The table below lists all A-listed songs by artists beginning with X-Z. Some artists are also linked to their own individual pages.
| Artist | Song Title | Topic |
| X-Press 2 | Give It (Extended Club Mix) (ft Kurt Wagner) | gifts & giving |
| Lazy (ft David Byrne) | laziness | |
| X-Ray Spex | The Day the World Turned Day-Glo | strange & surreal |
| Germ Free Adolescents | cleansing | |
| I Can’t Do Anything | songs for your teenage self | |
| Identity | mirrors | |
| Let’s Submerge | music venues | |
| Oh Bondage Up Yours! | great opening lines | |
| Plastic Bag | plastic | |
| Warrior in Woolworths | brands | |
| xiangyu | 入れ歯 [Dentures] | teeth |
| XTC | Another Satellite | gravity |
| Complicated Game | left & right | |
| Crowded Room | crowds | |
| Dear God | God & the Devil | |
| Grass | trees, grass & flowers | |
| Greenman | green | |
| Harvest Festival | September & October | |
| I Am the Audience | theatre | |
| Jason and the Argonauts | treasure | |
| Love on a Farmboy’s Wages | work | |
| Making Plans for Nigel | pragmatism | |
| Mayor of Simpleton | knowledge | |
| No Thugs in Our House | taboos | |
| Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins) | coins | |
| Poor Skeleton Steps Out | hammer & mallet instruments | |
| Punch and Judy | puppets | |
| River of Orchids | urban wildlife | |
| Scissor Man | fairytales | |
| Season Cycle | nature | |
| Ten Feet Tall | feet | |
| Towers of London | 19th century life | |
| Washaway | spring cleaning & household chores | |
| Xuan, Zhou | Picking the Benelnut (Cai Bin Lang) | nuts & edible seeds |
| Ya Tosiba | Baku Hipster | Asian cities |
| Yabby You (aka Vivian Jackson) | Dem a Wolf (aka Anti-Christ) | wolves |
| Thirty Pieces of Silver | silver & non-ferrous metals | |
| Yachts | Box 202 | aviation |
| Suffice to Say | meta-songs | |
| Yamagata, Rachael | Horizon | horizons |
| Yamamoto, Hozan | Komoriuta | flutes, pipes & whistles |
| Yames, Yim | Hoping Machine (with Jay Farrar, Will Johnson & Anders Parker) | persistence |
| Yanawaraba | Sakura | pink |
| Yankovic, Weird Al | The Brain Song | the brain |
| Pancreas | stomach & guts | |
| Yapoos | Collector | collecting & listing |
| Hys | confusion & delusion | |
| Yarbrough, Camille | All Hid | treachery & betrayal |
| Take Yo’ Praise | lesser known originals | |
| Yard Act | 100% Endurance | shaggy dog stories & tall tales |
| Yardbirds | For Your Love | harpsichord |
| Shapes of Things | the future | |
| Yazoo | Don’t Go | made you fall in love with music |
| Ode to Boy | beauty | |
| Yazz and the Plastic Population | The Only Way Is Up | recovery |
| Yeleen | Taxi Brousse | taxis |
| Yelle | Je veux te voir | songs in French |
| Yello | Call It Love (Trego Snare Version) | Valentine’s Day songs |
| Goldrush | instruments imitating voice & vice versa | |
| I Love You | conversations | |
| Oh Yeah | audible breaths | |
| The Race | sport | |
| Tied Up | knots & ties | |
| Yellow Days | Gap in the Clouds | clouds |
| Yellow Magic Orchestra | Behind the Mask | electronic music to 1983 |
| Yellow Ostrich | Libraries | libraries |
| Yellowman | Zungguzungguguzungguzeng | misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics |
| Yes | Circus of Heaven | itinerants & migration |
| Close to the Edge | edges & ledges | |
| Future Times / Rejoice | patterns & sequences | |
| I’ve Seen All Good People | misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics | |
| Long Distance Runaround | anger | |
| Perpetual Change | eternity | |
| Starship Trooper | notable outros or codas | |
| Time and a Word | choosing & using words | |
| Yes/No People | Drum Town | odd noises & instruments |
| Ying Yang Twins | Wait (The Whisper Song) | whispering |
| Ylvis | Trucker’s Hitch | knots & ties |
| Yo La Tengo | Autumn Sweater | autumn |
| Autumn Sweater | clothes | |
| From a Motel 6 | television | |
