| Song Title | Artist | Topic |
| So Far Away | Carole King | home |
| So Happy I’ll Be | Flatt and Scruggs | optimistic songs |
| So Here I Come | Neneh Cherry | striking album endings |
| So It Goes | Nick Lowe | power |
| So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright | Simon & Garfunkel | historical figures |
| So Long to the Headstrong | Fleet Foxes | written correspondence |
| So Low | Carol | synth pop 1980-2000 |
| So Ruff, So Tuff | Zapp | instruments imitating voice & vice versa |
| So Sad So Sexy | Lykke Li | eyes |
| So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) | The Everly Brothers | change of mind |
| So Sorry | Feist | regrets |
| So Weird | Veruca Salt | interlopers |
| So What | Miles Davis | instrumentals |
| So What!! | The Lyrics | indifference |
| So Young | The Ronettes | teenagers |
| So Young | Suede | immaturity |
| Socialism Train | The Ethiopians | left wing politics |
| Society | Eddie Vedder | greed |
| Sod the Neighbours | The Toy Dolls | volume |
| Sodium Light Baby | The The | silver & non-ferrous metals |
| The Sodom and Gomorrah Show | Pet Shop Boys | hedonism |
| Sodom and Gomorrow | The Congos | wastelands |
| Soffry Soffry Catch Monkey | Ikenga Super Stars of Africa | monkeys & apes |
| Soho Square | Kirsty MacColl | sitting & standing |
| Sojourner’s Battle Hymn | Sweet Honey in the Rock | choirs |
| Sol en Julio | Los Brincos | months of the year |
| Sol Invictus | Thea Gilmore | passage of time |
| Solar Wind | Nick Nicely | rainbows |
| The Soldier | Philip Jeays | army |
| Soldier of Fortune | Deep Purple | echoes |
| Soldier’s Song | Sean Rowe | covers by the opposite sex |
| Soldier’s Things | Tom Waits | memorabilia & souvenirs |
| Soledad | Combo Los Galleros ft Lucy González | being single |
| Solid Air | John Martyn | other musicians |
| Solid Gold | Cornershop ft Katie | gold |
| Solid Rock | Dire Straits | driving songs |
| Solidarity | Black Uhuru | unity |
| Solitude Is Bliss | Tame Impala | COVID-19 lockdown |
| Solitude Standing | Suzanne Vega | being alone |
| Solo | Sandy Denny | the number one |
| Solomon Browne | Seth Lakeman | ships & boats |
| Solovey (Nightingale) | Go_A | nightingales & thrushes |
| Solsbury Hill | Peter Gabriel | motivation |
| Soltera | Lunay ft Daddy Yankee & Bad Bunny | being single |
| Some Candy Talking | The Jesus and Mary Chain | sweet foods |
| Some Enchanted Evening | Giorgio Tozzi | close shaves & near misses |
| Some Girls | Rachel Stevens | celebrity |
| Some Jingle Jangle Morning | Mary Lou Lord | recreational drugs |
| Some Old Salty | Lal Waterson | Yorkshire |
| Some Other Time | Tony Bennett & Bill Evans | procrastination |
| Some Questions About Hats | Slapp Happy & Henry Cow | hats |
| Some Velvet Morning | Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood | duets |
| Somebody Bigger Than You or I | Marion Williams & the Stars of Faith | spiritual songs |
| Somebody Get Me a Doctor | Van Halen | doctors |
| Somebody Shot My Eagle | C. L. Blast | austerity |
| Somebody Touch I | African Head Charge | touch |
| Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite | Fleetwood Mac | B sides |
| Somebody’s Watching Me | Rockwell | conspiracy theories & paranoia |
| Someday | CeCe Rogers | freedom |
| Someday | The Strokes | passage of time |
| Someday (August 29, 1968) | Chicago | chaos |
| Someday My Prince Will Come | Bill Evans Trio | honorific titles |
| Somehow, Somewhere (There’s a Soul Heaven) | Deep Sensation | raise the heartrate |
| Someone Saved My Life Tonight | Elton John | close shaves & near misses |
| Someone to Watch Over Me | Ella Fitzgerald with Nelson Riddle Orchestra | ensembles, big bands & orchestras |
| Someone to Watch Over Me | Samara Joy ft Pasquale Grasso | searching & seeking |
| Somethin’ Else | Eddie Cochran | ambition |
| Somethin’ Hot | The Afghan Whigs | heat #2 |
| Something Changed | Pulp | change |
| Something for the Weekend | The Divine Comedy | songs with a twist |
| Something for Your M.I.N.D. | Superorganism | using your imagination |
| Something I Learned Today | Hüsker Dü | knowledge |
| Something in Red | Lorrie Morgan | colours |
| Something in the Way | Nirvana | homelessness |
| (Something Inside) So Strong | Labi Siffre | bravery |
| resilience |
| Something Like a Song | Kate Bush | mythical beasts |
| Something on Your Mind | Karen Dalton | channelling pain |
| Something to Talk About | Badly Drawn Boy | recorded for movies |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Barry Adamson | books |
| Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart | Marc Almond ft Gene Pitney | comeback songs |
| Something’s Wrong with This Picture | Galactic | from New Orleans |
| Sometime Around Midnight | The Airborne Toxic Event | without a chorus |
| Sometimes | James | rain |
| Sometimes a Song | Bill Withers | songwriting |
| Sometimes Always | The Jesus and Mary Chain ft Hope Sandoval | duets |
| Sometimes I Don’t Know What to Feel | Todd Rundgren | denial |
| Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child | Wynton Marsalis | brass songs |
