The table below lists all A-listed songs by artists beginning with V. Some artists are also linked to their own individual pages.
Artist | Song Title | Topic |
Vagner, Luis | Guitarrero | the Beatles |
Vainica Doble | Alas de Algodón | edges & ledges |
El Niño Inseminado | nursing & healthcare | |
Valdimarsson, Óðinn | Ég er kominn heim | crooners |
Valentine, Hilton | Sitting in the Sun | simple pleasures |
Valentines (see Silvertones) | ||
Vallée, Rudy & His Connecticut Yankees | Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries | meaning of life |
The Whiffenpoof Song | higher education | |
Valli, Frankie & the Four Seasons (see Four Seasons) | ||
Vampire Weekend | Campus | higher education |
Oxford Comma | wealth | |
Step | great keyboards | |
Walcott | New England | |
Van der Graaf Generator | A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers | prophets |
The Boat of Millions of Years | raptors | |
Embarrassing Kid | immaturity | |
Every Bloody Emperor | propaganda | |
Highly Strung | rhythm, beat & boogie | |
Interference Patterns | small things | |
Killer | fish & other aquatic life | |
La Rossa | secret admirers | |
Mathematics | mathematics | |
Medusa | mythical beasts | |
Meurglys III, The Songwriter’s Guild | influenced by reggae | |
Necromancer | magic | |
(Oh No! I Must Have Said) Yes | misunderstanding | |
Out of My Book | flutes, pipes & whistles | |
The Sleepwalkers | songs with sudden changes | |
Still Life | immortality & longevity | |
Van Dyke, Leroy | Walk On By | infidelity |
Van Etten, Sharon | Your Love Is Killing Me | songs that say what love is |
Van Halen | Hot for Teacher | education |
Jump | great riffs | |
Runnin’ with the Devil | the Devil | |
Somebody Get Me a Doctor | doctors | |
Van Zandt, Townes | The Ballad of Ira Hayes | whiskey |
Highway Kind | itinerants & migration | |
The Hole | caves | |
Marie | austerity | |
Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold | games | |
Nothin’ | nothing | |
Pancho and Lefty | ambiguity | |
To Live Is to Fly | goodbye | |
Waiting Around to Die | getting older | |
Vandals | My Neck, My Back | spine & neck |
Vanderslice, John | Bill Gates Must Die | internet |
Vandross, Luther | A House Is Not a Home | vibrato, tremolo & oscillations |
Your Secret Love | secrets | |
Vangelis | Albedo 0.39 | science |
Blade Runner: Main Titles | artificial intelligence | |
Chariots of Fire | winners | |
Création du monde | electronic music to 1983 | |
Vanity Fare | Hitchin’ a Ride | hitchhiking |
Vannier, Jean-Claude | La Horse (with Serge Gainsbourg) | animals |
La Horse (with Serge Gainsbourg) | harpsichord | |
Vapors | News at Ten | news & media |
Turning Japanese | photography | |
Vargas, Chavela | Macorina | gender & LGBTQ+ |
Vámonos | Mexico & Central America | |
Vargas Blues Band | Barstool Blues | furniture |
Illegally | migrants & refugees | |
Varukers | Modem for Destruction | internet |
Vassvik, Torgeir | Le Grand Noir / Čáhppat | wordless vocals |
Sáivu | paganism | |
Siberia / Sibirijá | frozen north | |
Vaudeville Smash | Zinedine Zidane (ft Les Murray) | football |
Vaughan, Sarah | A Hundred Years from Today | anniversaries |
Body and Soul (with Clifford Brown) | great songwriting 1900-1955 | |
I’d Rather Have a Memory Than a Dream | memory | |
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter | letters, emails & telegrams | |
It Never Entered My Mind | innuendo | |
My Favorite Things | collecting & listing | |
The Mystery of Man | mysterious & puzzling | |
Poor Butterfly (with Hal Mooney & His Orchestra) | butterflies & moths | |
They All Laughed | the truth | |
Vaughan, Stevie Ray | Mary Had a Little Lamb | following & chasing |
Wall of Denial | denial | |
Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Full Fathom Five | Shakespeare |
The Lark Ascending | England | |
Vaughn, Ben | Fly Away (with Alan Vega & Alex Chilton) | escape |
Vedder, Eddie | The Long Road (with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) | unlikely collaborations |
Society | greed | |
Vee, Bobby | The Night Has a Thousand Eyes | surveillance |
Vega, Alan | Fly Away (with Alex Chilton & Ben Vaughn) | escape |
Vega, Amalia de la | Mate Amargo | tea |
Vega, Suzanne | Blood Makes Noise | blood |
Freeze Tag | afternoon | |
In Liverpool | bells | |
Luka | named after men | |
Night Vision | eureka moments | |
Predictions | fortune tellers | |
The Queen and the Soldier | treachery & betrayal | |