| I Should Have Known Better | regrets | |
| Ira searches for the slide, sort of (Friday) | drone music | |
| Little Eyes | laziness | |
| Night Falls on Hoboken | towns | |
| Nuclear War (Version 2) | nuclear war | |
| Nuclear War (Version 2) | children performing | |
| Ohio Town Saved from Killer Bees by Hungry Vampire Bats (with Jad Fair) | newspapers | |
| Our Way to Fall | memory | |
| Retired Grocer Constructs Tiny Mount Rushmore Entirely Out of Cheese (with Jad Fair) | making things | |
| Tears Are in Your Eyes | consolation | |
| We’re an American Band | concerts | |
| Yokota, Susumu | Purple Rose Minuet | classical songs |
| Yola | Faraway Look | retro style |
| Yona | Maantien laitaa (with Orkesteri Liikkuvat Pilvet & Puppa J) | influenced by reggae |
| Sateenkaarilaulu (with Orkesteri Liikkuvat Pilvet) | rainbows | |
| Yorke, Thom | And It Rained All Night | rain |
| Black Swan | best bass lines | |
| Harrowdown Hill | scandal | |
| I’ve Seen It All (with Björk) | duets | |
| Yorkston, James | 6.30 Is Just Way Too Early (with the Athletes) | morning |
| The Great White Sea Eagle (with the Second Hand Orchestra & Nina Persson) | raptors | |
| Tortoise Regrets Hare | rabbits | |
| Yoshida Brothers | Change (with Monkey Majik) | surprising intros |
| Yothu Yindi | Treaty | equality |
| Young, Adrienne | Plow to the End of the Row | farming |
| Young, Faron | It’s Four in the Morning | times of day |
| Young, Gabby and Other Animals | Walk Away | moving on |
| We’re All in This Together | underrated artists | |
| Young, Kenny | Simple Joys | simple pleasures |
| Young, Neil | A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop (with Promise of the Real) | farming |
| After the Gold Rush | dreams | |
| Birds | favourite live versions | |
| Cinnamon Girl | hair | |
| Cortez the Killer (with Crazy Horse) | historical figures | |
| Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero, Pt 1) | law enforcement | |
| He Was the King | Elvis | |
| Home, Home on the Range | American west | |
| Like a Hurricane (with Crazy Horse) | super solos | |
| Lookin’ for a Leader | leadership | |
| Love Is a Rose | roses | |
| My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) | immortality & longevity | |
| The Needle and the Damage Done | cocaine & heroin | |
| Old King | pets | |
| Old Man | old age | |
| Out on the Weekend | the weekend | |
| Revolution Blues | California | |
| Rockin’ in the Free World | reckless consumption | |
| Roll Another Number (For the Road) | smoking | |
| Safeway Cart (with Crazy Horse) | companies & corporations | |
| Sample and Hold | substitutions | |
| Sugar Mountain | fictional places | |
| Tonight’s the Night | tribute songs | |
| Tonight’s the Night | jobs | |
| Unknown Legend | motorbikes | |
| Young Fathers | Shame | shame |
| Young Fresh Fellows | Celebration | bright songs about dark subjects |
| Young Gods | Ghost Rider | superheroes |
| Young-Holt Unlimited | Soulful Strut | dance instrumentals |
| Young Marble Giants | Final Day | short songs |
| Music for Evenings | evening | |
| Salad Days | minimalist songs | |
| Searching for Mr. Right | Welsh songs | |
| Young MC | Inside My Head | the brain |
| Young Rascals (see Rascals) | ||
| Young Tiger | I Was There (At the Coronation) | royalty |
| Young Tradition | Lyke-Wake Dirge | Yorkshire |
| Youngbloods | Darkness, Darkness | night & darkness |
| Young’uns | A Place Called England | England |
| Jack Ironside | personification | |
| Youssef, Dhafer | Yabay | high-pitched vocals |
| Youssef, Marcus | I Love You So Love Me (co-written with Niall McNeil, composed by Veda Hille) | famous or notable duos |
| Youth of Today | No More | refusal |
| Yücel, Taner | Endorfin | fairgrounds |
| Yuck | Get Away | procrastination |
| Yui | CHE.R.RY | fruit |
| Yuletide Blasphemy | Jingle Bells | anti-Christmas songs |