| Sometimes I Wish I Had a Gun | Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band | control |
| Somewhere Only We Know | Keane | secrets & secrecy |
| Somewhere Over the Rainbow | Israel Kamakawiwo’ole | rainbows |
| Somewhere There’s an Island | Seaman Dan | paradise |
| Sommerfuggel i vinterland | Halvdan Sivertsen | homelessness |
| Somos Sur | Ana Tijoux ft Shadia Mansour | unity |
| Son de Difuntos | Lila Downs | tradition |
| The Son of a Disgruntled X-Postal Worker Reflects on His Life While Getting Stoned in the Parking Lot of a Winn Dixie Listening to Metallica | Alice Donut | doom |
| Son of a Preacher Man | Dusty Springfield | male names |
| The Son of Hickory Holler’s Tramp | O. C. Smith | criminals |
| Son of My Father | Giorgio Moroder | tradition |
| Song About the Moon | Paul Simon | songwriting |
| Song About the Moon | Simon & Garfunkel | the moon |
| Song About Traveling | The Innocence Mission | never |
| Song Beneath the Song | Maria Taylor | songwriting |
| A Song for Europe | Roxy Music | multilingual songs |
| A Song for Me | Family | maps |
| (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister | The Stone Roses | spinning |
| Song for Our Ancestors | Steve Miller Band | alarm sounds |
| Song for Richard Collopy | Sun Kil Moon | remembrance songs |
| Song for Sonny Liston | Mark Knopfler | fighting |
| Song for Whoever | The Beautiful South | forgetting |
| A Song for You | Donny Hathaway | meta-songs |
| Song from the Bottom of a Well | Kevin Ayers | wells |
| A Song from Under the Floorboards | Magazine | songs about songs |
| Song in the Blood | Joan Baez | blood |
| Song of a Baker | Small Faces | cooking |
| Song of Reproduction | Flanders and Swann | media for listening to recorded music |
| Song of Scheherazade | Renaissance | fairytales |
| Song of the Black Lizard | Pink Martini | reptiles |
| Song of the Shrimp | Frank Black | songs with jokes |
| Song of the Stoic | Suzanne Vega | acceptance |
| A Song of the Weather | Flanders and Swann | climate change |
| Song to Comus | Comus | horror-inspired songs |
| Song to the Siren | Tim Buckley | ancient history |
| Song to the Siren | The Chemical Brothers | songs about songs |
| Song to the Siren | This Mortal Coil | covers better than the original |
| Song with No Words (Tree with No Leaves) | David Crosby | wordless vocals |
| Song Without a Chorus | Butch Walker | without a chorus |
| Songs of Love | Ben Folds | songs about love songs |
| Songs of the Nightlife | Luke Vibert & B. J. Cole | steel guitar |
| Songs on the Times | Chumbawamba | 19th century life |
| The Songs That We Sing | Charlotte Gainsbourg | magazines |
| Songs That We Wrote When We Were Drunk | Lewis Watson | songwriting |
| Songs to Sing | Raw Spitt | songwriting |
| Sonic Attack | Hawkwind | apocalypse |
| Sonnet 29 | Rufus Wainwright | Shakespeare |
| Sonnet to Hank Cinq | Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | short songs |
| Sonny | The Rubberbandits | suicide |
| Sonny’s Lettah (Anti Sus Poem) | Linton Kwesi Johnson | letters, emails & telegrams |
| Sons & Daughters | The Decemberists | fixing & repairing |
| Sons Of | Scott Walker | youthfulness |
| Sons of the Stage | World of Twist | theatre |
| Soon | My Bloody Valentine | psychedelic songs |
| Soon It Will Be Fire | Hypnotic Brass Ensemble ft Moses Sumney | ensembles, big bands & orchestras |
| Sophisticated Boom Boom | The Shangri-Las | conversations |
| Sophisticated Lady | Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | super solos |
| Sophisticated Lady | Billie Holiday | failure |
| Sorcery | Sabu Martinez | paganism |
| Sorority Girls | Mommy Long Legs | gangs |
| Sorrow Tears and Blood | Fela Kuti | police |
| The Sorrowful Wife | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | marriage |
| Sorrows Away | The Poozies | contentment |
| Sorry | Karine Polwart | scandal |
| Sorry | Sebadoh | apologies |
| Sorry for Laughing | Josef K | smiling & laughing |
| Sorted for E’s and Wizz | Pulp | arresting opening lines |
| S.O.S. | ABBA | electronic music to 1983 |
| S.O.S. (State of Shock) | Sonic Boom Six | propaganda |
| Sou Flamengo, Cacique e Mangueira | Fundo de Quintal | football |
| Soubour | Songhoy Blues | favourite live versions |
| Soul Bossa Nova | Quincy Jones | flutes, pipes & whistles |
| Soul Finger | The Bar-Kays | ten words or fewer |
| Soul Fire | Lee Perry | discordant songs |
| Soul Giver | Opal | psychedelic songs |
| Soul Happy Hour | The Jazz Butcher | cocktails & spirits |
| Soul Horizon | The Beauty Room | horizons |
| Soul Inside | Soft Cell | synth pop 1980-2000 |
| The Soul of a Man | Blind Willie Johnson | resurrection |
| Soul on Fire | LaVern Baker | slow, sexy love songs |
| Soul Roots | Edward’s World | piano songs |
| Soul Sacrifice (at Woodstock) | Santana | outstanding percussion |
| Soul Sister, Brown Sugar | Sam & Dave | sisters |
| Soul Vaccination | Tower of Power | healing |
| Soulful Strut | Young-Holt Unlimited | dance instrumentals |
| Sound Breakfast | Groove Cereal ft Jenova 7 & Andrew Linn | meals & mealtimes |
| Sound Check (Gravity) | Gorillaz | gravity |
| Sound of Da Police | KRS-One | police |
