The table below lists all A-listed songs by artists beginning with G. Some of the artists are also linked to their own individual pages.
Artist | Song Title | Topic | ||
G-Clefs | Ka-Ding-Dong | bells | ||
Gabriel, Peter | Big Time | social mobility | ||
Biko | justice | |||
Don’t Give Up (ft Kate Bush) | consolation | |||
Family Snapshot | assassination | |||
Games Without Frontiers | borders, barriers, walls & fences | |||
Here Comes the Flood (with Robert Fripp) | natural disasters | |||
In Your Eyes | eureka moments | |||
Not One of Us | interlopers | |||
Sledgehammer | tools | |||
Solsbury Hill | motivation | |||
We Do What We’re Told (Milgram’s 37) | electricity | |||
Gabrielle | Rise | redemption | ||
Gabriels | Blame | songs to start the morning | ||
Gaillard, Slim | Bassology (with His Flat Foot Floogies) | double bass | ||
Cement Mixer (as Slim Gaillard Trio) | onomatopoeia | |||
Chicken Rhythm | poultry | |||
Yip Roc Heresy | cooking | |||
Gainsbourg, Charlotte | 5:55 | times of day | ||
5:55 | tomorrow | |||
Lemon Incest (with Serge Gainsbourg) | taboos | |||
The Songs That We Sing | magazines | |||
Gainsbourg, Serge | 69 année erotique (with Jane Birkin) | dates | ||
Aux armes et cætera | national anthems | |||
Baudelaire | literary songs | |||
Bonnie and Clyde (with Brigitte Bardot) | crime | |||
Ce mortel ennui | boring & dull | |||
Comic Strip | comics & cartoons | |||
Dieu fumeur de havanes (with Catherine Deneuve) | smoking | |||
Docteur Jekyll et Monsieur Hyde | books | |||
Ford Mustang | brands | |||
Initials B.B. | actors | |||
Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais | goodbye | |||
Je t’aime… moi non plus (with Jane Birkin) | lust | |||
La Horse (with Jean-Claude Vannier) | animals | |||
La Horse (with Jean-Claude Vannier) | harpsichord | |||
Le Poinçonneur des Lilas | holes | |||
Lemon Incest (with Charlotte Gainsbourg) | taboos | |||
Love on the Beat | rhythm, beat & boogie | |||
Melody | spoken word | |||
Requiem pour un con | insulting songs | |||
Sea, Sex and Sun (English version) | foreign language versions | |||
Galactic | Something’s Wrong with This Picture | from New Orleans | ||
Galás, Diamanda | Vena Cava 1 | startling songs | ||
Galaxie 500 | Listen, the Snow Is Falling | cold | ||
Gall, France | Der Computer Nr. 3 | artificial intelligence | ||
Les Sucettes | sweet foods | |||
Made in France | France | |||
Mes premières vraies vacances | innocence | |||
Poupée de cire, poupée de son | puppets | |||
Gallagher, Rory | A Million Miles Away | estimates of distance & time | ||
Bullfrog Blues | favourite live versions | |||
Philby | spying | |||
Seventh Son of the Seventh Son | healing | |||
Tattoo’d Lady | tattoos & piercings | |||
Walk on Hot Coals | overturning the odds | |||
Gallon Drunk | Tornado | wind | ||
Ganesan, Aanayampatti S. | Bilahari Tolijanma | startling songs | ||
Gang of Four | Armalite Rifle | guns | ||
Contract | formal agreements | |||
Damaged Goods | flavour | |||
Love Like Anthrax | control | |||
Outside the Trains Don’t Run on Time | obsession | |||
Paralysed | unemployment | |||
To Hell with Poverty! | poverty | |||
We Live As We Dream, Alone | being alone | |||
Why Theory? | more questions than answers | |||
Gang Starr | Here Today, Gone Tomorrow | impermanence | ||
I Lost My Ignorance (And Don’t Know Where to Find It) (with Dream Warriors) | education | |||
Just to Get a Rep | violence | |||
Lovesick | separation | |||
Tonz ‘O’ Gunz | shooting | |||
Who’s Gonna Take the Weight? | questions | |||
GANGgajang | Distraction | distractions & diversions | ||
Sounds of Then (This Is Australia) | Australia | |||
Garbage | Boys Wanna Fight | fighting | ||
Hammering in My Head | machinery, industry & technology | |||
I Think I’m Paranoid | conspiracy theories & paranoia | |||
Queer | superlatives | |||
Garbarek, Jan | Once I Dreamt a Tree Upside Down (as Jan Garbarek Trio) | inversions | ||
