The table below lists all A-listed songs by artists beginning with S. Some artists are also linked to their own individual pages.
| Artist | Song Title | Topic | ||
| Sabaton | Primo Victoria | D-Day | ||
| Shiroyama | old and new | |||
| Sabbat | Hosanna in Excelsis | army | ||
| Sabicas | Faruca | Spain | ||
| Sabina, Joaquín | La del Pirate Cojo | pirates | ||
| Sabres of Paradise | Jacob Street 7am | morning | ||
| Sade | Paradise | paradise | ||
| Pearls | treasure | |||
| Smooth Operator | coolness | |||
| The Sweetest Taboo | slow, sexy love songs | |||
| Your Love Is King | songs that say what love is | |||
| Sagan, Carl | A Glorious Dawn (with Stephen Hawking & John D. Boswell) | eureka moments | ||
| Sagittarius | My World Fell Down | crisis | ||
| Sailor | Girls, Girls, Girls | retro style | ||
| Saint Etienne | Finisterre | urban environment | ||
| He’s on the Phone (ft Étienne Daho) | telephones | |||
| I Was Born on Christmas Day | alternative Christmas songs | |||
| London Belongs to Me | London | |||
| Mario’s Café | times of day | |||
| Nothing Can Stop Us | anticipation | |||
| Only Love Can Break Your Heart | covers better than the original | |||
| Over the Border | made you fall in love with music | |||
| Sweet Arcadia | fixing & repairing | |||
| Teenage Winter | change | |||
| You’re in a Bad Way | songs to start the morning | |||
| Saint-Saëns, Camille | Danse macabre | bones | ||
| Le Coucou au fond des bois (from Carnival of the Animals) | birdsong | |||
| Le Rossignol et la Rose | nightingales & thrushes | |||
| The Swan (performed by Clara Rockmore) | electronic music to 1983 | |||
| Saint Vitus | Saint Vitus | saints & martyrs | ||
| Sainte-Marie, Buffy | The Big Ones Get Away | refusal | ||
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | scandal | |||
| Disinformation | chance & coincidence | |||
| Eagle Man / Changing Woman | raptors | |||
| God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot | magic | |||
| Qu’appelle Valley, Saskatchewan | Canada | |||
| Starwalker | paganism | |||
| Sweet September Morning | September | |||
| Up Where We Belong | ‘high’ songs | |||
| Saints | Do the Robot | hidden tracks | ||
| (I’m) Stranded | raise the heartrate | |||
| Know Your Product | opening album tracks | |||
| This Perfect Day | perfection | |||
| Sakamoto, Kyu | Sukiyaki | Japan | ||
| Sakamoto, Ryuichi | 20210310 | lower the heartrate | ||
| Forbidden Colours (with David Sylvian) | books | |||
| Okinawa Song – Chin Nuku Juushii | Asian cities | |||
| Salt-N-Pepa | Independent | independence | ||
| Salty Seamen | I Shit My Pants | immaturity | ||
| Salvant, Cécile McLorin | Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent? | crooners | ||
| Sam & Dave | Hold On, I’m Coming | great drumming | ||
| I Thank You | influenced by gospel | |||
| Soul Sister, Brown Sugar | sisters | |||
| Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs | The Cockfight | poultry | ||
| Li’l Red Riding Hood | following & chasing | |||
| Wooly Bully | four-legged livestock | |||
| Samaris | Góða tungl | windows | ||
| I Will | high-pitched vocals | |||
| Samingad | Myth | extraordinary vocals | ||
| Sánchez. Chalino | Los Chismes | songs in Spanish | ||
| Sanders, Pharoah | Astral Travelling | space travel | ||
| The Creator Has a Master Plan (with Leon Thomas) | optimistic songs | |||
| Promises: Movement 1 (with Floating Points) | harpsichord | |||
| Sandoval, Hope & the Warm Inventions | Wild Roses | roses | ||
| Sands, Evie | Angel of the Morning | angels | ||
| Sanford Townsend Band | Smoke from a Distant Fire | adultery & infidelity | ||
| Sang, Lê | Phiên Cho Sông (with Dương Hồng Loan) | markets & fairs | ||
| Sangaré, Oumou | Fadjamou | acceptance | ||
| Yere Faga | suicide | |||
| Santana | Black Magic Woman | album tracks better than the singles | ||
| Mirage | illusions | |||
| Put Your Lights On! (ft Everlast) | warnings | |||
| Samba Pa Ti | gentleness | |||
| Smooth (ft Rob Thomas) | one word titles | |||
| Soul Sacrifice (at Woodstock) | outstanding percussion | |||
| Santana, Carlos | The Healer (with John Lee Hooker) | healing | ||
| They All Went to Mexico (with Willie Nelson) | Mexico & Central America | |||
| Santigold | High Priestess | preachers, priests & religious leaders | ||
| Santo & Johnny | Sleep Walk | sleep & insomnia | ||
| Sarandon, Susan | Over at the Frankenstein Place (with Barry Bostwick & Richard O’Brien) | lighthouses | ||
| Sardou, Michel | Le Privilège | gender & LGBTQ+ | ||
| Sarne, Mike | Just for Kicks | bad boys & bad girls | ||
| Sarony, Leslie | Ain’t It Grand to Be Bloomin’ Well Dead | hope & resilience | ||
| Sarstedt, Peter | Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) | underdogs | ||
| Sasaki, Eri | Fuyu Biyori | wide open spaces | ||
| Satellites | Photograph | photography | ||
| Satie, Erik | Gymnopédie No. 1 | lower the heartrate | ||
| Gymnopédie No. 3 | three | |||
| Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien) | surreal songs | |||
| Satriani, Joe | Surfing with the Alien | aliens | ||
| Sault | London Gangs | gangs | ||
| Wildfires | shame | |||
| Saunders, Jane | Banks of the Condamine (with Greg Champion) | conversations | ||
| Saunders, Jesse | Dub Can’t Turn Around (with Farley “Jackmaster” Funk) | 1980s 12” singles | ||
| Sauti Sol | Brighter Days (with Soweto Gospel Choir) | getting brighter | ||
| Savage Garden | Two Beds and a Coffee Machine | decisive songs | ||
| Savoy Brown | Highway Blues | hitchhiking | ||
| Saw Doctors | Galway and Mayo | family | ||
| The Green and Red of Mayo | mountains | |||
| N17 | Ireland | |||
| Red Cortina | innocence | |||
| Sing a Powerful Song | survival | |||
| Sawayama, Rina | STFU! | acronyms | ||
| Sawhney, Nitin | The Conference | conversations | ||
| Sunset ft Eska) | sunsets & twilight | |||
| Waiting (O Mistress Mine) | Shakespeare | |||
| Saxon | And the Bands Played On | concerts | ||
| Denim and Leather | youth cults | |||
| Denim and Leather | community | |||
| Say She She | Astral Plane | fictional adverts | ||
| In My Head | illusions | |||
| Say Sue Me | One Week | brevity | ||
| Scaffold | Lily the Pink | fixing & repairing | ||
| Scaggs, Boz | I Just Go | apologies | ||
| Scala & Kolacny Brothers | Nothing Else Matters | covers by the opposite sex | ||
| Scandal | Beauteen | teenagers | ||
| Schifrin, Lalo | Bullitt | police | ||
| Mission: Impossible | the impossible | |||
| Shifting Gears | following & chasing | |||
| Schmidt, Uwe | Duck Cha-Cha (as Lisa Carbon) | birdsong | ||
| Schnitzler, Conrad | Electric Garden | electronic music to 1983 | ||
| School | I Don’t Believe in Love | disbelief | ||
| Schoolly D | Gucci Time | brands | ||
| Schubert, Franz | An Sylvia | quoting Shakespeare | ||
| Auf dem Wasser zu singen | ships & boats | |||
| Der Tod und das Mädchen | welcoming | |||
| Die liebe Farbe (from Die schöne Müllerin) | green | |||
| Schulze, Klaus | Friedrich Nietzsche | philosophers | ||
| Scientist | Plague of Zombies | collective nouns | ||
| Scissor Sisters | Take Your Mama | mothers | ||
| Scissorfight | Granite State Destroyer | New England | ||
| Scott, Christian | Twin | favourite live versions | ||
| Scott, Darrell | The Man Who Could Have Played Bass for Shanana | close calls | ||
| Scott, Dylan | Living Room | furniture | ||
| Scott, Jill | Dear Mr. and Mrs. Record Industry | music industry | ||
| Family Reunion | family | |||
| One Is the Magic Number | being single | |||
| Scott, Mike | Building the City of Light | decisive songs | ||
| City Full of Ghosts | Ireland | |||
| Rare, Precious and Gone | upbeat break-up #2 | |||
| Scott, Raymond | Portofino | electronic music to 1983 | ||
| Scott-Heron, Gil | Angel Dust (with Brian Jackson) | recreational drugs | ||
| “B” Movie | actors | |||
| “B” Movie | great opening lines | |||
| The Bottle (with Brian Jackson) | drinking | |||
| Explanations | arguments #2 | |||
| The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues | failure | |||
| H2Ogate Blues (with Brian Jackson) | scandal | |||
| Home Is Where the Hatred Is | home | |||
| I Think I’ll Call It Morning | morning | |||
| Lady Day and John Coltrane | nicknames & pseudonyms | |||
| Madison Avenue (with Brian Jackson) | advertising | |||
| Offerings (with Brian Jackson) | staying | |||
| Peace Go with You, Brother (As-Salaam-Alaikum) (with Brian Jackson) | blessings & curses | |||
| Pieces of a Man | pathos | |||
| The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | spoken word | |||
| The Train from Washington | broken promises | |||
| We Almost Lost Detroit (with Brian Jackson) | close calls | |||
| When You Are Who You Are | acceptance | |||
| Where Did the Night Go | midnight | |||
| Whitey on the Moon | historical events | |||
| Winter in America (with Brian Jackson) | winter | |||
| Work for Peace | peace | |||
| Scotty | Skank in Bed (with Lorna Bennett) | beds | ||
| Worry | underrated artists | |||
| Scouting for Girls | I Wish I Was James Bond | wanting to be someone else | ||
| Screaming Blue Messiahs | Smash the Market Place | banks & banking | ||
| Screaming Trees | Butterfly | butterflies & moths | ||
| Screeching Weasel | The Science of Myth | disbelief | ||
| (She Got) Electroshocked | electricity | |||
| Screechy, Jah | Walk & Skank | expressing movement of walking | ||
| Screen 3 | Red Dust | Hollywood | ||
| Scritti Politti | Dr. Abernathy | doctors | ||
| Jacques Derrida | named after men | |||
| Perfect Way | funk | |||
| The Sweetest Girl | great keyboards | |||
| Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) | bees | |||