| The Sound of Gyroscopes | Kev Hopper | discovery |
| The Sound of Silence | Disturbed | volume |
| The Sound of Silence | Simon & Garfunkel | echoes |
| The Sound of Sinners | The Clash | sinners |
| The Sound of the Crowd | The Human League | crowds |
| The Sound of the Suburbs | The Members | suburbia |
| Sound System | Steel Pulse | hearing, choosing & playing records |
| Sounds of Earth | Jim Moray | rare events |
| Sounds of Then (This Is Australia) | GANGgajang | Australia |
| Soundsystem | Reggae Roast ft Brother Culture | media for listening to recorded music |
| Soup | Tunng | cooking |
| Soup Song | Robert Wyatt | food |
| South America, Take It Away | Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters | spine & neck |
| South American Getaway | Burt Bacharach | South America |
| South London Boroughs | Burial | suburbia |
| debut songs |
| South of Germany | Paul Kelly & the Messengers | alternative outcomes |
| South Yorks | Kid Acne | Yorkshire |
| Southern Cross | Crosby, Stills & Nash | crosses |
| Southern Mark Smith | The Jazz Butcher | wanting to be someone else |
| Souvenir | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | synth pop 1980-2000 |
| A Souvenir of London | Procol Harum | memorabilia & souvenirs |
| Souvenirs | Maggie Bell | memorabilia & souvenirs |
| Souvenirs | Steve Goodman & John Prine | melancholy songs |
| Souvenirs | Voyage | songs with sudden changes |
| Soweto Blues | Miriam Makeba | towns |
| Space Ace | Brett Smiley | space travel |
| Space City | Booker T. Jones & Drive-By Truckers | organ |
| Space Doggity | Jonathan Coulton | unusual narrators |
| Space Flight | I-Roy | adventure |
| Space Girl | The Imagined Village | space travel |
| Space Guitar | Johnny Guitar Watson | space |
| Space Invaders | The Piranhas | games |
| Space Is the Place | Jonzun Crew | sci-fi & space |
| Space Is the Place | Sun Ra | space |
| Space Monkey | John Prine | monkeys & apes |
| Space Oddity | David Bowie | without a chorus |
| Space Oddity | Langley Schools Music Project | sci-fi & space |
| Space Travel Is Boring | Modest Mouse | space travel |
| Space Walk | Lemon Jelly | space |
| Spaced | Beaver & Krause | drone music |
| Spacehopper | Bentley Rhythm Ace | jumping |
| Spacelab | Kraftwerk | sci-fi & space |
| Spacer | Sheila and B. Devotion | space |
| Spaceship | Kanye West ft GLC & Consequence | escape |
| Spain | The Stranglers | Spain |
| Spam Song | Monty Python | meat |
| Spancil Hill | The Dubliners | villages |
| Spanish Civil War Song | Phil Ochs | Spain |
| Spanish Dancer | Steve Winwood | Spain |
| Spanish Lady | The Dubliners | feet |
| Spanish Moon | Little Feat | hedonism |
| Spanish Pipedream | John Prine | lessons in life |
| Spanish Train | Chris de Burgh | the Devil |
| Spare Parts | Bruce Springsteen | fresh starts |
| Speak Low | Billie Holiday | quiet |
| Speaking with the Angel | Ron Sexsmith | angels |
| Speed | Bran Van 3000 | speed |
| Speed | Ron Wray Light Show | speed |
| Speed King | Deep Purple | other songs |
| Speed Law | Mos Def | slowing down |
| Speed of Life | David Bowie | dance instrumentals |
| Speed of the Sound of Loneliness | Nanci Griffith | speed |
| Speedin’ West | Cindy Cashdollar | steel guitar |
| Speeding Motorcycle | Daniel Johnston | motorbikes |
| Speedway at Nazareth | Mark Knopfler | competition |
| Spellbound | Siouxsie and the Banshees | illusions |
| Spem in alium | The Tallis Scholars | a cappella |
| Spencer Perceval | iLiKETRAiNS | treachery & betrayal |
| Spencer the Rover | John Martyn | independence |
| The Spider | Flanders and Swann | spiders |
| Spider | The Handsome Family | spiders |
| The Spider and the Fly | The Rolling Stones | substitutions |
| Spider-Man | Ramones | masks |
| Spider Spider | Tidal Wave | spiders |
| Spiders (In Neal’s Basement) | McLuhan | basements & underground |
| Spiders in the Dressing Room | Toy Dolls | spiders |
| Spiders (Kidsmoke) | Wilco | spiders |
| Spidey’s Wild Ride | Tom Waits | superheroes |
| Spiegel im Spiegel | Arvo Pärt | mirrors |
| Spiegelsaal (The Hall of Mirrors) | Kraftwerk | mirrors |
| Spinning Around | Kylie Minogue | spinning |
| Spinning Away | Brian Eno & John Cale | celestial bodies |
| spinning |
| Spinning Wheel | Blood, Sweat & Tears | spinning |
| Spiral Galaxy 28948 | Hawkwind | celestial bodies |
| Spiral Jetty | …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | works of art |
| The Spirit | Magnum | songs with sudden changes |
| Spirit in the Sky | Norman Greenbaum | spiritual songs |
| The Spirit of Radio | Rush | radio |
| Spirit of the Falklands | New Model Army | army |
| Spirit of the North | CANO | animal sounds |
| Spiritual | Soulsavers | fear |
| Spit on a Stranger | Pavement | anger |
| Spitfire | Public Service Broadcasting | determination |
| Spoilt Victorian Child | The Fall | 19th century life |
| Spooky | Dusty Springfield | Halloween |
| Spoon Solo | Noel Crombie with Split Enz | outstanding percussion |
| Spoot Ebb | Erland Cooper | gravity |
| Sport (The Odd Boy) | Bonzo Dog Band | sport |
| The Sporting Life | The Decemberists | embarrassment |
| Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia) | Patrick Stump | songs for your teenage self |
| Spring Again | Biz Markie | spring |
| Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most | Ella Fitzgerald | hanging |
| Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most | Carmen McRae | spring |
| Spring Cleaning | John McCutcheon | spring cleaning & household chores |
| Spring Cleaning | Fats Waller & His Rhythm | spring |
| spring cleaning & household chores |
| Spring Rain | The Go-Betweens | spring |
| Springtime Can Kill You | Jolie Holland | spring |
| Sproston Green | The Charlatans | northern England |
| Sputniks and Mutniks | Ray Anderson & the Home Folks | space travel |
| Spy in the Cab | Bauhaus | spying |
| Spy in the House of Love | Was (Not Was) | spying |
| Spystick | King Creosote | spying |
| The Squalb | Medeski Martin & Wood | pockets |
| The Square of the Hypotenuse | Danny Kaye | mathematics |
| Square One | The Restarts | games |
| Squid Jiggin’ Grounds | Hank Snow | safety & danger |
| Sri Ventkateswara Suprabhatam | M. S. Subbulakshmi | waking up |
| St. Bernard | Ron Sexsmith | dogs |
| St. Elmo’s Fire | Brian Eno | electronic music to 1983 |
| months of the year |
| St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) | John Parr | determination |
| St. James Infirmary | Louis Armstrong | hospitals |
| St. Louis Blues | Louis Armstrong | saints & martyrs |
| St. Patrick’s Day | Damien Dempsey | Gaelic songs |
| St. Stephen | Grateful Dead | philosophers |
| St. Swithin’s Day | Billy Bragg | famous last words |
| Stabbed | Glasvegas | knives |
| Staccato’s Theme | Elmer Bernstein | TV theme songs |
| Stack-A-Records | Tom Tall | hearing, choosing & playing records |
| Stack O’ Lee Blues | Mississippi John Hurt | crime |
| Stacked Deck | Etta James | playing cards |
| Stacks, Stilettos, Make-Up & Mohicans | Mere Dead Men | footwear |
| Stacy’s Mom | Fountains of Wayne | unrequited love |
| Stage Fright | The Band | theatre |
| Stagger Lee | Lloyd Price | gambling |
| Stain on the Sun | The Bevis Frond | denial |
| Stainsby Girls | Chris Rea | Yorkshire |
| Stairway of Dreams (The Stair) | Adultchild | ascension |
| Stairway to Heaven | Led Zeppelin | songs that build |
| Stairway to Heaven | Rodrigo y Gabriela | ascension |
| Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’ | Robert Wyatt | Russia |
| Stan | Eminem ft Dido | letters, emails & telegrams |
| Stand | R.E.M. | notable key changes |
| Stand! | Sly and the Family Stone | rallying cries |
| Stand and Deliver | Adam and the Ants | smuggling & stealing |
| Stand by Me | Home Free | clicking, tapping & stomping |
| Stand by Me | Ben E. King | best bass lines |
| Stand by Your Guns | The Full English | songs that command or instruct |
| Stand My Ground | Within Temptation | decisive songs |
| Stand Up Comic | Ray Davies | sitting & standing |
| Stand Up for Judas | Dick Gaughan | sitting & standing |
| Standing at the Sky’s Edge | Richard Hawley | sitting & standing |
| Standing Here Crying | The Incredibles | departures |
| Standing in the Shadows of Love | Four Tops | shadows |
| Standing in the Way of Control | Gossip | gender & LGBTQ+ |
| Standing on the Edge of Love | B.B. King | edges & ledges |
| Standing on the Promise | Tennessee Mountaineers | promises & choices |
| Stanlow | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | northern England |
| Star | David Bowie | celebrity |
| Star 69 | R.E.M. | stars |
| Star Charmer | Grinderman | stars |
| Star Sign | Teenage Fanclub | star signs |
| fate & destiny |
| The Star Spangled Banner | Jimi Hendrix | national anthems |
| Star Wars (Main Title) | John Williams | aliens |
| Starálfur | Sigur Rós | mythical beasts |
| Stardog Champion | Mother Love Bone | children performing |
| Stardust | Louis Armstrong | great songwriting 1900-1955 |
| Stardust | Nat King Cole | crooners |
| Stardust Remedy | The Jesus and Mary Chain | brothers & sisters |
| Starfish and Coffee | Prince | school |
| Stargazer | Rainbow | fantasy |
| Starless and Bible Black | Stan Tracey Quartet | night & darkness |
| stars |
| Starlite Diner | Ryan Adams | anticipation |
| Starman | David Bowie | aliens |
| The Stars | Patrick Wolf | celestial bodies |
| The Stars of Track and Field | Belle and Sebastian | sport |
| The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam’s Dice | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | stars |
| Starsailor | Tim Buckley | puzzling & mysterious |
| Starship | Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship | striking album endings |
| Starship Trooper | Yes | notable outros or codas |
| Start! | The Jam | brevity |
| Start Over Again | Emily Maguire | recovery |
| Start Wearing Purple | Gogol Bordello | purple |
| Started Out with Nothin | Seasick Steve | chicken and egg |
| Starting All Over Again | Mel & Tim | resilience |
| Starving in the Belly of a Whale | Tom Waits | cetaceans |
| Starwalker | Buffy Sainte-Marie | paganism |
| The State I Am In | Belle and Sebastian | different 7″ versions |
| State of Independence | Donna Summer | great backing vocals |