Parce mihi Domine (with the Hilliard Ensemble) | unlikely collaborations | |||
Garcia, Jerry | Loser | loss | ||
Gardel, Carlos | Volver | great songwriting 1900-1955 | ||
Garfunkel and Oates | Hand Job, Bland Job, I Don’t Understand Job | provocative, strange or humorous titles | ||
Garifuna Collective | Mongulu | Mexico & Central America | ||
Garland, Judy | (Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You | actors | ||
Get Happy | recovery | |||
In Between | youthfulness | |||
Over the Rainbow | recorded for movies | |||
Garmarna | Gamen | raptors | ||
Garolou | La Danse de la limonade | refreshment & cooling down | ||
Garrie, Nick | The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas | nightmares | ||
Gaslight Anthem | Here’s Looking at You, Kid | without a chorus | ||
Gat, Areyeh & Gil | Wish You Were Here | songs by buskers | ||
Gaturs | Cold Bear | beer | ||
Gaughan, Dick | Freedom Come All Ye | Scotland | ||
No Gods and Precious Few Heroes | fallen heroes | |||
Stand Up for Judas | sitting & standing | |||
Tom Paine’s Bones | historical figures | |||
Wild Mountain Thyme | purple | |||
Gauthier, Mary | The Foundling | retrospection | ||
How You Learn to Live Alone | being single | |||
I Drink | deception | |||
Last of the Hobo Kings | homelessness | |||
March 11, 1962 | gripping or intriguing narrative | |||
Sugar Cane | starting fires | |||
Wheel Inside the Wheel | parades | |||
Gawlo, Coumba | Miniyamba | reptiles | ||
Gaye, Marvin | A Funky Space Reincarnation | the future | ||
Abraham, Martin and John | assassination | |||
Got to Give It Up | funk | |||
Hitch Hike | physical gestures | |||
I Heard It Through the Grapevine | gossip | |||
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) | songs that capture the zeitgeist | |||
It Takes Two (with Kim Weston) | two – part 1 | |||
Let’s Get It On | songs to start the morning | |||
Life’s a Game of Give and Take | compromise | |||
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) | nature | |||
The Onion Song (with Tammi Terrell) | vegetables | |||
Save the Children | ambition | |||
Sexual Healing | healing | |||
Stubborn Kind of Fellow | stubbornness | |||
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby | multitasking & being busy | |||
Trouble Man | social mobility | |||
What’s Going On | violence | |||
What’s Happening Brother | siblings | |||
When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You | hatchet jobs | |||
When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You | divorce | |||
Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home) | hats | |||
You Can Leave, But It’s Going to Cost You | judges & trials | |||
Gaylads | It’s Hard to Confess | secrets | ||
Secret Admirer | secret admirers | |||
Gaynor, Gloria | I Will Survive | bravery | ||
Gazelle Twin | I Turn My Arm | bodily motion & exercise | ||
When I Was Otherwise | ambiguity | |||
GBH | I Want to Believe | unexplained phenomena | ||
Gecko | Any Other Room | museums, galleries & exhibitions | ||
The Library | libraries | |||
Milk Teeth | unusual narrators | |||
Rapunzel | fairytales | |||
Gee, Marsha | Peanut Duck | birdsong | ||
Gen Hoshino (see Hoshino Gen) | ||||
Gene | The Accidental | sharp objects | ||
Genesis | The Fountain of Salmacis | gripping or intriguing narrative | ||
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) | anti-work songs | |||
The Musical Box | songs with sudden changes | |||
Supper’s Ready | apocalypse | |||
Genius (see GZA) | ||||
Gentle Giant | In a Glass House | windows | ||
Knots | a cappella | |||
Mister Class and Quality? | social mobility | |||
The Moon Is Down | quoting Shakespeare | |||
Gentry, Bobbie | Ace Insurance Man | accidents | ||
Fancy | character songs | |||
I Saw an Angel Die | angels | |||
I’ll Never Fall in Love Again | new resolutions | |||
Mornin’ Glory (with Glen Campbell) | duets | |||
