| Song Title | Artist | Topic |
| Câ‹…30 Câ‹…60 Câ‹…90 Go! | Bow Wow Wow | shopping |
| C Is the Heavenly Option | Heavenly | songs for your teenage self |
| Ça plane pour moi | Plastic Bertrand | one-hit wonders |
| Cabaret | Liza Minnelli | meaning of life |
| Cabin Essence | The Beach Boys | 19th century life |
| Cabin in the Sky | Ethel Waters | paradise |
| Cactus | Pixies | loneliness |
| Cadillac Boogie | Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy | great songwriting 1900-1955 |
| Cadillac Ranch | Bruce Springsteen | brands |
| Cafeteria Bananas | Hella | restaurants & cafes |
| Caffeine | Brandt Brauer Frick | coffee |
| Caged Bird | Abbey Lincoln | birds |
| Cain and Abel | Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra | famous or notable duos |
| Cairo Bazaar | Les Baxter | markets & fairs |
| Cais | Milton Nascimento | using your imagination |
| Caja de Manzanas | Ataca Paca | songs by buskers |
| Cajun Moon | J. J. Cale | the moon |
| Cake and Sodomy | Marilyn Manson | bread & baking |
| Cakes and Ale | Silly Sisters | bread, cakes, pastry & biscuits |
| Caleb Meyer | Gillian Welch | violence |
| Cálice | Chico Buarque & Milton Nascimento | tyranny & dictatorship |
| Calico Suit | Mighty Two | fabrics |
| California | Joni Mitchell | coming home |
| California Dreamin’ | The Mamas & the Papas | California |
| California King Bed | Rihanna | furniture |
| California Owls | Death and Vanilla | owls |
| California Soul | Marlena Shaw | joyous songs |
| California Ãœber Alles | Dead Kennedys | hatchet jobs |
| California Ãœber Alles | The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy | taxation |
| Californication | Red Hot Chili Peppers | compass points |
| Caligari’s Mirror | Pere Ubu | inspired by or about films |
| Call It Love (Trego Snare Version) | Yello | Valentine’s Day songs |
| Call It Stormy Monday | T-Bone Walker | days of the week |
| Call Me | Aretha Franklin | telephones |
| Call Me Maybe | Carly Rae Jepsen | pick-up lines & marriage proposals |
| Call Me Sister Carol | Sister Carol | feminism |
| Call the Doctor | Sleater-Kinney | doctors |
| The Call Up | The Clash | forgotten follow-ups |
| Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft | Klaatu | welcoming |
| Calon Lan | Cerys Matthews & Fron Male Voice Choir | choirs |
| The Calvary Cross | Richard and Linda Thompson | Jesus |
| Calypso | John Denver | pioneers |
| The Camera Loves Me | Would-Be-Goods | photos & photography |
| Campus | Vampire Weekend | higher education |
| Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be a Bad Person? | Kaki King | ears & hearing |
| Can I Change My Mind | Tyrone Davis | change of mind |
| Can I Join Your Band | The Creation | gangs |
| Can I Keep You | Phillip Roebuck | songs by buskers |
| Can I Sit Next to You Girl | AC/DC | seduction |
| Can I Sleep in Your Brain? | Ezra Furman | the brain |
| Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By) | Carter Family | circles |
| Can U Dig It? | Pop Will Eat Itself | list songs |
| Can You Feel It | Mr. Fingers | euphoria |
| community |
| Can You Feel It (Martin Luther King Mix) | Mr. Fingers | preachers, priests & religious leaders |
| Can You Feel It? | The Jacksons | songs with vim |
| Can You Forgive Her? | Pet Shop Boys | homosexuality |
| Can You Get to That | Funkadelic | fairness |
| Can You Give It | The Maccabees | tradition |
| Can Your Pussy Do the Dog? | The Cramps | mammals |
| Canadee-I-O | Nic Jones | opening album tracks |
| Canadian Girls | Dean Brody | Canada |
| Canadian Railroad Trilogy | Gordon Lightfoot | Canada |
| Canal Music in Venice 1981 | Gilbert Artman, Urban Sax | songs by buskers |
| Canal Street Blues | King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band | from New Orleans |
| CÃ nan nan GÃ idheal | Catherine-Ann MacPhee | Scotland |
| Canary Bird | Muddy Waters | pets |
| Canción de Cuna Para el Niño Astronauta | Arco Iris | space |
| Candy | Foxy Brown ft Kelis | food |
| Candy | Cameo | great middle eights |
| Candy Girl | Babybird | sweetness |
| A Candymaker’s Knife in My Handbag | The Fiery Furnaces | hats & accessories |
| Candy’s Room | Bruce Springsteen | visitors |
| Canned Heat | Jamiroquai | redefined by film |
| Cannibal Café | SNFU | restaurants & cafes |
| Cannonball | The Breeders | impressive intros |
| Canon a 2, per tonos (Endlessly Rising Canon) (from The Musical Offering) | Johann Sebastian Bach | finish where they begin |
| Canon in D | Johann Pachelbel | songs that build |
| Can’t Be Sure | The Sundays | uncertainty |
| Can’t Be Tamed | Miley Cyrus | impressive videos |
| Can’t Cheat Karma | Zounds | songs by trios |
| Can’t Con an Honest John | The Streets | shaggy dog stories & tall tales |
| Can’t Find My Baby | Junior Wells | searching & seeking |
| Can’t Find My Mind | The Cramps | lost and found |
| Can’t Find My Way Home | Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton | being lost |
| Can’t Get Used to Losing You | The Beat | loss |
| Can’t Get You Out of My Head | Kylie Minogue | songs that go ‘la’ |
| Can’t Kick the Habit | Champion Jack Dupree | the impossible |