| The Word Girl | influenced by reggae | |||
| Scrugg | Will the Real Geraldine Please Stand Up and Be Counted | sitting & standing | ||
| Scruggs, Earl | Ground Speed | speed | ||
| Scud Mountain Boys | Crown of Thorns | crowns | ||
| Television | television | |||
| Sea Power (previously British See Power) | Atom | small things | ||
| Blackout | beer | |||
| Carrion | the sea | |||
| Cleaning Out the Rooms | cleansing | |||
| Machineries of Joy | bodily motion & exercise | |||
| Oh Larsen B | cold | |||
| Remember Me | legacy | |||
| Waving Flags | flags | |||
| Seal | Future Love Paradise | spirit of 2021 | ||
| Seals and Crofts | Summer Breeze | wind | ||
| Summer Breeze | gentleness | |||
| Seaman Dan | Somewhere There’s an Island | paradise | ||
| Searchers | Sweets for My Sweet | sweetness | ||
| Seasick Steve | Diddley Bo | making things | ||
| Never Go West | compass points | |||
| Started Out with Nothin | chicken and egg | |||
| Thunderbird | wine | |||
| Sebadoh | Sorry | apologies | ||
| Sebastian, John | Welcome Back | reunions | ||
| Secos & Molhados | Sangue Latino | androgynous vocals | ||
| Secret | Shy Boy | shyness | ||
| Secret Chiefs 3 | UBIK (as Electromagnetic Azoth) | time travel | ||
| Secret Machines | Alone, Jealous and Stoned | being alone | ||
| Section 25 | Sweet Forgiveness | sweetness | ||
| Seeds | Can’t Seem to Make You Mine | futility | ||
| Mr. Farmer | farm produce | |||
| Tripmaker | recreational drugs | |||
| Seeger, Peggy | Dirty Old Town (with Ewan MacColl) | Manchester | ||
| Gonna Be an Engineer | equality | |||
| Seeger, Pete | Jefferson and Liberty | elections | ||
| Little Boxes | geometric shapes | |||
| My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song) | rivers | |||
| Seekers | Emerald City | worst songs | ||
| Georgy Girl | shyness | |||
| I’ll Never Find Another You | innocence | |||
| Isa Lei | the Commonwealth | |||
| Morningtown Ride | departures | |||
| Segall, Ty | You’re the Doctor | honorific titles | ||
| Seger, Bob | Feel Like a Number (with the Silver Bullet Band) | anonymity | ||
| Hollywood Nights (with the Silver Bullet Band) | Hollywood | |||
| Seiko Oomori (see Oomori Seiko) | ||||
| Selecter | On My Radio | radio | ||
| Three Minute Hero | music industry | |||
| Self Esteem | I Do This All the Time | fear of missing out | ||
| Prioritise Pleasure | id, ego & superego | |||
| Semisonic | Closing Time | songs that aren’t what they seem | ||
| Sengo, Mose Se | Kizolele (with Somo Somo) | songs with sudden changes | ||
| Sensational Alex Harvey Band | Framed | accents | ||
| Next | songs that express excess | |||
| Tale of the Giant Stone Eater | geology | |||
| Senser | Resistance Now | resistance | ||
| Sepultura | Ratamahatta | South America | ||
| Seress, Rezső | Szomorú Vasárnap | great songwriting 1900-1955 | ||
| Serrat, Joan Manuel | Cantares | exile | ||
| Els Titelles | puppets | |||
| Mediterráneo | Spain | |||
| Sesler, Selim | Pazarda Bal Var Gelinim (with İlkay Akkaya) | markets & fairs | ||
| Settles, Bill | Joe Louis Strut (with Memphis Minnie & Black Bob) | fighting | ||
| Setzer, Brian | 8-Track (as Brian Setzer ’68 Comeback Special) | media for listening to recorded music | ||
| Sevdaliza | Bebin | songs that give you goosebumps | ||
| Seven Foot Dilly | The Old Ark’s A’Moving (with A. A. Gray) | children’s songs | ||
| Sex Pistols | Anarchy in the U.K. | revolution | ||
| Anarchy in the U.K. | Britain | |||
| Bodies | sweary songs | |||
| E.M.I. | formal agreements | |||
| God Save the Queen | other songs | |||
| I Wanna Be Me | without a chorus | |||
| Pretty Vacant | personal theme songs | |||
| Sexsmith, Ron | Secret Heart | eavesdropping | ||
| Speaking with the Angel | angels | |||
| St. Bernard | dogs | |||
| Sha Na Na | Glasses | eyewear | ||
| Shaan | O Majhi Re (with Saurav Moni) | arresting opening lines | ||
| Shack | Cup of Tea | tea | ||
| Streets of Kenny | Liverpool & Merseyside | |||
| Tie Me Down | knots & ties | |||
| Shadows | FBI | eavesdropping | ||
| Midnight | midnight | |||
| Shadows (Jamaican group) | Brother Noah | honorific titles | ||
| Shaggs | My Pal Foot Foot | discordant songs | ||
| Philosophy of the World | philosophers | |||
| Shaka Ponk | Just a Nerd | nerds & geeks | ||
| Shakin’ Stevens | Green Door | fear of missing out | ||
| Shakira | Hips Don’t Lie (ft Wyclef Jean) | joints of the body | ||
| Shakur, Tupac | Hit ‘Em Up | hatchet jobs | ||
| Sham 69 | If the Kids Are United | youth cults | ||
| Sham-Ettes | (Hey There) Big Bad Wolf | fairytales | ||
| Shamen | Ebeneezer Goode | recreational drugs | ||
| It’s All Around | trees | |||
| Shangri-Las | Dressed in Black | repression | ||
| Give Him a Great Big Kiss | kissing | |||
| Give Us Your Blessings | accidents | |||
| I Can Never Go Home Anymore | first love | |||
| Leader of the Pack | storytelling songs | |||
| Past, Present and Future | spoken word | |||
| Remember (Walking in the Sand) | memory | |||
| Sophisticated Boom Boom | conversations | |||
| The Train from Kansas City | awkwardness | |||
| Shankar, Ananda | Metamorphosis | change #2 | ||
| Streets of Calcutta | Asia | |||
| Shankar, Anoushka | Naked | nudity | ||
| Shanks & Bigfoot | Sweet Like Chocolate | sweet foods | ||
| Shannon | Let the Music Play | 1980s 12” singles | ||
| Shannon, Del | Runaway | organ | ||
| Shanté, Roxanne | Bite This | itching & scratching | ||
| Go On Girl | boastful songs | |||
| Have a Nice Day | competition | |||
| Shantel | Disko Boy | nightclubs | ||
| Sharp, Bree | Dirty Magazine | magazines | ||
| Sharrock, Sonny | Peanut | nuts & edible seeds | ||
| Shatner, William | Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds | Beatles covers | ||
| Shaw, Artie | Deep Purple (ft Helen Forrest) | purple | ||
| Shaw, Marlena | California Soul | joyous songs | ||
| Woman of the Ghetto | adversity | |||
| Shaw, Sandie | Puppet on a String | puppets | ||
| Tonight in Tokyo | Asian cities | |||
| Shard, Mia | Catherine Wheel | wheels | ||
| She Wants Revenge | Sister | bad boys & bad girls | ||
| Shearwater | Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine | famous last words | ||
| Shed Seven | Missing Out | fear of missing out | ||
| She Left Me on Friday | days of the week | |||
| Sheena & the Rokkets | Lemon Tea | non-alcoholic drinks | ||
| Sheepdogs | Feelin’ Good | hope & resilience | ||
| Sheik, Kid | We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City (with John Handy & Friends) | from New Orleans | ||
| Sheila and B. Devotion | Spacer | space | ||
| Sheldrake, Cosmo | Pliocene | animal sounds | ||
| Shellac | Prayer to God | hatchet jobs | ||
| Shelley, Pete | Homosapien | homosexuality | ||
| Shelton, Blake | You Ain’t Dolly (And You Ain’t Porter) (with Ashley Monroe) | hearing, choosing & playing records | ||
| Shepp, Archie | Attica Blues | revolution | ||
| Sherman, Alan | Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah | accents | ||
| Sherman, Bim | Simple Life | simple pleasures | ||
| Shervington, Pluto | Ram Goat Liver | shaggy dog stories & tall tales | ||
| Your Honour | infidelity | |||
| Shikata, Akiko | Tooryanse, Haturakoi, Zui Zui Zukorabashi, Kagome Kagome | tradition | ||
| Shimakura, Chiyoko | Konoyo no Hana | great songwriting 1900-1955 | ||
| Shimura, Takashi | Gondola no Uta | tomorrow | ||
| Shindell, Richard | There Goes Mavis | castles | ||
| You Stay Here | staying | |||
| Shins | Young Pilgrims | meaning of life | ||
| Shirehorses | Why Is It Always Dairy Lea | farm produce | ||
| Shirelles | Mama Said | mothers | ||
| Welcome Home Baby | welcoming | |||
| Will You Love Me Tomorrow? | one night stands | |||
| Shirley & Lee | Let the Good Times Roll | fun | ||
| Shitmat | There’s No Business Like Propa’ Rungleclotted Mashup Bizznizz | eccentric songs | ||
| Shivaree | Goodnight Moon | fear | ||
| Shocked, Michelle | Anchorage | US cities & states | ||
| Shocking Blue | Love Buzz | onomatopoeia | ||
| Shodi (Шоди) | Frog (Лягушка) | amphibians | ||
| Shoes | Tomorrow Night | procrastination | ||
| Shonen Knife | A Map Master | maps | ||
| Another Day | gentleness | |||
| Banana Chips | fruit | |||
| Buttercup (I’m a Super Girl) | superheroes | |||
| Capybara | rodents | |||
| Deer Biscuits | urban wildlife | |||
| Green Tea | tea | |||
| Hot Chocolate | non-alcoholic drinks | |||
| Insect Collector | hobbies | |||
| Konnichiwa | hello | |||
| My Magic Glasses | glass | |||
| Tortoise Brand Pot Cleaner | spring cleaning & household chores | |||
| Shook, Sarah & the Disarmers | Dwight Yoakam | rough & smooth | ||
| Heal Me | redemption | |||
| Shore, Howard | The Bridge of Khazad-dûm | caves | ||
| Short Sisters | Queer Bird | amphibians | ||
| Shorter, Wayne | Mahjong | games | ||
| Show of Hands | Cousin Jack | migrants & refugees | ||
| The Galway Farmer | horses | |||
| I Promise You | promises & choices | |||
| Innocents’ Song | orchestral string instruments | |||
| The Keys of Canterbury | pick-up lines & marriage proposals | |||
| Longdog | dogs | |||
| Northwest Passage | frozen north | |||
| You’ll Get By | spirit of 2021 | |||
| Showcase Showdown | Merry Christmas I Fucked Your Snowman | anti-Christmas songs | ||
| Showhawk Duo | Insomnia | old meets new | ||
| Showstoppers | Ain’t Nothin’ But a House Party | celebration | ||
| Shpongle | Shnitzled in the Negev | deserts | ||
| Shriekback | Bernadette | non sequiturs | ||
| The King in the Tree | books #2 | |||
| My Spine (Is the Bassline) | spine & neck | |||
| Shrimp Boat | Line Song | out-of-tune songs | ||
| Shuttleworth, John | Two Margarines | crisis | ||