Ode to Billie Joe | storytelling songs | |||
Reunion | stereotypes | |||
Gentrys | Keep On Dancing | false endings | ||
Geordie | Geordie’s Lost His Liggie | loss | ||
George, Lowell | 20 Million Things to Do | multitasking & being busy | ||
George, Sophia | Girlie Girlie | seduction | ||
George Baker Selection | Little Green Bag | personal theme songs | ||
Georgia Satellites | Battleship Chains | ships & boats | ||
Germano, Lisa | A Psychopath | fear | ||
Geek the Girl | nerds & geeks | |||
Ruminants | stomach & guts | |||
Singing to the Birds | singing | |||
Gerry and the Pacemakers | Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying | dawn | ||
You’ll Never Walk Alone | community | |||
Gerry Mulligan Quartet (see Mulligan, Gerry) | ||||
Gershwin, George | An American in Paris | sound effects | ||
Rhapsody in Blue | redefined by film | |||
Geto Boys | Mind Playing Tricks on Me | mental illness | ||
Getz, Stan | Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (with João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto & Antônio Carlos Jobim) | South America | ||
The Girl from Ipanema (with João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto & Antônio Carlos Jobim) | unrequited love | |||
One Note Samba (with Astrud Gilberto) | meta-songs | |||
Waltz for a Lovely Wife | Valentine’s Day songs | |||
Ghosh, Bickram | Taal – Adi | great drumming | ||
Ghoshal, Shreya | Zoobi Doobi (with Sonu Nigam) | stupidity | ||
Ghostface Killah | ABC | so bad they’re good | ||
All That I Got Is You (ft Mary J. Blige & Popa Wu) | mothers | |||
In Tha Park (ft Black Thought) | parks | |||
Shakey Dog | storytelling songs | |||
Underwater | surreal songs | |||
Whip You with a Strap | children | |||
Ghostpoet | Run Run Run | running | ||
Gibbs, Otis | No Rust on My Spade | fixing & repairing | ||
With a Gun in My Hands | refusal | |||
Gibson, Debbie | Electric Youth | youthfulness | ||
Gibson, Harry “The Hipster” | Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine | unusual rhymes | ||
Giddens, Rhiannon | Tomorrow Is My Turn | tomorrow | ||
Gidnim’Rém | Zseb | pockets | ||
GigaP | Drop Pop Candy (with Reol) | bright and beautiful | ||
Gigolo Aunts | Where I Find My Heaven | spiritual songs | ||
Gil, Gilberto | Filhos de Gandhi (with Jorge Ben) | inspired by India | ||
Nightingale | nightingales & thrushes | |||
Gilbert and Sullivan | Oh Better Far to Live and Die | kings | ||
Gilberto, Astrud | Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (with Stan Getz, João Gilberto & Antônio Carlos Jobim) | South America | ||
The Girl from Ipanema (with Stan Getz, João Gilberto & Antônio Carlos Jobim) | unrequited love | |||
I Haven’t Got Anything Better to Do | repression | |||
One Note Samba (with New Stan Getz Quartet) | meta-songs | |||
(Take Me to) Aruanda | treasure | |||
Gilberto, Bebel | Tudo | everything | ||
Gilberto, João | A Felicidade | start with the chorus | ||
Chega de Saudade | more questions than answers | |||
Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (with Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto & Antônio Carlos Jobim) | South America | |||
The Girl from Ipanema (with Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto & Antônio Carlos Jobim) | unrequited love | |||
One Note Samba (with Herbie Mann & Antônio Carlos Jobim) | austerity | |||
Gillan | Purple Sky | purple | ||
Gillespie, Dizzy | In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee | fictional places | ||
Salt Peanuts | ten words or fewer | |||
Gilmore, Thea | Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) | covers by the opposite sex | ||
How the Love Gets In | positive songs | |||
Jazz Hands | hands | |||
Sol Invictus | passage of time | |||
Gilmore & Roberts | Doctor James | deceptive appearances | ||
Poison | touch | |||
Gin Blossoms | Lost Horizons | bright songs about dark subjects | ||
Mrs. Rita | fortune tellers | |||