| Can’t Let Go | Lucinda Williams | can’t live with or without you |
| Can’t No Grave Hold My Body Down | Sister Rosetta Tharpe | resurrection |
| Can’t Seem to Make You Mine | The Seeds | futility |
| Can’t Stand Me Now | The Libertines | friendship |
| Can’t Stand My Baby | The Rezillos | coolness |
| Can’t Take This No More | The Bug ft Daddy Freddy | start with the chorus |
| Can’t Truss It | Public Enemy | conspiracy theories & paranoia |
| Can’t You Hear Me Knocking | The Rolling Stones | great middle eights |
| Canta Mais | Antônio Carlos Jobim | singing |
| Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) | Us3 | best bass lines |
| sampling & recycling |
| Cantaloupe Island | Herbie Hancock | islands |
| Cantares | Joan Manuel Serrat | exile |
| A Canterbury Tale | Dreadzone | quiet songs |
| Cantina Band | John Williams | steelpan |
| Cantonese Boy | Japan | Asia |
| Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten | Arvo Pärt | songs that make you cry |
| Canzona from Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary | Henry Purcell | brass songs |
| Capaldi’s Café | Deaf School | Liverpool & Merseyside |
| Capio | Bel Canto | mixtape closers |
| Capricorn | Cannonball Adderley | star signs |
| Captain Chicken | Gorillaz ft Del Tha Funkee Homosapien | poultry |
| Captain Hook | John Cale | pirates |
| Capybara | Shonen Knife | rodents |
| Car 67 | Driver 67 | taxis |
| Car on a Hill | Joni Mitchell | punctuality |
| Car Song | Elastica | secret vices |
| Car Wash | Rose Royce | funk |
| Car Wheels on a Gravel Road | Lucinda Williams | cars & driving |
| Caravan | Fanfare CiocÇŽrlia | itinerants & migration |
| Caravan | Papa Jo Jones | great drumming |
| Caravan | The Mills Brothers | a cappella |
| instruments imitating voice & vice versa |
| Caravan | Van Morrison | volume |
| Carbon 7 (161) | Jlin | artistic trends of the 21st century |
| Carbon Monoxide | Regina Spektor | gases |
| Carbon Rose | Uyama Hiroto | Japan |
| Carcará | Maria Bethânia | raptors |
| Carcass | Siouxsie and the Banshees | meat |
| The Card Cheat | The Clash | gambling |
| Cardboard Cutout Sundown | Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band | sunsets & twilight |
| Cardiac Arrest | Madness | illness |
| Cardo o Ceniza | Silvana Kane | opposites |
| Care of Cell 44 | The Zombies | coming home |
| Career Opportunities | The Clash | social class |
| Careering | Public Image Ltd | drone music |
| Careful with That Axe, Eugene | Pink Floyd | the obvious |
| favourite live versions |
| Careless Love Blues | Bessie Smith | anti-love songs |
| Carey | Joni Mitchell | male names |
| Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) | Billy Ocean | queens |
| Caribbean Unity | Black Stalin | the Caribbean |
| Caribou | Pixies | mammals |
| Carl Perkins’ Cadillac | Drive-By Truckers | Elvis |
| Carl Perkins Wears the Crown | New Riders of the Purple Sage | crowns |
| Carnations on the Roof | Pete Atkin | iron & steel |
| Carnival | The Cardigans | carnivals & funfairs |
| The Carnival Is Over | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | brevity |
| Carnival Time | Al Johnson | carnivals & funfairs |
| The Carny | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | carnivals & funfairs |
| Caroline Goodbye | Colin Blunstone | goodbye |
| Caroline, No | The Beach Boys | disappointment |
| Caroline Wheeler’s Birthday Present | The Jazz Butcher | gifts & giving |
| Carpe Diem | The Village Fugs | words of wisdom |
| Carrickfergus | Van Morrison & the Chieftains | towns |
| Carried Water for the Elephant | Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell | the circus |
| Carrion | British Sea Power | the sea |
| Carrot Juice Is Murder | The Arrogant Worms | farm produce |
| Carrot Rope | Pavement | cricket |
| Carry Home | Mark Lanegan | home |
| The Carter Family | Carly Simon | eureka moments |
| Casablanca Moon | Slapp Happy | puzzling & mysterious |
| A Case for Vinyl | Tim Burgess | hearing, choosing & playing records |
| A Case of You | Joni Mitchell | can’t live with or without you |
| Casimir Pulaski Day | Sufjan Stevens | dates |
| Casino Boogie | The Rolling Stones | rhythm, beat & boogie |
| Cassandra | Sophie Ellis-Bextor | prophets |
| Cassava Piece | Augustus Pablo | fractions & portions |
| Cassette 2012 | Delay Trees | prophets |
| Cassidy | Grateful Dead | blessings & curses |
| Cast Your Fate to the Wind | Sounds Orchestral | easy listening |
| Casting My Spell on You | Marci Lee & Johnny Otis | making things |
| Castle Walls | Styx | castles & palaces |
| The Castleford Ladies’ Magic Circle | Jake Thackray | magic |
| Castles Made of Sand | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | disappointment |
| Casualties of War | Eric B. & Rakim | war |
| Cat | The Sugarcubes | from Nordic countries |
| The Cat Came Back | Fred Penner | whimsical songs |
| Catch a Fire | The Bug ft Hitomi | futility |
| Catch Me I’m Falling | Esther Phillips | falling in love |
| Catching the Butterfly | The Verve | butterflies & moths |
| Caterpillar | The Cure | butterflies & moths |