| Sia | Breathe Me | stop-start songs | ||
| Chandelier | impressive videos | |||
| Straight for the Knife | sharp objects | |||
| Sibelius, Jean | Finlandia | love songs to places | ||
| The Swan of Tuonela | rough & smooth | |||
| Siberry, Jane | Bessie | four-legged livestock | ||
| Bound by the Beauty | beauty | |||
| Everything Reminds Me of My Dog | dogs | |||
| Hockey | winter | |||
| The White Tent the Raft | white | |||
| Sick on the Bus | We Are Sick on the Bus | indifference | ||
| Siddeleys | My Favourite Wet Wednesday Afternoon | days of the week | ||
| Sidebottom, Frank | Electricity | electricity | ||
| It Was Nearly 20 Years Ago Today | eccentric songs | |||
| Zoo Scrapbook | hobbies | |||
| Siersema, Laura | Go Children Slow | slowing down | ||
| Siffre, Labi | (Something Inside) So Strong | bravery | ||
| (Something Inside) So Strong | resilience | |||
| Sigur Rós | Ágætis byrjun | failure | ||
| Ára bátur | children performing | |||
| Hoppípolla | multilingual songs | |||
| Njósnavélin | minimalist songs | |||
| Starálfur | mythical beasts | |||
| Svefn-g-englar | from Nordic countries | |||
| Viðrar vel til loftárása | falling | |||
| Silencers | Wild Mountain Thyme (Live) | mountains | ||
| Silhouettes | Get a Job | anti-work songs | ||
| Sill, Judee | Jesus Was a Cross Maker | biblical songs | ||
| Lopin’ Along Thru the Cosmos | space travel | |||
| The Vigilante | horizons | |||
| When the Bridegroom Comes | Jesus | |||
| Silly Sisters | Cakes and Ale | bread, cakes, pastry & biscuits | ||
| Silva, Ismael | Ao Romper da Aurora / Choro Sim | horizons | ||
| Silver, Horace | Gratitude | gratitude | ||
| Silver Apples | Confusion | confusion & delusion | ||
| Silver Bullet | 20 Seconds to Comply | artificial intelligence | ||
| Silver Jews | Ballad of Reverend War Character | misleading or incongruous titles | ||
| Black and Brown Blues | colours | |||
| Suffering Jukebox | machines, robots & computers | |||
| Suffering Jukebox | jukeboxes | |||
| Silverstein, Shel | The Grizzly Bear | bears | ||
| Silversun Pickups | Growing Old Is Getting Old | the obvious | ||
| Silvertones (aka the Valentines) | Blam Blam Fever | guns | ||
| Simba Wanyika | Wana Wanyika | made you fall in love with music | ||
| Simian | We Are Your Friends (with Justice) | friendship | ||
| Simmons, Jean | If I Were a Bell (with Marlon Brando) | bells | ||
| Simon, Carly | The Carter Family | eureka moments | ||
| Coming Around Again | multitasking & being busy | |||
| Coming Around Again | family | |||
| His Friends Are More Than Fond of Robin | charisma | |||
| Nobody Does It Better | recorded for movies | |||
| Why | questions | |||
| You’re So Vain | glamour & style | |||
| Simon, Paul | American Tune | disappointment | ||
| The Boy in the Bubble | accordion | |||
| Graceland | addresses | |||
| Kodachrome | obsolete things | |||
| The Late Great Johnny Ace | assassination | |||
| Late in the Evening | evening | |||
| Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard | ambiguity | |||
| René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War | contentment | |||
| Rewrite | writing | |||
| Slip Slidin’ Away | melancholy songs | |||
| Song About the Moon | songwriting | |||
| Still Crazy After All These Years | notable key changes | |||
| Trailways Bus | buses | |||
| Under African Skies | sky | |||
| You Can Call Me Al | aliens | |||
| Simon & Garfunkel | 7 O’Clock News / Silent Night | alternative Christmas songs | ||
| The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) | quiet songs | |||
| America | America | |||
| Baby Driver | nicknames & pseudonyms | |||
| The Boxer | broken promises | |||
| Bridge Over Troubled Water | bridges | |||
| El Condor Pasa (If I Could) | using your imagination | |||
| Homeward Bound | home | |||
| I Am a Rock | anti-love songs | |||
| Richard Cory | named after men | |||
| Scarborough Fair / Canticle | finish where they begin | |||
| So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright | historical figures | |||
| Song About the Moon | the moon | |||
| The Sound of Silence | echoes | |||
| Simon Dupree & the Big Sound | Kites | aviation | ||
| Simonal, Wilson | Nem Vem Que Não Tem | laughter | ||
| Obrigado, Pelé | football | |||
| Simone, Afric | Curare | poison | ||
| Simone, Nina | 22nd Century | the future | ||
| Ain’t Got No – I Got Life | list songs | |||
| Don’t Smoke in Bed | pragmatism | |||
| Everything Must Change | passage of time | |||
| Feeling Good (Nicolas Jaar edit) | relaxation & leisure | |||
| Four Women | hair | |||
| Gin House Blues | drinking | |||
| Here Comes the Sun | the sun | |||
| Hush Little Baby | babies & childbirth | |||
| I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free | left wing politics | |||
| I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free | stuck or trapped | |||
| If He Changed My Name | change #2 | |||
| Isn’t It a Pity | whispering | |||
| Just Say I Love Him | indirect messages | |||
| Marriage Is for Old Folks | being single | |||
| Mississippi Goddam | protest | |||
| My Baby Just Cares for Me | double bass | |||
| Pirate Jenny | pirates | |||
| See-Line Woman | underwear | |||
| Sinnerman | end of the world | |||
| Strange Fruit | hanging | |||
| Who Knows Where the Time Goes? | waiting | |||
| Why (The King of Love Is Dead) | songs that make you cry | |||
| Work Song | prisons | |||
| You Can Have Him | songs that aren’t what they seem | |||
| Simple Minds | I Travel | travelling | ||
| New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) | getting brighter | |||
| Promised You a Miracle | promises & choices | |||
| Theme for Great Cities | instrumentals | |||
| Simply Red | Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) | banks & banking | ||
| Simpson, Red | I’m a Truck | unusual narrators | ||
| Simpson, Cutting, Kerr | Dark Honey | urban wildlife | ||
| Dark Honey | bees | |||
| Sims, Frankie Lee | Lucy Mae Blues | cheating | ||
| Married Woman | adultery & infidelity | |||
| Sin Cos Tan | Blown Away | upbeat break-up #2 | ||
| Sinatra, Frank | Angel Eyes | great arrangements | ||
| Begin the Beguine | mood-changing music | |||
| The Brooklyn Bridge | bridges | |||
| Come Fly with Me | flying | |||
| Fools Rush In | proverbs | |||
| High Hopes (with Eddie Hodges) | children performing | |||
| I Get a Kick Out of You | boredom | |||
| In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning | sleep & insomnia | |||
| It Was a Very Good Year | getting older | |||
| It Was a Very Good Year | old age | |||
| Just One of Those Things | impermanence | |||
| Me and My Shadow (with Sammy Davis, Jr.) | empathy | |||
| One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) | pubs & bars | |||
| September Song | autumn | |||
| Strangers in the Night | flirting | |||
| Summer Wind | personification | |||
| That’s Life | starting over | |||
| Then Suddenly Love | first & last time | |||
| They Can’t Take That Away from Me | upbeat break-up | |||
| You Make Me Feel So Young | joyous songs | |||
| Young at Heart | youthfulness | |||
| Sinatra, Nancy | Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) | guns | ||
| Sand (with Lee Hazlewood) | idioms & common expressions | |||
| Some Velvet Morning (with Lee Hazlewood) | duets | |||
| Sugar Town | laziness | |||
| Summer Wine (with Lee Hazlewood) | recipe songs | |||
| These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ | fairness | |||
| Singers & Players | Bedward the Flying Preacher | shaggy dog stories & tall tales | ||
| Singh, Sukhwinder | Chaiyya Chaiyya (with Sapna Awasthi) | recorded for movies | ||
| Singh, Talvin | Butterfly | butterflies & moths | ||
| Singing Postman | Oi Can’t Git a Noice Loaf a Bread | bread & baking | ||
| Singleton | Moto Taxi | taxis | ||
| Siouxsie and the Banshees | 92º | heat #2 | ||
| Carcass | meat | |||
| Dear Prudence | Beatles covers | |||
| Green Fingers | green | |||
| Happy House | fun | |||
| Jigsaw Feeling | raise the heartrate | |||
| Make Up to Break Up | makeup | |||
| Melt! | heat | |||
| Metal Postcard (Mittageisen) | works of art | |||
| Mirage | deserts | |||
| Mittageisen | krautrock | |||
| New Skin | skin | |||
| Night Shift | horror-inspired songs | |||
| Peek-a-Boo | eyes & sight | |||
| Spellbound | illusions | |||
| Sir Douglas Quintet | She’s About a Mover | organ | ||
| Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day | contentment | |||
| Sir Lord Comic | The Great Wuga Wuga | showing off | ||
| Sissoko, Ballaké | Déli | hammer & mallet instruments | ||
| Sister Carol | Call Me Sister Carol | feminism | ||
| Sister Nancy | Bam Bam | na-na-hey-hey songs | ||
| Sister Sledge | He’s the Greatest Dancer | nightclubs | ||
| Lost in Music | celebration | |||
| We Are Family | siblings | |||
| Sister Vanilla | The Two of Us | two – part 1 | ||
| Sisters of Mercy | Alice | addiction | ||
| Marian | named after women | |||
| Temple of Love | misanthropic songs | |||
| Sivertsen, Halvdan | Sommerfuggel i vinterland | homelessness | ||
| Size, Roni | Watching Windows (with Reprazent) | windows | ||
| Ska-P | A la Mierda | refusal | ||
| Crimen Sollicitationis | preachers, priests & religious leaders | |||
| Skatalites | Guns of Navarone | brass songs | ||
| Man in the Street (with Don Drummond) | trombone | |||
| Yard Broom | spring cleaning & household chores | |||
| Skee-Lo | I Wish | losers | ||
| Skeletal Family | The Wind Blows | wind | ||
| Skepta | Rescue Me | persistence | ||
| Skids | Charles | tattoos & piercings | ||
| Skin | Purple | purple | ||
| Skinner, Emily | When I’m by Your Side (with Alice Ripley) | famous or notable duos | ||