Ginuwine | Pony | mammals | ||
Giovanni, Paul | Maypole | trees, grass & flowers | ||
Girls Aloud | Biology | girl groups | ||
Girsa | Immigrant Eyes | migrants & refugees | ||
Githead | Drive By | internet | ||
Giuffre, Jimmy | Four Brothers | without percussion | ||
The Train and the River (as the Jimmy Giuffre Trio) | songs by trios | |||
Givers | Words | choosing & using words | ||
Gjonola, Patt Stanton | My Bathroom Is a Private Kind of Place | worst songs | ||
Gladiators | Beautiful Locks | formal agreements | ||
Looks Is Deceiving | close harmony singing | |||
Pocket Money | pockets | |||
Gladiolas | Little Darlin’ | na-na-hey-hey songs | ||
Glasper, Robert (see Robert Glasper Experiment) | ||||
Glass, Philip | Amazon River (performed by Uakti) | |||
Changing Opinion | change of mind | |||
Étoile Polaire (North Star) | lighthouses | |||
Forgetting | forgetting | |||
Glassworks: Opening | lower the heartrate | |||
“Heroes” (Aphex Twin Remix) | scary songs | |||
Prophecies | chaos | |||
Glass Animals | It’s All So Incredibly Loud | awkwardness | ||
Glasvegas | Daddy’s Gone | alternative outcomes | ||
Geraldine | jobs | |||
Stabbed | knives | |||
Gledhill, Mindy | Crazy Love | following & chasing | ||
Glitter, Gary | Hello Hello, I’m Back Again | hello | ||
GLM (see Lurkers) | ||||
Gloaming | Hunting the Squirrel | searching & seeking | ||
The Sailor’s Bonnet | violin | |||
Glories | Sing Me a Love Song | songs about love songs | ||
Gnarls Barkley | Smiley Faces | smiling & laughing | ||
Gnod | Pink Champagne Blues | pink | ||
Go_A | Solovey (Nightingale) | nightingales & thrushes | ||
Go-Betweens | Apology Accepted | acceptance | ||
Apples in Bed | non sequiturs | |||
Bachelor Kisses | kissing | |||
Bye Bye Pride | long-distance relationships | |||
Cattle and Cane | rural songs | |||
Darlinghurst Nights | Australia | |||
The Devil’s Eye | without percussion | |||
I’m All Right | denial | |||
Karen | libraries | |||
Quiet Heart | quiet | |||
Spring Rain | spring | |||
Streets of Your Town | secret vices | |||
When People Are Dead | funerals | |||
You Tell Me | gossip | |||
Go Find | New Year | new year | ||
Go-Go’s | Our Lips Are Sealed | silence | ||
We Got the Beat | rhythm, beat & boogie | |||
Go! Team | Bottle Rocket | joyous songs | ||
Buy Nothing Day | nothing | |||
We Just Won’t Be Defeated | hope & resilience | |||
Goat | Goatlord | drone music | ||
Goblin | Profondo rosso | instrumental soundtracks | ||
Suspiria | horror-inspired songs | |||
Godard, Vic & the Subway Sect | Stop That Girl | out-of-tune songs | ||
Godfrey | Let’s Take a Trip | recreational drugs | ||
Godley & Creme | Under Your Thumb | ghosts | ||
Godoy, Carlos Mejía | Nicaragua, Nicaraguita | Mexico & Central America | ||
Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Dead Flag Blues | end of the world | ||
GoGo Penguin | The Antidote Is in the Poison | poison | ||
Bardo | songs by trios | |||
Hopopono | great keyboards | |||
Kora (Live) | old meets new | |||
Gogol Bordello | Fun on the Street (with Fanfare Ciocărlia) | songs by buskers | ||
Sally | multilingual songs | |||
Start Wearing Purple | purple | |||
Supertheory of Supereverything | disbelief | |||
Going Under Ground | Melon Tea (with Melon Kinenbi) | tea | ||
Gojira | Toxic Garbage Island | plastic | ||
Gold, Alice | Runaway Love | France | ||
Gold, Andrew | Thank You for Being a Friend | gratitude | ||
Gold, Murray | Silence in the Library | libraries | ||
Gold Panda | You | drone music | ||
Golden, Lotti | Gonna Fay’s | raise the heartrate | ||
Golden Boy | Rippin Kittin (with Miss Kittin) | knives | ||
Golden Earring | Radar Love | cars & driving | ||
Golden Smog | Pecan Pie | nuts & edible seeds | ||
Goldfrapp | Black Cherry | food | ||
Fly Me Away | flying | |||
Happiness | happiness | |||
Strict Machine | fetishes | |||
Twist | sexy songs | |||
Goldie | Inner City Life | mixtape closers | ||