| Cath Carroll | Unrest | famous or notable duos |
| Catherine Wheel | Mia Shard | wheels |
| Catherine Wheels | Crowded House | wheels |
| Cat’s in the Cradle | Harry Chapin | inheritance |
| Cattle and Cane | The Go-Betweens | rural songs |
| Caught by the Fuzz | Supergrass | police |
| Caught Out There | Kelis | hatchet jobs |
| Caught Up in the Rapture | Anita Baker | falling in love |
| Cauliflower Curry | Robb Johnson | equality |
| The Cave | Mumford & Sons | songs that build |
| Cavern | Liquid Liquid | lesser known originals |
| Cavern Stomp | The Big Three | music venues |
| The Caves of Altamira | Steely Dan | decor |
| The CB Song | Legendary Shack Shakers | obsolete things |
| CCTV | LV ft Dandelion | influenced by dub |
| Ce mortel ennui | Serge Gainsbourg | boring & dull |
| Ce n’est que ma secrétaire | Pamelo Mounk’a | songs in French |
| Celebration | Kool & the Gang | celebration |
| Celebration | The Young Fresh Fellows | bright songs about dark subjects |
| Celebrity Interview | The Jigsaw Seen | charisma |
| Celebrity Skin | Hole | celebrity |
| Cell Song | Fanfarlo | small things |
| Cello Concerto in E minor: I. Adagio Рmoderato | Edgar Elgar (performed by Jacqueline du Pr̩) | cello |
| ’Cello Song | Nick Drake | fictional places |
| Cello Suite No. 1 in G major: I. Prelude | Johann Sebastian Bach (performed by Yo-Yo Ma) | cello |
| Cellophane | FKA twigs | quiet songs |
| Celluloid Heroes | The Kinks | celebrity |
| Cement Mixer | Slim Gaillard Trio | onomatopoeia |
| Cemetry Gates | The Smiths | schadenfreude |
| Centerfold | The J. Geils Band | na-na-hey-hey songs |
| Cepa de Andaluza | Paco de LucÃa | handclaps |
| Ceremony | New Order | crisis |
| Certainly | Erykah Badu | feminism |
| The Chaconne | Dessa | odd couples |
| Chad Gadya | Chava Alberstein | peace |
| The Chain | Fleetwood Mac | never |
| Chain Gang | Sam Cooke | screams, howls, grunts & shrieks |
| Chain of Fools | Aretha Franklin | finish where they begin |
| Chains and Things | B.B. King | melancholy songs |
| Chains of Love | Erasure | breaking things |
| Chaise Lounge | Tamia | furniture |
| Chaise Longue | Wet Leg | chairs |
| Chaiyya Chaiyya | Sukhwinder Singh & Sapna Awasthi | recorded for movies |
| The Chalet Lines | Belle and Sebastian | moving on |
| Chalice in the Palace | U-Roy | smoking |
| Chambacú | Aurita Castillo | the Caribbean |
| Champagne Supernova | Oasis | wine |
| The Champion Part 1 | Willie Mitchell | winners |
| Champion | Kanye West | showing off |
| Chan Chan | Buena Vista Social Club | comeback songs |
| Chance | Big Country | chance & coincidence |
| Chandelier | Sia | impressive videos |
| Change | Killing Joke | change |
| Change | Yoshida Brothers & Monkey Majik | surprising intros |
| A Change Is Gonna Come | Sam Cooke | change |
| Changeling | DJ Shadow | musically adventurous |
| Changes | David Bowie | change #2 |
| Changing Opinion | Philip Glass | change of mind |
| Chantilly Lace | The Big Bopper | telephones |
| Chapel of Love | The Dixie Cups | girl groups |
| Chapter 8: “Seashore and Horizon” | Cornelius | horizons |
| Chapter of Money | The Aggrovators with King Tubby | psychedelic songs |
| Chapter One | Make a Change… Kill Yourself | from Nordic countries |
| Chariots of Fire | Vangelis | winners |
| Charles | Skids | tattoos & piercings |
| Charles Hollis Jones | Grant Hart | Jones & Joneses |
| Charlie Brown | The Coasters | male names |
| Charlotte Sometimes | The Cure | interlopers |
| Charlton Heston | Stump | miracles |
| Charly | The Prodigy | comics & cartoons |
| Charmaine | Mantovani Orchestra | easy listening |
| Charmed Life | The Divine Comedy | luck |
| Chase | Giorgio Moroder | dance instrumentals |
| Chase the Devil | Max Romeo & the Upsetters | God & the Devil |
| space |
| Chasing Whiskey with Whiskey | J. P. Soars | whiskey |
| Château de sable | Roka Traoré | castles & palaces |
| Chattanooga Choo Choo | Glenn Miller with Dorothy Dandridge & the Nicholas Brothers | clicking, tapping & stomping |
| Che gelida manina (from La bohème) | Giacomo Puccini | hands |
| Che notte! | Mike Patton | genre switch |
| Cheap Sunglasses | The Human Hearts | eyewear |
| Cheap Sunglasses | ZZ Top | glamour & style |
| Check the Rhime | A Tribe Called Quest | conversations |
| Cheek to Cheek | Fred Astaire | great songwriting 1900-1955 |
| Cheese and Onions | The Rutles | vegetables |
| Cheetah and the Tiger | Eye Alaska | cats |
| Chega de Saudade | João Gilberto | more questions than answers |
| The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song | Jeffrey Lewis | other songs |
| Chelsea Morning | Joni Mitchell | morning |
| Chemical Calisthenics | Blackalicious ft Cut Chemist | science |
| Chemical Worker’s Song | Ron Angel | safety & danger |
| Chemo Limo | Regina Spektor | illness |
| CHE.R.RY | Yui | fruit |
| Cherry Blossoms | Tindersticks | flowers |
| Cherry Pie | Katzenjammer | inheritance |
| Cherry Red Wine | Luther Allison | wine |
| Cherry Tree | 10,000 Maniacs | eureka moments |
| Cheryl Tweedy | Lily Allen | B sides |
| Chest Fever | The Band | organ |