| Skinny Puppy | Tin Omen | silver & non-ferrous metals | ||
| Skints | Learning to Swim | swimming & bathing | ||
| Skunk Anansie | Brazen (Weep) | stiff upper lip | ||
| Little Baby Swastikkka | taboos | |||
| Secretly | secret admirers | |||
| Tracy’s Flaw | can’t live with or without you | |||
| Skyhooks | Funky and Gay | gender & LGBTQ+ | ||
| Horror Movie | news & media | |||
| Slack, Freddie | The House of Blue Lights (with Ella Mae Morse & Don Raye) | nightclubs | ||
| Slade | Cum On Feel the Noize | rallying cries | ||
| Far, Far Away | the Commonwealth | |||
| Gudbuy T’Jane | royalty | |||
| Merry Xmas Everybody | snow & ice | |||
| Pouk Hill | Birmingham & the Black Country | |||
| Wheels Ain’t Coming Down | aviation | |||
| Slapp Happy | Europa (with Henry Cow) | personification | ||
| Everybody’s Slimmin’ (Even Men and Women) | fixing & repairing | |||
| King of Straw | honorific titles | |||
| King of Straw | starting fires | |||
| Michaelangelo | works of art | |||
| The Owl (with Henry Cow) | owls | |||
| Paradise Express | paradise | |||
| Some Questions About Hats (with Henry Cow) | hats | |||
| Slaves | Magnolia | decor | ||
| Sleaford Mods | Face to Faces | stick it to the man | ||
| Jobseeker | artistic trends of the 21st century | |||
| Sleater-Kinney | Call the Doctor | doctors | ||
| Far Away | September 11 attacks | |||
| Jumpers | songs by trios | |||
| Slick, Grace | When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves (with Paul Kantner) | dogs | ||
| Slick Rick | All Alone (No One to Be With) | being alone | ||
| Slickers | Johnny Too Bad | crime | ||
| Slim Cessna’s Auto Club | An Introduction to the Power of Braces – Teeth | teeth | ||
| Jesus Is in My Body, My Body Has Let Me Down | geology | |||
| This Land Is Our Land Redux | community | |||
| Slits | Breadcrumb Trail | carnivals & funfairs | ||
| Good Morning Captain | spoken word | |||
| Nosferatu Man | horror-inspired songs | |||
| Instant Hit | brevity | |||
| Shoplifting | crime | |||
| Typical Girls | feminism | |||
| Sloan | The Other Man | substitutions | ||
| Slobberbone | Little Drunk Fists | whiskey | ||
| Lumberlung | kindness | |||
| Slovenly | As If It Always Happens | contentment | ||
| Slowdive | Brighter | getting brighter | ||
| Falling Ashes | without percussion | |||
| Trellisaze | clocks & watches | |||
| Slowthai | Deal Wiv It (with Mura Masa) | songs to start the morning | ||
| Sly and the Family Stone | Babies Makin’ Babies | babies | ||
| Brave & Strong | screams, howls, grunts & shrieks | |||
| Dance to the Medley | dancing | |||
| Dance to the Music | triggering dancing | |||
| Everyday People | community | |||
| Family Affair | family | |||
| Hot Fun in the Summertime | heat | |||
| If You Want Me to Stay | staying | |||
| Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) | fate & destiny | |||
| Runnin’ Away | departures | |||
| Sing a Simple Song | singing | |||
| Stand! | rallying cries | |||
| Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) | funk | |||
| Thank You for Talkin’ to Me Africa | please & thank you | |||
| Underdog | underdogs | |||
| (You Caught Me) Smilin’ | smiling & laughing | |||
| Smack | Edward Fox | theatre | ||
| Small, Fred | Talking Wheechair Blues | bodily motion & exercise | ||
| Small Faces | All or Nothing | nothing | ||
| Itchycoo Park | parks | |||
| Lazy Sunday | noise | |||
| Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake | instrumentals | |||
| Sha-La-La-La-Lee | songs that go ‘la’ | |||
| Song of a Baker | cooking | |||
| Tin Soldier | songs with special guests | |||
| Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire | dreams | |||
| Smashing Pumpkins | 1979 | dates | ||
| Pennies for Sale | coins | |||
| To Forgive | forgiveness | |||
| Tonight Tonight | impressive videos | |||
| Smile | Friend of a Friend | unusual time signatures | ||
| Smiley, Brett | Space Ace | space travel | ||
| Smiley Culture | Cockney Translation | choosing & using words | ||
| Police Officer | police | |||
| Smith, Bessie | Careless Love Blues | anti-love songs | ||
| Empty Bed Blues | beds | |||
| Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer) | meat | |||
| My Kitchen Man | domestic songs | |||
| Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine | bread, cakes, pastry & biscuits | |||
| Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out | poverty | |||
| Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair | chairs | |||
| Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down | windows | |||
| Trombone Cholly | brass songs | |||
| Yellow Dog Blues | yellow | |||
| Smith, Carl | I Overlooked an Orchid (While Searching for a Rose) | mistakes | ||
| Smith, Clara | Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis Mornin’ | waking up | ||
| Smith, Elliott | Alameda | disappointment | ||
| Baby Britain | Britain | |||
| Bottle Up and Explode! | stiff upper lip | |||
| Junk Bond Trader | jobs | |||
| Let’s Get Lost | bridges | |||
| Needle in the Hay | cocaine & heroin | |||
| Rose Parade | roses | |||
| Waltz #2 (XO) | three | |||
| Smith, Frankie | Double Dutch Bus | buses | ||
| Smith, Huey “Piano” & the Clowns | Don’t You Just Know It | call and response | ||
| Smith, Jimmy | Back at the Chicken Shack | chicken and egg | ||
| Got My Mojo Working | organ | |||
| Walk on the Wild Side | super solos | |||
| We Three Kings | three | |||
| Smith, Jorja | Blue Lights | alarm sounds | ||
| Smith, Keely | Just a Gigolo / I Ain’t Got Nobody (with Louis Prima) | great backing vocals | ||
| Smith, Marvin | Have More Time | multitasking & being busy | ||
| Smith, Mindy | Come to Jesus | Jesus | ||
| One Moment More | the number one | |||
| Train Song | denial | |||
| Smith, O. C. | The Son of Hickory Holler’s Tramp | criminals | ||
| Smith, Orriel | Tiffany Glass | bright and beautiful | ||
| Smith, Patti | Banga | books #2 | ||
| Fireflies | songs of desperation | |||
| Free Money | money | |||
| Gloria | covers better than the original | |||
| Kimberly | alliteration | |||
| Nine | movie & TV stars | |||
| People Have the Power | positive songs | |||
| Piss Factory | new resolutions | |||
| Trespasses | fixing & repairing | |||
| Because the Night | lust | |||
| Pissing in a River | stomach & guts | |||
| Smith, Reverend Utah | I Want Two Wings | angels | ||
| Smith, Rex | Ah, Leave Me Not to Pine (with Linda Ronstadt) | extraordinary vocals | ||
| Smith, Trixie | My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) | great songwriting 1900-1955 | ||
| Smith, Warren | Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache | red | ||
| Uranium Rock | geology | |||
| Smith, Whispering Jack | I’d Climb the Highest Mountain (If I Knew I’d Find You) | great songwriting 1900-1955 | ||
| Smith & Burrows | When the Thames Froze | winter | ||
| Smith & Mighty | Down in Rwanda (ft Andy Scholes) | tyranny & dictatorship | ||
| Smith Street Band | Wipe That Shit-Eating Grin Off Your Punchable Face | stick it to the man | ||
| Smithereens | Blood and Roses | roses | ||
| Smiths | Ask | shyness | ||
| Asleep | suicide | |||
| Bigmouth Strikes Again | sweetness | |||
| Cemetry Gates | schadenfreude | |||
| Girlfriend in a Coma | bright songs about dark subjects | |||
| Hand in Glove | never | |||
| The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | horror-inspired songs | |||
| The Headmaster Ritual | school | |||
| Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now | work | |||
| How Soon Is Now? | B sides | |||
| I Keep Mine Hidden | stiff upper lip | |||
| I Know It’s Over | acceptance | |||
| I Want the One I Can’t Have | immaturity | |||
| Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me | dreams | |||
| London | London | |||
| Meat Is Murder | meat | |||
| Paint a Vulgar Picture | celebrity | |||
| Panic | Britain | |||
| Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want | please & thank you | |||
| The Queen Is Dead | queens | |||
| Rusholme Ruffians | alliteration | |||
| Sheila Take a Bow | girls’ names | |||
| Shoplifters of the World Unite | smuggling & stealing | |||
| Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before | denial | |||
| Suffer Little Children | Yorkshire | |||
| There Is a Light That Never Goes Out | light | |||
| This Charming Man | great riffs | |||
| Unhappy Birthday | anniversaries | |||
| Vicar in a Tutu | preachers, priests & religious leaders | |||
| William, It Was Really Nothing | boring & dull | |||
| Smog (see Callahan, Bill) | ||||
| Smoke City | Mr. Gorgeous (and Miss Curvaceous) | curves & spheres | ||
| Underwater Love | swimming & bathing | |||
| Smoke Fairies | Eclipse Them All | shadows | ||
| The Three of Us | platonic love | |||
| Smokie | Living Next Door to Alice | shyness | ||
| Smoking Popes | College | higher education | ||
| Diary of a Teen Tragedy | youthfulness | |||
| Smoosh (see Chaos Chaos) | ||||
| Smooth, Joe | Promised Land | optimistic songs | ||
| Promised Land | fictional places | |||
| Smyth, Dame Ethyl | The March of the Women (lyrics by Cicely Hamilton, performed by Rainbow Chorus) | feminism | ||
| Snarky Puppy | Amour, T’es La (with Magda Giannikou) | anticipation | ||
| Binky | artistic trends of the 21st century | |||
| Free Your Dreams (with Chantae Cann) | songs that command or instruct | |||
| Gone Under (with Shayna Steele) | swimming & bathing | |||
| I’m Not the One (with Malika Tirolian) | the number one | |||
| Shofukan | brass songs | |||
| Sneaker Pimps | 6 Underground | basements & underground | ||
| SNFU | Cannibal Café | restaurants & cafes | ||