| State Trooper | Bruce Springsteen | law enforcement |
| State Violence State Control | Discharge | control |
| Station Approach | Elbow | northern England |
| Station to Station | David Bowie | impressive intros |
| Statistician Blues | Todd Snider | mathematics |
| Statue of Liberty | Laurie Anderson | works of art |
| Stay | David Bowie | staying |
| Stay | Rihanna ft Mikky Ekko | slow, sexy love songs |
| Stay Away | Randy Newman | COVID-19 lockdown |
| Stay Free | The Clash | friendship |
| Stay Inside | Vic Chesnutt | resurrection |
| Stay Loose | Hemsley Morris | staying |
| Stay Positive | The Streets | consolation |
| Stay Together | Suede | devoted love |
| Stay Up Late | Talking Heads | babies & childbirth |
| family |
| Stay with Me | Lorraine Ellison | songs of desperation |
| Stay with Me | Faces | one night stands |
| Stay with Me Baby | Ruby Turner | songs that build |
| Stay with Me Jesus | Guster | close shaves & near misses |
| Stayin’ Alive | Bee Gees | falsetto |
| Steal Away | Etta James | smuggling & stealing |
| Steal My Sunshine | Len | the sun |
| Steal Your Face | Motörhead | horror-inspired songs |
| Stealing | Tackhead | preachers, priests & religious leaders |
| Stealing in the Name of Jah | Max Romeo & the Upsetters | smuggling & stealing |
| Stealing in the Name of the Lord | Paul Kelly | warnings |
| preachers, priests & religious leaders |
| Stealing People’s Mail | Dead Kennedys | smuggling & stealing |
| Steamboat Stomp | Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers | New Orleans |
| Steel Band Music | Lord Kitchener | steelpan |
| Steel Guitar Rag | Barbara Mandrell | steel guitar |
| Steel Monkey | Jethro Tull | iron & steel |
| Steeltown | Big Country | iron & steel |
| Steelworker | Big Black | violence |
| Stella Maris | Einstürzende Neubauten ft Meret Becker | edges & ledges |
| Step | Vampire Weekend | great keyboards |
| Step into My Life | Jessie Ware | pick-up lines & marriage proposals |
| Step It Up | Stereo MC’s | celebration |
| Step Off | Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five | boastful songs |
| Step On | Happy Mondays | great keyboards |
| Step Right Up | Tom Waits | sales, selling & bargains |
| volume |
| Steppin’ in Her I. Miller Shoes | Betty Davis | footwear |
| Steppin’ Out | Joe Jackson | parties & going out |
| Stepping Razor | Peter Tosh | great opening lines |
| Stereotype | The Specials | stereotypes |
| Steve McQueen | Drive-By Truckers | hero worship |
| Steve McQueen | Brian Fallon | wanting to be someone else |
| Stevie (for Steven S.) | Royal Trux | movie & TV stars |
| Stevie Smith | Vic Chesnutt | inspired by poetry |
| Stevie’s Song | Bob Evans | platonic love |
| Stewball | Lead Belly | winners |
| STFU! | Rina Sawayama | acronyms |
| Stiff Upper Lip | AC/DC | spirit of 2021 |
| Stiff Upper Lip | Ella Fitzgerald | stiff upper lip |
| Stigmata Martyr | Bauhaus | saints & martyrs |
| Stiletto | Billy Joel | sharp objects |
| Still Crazy After All These Years | Paul Simon | notable key changes |
| Still I Rise | Maya Angelou | resilience |
| Still Life | Van der Graaf Generator | immortality & longevity |
| Still Standing | Children of Zeus ft DRS | Manchester |
| Stimela (Coal Train) | Hugh Masekela | manual labour |
| Stimmung Model 11 | Karlheinz Stockhausen | minimalist songs |
| Stink-Foot | Frank Zappa | feet |
| A Stitch in Time | The Long Ryders | proverbs |
| Stitch in Time | Maddy Prior & the Girls | revenge |
| Stockings | Suzanne Vega | underwear |
| Stolen Apples Are the Sweetest | Paul Kelly | sinners |
| Stompa | Serena Ryder | slowing down |
| Stompin’ Ground | Aaron Neville & the Dirty Dozen Brass Band | from New Orleans |
| Stoned and Starving | Parquet Courts | marijuana |
| Stoned Immaculate | Dub Syndicate | stars |
| Stoned Love | The Supremes | marijuana |
| Stoned Soul Picnic | Laura Nyro | meals & mealtimes |
| Stoned Train Driver | The Bevis Frond | jobs |
| Stonehenge | Spinal Tap | funny songs |
| Stones in the Road | Mary Chapin Carpenter | social mobility |
| A Stone’s Throw Away | The Style Council | estimates of distance & time |
| Stood Up | James Reyne | sitting & standing |
| Stool Pigeon | Kid Creole & the Coconuts | villains |
| Stop! | Sam Brown | heartbreak |
| Stop | Kooper-Bloomfield Super Session | supergroups |
| Stop | Plasmatics | songs that command or instruct |
| Stop Bajon (Primavera) | Tullio De Piscopo | Italy |
| Stop Beating Around the Bush | The Velvelettes | limbo |
| Stop! In the Name of Love | The Supremes | arresting opening lines |
| Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before | The Smiths | denial |
| Stop That Girl | Vic Godard & the Subway Sect | out-of-tune songs |
| Stop the Nonsense | Wing | so bad they’re good |
| Stop Your Sobbing | The Pretenders | crying |
| Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Jackie Leven with David Thomas | winter sports |
| Storm | Tim Minchin | stupidity |
| Storm Cellar | Elysian Fields | basements & underground |
| Storm Is Rising | Little Axe | storms |
| Storm Warning | Bonnie Raitt | storms |
| Stormbringer | Deep Purple | storms |