| Chestnut Mare | The Byrds | horses |
| Chewing Gum Wrapper | Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers | trash |
| Chi Mai | Ennio Morricone | TV theme songs |
| Chicago | Sufjan Stevens | faith |
| Chicken | The Cramps | onomatopoeia |
| Chicken | Mississippi John Hurt | poultry |
| The Chicken and the Hawk | Big Joe Turner | birds |
| Chicken Blues | Billy Ward & His Dominoes | poultry |
| Chicken Killer | The Triffids | poultry |
| Chicken Little Was Right | The Turtles | provocative, strange or humorous titles |
| Chicken Payback | The Bees | poultry |
| Chicken Rhythm | Slim Gaillard | poultry |
| Chicken Strut | The Meters | animal sounds |
| Chicken Teriyaki | Rosaliá | poultry |
| Chicken Walk | Hasil Adkins | poultry |
| A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off | The Magnetic Fields | poultry |
| Child Amongst the Weeds | Eliza Carthy | adult lullabies |
| Child in Time | Deep Purple | songs with sudden changes |
| Child Psychology | Black Box Recorder | children |
| Children | Robert Miles | piano songs |
| Children Crying | The Congos | animal sounds |
| Children of Children | Jason Isbell | biography & autobiography |
| Children of Coincidence | Dory Previn | chance & coincidence |
| Children of the Revolution | Kirsty MacColl | youthfulness |
| Children of the Revolution | T. Rex | revolution |
| Children of the Sea | Black Sabbath | loss |
| Children Play with Matches | Mischief Brew | dares |
| Chillout Tent | The Hold Steady | bright songs about dark subjects |
| China Cat Sunflower | Grateful Dead | surreal songs |
| Chinese | Lily Allen | coming home |
| Chinese Checkers | Booker T. & the M.G.’s | games |
| Chinese Rocks | Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers | cocaine & heroin |
| Chips Ahoy! | The Hold Steady | victory |
| Chiraa Khoor | Huun-Huur-Tu | horses |
| Chitthi Aayi Hai | Pankaj Udhas | melancholy songs |
| Chocolate | Soul Control | chocolate |
| Chocolate Drop | Howlin’ Wolf | brown |
| Chocolate Jesus | Tom Waits | chocolate |
| Chocolate Salty Balls | Isaac Hayes | chocolate |
| A Chocolate Sundae on a Saturday Night | Doris Day | chocolate |
| The Choice Is Yours | Black Sheep | songs by duos |
| Choices | George Jones | regrets |
| Choose Life | PF Project | promises & choices |
| Chords of Fame | Phil Ochs | effects of fame |
| Chove en Santiago | Luar na Lubre | Spain |
| Christ for President | Billy Bragg & Wilco | Jesus |
| Christchurch Bells | Hothouse Flowers | bells |
| Christianity Is Stupid | Negativland | tyranny & dictatorship |
| The Christians and the Pagans | Dar Williams | reunions |
| Christina the Astonishing | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | miracles |
| Christmas 1914 | Mike Harding | tradition |
| Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) | Darlene Love | alternative Christmas songs |
| Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis | Tom Waits | pathos |
| Christmas in Cape Town | Randy Newman | alternative Christmas songs |
| Christmas Song | Joy Zipper | alternative Christmas songs |
| The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) | Nat King Cole | tradition |
| Christmas Tree | King Stitt | trees |
| Christmas Wrapping | The Waitresses | alternative Christmas songs |
| Chuck E’s in Love | Rickie Lee Jones | opening album tracks |
| Chuncho | Yma Sumac | high-pitched vocals |
| Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea | Barry Crocker | bodily fluids |
| Church of the Poison Mind | Culture Club | gender & LGBTQ+ |
| CIA Man | The Fugs | chaos |
| conspiracy theories & paranoia |
| Ciao! | Lush ft Jarvis Cocker | finishing |
| Ciel d’automne | La Bottine Souriante | violin |
| Cienfuegos Tiene Su Guaguancó | Ibrahim Ferrer | the Caribbean |
| Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk | Rufus Wainwright | smoking |
| Cigarettes and Coffee | Otis Redding | smoking |
| Cinematic Soul | Barry Adamson | children performing |
| Cinnamon Girl | Neil Young | hair |
| Cinnamon Tree | Esperanza Spalding | trees |
| Cinnamon Water | Jon Boden | swimming & bathing |
| CiocÇŽrlia si Suite | Fanfare CiocÇŽrlia | birdsong |
| Circle | Miles Davis | circles |
| The Circle Game | Joni Mitchell | fate & destiny |
| The Circle Married the Line | Feist | horizons |
| Circle of Heartbreak | Betty Wright | geometric shapes |
| Circles | The Fleur de Lys | circles |
| Circles | Psychonauts | circles |
| Circles | Kate Tempest | spinning |
| Circling | Four Tet | circles |
| Circling the Circumference | The Trash Can Sinatras | intelligence |
| Circus | Nerina Pallot | the circus |
| Circus ’68 ’69 | Charlie Haden | arguments |
| The Circus Is Leaving Town | Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan | first & last time |
| Circus of Heaven | Yes | itinerants & migration |
| Cirque dans la Rue | Plain White T’s | the circus |
| Cirrus Minor | Pink Floyd | laziness |
| Cissy Strut | The Meters | expressing movement of walking |
| Cité propre: gagner de l’argent par les déchets | Vicky Brown ft Final D and the city of Douala | trash |
| Cities | Talking Heads | urban environment |