| Snider, Todd | Double Wide Blues | stupidity | ||
| Prison Walls | borders, barriers, walls & fences | |||
| Statistician Blues | mathematics | |||
| Vinyl Records | media for listening to recorded music | |||
| Snog | The Human Germ | wastelands | ||
| Snow, Hank | I’ve Been Everywhere | specific or obscure places | ||
| January | months of the year | |||
| Squid Jiggin’ Grounds | safety & danger | |||
| Snowden | Black Eyes | black | ||
| Snuff | Shake ‘n’ Vac | spring cleaning & household chores | ||
| So Solid Crew | 21 Seconds | brevity | ||
| Soars, J. P. | Chasing Whiskey with Whiskey | whiskey | ||
| Sobanza Mimanisa | Kiwembo | favourite live versions | ||
| Sobule, Jill | Heroes | hero worship | ||
| My Chair | chairs | |||
| Talkin’ Platy | eggs | |||
| Social Distortion | Ball and Chain | keys & locks | ||
| Sods’ Opera | The D-Day Dodgers | D-Day | ||
| Soft Boys | I Wanna Destroy You | anger | ||
| It’s Not Just the Size of a Walnut | nuts & edible seeds | |||
| Only the Stones Remain | impermanence | |||
| Soft Cell | Memorabilia | forgetting | ||
| Numbers | bad decisions | |||
| Numbers | anonymity | |||
| Say Hello, Wave Goodbye | goodbye | |||
| Say Hello, Wave Goodbye | hello | |||
| Soul Inside | synth pop 1980-2000 | |||
| Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go | 1980s 12” singles | |||
| Walking Make-Up Counter | makeup | |||
| Youth | getting older | |||
| Soft Machine | Dedicated to You But You Weren’t Listening | provocative, strange or humorous titles | ||
| Moon in June (Top Gear Version) | self-deprecation | |||
| We Did It Again | ten words or fewer | |||
| Soggy Bottom Boys | I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow | ‘I am’ songs | ||
| SOHN | The Wheel | wheels | ||
| Soko | We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow | tomorrow | ||
| Solís, Javier | Malagueña Salerosa | faces | ||
| Somo Somo | Kizolele (with Mose Se Sengo) | songs with sudden changes | ||
| Son del Solar | West Indian Man (with Rubén Blades) | the Caribbean | ||
| Son Lux | This Is a Life (with Mitski & David Byrne) | distractions & diversions | ||
| Sondheim, Stephen | Jet Song (from West Side Story) (with Leonard Bernstein) | bad boys & bad girls | ||
| Songhoy Blues | Soubour | favourite live versions | ||
| Songs of Separation | Echo Mocks the Corncrake | echoes | ||
| Songs: Ohia | 7th Street Wonderland | snow & ice | ||
| Hot Black Silk | rough & smooth | |||
| Sonic Boom Six | The Emperor (ft Capitol 1212) | propaganda | ||
| From the Fire to the Frying Pan | migrants & refugees | |||
| The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Inventions | machinery, industry & technology | |||
| S.O.S. (State of Shock) | propaganda | |||
| Sunny Side of the Street | motivation | |||
| Sonic Youth | Bull in the Heather | fetishes | ||
| Death Valley ’69 (ft Lydia Lunch) | wilderness | |||
| Dirty Boots | earth, soil & dirt | |||
| Expressway to Yr. Skull | mixtape closers | |||
| Halloween | horror-inspired songs | |||
| Jams Run Free | running | |||
| Kool Thing | fear | |||
| Little Trouble Girl | repression | |||
| Orange Rolls, Angel’s Spit | bread & baking | |||
| Pattern Recognition | fads & crazes | |||
| Secret Girl | the invisible | |||
| Sugar Kane | impermanence | |||
| Superstar | unlikely cover songs | |||
| Teen Age Riot | adolescence | |||
| Tunic (Song for Karen) | other musicians | |||
| Youth Against Fascism | US presidents | |||
| Sonics | Santa Claus | anti-Christmas songs | ||
| Strychnine | poison | |||
| Sonik, Hitesh | Husna (ft Piyush Mishra) | long-distance relationships | ||
| Sonny & Cher | I Got You Babe | conversations | ||
| Sons of Maxwell | United Breaks Guitars | guitars | ||
| Sons of the Pioneers | Ragtime Cowboy Joe | nicknames & pseudonyms | ||
| Soom T | Politic Man | disbelief | ||
| Sophie Les Bas Bleus | Sans-Culottes | legs and pants | ||
| Sopwith Camel | Fazon | basements & underground | ||
| Soraya | Baku | tautonyms | ||
| Sorrows | Pink, Purple, Yellow and Red | pink | ||
| S.O.S. Band | Just Be Good to Me | infidelity | ||
| Sosa, Mercedes | Todo Cambia | songs in Spanish | ||
| Soto, José | Mali Sajio (with Ketama & Toumani Diabaté) | famous or notable animals | ||
| Souchon, Alain | Les Crapauds | amphibians | ||
| Soul II Soul | Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) | regressing & reversing | ||
| Get a Life | meaning of life | |||
| Soul Asylum | Runaway Train | impressive videos | ||
| String of Pearls | precious stones | |||
| Soul Control | Chocolate | chocolate | ||
| Soul Coughing | Screenwriter’s Blues | inspired by or about films | ||
| Soul Stirrers | Jesus Gave Me Water | Jesus | ||
| Praying Ground | prayer | |||
| Touch the Hem of His Garment | touch | |||
| Wade in the Water | bravery | |||
| Soulmates | Them A Laugh and A Ki Ki | laughter | ||
| Soulsavers | Longest Day (ft Dave Gahan) | D-Day | ||
| Revival | one word titles | |||
| Spiritual | fear | |||
| Soulwax | I Love Techno | ten words or fewer | ||
| Sound | I Can’t Escape Myself | obstacles | ||
| Sound Dimension | Real Rock | sampling & recycling | ||
| Sound Experience | 40 Acres and a Mule | 19th century life | ||
| Soundararajan, T. M. | Avala Sonnal | disbelief | ||
| Koduthathellam Koduthaan | gifts & giving | |||
| Soundgarden | Black Hole Sun | holes | ||
| Loud Love | screams, howls, grunts & shrieks | |||
| Sounds of Blackness | Optimistic | positive songs | ||
| Sounds Orchestral | Cast Your Fate to the Wind | easy listening | ||
| Soup Dragons | Hang-Ten! | shyness | ||
| I’m Free | freedom of expression | |||
| Sousa, John Philip | The Liberty Bell (performed by the Coldstream Guards) | personal theme songs | ||
| Sousa, Marcia | Tempo de Amor (with Baden Powell) | peace | ||
| South, Joe | Games People Play | inspired by India | ||
| Walk a Mile in My Shoes | empathy | |||
| Southern Culture on the Skids | Eight Piece Box | meat | ||
| Southern Death Cult | False Faces | deceptive appearances | ||
| Southwest F.O.B. | Tomorrow | tomorrow | ||
| Sovine, Red | Phantom 309 | zombies | ||
| Teddy Bear | tragedy & comedy | |||
| Soweto Gospel Choir | Brighter Days (with Sauti Sol) | getting brighter | ||
| Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika | Africa | |||
| Umbombela | choirs | |||
| Space | The Ballad of Tom Jones (ft Cerys Matthews) | Jones & Joneses | ||
| The Ballad of Tom Jones (ft Cerys Matthews) | underwear | |||
| Neighbourhood | neighbours | |||
| Spaceape | Am I (with Kode9) | being a man or a woman | ||
| Curious (with Kode9) | influenced by reggae | |||
| Spacemen 3 | When Tomorrow Hits | tomorrow | ||
| Spacemonkeyz | Slow Country (More Rubbadub version) (with Gorillaz) | hidden tracks | ||
| Spalding, Esperenza | Black Gold (ft Algebra Blessett & Lionel Loueke) | education | ||
| Cinnamon Tree | trees | |||
| City of Roses | markets & fairs | |||
| Dancing the Animal | words of wisdom | |||
| Funk the Fear | dares | |||
| Heaven in Pennies (ft Robert Glasper) | coins | |||
| Inútil Paisagem | instruments imitating voice & vice versa | |||
| Mela | double bass | |||
| Overjoyed | double bass | |||
| Radio Song | mood-changing music | |||
| We Are America | justice | |||
| Wild Is the Wind | wind | |||
| Spandau Ballet | Musclebound | industry & manufacturing | ||
| True | retro style | |||
| Spaniels | Stormy Weather | storms | ||
| Spanky and Our Gang | Like to Get to Know You | false endings | ||
| Spann, Otis | One More Mile to Go | the number one | ||
| Sparklehorse | Maria’s Little Elbows | joints of the body | ||
| Saint Mary | hospitals | |||
| Saturday | quiet songs | |||
| Weird Sisters | omens & prophecies | |||
| Sparks | Dick Around | songs with sudden changes | ||
| The Ghost of Liberace | surprise encounters | |||
| Here in Heaven | death | |||
| Hippopotamus | strange, rare or unlikely words | |||
| I Am a Bookworm | libraries | |||
| I Married Myself | being single | |||
| Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth | COVID-19 lockdown | |||
| Perfume | smells | |||
| Pineapple | non sequiturs | |||
| Scandinavian Design | decor | |||
| Suburban Homeboy | authenticity & fakery | |||
| This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us | confidence | |||
| When Do I Get To Sing “My Way” | other songs | |||
| Sparks, Brett | When That Helicopter Comes (with the Oysterband) | aviation | ||
| Spearhead | Gas Gauge (Tha World’s in Your Hands) | songs with a twist | ||
| Hole in the Bucket | pockets | |||
| Oh My God (as Michael Franti & Spearhead) | conspiracy theories & paranoia | |||
| People in Tha Middle | compromise | |||
| Spearmint | Happy Birthday Girl | birthdays | ||
| Scottish Pop | mood-changing music | |||
| Sweeping the Nation | underrated artists | |||
| Spears, Britney | Baby One More Time | great album or mixtape openers | ||
| Lucky | luck | |||
| Oops!… I Did it Again | guilt & apology | |||
| Piece of Me | journalism & the news | |||
| Toxic | poison | |||
| Specials | A Message to You, Rudy | warnings | ||
| Blank Expression | body language | |||
| The Boiler (with Rhoda) | scary songs | |||
| Do Nothing | boredom | |||
| Enjoy Yourself | knowledge | |||
| (Free) Nelson Mandela (as the Special AKA) | protest | |||
| Friday Night, Saturday Morning | Friday & Saturday | |||
| Gangsters | eavesdropping | |||
| Ghost Town | Halloween | |||
| International Jet Set | flying | |||
| International Jet Set | aviation | |||
| Man at C&A | nuclear war | |||
| Nite Klub | sound effects | |||
| Rat Race | education | |||
| Stereotype | stereotypes | |||
| Too Much Too Young | coming of age | |||