| Yummy Fur | Roxy Girls | meta-songs |
| Yunupingu, Gurrumul | Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) | rainbows |
| Yuuki, Aira | Blessing | blessings & curses |
| Zac Brown Band | Family Table | furniture |
| Heavy Is the Head (ft Chris Connell) | crowns | |
| Zager & Evans | In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) | the future |
| Zainichi Funk | Bakudan Kowai | funk |
| Zamfir, Gheorghe | Doina: Sus Pe Culmea Dealului (Picnic at Hanging Rock soundtrack) | meals & mealtimes |
| Zanes, Dan | Hello (with Barbara Brousal) | hello |
| Zanini, Marcel | Tu veux ou tu veux pas | indecision |
| Zaouche, Nassim | Una Mattina & For the Love of a Princess (with Gerard Pia Daró) | songs by buskers |
| Zap Mama | Brriak! | a cappella |
| Zapp (aka Zapp & Roger) | More Bounce to the Ounce | fetishes |
| So Ruff, So Tuff | instruments imitating voice & vice versa | |
| Zappa, Frank | Conehead | geometric shapes |
| Cosmik Debris | surprise encounters | |
| Dancin’ Fool | awkwardness | |
| The Dangerous Kitchen | domestic songs | |
| Debra Kadabra (with the Mothers & Captain Beefheart) | witches | |
| Dinah-Moe Humm (with the Mothers) | orgasms | |
| Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow | yellow | |
| Dumb All Over | stupidity | |
| Flower Punk (as the Mothers of Invention) | conversations | |
| The Gumbo Variations | saxophone | |
| I Don’t Even Care | indifference | |
| I’m the Slime (with the Mothers) | strange, rare or unlikely words | |
| Joe’s Garage | guitars | |
| Man with the Woman Head (with the Mothers & Captain Beefheart) | faces | |
| Porn Wars | taboos | |
| Stink-Foot | feet | |
| Trouble Every Day (as the Mothers of Invention) | protest | |
| Valley Girl | gossip | |
| What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (as the Mothers of Invention) | offensive, insulting songs | |
| Willie the Pimp | rendezvous | |
| Ya Hozna | inversions | |
| Zaz | Je veux | songs by buskers |
| Paris sera toujours Paris | Paris | |
| Zé, Tom | A Briga do Edifício Itália com o Hilton Hotel | South America |
| Zeal & Ardor | Devil Is Fine | the Devil |
| Zebda | On est chez nous | France |
| Zero 7 | Destiny (ft Sia & Sophie Barker) | long-distance relationships |
| The Pageant of the Bizarre | parades | |
| Zetlitz, Bertine | Apples and Diamonds | fruit |
| Zevon, Warren | Accidently Like a Martyr | saints & martyrs |
| Desperados Under the Eaves | hotels | |
| Detox Mansion | healing | |
| Excitable Boy | awkwardness | |
| For My Next Trick I’ll Need a Volunteer | volunteering | |
| Frank and Jesse James | criminals | |
| Genius | unusual rhymes | |
| Lawyers, Guns and Money | stuck or trapped | |
| Macgillycuddy’s Reeks | Ireland | |
| Mr. Bad Example | sinners | |
| My Shit’s Fucked Up | adversity | |
| Play It All Night Long | volume | |
| Renegade | compass points | |
| Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner | character songs | |
| Run Straight Down | gases | |
| Werewolves of London | Halloween | |
| Ziegler, Anne | We’ll Gather Lilacs (with Webster Booth) | positive songs |
| Zola Jesus | Eulogy (with LA Vampires) | funerals |
| Zombies | A Rose for Emily | flowers |
| Beechwood Park | refreshment & cooling down | |
| Care of Cell 44 | coming home | |
| She’s Not There | quiet | |
| This Will Be Our Year | joyous songs | |
| Time of the Season | great keyboards | |
| Zoot Woman | The Model | fashion |
| Zorn, John | Vespers | evening |
| Zounds | Can’t Cheat Karma | songs by trios |
| Did He Jump | shyness | |
| Zutons | Freak | prostitution |
| It’s the Little Things We Do | hangovers | |
| Secrets | secrets | |
| Zydeco, Buckwheat | Ma ’Tit Fille | from New Orleans |
| ZZ Top | Cheap Sunglasses | glamour & style |
| Sharp Dressed Man | coolness | |
| Ten Foot Pole | misheard, nonsense or inaudible lyrics | |
| Waitin’ for the Bus | buses | |