| City Drops into the Night | The Jim Carroll Band | sunsets & twilight |
| City Full of Ghosts | Mike Scott | Ireland |
| City of New Orleans | Arlo Guthrie | iron & steel |
| City of Roses | Esperanza Spalding | markets & fairs |
| The City Sleeps | MC 900 Ft. Jesus | starting fires |
| City Too Hot | Lee Perry | heat |
| Civil Servant | Richard Dawson | jobs |
| Civil Twilight | The Weakerthans | evening |
| Claimed by the Sea | French for Rabbits | climate change |
| Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie | Joanna Newsom | orchestral string instruments |
| Clandestino | Manu Chao | exile |
| Clapping Music | Steve Reich | handclaps |
| The Clapping Song | Shirley Ellis | left & right |
| Clara | Scott Walker | unsettling songs |
| Clarach | Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita | wings |
| The Clarietta Rag | Kevin Ayers | sound like other songs |
| Clarks | Vybz Kartel ft Popcaan & Gaza Slim | feet |
| Classical Gas | Hugo Montenegro | easy listening |
| Classified | Pete Townshend | reading |
| Claudine | Stanley Brinks & Freschard | detectives |
| Clea Caught a Rabbit | Anne Briggs | rabbits |
| Clean This House | Paul Kelly & the Dots | spring cleaning & household chores |
| Clean Up Woman | Betty Wright | favourite live versions |
| Clean Up Your Own Backyard | Elvis Presley | spring cleaning & household chores |
| Cleaning Out the Rooms | British Sea Power | cleansing |
| Cleaning Windows | Van Morrison | manual labour |
| Cleanup Time | John Lennon | spring cleaning & household chores |
| A Clear Night, A Shooting Star, A Song for Boo | Band of Holy Joy | electricity |
| Clear White Light (Pt. 2) | Lindisfarne | lighthouses & guiding lights |
| Cliché | Todd Rundgren | idioms & common expressions |
| Click, Click, Click, Click | Bishop Allen | photos & photography |
| Click Go the Shears | Lionel Long | farming |
| The Click Song | Miriam Makeba | songs about songs |
| The Climb | Miley Cyrus | determination |
| Climb on Board | Labrinth | space travel |
| Climbing to the Moon (Jon Brion Remix) | Eels | songs that make you cry |
| Clint Eastwood | Gorillaz ft Del the Funky Homosapien | named after men |
| Clock of the World | Krista Detor, Karine Polwart, Rachael McShane | clocks & watches |
| Clock That’s Got No Hands | Della Reese | clocks & watches |
| Close the Coalhouse Door | The Unthanks | accidents |
| Close to the Edge | Yes | edges & ledges |
| Closed Groove | Stiff Little Fingers | freedom of expression |
| Closedown | Cock Sparrer | advertising |
| Closer | Nine Inch Nails | lust |
| Closer to Fine | Indigo Girls | meaning of life |
| Closing Time | Semisonic | songs that aren’t what they seem |
| Clothes Are So Obnoxious | Annie Tracy | nudity |
| Clothes Line Saga | Suzzy & Maggie Roche | spring cleaning & household chores |
| The Cloud Factory | June Tabor | clouds |
| Cloud Nine | The Temptations | numbered 1 to 10 |
| Cloud of Unknowing | Gorillaz ft Bobby Womack | clouds |
| Cloud Song | The United States of America | books #2 |
| Cloudbusting | Kate Bush | rain |
| Clouded Eyes | Chron Gen | clouds |
| Clouds Across the Moon | RAH Band | missing someone |
| The Clouds Will Soon Roll By | Ambrose & His Orchestra ft Elsie Carlisle | hope |
| The Clown | Charles Mingus & Jean Shepherd | the circus |
| Club Country | The Associates | energising songs |
| Club Lonely | Lil Louis & the World | nightclubs |
| Clyde Waters | Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer | conversations |
| C’mon Every Beatbox | Big Audio Dynamite | media for listening to recorded music |
| Cnoc Na Feille / Siol Ghoraidh | Runrig | Gaelic songs |
| Co-op | Bess Atwell | distractions & diversions |
| Coal Miner’s Daughter | Loretta Lynn | social class |
| manual labour |
| Coal Tattoo | Shawn Phillips | rejection |
| Coal War | Joshua James | caves |
| Coat of Many Colors | Dolly Parton | making things |
| Cocaine | J. J. Cale | cocaine & heroin |
| Cochise | Audioslave | supergroups |
| The Cockfight | Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs | poultry |
| The Cockfighter | Scott Walker | scary songs |
| Cockney Translation | Smiley Culture | choosing & using words |
| Coconut | Nilsson | futility |
| fruit |
| Cod Liver Oil and Orange Juice | Hamish Imlach | compass points |
| Code Monkey | Jonathan Coulton | nerds & geeks |
| Cody | Mogwai | mood-changing music |
| Coffee & TV | Blur | home |
| Coffee Girl | 22-Pistepirkko | coffee |
| Coffee, God & Cigarettes | Mischief Brew | tragedy & comedy |
| Coin Operated Boy | The Dresden Dolls | switches & buttons |
| Coincidents on the Circle Line | Robb Johnson | basements & underground |
| Coinsequences | Public Enemy ft Paris | chance & coincidence |
| Cold | The Cure | cold |
| Cold Bear | The Gaturs | beer |
| Cold, Cold Heart | Hank Williams | cold |
| Cold Discovery | Smog | discovery |
| Cold Haily Rainy Night | The Imagined Village | storms |
| Cold Little Heart | Michael Kiwanuka | shame |
| Cold Missouri Waters | James Keelaghan | starting fires |
| Cold, Rain and Snow | Grateful Dead | stairs, ladders & elevators |