| What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend (as the Special AKA) | insulting songs | |||
| You’re Wondering Now | famous last words | |||
| Spedding, Chris | Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife (with Marianne Faithfull) | memorabilia & souvenirs | ||
| Pogo Dancing (with the Vibrators) | fads & crazes | |||
| Spektor, Regina | All the Rowboats | museums, galleries & exhibitions | ||
| Aquarius | star signs | |||
| Carbon Monoxide | gases | |||
| Chemo Limo | illness | |||
| Folding Chair | chairs | |||
| Genius Next Door | neighbours | |||
| Laughing With | faith | |||
| My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year) | new year songs | |||
| On the Radio | radio | |||
| Summer in the City | strangers | |||
| Up the Mountain | bees | |||
| Wallet | lost and found | |||
| Spellman, Benny | Fortune Teller | from New Orleans | ||
| Lipstick Traces | trombone | |||
| Spence, Alexander “Skip” | Keep Everything Under Your Hat | hats & accessories | ||
| Little Hands | children | |||
| Spence, Sam | The Pony Soldiers | sound like other songs | ||
| Spencer Davis Group | Gimme Some Lovin’ | organ | ||
| I’m a Man | ‘I am’ songs | |||
| Keep On Running | persistence | |||
| Spencer, Jon (see Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) | ||||
| Spice Girls | Wannabe | friendship | ||
| Spiers and Boden | Bold Sir Rylas | forests & woodlands | ||
| Spike | 7/11 Roses | first & last time | ||
| Spin Doctors | If Wishes Were Horses (Beggars Would Ride) | proverbs | ||
| Spinal Tap | Sex Farm | farm produce | ||
| Stonehenge | funny songs | |||
| Spindles | Ten Shades of Blue | blue | ||
| Spinnerette | All Babes Are Wolves | wolves | ||
| Spinners | Dip and Fall Back | cooking | ||
| Spirit | Dark-Eyed Woman | visitors | ||
| Dream Within a Dream | babies | |||
| Fresh-Garbage | reckless consumption | |||
| Girl in Your Eye | eyes | |||
| Like a Rolling Stone | whispering | |||
| Spirit of the West | The Crawl | Canada | ||
| Spirits of Rhythm | Dr. Watson and Mr. Holmes | famous or notable duos | ||
| Spiritualized | 200 Bars | numbers | ||
| Always Together with You | conditional phrases | |||
| Broken Heart | the heart | |||
| Cop Shoot Cop… | cocaine & heroin | |||
| I Think I’m in Love | indifference | |||
| Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | opening album tracks | |||
| Split Enz | I Got You | fear | ||
| Six Months in a Leaky Boat | pioneers | |||
| Splodgenessabounds | Michael Booth’s Talking Bum | gases | ||
| My Socks Gone Down My Shoe | tragedy & comedy | |||
| Saying Goodbye to His Horse | worst songs | |||
| Spooky Men’s Chorale | Don’t Stand Between a Man and His Tool | making things | ||
| Spoon | The Underdog | underdogs | ||
| Spoons | Smiling in Winter | winter | ||
| Springfield, Dusty | Breakfast in Bed | sexy songs | ||
| Doodlin’ | hobbies | |||
| Give Me Time | forgetting | |||
| Goin’ Back | getting older | |||
| I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore | indirect messages | |||
| I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself | missing someone | |||
| Just a Little Lovin’ | morning | |||
| The Look of Love | whispering | |||
| Nothing Has Been Proved | newspapers | |||
| Son of a Preacher Man | male names | |||
| Spooky | Halloween | |||
| What Have I Done to Deserve This? (with Pet Shop Boys) | songs with special guests | |||
| What’s It Gonna Be? | genre switch | |||
| The Windmills of Your Mind | circles | |||
| Springsteen, Bruce | 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) | the coast | ||
| A Night with the Jersey Devil | horror-inspired songs | |||
| American Skin (41 Shots) | murder | |||
| Atlantic City | great solo performances | |||
| Born in the U.S.A. (demo version) | America | |||
| Cadillac Ranch | brands | |||
| Candy’s Room | visitors | |||
| Dancing in the Dark | starting over | |||
| Dead Man Walkin’ | capital punishment | |||
| Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? | buses | |||
| Erie Canal | bridges | |||
| Factory | work | |||
| The Ghost of Tom Joad | unemployment | |||
| Highway Patrolman | siblings | |||
| Hitch Hikin’ | hitchhiking | |||
| Into the Fire | September 11 attacks | |||
| Jacob’s Ladder | stairs, ladders & elevators | |||
| Jungleland | gangs | |||
| The Line | crosses | |||
| Man at the Top | leadership | |||
| Man on the Flying Trapeze (with the Seeger Sessions Band) | the circus | |||
| Matamoras Banks | borders, barriers, walls & fences | |||
| My City of Ruins | hands | |||
| My Hometown | finish where they begin | |||
| My Oklahoma Home (with the Seeger Sessions Band) | farming | |||
| O Mary Don’t You Weep (with the Seeger Sessions Band) | miracles | |||
| Open All Night | songs that build | |||
| Out in the Street | the weekend | |||
| Queen of the Supermarket | shopping | |||
| Racing in the Street | channelling pain | |||
| Reno | prostitution | |||
| The Rising | ascension | |||
| The River | youthfulness | |||
| Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) | girls’ names | |||
| Spare Parts | fresh starts | |||
| State Trooper | law enforcement | |||
| Talk to Me | asking, begging & pleading | |||
| Thunder Road | broken promises | |||
| Tunnel of Love | caves | |||
| We Take Care of Our Own | homelessness | |||
| Wild Billy’s Circus Story | male names | |||
| Working on the Highway | manual labour | |||
| Youngstown | iron & steel | |||
| You’re Missing | murder | |||
| Spy vs. Spy | Credit Cards | plastic | ||
| Spyro Gyra | Morning Dance | songs to start the morning | ||
| Squarepusher | My Red Hot Car | discordant songs | ||
| Z-Machine, Sad Robot Goes Funny | songs that express excess | |||
| Squeeze | Black Coffee in Bed | songs to start the morning | ||
| Cool for Cats | coolness | |||
| Labelled with Love | domestic songs | |||
| Library Girl | libraries | |||
| Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) | innuendo | |||
| Tempted | cheating | |||
| Up the Junction | storytelling songs | |||
| Squier, Billy | The Big Beat | outstanding percussion | ||
| Squirrel Nut Zippers | Ghost of Stephen Foster | impressive videos | ||
| St. Germain | Montego Bay Spleen (with Ernest Ranglin) | old meets new | ||
| St. John, Bridget | Fly High | simple pleasures | ||
| St. Paul & the Broken Bones | Broken Bones and Pocket Change | accents | ||
| Like a Mighty River | slowing down | |||
| St. Vincent | Actor Out of Work | jobs | ||
| The Apocalypse Song | repression | |||
| Bicycle | bicycles | |||
| Stackridge | Syracuse the Elephant | elephants & mammoths | ||
| Stafford, Jo | Teach Me Tonight | teachers | ||
| Stairs | Mundane Mundae | days of the week | ||
| Weed Bus | marijuana | |||
| Stan Tracey Quartet (see Tracey, Stan) | ||||
| Standard Fare | Half Sister | sisters | ||
| Standells | Dirty Water | US cities & states | ||
| Stanford, Charles Villiers | Drake’s Drum | resurrection | ||
| Stanley, James Lee | Milkshake (with Peter Tork) | ice cream | ||
| Stanley, Ralph | O Death | death | ||
| Stanshall, Vivian | Yelp, Bellow, Rasp & Cetera | misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics | ||
| Staple Singers | I See It | eyes & sight | ||
| If You’re Ready (Come Go with Me) | unity | |||
| I’ll Take You There | parades | |||
| Long Walk to D.C. | determination | |||
| More Than a Hammer and Nail | tools | |||
| Pray On | prayer | |||
| Respect Yourself | conditional phrases | |||
| Uncloudy Day | clouds | |||
| Wade in the Water | swimming & bathing | |||
| Staples, Mavis | 99 and 1/2 | fractions & portions | ||
| Eyes on the Prize | D-Day | |||
| Lay My Burden Down (with Dr. John & the Dirty Dozen Brass Band) | spirit of 2021 | |||
| Turn Me Around (with Bonnie Raitt) | confidence | |||
| Staples, Pop | Tupelo (with Albert King & Steve Cropper) | rare events | ||
| Starland Vocal Band | Afternoon Delight | afternoon | ||
| Afternoon Delight | orgasms | |||
| Starr, Edwin | H.A.P.P.Y. Radio | switches & buttons | ||
| Headline News | reading | |||
| Twenty-Five Miles | home | |||
| War | war | |||
| Starr, Lucille | The French Song | Canada | ||
| Starr, Ringo | It Don’t Come Easy | solo Beatles songs | ||
| Photograph | photographs | |||
| Stars | Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It | gifts & giving | ||
| Statler Brothers | Bed of Rose’s | influenced by gospel | ||
| Staton, Candi | I’ll Sing a Love Song to You | songs about love songs | ||
| Nights on Broadway | following & chasing | |||
| Young Hearts Run Free | lessons in life | |||
| Status Quo | Down Down | surprising intros | ||
| Paper Plane | aviation | |||
| Pictures of Matchstick Men | visual art & photography | |||
| Stealers Wheel | Stuck in the Middle With You | redefined by film | ||
| Steam Powered Giraffe | Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger | finish where they begin | ||
| Steel Pulse | Ku Klux Klan | alliteration | ||
| Prodigal Son | lost and found | |||
| Sound System | hearing, choosing & playing records | |||
| Steeldrivers | If It Hadn’t Been for Love | alternative outcomes | ||
| Peacemaker | iron & steel | |||
| Steeleye Span | All Around My Hat | hats | ||
| Creeping Jane | competition | |||
| Gone to America | loss | |||
| Harvest of the Moon | tradition | |||
| John Barleycorn | paganism | |||
| The King | old and new | |||
| King Henry | kings | |||
| Long Lankin | horror-inspired songs | |||
| My Johnny Was a Shoemaker | long-distance relationships | |||
| Searching for Lambs | searching & seeking | |||
| Thomas the Rhymer | mythical beasts | |||
| Van Diemen’s Land | the Commonwealth | |||