| Stormbringer | John and Beverly Martyn | natural disasters |
| Stormy Weather | Etta James | bad weather |
| Stormy Weather | The Spaniels | storms |
| Story Book Children | Gregory Isaacs | innocence |
| The Story of My Life | Michael Holliday | whistling |
| The Story of the Blues Part One and Part Two (Talkin’ Blues) | The Mighty Wah! | 1980s 12” singles |
| The Story of the Blues Part One | Liverpool & Merseyside |
| Storytelling | Belle and Sebastian | writing |
| Straight for the Knife | Sia | sharp objects |
| Straight Outta Compton | N.W.A. | California |
| Straight to Hell | The Clash | exile |
| Straight to Number One | Touch and Go | patterns & sequences |
| Stranded in the Jungle | The Cadets | close shaves & near misses |
| Strange & Beautiful (I’ll Put a Spell on You) | Aqualung | adult lullabies |
| A Strange Boy | Joni Mitchell | immaturity |
| Strange Brew | Cream | witches |
| Strange Fruit | Billie Holiday | protest |
| murder |
| Strange Fruit | Nina Simone | hanging |
| Strange Phenomena | Kate Bush | sixth sense |
| Strange Street Affair Under Blue | Tim Buckley | body language |
| Strange Town | The Jam | maps |
| The Stranger | Billy Joel | misunderstanding |
| The Stranger | David McWilliams | anonymity |
| Stranger Blues | Elmore James | strangers |
| Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes | Kevin Ayers | marijuana |
| Stranger in Paradise | Tony Bennett | sampling & recycling |
| Strangers in the Night | Frank Sinatra | flirting |
| A Strangers Map of Texas | Michael Chapman | maps |
| Strasbourg | The Rakes | places in Europe |
| Strawberries | Asobi Seksu | fruit |
| Strawberry Letter 23 | Shuggie Otis | red |
| Strawberry Wine | Deana Carter | wine |
| Strawbery Fields Forever | The Beatles | false endings |
| Stray Cat Blues | The Rolling Stones | stairs, ladders & elevators |
| Stray Cat Strut | The Stray Cats | expressing movement of walking |
| A Stream with Bright Fish | Harold Budd & Brian Eno | fish & other aquatic life |
| Streams of Whiskey | The Pogues | drinking |
| Street Hassle | Lou Reed | songs with special guests |
| Street Life | The Crusaders ft Randy Crawford | prostitution |
| Street Player | Chicago | urban environment |
| Streets of Arklow | Van Morrison | Ireland |
| Streets of Calcutta | Ananda Shankar | Asia |
| Streets of Derry | Trees | Ireland |
| Streets of Kenny | Shack | Liverpool & Merseyside |
| Streets of London | Ralph McTell | adversity |
| Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six | The Pogues | the truth |
| Streets of Your Town | The Go-Betweens | secret vices |
| Strength to Strength | Hue and Cry | forgotten follow-ups |
| Stress (Auto Remix) | Justice | impressive intros |
| Strict Machine | Goldfrapp | fetishes |
| String of Pearls | Soul Asylum | precious stones |
| String Quartet in E Flat major (‘The Joke’) | Joseph Haydn | stop-start songs |
| String Quartet No. 3 in G major: IV. Burlesque | Benjamin Britten | without percussion |
| Strings of Life | Rhythim Is Rhythim | minimalist songs |
| Strip Polka | The Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen & His Orchestra | nudity |
| The Stroll | The Diamonds | expressing movement of walking |
| Strollin’ | Prince & the New Power Generation | fun |
| Strong | Herbert | positive songs |
| Struttin’ with Some Barbecue | Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five | without percussion |
| Strychnine | The Sonics | poison |
| Stuart | The Dead Milkmen | earth, soil & dirt |
| Stubborn Kind of Fellow | Marvin Gaye | stubbornness |
| Stubborn Kinda Heart | The Quireboys | stubbornness |
| Stubborn Love | The Lumineers | stubbornness |
| Stuck in the Middle With You | Stealers Wheel | redefined by film |
| Student Wankers | Peter and the Test Tube Babies | education |
| Stupid | The Dirtbombs | bad decisions |
| Stupid Girl | The Rolling Stones | cruel songs |
| Style It Takes | Lou Reed & John Cale | using your imagination |
| Suavecito | Malo | album tracks better than singles |
| Subcity | Tracy Chapman | adversity |
| Subdivisions | Rush | suburbia |
| Submarine Bells | The Chills | bells |
| Subterranean Homesick Alien | Radiohead | space travel |
| Subterranean Homesick Blues | Bob Dylan | non sequiturs |
| Subterranean World (How Long?) | Anita Lane & Blixa Bargeld | estimates of distance & time |
| Subterraneans | David Bowie | indecipherable songs |
| Subterraneans | Flesh for Lulu | basements & underground |
| Suburban Dream | Martha and the Muffins | suburbia |
| Suburban Homeboy | Sparks | authenticity & fakery |
| Subway Song | The Cure | horror-inspired songs |
| Success | Loretta Lynn | celebrity |
| Success | Iggy Pop | call and response |
| Such Great Heights | The Postal Service | ascension |
| Suddenly I See | KT Tunstall | magazines |
| Suffer Little Children | The Smiths | Yorkshire |
| Sufferin’ Till Suffrage | Etta James | 19th century life |
| Suffering Jukebox | Silver Jews | machines, robots & computers |
| jukeboxes |
| Suffice to Say | Yachts | meta-songs |
| Suffocated Love | Tricky | jealousy |
| breathing |
| Sugar Cane | Mary Gauthier | starting fires |
| Sugar Hiccup | Cocteau Twins | sweet foods |