| Cold Sweat | James Brown | perspiration |
| Cold Turkey | John Lennon | finishing |
| Cold Winter Sun Symphony in D Major | Faine Jade | winter |
| The Coldest Night of the Year | Bruce Cockburn | Canada |
| Richard Hawley | Coles Corner | crooners |
| Collarbone | Fujiya & Miyagi | illness |
| The Collector | The Legendary Pink Dots | collecting & listing |
| The Collector | Nine Inch Nails | collecting & listing |
| Collector | Yapoos | collecting & listing |
| Colleen | Joanna Newsom | mythical beasts |
| College | Pat Green | higher education |
| College | Smoking Popes | higher education |
| The Colliers | Seth Lakeman | caves |
| The Colonial Wing | 10,000 Maniacs | museums, galleries & exhibitions |
| Colonise the Moon | Super Furry Animals | space |
| Colors | Ice-T | colours |
| The Colour of Spring | Mark Hollis | piano songs |
| Colours | Donovan | waking up |
| The Colours | The Men They Couldn’t Hang | flags |
| Columba Aspexit | Hildegard of Bingen | spiritual songs |
| Come All Ye | Fairport Convention | great album or mixtape openers |
| Come and Buy My Toys | David Bowie | toys |
| Come and Get Your Love | Redbone | album tracks better than singles |
| Come Away Melinda | Uriah Heep | photos & photography |
| Come Dancing | The Kinks | nostalgia |
| Come Fly with Me | Frank Sinatra | flying |
| Come Get It, I Got It | The Raelettes | girl groups |
| Come Go with Me | The Del-Vikings | departures |
| Come Healing | Leonard Cohen | healing |
| Come into My Parlour | The Bleechers | domestic songs |
| Come Monkey with Me | Gino Washington & the Rochelles with the Atlantics | monkeys & apes |
| Come On Eileen | Dexys Midnight Runners | mixtape closers |
| Come On in My Kitchen | Robert Johnson | welcoming |
| Come On, Let’s Go | Nigo with Tyler, the Creator | punctuality |
| Come Rise with Me | Machel Montano & Claudette Peters | cricket |
| Come Saturday | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | the weekend |
| Come Share the Wine | Al Martino | community |
| Come to Daddy | Aphex Twin | fathers |
| Come to Jesus | Mindy Smith | Jesus |
| Come to Me | Björk | welcoming |
| Come to the Bar | Pete and the Pirates | fictional adverts |
| Come Together | Primal Scream | unity |
| Come Up with Your Hands Out | Alice Donut | coffee |
| Comedy Tragedy History | Akala | Shakespeare |
| Comes Love | Billie Holiday | pragmatism |
| Comfortably Numb | Pink Floyd | illness |
| Comic Strip | Serge Gainsbourg | comics & cartoons |
| Comin’ Back Soon (The Bereft Man’s Song) | Crash Test Dummies | upbeat break-up #2 |
| Comin’ Home Baby | Mel Tormé | coming home |
| Comin’ In on a Wing and a Prayer | The D-Day Darlings | wings |
| Comin’ Thru | Chali 2na | deep voices |
| Coming Around Again | Carly Simon | multitasking & being busy |
| family |
| Coming In from the Cold | Bob Marley & the Wailers | great drumming |
| The Coming of the Roads | Judy Collins | modernity |
| Coming Up | Paul McCartney | solo Beatles songs |
| Coming with Crosses | Otis Taylor | crosses |
| Comme Rimbaud | Brigitte Fontaine | 19th century life |
| Common People | Pulp | never |
| Communication Breakdown | Led Zeppelin | chaos |
| Como Castillo de Arena | El Camarón de la Isla & Paco de Luciá | sand |
| Como la Mariposa | Leyanis López | butterflies & moths |
| Cómo Pasa la Vida | RocÃo Márquez | minimalist songs |
| Compass | Zella Day | compass points |
| Competition Ain’t Nothin’ | Little Carl Carlton | competition |
| Complainte pour Ste-Catherine | Kate & Anna McGarrigle | songs in French |
| Complete Control | The Clash | greed |
| formal agreements |
| Complete Control | Woodbine | control |
| A Complete History of the Soviet Union Through the Eyes of a Humble Worker, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris | Pig with the Face of a Boy | Russia |
| Complicated Game | XTC | left & right |
| Computer Age (Push the Button) | Newcleus | switches & buttons |
| Con le mie lacrime | The Rolling Stones | foreign language versions |
| Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Ohio | Sufjan Stevens | opening album tracks |
| Concierto de Aranjuez, Adagio | Miles Davis & Gil Evans | great arrangements |
| Concierto de Aranjuez: I. Allegro con spirito | John Williams | relaxation & leisure |
| Concrete and Barbed Wire | Lucinda Williams | rough & smooth |
| Concrete and Clay | Unit 4 + 2 | geology |
| Concrete Jungle | Bob Marley & the Wailers | personification |
| Cone | Damaged Bug | alarm sounds |
| Conehead | Frank Zappa | geometric shapes |
| Coney Island | Van Morrison | Ireland |
| The Conference | Nitin Sawhney | conversations |
| Conference of the Birds | Dave Holland Quartet | conversations |
| The Confessions of Doctor Dream, Part 1: Irreversible Neural Damage | Kevin Ayers | hats |
| reversing |
| Confetti | The Lemonheads | divorce |
| Confidence | Peter Hammill | confidence |
| Confirm Reservation | Gregory Isaacs | formal agreements |
| Confusion | Silver Apples | confusion & delusion |
| Congo Square | Sonny Landreth | New Orleans |
| Congoleo | Angélique Kidjo | the Caribbean |
| Congoman | The Congos | Africa |