| The Victory | historical figures | |||
| When I Was on Horseback | death | |||
| Steely Dan | Aja | great drumming | ||
| Barrytown | towns | |||
| The Caves of Altamira | decor | |||
| Do It Again | wheels | |||
| The Fez | hats | |||
| Haitian Divorce | influenced by reggae | |||
| Hey Nineteen | getting older | |||
| Josie | outstanding percussion | |||
| My Old School | biography & autobiography | |||
| Show Biz Kids | social class | |||
| Steer, Serafina | Disco Compilation | genre switch | ||
| Steinski & the Mass Media (see Double Dee and Steinski) | ||||
| Stelar, Parov | La Calatrava (ft Michael Wittner) | saxophone | ||
| Stephens, Richie | Jamaica Land We Love | national anthems | ||
| Stephenson, Jo | John Innes (with Dan Woods) | earth, soil & dirt | ||
| Stephenson, Martin & the Daintees | Boat to Bolivia | the impossible | ||
| Steppenwolf | Born to Be Wild | motorbikes | ||
| Magic Carpet Ride | marijuana | |||
| Renegade | tyranny & dictatorship | |||
| Stereo MC’s | Step It Up | celebration | ||
| Stereolab | Enivrez-vous | inspired by poetry | ||
| French Disko | rallying cries | |||
| Jenny Ondioline | more questions than answers | |||
| Metronomic Underground | krautrock | |||
| Nothing to Do with Me | denial | |||
| Ping Pong | repetition | |||
| Rainbo Conversation | narcissism | |||
| Tempter | drone music | |||
| Wow and Flutter | media for listening to recorded music | |||
| Stereophonics | Mr. Writer | writing | ||
| Stern, Marnie | Plato’s Fucked Up Cave | philosophers | ||
| Stetsasonic | Talkin’ All That Jazz | music genres | ||
| Stetson, Colin | Judges | saxophone | ||
| Steve Ignorant’s Slice of Life | S.A.D. | empathy | ||
| Steve Miller Band | Fly Like an Eagle | flying | ||
| Song for Our Ancestors | alarm sounds | |||
| Wild Mountain Honey | inspired by India | |||
| Wild Mountain Honey | psychedelia | |||
| Stevens, Cat | Boy with a Moon & Star on His Head | seduction | ||
| Father and Son | decisive songs | |||
| Hard Headed Woman | searching & seeking | |||
| I’m Gonna Get Me a Gun | new resolutions | |||
| Matthew and Son | multitasking & being busy | |||
| Morning Has Broken | dawn | |||
| Portobello Road | markets & fairs | |||
| Rubylove | unusual time signatures | |||
| Was Dog a Doughnut? | more questions than answers | |||
| Stevens, Meic | Rowena | Welsh songs | ||
| Stevens, Rachel | Some Girls | celebrity | ||
| Stevens, Sufjan | Casimir Pulaski Day | dates | ||
| Chicago | faith | |||
| Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Ohio | opening album tracks | |||
| Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid) | unemployment | |||
| Fourth of July | remembrance songs | |||
| Futile Devices | futility | |||
| Genuflecting Ghost | physical gestures | |||
| John Wayne Gacy Jr | famous people | |||
| The Lord God Bird | birds | |||
| Romulus | gripping or intriguing narrative | |||
| Should Have Known Better | biography & autobiography | |||
| The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders | unusual time signatures | |||
| They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh! | night & darkness | |||
| Tonya Harding | winter sports | |||
| The Transfiguration | miracles | |||
| You Are the Blood | blood | |||
| Stevenson, B. W. | Shamabala | paradise | ||
| Stew | The Naked Dutch Painter | unusual rhymes | ||
| The Sun I Always Wanted | fathers and daughters | |||
| Stewart, Al | A League of Notions (with Lawrence Juber) | historical events | ||
| Down in the Cellars | specific or obscure places | |||
| Hanno the Navigator | discovery | |||
| Katherine of Oregon | contentment | |||
| Night of the 4th of May | arguments #2 | |||
| Night Train to Munich (with Lawrence Juber) | spying | |||
| Nostradamus | prophets | |||
| On the Border | borders, barriers, walls & fences | |||
| The Palace of Versailles | historical figures | |||
| Russians & Americans | Russia | |||
| Sergio | migrants & refugees | |||
| Sirens of Titan | curves & spheres | |||
| Three Mules (with Lawrence Juber) | three | |||
| Timeless Skies | villages | |||
| Year of the Cat | loss | |||
| Stewart, Billy | Fat Boy | being fat | ||
| Sitting in the Park | parks | |||
| Summertime | summer | |||
| Stewart, Delano | Eternal Love | immortality & longevity | ||
| Stewart, John | Armstrong | pioneers | ||
| Gold | gold | |||
| Stewart, Mark & the Maffia | Jerusalem | England | ||
| The Paranoia of Power | basements & underground | |||
| Stewart, Rod | Handbags and Gladrags | bags & containers | ||
| (I Know) I’m Losing You | humming | |||
| The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II) | violence | |||
| Maggie May | girls’ names | |||
| Mandolin Wind | winter | |||
| Never Give Up on a Dream | Canada | |||
| Reason to Believe | denial | |||
| You Wear It Well | violin | |||
| Stiff Gins | In Paradise | Australia | ||
| Stiff Little Fingers | Alternative Ulster | protest | ||
| Closed Groove | freedom of expression | |||
| Fly the Flag | Britain | |||
| Suspect Device | revolution | |||
| Tin Soldiers | formal agreements | |||
| Stills, Stephen | Black Queen | playing cards | ||
| Stills-Young Band | Long May You Run | songs that aren’t what they seem | ||
| Stillwater | Mind Bender | guitars | ||
| Sting | An Englishman in New York | eccentric songs | ||
| Blood Red Roses | cetaceans | |||
| Moon Over Bourbon Street | zombies | |||
| Seven Days | patterns & sequences | |||
| Stitch, Jah | The Barber Feel It (with Dr Alimantado) | motorbikes | ||
| Stivell, Alan | Kimiad | Gaelic songs | ||
| Stock Aitken Waterman | Roadblock | obstacles | ||
| Stockhausen, Karlheinz | Stimmung Model 11 | minimalist songs | ||
| Stole, Mink & Her Wonderful Band | Sometimes I Wish I Had a Gun | control | ||
| Stoller, Barry | March of the Day Theme | football | ||
| Stone, Joss | Snakes and Ladders | board games | ||
| Stone, Lew & His Band | Riptide (with Al Bowlly) | tides | ||
| Stone, Sly (see also Sly and the Family Stone) | Crossword Puzzle | newspapers | ||
| Stone Roses | Don’t Stop | inversions | ||
| Elizabeth My Dear | queens | |||
| Fools Gold 9:53 | long songs | |||
| I Am the Resurrection | ‘I am’ songs | |||
| I Am the Resurrection | showing off | |||
| Sally Cinnamon | sweet foods | |||
| She Bangs the Drums | songs to start the morning | |||
| (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister | spinning | |||
| What the World Is Waiting For | B sides | |||
| Stone Sour | Inhale | addiction | ||
| Stonemans | West Canterbury Subdivision Blues | castles | ||
| Stooges | Dirt | indifference | ||
| Fun House | saxophone | |||
| I Wanna Be Your Dog | mammals | |||
| Loose | big and meaty | |||
| My Girl Hates My Heroin | recreational drugs | |||
| No Fun | handclaps | |||
| Search and Destroy (as Iggy & the Stooges) | great opening lines | |||
| TV Eye | false endings | |||
| Storm, Billy | Easy Chair | furniture | ||
| Storm Weather Shanty Choir | Whip Jamboree | Liverpool & Merseyside | ||
| Stormzy | Crown | quoting Shakespeare | ||
| Strangelove | Is There a Place? | songs that fit every topic | ||
| Stranglers | 5 Minutes | knives | ||
| Dagenham Dave | denial | |||
| Down in the Sewer | notable outros or codas | |||
| Duchess | inheritance | |||
| Golden Brown | cocaine & heroin | |||
| Hanging Around | hanging | |||
| It Only Takes Two to Tango | two – part 2 | |||
| La Folie | album tracks better than the singles | |||
| Longships / The Raven | wide open spaces | |||
| Midnight Summer Dream | lessons in life | |||
| No More Heroes | hero worship | |||
| Old Codger (with George Melly) | unlikely collaborations | |||
| Peaches | holidays | |||
| Skin Deep | deceptive appearances | |||
| Spain | Spain | |||
| Strauss, Johann II | The Blue Danube | triggering dancing | ||
| Strauss, Richard | Also sprach Zarathustra | great album or mixtape openers | ||
| Im Abendrot (from Four Last Songs) | music for funerals | |||
| September | months of the year | |||
| Strawberry Switchblade | Since Yesterday | upbeat break-up #2 | ||
| Trees and Flowers | anxiety | |||
| Strawbs | Grace Darling | North East England | ||
| Hanging in the Gallery | museums, galleries & exhibitions | |||
| Lady Fuschia | owls | |||
| The Man Who Called Himself Jesus | authenticity & fakery | |||
| Sheep | farming | |||
| Stray | Around the World in 80 Days | books | ||
| Stray Cats | Rock This Town | jukeboxes | ||
| Stray Cat Strut | expressing movement of walking | |||
| Strayhorn, Billy | Lush Life (with Kay Davis) | wheels | ||
| Streep, Meryl | Turning Turtle | inversions | ||
| Street, Adrian | Imagine What I Could Do to You | worst songs | ||
| Streetband | Toast | cooking | ||
| Streets | Blinded by the Lights | nightclubs | ||
| Can’t Con an Honest John | shaggy dog stories & tall tales | |||
| Could Well Be In | flirting | |||
| Dry Your Eyes | crying | |||
| Empty Cans | songs with a twist | |||
| Fit But You Know It | holidays | |||
| Fit But You Know It | embarrassment | |||
| It Was Supposed to Be Easy | multitasking & being busy | |||
| It’s Too Late | rendezvous | |||
| Let’s Push Things Forward | spirit of 2021 | |||
| Lock the Locks (ft Clare Maguire) | keys & locks | |||
| Never Went to Church | legacy | |||
| OMG | acronyms | |||
| On the Edge of a Cliff | chance & coincidence | |||
| Prangin’ Out (Pete and Mike’s Version) | cocaine & heroin | |||
| Stay Positive | consolation | |||
| Too Much Brandy | drinking | |||
| Weak Become Heroes | mood-changing music | |||
| Stritch, Elaine | To Keep My Love Alive | unusual rhymes | ||
| STRiPES | O-Kagura/Festivo | finger snaps & toe taps | ||