| Sugar Kane | Sonic Youth | impermanence |
| Sugar Magnolia | Grateful Dead | different 7″ versions |
| Sugar Mountain | Neil Young | fictional places |
| Sugar, Sugar | The Archies | tautonyms |
| Sugar Town | Nancy Sinatra | laziness |
| Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H) | The Mash | failure |
| Suit of Lights | Elvis Costello | tribute songs |
| Suki Suki Daisuki | Jun Togawa | bright songs about dark subjects |
| Sukiyaki | Kyu Sakamoto | Japan |
| Sull’aria … che soave zeffiretto | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Cecilia Bartoli & Renée Fleming | conversations |
| Sultanesque | Roxy Music | drone music |
| Sultans of Swing | Dire Straits | music venues |
| Sumer Is Icumen In | Richard Thompson | old meets new |
| Summat’s Brewing | O’Hooley & Tidow | Yorkshire |
| Summer | Angel Olsen | eureka moments |
| Summer Babe (Winter Version) | Pavement | refreshment & cooling down |
| Summer Breeze | The Isley Brothers | smells |
| Summer Breeze | The Main Ingredient | refreshment & cooling down |
| Summer Breeze | Seals and Crofts | wind |
| gentleness |
| Summer Fun | The Barracudas | surprising intros |
| Summer in the City | The Lovin’ Spoonful | heat |
| Summer in the City | Regina Spektor | strangers |
| Summer of ’69 | Bryan Adams | coming of age |
| Summer of 81 | The Violators | summer |
| Summer Skin | Death Cab for Cutie | summer |
| Summer (The First Time) | Bobby Goldsboro | so bad they’re good |
| Summer Wind | Frank Sinatra | personification |
| Summer Wine | Nancy Sinatra with Lee Hazlewood | recipe songs |
| Summer’s Here | James Taylor | footwear |
| Summertime | Ricky Nelson | great riffs |
| Summertime | Charlie Parker | from New York City |
| Summertime | Billy Stewart | summer |
| Summertime Blues | Eddie Cochran | short songs |
| The Sun Always Shines on T.V. | a-ha | television |
| Sun Blindness Music | John Cale | drone music |
| Sun City | Artists United Against Apartheid | scandal |
| Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning | Cowboy Junkies | morning |
| Sun Goes Down | Lil Nas X | gender & LGBTQ+ |
| Sun Hits the Sky | Supergrass | horizons |
| The Sun I Always Wanted | Stew | fathers and daughters |
| Sun in My Mouth | Björk | inspired by poetry |
| The Sun Never Shines on the Poor | Richard and Linda Thompson | poverty |
| Sun of Jean | Loyle Carner | empathy |
| The Sun Rising | The Beloved | the sun |
| The Sun Says | Cock Sparrer | news & media |
| Sun Will Rise | Bonobo & Speech Debelle | determination |
| Sunday Bloody Sunday | U2 | scandal |
| Sunday Girl (French Version) | Blondie | songs in French |
| Sunday Morning | Margo Guryan | the weekend |
| Sunday Morning | The Velvet Underground | morning |
| Sunday Morning Coming Down | Kris Kristofferson | drinking |
| Sunday Morning Sunrise | Kevin Coyne | relaxation & leisure |
| Sunday Papers | Joe Jackson | journalism & the news |
| Sunday Sunday | Blur | the weekend |
| Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day | Sir Douglas Quintet | contentment |
| Sunday Times | Loudon Wainwright III | newspapers |
| Sunderland Boys | Lindisfarne | North East England |
| Sundial | Wolfmother | clocks & watches |
| Sundown | Gordon Lightfoot | sunsets & twilight |
| Sunflash | Lemon Sol | songs to start the morning |
| Sunglasses | Black Country, New Road | hats & accessories |
| Sunglasses After Dark | Dwight Pullen | coolness |
| Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow | Felt | provocative, strange or humorous titles |
| Sunny | Bobby Hebb | summer |
| Sunny Afternoon | The Kinks | beer |
| Sunny Came Home | Shawn Colvin | starting fires |
| Sunny Goodge Street | Donovan | roads & streets |
| Sunny Side of the Street | Sonic Boom Six | motivation |
| Sunporch Cha-Cha-Cha | David Grusin | easy listening |
| Sunrise | The Divine Comedy | songs that build |
| Sunrise | Grateful Dead | paganism |
| Sunrise | Pulp | morning |
| The Sun’s Comin’ Over the Hill | Karine Polwart | bravery |
| Sunset | Roxy Music | the sun |
| Sunset | Nitin Sawhney ft Eska | sunsets & twilight |
| Sunset | Little Stevie Wonder | sunsets & twilight |
| Sunset Boulevard | Terry Callier | Hollywood |
| Sunshine | Jungle Brothers | dawn |
| Sunshine of Your Love | Spanky Wilson | covers by the opposite sex |
| Sunshine on Leith | The Proclaimers | gratitude |
| Sunshine Superman | Donovan | the sun |
| Super Freak | Rick James | bad boys & bad girls |
| Superfly | Curtis Mayfield | fictional adverts |
| Superfly | Treacherous Orchestra | dance instrumentals |
| Superglider | Drugstore | stars |
| Superman | R.E.M. | boastful songs |
| Superman Lover | Johnny “Guitar” Watson | comics & cartoons |
| Supermarket | Wet Leg | recreational drugs |
| Supermassive Black Hole | Muse | celestial bodies |
| Supernature | Cerrone | environment |
| Superstar | Sonic Youth | unlikely cover songs |
| Superstition | Stevie Wonder | luck |
| Supertheory of Supereverything | Gogol Bordello | disbelief |
| Superwoman | Alicia Keys | superheroes |
| Supper’s Ready | Genesis | apocalypse |
| Suppertime | Ella Fitzgerald | meals & mealtimes |