| Congregation | Foo Fighters | collective nouns |
| Congregation | Low | collective nouns |
| Connection | Elastica | body language |
| The Consequences of Time Travel (Part One) | Vernian Process | time travel |
| Consideration | Reef | songs that fit every topic |
| Consolation Prize | Orange Juice | self-deprecation |
| Constant Craving | k.d. lang | accordion |
| Constant in Opal | The Church | treasure |
| Constellation of the Heart | Kate Bush | adventure |
| Construção | Chico Buarque | great arrangements |
| Contemplation Rose | Van Morrison | roses |
| Contigo en la Distancia | Mayte MartÃn & Tete Montoliu | estimates of distance & time |
| Continental Shelf | Viet Cong | geology |
| The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill | The Beatles | tigers |
| Continuum | György Ligeti | harpsichord |
| Contort Yourself | James Chance & the Contortions | discordant songs |
| Contract | Gang of Four | formal agreements |
| The Contract | U.S. Bombs | formal agreements |
| Contrast | Count Five | deserts |
| Contributory Negligence | Attila the Stockbroker | hitchhiking |
| Control | Dub War | control |
| Control | Janet Jackson | control |
| The Conversation | Twilight Singers | eavesdropping |
| Cookie Thumper! | Die Antwoord | bread & baking |
| Cookin’ | Pete Townshend | cooking |
| Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love | Annette Hanshaw | fictional adverts |
| The Cool | Lupe Fiasco | ghosts |
| Cool and Bored | Le Corps Mince de Françoise | shyness |
| Cool Britannia | Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band | Britain |
| Cool, Cool Water | The Beach Boys | refreshment & cooling down |
| Cool for Cats | Squeeze | coolness |
| Cool in the Pool | Holger Czukay | summer |
| Cool Jerk | The Capitols | dance styles |
| Cool Me Down | Kieran Kane | refreshment & cooling down |
| Cop Shoot Cop… | Spiritualized | cocaine & heroin |
| Copacabana | Barry Manilow | so bad they’re good |
| Copper Kettle | Joan Baez | making things |
| Copper Kettle | Bob Dylan | taxation |
| The Copper Top | Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat | funerals |
| Copperhead Road | Steve Earle | whiskey |
| Cops and Robbers | Bo Diddley | law enforcement |
| Coquillages | Marianne Faithfull | songs in French |
| Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) | Stan Getz & João Gilberto with Astrud Gilberto & Antônio Carlos Jobim | South America |
| Corgi Registered Friends | Half Man Half Biscuit | insulting songs |
| Corner Store | Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers | shopping |
| modernity |
| Cornfield Ablaze | Prefab Sprout | starting fires |
| The Cornish Farewell Shanty | Oysterband and Friends | choirs |
| Coro a bocca chiusa (Humming Chorus) (from Madama Butterfly) | Giacomo Puccini | humming |
| Coronation | Family | decor |
| Corporal Clegg | Pink Floyd | honorific titles |
| Corporate Cannibal | Grace Jones | misanthropic songs |
| The Corporation | Dub Syndicate | tyranny & dictatorship |
| Corpse Attack! | Utsu-P | horror-inspired songs |
| Corpus Christi Carol | Jeff Buckley | falsetto |
| Corre Que Te Pillo | Los Jaivas | following & chasing |
| Cortez the Killer | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | historical figures |
| Cosmic Slop | Funkadelic | album tracks better than singles |
| Cosmik Debris | Frank Zappa | surprise encounters |
| Cotton Crop Blues | James Cotton | fabrics |
| Cotton Fields | Lead Belly | babies |
| Coucou | Django Reinhardt | tautonyms |
| Could I Have This Dance | Anne Murray | everlasting love |
| Could It Be Magic | Donna Summer | classical songs |
| Could Well Be In | The Streets | flirting |
| Couldn’t I Just Tell You | Todd Rundgren | secret admirers |
| Count It Up | Field Music | equality |
| Counting Down | Nataly Dawn | clocks & watches |
| Country Bus | Jake Thackray | buses |
| Country Death Song | Violent Femmes | holes |
| Country Life | The Watersons | rural songs |
| CountryMusicDisco45 | Jeb Loy Nichols | last night |
| County Fair | Joe Walsh | markets & fairs |
| The Court of the Crimson King | King Crimson | myths & legends |
| The Court Room | Clarence Carter | justice |
| Courtship Dating | Crystal Castles | indecipherable songs |
| Cousin Jack | Show of Hands | migrants & refugees |
| The Coventry Carol | Maddy Prior with the Carnival Band | anti-Christmas songs |
| Cover Me | Björk | hammer & mallet instruments |
| The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone’ | Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show | magazines |
| Cow Cow Boogie | Ella Mae Morse | four-legged livestock |
| Coward of the County | Kenny Rogers | violence |
| Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other | Willie Nelson | secrets |
| Cowgirl | Underworld | everything |
| Cow’s Placenta to Armageddon | Alice Donut | discovery |
| Coyote | Joni Mitchell | compromise |
| Cracking Up | Nick Lowe | crisis |
| Cracklin’ Rosie | Neil Diamond | wine |
| Cradle | Adrianne Lenker | quiet songs |
| Craftsmanship | Buck 65 | jobs |
| The Crane Wife 1 & 2 | The Decemberists | wings |