The Shadow (Process Mix) (with Rob Playford) | shadows | |||
Goldie Lookin Chain | Guns Don’t Kill People, Rappers Do | Welsh songs | ||
Taxi (Enter the Dragon) | taxis | |||
Your Mother’s Got a Penis | schadenfreude | |||
Goldsboro, Bobby | Summer (The First Time) | so bad they’re good | ||
Gomez | 78 Stone Wobble | movie & TV stars | ||
Gong | Flying Teapot | fantasy | ||
Gonnie, Louie | Wonders of a Crescent Moon (4 Peyote Songs) | American west | ||
Gonzales, Chilly | Room 29 (with Jarvis Cocker) | furniture | ||
White Keys | white | |||
González, José | Heartbeats | covers better than the original | ||
Goo Goo Gish | My Dear Senses | ears & hearing | ||
Good Charlotte | Girls & Boys | the obvious | ||
Good, the Bad and the Queen | The Good, the Bad and the Queen | queens | ||
Goodman, Benny | Moonglow | hammer & mallet instruments | ||
Sing Sing Sing | triggering dancing | |||
Goodman, Steve | Souvenirs (with John Prine) | melancholy songs | ||
Goodwin, Ron | Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines | songs that capture the zeitgeist | ||
Goons | Ying Tong Song | misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics | ||
Goose house | Happy Summer Wedding | male names | ||
Photograph | photography | |||
Gordon, Louis | Broken Furniture (with John Foxx) | confusion & delusion | ||
Gore, Lesley | You Don’t Own Me | arguments | ||
You Don’t Own Me | control | |||
Górecki, Henryk | Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), 2nd movement | bravery | ||
Gorillaz | Captain Chicken (ft Del Tha Funkee Homosapien) | poultry | ||
Clint Eastwood (ft Del the Funky Homosapien) | named after men | |||
Cloud of Unknowing (ft Bobby Womack) | clouds | |||
Feel Good Inc. (ft De La Soul) | laughter | |||
Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head | fantasy | |||
M1 A1 | hello | |||
Slow Country (More Rubbadub version) (with Spacemonkeyz) | hidden tracks | |||
Sound Check (Gravity) | gravity | |||
Gorka, John | Blues Palace | castles | ||
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci | Diamond Dew | waking up | ||
Eating Salt Is Easy | Welsh songs | |||
Patio Song | multilingual songs | |||
Gossip | Heavy Cross | crosses | ||
Standing in the Way of Control | gender & LGBTQ+ | |||
Gotan Project | Vuelvo al Sur | accordion | ||
Göttsching, Manuel | E2-E4 | games | ||
Gourds | Burn the Honeysuckle | starting fires | ||
Pickles | flavour | |||
Gov’t Mule | Lola, Leave Your Light On | prostitution | ||
Grae, Jean | If You Close Your Eyes (ft The Herbaliser) | horror-inspired songs | ||
Graffoe, Boothby | Planet Dog | dogs | ||
Graham, Davey | Anji | instrumentals | ||
Blue Raga | inspired by India | |||
Neighbour Neighbour | neighbours | |||
Nottamun Town (with Shirley Collins) | surreal songs | |||
Skillet (Good and Greasy) | cooking | |||
Graham, Leo | Black Candle | blessings & curses | ||
Graham Wood Drout’s Iko-Iko (see Drout, Graham Wood) | ||||
Grainer, Ron | Doctor Who Theme (produced by Delia Derbyshire) | instrumental soundtracks | ||
Doctor Who Theme (produced by Delia Derbyshire) | electronic music to 1983 | |||
Grand Funk Railroad | We’re an American Band | outstanding percussion | ||
Grand Kallé (see Kabasele, Joseph) | ||||
Grandadbob | Killed by Sweets | sweet foods | ||
Grandaddy | Broken Household Appliance National Forest | rural songs | ||
Everything Is Beautiful Far Away | beauty | |||
He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot | being lost | |||
Jed the Humanoid | sci-fi & space | |||
Miner at the Dial-A-View | internet | |||
Grande, Ariana | Thank U Next | being single | ||
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five | The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel | stop-start songs | ||
The Message | anger | |||
Grandmaster Melle Mel (see Mel, Melle) | ||||
Grant – Eddy | Gimme Hope Jo’anna | specific or obscure places | ||