The Queen and the Soldier | castles | |
Solitude Standing | being alone | |
Song of the Stoic | acceptance | |
Stockings | underwear | |
Tom’s Diner | great solo performances | |
Wooden Horse (Caspar Hauser’s Song) | anonymity | |
Veirs, Laura | Nightingale | nightingales & thrushes |
Pink Light | dawn | |
Riptide | tides | |
Snow Camping | winter sports | |
Velázquez, Consuelo | Bésame Mucho | songs in Spanish |
Veloso, Caetano | Cucurrucucu Paloma | onomatopoeia |
Tropicália | South America | |
Um Canto de Afoxé para o Bloco do Ilê (with Cobra Coral Carnival Choir) | choirs | |
Velvelettes | A Bird in the Hand (Is Worth Two in the Bush) | proverbs |
He Was Really Sayin’ Somethin’ | misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics | |
Stop Beating Around the Bush | limbo | |
Velvet Hammer | Whip Your Booty (with Andre Williams) | fetishes |
Velvet Underground | After Hours | fear of missing out |
All Tomorrow’s Parties (with Nico) | parties & going out | |
Femme Fatale (with Nico) | accents | |
The Gift | songs with a twist | |
Heroin | volume changes | |
I Heard Her Call My Name | the afterlife | |
I’ll Be Your Mirror (with Nico) | mirrors | |
I’m Sticking with You | whimsical songs | |
I’m Waiting for the Man | sales, selling & bargains | |
I’m Waiting for the Man | rendezvous | |
The Murder Mystery | non sequiturs | |
New Age | celebrity | |
Ocean | notable outros or codas | |
Oh Sweet Nuthin’ | nothing | |
Rock & Roll | music genres | |
Sister Ray | long songs | |
Sunday Morning | morning | |
Venus in Furs | tiredness | |
Who Loves the Sun | the sun | |
Venetian Snares | My Love Is a Bulldozer | songs that say what love is |
Venom | In Memory of (Paul Miller 1964-90) | magazines |
Ventures | Let’s Go | handclaps |
Verdi, Giuseppe | Anvil Chorus (from Il trovatore) | machinery, industry & technology |
Dies irae (from Requiem) | end of the world | |
Drinking Song (from La Traviata) | celebration | |
Verminnen, Johan | Ik wil de wereld zien | specific or obscure places |
Vernian Process | The Consequences of Time Travel (Part One) | time travel |
Versatiles | Teardrops Falling | falling |
Veruca Salt | So Weird | interlopers |
Verve | Bittersweet Symphony | addiction |
Catching the Butterfly | butterflies & moths | |
The Drugs Don’t Work | illness | |
Lucky Man | acceptance | |
Lucky Man | happiness | |
Very Best | Birthday | anniversaries |
Vesala, Edward | Lumi | expressing movement of walking |
Vibert, Luke | The Funnies (as Wagon Christ) | newspapers |
I Hope So But I Fear | fear | |
Run (as Plug) | running | |
Shadows (as Wagon Christ) | shadows | |
Songs of the Nightlife (with B. J. Cole) | steel guitar | |
Vibrators | Automatic Love | bad boys & bad girls |
Pogo Dancing (with the Vibrators) | fads & crazes | |
Troops of Tomorrow | tomorrow | |
Vibronics | If a No Jah Dub | influenced by dub |
Vice Squad | Nothing | minimalist songs |
Viceroys | Ya Ho | pirates |
Vesta Victoria | Waiting at the Church | adultery & infidelity |
Victories at Sea | Swim | swimming & bathing |
Viet Cong (see Preoccupations) | ||
View | Double Yellow Lines | yellow |
Vigoth, Aries | Llanura Aqui Esta Tu Hijo | love songs to places |
Village Fugs (see Fugs) | ||
Village Man’s Store | Anarchy in the T.A.X. | taxation |
Village of the Sun | Village of the Sun | driving songs |
Village People | YMCA | youthfulness |
Villagers | Set the Tigers Free | tigers |
Twenty Seven Strangers | buses | |
Vince Guaraldi Trio | Linus and Lucy | defined or redefined by television |
Vincent, Gene | Am I That Easy to Forget | forgetting |
Be-Bop-A-Lula (with his Blue Caps) | red | |
Bird-Doggin’ | hunting | |
Brand New Beat (with his Blue Caps) | modernity | |
Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back (with his Blue Caps) | jumping | |
Pink Thunderbird (with his Blue Caps) | wealth | |
Race with the Devil (with his Blue Caps) | speed | |
Vinton, Bobby | Blue Velvet | rough & smooth |
Violators | Summer of 81 | summer |
Violent Femmes | Add It Up | unrequited love |
Blister in the Sun | whispering | |
Country Death Song | holes | |
Faith | faith | |
Kiss Off | patterns & sequences | |
Waiting for the Bus | punctuality | |
Vogues | Five O’Clock World | times of day |
Void, Sterling | It’s All Right | consolation |
Voivod | Astronomy Domine | space |
Voodoo Queens | Kenuwee Head | movie & TV stars |
Voyage | Souvenirs | songs with sudden changes |
Vrethammar, Sylvia | Y Viva España | stereotypes |