| Crash | The Primitives | bright songs about dark subjects |
| Cravo e Canela | Milton Nascimento | brown |
| Crawdaddy Simone | The Syndicats | bad boys & bad girls |
| The Crawl | Spirit of the West | Canada |
| Crawl Out Through the Fallout | Sheldon Allman | apocalypse |
| Crawlin’ King Snake | John Lee Hooker | lust |
| Crazed Institution | Jethro Tull | crowns |
| Crazy | Patsy Cline | crooners |
| Crazy Beat | Blur | rhythm, beat & boogie |
| Crazy Horses | The Osmonds | environment |
| Crazy in Love | Beyoncé ft Jay Z | falling in love |
| Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Queen | Elvis |
| Crazy Love | Mindy Gledhill | following & chasing |
| Crazy Man Michael | Fairport Convention | male names |
| Crazy Rhythms | The Feelies | songs with vim |
| Cream | Prince & the New Power Generation | audible breaths |
| Création du monde | Vangelis | electronic music to 1983 |
| The Creator Has a Master Plan | Leon Thomas & Pharaoh Sanders | optimistic songs |
| The Creature from the Black Lagoon | Dave Edmunds | mythical beasts |
| Credit Cards | Spy vs. Spy | plastic |
| C.R.E.E.P. | The Fall | offensive, insulting songs |
| Creep | Radiohead | unrequited love |
| Creeping Death | Metallica | biblical songs |
| Creeping Jane | Steeleye Span | competition |
| Creeque Alley | The Mamas & the Papas | retrospection |
| Creole Moon | Dr. John | relaxation & leisure |
| Crew Love | Drake | gangs |
| Cricket Lovely Cricket | Jah Thomas | cricket |
| Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero, Pt 1) | Neil Young | law enforcement |
| Crimen Sollicitationis | Ska-P | preachers, priests & religious leaders |
| Crimson and Clover | Tommy James & the Shondells | repetition |
| Crimson Star | Hen Ogledd | space travel |
| The Crimson Wave | Tacocat | bodily fluids |
| The Cripple and the Starfish | Antony and the Johnsons | channelling pain |
| Crippled with Nerves | Kilburn and the High Roads | anxiety |
| Crisis | Anohni | crisis |
| Crisis of Mine | The Undertones | crisis |
| Crooked Way | Propaganda ft Terence F. Clark | idioms & common expressions |
| Cross My Heart | The Exotics | crosses |
| Cross Your Fingers | Laura Marling | joints of the body |
| Crosscut Saw | Albert King | crosses |
| hardware |
| Crossings | Herbie Hancock | different 7″ versions |
| Crossroads | Tracy Chapman | crosses |
| Crossroads | Calvin Russell | crosses |
| Crossword Puzzle | Sly Stone | newspapers |
| Crow Jane | Skip James | cruel songs |
| Crowded Room | XTC | crowds |
| The Crown | Gary Byrd & the GB Experience | ancient history |
| Crown | Collective Soul | crowns |
| The Crown | The Honeydogs | crowns |
| Crown | Stormzy | quoting Shakespeare |
| The Crown and the Ring (Lament of the Kings) | Manowar | crowns |
| Crown of Thorns | Scud Mountain Boys | crowns |
| Croydon | Captain Sensible | towns |
| The Crucifixion | Phil Ochs | assassination |
| Crucify | Tori Amos | embarrassment |
| Crucify Me | 12 Ton Method | musically adventurous |
| The Cruel Mother | Shirley Collins | cruel songs |
| The Cruel Sea | The Dakotas | books |
| The Cruel Ship’s Captain | Bryan Ferry | ships & boats |
| Crush with Eyeliner | R.E.M. | makeup |
| The Crusher | The Novas | dance styles |
| Cry Me a River | Julie London | crying |
| Cry of the Wild Goose | Les Compagnons de la Chanson | birdsong |
| Cry Tough | Alton Ellis & the Flames | pragmatism |
| Crying | Roy Orbison | heartbreak |
| Crying to the Sky | Be-Bop Deluxe | sky |
| The Cryonic Trombone | Peter Blegvad & Andy Partridge | gases |
| Crystal Ball | Emil & Friends | fortune tellers |
| Crystal Blue Persuasion | Tommy James & the Shondells | psychedelic songs |
| Crystalline | Björk | unusual time signatures |
| Cuckoo! (from Friday Afternoons) | Benjamin Britten | birdsong |
| Cucurrucucu Paloma | Caetano Veloso | onomatopoeia |
| Cue | Scott Walker | horror-inspired songs |
| Cue Fanfare | Prefab Sprout | competition |
| Cum On Feel the Noize | Oasis | volume |
| Cum On Feel the Noize | Slade | rallying cries |
| Cuntry Boys and City Girls | The Fratellis | odd couples |
| Cup A Tea | Dillinger | tea |
| Cup of Tea | Shack | tea |
| Cup of Tea in Bed | The Lorraine Bowen Experience | tea |
| Curare | Afric Simone | poison |
| Curious | Kode9 & the Spaceape | influenced by reggae |
| Curly Locks | Sinéad O’Connor | curves & spheres |
| Curly Toes | Unknown female singer | joints of the body |
| The Curse | Agnes Obel | blessings & curses |
| The Curse | Josh Ritter | monsters |
| The Curse of Millhaven | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds | villains |
| The Curtains Are Twitchin’ | Bell X1 | neighbours |
| Curvaceous Needs | Katzenjammer | being fat |
| Cuss Cuss | Dub Syndicate | tautonyms |
| Cut Across Shorty | Eddie Cochran | victory |
| Cut Here | The Cure | body language |
| The Cutty Wren | Phil Minton | deep voices |
| Cuyahoga | R.E.M. | rivers |
| Cvalda | Björk with Catherine Deneuve | manual labour |
| Cynically Yours | Amy Rigby | anti-love songs |
| Cynthia Mask | Robyn Hitchcock | masks |
| Cyprus Avenue | Van Morrison | harpsichord |