Grant – John | GMF | self-deprecation | ||
Jesus Hates Faggots | Jesus | |||
Marz | flavour | |||
Outer Space | space | |||
Queen of Denmark | queens | |||
Queen of Denmark | gender & LGBTQ+ | |||
Sigourney Weaver | movie & TV stars | |||
Grass Roots | Midnight Confessions | secrets & secrecy | ||
Grasscut | A Lost Village | villages | ||
Red Kite (Penguin Café Mix) | urban wildlife | |||
Grateful Dead | Alligator | reptiles | ||
Althea | conversations | |||
Attics of My Life | the impossible | |||
Bird Song (with Branford Marsalis) | unlikely collaborations | |||
Box of Rain | kindness | |||
Brokedown Palace | adult lullabies | |||
Cassidy | blessings & curses | |||
China Cat Sunflower | surreal songs | |||
Cold, Rain and Snow | stairs, ladders & elevators | |||
Dark Star | super solos | |||
Dire Wolf | steel guitar | |||
The Eleven | numbers | |||
Estimated Prophet | omens & prophecies | |||
Eyes of the World | eureka moments | |||
France | steelpan | |||
Franklin’s Tower | inheritance | |||
Hard to Handle | favourite live versions | |||
He’s Gone | acceptance | |||
Jack Straw | gripping or intriguing narrative | |||
Lazy Lightning | electricity | |||
Loser | ironic songs | |||
Me and My Uncle | outlaws & rebels | |||
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo | arresting opening lines | |||
Morning Dew | indifference | |||
The Music Never Stopped | mood-changing music | |||
New Speedway Boogie | concerts | |||
Playing in the Band | unusual time signatures | |||
Ramble On Rose | similes | |||
Ripple | gifts & giving | |||
Scarlet Begonias | sixth sense | |||
Sing Me Back Home | time travel | |||
St. Stephen | philosophers | |||
Sugar Magnolia | 7-inch singles | |||
Sunrise | paganism | |||
Throwing Stones | nursery rhymes | |||
Touch of Grey | ages | |||
Truckin’ | one word titles | |||
Uncle John’s Band | community | |||
Victim or the Crime | chicken and egg | |||
Wharf Rat | redemption | |||
What’s Become of the Baby | psychedelia | |||
Grauzone | Eisbär | wanting to be someone else | ||
Eisbär | repression | |||
Graves, Michale | Dig Up Her Bones | bones | ||
Gray, A. A. | The Old Ark’s A’Moving (with Seven Foot Dilly) | children’s songs | ||
Gray, Dobie | Drift Away | relaxation & leisure | ||
The ’In’ Crowd | glamour & style | |||
Out on the Floor | mood-changing music | |||
Gray, Macy | The Letter | written correspondence | ||
My Nutmeg Phantasy (ft Angie Stone & Mos Def) | nuts & edible seeds | |||
Greaves, John | Hangman’s Hill (with Peter Blegvad & Chris Cutler) | hanging | ||
Magritte (with Peter Blegvad & Chris Cutler) | works of art | |||
Gréco, Juliette | Le Temps des cacahuètes | nuts & edible seeds | ||
Green, Al | Belle | the truth | ||
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? | influenced by gospel | |||
I’m Still in Love with You | falsetto | |||
Jesus Is Waiting | waiting | |||
L-O-V-E (Love) | Valentine’s Day songs | |||
Let’s Get Married | pick-up lines & marriage proposals | |||
Let’s Stay Together | devoted love | |||
Simply Beautiful | quiet songs | |||
Take Me to the River | cleansing | |||
Tired of Being Alone | loneliness | |||
Tomorrow’s Dream | tomorrow | |||
Green, Boy | Play My Juke Box | jukeboxes | ||
Green, CeeLo | Fuck You | offensive, insulting songs | ||
Green, Pat | College | higher education | ||
Green, Peter | The Green Manalishi | nightmares | ||
Green Day | American Idiot | conspiracy theories & paranoia | ||
Burnout | indifference | |||
Ha Ha You’re Dead | schadenfreude | |||
Longview | addiction | |||
Wake Me Up When September Ends | autumn | |||
Green Jellÿ | Three Little Pigs | whimsical songs | ||
Greenbaum, Norman | Spirit in the Sky | spiritual songs | ||
Greenhouse of Terror | Third Class Heaven | odd couples | ||
Gregory and the Hawk | I’m Your Puppet | puppets | ||
Gregson, Clive | Good with My Hands (with Christine Collister) | making things | ||