| Sur O No Sur | Kevin Johansen | quoting Shakespeare |
| Surabaya Johnny | Lotte Lenya | trust |
| Sure Had a Wonderful Time | Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five | last night |
| Surf City | Jan and Dean | two – part 1 |
| Surfin’ Bird | The Trashmen | ten words or fewer |
| Surfin’ USA | The Beach Boys | sound like other songs |
| Surfing with the Alien | Joe Satriani | aliens |
| Surf’s Up | The Beach Boys | falsetto |
| Survivor | Destiny’s Child | revenge |
| Susie Clelland | June Tabor & the Oyster Band | gripping or intriguing narrative |
| Suspect Device | Stiff Little Fingers | revolution |
| Suspended | Kelis | nightmares |
| Suspended from Class | Camera Obscura | self-deprecation |
| Suspended Sentence | John Cooper Clarke | capital punishment |
| Suspicious Minds | Fine Young Cannibals | trust |
| Suspicious Minds | Elvis Presley | jealousy |
| Suspiria | Goblin | horror-inspired songs |
| Suzanne Beware of the Devil | Dandy Livingstone | girls’ names |
| Svefn-g-englar | Sigur Rós | from Nordic countries |
| Swallow My Pride | Ramones | pride |
| The Swan | Clara Rockmore (composer: Camille Saint-Saëns) | electronic music to 1983 |
| Swan Lake | Madness | old meets new |
| Swan Lake (Death Disco) | Public Image Ltd | bereavement |
| The Swan of Tuonela | Jean Sibelius | rough & smooth |
| Swanee River Boogie | Albert Ammons | great keyboards |
| Sway | The Rolling Stones | different 7″ versions |
| Sweat | Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | perspiration |
| Sweat (A La La La La Long) | Inner Circle | songs that go ‘la’ |
| Sweating | Alewya | perspiration |
| Sweedeedee | Michael Hurley | odd couples |
| Sweeping the Nation | Spearmint | underrated artists |
| Sweet and Dandy | Toots and the Maytals | perfection |
| Sweet Arcadia | Saint Etienne | fixing & repairing |
| Sweet Baby James | James Taylor | male names |
| Sweet Black Angel | The Rolling Stones | teachers |
| Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond | physical gestures |
| Sweet Child o’ Mine | Guns N’ Roses | children |
| Sweet Child o’ Mine | Taken by Trees | unlikely cover songs |
| Sweet Defeat | Flesh | sweetness |
| Sweet Emotion | Aerosmith | best bass lines |
| Sweet Forgiveness | Section 25 | sweetness |
| Sweet Gene Vincent | Ian Dury | glamour & style |
| Sweet Harmony | The Beloved | quiet songs |
| Sweet Harmony | Liquid | sweetness |
| Sweet Home Alabama | Lynyrd Skynyrd | other songs |
| Sweet Like Chocolate | Shanks & Bigfoot | sweet foods |
| Sweet Little Sixteen | Chuck Berry | ages |
| Sweet Memory | Tindersticks | skin |
| Sweet Mother | Wagadugu | sweetness |
| Sweet September | Bill Evans | September |
| Sweet September Morning | Buffy Sainte Marie | September |
| Sweet Song | Blur | songs about songs |
| Sweet Soul Music | Arthur Conley | brass songs |
| Sweet Stuff | Sylvia | sweetness |
| Sweet, Sweet Intuition | Björk | sixth sense |
| Sweet Thames Flow Softly | Maddy Prior & the Girls | brevity |
| Sweet Thursday | The Icicle Works | days of the week |
| Sweet Tooth | Free | teeth |
| The Sweetest | Nightmares on Wax | sweetness |
| The Sweetest Girl | Scritti Politti | great keyboards |
| Sweetest Smile | Black | faces |
| The Sweetest Taboo | Sade | slow, sexy love songs |
| The Sweetest Thing | Camera Obscura | songs about love songs |
| Sweetness Follows | R.E.M. | cello |
| Sweets for My Sweet | The Searchers | sweetness |
| Swift as the Wind | The Incredible String Band | mythical beasts |
| Swim | Victories at Sea | swimming & bathing |
| Swim Until You Can’t See Land | Frightened Rabbit | swimming & bathing |
| Swimming | Roger Eno | swimming & bathing |
| Swimming | Tracey Thorn | swimming & bathing |
| Swimming in the Longest River | Olivia Chaney | swimming & bathing |
| Swimming Pools (Drank) | Kendrick Lamar | swimming & bathing |
| Swimming Song | Kate & Anna McGarrigle | accordion |
| Swimming Song | Loudon Wainwright III | swimming & bathing |
| Swing de Paris | Django Reinhardt | Paris |
| Swing Low Sweet Chariot | Louis Armstrong | spiritual songs |
| Swinging Doors | Merle Haggard | doors |
| A Swingin’ Safari | Bert Kaempfert | easy listening |
| The Switch | Gemma Ray | switches & buttons |
| Switchboard Susan | Nick Lowe | obsolete things |
| Sword of Destiny | Pythia | collaborations & side projects |
| Swordfishtrombone | Tom Waits | shaggy dog stories & tall tales |
| Swords of a Thousand Men | Tenpole Tudor | iron & steel |
| Sylvia Plath | Ryan Adams | historical figures |
| Sylvia’s Mother | Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show | indirect messages |
| Sympathy for the Devil | The Rolling Stones | God & the Devil |
| Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), 2nd movement | Henryk Górecki | bravery |
| Symphony No. 8 | Gustav Mahler | songs that express excess |
| Synchronicity I | The Police | eureka moments |
| Synthetic Substitution | Melvin Bliss | substitutions |
| Synthetic World | Swamp Dogg | plastic |
| Syracuse the Elephant | Stackridge | elephants & mammoths |
| Szomorú Vasárnap | Rezső Seress | great songwriting 1900-1955 |