue Stars | All Our Tomorrows | tomorrow |
Never Loved You More | never | |
Tremeloes | Silence Is Golden | gold |
Trenet, Charles | La Mer | water |
Une noix | nuts & edible seeds | |
Trews | People of the Deer | frozen north |
Tribe 8 | Wrong Bathroom | awkwardness |
Tricky | Black Coffee | sleep & insomnia |
Black Steel | covers better than the original | |
Hell Is Round the Corner | interlopers | |
Pumpkin | September & October | |
Suffocated Love | jealousy | |
Suffocated Love | breathing | |
Tricky Kid | self-referential songs | |
Tricot | The Danger of Not Mixing (混ぜるな危険) | COVID-19 lockdown |
Triffids | A Trick of the Light | nostalgia |
Bury Me Deep in Love | start with the chorus | |
Chicken Killer | poultry | |
Estuary Bed | Australia | |
Hometown Farewell Kiss | revenge | |
Jerdacuttup Man | unusual narrators | |
Lonely Stretch | wilderness | |
Tarrilup Bridge | hammer & mallet instruments | |
Tender Is the Night (The Long Fidelity) | striking album endings | |
Too Hot to Move, Too Hot to Think | heat | |
Trio Chemirani | Yazdah | songs by trios |
Trio Matamoros | Guajira Ven a Gozar | songs by trios |
Lágrimas Negras | great songwriting 1900-1955 | |
Tritt, Travis | Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde | hitchhiking |
Triumph | I Live for the Weekend | anticipation |
Triumphs | We Don’t Love Enough | shame |
Troggs | Dust Bowl | wastelands |
I Can’t Control Myself | control | |
Trombone Shorty | Hurricane Season | storms |
Trouble Funk | Drop the Bomb | call and response |
Trower, Robin | Day of the Eagle | raptors |
Troy, Doris | Just One Look | brevity |
Truffaz, Erik | Doni Doni (as Erik Truffaz Quartet ft Rokia Traoré) | tautonyms |
The Walk of the Giant Turtle (as Erik Truffaz Quartet) | reptiles | |
Trunk, Jonny | The Ladies’ Bras (with Wisbey) | underwear |
Tsujimoto, Yoshimi | Kimigayo (with Kou Kakinohara & Chie Hanawa) | national anthems |
TsuShiMaMiRe | Manhole | holes |
Tubes | What Do You Want from Life? | ambition |
Tubeway Army | Are ‘Friends’ Electric? | friendship |
Down in the Park | machines, robots & computers | |
Tucker, Moe | Lazy | anti-work songs |
That’s Bad | austerity | |
Tucker, Sophie | Life Begins at Forty | starting over |
Tulku | Orca Song | cetaceans |
Tumor Circus | Turn Off the Respirator | decisive songs |
Tune Weavers | Happy, Happy Birthday Baby | anniversaries |
Tungtvann | Langrenn | winter sports |
Tunng | Bullets | blessings & curses |
Jenny Again | knives | |
Soup | cooking | |
Tunstall, KT | Suddenly I See | magazines |
Tuoya, Wulan | Plastic Flower | plastic |
Turbonegro | Are You Ready (for Some Darkness) | touch |
Denim Demon | fabrics | |
Hobbit Motherfuckers | misanthropic songs | |
Turin Brakes | Blue Hour | sunsets & twilight |
Ether Song | hidden tracks | |
Turner, Big Joe | The Chicken and the Hawk | birds |
Flip, Flop and Fly | alliteration | |
Lipstick, Powder and Paint | makeup | |
Shake, Rattle and Roll (with His Blues Kings) | innuendo | |
Turner, Frank | Be More Kind | gentleness |
Eulogy | without a chorus | |
Father’s Day | broken promises | |
I Still Believe | songwriting | |
The Road | compass points | |
Tattoos | tattoos & piercings | |
Wessex Boy | England | |
Turner, Ike & Tina | The Argument | arguments #2 |
Nutbush City Limits | funk | |
Proud Mary | wheels | |
Turner, Ruby | My Intuition Tells Me | sixth sense |
Stay with Me Baby | songs that build | |
Turner, Tina | Private Dancer | prostitution |
What’s Love Got to Do with It | comeback songs | |
Turquoise | 53 Summer Street | addresses |
Turrentine, Stanley | Easy Walker | relaxation & leisure |
Turtles | Chicken Little Was Right | provocative, strange or humorous titles |
Elenore | great backing vocals | |
Food | cooking | |
Happy Together | euphoria | |
I’m Chief Kamanawanalea (We’re The Royal Macadamia Nuts) | nuts & edible seeds | |
Tuxedomoon | In a Manner of Speaking | out-of-tune songs |
TV on the Radio | Family Tree | shadows |
Province | devoted love | |
Twain, Shania | Black Eyes, Blue Tears | starting over |
From This Moment On | decisive songs | |
Man! I Feel Like a Woman! | being a man or a woman | |
Tweedy, Jeff | Simple Twist of Fate | fate & destiny |
Tweet | Oops (Oh My!) (with Missy Elliott) | sexy songs |
Twilight Hotel | Viva la Vinyl | hearing, choosing & playing records |
Twilight Sad | I Became a Prostitute (Acoustic) | prostitution |
That Summer, At Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy | the invisible | |
Twilight Singers | The Conversation | eavesdropping |
Twinkle | Terry | male names |
Twinkle Brothers | Don’t Betray Me (with Trebunia Family Band) | treachery & betrayal |
Two Door Cinema Club | Beacon | lighthouses & guiding lights |
Two Kings in a Cipher | Definition of a King | fractions & portions |
Two Lone Swordsmen | It’s Not the Worst (Lali Puna Remix) | underrated artists |
Tyler, Bonnie | Lost in France | loss |
Tyler, Jae | Exercise | bodily motion & exercise |
Tyler, T. Texas | Scratch and Itch | itching & scratching |
Tyler, the Creator | Boredom (ft Rex Orange County & Anna of the North) | boring & dull |
Come On, Let’s Go (with Nigo) | punctuality | |
Puppet | puppets | |
Yonkers | misanthropic songs | |
Type O Negative | Black No. 1 | black |
Tyrannosaurus Rex (see T. Rex) | ||
Tzant | Choose Life (as PF Project) | promises & choices |