Gregson, Peter | The Cellos of Douala (with Gabriel Prokofiev) | itching & scratching | ||
Grieg, Edvard | In the Hall of the Mountain King | kings | ||
Morning Mood (from Peer Gynt) | made you fall in love with music | |||
Grierson, John | Night Mail (written by Benjamin Britten & W. H. Auden) | Britain | ||
Grieves | Lightspeed | retrospection | ||
Griffin, Johnny | The Londonderry Air | national anthems | ||
Griffin, Patty | Making Pies | cooking | ||
Making Pies | bread, cakes, pastry & biscuits | |||
Top of the World | ‘high’ songs | |||
Griffith, Nanci | Love at the Five and Dime | first love | ||
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness | speed | |||
There’s a Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret) | adventure | |||
Griffiths, Dave | Dawn Returning (with Tim Renwick) | songs to start the morning | ||
Griffiths, Marcia | Feel Like Jumping | jumping | ||
I Shall Sing | singing | |||
Grimes | Flesh Without Blood | schadenfreude | ||
Grinderman | No Pussy Blues | fixing & repairing | ||
Star Charmer | stars | |||
Grinderswitch | Pickin’ the Blues | incidental music | ||
Griot B | HBCU There | higher education | ||
Grizzly Bear | Eavesdropping | eavesdropping | ||
Groanbox Boys | Hobo Heaven | suicide | ||
Groban, Josh | Remember | legacy | ||
Groove Armada | At the River | trombone | ||
Groove Cereal | Sound Breakfast (ft Jenova 7 & Andrew Linn) | meals & mealtimes | ||
Gross, Paul | Ride Forever | Canada | ||
Ground Floor People | Walkin’ on Eggs | eggs | ||
Groundhog Day Original Broadway Cast | If I Had My Time Again | time travel | ||
Groundhogs | Eccentric Man | eccentric songs | ||
Grupo Vocal Desandann | Guede Nibo | close harmony singing | ||
Grusin, Dave | Baby Elephant Walk | personal theme songs | ||
Sunporch Cha-Cha-Cha | easy listening | |||
Guai Li | Devil Rabbit | rabbits | ||
Guerra, Pedro | Las Gafas de Lennon | eyewear | ||
Guess Who | American Woman | America | ||
Shakin’ All Over | spine & neck | |||
Guided by Voices | Teenage FBI | gossip | ||
Guillemots | Blue Would Still Be Blue | blue | ||
Guitar Wifie of Aberdeen | Unknown Tune | songs by buskers | ||
Gun | Race with the Devil | speed | ||
Gun Club | She’s Like Heroin to Me | cocaine & heroin | ||
Guns N’ Roses | Get in the Ring | magazines | ||
November Rain | impressive videos | |||
Sweet Child o’ Mine | children | |||
Günter Kallmann Choir | Daydream | contentment | ||
Gurney, Ivor | I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing | earth, soil & dirt | ||
Gurtu, Trilok | The Beat of Love (with Roop Kumar) | unlikely collaborations | ||
Like Popcorn | nuts & edible seeds | |||
Guryan, Margo | The Hum | humming | ||
Love Songs | songs about love songs | |||
Sunday Morning | the weekend | |||
GusGus | Add This Song | songs that command or instruct | ||
Gustavsen, Tord | When Breathing Starts (with Ulrich Dreschler Quartet) | quiet songs | ||
Guster | Lightning Rod | unusual narrators | ||
Stay with Me Jesus | close calls | |||
Guthrie, Arlo | Alice’s Restaurant | trash | ||
City of New Orleans | iron & steel | |||
Guthrie, Woody | Do-Re-Mi | California | ||
Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) | storms | |||
Harriet Tubman’s Ballad | 19th century life | |||
I Ain’t Got No Home in This World Any More | itinerants & migration | |||
Lindbergh | fallen heroes | |||
Pastures of Plenty | farming | |||
Pretty Boy Floyd | criminals | |||
Talkin’ Dust Bowl Blues | wastelands | |||
This Land Is Your Land | America | |||
Tom Joad | literary songs | |||
Two Good Men | judges & trials | |||
Gutter Twins | Idle Hands | hands | ||
Guy, Buddy | The Devil’s Daughter | the Devil | ||
Skin Deep (ft Derek Trucks) | skin | |||
Untitled (with Quinn Sullivan) | collaborations & side projects | |||
Who’s Gonna Fill Those Shoes | children performing | |||
Gwenno | Eus Keus? | Gaelic songs | ||
Hunros | harpsichord | |||
GZA | Gold | scary songs |