| Strokes | Hard to Explain | stop-start songs | ||
| Meet Me in the Bathroom | rooms | |||
| Someday | passage of time | |||
| Stromae | Mon Amour (with Camila Cabello) | everlasting love | ||
| Papaoutai | stereotypes | |||
| Tous les mêmes | being a man or a woman | |||
| Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet | Manège | TV theme songs | ||
| Studio Killers | All Men Are Pigs | France | ||
| Ode to the Bouncer | borders, barriers, walls & fences | |||
| Who Is in Your Heart Now | eureka moments | |||
| Stump | Charlton Heston | miracles | ||
| Stump, Patrick | Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia) | songs for your teenage self | ||
| Style Council | A Stone’s Throw Away | estimates of distance & time | ||
| Blood Sports | hunting | |||
| The Paris Match (with Tracey Thorn) | Paris | |||
| Walls Come Tumbling Down! | unity | |||
| Style of Eye | Kids | youthfulness | ||
| Stylistics | Betcha by Golly Wow | falsetto | ||
| People Make the World Go Round | trash | |||
| Sixteen Bars | songs about love songs | |||
| Styx | Castle Walls | castles | ||
| Great White Hope | fighting | |||
| Subbulakshmi, M. S. | Kurai Onrum Illai: Ragamalika | spiritual songs | ||
| Sri Ventkateswara Suprabhatam | waking up | |||
| Subhumans | Germ | small things | ||
| When the Bomb Drops | distractions & diversions | |||
| Submarine | Jodie Foster | movie & TV stars | ||
| Subramaniam, L. | Jai Hanuman! (with Nyoman Wenten & Burat Wangi Choir) | choirs | ||
| Rainbow Serenade (with Ali Akbar Khan & John Handy) | rainbows | |||
| SubRosa | The Inheritance | funerals | ||
| Suburban Lawns | Janitor | strange & surreal | ||
| Sudan Archives | Nont for Sale | finger snaps & toe taps | ||
| Oatmeal | waking up | |||
| Selfish Soul | shame | |||
| Sudbury, Dave | The King of Rome | famous or notable animals | ||
| Suede | Animal Nitrate | androgynous vocals | ||
| Bentswood Boys | suburbia | |||
| Daddy’s Speeding | charisma | |||
| The Living Dead | denial | |||
| She Still Leads Me On | everlasting love | |||
| So Young | immaturity | |||
| Stay Together | devoted love | |||
| Trash | glamour & style | |||
| Wastelands | wastelands | |||
| The Wild Ones | staying | |||
| Sugababes | Freak Like Me | unlikely cover songs | ||
| Push the Button | innuendo | |||
| Push the Button | orgasms | |||
| Sugar | A Good Idea | underwater | ||
| If I Can’t Change Your Mind | change of mind | |||
| Sugarcubes | Birthday | children | ||
| Cat | from Nordic countries | |||
| Dear Plastic | plastic | |||
| F***ing in Rhythm and Sorrow | surprise encounters | |||
| Hit | seduction | |||
| Regina | geology | |||
| Water | underwater | |||
| Sugarhill Gang | Rapper’s Delight | one-hit wonders | ||
| Rapper’s Delight | sampling & recycling | |||
| Sugarloaf | Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You | rejection | ||
| Suggs | Oranges and Lemons (with Jools Holland) | fruit | ||
| Suicidal Tendencies | Institutionalized | mental illness | ||
| You Can’t Bring Me Down | apologies | |||
| Suicide | Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne | wine | ||
| Dream Baby Dream (Long Version) | 12″ singles to 1979 | |||
| Frankie Teardrop | scary songs | |||
| Ghost Rider | motorbikes | |||
| Rocket USA | songs by duos | |||
| Sullivan, Jazmine | Fear | fear | ||
| Lions, Tigers and Bears | being scared | |||
| Sullivan, Maxine | The Folks Who Live on the Hill | boring & dull | ||
| Sullivan, Quinn | Untitled (with Buddy Guy) | collaborations & side projects | ||
| Sulpher | Scarred | being scared | ||
| Sultana, Tash | Pink Moon | pink | ||
| Sultans of Ping FC | Where’s Me Jumper? | fashion | ||
| Sumac, Yma | Chuncho | high-pitched vocals | ||
| Summer, Donna | Could It Be Magic | classical songs | ||
| Hot Stuff | evening | |||
| I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Remix) | long songs | |||
| I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Remix) | 1980s 12” singles | |||
| Love to Love You Baby | euphoria | |||
| MacArthur Park | parks | |||
| On the Radio | songs with sudden changes | |||
| Rumour Has It | gossip | |||
| State of Independence | great backing vocals | |||
| Sumney, Moses | Me in 20 Years | androgynous vocals | ||
| Sun Dial | Plains of Nazca | sunsets & twilight | ||
| Sun Kil Moon | Song for Richard Collopy | remembrance songs | ||
| Track Number 8 | self-deprecation | |||
| Sun Ra | The Forest of No Return | being lost | ||
| Space Is the Place | space | |||
| Early Autumn | September & October | |||
| Pink Elephants on Parade | surreal songs | |||
| Sundae Times | Adam and Eve | paradise | ||
| Sundays | Can’t Be Sure | uncertainty | ||
| Here’s Where the Story Ends | finishing | |||
| I Won | basements & underground | |||
| Monochrome | eureka moments | |||
| Sundfør, Susanne | Silencer | shooting | ||
| White Foxes | from Nordic countries | |||
| Sunn O))) | Báthory Erzsébet | blood | ||
| Black Wedding | weddings | |||
| Blood Swamp (with Boris) | earth, soil & dirt | |||
| Herod 2014 (with Scott Walker) | deep voices | |||
| Sunnyland Slim | Be Careful How You Vote | elections | ||
| Super Eagles | Gambia-Zambia | the Commonwealth | ||
| Super Furry Animals | Colonise the Moon | space | ||
| (Drawing) Rings Around the World | telephones | |||
| Fire in My Heart | fire | |||
| The Man Don’t Give a Fuck | sweary songs | |||
| Northern Lites | steelpan | |||
| The Roman Road | Italy | |||
| Smokin’ | smoking | |||
| White Socks/Flip Flops | clothes | |||
| White Socks/Flip Flops | white | |||
| Super Rail Band of the Buffet Hotel de la Gare, Bamako | Dounia | faith | ||
| Foliba | music venues | |||
| supercell (see ryo/supercell) | ||||
| Superchunk | Pulled Muscle | bodily motion & exercise | ||
| Supergrass | Alright | joyous songs | ||
| Brecon Beacons | witches | |||
| Caught by the Fuzz | police | |||
| Pumping on Your Stereo | media for listening to recorded music | |||
| Sun Hits the Sky | horizons | |||
| Superjesus | Secret Agent Man | spying | ||
| Superorganism | Nobody Cares | authenticity & fakery | ||
| Something for Your M.I.N.D. | using your imagination | |||
| Supertramp | Goodbye Stranger | whistling | ||
| Supremes | Automatically Sunshine | the sun | ||
| I’m Gonna Make You Love Me (as Diana Ross & the Supremes, with the Temptations) | ambition | |||
| Love Child (as Diana Ross & the Supremes) | shame | |||
| Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart | hammer & mallet instruments | |||
| Nathan Jones | named after men | |||
| No Matter What Sign You Are (as Diana Ross & the Supremes) | star signs | |||
| Reflections (as Diana Ross & the Supremes) | retrospection | |||
| Stoned Love | marijuana | |||
| Stop! In the Name of Love | arresting opening lines | |||
| Where Did Our Love Go | questions | |||
| You Keep Me Hangin’ On | hanging | |||
| Surfaris | Wipeout | impressive intros | ||
| Surman, John | Saltash Bells | saxophone | ||
| Whitman’s Wood | great solo performances | |||
| Susanna and the Magical Orchestra | Enjoy the Silence | silence | ||
| Svensson, Esbjörn (see Esbjörn Svensson Trio) | ||||
| Swamp Cabbage | Jesus Tone | Jesus | ||
| Swamp Dogg | God Bless America for What? | America | ||
| I Was Born Blue | colours | |||
| Mama’s Baby, Daddy’s Maybe | babies | |||
| Synthetic World | plastic | |||
| Swan, Billy | I Can Help | confidence | ||
| Swan Silvertones | Saviour Pass Me Not | Jesus | ||
| Swann, Bettye | (My Heart Is) Closed for the Season | the heart | ||
| Swans | Failure | failure | ||
| Swarathma | Pyaasi (ft Shubha Mudgal) | compromise | ||
| Swarbrick, Dave | Byker Hill (with Martin Carthy) | North East England | ||
| Swedemason | Masterchef Synthesia | flavour | ||
| Sweet | Alexander Graham Bell | pioneers | ||
| Ballroom Blitz | great album or mixtape openers | |||
| Block Buster! | mistaken identity | |||
| Love Is Like Oxygen | gases | |||
| Peppermint Twist | sweet foods | |||
| Teenage Rampage | immaturity | |||
| Wig-Wam Bam | famous or notable duos | |||
| Sweet Baboo | Wild Imagination | using your imagination | ||
| Sweet Honey in the Rock | Breaths | breathing | ||
| In the Morning When I Rise | close harmony singing | |||
| More Than a Paycheck | audible breaths | |||
| Sojourner’s Battle Hymn | choirs | |||
| Sweet Sensation | Sad Sweet Dreamer | start with the chorus | ||
| Swell Maps | Read About Seymour | reading | ||
| Secret Island | islands | |||
| Swift, Taylor | 22 | youthfulness | ||
| Mastermind | single-mindedness | |||
| Ronan (Taylor’s Version) | heartbreak | |||
| Shake It Off | pride | |||
| Swinghammer, Kurt | Bartlett Street | two – part 1 | ||
| Swingle Singers | Bach’s Fugue in G Minor | wordless vocals | ||
| Libertango | a cappella | |||
| Switchfoot | Dare You to Move | dares | ||
| Sylvester | You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) | 12″ singles to 1979 | ||
| Sylvia | Sweet Stuff | sweetness | ||
| Sylvian, David | Forbidden Colours (with Ryuichi Sakamoto) | books | ||
| Krishna Blue | inspired by India | |||
| Let the Happiness In | happiness | |||
| September | September | |||
| Symarip | Skinhead Moonstomp | youth cults | ||
| Skinhead Moonstomp | hats & accessories | |||
| Symphony X | Odyssey | songs that express excess | ||
| Syndicate of Sound | Brown Paper Bag | bags & containers | ||
| Syndicats | Crawdaddy Simone | bad boys & bad girls | ||
| Syreeta | With You I’m Born Again (with Billy Preston) | slow, sexy love songs | ||
| Your Kiss Is Sweet | kissing | |||
| System of a Down | B.Y.O.B. | US presidents | ||
| Needles | addiction | |||
| Szabo, Gabor | Breezin’ | refreshment & cooling down | ||